Ordinary shops, those priced cheaply at seventy to eighty taels per unit, could be bought. This street was the busiest street in the city, and these five shops had wide frontages, each shop facade being eight meters wide and twelve meters deep.
The location, situated at a central crossroad's gold-standard section, was why the asking price far exceeded that of ordinary shops.
Qin Niu went in with his wives and concubines.
"May I ask what the three honored guests would like to eat?"
The server greeted the trio warmly as he came up to serve them.
The servers in the restaurant were not dressed in local attire; the male waiters wore straw raincoats, bamboo hats, turned-up felt shoes, with holes in their ears and silver earrings.
They sported mustaches, carried curved knives and ox horns at their waists, and moved with agile steps.