The meal took several hours and ended with both host and guest in high spirits.
The reason it lasted so long was mainly because Yang Xiao had been drinking with the inn owner.
Yang Xiao could hold his liquor, but the inn owner had an even better capacity for alcohol. They started off with liquor and later switched to beer.
Yang Xiao, who rarely met his match in drinking among these friends, had finally encountered a heavyweight opponent.
To ensure the inn owner enjoyed himself to the fullest, it might have been the first time in years that Yang Xiao drank to excess.
His tongue was tangled, and he was slurring his words; the inn owner too was flushed and slightly tipsy.
If it hadn't been for the innkeeper's wife intervening and forcibly stopping them from continuing to drink, they surely would have carried on competing until one of them collapsed.
