I heard a knock on the door, stopped what I was doing, and was stunned for a moment.

I turned and stared at the door for a few seconds, then I moved and whispered in the direction of the door, "Who is it?" “

The knocking paused, and a crisp sound sounded outside the door.

His voice sounded like a cheerful man, and he replied, "Our shopkeeper asked the little one to come over." ”

The innkeeper?

I frowned and thought about it, I just met him at the door of the inn.

The man was about forty years old, thin and ordinary-looking.

How did the innkeeper remember to send someone to deliver a message?

I suddenly felt a little inexplicable.

Counting the time it took me to enter the inn until now, I haven't even reached half an hour.

Besides, it's my first time in Nanhua Town, and I don't know anyone here.

In addition to having contact with the group of people who came to Nanhua to pick up darts from Suzhou in the middle of the road, the words with the shopkeeper of the inn add up to a few words!

I was puzzled, but the other party had already made it clear that it was sent by the innkeeper.

Since he was also a young man at the inn, I decided to go to the door and have a look.

It's not dark yet! This inn is still facing the street, I think there is no danger!

I walked to the door, opened it gently, and saw the young man standing outside the door, about seventeen or eighteen years old.

I looked at him, and saw how he was dressed, and my doubts lessened, for he looked like a man working in the inn.

"You said your shopkeeper had something to do with me?"

I asked, looking at him strangely.

"Well, that's right." With a smile on his face, the young man said politely to me, "Guest." You are a newcomer, and the shopkeeper forgot to remind you just now, so he specially let the small one come to visit. ”

When I heard this, there was really something!

"I'll delay you for a while." The young man looked at me and said in a gentle tone, "I don't know if it's convenient for you?" “

I gestured and nodded, "I'd like to hear about it." "You've just arrived in town today, haven't you?" The young man asked me again. "That's right, I just entered the town and took a hitchhiker."

I answered to the guy without mince of words. "Our shopkeeper really guessed correctly." With a look of confusion on the young man's face, he paused and continued, "He guessed you must have come from a foreign land. Arrived in our town at the beginning of the day. “

"Your accent definitely doesn't sound like it's from our Nanhua Town." The young man said with emotion.

I took one more look at the guy and thought to myself, isn't that weird?

You must know that Nanhua Town is a small town on the road to Beidi.

There are so many people passing by every day, and naturally there will be accents from all over the place, and even the alien races in the Northland are not a few!

Seem. The shopkeeper wants to remind me that it has nothing to do with this, right?! "When you walk in the door. I also saw that the business of the inn was not very good during this time. “

The young man's tone was tactful.

I had always been suspicious before, but when he took the initiative to mention it, I immediately responded: "That's right, I think it's weird." ”

"That's what we're here for."

I looked at him thoughtfully, and the doubts in my heart increased.

After a while, the young man smiled bitterly and said, "Our inn has been stolen by thieves several times recently. The thieves have stolen everything that the guests have left in the house. ”

I was taken aback, looked at him and asked, "Is that true?" "It's true." He stared at me and said, "Guest, you have also seen our inn, it is an inn facing the street." ”

"But there are fewer people in our inn than others, and sometimes I can't stand it."

The young man's tone was apologetic. "A thief is so bold?" I frowned, paused, and after a moment of thought, I looked at the young man and pursed my lips and said, "The inn on the street is full of people. "Wouldn't he be easily discovered if he were to do something at the inn?"

I looked at the young man puzzled, and muttered to myself, "It's not safe for thieves." "Well, maybe it's the end of the year," the young man was slightly stunned, and his expression suddenly became a little subtle.

He looked at me fixedly, and then hesitated for a moment and said, "The thief is probably short of money, and he has taken a risk, so let's remind you." "Guest, please be careful with your own belongings."

I looked down and thought about it, although the shops on the street were risky, there was also a high chance that the thieves would escape after they took action.

Because there are many people coming and going, they wander in the streets, and the flow of people disappears.

The young man looked at me and said in a sincere tone, "If you want to leave the inn and go to the street on an errand, remember to take all your valuables with you. “

"Our store has few people, and the shopkeeper doesn't dare to help keep the customer's things, in case there is a dispute, it is not clear."

I can understand, Wen Yan nodded.

As for going out on the street with money, I don't need them to remind me that I will, after all, I have to be careful when I'm out there alone.

I was silent, my eyes fixed on him, and I looked at the young man's expression.

I don't know why, I just felt that something was wrong, and after pondering, I whispered, "Actually, I didn't carry anything too valuable, but I just carried a burden with me." “

My eyes fell on the young man's face, and I saw his expression clearly, and I said to him calmly.

In fact, I added in my heart, and it was not my own baggage that I was carrying. "You can't be careless either." The young man reminded me solemnly.

"Guest, I won't tell you, the thief stole different things every time he came back, and the chickens raised in the backyard of our inn were stolen last time."

This one is okay too?!

I was stunned and stared at him dumbfounded. Half a day before he said, "Is this a weasel?" “

The young man couldn't help but laugh, and said to me: "When a guest came a few days ago, the window forgot to close at night. "That guest may have had a drink at the town tavern."

The young man explained to me the previous situation: "The guest came back a little drunk. As a result, when I slept at night, the window was open, and two changes of clothes placed on the cabinet were stolen. “

Stealing clothes? It seems that money is indeed tight. "The sun-dried mushrooms that the guests bought from the shop in the town were also stolen, and they were originally intended to be brought back with them."

The corners of my mouth tugged slightly, and I said to him lightly in a casual tone: "Well, mushroom stewed chicken soup, this thief is quite good at eating." "You're smiling, guest." The young man didn't know what he was thinking, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He stood in the doorway and said a few words to me. Just as I was about to leave, I stopped him.

I was a little interested, and casually pointed to the small pot I had placed on the cabinet and asked, "That's it." Do you think he will steal it? ”

When the young man saw the small pot on the utility cabinet, he was slightly stunned and said, "Maybe it's not bad to boil porridge in this pot." ”

With that, I looked at him. I couldn't help but laugh together.

"Okay. Thank you boss, and for reminding me, I'll take note. ”

Before leaving, the young man said a few more words to me: "Guest, there are several mountain goods stores in the town that are good, if you want to buy New Year's goods, you can go and have a look." ”

I glanced at him again, and then said calmly, "Okay." "Please close the window when you go to bed at night so that you don't get taken away."

The young man finished speaking and walked away briskly. I was stunned at the door, where did he tell that I like food? Dudu mentioned the mountain goods store to me.

All right. Maybe it's the mushroom chicken soup just mentioned that made the guy fall in love!

I closed the door, listened to the footsteps in the corridor outside, and down the stairs, the young man had probably gone to the inn to reply to the shopkeeper.

After thinking about it, I walked to the window and pushed the window open to the street.

The air outside was cold and mixed with the scent of flowers.

Nanhua Town is different from Suzhou in the end, the scale is small, it is still built on the mountain, and the terrain is very high.

I looked intently, and there was a flower tree not far from the window of the front yard of the inn, the variety of which was a flower I had never seen before, and it was quite lush in winter, and it looked vibrant.

As my eyes swept over the trunk of the tree, I suddenly felt a move in my heart.

If the thief mentioned by the young man had come up along the tree and the window was open, wouldn't it have been easy for him to get into my room?

No, you must be awake when you sleep at night, and by the way, you have to close the window tightly!

In short, safety first!

Just like the young man said, it is the end of the year, and there may be many thieves, and all the money with him has to be collected.

It's just that I'm going to go out on the street for a while, but I forgot to ask the young man, what time are the shops in the town usually open?

On this point, it varies from place to place.

There is a night market in Suzhou City, I don't know how late the shops in the small town of Nanhua are closed?

If I have time, I plan to go to the ready-to-wear store and the pharmacy on the street when I go to the street later.

Especially the ready-to-wear shop, when I get here, I always have to change my clothes.

I didn't expect to ask the young man just now, but I will find a chance to ask when I go downstairs later, and if the shopkeeper is there, I can ask him directly.

What else? Naturally, I still have to go to the entrance of the town to see the announcement posted there.

I had a plan in my mind, and turned around from the window, my eyes resting on the pile of things that Wu Yu had taken out of his baggage.

I sighed, staring at the pile for a long time.

The young man came to me and said something unexpected to me, but I didn't think it was a little weird, Nanhua Town is a small place after all.

I retracted my thoughts, but I was thinking that although the young man said to be careful, it was not good for me to carry a big burden on my back and continue walking down the street.

Otherwise, wouldn't half of the reason for my stay and settlement be in vain?

When I walked down the street, I wanted to leave my burden in the inn just because I wanted to lighten my burden!

I stood beside Chuang, looking at the pile of things with hesitant eyes, and I couldn't make up my mind for a moment.

I am afraid that I will come back later, and then, as the shopkeeper told the young man, the thief will take the opportunity to visit my room first.

The young man came to me on purpose, and I listened to what he said.

In the past, maybe I didn't care so much about the little thing I was carrying now, if I had enough money, it wouldn't have been able to get into my eyes!

But now the situation is not as good as before, and I have counted the money I have on my body.

In addition to the money spent on shopping on the street when I was in Suzhou, I also had to set aside the money for staying in a hotel and eating on the way to the north.

Even if it's just an ordinary inn, there are always expenses, and the silver has to be spent every day, so I guess my purse is not very rich.

If my clothes were to be stolen, I would have to buy at least two more cotton robes, plus the necessary herbs, dry food, etc., which I would have to bring with me to the Northlands, which would seem to be a waste.

I decided to sift through it anyway.

The clothes are hard to carry with you, although the robe prepared by Wu Yu is not thick, but it is okay to wear the two together.

What I took out just now, as well as the disguise medicine she made, is a simple version.

I'm going to take the small bottle with me, and I don't want to throw it away for the time being.

I clearly remember Wu Yu telling me that the bottle of face-smearing potion is slightly waterproof, and the quality of the simple version of the disfigurement medicine has passed.

Making new medicines on the fly, I don't know if I have enough time to live with people not to be disturbed.

If you think about it, let's take it with you first!

I reopened the big baggage, and I stuffed the folded clothes into it, and put it back in the small bottle, as well as the codex that Wu Yu's father had probably written.

You have to take all these things with you.

I sped up and sifted around, and it seemed that the only thing I could leave in the inn was the bag of dry goods and the pot and a small bowl.

Those things are the heaviest, and with them on your back, you can't walk fast.

At the same time, I realized a little.

It was my luck to come out of Suzhou, and I found the previous hitchhiker by myself.

Later, I met the next one by chance at the mountain temple, and when I set off from Nanhua Town, I still had to find a way to find a hitchhiker to ride.

The mountain road is not easy to walk, although the distance between the north and the north is slowly getting closer, the temperature is also dropping little by little.

Further northeast, it is not surprising that there will be heavy snowfall, and just thinking about it makes it difficult to walk on a bumpy road.

When I sorted out my baggage, the hot soup I drank in the deserted village halfway through the road was almost digested, and I felt hungry at this moment.

If you borrow the big kitchen of the inn, well, time is tight, and you have to go to the street, so it is better to go down and ask the shopkeeper if there is any ready-made steamed porridge or something.

Eat a little bit, and I'm going to rush out on errands.

I tied my burden in a knot and carried it on my back, closed the door, and carried my burden all the way downstairs.

Taking out those few things, the burden was much lighter, and at least I could carry it on my back for a long walk down the street.

I ate two steamed buns and a bowl of soup in the lobby of the inn, and asked about the closing time of the shops in the town. (To be continued.) )