Chapter 18

The next day.

The sky was clear, without a single cloud.

It wasn't until noon that Su Chen lazily came down from the second floor.

Tong Tong Xiangyu and the others were already used to Su Chen's outrageous schedule.

As soon as he sat down, over a dozen dishes were brought up, filling the entire table.

There was no helping it.

Su Chen was now the cash cow of the Tongfu Inn.

The inn's revenue basically depended on Su Chen, so they had to serve him well.

Moreover, Su Chen was very picky about food.

Li Li Dazui simply couldn't satisfy him.

Of the dozen dishes on the table.

Half were cooked food that Guo Guo Furong had gone out to buy.

"Smoked chicken leg, hmm, the taste is so-so."

"Eight-treasure braised duck, this duck meat is too fishy."

"Crispy lotus leaf wrap, is this filled with donkey meat?"

Su Chen tasted the dishes one by one, frowning from time to time.

He really wasn't being picky.

It was just that he was used to modern delicacies.

These ancient dishes were already hard to swallow.

The difference between the two wasn't the ingredients, but the seasonings.

"Should I hire a chef from the capital at a high price?"

"Or should I kidnap that girl Huang Rong to be a cook?"

Su Chen thought wildly.

He now had a thousand taels of gold, and he was feeling a bit cocky.

Not only did he want to get a master chef from the capital.

He even set his sights on Huang Rong.

Jade Flute Listening to Falling Plum Blossoms, Good Match Soup, Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlit Night, Deer Belly Stuffed with River Clams...

When he was reading the novel back then.

Su Chen had been very envious of these delicacies made by Huang Rong.

"I wonder how old Huang Rong is now."

"Using child labor isn't good."

Su Chen muttered again.

Just then, the air in the inn froze.

It was Xiang Ding, the centurion of the Xiang Battalion of the Great Chu heavy halberdiers, who walked in.

"Xiang Ding pays respects to the Lord; the mission is complete."

The two-meter-tall Xiang Ding knelt on one knee before Su Chen as usual, his expression solemn.

With Xiang Ding's martial arts and military strategy.

In any other battalion of the heavy halberdiers, he would be enough to be a chief general.

It was just that the Xiang Battalion was the elite of the elite of the Great Chu, which was why he was demoted to a centurion.

"Get up."

Su Chen, who was eating, waved his hand casually.

Suddenly.

He felt a bit strange, "Didn't I just tell you to give those people from the Sea Dragon Gang a small punishment?"

Xiang Ding stood up and said in a muffled voice: "The rules of the Xiang Battalion: those who insult the Lord shall have their three clans exterminated."

"Clatter!"

Lu Xiucai, who was fiddling with his abacus, was almost scared limp, and the abacus fell to the ground.

"You, you didn't kill all three clans of that Meng Yu, did you?"

Lu Xiucai asked, his voice trembling as he gripped the edge of the table.

Xiang Ding ignored him and continued:

"My subordinate learned that the leader was the young master of the Sea Dragon Gang, so I went to the Sea Dragon Gang."

"The seven hundred disciples of the Sea Dragon Gang have all been wiped out."

"A mere martial arts sect daring to provoke the Lord deserves to die."

Guo Guo Furong, who was wiping tables next door, heard this and immediately moved ten meters, almost diving into the kitchen.

Where did this tough guy pop out from?

Just because the young master of the Sea Dragon Gang spoke rudely, he wiped out the entire Sea Dragon Gang.

That was one of the major gangs in Linjiang Prefecture.

Su Chen was also stunned when he heard this.

No wonder these guys had been gone all day without a trace.

It turned out they had gone to the Linjiang docks and taken out the headquarters of the Sea Dragon Gang.

"Were there any casualties among our men?"

Su Chen asked again.

Xiang Ding said: "Thanks to the Lord's concern, only a few brothers suffered minor skin wounds, nothing serious."

Su Chen nodded, "That's good. This Sea Dragon Gang has committed many evils, so wiping them out is fine."

Old Bai, who was wiping the table, felt his heart tremble.

Then he continued working as if nothing had happened.

He had walked the martial world for so many years.

The only truth he had learned was—ask little about martial world affairs.

Just like last night.

The commotion outside was so loud, but he didn't go out to take a look.

Because he knew very well.

Once you get involved in some things, the consequences are very serious.

"By the way."

"You don't need to go to the battlefield anymore, take off your heavy armor."

"I have already arranged your living quarters."

"I also found you a job."

Su Chen put down his chopsticks and said casually.

The living expenses for these heavy halberdiers cost money, and their appetites were several times that of ordinary people.

Another hundred were coming in a few days.

Ordinary people really couldn't afford to support them.

And Su Chen wasn't running a charity.

He had long since thought of a use for these heavy halberdiers.

"What arrangements does the Lord have?"

Xiang Ding asked in a muffled voice.

Su Chen took out the construction blueprint for the Ten Thousand Treasure Tower he had obtained from the lottery last night.

"I want to build a tower."

"This is the blueprint, leave the rest to you."

"If you need money, you can come to me."

Su Chen pushed the blueprint in front of Xiang Ding.

The heavy halberdiers each possessed the strength of a thousand catties, and the soldiers of the Xiang Battalion had a minimum of two thousand catties.

With such strength, not going to a construction site to work would be a waste.

Tong Tong Xiangyu, Bai Bai Zhantang, and the others curiously gathered around to look at the blueprint.

"What a precise construction blueprint."

"Even the world's number one craftsman could only achieve this level."

Bai Bai Zhantang exclaimed directly.

He had once been a Saint of Thieves and was very knowledgeable.

He had a deep study of things like mechanism blueprints.

The construction blueprint in front of him was precise to an extreme degree.

Even a child.

Given enough materials, could build the structure according to the blueprint.

The cost of such a construction blueprint was unimaginably high.

Even the world's top mechanism masters couldn't produce a few in their lifetime.

Su Chen smiled slightly upon hearing this.

He hadn't taken this construction blueprint to heart at first.

Later, when he had nothing to do, he took it out to examine it and discovered its extraordinary nature.

This Ten Thousand Treasure Tower was not an ordinary building, but a wonder.

Once built.

It would surely become the most beautiful tower in the Great Ming.

And you just had to build it step by step according to the blueprint.

There was no technical difficulty at all.

All it required was manpower and financial resources.

Money, Su Chen had plenty of.

Manpower, the two hundred heavy halberdiers were ready-made labor.

If that wasn't enough, he could recruit people from the market.

The location of Seven Heroes Town was good.

It was close to waterways, accessible in all directions, and the center of various prefectures.

But the Tongfu Inn was really too small.

It severely limited the number of people who could listen to his storytelling.

And this number of listeners was directly linked to his popularity value.

If the wonder Ten Thousand Treasure Tower was built.

One tower could hold at least tens of thousands of people.

Wouldn't his popularity value soar?