All the staff of Zhenxiu Restaurant placed great importance to this banquet. Since they had made adequate preparations, the dishes were served very quickly.

First came eight appetizers: steamed chicken with chili sauce, cold boiled pork with garlic puree, soy braised duck tongue, pickled goose feet, spinach salad, sour and spicy black fungus, cold jellyfish, and shredded kelp in chili oil…

As he listened to Third Young Master Zhou’s introduction, the emperor emeritus, who was the guest of honor, tasted each dish one by one, and nodded frequently to express his satisfaction. Suddenly, his eyes focused on two dishes that should have not appeared on the table. They were so familiar and nostalgic.

County Magistrate Wu followed his gaze and frowned, “Didn’t you say that it was eight kinds of cold dish? Why are there two more?”

Zhou Zixu also saw the two dishes and felt alarmed in his heart—Weren’t these the Yu Family’s braised food that he brought back from the docks? Didn’t he tell the servers to bring them to his own room? Why did they bring them here?

He recalled the main ingredients of these two dishes—pig head and pig ear. Disregarding the people of rich, noble families, even ordinary folks didn’t like to eat these stinky things. Yet they had served it to an esteemed guest from the capital....