A sickly fellow ridiculed by the entire army? I'll be the most beautiful woman in the barracks!

Immediately afterwards, Li Tiezhu led Zhao Daxuan and the others to the second-floor balustrade seats of the Sifang Restaurant.

From this vantage point, you can enjoy a wide view. Looking down, you can see a wooden platform in the center of the first floor, two steps above the ground. This platform is the storytelling stage of the Sifang Restaurant.

After Zhao Daxuan and the others were seated, they turned and looked at Li Tiezhu with smiles.

"Tiezhu, bring out all the signature dishes of your restaurant."

Li Tiezhu grinned upon hearing this.

"No problem, I'll make sure it's good for you. Today is the day to celebrate."

Then he turned to look at Li Shishi and the other person.

"My dear sisters-in-law, please wait a moment. You will soon learn about what I just said about Xuanzi."

After saying that, Li Tiezhu turned and left to arrange Zhao Daxuan's meal in the kitchen.

Li Shishi and the other woman watched Li Tiezhu's departing figure, then turned to look at Zhao Daxuan with curious expressions.

"My lord, what exactly is it that Brother Tiezhu is talking about?"

Zhao Daxuan smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "Why rush? Didn't Tiezhu just say that you'll find out soon? Just wait a little longer."

As soon as Zhao Daxuan finished speaking, they heard a sound coming from the first floor. The group looked down and saw a storyteller standing on the storytelling stage in the center of the first floor.

It was the same middle-aged man who had heard the city guards recount Zhao Daxuan's deeds in the Liangshan Mountains yesterday on the main road.

As the middle-aged scholar stepped onto the stage, he looked at the crowd filling the seats above and below, smiled slightly, and knew that today would be another fruitful day.

It was worth it for him to find a member of the vanguard team who participated in the bandit suppression last night, personally visit him, and give him a lot of money.

Only then did I learn the details of the suppression of bandits in the Liangshan Mountains, and then I wrote this story overnight.

He coughed lightly and looked at everyone.

"Greetings, esteemed guests! We've seen quite a few new faces this afternoon, presumably having heard about the story this morning. You've come specifically for the tale of suppressing bandits in the Liangshan Mountains, so I won't keep you in suspense any longer and will begin!"

Many guests in the audience nodded in agreement. They had indeed heard snippets of information about the suppression of bandits in the Liangshan Mountains that morning, which had piqued their interest.

Unfortunately, the person who was retelling the story only knew a few words. After learning that the storyteller at Sifang Restaurant had been telling stories about the suppression of bandits in Daliang Mountain all morning, he came here.

"Ahem, let's begin the first episode, 'Setting Off for the Liangshan Mountains, Bearing the Burden!'"

Then, the storyteller vividly recounted how Deng Rong had made things difficult for Zhao Daxuan along the way when they set off for Daliang Mountain, only changing Deng Rong's name to an alias.

Through his deliberate artistic embellishment, Deng Rong was portrayed as a scheming and malicious person who deliberately targeted Zhao Daxuan. However, Zhao Daxuan chose to bear the burden for the sake of the greater good.

The audience below gritted their teeth in anger, while Li Shishi and her sister, seated in a private room upstairs, blushed with rage and snarled, "This man deserves to die!"

They looked up at Zhao Daxuan: "Husband, you've really gone through a lot."

Zhao Daxuan waved his hand with a smile. In fact, he no longer cared about the matter. In his eyes, Deng Rong was nothing more than a clown.

At this moment, the food arranged by Li Tiezhu was served one after another, and Zhao Daxuan invited the two women to eat.

While the dishes at Sifang Restaurant were indeed excellent, the stories told by the storyteller downstairs were clearly more captivating.

The two women had no appetite; they merely chewed their food mechanically, their eyes fixed on the storyteller downstairs, their ears dangling, their emotions rising and falling with the storyteller's rhythmic narration.

As the storyteller on the first floor continued his tale, the audience listened with great interest, cheering continuously. However, as they heard the story further, their eyes widened in astonishment. They were amazed that bandits could be suppressed in such a way.

Although the journey up the Daliang Mountains was fraught with danger and difficulties, Zhao Daxuan managed to overcome them all without incident.

However, those on the side of the bandits in the Liangshan Mountains were as if they had encountered a natural disaster. Facing Zhao Daxuan, who descended like a god of war, they had no power to resist and collapsed at the first touch.

The crowd below the stage erupted in uproar.

"This is outrageous! This isn't bandit suppression, it's like slaughtering pigs!"

"No, no, no, even slaughtering a pig isn't that simple."

"Yes, when you slaughter a pig, don't you have to tie it up tightly so it can't resist before you kill it?"

The discussion was lively, and everyone was excited and thrilled. Having such a person protecting them gave them a greater sense of security.

Listening to the storyteller's exaggerated description and the gasps of amazement from the people in the restaurant, Zhao Daxuan felt a little embarrassed and kept urging the two women to eat faster.

But Li Shishi and her sister listened with great interest and were reluctant to leave.

The simple meal took Li Shishi and her companion an hour and a half to finish. In the middle of the meal, Zhao Daxuan even had Li Tiezhu take the dishes back to reheat them twice.

After the meal, Zhao Daxuan took Li Shishi and her sister downstairs to pay the bill. While Zhao Daxuan was paying, Li Tiezhu sneakily approached them.

He tugged at Zhao Daxuan and asked, "Xuanzi, are you planning to redeem the bets at Jubao Fang? If you are, remember to take me with you."

After hearing Li Tiezhu's words, Zhao Daxuan remembered that he could now redeem his bets at Jubao Fang, which amounted to a considerable sum of money.

He bet eighty taels, and with a payout ratio of one to fifty, he could get four thousand taels, which was more than double the two thousand taels he got in the Daliang Mountains.

Zhao Daxuan couldn't help but grin. It was truly a stroke of good fortune, unstoppable. He laughed and looked at Li Tiezhu.

"Change it! We absolutely have to change it! Why would we turn down money that's practically handed to us? We'll go in a bit, and I'll come find you after I take Shishi and the others home."

Upon hearing this, Li Tiezhu's eyes lit up, and he was extremely excited. He had also bet two taels of silver that time, and now he could get back a full one hundred taels, a huge sum of money that he had never dared to dream of before.

He nodded emphatically and said, "Then you should go quickly. I'll go tell the shopkeeper now and leave in a bit."

Afterwards, Zhao Daxuan took Li Shishi and the other woman home first, and only left after seeing them to the door.

"My lord, please be careful."

Li Shishi and her sister leaned against the door frame, softly giving instructions, and watched Zhao Daxuan's figure disappear into the street before closing the door.

Zhao Daxuan first went to Sifang Restaurant to call Li Tiezhu, and then the two went straight to Jubao Fang.

Standing once again in front of the Treasure Pavilion, looking at the magnificent golden gate, Zhao Daxuan sighed, "It really is like a treasure bowl, only it's my treasure bowl."

The two strode in, heads held high and chests puffed out, full of confidence and high spirits.

After entering the gate of Jubaofang, a servant quickly came to Zhao Daxuan and his companion. It was the same servant who had greeted Zhao Daxuan last time.

He was about to greet them, but his expression changed drastically when he saw the person's face.

"It's you guys!"

The servant exclaimed in surprise, recalling the news he had heard the night before, and instantly understood the other party's purpose in coming.

Zhao Daxuan grinned, stepped forward, and said, "It seems you still remember me, so you should know why I'm here today."

"Go and fetch your manager, Zhang Youfu!"