Dragon Hidden in the Sky

Around noon, Ye Qing and the other two finally reached the top of the mountain!

Zhou Tiantian and Lin Qianyu were exhausted by the end, but once they reached the top of the mountain, they seemed to come back to life and started taking pictures with their phones!

Ye Qing waited patiently on the side.

The two took photos for about half an hour before finally buying tickets for the cable car, completely satisfied.

The three of them took a cable car and then walked down the mountain!

Lin Qianyu looked Ye Qing up and down and asked, "Aren't you tired?"

"This is nothing to me!" Ye Qing said. "What's the next step?"

Lin Qianyu said, "Let's go get some food. After we eat, Tian Tian will be going back to Donghai!"

“Okay!” Ye Qing said.

"You've been in Jiangcheng for so many days, have you ever eaten at Xiao Ba Xian before?" Lin Qianyu asked.

"What Little Eight Immortals?" Ye Qing asked.

“Looks like you haven’t tried it!” Zhou Tiantian said from the side. “It’s the best roadside stall in Jiangcheng. I always have to eat there whenever I come here.”

Ye Qing asked with slight surprise, "There won't be a queue, will there?"

"I've already made a reservation!" Lin Qianyu said. "I'm fairly familiar with the owner, and he reserved a table for us!"

"Okay!" Ye Qing also became curious. What kind of thing could make these two rich women, who had eaten all kinds of delicacies, linger and forget to leave?

"I'm so happy to have come all this way!" Zhou Tiantian said with a smile. "Seeing my best friend finally confess her feelings has made me think about a lot of things! I guess the next time I come will be for your wedding!"

"What you just said, about pushing..." Ye Qing said.

"Get lost!" Before Ye Qing could finish speaking, Lin Qianyu and Zhou Tiantian glared at him.

Ye Qing coughed lightly.

After taking the cable car down the mountain, Ye Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief. The three of them walked towards the parking lot, and after a short while, Ye Qing's pupils suddenly contracted.

He looked into the distance.

He saw that slovenly old man, going around trying to fool people in the hot sun, but he looked too much like a conman and couldn't fool anyone at all!

He shook his head, not paying too much attention, and soon arrived at the parking lot. Lin Qianyu drove directly to the restaurant!

Ye Qing originally thought that a place that Zhou Tiantian and Lin Qianyu lingered in must be a high-end place, since the name sounded nice.

To Ye Qing's surprise, this Little Eight Immortals was just a roadside stall!

It was around 12:30, lunchtime, and Ye Qing thought the place would be packed with people, but to his surprise, there wasn't a single person there.

When they parked their car and walked over, an elderly man with gray hair was sitting on the table in front of the door, smoking a pipe.

In the back room, a woman was wiping the table with a rag.

It's a very small shop, with quite a few tables even set up on the sidewalk.

Lin Qianyu and Zhou Tiantian were slightly taken aback by this scene. Zhou Tiantian asked, "Why is there no business?"

Lin Qianyu quickly stepped forward and said, "Uncle Chen!"

The man who was smoking looked up and, seeing Zhou Tiantian and Lin Qianyu, quickly stubbed out his cigarette and said, "Miss Zhou and Miss Lin are here! Please come in, please come in!"

Lin Qianyu frowned and said, "Uncle Chen, what's going on? At this time of day, there would probably be a long queue, but there isn't a single customer today."

Hearing this, the old man with gray hair sighed and shook his head, saying, "It's nothing. If you're going to eat today, you'll probably have to go to the backyard. Eating in the front might be a bit of a hassle!"

"What happened?" Zhou Tiantian asked with a frown. "Uncle Chen, is something wrong? Why don't you tell us? Maybe we can help you."

Grandpa Chen shook his head.

Beside him, Ye Qing touched his chin, guessing what was going on.

If a place that was once thriving suddenly becomes deserted, there are only two possibilities: either... the taste has suddenly deteriorated, and by a significant margin.

Either someone is deliberately causing trouble!

Ye Qing felt that the latter was more likely.

Lin Qianyu had obviously guessed what Ye Qing had guessed as well, and she said, "Let's eat here!"

Grandpa Chen was taken aback, then shook his head and said, "Eating here will cause trouble, sigh..."

"What exactly happened?!" Zhou Tiantian asked. "Uncle Chen, were you bullied?"

After saying that, she looked into the room inside and asked, "Aunt Luo, what happened?"

"Oh!" The woman inside pulled out a chair and sat down, then wiped away her tears.

Grandpa Chen sighed deeply and said, "It's all my son's fault!"

"Ah!" Lin Qianyu asked, "What's wrong with your son?"

"My son went gambling in Donghai and lost a lot of money!" Grandpa Chen sighed and said, "Now he's being controlled by others."

"How much do you owe?" Ye Qing asked instinctively.

"I don't know!" said Grandpa Chen. "Actually, I've made some money running this shop over the years, but now they're not talking about money at all; they just want my menu!"

"Hmm?" Ye Qing and the other two's pupils contracted slightly!

“Our son never gambles, he must have been scammed!” the woman in the room said.

Grandpa Chen sighed again and said, "About half a month ago, there were people causing trouble here every day, and then gradually, no one wanted to come anymore!"