Train to Another World.

Chapter 398 Misunderstanding
Under Old Pierre's nervous gaze, Li Zhuoguang took out two pears from somewhere and handed them to the little girl: "Please have some pears."

The little girl was stunned at the two huge yellow fruits in front of her. Although they were fruits she had never seen before, they were definitely fruits. She could even smell their sweet fragrance because they were close to her.

Seeing that the little girl didn't make a move, Li Zhuoguang thought that she might be a little shy, so he pushed the pear into her arms. Then, Li Zhuoguang turned around and returned to his seat.

It would take Li Zhuoguang a while to finish one Qiuyue pear by himself, but the little girl got two, which should be enough to fill her stomach.

Old Pierre looked at his daughter happily running away with two unknown fruits in her arms, and his eyes were complicated for a moment. But before he could ponder for long, he heard Li Zhuoguang clear his throat: "We can help with this matter of support, and we can even help within a certain range, but it's not for nothing.

We need you to provide us with the intelligence we need. If you don't have the relevant intelligence, then you will be responsible for searching for intelligence for us. Can you accept this condition?"

Old Pierre forced himself to concentrate and weighed Li Zhuoguang's conditions. After a little thought, he confirmed that this condition was an advantage for him. Suddenly his expression became more complicated, and he agreed to Li Zhuoguang's request absent-mindedly.

Since the terms had been agreed upon, Li Zhuoguang and his party left the City Lord's Mansion.

On the way back to the hotel, Li Zhuoguang recalled Old Pierre's strange behavior at the banquet and asked Ariana, "Old Pierre's face doesn't look right. Did we hit him too hard?"

"Maybe, but he is not young for a human, and he has been the city lord for such a long time, so he should not be so easily hit." Aliana thought for a moment, and then continued: "By the way, you gave Virginie, Pierre's youngest daughter, some fruit just now. You shouldn't have given her two."

"Uh, sorry, in my hometown, gifts are usually given in even numbers, so I subconsciously gave two. Is there any rule for giving two fruits here?"

“Generally speaking, giving a pair of fruits to a person of the opposite sex usually means proposing marriage, and it is the highest-level proposal. If the person is a noble, they will give more pairs of fruits.

For ordinary civilians, two pieces of jerky are usually enough for a marriage proposal." Then, Ariana laughed again: "Hahahaha, but the little girl is still very young. If converted into the age of the elves, she is only about a hundred years old. They should understand it as a gift from their elders."

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At this time, the Haichao City Lord's Mansion
Virginie held two Autumn Moon Pears in her hands, and happily walked around the City Lord's Mansion twice with her short legs, and then ran to the women's bedroom. When she came to the door, she turned around and pushed the door open with her little butt, then slipped into the room.

She raised the Qiuyue Pear in her hand high to her two sisters who were resting: "Big sister and second sister, I'm getting married! My fiancé has very fair skin! And there are lots of fruits!"

Old Pierre, who followed in, stood at the door and heard the screams from inside. He opened his mouth several times but could not say anything.

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Li Zhuoguang's eyebrows twisted into a knot when he heard Ariana's popular science. He was not as optimistic as Ariana. He had a bad premonition.

Hey, wait, when we first met, was the number of fruits I gave to Ariana an odd number or an even number? She didn't seem to show any special reaction at the time, so it should be an odd number.

"An apple."

"what?"

"I told you that you don't have to recall it anymore. When you first met me, you gave me an apple."

"How do you know I'm reminiscing?"

"Ahahaha, you should have seen the expression you just made. When I was a kid, I had a rock rat, and every time I secretly took away some of its stored food, its expression when it counted the food was exactly the same as yours now."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhuoguang corrected his expression back to a dead fish face.

Back at the hotel, Ariana lay on the blanket with her arms and legs spread out, rubbing her stomach with both hands: "Oh, I miscalculated. I ate too much."

Xiong Facai took out a glass, threw in four or five small sour fruits that help digestion, poured in boiling water, and handed it to Ariana: "You shouldn't have eaten so many fruits before the banquet." Ariana sat up, took the glass, and suddenly remembered something. She turned her head and asked everyone: "Did you pack up the unfinished food before we left?"

Li Zhuoguang was surprised and said, "If we go out to eat together, it's normal to pack up. But how can I pack up for a meeting like this? I know you cherish food, but there are some foods that cannot be saved."

Aliana took a sip of sour fruit tea and explained, "If during a banquet, one party brought an excessive amount of food, and there was still a lot left after the banquet, and that party did not pack up the remaining food.

This behavior is called "boasting wealth", which literally means showing off one's wealth. A further extension is to show off one's strength and recruit the other party.

If the other party agrees to be recruited, they will eat up the food left by the other party, which means "I have eaten the things you rewarded, and I am yours." If the other party disagrees, they will pack up the food and send it back the next morning. "

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At this time, the Haichao City Lord's Mansion
Old Peel sat in his study, carefully searching the bookshelf for the ancient books left by his ancestors: "A Brief History of the Empire, The Elves in the Storm, Court Etiquette, The Vigorous Barbarian Maid... Encyclopedia of Customs, ha, I found it, Encyclopedia of Customs."

Old Peel took the dusty old book from the bookshelf, placed it on the table and began to search through it carefully.

When Li Zhuoguang left, Old Pierre was facing a table full of leftovers with mixed feelings. Although Haichao City was only a medium-sized city with ordinary military strength, it had a well-known commercial street.

Even those water merchants who were too arrogant were willing to open a water store on the commercial street. The wealthy merchants and nobles nearby would come to Haichao City to purchase water, whether for sacrifices or banquets.

Although Old Peel could not collect business taxes from the water store and even exempted it from rent, the customer base and wealth that a water store brought to a city were considerable.

Old Pierre had been recruited more than once, even by some great nobles, but he never wavered. After all, Haichao City was built brick by brick by their Steven family before the disaster, so how could it be easily assigned to other forces?

But, this time is different...

Old Peel looked at the bottle of pure liquid on the desk. There was still a little bit left at the bottom of the bottle. This was brought by a nobleman named William. Old Peel thought it was pure water at first.

After Li Zhuoguang left, he wanted to drink a little. Although he had to return the things to his friend in order to reject his boast, Old Pierre had not seen such clean water for a long time and could not help himself.

But when he opened the lid and before he drank the water, the pungent smell made him realize that this was definitely not pure water. Such a pungent smell was worse than sewage. Because the smell was too pungent, Old Pierre simply couldn't accept it and put it back.

But the liquid in the bottle looked very pure to the naked eye, and with the abundance of food they brought, it was impossible for them to bring a bottle of sewage to the banquet, which puzzled old Pierre.

Suddenly, a trace of childhood memory flashed through old Peel's mind. It was when his father was still alive, he put him on his knees when he was a child, holding an ancient book and telling him about the world before the disaster.

An outrageous guess came to old Peel's mind, so he immediately returned to the living room, picked up the bottle of liquid, walked quickly into the study, and began to read the ancient books.

"Found it!" When he had turned halfway through the Encyclopedia of Customs in his hand, he finally found the record deep in his memory. According to the record in the book, Old Pierre took out a small cup and carefully poured out some of the liquid from the bottle.

He put the cup to his lips, resisted the pungent smell, and licked it with his tongue. Old Pierre's face wrinkled like a chrysanthemum. He looked at the record in the book again: "It doesn't taste good either?"

Old Pierre hesitated for a moment, but still picked up the oil lamp on the table, removed the lampshade, and slowly approached the cup. Suddenly, the liquid in the cup caught fire, and a faint blue flame floated on the surface of the liquid.

Seeing the features that were exactly the same as those recorded in ancient books, Old Pierre's eyes widened: "Is it really distilled liquor?! Oh my God! How much food does it take?! How much water?!"

(End of this chapter)