"Yo, the two guest officers are back, and the first-class room has been reserved for the two of you, please go inside." The shopkeeper lay on the railing and waved his hand to Chu Huai and Mandarin Duck, who had not yet walked upstairs.

Chu Huai walked in front of the shopkeeper and took out the freshly exchanged silver ticket from his arms, and the shopkeeper's eyes were glued to the silver ticket from the moment Chu Huai took out the silver tickets, motionless.

He counted the number of silver tickets, and handed them to the shopkeeper one by one.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, please." The shopkeeper took the silver ticket with joy, the smile on his face was much more rampant, he counted it over and over again, and then carefully put it into his arms, he had not seen such a generous Central Plains person for many years!

It was dinner time, and the lobby of the inn was already full of people, they were wearing all kinds of clothes, different styles, but the only thing they had in common was that they were all colorful, and they talked to each other loudly, but it was true that the Mandarin Duck could not understand the language.

The shopkeeper seemed to see through the doubts in the mandarin duck's heart, and explained: "These people are all from other villages, and it will not be a few days before the sacrificial ceremony, and they are all here to pay respects." Our Western Regions are all a village and a tribe of its own, although this is the case, but the relationship between each of our tribes is still very harmonious, there has never been a struggle or anything like that, what you hear is the language used in the village where they are located, and it is natural that you don't understand it. ”

"Does the Oracle-God Village also have its own language?"

"Of course."

"Then why don't you use your own language?"

"Isn't that afraid you won't understand?" The shopkeeper smiled sinisterly in the shadow of the mandarin duck.

Chu Huai caught a glimpse of something wrong with the shopkeeper's expression for a moment, but when he looked in the direction of the shopkeeper, he returned to his normal expression, still with the same smiling face, nodding and walking in front of the mandarin duck.

But Chu Huai was still a little relieved after all, he pulled the sleeve of the mandarin duck and whispered in her ear: "Mandarin duck, don't ask again, I always feel that there is something wrong with the shopkeeper here." ”

What can be the problem with the shopkeeper? Mandarin Duck muttered in her heart, although she wanted to ask Chu Huai like this, but she still didn't ask after all.

"Guest, let's have a good rest tonight."

The mandarin duck completely relaxed at the moment when the door of the guest room was closed by the shopkeeper. She lay down directly on the mattress and breathed a long sigh of relief: I'm really tired after driving for so long......

She turned over, hugged the quilt, and looked at the Taishi chair by the window in a daze, and she didn't know if Xiao Yuan felt the same way when he rushed from the imperial city to the South China Sea, or if he was more tired, after all, he was the emperor.

The sky outside the window darkened, and I don't know when a strong wind began to blow the window rustling, until there was a "pop" and the window was blown open and slammed hard against the wall on the side.

The cold wind poured into the room, and the mandarin duck closed his eyes, shrunk his body tighter, and drilled into the corner.

There was a knock on the door just in time.

"Mandarin ducks, do you want to have dinner together?"

The mandarin duck frowned, suddenly opened his eyes, sat up, when did he fall asleep?

The knock on the door was still ringing persistently, and the window was constantly knocking on the wall because of the wind, and the two sounds were mixed together, so that the mandarin duck didn't notice for a while that someone was knocking on the door.

She got out of bed and closed the window, and the wind was much quieter. Only then did the mandarin duck hear someone slam the door outside the door, and then it turned back to quiet.

Is it Master? Until she reached the door, there was no more knocking, and she put her ear close to the door, and there was no sound outside.

She opened the door and looked to the left and right ends of the hallway, which was empty and empty.

The mandarin duck felt very strange, obviously she heard a knock on the door, and even seemed to hear someone calling her name in her sleep.

Could it be Master?

She thought about it, walked out of the room, closed the door gently, walked to Chu Huai's door, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

"Here we are." Chu Huai's voice came from the room, along with the sound of his footsteps.

The door in front of the mandarin duck was opened, and I saw Chu Huai holding the door with both hands, biting two chopsticks in his mouth, and asking with some inarticulateness: "What's wrong?" ”

"Master, did you just knock on my door?"

"Nope." Chu Huai took the chopsticks in his hand and turned sideways to let the mandarin duck into the house, "Did you hear a knock on the door?" ”

"I'm not sure, but the sound of the wind blowing the window was mixed with the knocking on the door, and in a daze, I seemed to hear someone calling my name, but when I closed the window, I did hear a banging on the door."

"Maybe you dreamed that someone knocked on the door." Chu Huai closed the door, sat down with the mandarin duck on the edge of the mahogany round table, and continued to eat the unfinished dinner.

"But I heard the loud slamming of the door."

"Maybe it's because the shopkeeper fell." Chu Huai took a chopstick dish and stuffed it into his mouth, and suddenly thought, the mandarin duck is still here, will it be a little bad to eat it alone? Then he picked up a pair of clean chopsticks from the side and handed them to the mandarin duck, "Do you want to eat a little together?" You haven't eaten yet, have you? ”

"Thank you, Master." Mandarin Duck took the chopsticks, and when Chu Huai said this, she did feel hungry for a while, "In this way, I really have a lot of heart, and no one actually knocked on my door." ”

"But speaking of which, that shopkeeper looks a little weird."

"Master, you said the same thing when you just went upstairs, he's just a shopkeeper, what's so weird?"

"Don't you think he looks at us strangely? Obviously, he kept smiling on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes. ”

"I think he's just a snob, but this time it's the master's heart."

"Is that so?" Chu Huai poked at the empty bowl in front of him, and began to recall what the shopkeeper had said and the demeanor he had shown during the day, no matter how he thought about it, he felt very strange, and even the whole store felt very strange.

But in the end, Chu Huai could only attribute this feeling to the fact that this place was not the Central Plains, nor was it Loulan, so he naturally felt strange.

The mandarin duck ate for a while, and after gradually feeling full, she put down her chopsticks, stood up, and said to Chu Huai: "Master, then I'll go back first." ”

It's just that Chu Huai has been stuck in his own contemplation and hasn't paid attention to the mandarin duck.

After calling him a few times and not answering, the mandarin duck had to leave Chu Huai's room by herself, she gently closed the door for him and walked back to her room.

But the hand that was about to open the door paused, she clearly remembered that she had indeed closed the door before leaving, and why did she open a crack in the door at this moment?

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