Chu Huai picked up the small rucksack that the twig gave to the mandarin duck, and also carried it on his back, running from one end of the corridor to the other.

No, nowhere is it, where has she gone?

Chu Huai crouched on the railing, looking at the lobby of the inn, the people who received guests back and forth were still those from yesterday, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that something was wrong, was there one missing?

That's right! The one who came out to greet him yesterday! He's not here! Chu Huai looked at it again and again, but still didn't see his shadow.

He rushed downstairs and looked at everyone's face in the lobby, and sure enough, there was none!

"Huh? Guest, who are you looking for? A tall shopkeeper saw that Chu Huai was very flustered, so he took the initiative to greet him.

"Where's the shopkeeper yesterday?" Chu Huai grabbed the tall man's collar and asked aggressively.

"Uh...... Yesterday, there were several shop juniors, I don't know which one you are talking about, guest officer? The tall man took a step back, obviously frightened by Chu Huai's sudden movements, and his voice was also a little frightened.

"It's the one from yesterday, shorter than you, with a thief's eyebrows." Chu Huai gestured at the tall man's shoulder.

"Guest officer, I won't tell you anything, except for me, most of the people here look like you described."

"He was here yesterday, and he's not here today."

"Oh, I see, you're talking about Ah Shi, right? He didn't come today. ”

"Do you know where he went?"

"This ...... I don't know, Ah Shi has always been a loner, and I haven't seen him get particularly close to anyone, so no one will know where he goes. ”

"Well, I see, thank you."

Chu Huai finally loosened the collar of the tall man and walked out of the inn. The tall man straightened his clothes, picked up the tray on the empty table on the side again, and shouted loudly in the direction Chu Huai left: "Guest officer, go slowly!" ”

The boss of the money village opened the door of the money village, straightened the chair, wiped the table in front of him over and over again, and wiped it with his hands from time to time, and after making sure that there was finally no dust, he sat down on the chair and stretched his body.

It's just that he didn't stretch for long, and he saw Chu Huai walking in with two backpacks.

"Little boy, why are you alone today? What about the little girl? The boss of the money village still had that happy expression, and the long hair on the matchmaker's mole at the corner of his mouth also swayed up and down with the movement when he pulled the corners of his mouth.

"Boss, did you see a strange shopkeeper leave the inn this morning?" Chu Huai's hands were propped up on the table that the boss of the money village had just wiped, and the boss looked distressed at Chu Huai's handprints on the shiny table.

Oops, I just wiped the table.

"Where did you open a strange shop, Xiao Er left? Don't the shopkeepers all live in the inn? Besides, I'm only opening the store at this time, so how can I have time to go to the inn. The boss of the money village habitually touched the long hair, and Chu Huai was a little worried about whether he would pull out the hair.

"Boss, it's like this, my apprentice is missing, I suspect that the shopkeeper did it yesterday."

"Those shopkeepers look thin and weak, and they don't have a few catties of meat on their hands, where do they have the ability to tie people?"

"But all this happened too coincidentally, first my apprentice disappeared, and the second shopkeeper was not in the inn, it's hard for me not to connect these two things." Chu Huai stood a little tired, so he looked around to see if there was any place to sit, fortunately, he finally found a small bench by the wall, he moved the bench to the opposite side of the boss, reached out to the wet cloth that the boss had hung up, wiped it on the chair, and then sat down.

"Could it be that the Mandarin Duck girl went out to play by herself?" The owner of the money bank speculated, "Maybe I'll be back after a while." ”

"No way, Mandarin Duck can't be such a person, if she wants to go out, she will definitely tell me."

"Little boy, why are you so sure she'll tell you?" yes, why are you so sure? Chu Huai fell into deep thought.

Obviously, they haven't known each other for a long time, although the mandarin duck always calls his master, but how much do the two know each other? What's more, her mandarin ducks are of the same age, but they are only one or two years older than her.

Why are you so sure?

It is probably because the impression left by the mandarin duck on weekdays is that he will talk to him before doing anything, so over time, he has become accustomed to this mode of getting along between master and apprentice. There is no reason why he would not tell himself because he wanted to go out and play by himself, so his intuition was telling him that the mandarin duck was forced to leave the inn.

"Little boy?" The boss of Qian Zhuang shook his hand in front of Chu Huaide's eyes, "What are you thinking?" ”

"Huh?" Chu Huai was so immersed in his own thoughts that he only noticed that he was still in the money village now, "I'm sorry, boss, what did you just say?" ”

"I'm asking you, why are you so sure, I've been waiting for your answer." The boss of the money bank crossed his hands into his sleeves, leaned back, cocked his chair, and shook it.

"Intuition."

The boss of the money village almost fell to the ground, and hurriedly straightened his chair: "What did you say?" Gut feeling? What can intuition do? ”

"My intuition tells me that Mandarin Duck is such a person, if she wants to go out by herself, she will definitely tell me."

The boss of the money bank couldn't help but sigh: "It's good to be young, and you can trust each other like this." ”

"Boss, if you haven't seen them, I'll leave first, I have to find the mandarin duck quickly."

"Little boy, do you like her?"

Chu Huai was about to walk out of the door for a moment, and immediately returned to normal, "What do you say, she's just my apprentice." ”

"In that case, then I'll tell you a piece of news, if the shopkeeper you said is the shopkeeper I thought, then he has been getting closer to the priest in the past few years."

"Lord Priest? Who is it? Chu Huai suddenly became interested and turned his head to look at the boss's face.

"It's a pity." The owner of the money village shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know the name of the priest, and I don't even have the honor of witnessing the priest's face. ”

"Do you know where the priest lives?"

"This ...... I don't know, but if you want to see him, you can see him at the sacrifice ceremony in a few days. ”

Chu Huai thought for a while, then turned around and walked back to the table of the boss of the money village: "Boss, I want to exchange some silver tickets with you." ”

As he spoke, Chu Huai took out a small bag of silver from his sleeve and put it in the hand of the owner of the bank.

The boss smiled and narrowed his eyes, opened the money bag and counted it, then took out the small box from yesterday from the cabinet, counted out a small pile of silver tickets from it, and handed it to Chu Huai: "I used it up so quickly yesterday?" ”

"Thank you." Chu Huai snatched the silver ticket, ignored the boss's last words, and turned around and left the bank.

"Young people, they just like to be impulsive."

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