The Hero in Exile

As the sun sets, the bright red sun has fallen into the mountains of the Alps, leaving only a golden circle to indicate the coming of night. The time is not too late, perhaps due to geographical issues or the Alps are too high to block the sun in advance, as the sun has already disappeared at just five o'clock.

Although it was still early for dinner, seeing that it was getting dark, the two decided to eat early outside and then go home.

"How about going to that place?"

"That one? The decoration looks so old. Is it really reliable?"

Moran looked at the store that Lingyu pointed at. The paint on the walls inside had begun to peel and turn yellow. The brightness of the chandelier inside was not very high. There were a few dwarves in black coats sitting inside. It was unclear whether they were employees eating or guests. But to be honest, if they decorated the haunted house in their "decoration" style, it might become popular.

"What do you know? In our area, the best restaurants are usually these kind of restaurants. If the decoration doesn't look good, it's because someone else has opened it for many years. So it must have some skills, and the dishes are probably very good. Don't you believe me?"

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll listen to you talking so much about reasoning just for a meal, you look so proud."

Only when I got closer did I see that it was a noodle restaurant. I could just barely make out the words on the sign, which said something like "mutton noodles". The menu on the front desk was in tatters, with either a hole in it or a black spot on it.

"Boss, what's your signboard?"

Lingyu asked loudly but didn't see any staff for a long time.

There were footsteps coming from the kitchen, and a carefree but squinting dwarf came out rubbing his hands. To be honest, it was a bit incongruous to see a dwarf with shifty eyes.

"Guests, you dare to come here just by looking at us. Our signature dish is Gaoshan mutton noodles. The sheep here are slaughtered and sold on the same day. They are very delicious."

"Okay, two bowls then."

"Okay, guests, please find a seat."

As he said that, the boss walked towards the kitchen, still muttering to himself.

"Two more fat sheep."

Lingyu and Moran chose to sit near the door. It would have been a bit stuffy to talk inside, but the cool breeze outside was quite comfortable.

"Hmm? There seem to be two newspaper offices across the street. It's been a long time since we were at Hook's place and we haven't heard about what's going on in the outside world. Why don't we buy a couple of newspapers and take a look?"

Lingyu understood what this guy meant after hearing this. She opened her purse and took out a silver coin from a pile of gold coins under Moran's gaze and threw it in front of Moran.

Moran:...6

Sitting in the store looking at Moran's back, Lingyu couldn't help but think of a saying from her previous life: if a man has money, he will become bad. She didn't believe it at the time, but she couldn't bear to think about the possibility that Moran really had a secret affair with her someday. No, next time she must learn more about the world's prices so that he can't save any money.

Not long after I came back from buying the newspaper in Moran, the boss prepared the mutton noodles and brought them over.

"You two, please use it slowly."

After saying that, he walked towards the kitchen and glanced at the people next to him.

After taking the mutton noodles, Lingyu couldn't wait to start eating. There seemed to be quite a lot of mutton and it smelled good too. Lingyu took two pairs of chopsticks from the table and put one pair on Moran's noodles. Moran had been reading the newspaper since he came back, so she didn't know what was going on.

"Tsk, there have been a lot of things going on during this period."

Newspapers in this world are published in batches, covering events within a month.

"The Divine Demon Lion, let Wu Kang Kang."

Lingyu came over with half a mouthful of noodles still in her mouth.

"Look, your old friend Born resigned from the position of leader of the Paladins and left the church. Not long after, he was called to my Demon King's Castle by their emperor to help the church with supervision. What's going on?"

After hearing this, Lingyu still didn't want to believe it, but the fact was indeed as Moran said. Looking at the noodles in front of her, she couldn't help but think, this is the position of the leader of the Paladins, and someone from their family has been re-elected for who knows how many terms. This is too unbelievable.

While the two were discussing and thinking about this matter, they finished the noodles inadvertently.

"Boss pays."

"Sir, the total is 50 gold coins."

"How much did you say?!"

Lingyu couldn't help but burst out.

The boss still had that fake business smile on his face, and the people who had been sitting nearby stood up and pulled down the shutter door outside, on which there was a note saying "Closed."

Moran couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw this.

"Lingyu, I'm not saying you have good taste. This noodle tastes good. This restaurant is really good."

"So, sir, do you want to pay in cash or with something else?"

"Then I'll definitely use my fists."

As he said that, Moran clenched his fist and smashed it hard on the boss' face. The boss didn't expect this and didn't defend at all, so he took it completely. He heard a snapping sound in his head and only knew that his nose was broken, and it seemed that he just spit out a few bloody things from his mouth. Were they teeth?

"What are you just looking at? Come up and get beaten."