"Be careful. Qi Yi said while holding Zhu Yuanyu.

Zhu Yuanyu grabbed Qi Yi's shoulder, jumped lightly, and landed firmly on one foot.

He looked up and said softly, "Yue, come, guest, inn." ”

The shopkeeper inside greeted him, with a smile on his face, and said enthusiastically: "Guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

The little second in this shop was the same as the man Zhu Yuanyu saw on the street, with a thin body, a yellow face, and a hungry person.

Qi Yi swept the cheekbones on the face of the shopkeeper and said, "Live in the store, three upper rooms." ”

"Okay! Guest officer, please come with the little one!" The shopkeeper glanced at Zhu Yuanyu's feet, threw the white rag on his shoulder, and made a gesture of please, because he bowed slightly, the clothes on his body were originally loose, and now his chest and stomach bulged more as if they were blowing.

Zhu Yuanyu thought it was interesting, so he took a few more looks.

Qi Yi noticed his gaze, looked over, and couldn't help frowning.

Entering the Yuelai Inn, the shopkeeper led Zhu Yuanyu and the others to the counter.

"Shopkeeper, these two guest officers are going to open three upper rooms. ”

The shopkeeper, who was fiddling with the abacus with his fingers, raised his head, glanced at Zhu Yuanyu and Qi Yi a few times, and said slowly: "Three upper rooms?"

The shopkeeper looked old, the wrinkles on his face were one by one, his eyelids were even weaker, and there was no smile on his equally thin face.

Qi Yi asked, "How much is the three upper rooms?"

"How long will you stay?" asked the shopkeeper without looking up, looking back at the abacus.

"Three days for the time being. Zhu Yuanyu replied for Qi Yi.

"A tael of silver in total. ”

Zhu Yuanyu nodded and looked at Qi Yi, who untied the money bag with one hand, Zhu Yuanyu took it and opened it, took out a tael of silver and put it on the counter.

Don't look at the shopkeeper who seems to be slow in doing anything, but the speed of the hand to collect the money is not slow at all, as soon as the hand is stretched, a tael of silver disappears on the counter, and then slowly bends down and gropes for a while, and takes three palm-sized wooden cards on the counter, and doesn't care.

Zhu Yuanyu grabbed the wooden sign, and there was a big word "Shang" written on the wooden card, and a small word "Wu" was written below the word "Shang"; looking at the other two, it was also a big "Shang" character, and below it were the small characters "Lu" and "Qi".

"Two guest officers, please come with the little one. ”

It's still the shopkeeper just now who leads the way.

When going up the stairs, Zhu Yuanyu doubted that the shopkeeper in front of him would fall down unsteadily.

Fortunately, until he walked up the stairs, nothing happened as he thought.

The shopkeeper pointed to the front and said, "Two guest officers, the front is it." With that, he walked over and pushed open one of the doors.

Before entering, Zhu Yuanyu looked at the corner of the door and found that there was a wooden sign with the word "Wu" hanging on it.

It is said that it is the upper room, and the decoration in the room is also ordinary, and the furniture is only a wooden bed, a round wooden table and a desk.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The two guest officers are still satisfied, right? If there is nothing to tell the little one, go to the ...... first."

"It's okay, you go out. Qi Yi waved his hand and said.

Zhu Yuanyu sat down on the edge of the bed, couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately took off his shoes, and a white bow appeared.

Shaking the white bow, Zhu Yuanyu suddenly said, "What about Zhuang Zhuang and Cui'er?" The head melon turned to Qi Yi who was standing on the left-hand side.

The two of them went to the backyard to park the carriage first, and Cui'er said to pack her bags from the carriage. Young master, you rest first, and your subordinates go over and take a look. ”

Qi Yi glanced at the bow on Zhu Yuanyu's feet, saluted and walked out.

I had just walked a short distance when I ran into someone making trouble.

Qi Yi wanted to go around, but when he accidentally took a look, he found that the person who made trouble was someone who had a relationship with one side - the middle-aged man who came in behind when he was sheltering from the rain in the deserted temple.

If it weren't for Qi Yi's good memory, he might not have recognized that the person in front of him would be the middle-aged man he met in the deserted temple.

At this time, the appearance of the middle-aged man has undergone a huge change, the original big belly is full of rich body and is now thin and almost unadult-like, the face is sallow and sallow, the cheeks are sunken, and the cheekbones appear to be high and protruding; probably the skin is stretched out when he is obese, so the skin is loose when he is very thin, and there are clothes on the body to cover it, but there is nothing to see on the body, but the skin on the face and neck is drooping, as if it is being pulled down by something, and the whole person is dozens of years old, from the forties to the sixties。

The reason for the trouble seems to be because the middle-aged man owes the inn a few days of room money, and he doesn't want to leave.

The two skinny shopkeepers grabbed the middle-aged man's arm and forcibly dragged him away, and one of them scolded: "If you don't have any money, you still want to rely on it and not leave? No way! The shopkeeper said, I don't want you to pay for the house for the past few days, just get out of here now! You can't afford to live and there are still people to live in!"

The middle-aged man struggled violently, his feet firmly on the ground, trying to prevent himself from being driven out of the inn.

The three of them all had sallow faces, and in Qi Yi's eyes, their movements were like slowing down the camera, and they had not made any substantial progress for most of the day.

Qi Yi looked at it speechlessly for a while and left.

When I went down the stairs, I met Li Zhuangzhuang and Cui'er, who were about to go up the stairs, both of whom had bags on them.

When Qi Yi helped Cui'er with her bags, the three of them all stopped at the stairs, and someone muttered in a low voice if they couldn't go up or down.

Qi Jian not only has good eyes, but also good ears, and he can hear the man's words clearly, his eyes narrow, and he looks down condescendingly, with an expressionless face.

Li Zhuangzhuang once said to Zhu Yuanyu that Qi Yi is quite capable of bluffing people when his face is expressionless.

Now the muttering man was frightened, and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at him.

Qi Yi gave up, handsomely put his bags on his shoulders, turned around and walked up.

Cui'er quietly glared at the thin man, although she stood closer, but the man spoke too quietly, so she didn't hear clearly, but according to Qi Yi's expression, she knew that it must not be a good word.

It wasn't until she gouged out the man several times with her own eye knife that Cui'er was willing to let him go.

Seeing Qi Yi and them leaving, the man breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but be indignant again, and looked a few times in the direction where they disappeared with envy, until the person behind said that he was in the way before continuing to walk up.

The desk in the guest room was empty, and there was not even a study room with four treasures, but fortunately, Zhu Yuanyu brought a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, so he was able to write a reply to his home.

I briefly mentioned the recent events, and hid what should not be written, and the reply letter was about some customs and customs, and at the end of the report, it was written.

Zhu Yuanyu put down the pen, picked up the paper, and blew lightly a few breaths, the ink on the edge of the words written on the paper slowly dried, leaving the ink in the center of the words still a little wet.

After waiting for a while, the ink on the paper was all dry, and Zhu Yuanyu folded it and fixed it on the feet of the carrier pigeon.

At noon, Zhu Yuanyu released a carrier pigeon by the window, and the carrier pigeon flapped its powerful wings and flew to the north.

There are three upper rooms, Zhu Yuanyu lives alone, Li Zhuangzhuang and Qi Yi live alone, and Cui'er lives alone.

Cui'er wanted to object when she heard this, for her, someone had to take care of the young master at night, and she was the most suitable person, unlike Qi Yi and Li Zhuangzhuang, who were men and were rude.

However, Zhu Yuanyu seemed to know that she was going to object, and she decided on it in one bite, and it was still the one that was not negotiable.

Cui'er secretly bit the small handkerchief, very aggrieved.

Zhu Yuanyu doesn't care what she thinks, anyway, he is the biggest, and he has the final say.

Touching his belly, he said to Qi Yi and them: "Let's go, go downstairs to eat." ”

Cui'er still wanted someone to bring the food, but this time it failed again.

She pulled a handkerchief that had been torn hard, and said sullenly: "There are a lot of idle people downstairs, and there are many fish and dragons, young master, why do you want to go downstairs to eat? Isn't it good for us to let the shopkeeper bring the food? How quiet is it to eat in the room......

"It's because it's quiet, it's rare to go out to play, isn't it lively when there are many people?" said Zhu Yuanyu with a smile.

Feeling that his calf was rubbed, Zhu Yuanyu pretended to say suddenly: "I almost forgot my hair! Cui'er, take the grain from Maotou, let's go down to eat together." ”

When they arrived downstairs, the four masters and servants and a dog sat down according to the primary and secondary positions, and Zhu Yuanyu ordered a table of special dishes.

When the dish was served, Zhu Yuanyu was dumbfounded.

When he saw Cui'er smiling and putting a chopstick dish into his bowl, his cold hairs immediately stood on end, and goosebumps scrambled to pop up all over his body.

Qi Yiden noticed his strange appearance and asked, "Young Master, what's wrong?" Then his eyes swept to the dining table a few times, but he didn't find anything wrong.

Could it be poisonous? Qi Yi thought as he took out a piece of cowhide from his arms, opened it, picked up a silver needle from it, and was about to stretch it out to one of the dishes on the dining table.

Zhu Yuanyu quickly grabbed his hand and said softly, "Don't move." ”

Looking around, there are no private rooms, so there are people around eating. Zhu Yuanyu watched the others stuff worms into their mouths with relish, and they looked like they were nothing, and he was suddenly disgusted.

He pointed to a dish on the table and asked, "What is this?"

Cui Erqi said: "Green vegetables, young master, why do you ask this?"

Zhu Yuanyu looked at Cui'er with a "you knowingly asked" expression, and he really couldn't tell her that this dish was a whole plate of wriggling white maggots in his own eyes.