When Locke finished her work, the proprietress also came out with two plates of food. She first put the food on a table, then went back to the bar to find a candle that had burned to the size of a thumb. After lit it, the tavern became a little brighter. Xia Xi noticed the repackaged package and the slightly clean floor on the bar. She understood something and showed a touching look on her face. "Come and eat, sir." Xia Xi greeted Locke.

"Uh... I said, you'll make some of it just by making it? Let's eat this for dinner?" Locke pointed to the two plates of black paste on the table in surprise. Locke knew that this was baked mashed potatoes. Locke often ate this when he was a child, or when he encountered difficulties in life.

"This... this is the only food here. Sorry, sir." Xia Qian said in a low voice with a red face, perhaps because she thought of something and felt like she was about to cry again.

"Forget it, I haven't eaten mashed potatoes for a long time, so I'll just take it as a savor." Seeing that the beautiful boss's wife was about to cry again, she quickly changed her words. To be honest, as a carnivorous creature that can eat meat every meal, he made him back and eat roasted potatoes and mashed with a little salted mashed potatoes. Locke was curious about what this woman was experiencing now. You must know that the small candle of thumb-sized on the table can be replaced by Locke in the military camp and can be exchanged for a delicious meal with meat. Candles are high-end items, and most of them are used by nobles. Because of the complex craftsmanship, they are very expensive and rarely used by the people. Even if there are rich peasants and small-asset merchants, they can only use oil lamps in the military tent. As for Locke's military tent, they can only use torches to play cards and spend the evening.

"I'm just curious, you are a very famous bar owner, and you eat this every meal." Locke teased and said to the crying boss lady. After saying that, he didn't wait for the boss lady to say anything. He picked up the plate of mashed potatoes and started to storm the clouds. He was really hungry and drank a lot of wine in the afternoon and didn't eat anything. His stomach was still burning.

The boss lady heard something and wanted to say, and saw Locke's rough eating style at this time, and swallowed up what she wanted to say. Unlike Locke's rough eating style with a plate, Xia Xi was eating with a spoon after spoon, and a little bit, as if she was enjoying some delicious food. She was very graceful. Although the portion Xia Xi gave Locke was twice as big as hers, Locke quickly resolved the battle and was still unsatisfied.

"Eat so fast..." Xia Qian muttered, "Give it, I can't eat it anyway, so please help me with something." After that, Xia Qian transferred half of the food on her plate to Locke's plate. Locke was indeed not full, and watched the beautiful boss give him his meal, and didn't say much, picked up the plate and then started fighting.

After Xia Qian put the last bit of mashed potatoes in her plate into her mouth, she looked up and found that Locke had crossed his legs and looked at him with a smile in his eyes. Xia Qian couldn't stand the man's gaze, so she quickly got up and put away the clean plates of the two of them and walked towards the kitchen.

When Xia Qian came back again, the two of them sat on both sides of the table and quieted down again, only the short candle in the center of the table was still swaying. "Tell me, why is life so bleak? It shouldn't be like this in your situation." Locke broke the calm and asked first.

Looking at the man who was interested in helping him, Xia Qian suppressed the excitement and told the truth, "Although my tavern can make roughly 30 copper delers every day, and when the business is good, it can even reach 50 copper delers, but this money almost does not belong to me in the end." Xia Qian said with her head down.

"I was snatched by those local gangsters? Just like today?" Rock asked.

"Well..." Xia Qian whispered, as if she had remembered something bad again, and the beautiful boss's face showed a heartbreaking sad look on her face.

"How is it possible, these gangsters? They don't know that the service target of this tavern is the soldiers in the military camp? Where is your husband? Didn't he join the top leaders in the camp? He just needs to say something to the top leaders in the camp, and I believe someone will come to solve the problem for you." Locke asked in surprise.

"When people reach a certain level of hunger, they won't think too much. These gangsters are poor people who can't survive. Now, I am the only one in this town and the group of women behind the tavern can receive money." Xia Qian told the reason and added shockingly, "And, my husband has long wanted me..."

"Huh? Why?" Locke was really curious this time. This beautiful boss lady was abandoned by her husband. The man was kicked in the brain by a donkey. Don't want such a beautiful wife.

"Since he joined your army, he has become the most powerful person in Giza. Everyone in this town and refugees who fled from other places have to flatter him. How can he lack women now?" Xia Xi smiled miserably and said, "Now the group of women who do flesh-and-stealing transactions in the back of the tavern are under his control, and he doesn't want me, a bad wife."

"Maybe he's compensated me, he gave me the tavern." Xia Qian brushed her hair and continued, "The gangsters were afraid of his reputation and the soldiers who were drinking here at first, but later they didn't care about so many things when they got hungry. Every time the people in my shop were exposed, they would come to grab the money. As they had more times, they found that my husband actually didn't care about the tavern, and the gangsters became more and more eager."

"Why don't you ask for help from soldiers drinking here? If you ask for help from someone like me, someone should help you. After all, we still have to drink here." Rock asked.

"Even if I can help, I will only help for a while. Those gangsters will not let me go..." Xia Qian said sadly, "Now the ale in the tavern is preserved before. Because of the money I earned and the price surge, I haven't brewed new wine for a long time. I guess I'll be sold out if I survive in less than a week. I may have to stay away like the women behind the tavern..." The beautiful boss's wife's sad expression was pitying.

"You want me to protect you all the time, instead of just teaching those gangsters a lesson?" Locke changed direction and asked her cross-legged.

Lock saw the thought, the boss's wife's sad cheeks turned red, and she bit her white teeth and nodded slightly.

"Not to mention that I am a small team leader, with 10 people under my command, and there are training in the camp, so there are not enough people to stay here to protect you. Besides, I might have to go on a war one day. Even if I protect you now, what if I leave?" Although Locke was willing to help her, the fact is that. Locke is not a person who can easily get angry if she is tempted by beauty. She rationally rejected the beautiful boss lady.

Xia Qian's face turned pale when she heard Locke's refusal, and her eyes showed a look of despair. The candle on the table had burned to the bottom. The faint flame was shaking, and finally extinguished after burning out the last wisp of white smoke. The tavern fell into darkness again. Tonight, the moonlight was good, and it shot in through the cracks in the window. The faint moonlight shone on the two of them, and they were motionless like stone molds with white wax.

"Woo... Woo..." The beautiful boss lady cried again. This miserable woman was crying in tears today. The most common one in the year. She didn't know where her future was. She was confused and helpless. Locke was helpless. This world was like this. There was no love for no reason, nor hatred for no reason. Everyone had their own way of living. He could not even guarantee that he could survive in the war, nor was he able to take care of a person he didn't know.

"Oh... I will ask a few people to come to see the tavern these days. You can do business safely for a few days, and then use the money you earn to go to the occupied area to take over Peters or to join relatives." Or moved by the boss's cry, Locke decided to help this beautiful woman in the best of his ability and pointed her a way out. "I can only do this." After that, Locke got up and prepared to leave. It was getting late and it was almost time to seal the camp.

After listening to Locke's words, the boss's wife's crying became louder and tears made the woman's face lose, but she still cried, as if helpless to the bumpy fate.

Lock slowly walked towards the door of the tavern, and he stopped persuading him. Just cry if he wanted to cry. Only after experiencing it, he could become stronger. The boss's crying gradually lowered. Just as Locke walked to the door of the tavern and was about to move the wooden board at the door, a warm body hugged him.

"I can't let you help me in vain." The boss lady said in a hoarse voice, "I have nothing left except this tavern. I can't think of a way to repay you except myself." Locke could hear that in addition to the thought of repaying him, the beautiful boss lady was also very sad and heartbroken.

"You don't have to do this, we actually..." Before Locke could finish speaking, a hot tongue blocked his mouth. The beautiful boss Xia Qian hugged Locke's strong chest and kissed him wantonly, blocking what he wanted to say.
Chapter completed!