The waiter nodded with satisfaction: "Hmm, this outfit is not bad, it’ll do."

Lin Kong was so annoyed by him that he laughed, but it was a cold laugh: "What’s wrong? You really want me to pawn this outfit here?"

The waiter looked as if it was only natural: "You owe us the meal money, pawning this outfit should cover it."

This outfit on Lin Kong was made for him by the Fourth Prince, with top-notch craftsmanship and material.

Of course, not to mention the material, the mere thought of the waiter making him walk out of the restaurant naked made Lin Kong furious.

Just as he was about to vent his anger, another waiter walked in from outside, this was the quick-witted waiter who initially greeted Lin Kong and Xuexue.

He approached with an apologetic smile, first saluted Lin Kong, then pulled the waiter in the room aside and whispered to him for a while.

"What? He... he’s really the master of the Fourth Prince? But he’s so shabby that he can’t even afford a meal," the waiter said while glancing at Lin Kong, looking very disdainful.

The waiter who came in later hurriedly tugged at him: "Shh, be careful, do you want to die?"

"Alright, alright, got it, didn’t the shopkeeper say we need to collect the money? If he doesn’t have money, what can we do?"

"Didn’t he say to write a promissory note? Just let him write the promissory note then."

The things ordered by the shopkeeper, the waiters did not dare to arbitrarily change. After all, several hundred taels of silver was a huge sum for those who earned only a few hundred wen money a month. Even if they were sold, they wouldn’t earn it back, so this matter had to be handled carefully.

The two waiters hid aside, deliberated for a long time, and finally reached an agreement to allow Lin Kong to write a promissory note. They would then send someone to the fourth prince’s mansion to collect the debt, so as to account to the shopkeeper.

Thus, they brought the Four Treasures of the Study and had Lin Kong write a promissory note before letting him leave the Drunken Sky Building.

Lin Kong had just left when the waiters in the restaurant gathered together and started gossiping...

"Do you know? Initially, the shopkeeper intended to invite the master of the Fourth Prince for a meal without charging him a single wen money, but Miss Situ sent a maid to tell the shopkeeper that the master of the Fourth Prince has a peculiar temper. If he waived the meal charge, he would be angry, feeling looked down upon, so the shopkeeper decided to charge him out of fear of offending him."

The waiter who insisted on charging Lin Kong shouted in surprise: "What, there was such a thing? How come I didn’t know?"

"Of course you didn’t know, you were accompanying your father to the doctor and came late." Everyone laughed out loud.

The waiter wailed: "This is bad, I’ve offended the shopkeeper. That Young Master Zhao is not some odd-tempered person, he’s merely a poor and impoverished fellow. If the shopkeeper waived the bill, he would be overjoyed, why would he be unhappy?"

Everyone nodded in agreement, saying: "Yeah, this must be a mistake on Miss Situ’s part."

Someone also said: "Miss Situ was just being kind, trying to remind the shopkeeper."

"Right, right, how could Miss Situ, being a lady, know so much about the master of the Fourth Prince! It must have been hearsay."

"By the way, does anyone know where the shopkeeper has gone? Why hasn’t he returned yet?"

"It seems Miss Situ had some business for the shopkeeper, and he hurriedly went there."

The waiters stood together, talking in hushed voices, when suddenly, a few coughs came from behind. They turned around and wow, it was the shopkeeper who had returned.

"Shopkeeper, you’re back." Everyone hurriedly fawned over him with greetings.

"Were you talking behind my back while I was away?" The shopkeeper, about thirty years old, medium build, very fair-skinned, clearly not having done much hard labor, said.