The innkeeper was an unusually fat old woman, and surprisingly she had two heads, one with golden hair coiled high, sunken eyes, and blue eyes full of vigilance. One had his eyes closed, his hair scattered, and he made a soft sound of sleep.

Jane stared at the two heads around her neck with different manners, a little curious. But it soon became clear that this was an extremely impolite act. She retracted her gaze and saluted.

"Good afternoon, ma'am, my friend and I would like to spend the night here, and we will leave early to-morrow morning."

The boss stared at Jane for a long time, knowing that Jane was a little hairy, so she replied lightly: "I'm sorry, we are full here, please go and live somewhere else." ”

"Forehead ......"

Jane glanced left and right at the deserted hotel, the table was dusty, and there were cobwebs in the corners, and it didn't look like business was so busy that it was full.

"We are willing to pay you more for the travel expenses, can you be accommodating, I look around, it is difficult to find a room to live in."

Jane had no choice but to try to convince the eccentric proprietress in front of her.

"I'm sorry, poor little boy, but we're not doing business tonight."

The proprietress refused.

At this time, Li Yan walked in with a dismantling box containing the "unicorn" individual soldier: "I said the hall, eh, Jane, how many rooms shall we open?" ”

Li Yan changed his name under Jane's forced gaze.

Jane glanced at Li Yan angrily, turned around and wanted to say something to the proprietress , but found that the proprietress was staring directly at the box on Li Yan's shoulder.

"Ma'am?"

Jane asked tentatively.

The proprietress then withdrew her gaze and asked, "Are you adventurers?" ”

The dismantling box for placing steam individual soldiers is an extremely professional tool, and ordinary agricultural steam equipment will not be equipped, and only military high-level combat soldiers will have special dismantling boxes. It was an era of rangers, and it was not uncommon for down-and-out nobles to sell their ancestral property and replace it with a set of powerful individual soldiers, hoping to gain wealth and fame and restore the glory of their ancestors through adventures and slaying monsters.

The hostess of the inn has this conjecture, which is very in line with the background of the times.

"Well, almost."

Jane was vague.

"When my husband was younger, he was also a ranger who rode a steam soldier and ventured through various kingdoms, and he once went into the jungle alone and shot a giant wolf."

The proprietress said with a smile.

"He must have been heroic when he was young."

Jane rolled her eyes and flattered.

"It's a pity that I died of illness two years ago."

The proprietress shrugged: "I haven't been kind for a long time, since you are also adventurers like my husband." Then stay with me for one night, and charge you five marks for your travel. ”

"Thank you very much."

Jane was naturally very happy to hear this.

The proprietress took out a bell from under the counter and shook it.

"Peel the skin! Skin! ”

After a while, a sharp-looking, dark-skinned dwarf ran out of the backyard.

"Peel the skin, take the guest to the room, and then tell the bones to boil the hot water."

After the proprietress finished speaking, Chong Jian and Li Yan explained: "This is the guy in my shop, his name is Papi, and there is a chef here, an old man, whose name is Peeling." ”

"Oh, that's a weird name."

Jane echoed with a strange expression: "Madam, are there only three of you in the store?" ”

The proprietress shook her head: "There is also a bard who tells biblical stories, but he was cut off a long time ago for offending the lord. I can only feed him alive and let him tell stories to the traveling travelers. Only five pfennig a night. ”

"That's unfortunate, and I'd love to hear his story."

On the side, Li Yan and Peel looked at each other for a long time, probably because Peel saw that he and himself were not white-skinned, and when they came in, they stared at Li Yan, and Li Yan also looked at him calmly, until the two talked here, Li Yan asked: "What about the name of this bard?" ”

The proprietress replied with a smile: "His name is minced meat." ”

"That's good."

Li Yan raised his eyebrows.

The dwarf "peeled" and bowed to Li Yan, wanting to take the disassembly box in his hand, but Li Yan refused: "No, you can lead the way." ”

Peeling had no choice but to agree.

The three of them walked upstairs one after the other, and first picked a clean and tidy room for Jane, and after Jane thanked the "peeling", she snatched the disassembly box from Li Yan's hand and took the lead in the room.

"Men stop."

She said coldly. Then the door slammed shut.

“……”

Li Yan sighed, and then rushed to the skin and said, "Please find me another one." ”

He didn't speak, made a "no problem" gesture, and found a smaller room for Li Yan.

It was getting late, and the peel brought hot water and dinner to Li Yan and Jane, and Jane also pulled Li Yan and listened to the Bible story of "chopping meat stuffing" together. Li Yan recognized the "minced meat" as the narration of the disabled at the beginning of the performance, and his voice was still magnetic, but unfortunately Li Yan still fell asleep listening to it.

It wasn't until late at night, when everyone was about to fall asleep, that Jane suddenly asked Li Yan before returning to her room, "Is the pistol I gave you before still there?" ”

"Yes."

Jane's face suddenly became serious: "Listen, Liang, something is not quite right with this inn. You have to brace yourself and protect yourself. ”

"I will, Your Highness."

Li Yan smiled at Jane.

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At twelve o'clock in the evening, when everything was silent, the proprietress wore a pair of pajamas, yawned, and fell asleep soundly on the velvet mattress.

In a few moments, her breathing was even, and her other head, which had been sleeping soundly all day, suddenly opened its eyes and turned hideous.

She sat up and shook the bell on the side of her pillow.

"Peel the skin! Skin! ”

Peeling up and down and walking over.

The proprietress asked coldly, "Has my sister found a new guest tonight?" ”

Peeling nodded, and made a violent gesture for a while.

The proprietress squinted: "You go and cut off the man's head first, and then the woman's steam soldier steals it, do you hear?" I'll give you an hour, do you hear? ”

Peeling his teeth and grinning, he disappeared with a puff of smoke.

An hour passed, and the proprietress waited anxiously in the room, but no one answered, and she picked up the bell again and shook it.

"Peel the skin! Skin! ”

No one answered.

The proprietress was even angrier, and she shook the bell vigorously.

"Bone removal! Bone removal! ”

This time, it was a hunchbacked old man, dry and thin, with a large sarcoma growing on his back.

"That bastard must be lazy, pick the bones, you cut off the man's head first, and then steal the woman's steam soldier, hear not, I'll give you an hour too!"

The old man nodded, pulled out two kitchen knives stained with black blood from his back, and went gloomily.

Another hour passed, and the hands reached two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the proprietress was going round and round the room, and finally, she could not bear it anymore, she shook the bell for the third time.

"Peel the skin! Skin! ”

No one answered.

"Bone removal! Bone removal! ”

Still no one answered.

The angry proprietress ignored everything else and shouted, "Chop the minced meat!" Minced meat! ”

Finally, this time there was an echo, and a wheelchair walked in slowly, with no limbs and relying on its tongue and teeth to control the wheelchair's "minced meat".

"What are the commands? Madam? ”

"You go get the man first!"

The proprietress paused, thought for a while, and then changed her words: "You go and cut off the woman's head, and then bring me her steam soldier!" ”