Chapter 414: Taking shelter from the rain in the teahouse
Two days later, Chai Yan came home after his shift. As soon as he entered the house, Uncle Cai came over with a post.
"Master, this is from the Prince's Mansion, please take a look..."
"What?" Chai Yan took the post in confusion and read it, gradually a smile appeared on his face.
This is an invitation from Liu Lang, saying that the plum blossoms in the Prince's Mansion are in bloom and the scenery is very beautiful. He asked Chai Yan to come over tomorrow to enjoy the plum blossoms.
"Yeah, no need to practice tomorrow!"
Chai Yan has been busy practicing every day in Wude Division these days, and he feels tired and bored. The moment he saw the invitation, he laughed happily, thinking that now he had an excuse to ask for leave.
The next morning, Chai Yan went to the Wude Department to ask for leave from Li Dachui. He had the invitation from the Prince's Mansion in hand, but Li Dachui didn't want to agree even if he didn't want to.
After leaving Wudesi, Chai Yan walked all the way to the Prince's Mansion. It was still early and he was not in a hurry. Anyway, he just had to get to the Prince's Mansion before six o'clock.
Although Chai Yan had slowed down his pace and stopped to look around from time to time along the way, it was still very early when he reached the vicinity of the Prince's Mansion. It was not even hour yet, and there was still an hour left...
Standing on the street corner near the Prince's Mansion, Chai Yan hesitated whether to go in now. As a guest, it would be impolite to go too early or too late.
Chai Yan thought to himself, there are still two hours left, why don't we go shopping on the street?
After much deliberation, Chai Yan decided to go somewhere else to kill time.
So Chai Yan wandered aimlessly on the streets near the Prince's Mansion.
Suddenly, it started to rain in the sky. Chai Yan felt that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, so he quickly ran into a teahouse on the street to take shelter from the rain.
As soon as I ran into the teahouse, the light rain turned into heavy rain, and most of the pedestrians on the street who couldn't escape were immediately soaked.
Chai Yan looked at the rain curtain and patted the rain off his head, feeling grateful that he had the foresight.
At this time, the waiter came over, and Chai Yan, who was smiling and welcoming, said: "Sir, I don't know when the rain will stop. I think you are quite tired standing and waiting like this. Why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea first?"
Would you like something to eat?"
Chai Yan smiled slightly, nodded and said, "That's fine."
After all, it is understandable that we are taking shelter from the rain in someone else's shop and doing some business on the way.
When the waiter saw Chai Yan's willingness to agree, he immediately led him to sit down at a table by the window.
I ordered a pot of tea and a plate of melon seeds, and Chai Yan ate the melon seeds with the tea. The rain outside seemed to be unstoppable, so it was quite pleasant to stay leisurely for a while.
It was still early, so there were not many people in the teahouse, but they all came together in twos and threes, except Chai Yan, who was alone.
Just as I was enjoying my melon seeds, four burly men appeared in the rain. The man at the front suddenly pointed at the teahouse and shouted: "The rain is too heavy, please go in and take shelter!"
So the four of them quickly ran into the teahouse. As soon as the waiter saw a guest coming in, he immediately went over to greet him enthusiastically.
While the leading man was talking to the waiter, he turned around and glanced around the teahouse. After a circle, the man's eyes fell on the table where Chai Yan was sitting.
The man didn't care whether Chai Yan could hear or not. He raised his hand and pointed at Chai Yan from the air, and said in a rough voice: "Boy, we have to sit there, let him move away!"
The man's voice was loud and had an accent, and the teahouse was quiet, so it was difficult for Chai Yan not to hear him.
As soon as the sound entered his ears, Chai Yan stopped eating melon seeds.
Chai Yan raised his eyes and looked at the man with an accent, and then looked around the teahouse, wondering, what the hell, there are so many empty tables, why do you have to take this one from me?
Why did the waiter say: "Sir, there are already people at that table, how about a few guests temporarily..."
"No!" The man refused the waiter straight away and said, "I want to sit there!"
When the waiter saw the fierce faces of the four big men, he immediately became timid. The key to opening a business is to be friendly and make money. What he was most afraid of was that someone would fight and cause trouble.
In desperation, the waiter had no choice but to walk up to Chai Yan and asked tentatively: "Sir, I'm so sorry... Can you please change the table? Those guests...
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The guy stopped talking at this point. He felt that his meaning should have been conveyed.
Chai Yan was not in a hurry to answer. He slowly ate a melon seed first, and then asked, "Do they want to sit here with me?"
The guy nodded quickly.
Chai Yan said without raising his eyes: "Okay, let him come over and tell me."
The waiter was shocked at that time and hurriedly lowered his voice to persuade: "Sir, please stop, these people are not easy to mess with at first sight, you...don't suffer any more losses...
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Chai Yan was unhappy. He looked at the waiter sideways and asked, "As you say, I look easy to mess with, right?"
"No, no, no... that's not what I meant..." The waiter shook his head in denial. He was just a waiter and didn't want to offend anyone.
When the waiter saw that Chai Yan was no longer paying attention to him, he knew that he could not persuade him to change tables, so he sighed helplessly in his heart: Alas, young people today must have suffered to become sensible...
Before the waiter could go back to talk to the man, the four men had already walked up to Chai Yan and half surrounded him.
The man with an accent sat down opposite Chai Yan and said threateningly: "Boy, sit at another table!"
The other three people didn't say anything, they just looked at Chai Yan with cold eyes and half-smiles.
If others had been surrounded by these four sturdy men, they would have been scared to death, but unfortunately, it was Chai Yan who they met.
Chai Yan calmly took a sip of tea, looked at the man opposite and said, "There are so many empty tables here, why do you have to sit at my table?"
"I'm happy to!" The man with the accent glared. He didn't have time to explain so much nonsense to the helpless scholar.
Chai Yan shook his head and said happily, "You want to sit with me, right? Okay, give me the money first... Well, I don't want more, just ten taels of silver. I will get out of the way immediately after giving the money."
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The four men were stunned at first, and the next moment they raised their heads and laughed at the same time.
"Hahaha, brother, is this kid scared out of his mind?" A man said to the man with an accent.
"That's right, this kid is stupid!"
"Hey? Do you think he got caught in the rain and had a fever that burned out his brain?"
The other two people immediately nodded in agreement, feeling that something must be wrong with Chai Yan for saying such a thing.
At this moment, the tea patrons, shopkeepers and waiters in the teahouse all hid far away. Most of them believed that Chai Yan was about to be beaten.
The man with the accent laughed a few times and then stopped, and said boldly: "Boy, I'll give you one last chance. Just get out of the way and nothing will happen. Otherwise, haha..."