#1109 - Chapter 1109 Food Costs
"Who are you people? Why are you blocking our way?" Bai Yuhou asked.
"Let me introduce myself. I am Huba, the steward of the Sixth Master Long. I am here under the orders of the Sixth Master Long to await your arrival," Huba replied leisurely.
Bai Yuhou looked at Cheng Bang, wanting to solicit his opinion.
Cheng Bang gently shook his head, indicating that they should not go.
Bai Yuhou nodded and replied:
"Steward Huba, please convey our apologies to the Sixth Master Long. We still have a journey ahead of us, so we won't bother him."
"May I ask this gentleman's name?" Huba asked.
"Bai Yuhou," Bai Yuhou replied.
"Bai Yuhou? Ah! So you are the leader of La Land! Forgive my lack of respect! La Land is very far from here! I wonder why Bai Yuhou would bring his people to appear here?" Huba asked with a surprised expression.
It seemed that this steward was not simple, being so knowledgeable about La Land, which was thousands of miles away.
"I have no comment!" Bai Yuhou was somewhat wary of him and did not reveal the reason.
"Now that Bai Yuhou has come to Long Land, please accept our invitation and allow us to fulfill our duty as hosts by preparing food to treat you," Huba invited very politely.
"I already said that we still have a journey ahead of us, so we won't go," Bai Yuhou refused again.
His repeated refusal made Huba very unhappy. His words began to become unpleasant:
"Bai Yuhou, your refusal makes the people of Long Land very sad!"
"What do you mean by that?" Bai Yuhou was puzzled.
He didn't understand what direct connection there was between his refusal and the people of Long Land.
"The people of Long Land have been looking forward to your arrival day and night. Isn't your refusal of our kindness making everyone very sad?" Huba explained.
"You… this…" Bai Yuhou thought that Huba's words were completely unreasonable.
"If Bai Yuhou really needs to continue his journey, I won't force it. However, before leaving, could you please pay for the food?" Huba began to put pressure on him.
"Food expenses? What expenses?" Bai Yuhou asked.
He already had a bad feeling in his heart, sensing that the food they had dumped earlier was intentional on their part.
"The food you just ate was what we use to treat friends. Since you are not our friends, of course, you have to compensate for the food," Huba said.
"You didn't say that the food was for treating friends!" Bai Yuhou questioned righteously.
"Then may I ask why we would cook those foods? Moreover, if you didn't know who the food was for, why did you eat it?" Huba retorted.
"This… I thought it was food you discarded," Bai Yuhou replied with an ugly expression.
"Hahaha, Bai Yuhou, what are you joking about? Why would we cook food and then discard it? If we didn't want to eat it, we wouldn't cook it! You don't think that our Long Land is so rich that we can discard food at will, do you?" Huba laughed.
Bai Yuhou knew that he had been tricked.
But now that the food had been eaten, he probably had to compensate, so he asked:
"How do you want us to compensate?"
"It is said that La Land has salted fish, so use salted fish to compensate!" Huba said.
"We have been traveling from La Land to here for eight months. Do you think we can still produce salted fish after such a long time?" Bai Yuhou asked unhappily.
"If you don't have salted fish, then do you have anything else? If you have other valuable things, it's not impossible to consider," Huba asked.
Bai Yuhou's people were still running around naked. Although they had picked up some clothes, they didn't dare take them out now. Besides that, he didn't have anything valuable.
"You can see that we don't have any valuable items now, so we can't compensate you," Bai Yuhou spread his hands.
"Bai Yuhou, you are being unreasonable, aren't you? You don't treat us as friends, and you ate our food for nothing. Now you don't plan to compensate and want to leave? What's the difference between what you're doing and robbery?" Huba's words became more and more unpleasant.
"Then what do you want?" Bai Yuhou asked, his face flushed with anger.
But it was true that his people had eaten their food, so he couldn't deny it.
"Simple. If you are willing to treat us as friends, please be sure to honor us with a visit to our territory. If you don't want to treat us as friends, that's fine too. If you can't compensate for our losses, you can work for us to pay off the debt," Huba proposed a solution.
"Grandpa, what do you say?" Bai Yuhou looked at Cheng Bang.
He was now very regretful, regretting that he had not listened to Cheng Bang.
Cheng Bang glared at him and said:
"Let's go to Long Land and take a look. I am very interested in this Sixth Master Long."
