Chapter 64 The Secret Beneath the Hot Spring
Nezha had just arrived when someone came up to lead the horse away, though this person did not seem like the typical inn waiter.
While both are in business, sizing up customers, this person clearly lacked the savvy of the waiter, his glance alone made one feel uncomfortable.
He said: "Young master, are you here to bathe in the hot springs? However, the horse must be tied here, to prevent manure from dirtying the place. The outer pools cost five silver coins per day, whereas the central ones cost one silver tael per day."
As Nezha loosened his grip on the reins, the jujube red horse, being a spiritual beast from the mountains, refused to be bound by mortals. With a neigh, it joyfully lifted its front hooves, its hoofbeats thundering away into the distance as it went to entertain itself.
Nezha knew that with slaves who run errands on others’ coat-tails, the more face you give them, the more they climb over your head. Ignoring his displeased expression, Nezha asked with a smile, "Don’t fool me, I’ve heard of the top-grade spiritual spring in Lingquan Town and have come from afar just for it. How can you fob me off with those ordinary pools that are found everywhere, thinking I cannot afford it?"
Nezha jingled his money pouch before the man’s eyes, the gold and silver clinking inside, prompting the servant’s face to change as he tried to smile and reached out to take it. However, Nezha then withdrew his hand and, like a magician, made the money pouch disappear.
The servant rubbed his hands together and said: "My young lord, let me tell you, all these hot springs have been taken over by the Wang Family of Lingquan Town. There’s no such thing as not wanting to earn money, it’s just that today is really inconvenient."
Lingquan Town.
Wang Family.
Nezha had never heard of them, only perceiving them to be local gentry of Lingquan Town, and wondered since the hot spring pool had only appeared a few years ago and was originally unowned, who did the Wang Family take it from?