Chapter 272: Marking the Boat to Retrieve the Sword_2

He knew very well that he was "grasping at straws," but this realization still made him so overjoyed that he devoured three large bowls of food!

Not until his stomach could hold no more did he joyfully pull out his purse and call out loudly, "Shopkeeper, the bill!"

The owner, who both managed the shop and served as the waiter, had been eyeing him for a while, fearful that he might dash after eating. Seeing that he actually took out his purse, the owner approached with a smile plastered on his face and said in a thick Linjiang accent, "You must have just arrived in Linjiang today, right?"

Yang Ge paused, then after a moment returned to his senses and fumbled with his tongue before replying, "No… no… no, I haven't been home in a very, very long time, and I can't even speak my hometown dialect anymore."

After a good while of scrambling, he finally managed to speak with a Linjiang accent.

"No wonder."