Chapter 247: Shopkeeper
Mo Xie took the key from Wen Chen's hand and said, "Take us to the place where you saw those rooms turn dark." ”
"Yes!"
After Wen Chen finished speaking, he led us towards the inn, I held Mo Xie's hand tightly, and at this moment I realized that the problems of this inn were much bigger than I imagined.
After Wen Chen took us in, I realized how big the courtyard left in the middle of this inn was.
This courtyard is circular, more than twice as large as the place where the altar was laid down by Moxie when we were in the Lord's Mansion.
I just walked around the outskirts of this inn with Mo Xie. I already knew that this inn covered a large area, but I never thought that the location of this inn was so large that it was left to a useless courtyard.
And the arrangement in the middle of this courtyard is also very strange, there are no pavilions, no rockery ponds, but there are many pillars around it that seem to have no effect on the structure of the inn at all.
As soon as I saw this, I frowned, the layout of this courtyard always felt very similar to an altar, and the difference was just some sacrificial things that could be quickly put on the table.
"Where can you see the changes in these rooms?"
Mo Xie opened his mouth and asked Wen Chen.
"Master! Over here! ”
Wen Chen said, leading us towards a corner of the courtyard, that place, just happened to be the blind spot of the people in the main hall, the owner of the inn was still surrounded by countless soldiers to arrange the room, it is estimated that there is no time to check here, so Wen Chen found out about the situation.
I walked with Mo Xie to the location that Wen Chen pointed to, and sure enough, I saw that many of the houses upstairs were completely black.
Mo Xie and I frowned at the same time, and looked at each other.
At this moment, one of the men of the inn suddenly walked out of the main hall, and when he saw a few of us standing here, his face changed slightly, and then he walked towards us with a smile on his face.
Mo Xie didn't say anything, but suddenly there was an extra spirit rune in his hand, and as soon as the soul fire was ignited, it was thrown into the air.
The man's footsteps suddenly stopped, and then he said with a look of trepidation: "This guest officer, you, you, you ......"
"Ben Jun travels far away, and every night in the place where he stays at night, he must use spirit runes to expel the yin qi, why not?"
When Mo Xie spoke, he looked at the man with a cold gaze, his face turned pale with fright, and he shook his head desperately and said, "No! No! Guest, it's our shopkeeper who asked me to inform the guest officer that your rooms have all been arranged! It's time to go in and rest! ”
Although he said this to Mo Xie with a frightened expression, I noticed that his gaze looked towards the ground behind us.
"Lead the way!"
Mo Xie said expressionlessly.
"Yes! Be! Sir! ”
The guy said, wiping the sweat from his forehead slightly, before leading the way for me and the ink demon.
When the guy brought us to the so-called superior room, I immediately looked at Moxie, who squeezed my hand. Signal me not to worry.
At this time, Wen Chen also suddenly spoke, and he said, "Xiao Er, what's going on in your inn?" Such a big inn has no guests, forget it? Why did your shopkeeper divide all our rooms? I didn't tell you shopkeepers. Should my master's superior room be arranged with us? ”
Sure enough, I said secretly in my heart, just now I stood in that position with Mo Xie and saw all the black rooms, but there was no one in this room, and this shopkeeper arranged for us was still the guest room on the top floor of this building.
The person who opened this inn was really uneasy and kind.
When the guy heard what the minister said, he immediately said to us in a cold sweat: "Guest officer! We have only one upper room in one building, in order to ensure that the room is spacious and quiet enough. ”
"Then why don't you arrange the other two first-class rooms?" Wen Chen asked angrily.
"Ouch! Guest officer, the little one doesn't know! Small...... The small one actually came today, this room, how the shopkeeper arranges how we lead the way! ”
I saw that the man was in a rather exaggerated cold sweat when he saw us, and I asked with some confusion, "Are you afraid of us?" ”
The guy was holding the key to open the door, and his hands trembled when I asked him, and he held the key in his hand. I shook it several times and couldn't get it into the keyhole.
As soon as I saw this, I asked, "What do you know?" ”
When I said this, my tone was deliberately fierce, and the guy heard me shout like this, and the frightened keys fell to the ground.
He hurriedly squatted down to pick up the key, then knelt down with a puff, and howled in his mouth: "Immortals, don't kill me!" Don't kill me! I don't know anything. I don't know anything! I'm just a helper, my family is old and young, just waiting for my meager monthly income to live! ”
Immortals?
I was slightly stunned, the title of 'immortal' is a term for the deceased in some places among the people, this inn guy, could it be that we are 'ghosts'?
"Open the guest room door!"
Mo Xie said suddenly.
The guy flicked his frightened hand again, and the key he picked up fell to the ground again, and he hurriedly got up from the ground. Then he opened the door with trembling hands, and after several keys, he finally opened it.
Ink and I stepped into the room first, and the guy didn't even want to say more. He turned around and wanted to leave, but Wen Chen kicked the man into the room with a quick kick at this moment, and shouted loudly to the outside: "Why is the room so messy, you can clean up for me before leaving!" ”
After saying that, the door was slammed shut by Wen Chen.
After the door closed, the man knelt on the ground in horror, and when he looked up, the ink demon turned around.
"If we don't kill you, then tell me why you're here today? Who let you come, and what benefits did you promise? ”
Mo Xie asked in a cold voice.
The man trembled all over, and said with a sad face: "I tell you immortals, can you let me go, I really don't want to die!" ”
"Say!"
Ink evil is another cold word, and there are no superfluous words at all.
The man trembled again and then cried and said, "I, I am from the Western Regions, and my family lives in a mountain village on the border, but our village is very poor. Because it is in the border area, there will be wars from time to time, and the farms that we have worked hard for a year will either be destroyed by the war. Either they will be requisitioned as military rations from above, it can be said that the people are not making a living~~! I have an eighty-year-old mother and two children, and my family is so poor that I can't even drink a meal of gruel. Just when we were at the end of our rope, the shopkeeper of the inn came to our house and said that he had opened an inn on the road and would give me a hundred copper coins a day. Ask me if I would like to come here, just receive guests who are in a hurry to stay overnight every night, and I don't have to go to work during the day. ”
"Less nonsense, to the point!" This sentence was said by Wen Chen.
The guy was frightened by Wen Chen again. Only then did he lie on the ground and cry: "Ladies and gentlemen, I really came here to know that this is the reception, the reception of immortals~!" The innkeeper said, as long as we do our part honestly. Just don't worry about anything, several, I'm really just working here, I haven't done anything here! ”
"So to speak. Are you an ordinary citizen of the Western Regions? Mo Xie asked.
"That's right! The little one is just an ordinary person! ”
"Are the other guys here also ordinary people from your Western Regions? How many of you guys are there? And the shopkeeper of your inn, how much do you know? Tell us all. ”
Mo Xie's tone of voice was still cold, but it was much better than at the beginning, and the man finally stopped trembling.
But he was still very scared and said, "Our inn guy took me with seven people. There are people from the Western Regions like me, and there are also people from the Southern Yan Kingdom, and our current shopkeeper is the acting shopkeeper who only came today, and the real shopkeeper of the inn is much younger than this shopkeeper. It's still a woman, and she just told us this morning that she had something to leave. ”
"Female?" I said in surprise.
The guy nodded and said, "Yes! The shopkeeper is quite beautiful, and he is also a capable person, I heard her say last night to the immortal who came to the inn for the night yesterday. She can give them what they want, as long as they do her a small favor, or something......"