Inn.
Yang Fei found a place to stay at the Xie Family Old Shop. This old establishment was said to have been open for a hundred years without ever making a mistake, and it enjoyed an excellent reputation in the area.
After paying, he returned to his room, where an attentive waiter brought him a basin of foot-washing water. Once he had soaked his feet, the weariness of the journey seemed to melt away completely.
"I've heard that the homes of high officials and nobles use boilers developed by the Supreme Way Academy to heat water, so they can use it whenever they please, all twelve double-hours of the day. What extravagance."
With a sigh, Yang Fei washed up, changed into the thousand-layer-soled cloth shoes provided by the inn, and went to the front hall for dinner.
Business at the Xie Family Old Shop was good. Their drunken fish in particular was a favorite that many guests ordered.
Yang Fei looked around and found that quite a few of them were probably students like himself, here to sit for the civil service examinations.
Besides them, there were several merchants and townsfolk. One of them took a swig of wine and said, "Peace is still the best..."
The chaos that had engulfed the realm was only twenty years past, and their fathers' generation still remembered it vividly.
Now the country was peaceful and the people secure, with everyone longing for stability. That was the blessing of the state!
Yang Fei truly could not understand why bandit uprisings still broke out so often in the north. Though most were immediately suppressed, it was still bewildering.
At that moment, several students nearby were competing to see who could hold their liquor. Once people drank too much, they loved to let anything spill from