117 Chapter 116
The carriage soon arrived at Commercial Street. As he looked around, Lucas felt as if he was watching something that could only appear in the scenes of the 1980s and 1990s movies.
There was a road that led straight to the gate; there were people working on both sides of the streets; there were wooden shelves around; people were decorating (just smearing cement over the outside); the pebbles stuck on top formed signs and words; etc.
The restaurant Nicole had talked about was currently right in front of Lucas. The large double doors gave it a strong atmosphere, and there was a sign on top of the door that said: "Drunken Night Restaurant"
Drunken Night Restaurant had three floors. The first floor was for commoners, the second floor had private rooms for merchants and nobles, and the third floor had rooms for people living in the restaurant. Lucas had spent a nice sum of money on Earth to get this designed by an architect. Then Lucas ordered Ben to gather a skillful and trustworthy master to make this restaurant with workers.
Big restaurants that allowed people to both live and eat there were mainly large in width and length rather than height. One could easily tell that the restaurant was extremely large just from the fact that more than fifty tables were placed on the first floor. It was like an extremely large cafeteria. That was how it was actually designed, since commoners preferred their meals to be fast, cheap, and fulfilling, and a cafeteria was the most suitable for that.
Lucas was most concerned about the second and third floors.
"Come on, let's go in and take a look." Lucas said, leading the three girls inside.
Once they got inside, they saw people cleaning up. The first floor was pretty empty and only had tables and chairs.
"Huh?" Annie was surprised. "Young Master, this place is just like the barracks."
"Yes," Lucas said, nodding. He pointed to the counter in front. "That's where people can order dishes. Two steel coins for a large bowl of wheat porridge, three steel coins for a vegetable dish, five steel coins for a dish with vegetables and meat, and eight steel coins for a dish with just meat."
"Wow. They're so cheap. There's going to be a lot of people coming to eat." Annie exclaimed.
"It's supposed to be cheap." Lucas said, laughing lightly.
The first floor focused on quantity. Most commoners would get full just from wheat porridge and vegetables, and there was hardly any profit to be made, but the quantity would make up for it.
"This can't be done, I must come here and have a meal and taste what it's like," Annie said, clenching her fist. "Mina, you have to come too. You too, Nicole."
"En." Mina nodded. She was also curious about the taste of the meals here.
"We should try the food sometime." Nicole said.
"…" Lucas hoped that the three girls didn't have a lot of expectations for the food in the restaurant, as they were incomparable to the food in the City Lord's Mansion.
"Come on, let's go to the second floor. That's where the key things are."
There were four large stairs connecting to the second floor to prevent any trampling accidents or traffic jams.
"Wow. So many small rooms." Annie exclaimed as she looked around.
"These are called private rooms. There's 60 of them." Lucas said. The private rooms were what he really valued.
The 60 private rooms weren't all the same size. There are 30 small private rooms that could accommodate six people, 20 medium-sized private rooms that fit 12 people, and 10 large rooms that could accommodate 16 people.
The cheapest vegetable dish on this floor was five copper coins and tasted way better than the food downstairs.
"Creak."
Lucas pushed open the door of Private Room 6. There was a table and some chairs inside, and a bunch of holes in the walls.
"Young Master, what do we do about the holes?" Nicole asked curiously.
Lucas pondered for a while. "Find some thick paper, draw some random things or write some random words, frame them, and nail them on the wall. Put a bunch of them on the walls and put the blandest paintings on top of the holes."
"Right. How come I didn't think of that?" Nicole said, tilting her head as she doubted her own intelligence.
"I wonder if the people down there can hear the words clearly." Lucas said, going over to a small hole the size of a small cup.
"Young Master, how about you test it?" Nicole said. "We'll talk up here while you go down and listen."
"Alright. Mina, let's go down." Lucas took Mina to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Lucas and Mina opened a door, revealing a bunch of bags of wheat. After moving aside a few bags of wheat, they opened a trapdoor, revealing a small stairway, and the two of them walked in.
They walked for about a minute before reaching the bottom. They were on the ground floor, core of the Drunken Night Restaurant.
It was silent, except for the sounds of breathing and footsteps.
Candlelight appeared in the dark, followed by a voice that loosened Mina's grip on her military knife.
"You're here, Young Master." Ben said, coming out of the dark.
"Uncle Ben, how did it go? Can you hear the sound that was coming from above?"
Ben was in charge of this place. "We can. The bamboo tubes transmit sounds very clearly." Ben said, leading the two of them to a small room with the number 6. "Young Master, you'll be able to hear them when you go inside."
"Mhmm."
They walked in. The room had a table and a few chairs, a candle, a stack of paper, a few quills, and a bamboo pipe coming down from above, facing the table.
"Come. Mina, let's try it." Lucas sat down and took off the plug on the tube, revealing a thumb-sized hole. Lucas put his ear next to it and could immediately hear the sound from above.
"Nicole, has the Young Master arrived?" Annie's voice was crisp and clear.
"They should be there, but I don't know if they can hear us." Nicole said in a worried voice.
Lucas was satisfied with the result of the test. With this, if anyone wanted to scheme something against Sedona City or Lucas, he would know about all of the plans they made in the Drunken House Restaurant.
Lucas believed that the second floor of the Drunken Night Restaurant would attract a lot of merchants and nobles, and their words and plans would be collected, checked, and sorted.
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This was the real use of Drunken Night Restaurant: to collect intelligence.
