The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 113

Chapter 113: Failed Negotiation

As soon as they entered Seven Stars Tower, the lively discussion in the main hall immediately quieted down.

Looked of amazement fell on Ling Xiao and You XiaoMo, one after another. Although it was less than half an hour after the auction ended, the news regarding them and the black-robed man had already spread throughout HunJi city.

The two super dark horses snatched away the final two treasures at the auction. This topic was all the rage. Of course You XiaoMo was overlooked and everyone was fixated on Ling Xiao. This noble prince-like handsome man, from beginning to end, no one could tell which force he belonged to.

Ling Xiao paid no heed to these strange looked. He found an empty table in the main hall and sat down.

The small footman You XiaoMo naturally followed him. But he didn’t know that the manager and waiter that caught sight of him suddenly had a change in their expression. Immediately they remembered that unpleasant experience. This brat was actually here again.

“Manager, what are we going to do? This person is here again!” The waiter was crestfallen. His impression of You XiaoMo was deeper than the manager’s because he was the one in charge of them the night before. In a few short hours, he was called up and down five or six times. At that time, he was almost cursed to death by the manager who didn’t know what was going on.

The manager’s wrinkled face shuddered. He grimaces, saying, “This time you don’t have to worry. The auction has already ended. If they want to continue staying here, they will have to pay for the room and food.”

“That’s right!” The waiter immediately recovered, “Then what should we do now? He seemed to be the king of eaters.”

The manager immediately started to laugh deviously, “It’s good if he’s the king of eaters. Soon he should be ordering a lot of food. Quickly go over there. The more food they order, the more we will earn.”

“Manager is wise!” The waiter immediately gave him the thumbs up, “I will go over immediately.”

And so, the manager who considered himself wise and the waiter finally no longer frowned with long faces. Especially the waiter. He picked up the teapot from the counter and eagerly walked to You XiaoMo’s table. On his face was a ‘I’m going to milk you dry today’ expression.

“My two guests, what would you like to eat today?” The waiter eagerly poured tea for them.

After starving for several hours at the auction house, You XiaoMo said boldly, “Give me your hotel’s most expensive and most delicious dishes.”

Of course, this was built on the foundation of his newfound wealth.

The waiter lit up in glee, “My guest has good taste. Our Seven Stars Hotel’s most expensive and most delicious dishes is Heavenly Treasure Cloud Duck, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, and the Dragon Gate Fish. May I ask how many of each would you like?”

T/n: Heavenly Treasure Cloud Duck, this is a parody of the Eight treasure Duck, a famous dishes.

Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, parody of Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Teasing Arhats, is also a dishes made of 8 fancy and rare ingredients such as shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish bone, fish maw, shrimp, asparagus and ham. All the ingredients are then decorated into a box shaped like a Arhat coin, with grounded chicken placed in the middle, and then bring to steam and eat with soy sauce.

Dragon Gate fish is a parody of a fish dishes serve only on New Year.

The manager was right.

“One!” You XiaoMo raised one finger.

The waiter’s gleeful smile instantly stiffened. He stammered as he asked, “Dear guest, can you say it one more time, how many of each do you want?”

“One each. We won’t be able to finish if there’s too much.”

How could You XiaoMo know what he was scheming inside? He had long ago forgotten what kind of image he gave the waiter and manager. Now he was already a man with millions and that small petty thievery all but forgotten for now. If one waited for the day when he was poor again, maybe he would think of that again.

The waiter wanted to cry. These three dishes, although they were their hotel’s most expensive and most delicious, but they still wouldn’t make many gold coins. And, wasn’t this person the king of eaters? Three dishes, such a small amount, would he really be satisfied?

The waiter that received a heavy blow returned to the counter and whispered to the manager. The manager’s expression changed to match that of the waiter, frequently looking at You XiaoMo full of resentment.

No matter how clueless You XiaoMo was, it was still impossible for him not to notice when someone kept on glaring at him. He couldn’t help feeling puzzled, “Ling-shixiong, why did the manager keep on staring at me?”

A smile couldn’t help escaping from Ling Xiao’s handsome face. The person in question had already forgotten about it but he hadn’t. From the time that the waiter walked over excitedly, he had already guessed it. The corner of his mouth twitched, “Probably thought that you’re very good looking.”

You XiaoMo blushed. After a while, he asked softly, “Really?”

Ling Xiao found his secretly delighted tone very adorable, almost causing him to burst out laughing. This fellow always managed to amuse him to such an extent. Killing him with hilarity.

“Of course …for real.”

You XiaoMo was delighted, completely unaware that he was being tricked because this was the first time he heard someone else saying that he was good looking. From the time he saw his reflection in the mirror, he had not thought that he was good looking. Since his current face was about the same as his face in the previous world, both of them falling in the average category. His face was not especially cool, or especially handsome, but also not too unremarkable. At most, he could be considered charming.

Ling Xiao was afraid that he would really burst out laughing so he quickly looked away from his face.

At this moment, suddenly the sound of footsteps came from the stairs to the second floor. Everyone looked over to the source of the sound. A red figure suddenly invaded their eyes. It was actually Xiao Yao Sect’s seductress, Mu Yao. Unexpectedly, she still hadn’t left and was still staying in Seven Stars Tower. A few shrewd people suddenly felt that some kind of drama would soon be unfolding.

Under everyone’s gaze, Mu Yao glided towards Ling Xiao’s table.

You XiaoMo raised his head and saw a rather familiar beautiful woman standing in front of him. Behind the beautiful woman was a serious looking old man. He couldn’t help but froze for a moment before finding his voice, “You … is something the matter?”

“I hope you don’t mind that we share a table?” Mu Yao smiled slightly. Although her smiling face was not beaming and radiant, it still felt like adding flowers to a brocade. Her already beautiful face suddenly became even more dazzling.

Not waiting for You XiaoMo to speak, bursts of gasps could be heard all around.

Xiao Yao Sect’s seductress was well-known and it seemed that almost everyone seated recognized her. Since they recognized her, they had never seen her smile so sweetly to anyone, and they could tell with one look that she was up to something.

You XiaoMo glanced cautiously at Ling Xiao. This was a demure maiden, and a beautiful one at that. Although he wanted to say that he didn’t mind, he remembered how terrifying Ling Xiao was yesterday when he said the word like, so he didn’t dare. A maiden was indeed precious but his life was even more precious.

Thinking like this, You XiaoMo coughed deliberately, looking apologetically at Mu Yao, “I’m sorry, but we would rather not.”

The smile on Mu Yao’s pretty face almost crumbled. This young miss of great beauty sharing a table with them already a great honor and they actually dared to say they would rather not? Of course, this is all said on the inside. If it wasn’t because she had an ulterior motive, she would have flipped the table long ago. But seeing that the roundabout way was not effective, she also didn’t intend to continue with the charade. Plunging the knife straight in, she said, “I have something to discuss with the both of you.”

Behind her, the corner of Elder Yun’s mouth twitched. He knew that the young miss was about to lose her temper.

You XiaoMo was surprised. Didn’t this demure maiden come to eat? “We don’t seem to know you.”

Mu Yao smiled as she said, “Well, now you do.”

You XiaoMo really couldn’t grasp what this demure maiden wanted to discuss with them. Furthermore, he felt that the one doing the discussion should be Ling Xiao so he immediately looked meaningfully at Ling Xiao, “You’re up!”

Ling Xiao received his signal, amusement becoming even more apparent in his eyes. He languidly narrowed his eyes and said warmly and amiably to Mu Yao, “I know what you want to discuss but I’m very sorry. There’s no more.”

Mu Yao opened and closed her mouth, unable to utter a single word for some time.

This man was really blunt. Not only did he plunge the knife straight in, he was also extremely frank. Although she didn’t really have too much hope, being refused so directly, she felt a little unhappy. If she really were to leave because of these words, she wouldn’t be worthy of her seductress title.

“What conditions do the two of you have? Please speak up.” Mu Yao tapped down her slowly rising anger, and said slowly.

You XiaoMo looked her once over. This demure maiden didn’t seem to understand human words.

Ling Xiao seemed to have expected this, saying, “Miss, it was not that we don’t want to sell. We don’t have any more.”

Although he kept emphasizing that, Mu Yao didn’t believe him. Precious things like spiritual liquid, who wouldn’t leave some aside for themselves for a rainy day? So she firmly didn’t believe their words.

“This should be the first time for the both of you in HunJi City?” Mu Yao glanced around and then lowered her voice saying, “Today you beatdown Ji Le Sect and the Xue Sha Clan at the auction. You took the demon beast egg they were fighting over. From how they usually act, they are definitely not going to let you off. If you are willing to give me a bottle of spiritual liquid… if you don’t have that, half a bottle would do, Xiao Yao Sect can guarantee that you will leave HunJi City safely. How about that?”

Ling Xiao didn’t react while You XiaoMo jumped a little in fright.

According to what she was saying, Ji Le Sect and the Xue Sha Clan were planning to take action against them when they left HunJi City. This matter, whether it was big or small, if they really wanted to seize it, there were only two of them. But strictly speaking, there was actually only one.

“Ling-shixiong… ” You XiaoMo looked at Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao put down the tea cup he was playing with. With an unreadable smile, he looked straight at Mu Yao, “Your proposal is very touching. But I already said that there really is no more spiritual liquid. Even if you were to put it in more beautiful words, we still couldn’t produce any. So why are you still continuing to pester us?”

Mu Yao’s face darkened. She tried to say it every which way, never expecting that these two people would still refuse to drink the toast only to drink as punishment. She no longer showed a welcoming smile, standing up with cupped hands saying, “Since it was like this, Mu Yao wishes the both of you the best of luck. However, if you get robbed when leaving the city gates, it would be too late to regret!”

Saying that, she left with a toss of her head. Elder Yun took a meaningful look at Ling Xiao and You XiaoMo before leaving with her.