"What are you waiting for? Come, let's have dinner. I'm starving already." Lin Xuan Qi said.
He rolled the pieces of paper with the rules that he had written down and held them in his hand.
Xue Cong and Ah Di nodded, and they moved along.
When he got to the dining hall, he sat down and glanced at the dishes that were in front of him.
"Is that all?" He asked.
There were visibly fewer dishes than before.
The braised meat had less portion, filling only up to half of the plate.
It would cover the whole plate previously.
"Master Lin, I err..." Xue Cong stammered and glanced over at Yue Jie.
He frowned and said, "Don't tell me you've calculated wrongly and spent all of the money?"
"No. I err..."
Yue Jie came to Xue Cong's rescue and said, "It's not Xue Cong's fault. The food prices had doubled overnight."
"Doubled?" He mumbled to himself.
"Yes, the vendors said that there weren't as many supplies coming into the city recently and they had to raise the prices.
