The restaurant was supposed to open at noon, but the townsfolk already started lining up three hours before the doors even opened.
"Prince, there are too many people outside," one of the servants reported. "The restaurant does not have enough seats for all of them!"
"Hemm..."
Technically, they could distribute the food outside, but once the people were gone, it was practically impossible to question them.
"It's okay," Zhang Fengxi decided. "Just give them the food first. Treating them to a meal is a start. We can proceed from there."
Besides, Xie Jianyu had only answered three questions on his list just now. He needed more time to coax all the answers out of the Crown Prince.
The door behind them creaked open and Xie Jianyu entered. He had changed into a set of plain grey and green robes. His beautiful dragon-shaped crown had been replaced with a simple black hair ribbon.
