Chapter 20: The Inn Murder (Part I)
"It's a pleasure, it's a pleasure!"
Fang Yue pulled the last bite of white rice in the bowl, put down the bowl, and gave a big burp, patting his bulging belly, satisfied.
The cups and plates on the table were in disarray, each plate and plate were almost clean, and the two buckets of white rice were also bottomed out.
"What's the matter?"
Fang Yue turned his head and saw that there was a circle of people around him, the old shopkeeper of the inn, the guy who ran the hall, the shopkeeper, and even the chef in the back kitchen, as well as a few guests, all looked at him dumbfounded.
"Okay."
Someone shouted hello, and then the crowd crackled and applauded.
Fang Yue's face was black, these people couldn't watch the monkey show.
He stood up expressionless and said, "Shopkeeper, please send some hot water to my room later, I need to take a good shower." ”
"Okay, okay. Xiaogui, why don't you go to the back kitchen to prepare hot water and send it to Fang Xiucai. The old shopkeeper hurriedly agreed and instructed the shopkeeper to do the same.
"Okay." The shopkeeper ran to the back kitchen.
Fang Yue walked out, and the crowd retreated, making way for a way.
After walking a few steps, Fang Yue heard the voice of the old innkeeper behind him:
"See, don't look at Fang Xiucai's pale face and thin face, but he can eat, this is the amount of food for seven or eight people, Fang Xiucai ate it all in one meal alone, without blinking. What does it mean to be able to eat? It represents strength, and if you have strength, you can fight. There is Fang Xiucai who lives in our inn, what demons and monsters dare to come? What else do you have to worry about living? ”
Fang Yue stumbled under his feet when he heard this, what kind of messy logic was this.
However, he knew that because of the matter of the red-clothed female ghost in the Wang family's compound, it was spread in the county seat, and the city was full of panic, and the people in the county lived here, and there was no way to avoid it, so he could only wait and see with trepidation.
The guests in this inn are not residents of the county, and they can leave at any time, once the panic continues to spread, I am afraid that several inns in Ping'an County will be crowded.
The old shopkeeper was in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he found an excuse to appease people's hearts at random, as for whether those residents believed it or not, Fang Yue didn't know, anyway, Fang Yue himself didn't believe it.
……
Walking up to the second floor, standing in front of the door of his room, just about to push open the door, Fang Yue's face moved, and he smelled a faint strange smell on the tip of his nose.
To be carefully distinguished, but there is no more, it is really that the strange smell on his body is too strong now, and any other smell can be easily covered.
"It seems to have come from over there."
Fang Yue frowned and looked at the Chenzi room, the door inside was closed, and the strange smell seemed to come from there.
He remembered the noise he had heard last night, shook his head, pushed open the door to his room, and walked in.
"The matter of the big monster eating people in Guangyuan Temple doesn't seem to have spread yet, and I don't know if the county government has controlled the news. But it can't be hidden for long, after all, it is a temple with a flourishing incense. ”
"Once the news spreads, the panic caused is unimaginable."
"This is not the most worrying, the most worrying thing is whether the big monster in Guangyuan Temple will come to the county seat to eat people, monsters are not like ghosts, they will run around."
"And that's just the beginning, and according to the nightmare I had before I came into this world, an even more terrible scene is yet to come."
"Where is the transcendent power that belongs to the human race in this world? Why hasn't it shown up yet? ”
Fang Yue believed that the Terran Race definitely had the power to fight against these demons and monsters, otherwise the twenty-seven states in the world should not be the breeding place of the Terran Race, but would directly fall into a gloomy land.
There was a knock on the door outside.
"Guest, you want hot water."
Fang Yue put away his thoughts, walked to the door, opened the door, and saw that the shopkeeper was struggling to carry a wooden barrel, which was steaming and the smoke was rising.
Fang Yue took the wooden barrel in the shopkeeper's second-hand and picked it up with one hand.
The shopkeeper was surprised: "The guest officer is really a good strength, our old shopkeeper said that you eat a lot and have a lot of strength, which is really not a lie." ”
Fang Yue didn't want to dwell on this topic, he asked another question, "Xiao Er, are the few foot merchants who live in the Chenzi room still live?" ”
The shopkeeper scowled his eyebrows and said, "I'm still living, I haven't gone out yet, it's noon." Looking at this posture, they should have no strength tonight, and the guest officer doesn't have to worry about being noisy. ”
"What about the few fireworks girls they called? Went back? Or are you still in that house? ”
"I didn't pay attention to this, it seems to be still there, I didn't see them go out. If the guest officer is afraid that they will toss at night, he can change to the winter room. The guests of the winter room have just checked out in the morning, and the guest officer can change to the past, which is far away from the Chen word room. ”
In fact, the residents of the winter house were supposed to stay for several days, but because of rumors that the county town was haunted, they hurriedly checked out and left this morning.
For the same reason, there were several guests who checked out in the morning, resulting in a lot of empty rooms in the inn.
Fang Yue was noncommittal, and said: "Besides, these hot waters are not enough, please send hot water again after half an hour." ”
"Okay." The shopkeeper agreed and left.
The conditions in the inn are limited, there is no large bath tub at all, and then the scene of a comfortable bath, only a bucket of hot water, a copper basin, and a towel are used for scrubbing.
Fang Yue loosened the hairband on his head, to put it mildly, he was used to modern short hair, and this man in ancient times also had long hair, which was quite uncomfortable.
He first soaked his long hair in hot water, smeared the pancreas provided by the inn, and washed away the oil and dirt from his hair.
The pancreas doesn't produce much foam, and it doesn't work very well, at least for Fang Yue, who is used to modern toiletries, it doesn't feel good, and he has the idea of making soap in his heart.
Whether it is to practice martial arts, or to harvest merit points for "promoting goodness", a large amount of money is required, and when the matter at hand is over, it will start to make money.
After two changes to hot water, Fang Yue finally washed away the impurities and dirt produced by the exercises on his body and changed into clean clothes.
"It's much more comfortable."
Fang Yue stood in the room, punching twice at random, enlivening his body and feeling refreshed.
He looked at the wooden barrel in the room, and didn't bother to call the shopkeeper to come up and clean up, so he simply picked it up himself, opened the door and walked out.
At this moment, the door of the Chenzi room next to it also opened with a "babbling", and a pungent smell came from inside, like fragrant and smelly, and there was a wisp of rust-like smell in it, which stimulated Fang Yue to sneeze twice.
"What's the smell?"
Fang Yue turned his head to look, only to see that in the open door of the Chenzi room, a wide-mouthed man with a stubble face poked his head out of it, saw Fang Yue, glared at Fang Yue viciously, retracted his head, and closed the door with a loud "bang".
"What does that mean?"
Fang Yue looked puzzled and walked downstairs with a wooden barrel.
When Fang Yue came back from the back kitchen of the inn and walked into the lobby, he saw four tall and rugged men coming down from the upper floor, and hurriedly walked out.
Fang Yue recognized one of them, it was the big man with a scumbag face who poked his head out of the Chen Zi room and glared at him fiercely.
"These four are the out-of-town foot merchants who live in the Chenzi room, just looking at their temperament, how do you feel that they are more like bandits than vendors."
Fang Yue thought as he walked upstairs.