Chapter 17: Chatting After Dinner

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The dim lights in the town hall kept flashing.

Su Chen, Captain Ian, and the administrative officer, Maggie, were sitting at the dining table, waiting to enjoy the delicious food.

Evelyn and the cook continued bringing the dinner to the table.

The mayor and Captain Ian went to attack the Karev family today. They came back not long after they left. Evelyn thought that they had retreated because of difficulties, Captain Ian said that they had won a great victory and returned, so he ordered the kitchen to make a portion of the spoils of war into dinner.

Therefore, today’s dinner was exceptionally sumptuous. Not only was there rich meat, fresh fruit, and luxurious red wine, many of them were rare foods in the town.

Su Chen raised his head and saw Evelyn staring at the food on the table. He raised his head and said to her.

“Evelyn, don’t stand there. Come and eat with us. We can’t finish so many. Also, give half of these dishes to everyone.”

Evelyn stared at the delicacies on the table and swallowed her saliva silently. She shook her head like a rattle-drum. How could a servant eat with the mayor?

Su Chen saw that Evelyn was still very reserved, so he pulled her to sit beside him. Evelyn’s face turned red because of Su Chen’s actions. She was so panicked that she did not know what to do.

Su Chen cut a huge drumstick from the roasted chicken and placed it on the plate in front of Evelyn. He joked, “Aren’t you going to eat? Are you waiting for me to serve you?”

Evelyn became even more flustered. She quickly held the huge drumstick with both hands and ate it in small bites.

“Haha! Come, come, everyone eat together. Don’t be courteous! To our victory today!” Maggie was obviously a little excited. She raised the red wine glass in her hand and shouted as if she was drunk.

“This is obviously a victory for me and the mayor. What does it have to do with you, Old Man? Those who don’t know better will think that you are the one who is leading the charge with the mayor today!”

Ian looked at Maggie from the corner of his eyes and spat out the bone in his mouth. He wiped his greasy mouth and beard with his sleeve and began to ridicule Maggie disdainfully.

“Humph! It’s useless for you to go with the mayor. I told you when I came back that it was mainly because of the mayor’s power today. Without the mayor, you would have been pierced by Owen’s water spear.”

Maggie could not stand Ian showing off with Su Chen’s credit. She started to quarrel with him while eating. “If you can go and fight with the mayor, I can do it too!”

Ian mumbled awkwardly, “If the mayor didn’t insist on beating up Owen, my head would have been kicked by a donkey. That’s why I went to provoke Owen, the unlucky jinx…”

“You didn’t see what happened at the scene. Owen took his uncle’s level-3 magic scroll and directly tore it open! I was in despair at that time. Who would have thought that the Lord Mayor, the god of war, would descend to the mortal world? First, he summoned a contract knight to block the first wave of ice blades, and then he released…”

Ian continued to describe to the people present, describing how extraordinary Su Chen was at that time. The more he talked, the more excited he became, and he even began to add fuel to the fire.

It had to be said that he had the potential of a bard. He told a short story with ups and downs, and it was fraught with danger. Everyone listened as if they were in the midst of a thrilling battle,

Maggie tilted her head and listened attentively. The red wine glass in her hand unconsciously tilted on the table. The red wine dripped down the glass onto the table and flowed down from the table onto Maggie’s pants.

Ian happened to see it. He immediately pretended to be surprised and said, “Maggie, you old man. You even said that you would go to the battlefield and fight with the mayor but listening to the story makes you wet your pants.”

Ian pointed at Maggie’s pants with excitement, “Come, everyone, come and see! Maggie’s wet his pants! hahahaha!”

Maggie quickly covered his pants with his hands and wiped them with the towel on the table, causing a burst of laughter from the crowd.

Maggie’s face turned red and he said angrily, “This is alcohol! Smell it if you don’t believe me!”

“Who wants to smell your pants…”

The dinner ended in a cheerful atmosphere.

..

After the happy dinner.

The three of them reverted their serious expressions and began to discuss business.

The food on the table had been taken away by the servants and cleaned up.

“Maggie, have you finished counting the assets of the Karev family today? How much can we use?”

“Mayor, apart from the fixed furniture and decorations, we have collected a total of 624 gold coins, 345 silver coins, 105 large-scale poultry, 72 small-scale poultry, and some grain storage…”

Maggie took out an accounts book from his pocket and started to read it one by one. 

It was this kind of careful and serious working attitude that made Su Chen feel at ease to let him continue to manage the internal affairs of the town.

“If I renovate the town’s facilities, train the knights, and build a medical center, 600 gold coins won’t be enough.”

Su Chen frowned and felt a headache.

The currency in this world was made of precious metals. One gold coin was worth 100 silver coins, and one silver coin was worth 100 copper coins.

An ordinary family of three only had 30 to 40 silver coins for a month’s living expenses. They wouldn’t use more than a few gold coins all year round.

Although the huge sum of 600 gold coins was enough for an ordinary family to use for a hundred years, there were more than 100 households in the town.

Excluding their daily expenses, if they wanted to develop quickly, they would have to spend a lot of gold coins. This amount of gold coins was obviously not enough to last for long.

Su Chen fell into deep thought…

Ian looked at the mayor’s frown. Obviously, he could see that he was making plans for the future. Some thoughts were stirring in his heart.

“Mayor, if our knights can be trained and have enough combat strength, there are a group of bandits on the West Mountain.” Ian paused for a moment, he observed Su Chen’s expression.

Su Chen thought for a moment after he heard it, and signaled him to continue.

“They used to plunder merchants in the past. Recently, they took advantage of the invasion of monsters to plunder cities with insufficient defense to amass wealth. They are really rich! Maybe we can try to get rid of them?” Ian probed.

“Black takes black? That might work!”

Su Chen’s eyes lit up as if he had discovered a new continent..