The inside of the tavern was more shabby than the outside. There was a charcoal brazier in the middle of the room for heating, a few tables placed around it, and not a single customer. There was smoke in the back room, which was probably the kitchen.

"How many days has it been since you wiped the table?" Jiang Xinyu touched the table and picked up the dust on his hand.

Lei Ban explained hurriedly: "The environment may not look ordinary, but the food is extremely delicious..."

Hearing someone talking, a man with an apron on his waist came out of the kitchen. He was the owner and cook of the tavern.

"Boss, come here!" Ray-Ban waved and shouted.

The boss walked a few steps closer and said, "What do you two want to eat?"

"You don't want to work in this pub anymore? We've been here for a long time and no one has come out to say hello!"

"My brother-in-law was originally helping me, but he didn't come because he had something to do at home today. I'm the only one doing the work inside and outside. Please take care of me..." The boss nodded and bowed.

Lei Ban said impatiently: "Okay, don't explain, what kind of game are there today?"

"There is a pheasant, but nothing else..."

"Just a pheasant?"

"The weather is too cold and hunters don't like the mountains. If they don't come to deliver goods, there's nothing I can do about it."

"When I came here last time, didn't I say there were two roe deer?"

"It's been sold a long time ago."

"You two brothers traveled such a long way together just to eat a little pheasant? You have nothing and you open a crappy game restaurant!" Ray-Ban felt that he couldn't lose face, so he blew his beard, glared and slapped the table.

Jiang Xinyu advised: "Forget it, just the two of us, how much can we eat? I'll get you a wild boar, you shouldn't think it's too much."

Lei Ban hummed: "A pheasant looks quite big. It only takes a small bowl of meat without its feathers, which is not enough to fit between the teeth!"

Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "How big are your teeth to be able to stuff a chicken in? Boss, don't listen to him. You stewed the pheasant. Do you have mountain mushrooms?"

"Yes, yes, there is enough mountain mushroom tube to eat."

"Put more pheasant mushrooms in the stewed pheasant, that's it, go get it, we're all hungry."

"Wait a moment, you two, the pot will be served immediately!" The boss hurried back to the kitchen.

Lei Pen said apologetically: "Xin Yu, I'm so sorry. Who would have thought that he has nothing. Last time Lao Zhou and I came over, there was a table full of game. This time, alas, it's too simple."

"Pheasant chicken stewed with mountain mushroom is very good. I like to eat mountain mushroom from Yanjin, especially when stewed with chicken and duck, it tastes particularly delicious."

"What's so delicious about mountain mushrooms? The best thing is the roe deer meat. When stewed, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It's delicious no matter how it's braised or steamed. It's a pity that we don't have such a blessing..." Lei Pen swallowed hard as he said it.

After almost half an hour, the boss brought out a large sea bowl. Just like what Ray-Ban said, it was a pheasant that had lost its feathers and not much meat. The bowl was mainly made up of mountain mushrooms and some wide vermicelli.

Jiang Xinyu picked up a mouthful of mountain mushroom with his chopsticks, put it in his mouth and tasted it. He couldn't stop praising: "Well, it's delicious. The boss's craftsmanship is good!"

The boss was very happy to be praised by the guests. He stood aside and introduced enthusiastically: "Sir, there are many kinds of mountain mushrooms in this bowl. You see, this one is called saddle mushroom, and that one is matsutake mushroom..."

Jiang Xinyu joked: "I heard there are poisonous mushrooms on the mountain. Don't get confused and leave us brothers here."

Boss: "Don't worry, you two. I grew up in Jiulong Mountain, and I can recognize poisonous mushrooms at a glance... Just wait a moment, and I'll show you."

Ray-Ban stared and said, "What are you looking at? Bring me the wine, and don't tell me that the wine is gone!"

The boss said with a smile: "How come the home-brewed wine is sold out..."

He turned around and walked into the kitchen, and returned after a while, holding a wine jar in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other.

Lei Pen took the wine jar, poured a bowl for Jiang Xinyu, and said, "Xinyu, he brewed the wine himself. It's more potent than Lao Baigan. The most important thing is that he doesn't get drunk after drinking it."

Jiang Xinyu picked up the bowl, took a sip, nodded, and said, "It's really strong."

There were a bunch of colorful mushrooms in the bamboo basket. The boss showed them to Jiang Xinyu like a treasure and said: "Sir, this is a poisonous mushroom. If you see this kind of mushroom in the future, you must not eat it."

Jiang Xinyu said casually: "What will happen if you eat it? Go to the toilet more often?"

"It is mildly poisonous. This kind of mushroom is called Qi Bu Dao in our mountains. One bite will kill you!"

Jiang Xinyu was moved in his heart and said: "So powerful? Then why are you picking such poisonous mushrooms?"

The boss chuckled and said, "There are a lot of ants here. I dried the poisonous mushrooms and ground them into powder and sprinkled them around the tavern. Within a few months, there were no insects in the house."

Lei Pen waved his hand and said: "Boss, stop talking nonsense, go and weigh two more side dishes, just a pheasant stewed with mushrooms, it's too monotonous!"

"Okay, I'll go take a look at the stove. You two can eat and drink slowly." The boss returned to the kitchen carrying the bamboo basket.

Jiang Xinyu took a sip of wine, looked out the window at the wilderness in the distance, and said, "I remember that place seems to be a cemetery, right?"

Lei Pen gnawed on the chicken leg, followed Jiang Xinyu's gaze and said, "Heroes' Tomb."

Jiang Xinyu put down the wine bowl and said, "Don't use the word "Heroes' Tomb" nonsense.

"What can't be said? The common people in Yanjin call this place the Tomb of Heroes! Are the Japanese arresting them one by one? Can they be captured?"

"Are you the same as ordinary people? You are a policeman!"

"I think they're all the same..."

Although Ray-Ban's alcohol capacity is average, he drank very quickly. Within ten minutes, he had already drank less than half a bowl.

"I'm going to see what the boss is weighing. It's really too monotonous."

"Let's drink and let him watch..."

Jiang Xinyu got up and walked into the back kitchen, where the boss was busy working on the stove.

"Boss, thank you for your hard work." Jiang Xinyu looked around and immediately saw the bamboo basket hanging on the wall.

"It's not hard, it's not hard... I just found a few eggs. I'll steam a bowl of egg custard for you two to sober up. What do you think?"

"Can."

While the boss was not paying attention, Jiang Xinyu quickly grabbed a handful of poisonous mushrooms and put them into his coat pocket.

Lei Ban drank a bowl of white wine and walked a little swaying in a drunken state. Jiang Xinyu said: "That's it for today. I don't want to carry you home again."

"Are you ready to drink?" Lei Ban said with a big tongue.

"Drink."

"Okay! Boss, check out!"

Coming out of the tavern, Jiang Xinyu pointed to the Tomb of Heroes and said, "Leiban, do you know how many tombs there are?"

"I heard that there are at least a thousand graves!"

"A thousand? What nonsense? There are not that many.

"Bet or not?"

Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "Master, who is bound to lose every time he bets, still dare to bet with me?"

"Dare! It's the same old rules, ten dollars!"
Chapter completed!