Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 131 Claiming Compensation
Seeing that there was only one table in the huge lobby of Laifu Inn, Gu Lingqing couldn't help frowning.

"Shopkeeper, I'll cook first, and you greet His Highness King Qi." After speaking, Zhao Min and Tao Zhiyi went to the back kitchen, leaving the shopkeeper and Gu Lingqing to look at each other.

Shopkeeper Hou has never seen such a big man before, this morning is fine, at least there are other people around him, but at the moment he is the only one sharing the room with His Highness King Qi, Shopkeeper Waiting is very disturbed and swallows nervously.

Gu Lingqing saw the tension in his heart, walked to the only table and sat down, pointed to the stool next to him: "Shopkeeper, sit down, don't be restrained."

After listening to his words, the waiter walked to the side and sat down, but felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles.

Gu Lingqing took advantage of the situation and asked about Zhao Min: "Shopkeeper, how long has Wang Min been here?"

"It's been two or three months."

Two or three months?Gu Lingqing was suspicious. Could it be that she and Gu Qi had just arrived in Liangcheng when they met outside the city?Then she left the village to Liangcheng, where did she go during nearly half a year?
Shopkeeper Hou also felt very uncomfortable being alone with His Royal Highness Qi, and stood up from the stool stiffly: "My lord, I'll go to the back kitchen to see how that girl Wang Min is doing, wait a moment .”

After getting Gu Lingqing's approval, the shopkeeper left after seeing him nod his head.

For a while, Gu Lingqing was the only one left in the lobby, looking at the decorations in the inn. unusable.

Although that Tang Shijie promised to pay four times the compensation, this is just his temporary bow, right?
After this farce, perhaps in the short term, Tang Shijie will not come to Laifu Inn to trouble him again.

However, I am afraid that I will call Gu Qi back to the imperial city soon, and I will go back with him at that time. At that time, the Laifu Inn will be helpless in Liangcheng, and it will not be at the discretion of the Tang family.

So in the lobby today, Gu Lingqing did not express any opinion on the judgment made by the county magistrate.

Since they have the guts to bully Zhao Min, then I will definitely make them pay the price, how can I just let him pay four times the compensation and let it go?
Gu Lingqing had other ideas in mind.

Gu Lingqing helped him so much this time, and Zhao Min was grateful to him from the bottom of his heart, so he put in [-] points of effort at noon today, and brought all his special dishes to the dinner table.

Looking at the relatively simple dining environment, Zhao Min also had a flash of embarrassment on his face: "I'm sorry, my lord, our table has been smashed, and there is only this small table left."

Gu Lingqing didn't care about the quality of the dining environment at all, and said very generously: "No problem."

Hearing these two words from Gu Lingqing's mouth, Zhao Min was stunned for a moment, as if someone used to say the word "no problem" to him before, but he couldn't remember it.

Since he couldn't remember it, Zhao Min simply didn't want to.

Ever since she lost her memory, she always felt familiar when she saw a certain scene in reality or heard a person say a word.

At the beginning, Zhao Min would also think carefully, racking her brains, trying to remember, but later she found it was useless at all, and later when she encountered this situation, she just gave up if she couldn't remember.

After putting all the dishes on the table, Zhao Min spread the tableware and greeted everyone to eat. Just when everyone was about to feast, an unexpected visitor came outside the door.

Although Zhao Min had never seen this person before, but looking at the clothes he was wearing, he knew that this was the uniform of the Tang family.

I saw that person coming in respectfully, and after seeing everyone eating, he was also taken aback for a moment, but then ran to the side of the waiting shopkeeper: "The one above must be the waiting shopkeeper, I am a servant of the Tangfu, The young master specially asked me to give you the loss in your store a few days ago, this is four times the compensation, please count it."

Holding a wooden box, the waiter didn't know how to react, mainly because Zhao Min came back in a hurry, and he hadn't told the waiter in detail how the county magistrate decided the case.

At that moment, Zhao Min put down the chopsticks in his hand, stepped forward and picked up the lid of the wooden box, and saw a few ingots of white silver in it.

Zhao Min accepted it unceremoniously: "Okay, we received it, go back and return your master."

"Hey, that's great!" The boy agreed to go out, and Zhao Min directly handed the wooden box to the waiting shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, this is the silver taels for compensation from the Tang family, you keep it."

Shopkeeper Hou took the wooden box and put it behind the counter. For a long time, he had formed a tacit understanding with Zhao Min. Zhao Min just gave him a look, and he understood what it meant.

Right now, His Royal Highness Qi Wang is at the scene, and the waiter knows that it is not a good time to ask her what happened.

Gu Lingqing's eyes had been on Zhao Min's body all the time. He had clearly seen her interaction with the shopkeeper just now, but he didn't expose the two of them.

Right now, I am just an ordinary friend of Zhao Min, maybe not even a friend, maybe Zhao Min is grateful to himself in his heart, but I am afraid that he has no other emotions, let alone regards himself as one of his own.

This meal, Gu Lingqing didn't eat happily, mainly because the waiter and Tao Zhiyi didn't dare to talk too much at the dinner table because of their status as Lord Gu Lingqing, and they didn't dare to eat too much.

Although Zhao Min was a little better than the two of them, he still didn't let go completely.

Gu Lingqing also knew that the matter of gradually becoming friends with Zhao Min should not be rushed, and Zhao Min should not be pushed too fast, and a long-term plan must be considered.

"Thank you for your hospitality today. I ate very happily. It's getting late. I'm leaving."

After eating, Gu Lingqing said goodbye conveniently and left the inn.

After he left, the shopkeeper Hou and Tao Zhiyi couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and their straight waists also relaxed.

When I saw Gu Lingqing this morning, the shopkeeper Hou couldn't help being surprised that Zhao Min's friend was His Highness King Qi.

But she was busy going to the yamen at that time, and the waiter didn't ask her carefully what was going on?It's time to rest now, but the matter of smashing the store has already come to fruition.

Zhao Min was sitting on the stool, and the waiter and Tao Zhiyi stood in front of her, as if the three masters were interrogating each other.

Zhao Min didn't hide anything, and in fact he had nothing to hide, so he told them about what he had accidentally met with Gu Qi.

It's just that Zhao Min didn't tell them Gu Lingqing's name, and that he was not His Royal Highness Qi Wang at all. The less common people know about the imperial power and nobles, the better.

(End of this chapter)