Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 102 A big change in attitude
After the young boy left, Jiang Xuan took off the two spears on his back and put them aside.

"Mr. Sha, how come you are so familiar with this place?" Jiang Xuan asked.

"Familiar with what?" Mr. Sha asked calmly, looking very relaxed.

"You didn't tell me what kind of wine it is. If they don't know what it is, how can they serve it to you?" Jiang Xuan asked.

Before Sha Lao could answer, Jiang Xuan immediately asked, "What else... Lingsong Three Sets, what are those?"

"Oh! You don't know this, kid!" When he said this, there was a hint of pride in Mr. Sha's expression.

"I asked for a pot of wine because he only had one kind of wine in his shop," said Mr. Sha.

"Only one kind of wine?" Jiang Xuan's doubts deepened.

Old Sha changed his tone, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered, "There's a rule here. All food-related shops near Lingsong Lake can only sell one type of alcohol."

Go ahead and speak, General Sha, put your hands down.

"How strange! I've never heard of such a rule. Is there any reason for it?" Jiang Xuan also controlled his voice and asked Sha Lao in a low voice.

"We'll talk about it later." Old Sha changed his tone to a more upright one, and then continued, "As for these three sets of Lingsong, they are amazing!"

"These Lingsong Three Sets are a local specialty of Lingsong Lake. There's no tavern or inn here that doesn't sell them. It can be said that any shop where you can sit down and eat has these Lingsong Three Sets."

Jiang Xuan listened to what Mr. Sha said with great interest, nodded quickly, and continued to listen to what Mr. Sha said.

"This Lingsong Three-piece Set is a dish that brings together the three most delicious ingredients from Lingsong Lake..."

Mr. Sha was about to say something, but after a moment's thought, he said to Jiang Xuan, "Forget it. Wait until the food comes up, and you can see for yourself!"

"Okay, sure! But Mr. Sha, is one dish enough for the two of us? We don't have to be so frugal..."

……

In Qizhou City, the main street in front of the City Lord's Mansion.

The guards had already evacuated the people and sent the injured to the clinic.

The scene on the street is no longer the same as before.

There were huge crowds of people on the streets before, but now every door is closed and there is not a single pedestrian.

Only the personal guards of the City Lord's Mansion were stationed on the street in front of the Mansion.

The guards should have followed Lord Bai, but the reason they were staying on the street at this moment was because the chief of the guards had given them an order.

The chief of the personal guards was afraid that people in Qizhou City would cause unrest again, and the street in front of the City Lord's Mansion was the only road leading directly to the City Lord's Mansion. If unrest occurred on the street in front of the City Lord's Mansion, it would directly affect the City Lord's Mansion.

Therefore, after suppressing the previously chaotic people on the street, the chief of the personal guards gave the order to the personal guards to defend the street in front of the city lord's mansion.

This is how the situation came about where "every household on the street is closed, and the only people on the street are the personal guards."

But what was somewhat strange was that after the chief of the personal guards issued the order to "defend the street in front of the city lord's mansion", he hurried out of the city and no one knew what he was doing.

……

City Lord's Mansion, in front of the gate.

It was still those four people, still standing at the gate of the mansion.

They looked at each other in silence.

Since these four people separated from the street, their situations in the crowd were similar, and they were all pushed here and there.

None of the four of them were able to successfully find the servants from the Wu and Gao families who had been fighting. When the City Lord's Mansion guards were evacuating the crowd, they found the two groups of servants from the Wu and Gao families who were severely injured and brought them back to the City Lord's Mansion.

But fortunately, the four of them were only injured and sprained to varying degrees by the crowded crowd, and they were not seriously injured.

"Is everything okay?" The honest official spoke first.

"It's okay!" The three of them answered the honest official in unison.

Perhaps it was because they all felt guilty that the three of them answered the official's words in tacit understanding.

The honest officials at this time no longer treated them as gently and kindly as before.

After hearing the three people answer his questions, he didn't say any more polite words.

He looked over at a place about ten steps away from him, and became even more furious.

The servants of the Wu and Gao families and the doctor from the city lord's mansion were about ten steps away from him. The doctor from the mansion was treating the bloodied servants of the two families.

The honest official withdrew his gaze and focused on the faces of Wu Gao and the two housekeepers. He had lost his usual friendly demeanor and looked angry.

This was the first time that the Wu and Gao families had seen such an honest official with such an attitude.

That honest official had always had a friendly expression on his face since he started working with the two families, whether in official business or in private.

The official's unchanging good attitude was almost making the people engaged in business in Qizhou forget his identity.

He is an official in charge of a state's commercial affairs. How many people dare to offend him easily?
The reason why this honest official was no longer kind at this moment was because the Wu and Gao families had violated his bottom line, which was the people of Qizhou.

Although he is only responsible for Qizhou's business, he has said before that he is a Qizhou native and he hopes Qizhou will be good.

Now, because the Wu and Gao families did not strictly control their servants, they openly started a fight in front of everyone.

Maybe they were not the ones who started the fight, but it was because they were determined to fight to the death that they attracted more and more people to watch.

As a result, it eventually developed into a situation where people who had friction with each other in the past and held grudges against each other took to the streets to seek revenge and settle grievances.

As more and more people came, it was inevitable that there would be collisions. Those with bad tempers would start cursing and hitting each other, and even worse, three people would come to help when one person was bullied, and the scene gradually became chaotic.

The situation on the street eventually developed into a situation that even the guards could not control and completely got out of control.

Although these things happening on the street had no direct relationship with the honest official, if we want to find the reason from him, it was only that he did not guide the Wu and Gao families properly on weekdays.

The reason why he felt so upset at this moment was that most of the people on the street were innocent civilians.

Innocent people were beaten for no reason on a street that should have been the safest place in Qizhou, and were assaulted by people from the same state.

The people who were beaten may not even remember what the attacker looked like, let alone what the grudge was.

When the honest official thought of these things, he felt a surge of anger in his heart.

"Go over there to claim your respective family members. The City Lord's Mansion will interview both of your families. Go back and wait for news." The official's tone was not strong, but his words were extremely lethal.

"By the way, stop the business." The honest official said calmly.

As the honest official uttered these last words, the three men thought there was something wrong with their ears. After a moment, they suddenly realized what was happening and were stunned.

……

"what?"

(End of this chapter)