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Inside the hotel "The Death of the Cod".

The halfling boss was not angry at Barrett's rude behavior of taking his gold coins, but said in a soft voice to the gold coins in Barrett's hands:

"Come on, little darling, don't be naughty, come to Daddy." Said he showed an apologetic smile to Barrett, "Sorry, she is more recognizable and doesn't like letting strangers hold her, so leave her to me. "The halfling leaned out of the counter, grabbed the gold coin from Barrett with agility, and put it back into his hand to observe it carefully.

Although the little man in front of him is very greedy for money, he is not very good at doing business. If the dishes were not too expensive, 'The Death of the Cod' would not be so deserted. Of course, Barrett doesn't understand business matters, but he's very good at hacking and killing.

"Give me a glass of rye beer first." Barrett turned back to the dining table and sat down on a random chair, "Let me think about what to eat."

"Fresh cod, Mr. Barrett." The halfling boss recommended, "Fresh cod brought in from the 'Summer Harbor' thousands of miles away in the early hours of the morning, with the scent of crushed ice and the ocean. 'The Death of the Cod' will never be short of it Cod, this is a sad place for those poor fish."

"Of course, it's too much to say that you don't eat cod here." Barrett nodded. "One pan-fried cod, sprinkled with more chopped basil leaves and pepper; and another one of grilled large octopus tentacles, help me pick a thicker root, To roast with seaweed, add some devil peppers to the chili paste, not too much, just a little. You know, if you add too much of this stuff, the frost bugs will breathe fire." Barrett made various requests, "Another onion soup, with more cheese, don't be reluctant. Add blue cheese, its spicy, tangy flavor goes well with onions."

The price of the dishes is high, so Barrett naturally needs to get back a little more from other aspects.

"Don't worry, your request is more effective to us than the king's order. Unless, the king will bring his 'head' to me, yes, it needs a lot of 'heads'." The halfling boss deftly asked from He jumped down from the high chair in the counter, filled Barrett with a mug of rye beer, and walked back toward the kitchen.

"Where's Tracy?" Barrett was a little puzzled, "Isn't she supposed to do these things?"

"She left a few months ago, and no one knows where she went. Although I asked her kindly, this girl didn't tell me, you know, if Tracy doesn't want to speak, the gods can't force her to speak. The halfling boss's voice sounded from the kitchen, and the tone was full of jokes, "I guess she should have migrated to her hometown like a cod, got married and had children."

"Someone wants a girl like Tracy?" Barrett asked in surprise. It was a pretty good-looking girl, with a hollow star-shaped hairpin always pinned to her short black hair. But this girl's personality is a bit strange. Seeing everyone with a blank face, nothing will surprise her, and no one will make her laugh. The undead are richer than the expressions on her face.

"Shh, if Tracy hears this, she'll spit into your dishes with a blank face and spit hard. I have to tell you, she's very good at this." The halfling boss walked out of the kitchen again. came out and went back to his high chair inside the counter. "I told her many times, don't do it, it's very rude to spit into a guest's dish. But that girl never listens to me, I'm still her boss, ten silver coins a month, Even with room and board, I can’t find anyone as good as me now.”

If it is a small hotel in an unknown village, this salary is really acceptable, but this is Galano, a big commercial city in the western part of the Griffin Kingdom. The salary of ten silver coins per month here is a bit low.

"At least she's not here now," said Barrett.

"She's not there, so it's impossible to spit into your onion soup, but then again, what's so dirty about a pretty girl's saliva." The halfling boss had a narrow smile on his face." Some adventurers will deliberately get angry with her and let her do it, and then she will stand next to the guest and watch the guest drink her saliva. Although her face is expressionless, I can see from her eyes. See the complacency. But she doesn't know, that's exactly what those wretched guys want."

It's nothing, it's not easy to find a righteous person among adventurers. "As the saying goes, 'The same rye will raise different people.' There is no shortage of all kinds of strange flowers in this world.

"You're right, there are fewer and fewer normal people." The halfling sighed, "I wanted to hire a new waiter, and I offered such a generous salary, but no one came to apply." Halfling boss He wiped the beautiful golden marigold coin again, "By the way, how long do you want to stay when you come back this time? The room on the third floor has been reserved for you."

That's because you have too few guests here. "Two days, or three days." Barrett took a hard gulp of rye beer, then burped comfortably.

"So short? Then back to the foggy forest?"

"No, go somewhere else." Barrett's plan has nothing to say, "There is a 'Trifoliate City' in the east of Griffin Kingdom, have you heard of it?"

"Sorry, I've never heard of it unless it's rich in cod," replied the halfling owner, "I was five when my dad brought me to Galano and I've never set foot outside the city for half a century. step."

"Your father is a businessman?" Barrett asked casually.

"No, he's a thief, a very famous thief, good at opening locks and cracking traps. No matter how complicated locks and traps are, he can't be beaten. If you were born thirty years earlier, you might have heard his name among adventurers. "The boss said with a little pride in his voice. "You know, our race is good at this."

"This hotel was opened after your father gave up being a thief?" Barrett asked again, "It's not far from the three guilds (adventurers, merchants, handicrafts), and the land can be said to be expensive. To be able to open a hotel here, it seems that he should have made a lot of money back then."

"Unfortunately, that's not the case." The boss sighed, "He died in the third year he came here, he didn't die because he went to some weird places to take risks, and he didn't go into a dungeon because of an itchy hand to steal~www.readwn .com~ He was suffocated by a cod bone stuck in his throat."

"But cod doesn't have any bones. You should know it well. It only has a backbone." Barrett was curious.

"That's the backbone." The halfling stared straight at an empty dining table, "My old man swallowed the whole bone of a cod in his mouth, and the whole bone got stuck. in the throat. He whimpered and seemed to want to say something, but couldn't say anything. I was terrified and shouted loudly, trying to get someone to help, but then he collapsed with a purple face God knows why he did this." There was only a trace of sadness on the halfling's face, but more of an inexplicable blankness, "To be honest, although that fish is delicious, it's not worth it. Do."

Barrett felt a little abnormal and absurd from the description of the halfling boss, but he didn't say much. It was too long ago that it was impossible to find anything. What's more, this method of death is not too bad.

"Stop talking about this, or you'll lose your appetite in a while." The boss's face resurfaced with an attentive smile, "You said you were going to Sanye City, why did you go to that place?"

"Actually that's not the final destination," Barrett said. "I took on a strange mission." But it's not as strange as your father's death. Town' place and go find a little girl." In fact her soul is in the little tombstone in my ring.

"What about after you find it?"

"Then..." Barrett thought for a while, then drank the remaining rye beer in one gulp, "Then one of her wishes will be fulfilled, that's it."

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