Chapter 229: The Time to Do It
...... At night in the town, there are very few pedestrians on the streets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Only in the center of the town, there are still a few people who go out in the evening to do evening business and are closing their stalls one after another.
Some distance away from the town, it is the largest and most lively inn in the town.
This is no longer a meal, and there are only about a dozen guests sitting and drinking in the lobby of the inn.
The young man also stepped forward one by one to confirm that if it was a drunk guest, he had to take them back to the house where he was staying.
In the small building in the backyard of the inn, Tianfang stayed indoors alone at this time.
He took a map from the baggage on the table, spread it out on the table, and examined it carefully.
This map follows all the way to the Northlands, and is drawn in a more general way.
It was about the people who made the cartography that had their own ideas.
Perhaps it is because they feel that the place is purely a high mountain and deep valley, and they are all uninhabited places, so there is no need to draw them in too much detail.
Tianfang's eyes were fixed on the surroundings of the northland town, and his gaze swept over the mountains on the map again and again.
It was close to the center of the war on both sides, that is, the site where it was about to be used as a battlefield.
The guards of the Sea Kingdom who were stationed in the town in the early stage were focused on the army of the king division and the national teacher who barely showed his face.
I got the news not long ago that the secret guard around the national teacher had gone to that area, but his whereabouts were unknown.
I lost it!
It is said that the guards of the Sea Kingdom rarely miss, but when they meet that person who is like a nemesis, the calculation and planning are really a few percent worse.
Even if the situation that Tianfang doesn't want to see happens again, there is a feeling of helplessness that he has more than enough strength to do.
At this moment, the room was quiet, and he was alone at the table looking at the map, and in a trance, several scenes from the past appeared in his mind.
Naturally, it is related to the little junior sister, but in every frame, the shadow of that person is also indispensable.
Tianfang couldn't help but sigh, got up and walked to the window and pushed it open.
The cold wind outside the house blew in, and he faintly heard a chaotic sound of footsteps in the distance.
It's about the late guests who live in the inn and wander around the night market in the town!
Tianfang didn't pay much attention to it, he stared at the flowers and trees in the yard for a moment.
The sound of the wind in the night, which grew louder in my ears, drowned out the footsteps in the front yard.
Tian Anxin planned that when the sky was light, a few people could set off to continue the search in the town.
Tomorrow's day is more critical.
I have to try to find out the exact whereabouts of the little sister.
The worst is ...... If there is no harvest in the evening, Tianfang has to start another plan.
At the very least, they had to find the guards who caught their attention.
Even if you kidnap someone, you have to inquire about more news.
This is a last resort, and Tianfang easily doesn't want to do it!
...... Inside the house in the backyard of the inn.
I pointed to the other side of the board, and the young man's gaze followed my gesture with a bit of surprise.
The next second, he nodded and said, "It turned out to be a filling, but unfortunately there are only vegetables here." ”
I glanced at him and replied in a gentle tone, "It's okay, my companion is very picky, and the vegetarian stuffing is good." ”
...... For a moment, I remembered what the innkeeper had told me.
Thinking about it, I was also a little curious, and I couldn't help but ask him.
"I just heard from you that there were guests who came to the inn to borrow the kitchen before."
"You said that, right?"
When he heard this, he immediately replied, "Yes, there is." ”
I answered, "If that's the case, then you must have seen what they cooked." ”
When the young man heard this, he immediately nodded: "I've seen it, some have tasted it, and there are all kinds of things." ”
"You know we're here, our last stop before reaching the Northland!"
The young man glanced outside, withdrew his gaze, lowered his voice a little, and continued to look at me, "There are guests from all over Zealand who live in the inn. ”
"There are even some from outside here."
I know what he's saying, and that's not wrong at all.
If you can already see a lot of people of different races coming and going on the street in Suzhou, you can see even more here in the town.
The Northland produces fine furs, and some precious medicinal herbs can only be mined in the mountains, so there has always been a steady stream of people going to the Northland.
I've even wondered if the war in the Northlands has something to do with that.
Because apart from what I mentioned, I really don't understand the dispute between the two sides...... What is the cause and what is the root cause?
The innkeeper's voice immediately interrupted my distant thoughts.
"Some of them have relatives and friends in the town, and come to visit relatives and friends," he paused, and continued, "but the traders pass through the town for the most temporary stays!" ”
I was stunned for a moment, then looked at him thoughtfully.
In fact, my guess is close to what he said.
Because in my opinion, the most people who arrive in the town should be the businessmen who do business, except for the local residents, of course!
Even the foreigners who stayed in the town, except for the ones I saw outside the pharmacy who came to the town to seek medical treatment, the rest should be mostly businessmen.
The young man at the inn looked at me and said in a smooth tone, "The people who do business have settled in us the most. ”
"The habits are different in different places, and the food they cook is also different."
The young man's eyes rolled and he recalled: "If you see what we lack here, you will go out to buy materials and come back to make food." ”
"But most of the customers still go to the town center to find a shop with a good reputation," the young man said in a changed tone, "but some people are not used to traveling, and as soon as they stop, they want to eat something to suit their appetite." ”
He said a bunch of things one after another, and I understood exactly what he meant.
What he wanted to convey was to reassure me of my worries on the one hand, and to tell me that this was a common thing in their inn.
The hotel is a guest, and the requirements within a reasonable range should be met.
...... The young man lowered his voice and said, "Actually, some guests will make good food here, and some of them will only make their own food......
Thinking of Nanhua Town, the young man at the inn was also mysterious in his tone, and there was no lack of exaggerated expressions in his words.
I understood what I said, and immediately looked at him with a smile and said, "I guessed what you want to say!" ”
The young man looked at me in amazement.
I looked down and thought for a moment, "When I was on my way here, I stopped somewhere else on the way. ”
"I've stayed at other inns, and some people told me that at that time!"
"He said that the guests cooked for themselves as soon as they arrived at the inn, and in the middle of the night the whole house was filled with strange smells," I said, "and that the food it made smelled worse than the smell of medicine." ”
"You're here from South Zealand?"
The innkeeper asked me.
I hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Almost!" ”
The young man looked at me and said, "Since you are going all the way north, should you ......?"
After thinking for a while, he said, "Could it be that the guest you mentioned to me is actually the same person!" ”
I looked at him and laughed, "It's very likely, otherwise, why did your peers go out of their way to say it?" ”
The young man recalled for a moment, and then said: "The unpleasant smell took a long time to dissipate, and the shopkeepers were worried that there would be guests who would change places immediately after they came in and smelled it." ”
"Don't want to be with us!"
I asked, "Wouldn't that affect the business, and what did you do afterwards?" ”
"Hey, the shopkeeper asked me to go to the shop on the street and buy the ...... for those girls."
"I know, if you buy it and spill it in the house, it will smell so much better than it smells, right?"
"You even know this, did they use this method in the last inn?"
The two of them were chatting in the room, and I estimated that I was almost done, turned my head to look at the side of the board, and then said to the young man, "I have to do it." ”
...... I thought that the tsundere boy would probably have come up with a plan overnight.
There was something important to do after dawn before we left town.
Unfortunately, when I finished cooking the snacks and was about to take them, I unexpectedly saw that the lights in the room where he lived were turned off.
"Look at you, you've been busy for most of the day, and your friend is asleep, can this snack be put on hold until tomorrow morning?"
The young man stood with me at the door of the house, looking up in the same direction.
"I'm afraid not, the taste will be bad," I looked at him after thinking about it and said, "It's better to give it to you, I'm not hungry." ”
When I was going to do it, I was ready to do more.
Naturally, the inn boys are indispensable.
"Where can I eat so much, so it's okay, I'll put it here for you first."
The young man was more thoughtful than I was, and he looked at me and said, "If your friend wakes up tomorrow morning and comes down from the upstairs, at least let him see, it's cold now, and it won't be bad." ”
"Okay, you decide, if you think it's delicious, you can eat it all, it's okay!"
I stared at the room where the lights were out for a while, and then I turned to the young man at the inn and said, "It's okay, tomorrow he likes it, I can do it again." ”
"Yes, you have this craft, no matter when."
I made up my mind, looked at the innkeeper and asked, "By the way, are you going to guard the door in a minute, or are you right here?" ”
"I have to go to the door to guard, and I have to get up in the middle of the night to go around the inn a few times, in fact, our town is quite peaceful, but the shopkeeper has not been very relieved, and he specially takes care of us."
The young man said with a helpless look.
"That's right...... Are you the only one on tonight's night watch? ”
Without thinking, the young man said, "Yes, another of ours here went to the nearby countryside. ”
He explained to me: "His family is in a fishing village by the river, and he told the shopkeeper that he will return to the town tomorrow morning." ”
I said to him in a sincere tone, "There's something I want to ask you, it's like this...... I know a little bit about medicine, so I went out to buy some medicinal herbs at the pharmacy in the town, and I plan to boil some ointment and take it with me on the way. ”
"Because I'm going to the Northland, it's too cold, so I'm going to take it with me to ward off the wind and avoid the cold."
"So, I still want to borrow this place, I don't know if it's okay?"
"It's okay, it's just ......"
I added to the young man, "Please rest assured, the smell of the medicine I boiled is not strong." ”
I winked at him and smiled, "I will never let you be blamed by the shopkeeper after dawn, and then go to the rouge gouache shop." ”
It's not the first time to boil the test medicine, I have the bottom in my heart.
...... The people sitting under the lamplight could see the green shadows under the eyelids on their beautiful faces.
She was half nervous and half nervous at this moment, and she couldn't tell what she felt, but she couldn't fall asleep without a definite result.
Thinking about it, she didn't feel at ease, and she thought about urging the people in the inn, but after thinking about it, she still sat down.
After all, this is not Suzhou, so I can't talk about deep connections.
To do this, most of it depends on the silver they brought!
And a small half is in the other.
Over the years, she has figured out the personality of the young master of the Yuwen family, and since she has been low-key in the town, she must not want to make trouble.
So in the final analysis, the other party never imagined that he would take a risk and make such a ruthless move.
If it weren't for his resolute attitude...... It's completely different from another stranger.
In the days when she lived in the mansion in the east of Suzhou City, what lingered in her ears every day was to hear the gossip that was secretly circulating in the house, intentionally or unintentionally.
Unexpectedly, the young master of the Yuwen family, who had always been arrogant, didn't care about the news that was secretly circulating in the mansion, and placed that person directly in Qingyin Pavilion in the name of a friend.
In contrast, it's too chilling!
The appearance of the young lady of the Hua family, the little maid who came with her has always been in her eyes.
She was eager to step forward and say a few words of dissuasion, as long as the matter was not carried out, there would be a chance to redeem it.
But according to the personality of his own lady, I don't know if it will cause trouble for myself.
She has been looking at her young lady's expression, figuring out the other party's intentions, and she has wanted to say a few words of comfort several times, but she also doesn't know how to say it.
"Pour me a cup of tea."
The maid turned to pour a cup of tea, walked slowly to her, and silently placed it on the table in front of her.
"What time is it?" Miss Hua asked in a low voice.
"Now, it's almost ugly......"
"Haven't been there for so long?" She then asked.
"It's about to be, do you want to take a look?"
"No, just wait."
Miss Hua stood up, walked back and forth in the room a few times, stopped at the table and said, "They said that the best time to do it is in the middle of the night, and when you get it, it will be almost the time to hit the road, and you don't have to delay in the town." ”
She said in a calm tone, "That's the best!" ”
"You're not worried...... What if the young master of the Yuwen family came to inquire at that time? ”
The little maid looked at her young lady with fixed eyes, and asked again, "Aren't you worried?" (To be continued.) )