Transmigrated as the Treacherous Official's Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 185: The Mysterious Shuyu Pavilion

The jade token of teal color can only be used to sit on the second floor.

A waiter with thick eyebrows and big eyes assisted with ordering the dishes. Ye Zhi had good relations with everyone, and they all appeared rather excited to celebrate her birthday.

No one had any dietary restrictions!

They ordered the signature dishes: Rouge Goose Breast, Hibiscus Shrimp, and Sweet and Sour Fish Roll. Additionally, they ordered Buddhist Hand Golden Roll and Clay Pot Braised Beef Tendons. The greens were stir-fried cabbage, and there was a personal serving of soup for each person.

The young girls loved desserts and ordered three servings of Snow Fungus Peach Gum Sweet Soup as starters.

The Little Traitor and Changzhou insisted on not drinking it.

Perhaps they felt that drinking sweets like the young ladies would damage their masculine pride.

The waiter with thick eyebrows and big eyes swiftly noted down the dish names and respectfully withdrew.

Truly, it was a restaurant specially set up for the rich and powerful, with excellent service.

Inside the pavilion, there wasn’t the noise from the outside. It was serene and beautiful. The center of the second floor had a partitioned area where a beautiful woman was playing the zither. The sound of the zither was ethereal and elegant, exuding an indescribable grace.

The rafters were made of yundian sandalwood, the tables and chairs with intricate carvings, and the pillars made of top-quality wood.

Even Changzhou, the bookworm, could sense the extraordinary nature of this place.

At the front, near the stairs leading to the third floor, another waiter stood by, preventing second-floor guests from mistakenly going up. One needed a sky-blue jade token to go up.

From where Ye Zhi sat, she happened to catch a glimpse of three middle-aged men, well-dressed and seemingly affluent merchants, being respectfully led up to the third floor by a waiter. Curiously, she asked, "What do you think the third floor is like? If the second floor is so exquisite, it must be even more magnificent above?"

Everyone followed her gaze, catching just the sight of the hems of the departing merchants’ clothes, not even their shadows.

Qinglian pondered for a moment and replied, "I don’t know, Ah Zhi. Even your wealthy family hasn’t been up there. What kind of people do you think can go up?"

Qinglian had also visited the Ye Mansion, encircled by white walls outside and overhung with green willows inside. Three flower-drooping gates and four cloisters connected around, with door and window latticework all finely carved.

According to Ye Zhi, she currently receives a monthly allowance of two hundred silver taels.

The Little Princess couldn’t help but marvel, as it was several times more than what she, a princess, received.

The Little Traitor, being a precocious child, chimed in timely to enlighten the young girls: "It’s said Shuyu Pavilion has all sorts of exotic dishes from land and sky, where one can pay to customize dishes and schedule deliveries with the chef. No one has seen the owner behind the scenes. The jade tokens are exclusively crafted in Bianzhou, uniquely made and inimitable, and renowned as the mysterious Shuyu Pavilion."

He paused, then continued, "The third and fourth floors are likely reserved for those with power or wealth, or perhaps martial arts masters! Even the National Guardian General only holds a teal jade token, not a sky-blue one, which indicates insufficient status."

Ye Zhi frowned at hearing this and secretly tried to grab the menu to check prices, hoping the meal wouldn’t cost too much.

Alas, the waiter had already taken it away. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Every dish here could be considered a culinary masterpiece, justifying the label "gourmet cuisine." People came here to feast indiscriminately, generally not caring about the price. The waiter saw that Ye Zhi and the others were clearly affluent, so after taking the order, he took the menu with him, without any thought of leaving it for them to tally up the costs.

Huanhuan, who had met Li Du a couple of times and was generally indifferent to him, suddenly heard him mentioned and couldn’t help but ask, "How do you know he has a teal jade token?"

"He mentioned it before," someone replied.

In fact, there was a time when Li Du, with a proud look on his face, came flaunting the token: "Do you know what this is? It’s the Shuyu Pavilion jade token that symbolizes my identity."