Messages related to the inn.

Su Muxian's ears immediately pricked up, and she couldn't help but think of what had happened recently.

"I guess it's some kind of treasure map......" she muttered.

Yang Xiaoliuzi listened to the tip of his ear, and raised his head in surprise: "Shopkeeper Su, you already know?" ”

Su Muxian felt the wound on his neck feel a faint pain again, covered his face and shook his head painfully: "I'd rather not know anything." ”

Jiang Yuanzhong seemed to be very interested in the news in his mouth, picked out the flower carving from the wine cabinet, filled the wine cup in front of him, and politely handed it over and said, "If you have any news, you might as well come and hear it, we just got a little rumor." ”

Yang Xiaoliuzi took the wine glass and drank it all, sighed contentedly, rubbed his stomach and said: "Actually, I don't know much, but I heard that there is a saying in the rivers and lakes recently. It is said that the treasure of the former dynasty is about to appear, and the contents of it are so rich that the people who get it can even set themselves up as kings. As soon as this news came out, it caused a lot of bloodshed, and countless people were tracking down the whereabouts of this treasure. ”

Saying that, he frowned, and his face was a little solemn: "Later, I don't know who released the rumor, saying that the clue to the treasure is in an inn, there is no evidence, but many people believe it." The rumors slowly fermented, and finally someone said that the clue to this treasure was an inn called Jianghu. ”

So she was hurt because of this false rumor?

Su Muxian grinded his teeth, eager to immediately find out the person who spread the rumors and cut him twice in the neck.

"Who let it out?" Wang Meng and the others also heard something wrong on the side.

Yang Xiaoliuzi shook his head and said, "I don't know." When I heard the rumors, the news had already spread in the rivers and lakes, and it was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to find out who the origin was. ”

Jiang Yuanzhong clasped his hands on his chest and pondered for a long time, and suddenly spoke: "Can you be sure that someone is targeting this inn?" ”

"Eight, nine is not far from ten."

Yang Xiaoliuzi finished gnawing the chicken leg in his hand, threw the chicken bone on the table, and stretched out his greasy hand to grab the other one.

Su Muxian saw that he was struggling to get up, moved the plate closer, and asked, "This is one thing, but what about the other thing?" ”

"In half a month, there will be a sword conference to be held here." Yang Xiaoliuzi took a big bite of the chicken thigh, and threw out a bombshell news lightly, "It is said that most of the people from the martial arts have been invited, and even the people from the Divine Sword Villa will come." ”

"Excalibur Jiang family?" Tang Yuyi asked.

"Exactly."

Su Muxian listened to Yang Xiaoliuzi talk about Shenjian Villa, and subconsciously remembered the gossip that Hu Xiaodie had told her about the young master of the Jiang family before. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Jiang Yuanzhong, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, his expression was obviously a little strange after hearing the words of Divine Sword Villa, just like the expression he had when he hid and didn't see Murong Jingxue not long ago.

Weird, really weird.

There's definitely something greasy in this.

Su Muxian was still in a trance, only to hear Hu Xiaodie ask, "Do you know who is from Shenjian Villa?" ”

The little beggar spread his hands and said, "That's not something that a small person of mine can inquire about. ”

Jiang Yuanzhong didn't realize that Su Muxian was suspicious of him, so he picked out the key point in Yang Xiaoliuzi's words and asked, "Why was the Sword Conference held here?" If I'm not mistaken, even if I go to the nearest Hanshan Sect, it will take two or three days to get to the horse. ”

"I don't know." Yang Xiaoliuzi put down his chopsticks after eating and drinking, wiped his mouth with his hand and said, "But I guess it may be related to the first news." ”

He looked up at Su Muxian and said seriously; "Shopkeeper Su, I don't know what the secret of your inn is, in short, someone in the rivers and lakes is eyeing it, I'm afraid that you will be implicated because of it. The grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring, I can't help much, I only say everything I can say, and you can take care of the rest. ”

He said solemnly, and Su Muxian also responded seriously: "Thank you for telling me." ”

Yang Xiaoliuzi waved his hand, stood up with a smile and turned around to walk outside the inn, and said in his usual indecent tone as he walked: "Two pieces of news for a meal, no loss." Thank you for your hospitality, and come back another day. ”

……

The two pieces of news brought by Yang Xiaoliuzi seemed to have planted a seed of uneasiness in Su Muxian's heart. She watched the little beggar plunge into the darkness, looking at the twilight street outside, and always felt that this was the trend of the wind and rain, and the small "Jianghu Inn" was a rickety boat in this storm, and it was possible to be overturned by the waves at any time.

"Why is it so hard to open an inn...... she sighed softly, closed the door of the inn, and walked towards her room.

The tables downstairs had been cleaned up, and everyone else had gone back to their rooms early to rest, but she couldn't sleep because she had a heart. After lying on the bed for a long time, Su Muxian turned over and sat up in annoyance.

The moonlight was good tonight, she put on a coat and walked to the window, pushed open the window, bathed in the cool moonlight, the dryness in her heart dissipated a little, and she actually gave birth to an urge to recite poems and accompany the scene. However, after thinking about it for a long time, she only held back Li Taibai's sentence "Bright moonlight in front of the bed", she sighed and gave up this idea of self-inflicted humiliation.

As he was melancholy, the sound of wings fluttering came from his side.

Su Muxian looked up, and a fat pigeon with a snow-white body flew from nowhere, landed on the windowsill and tilted its head to look at her.

The pigeon had a tiny cylinder tied to its leg and sealed with wax - it was clearly a carrier pigeon.

Su Muxian held his cheeks and the pigeon in front of him with big eyes and small eyes, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still felt that something was wrong, and after thinking for a while, he thought-

“…… Isn't there too many pigeons lately? ”

She counted on her fingers, and since the days she met Hu Xiaodie, she had seen pigeons nearly ten times. I have seen them occasionally in the past, but never as often as they have been recently, with an average of about once every two days.

Something is very wrong.

It would be nice to say that there is a special pigeon farm nearby, but the pigeon in front of you is obviously a carrier pigeon specially trained to carry messages.

Who is delivering the message with carrier pigeons?

She stared at the white fat pigeon for a moment, and reached out to grab it. Who knows that the pigeon is fat, and the sensitivity has not decreased at all. Spread his wings and glide in the air for half a circle, avoiding Su Muxian's claws, and then flapping his wings and flying away as when he came.

Su Muxian: "......"

Oh, how can this fat pigeon be so smart.

She withdrew her hand regretfully, calculated the general direction of the pigeon in her memory, and soon came to a useful conclusion—the person who sent the pigeon lived in the backyard of the inn.

There are a total of two people living in the backyard, Wang Meng and Jiang Yuanzhong.

She leaned down on tiptoe and looked down, and only one room in the dark courtyard was still dimly lit.

It was Jiang Yuanzhong's room.

……

In Su Muxian's impression, Jiang Yuanzhong has always been a stable and trustworthy person.

The first time I saw Jiang Yuanzhong was when the previous shopkeeper resigned due to injury.

The September day was still hot and tight, because Xiao Er was injured and could not continue to work, Su Muxian had to hire two short-term workers to help temporarily. The first time those two short-term workers came into contact with such a business, they couldn't help but be a little careless. So even though there weren't many guests in the inn, it still seemed a little noisy.

Jiang Yuanzhong was wearing a straw hat and sitting by the door of the inn, shrugging his eyelids, listless, as if he was dozing off in the sun, and as if he was about to faint after heat stroke.

Su Muxian felt that if he was allowed to fall in front of his inn, it would really damage the image of the inn, so he walked up to him with a bowl of clear water, poked his shoulder and asked, "Big brother, do you drink water?" ”

Jiang Yuanzhong: "......"

Jiang Yuanzhong: "Do you know how to speak official language?" ”

Su Muxian pursed his lips and said, "You stupid roe deer know a little, how nice my standard Northeast accent is." ”

Jiang Yuanzhong: ...... Not at all.

It seems that this bowl of water became the beginning of the acquaintance between the two, Su Muxian learned that he was alone and homeless, and his sympathy attacked, and he remembered that the inn happened to lack a shopkeeper, so he asked Jiang Yuanzhong if he wanted to stay, and he would pay back two coins of silver every month for food and lodging.

How did Jiang Yuanzhong answer?

Su Muxian couldn't think of it for a while, but since that day, Jiang Yuanzhong has stayed in the inn, and his appearance has always been good, and there is nothing strange about it. If it weren't for the fact that his watch was a little abnormal recently......

If it weren't for the fact that he had been really abnormal recently, Su Muxian would not have suspected him.

……

She looked at the faint light of the fire reflected in the window, hesitated for a moment, and poked a small hole with her finger.

Although it is really inappropriate for the shopkeeper of the dignified inn to peep into his little second room in the middle of the night, but at the moment, she is treated with special treatment in a special period, in order to solve the doubts in her heart and figure out the origin of Xiao Er, these little things are floating clouds.

Su Muxian comforted herself silently, and finally overcame the psychological pressure and leaned into the hole to look inside.

Only a short candle was lit in the room, and the flickering light of the fire shrouded a thing in the room with an indescribable sense of mystery.

Su Muxian's gaze swept over the bed extremely quickly - the quilt was folded, the curtain had not been lowered, and the entire bed was empty, without any trace of a living person.

Jiang Yuanzhong is not in the room?

Such a question appeared in her heart, so why is there still a candle lit?

Unrelentingly, he glanced around under the bed and under the table again, but still didn't see Jiang Yuanzhong's figure, and the strange feeling in Su Muxian's heart became stronger and stronger.

I always feel that there is something she has overlooked.

Su Muxian was about to call someone to come in and have a look, when he suddenly found a wooden barrel in the corner of the room that made a "gurgling" sound.

And so on and so forth! What is that?!

The word "bath bucket" flashed from Su Muxian's mind like a thunderbolt from a sunny day.

Before he could react, the "grunt" in the tub came faster, and then there was a "bang", and a naked man with long black hair stood up from the tub.

Su Muxian was stunned as she watched the fair body come into view, the tip of her nose suddenly became hot, and a warm liquid flowed out of it.

Oh, I had a nosebleed.

She struggled to keep her head from bleeding on the floor, and turned like a thief to run, but accidentally kicked the flower pot under the windowsill.

The sound of "bell" sounded unusually clear in the silent night.

Jiang Yuan grabbed the clothes that were placed on the shelf and wrapped his whole body, and shouted vigilantly: "Who? ”