Chapter 74: Overnight

Ximenlou nodded again and again, and said, "If you help me find the golden bridge, I will definitely ...... in front of the Holy Lord."

Wu Que raised his hand to interrupt Ximenlou's words: "I don't know where Xue'er went, I'm looking for her all over the city." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

Ximenlou remembered that Wu Que had shouted Xue'er in the square before, and knew that he was not lying, so he thought about it and said, "Could it be that the prophet and the saint left together?"

Xue'er and Qianyu left together, and he didn't believe it when he killed Wu Que, but he didn't say anything, but asked: "Do you suspect that after the Holy Maiden took the golden bridge from the temple, she was afraid that you would find Xue'er to deal with her, so she took Xue'er away first, so you can't find her?"

Ximenlou snorted and said, "Hmph, is this still a suspicion!? Alas, I should have reminded Xiaohu of his ...... earlier."

"What is Jinqiao for?" Wu Que asked casually as he looked left and right.

Ximenlou glanced at Wu Que and said coldly: "Boy, don't ask what you shouldn't ask!"

Wu Que waved his hand at the West Gate Tower, turned around and left, muttering to himself as he walked: "Yes, don't ask blindly what you shouldn't ask, and don't follow what you shouldn't follow." ā€

Ximenlou opened his mouth and looked at Wu Que's back, not knowing whether to follow or not.

After turning a few streets, Wu Que returned to the inn where he had settled before.

He pushed open the room between himself and Zhang Xuezhu, and the room was empty, exactly the same as when they left.

He ran to the inn beast pen again, and the big black and the little black were there, but the snow wolf was gone.

There was something on the ground, Wu Que moved his feet, looked down, and found that there were two stones scattered in front of the stone pillar tied to the snow wolf.

Looking at these two stones, Wu Que's heart suddenly moved, and he reached out and took out a map he bought from the bag on Da Hei's back.

He spread the map on the ground, followed the example of Zhang Xuezhu before, measured the distance between the two stones with the palm of his hand, and then compared the map according to the direction pointed by the first long stone.

"Haha, it turns out that she went to the 'Dragon Gate City' in the east!" Wu Que found the answer and couldn't help but let out a happy cheer.

"Whew!" a figure suddenly burst out from behind the wall on the side of the enclosure and disappeared in a flash.

Wu Que was startled, looked up at the familiar back that disappeared quickly, and shouted loudly: "Hey, don't follow blindly if you shouldn't follow!"

"Hmph!" Ximenlou's displeased snort came from afar.

Knowing the direction that Zhang Xuezhu had indicated to him by the West Gate Tower, Wu Que was suddenly a little anxious, hurriedly retreated from the room, rode out of the east gate of the temple city on a big black, and galloped away in the direction indicated by the stone.

Da Hei ran wildly all the way, and before he knew it, it was an afternoon, and a big river running north-south in front of him blocked the way.

Wu Que saw that it was getting late, and planned to find a place to rest for the night first, and then cross the river tomorrow; according to Da Hei's endurance and speed, he estimated that he would not be able to reach Longmen City until at least the day after tomorrow.

He followed the bank of the river northward until the twilight was dull, and at last he found a few simple houses under a hill on the bank, which was not too high, and it seemed that it was a small fishing village.

He first came to the stone house on the east side, near the river, where the corners of the walls were covered with moss, the wooden doors of the waist-high hedges were hidden, and the voices of women were faintly heard in the room.

Wu Que knocked lightly on the wooden door, making a "knock" sound.

"Who?" shouted someone from the house.

Then there was a "crunch", and the window of the room was pushed open, and a head came out of the window, and it turned out to be a beautiful woman.

The woman was obviously startled when she saw Wu Que riding a fierce black wolf outside the fence wall, her face changed greatly, and she blurted out, "What are you doing here?"

The conversation in the room stopped abruptly.

Wu Que smiled at the woman embarrassedly and said, "It's late, I want to spend the night at your house, I don't know if it's okay?"

Before Wu Que could finish speaking, the woman had already closed the window with a "bang".

A voice came from inside the house: "I am the only woman in the house, and it is inconvenient for outsiders to stay overnight, so you can go to other homes and ask." ā€

Wu Que had no choice but to retreat from the wooden gate of the fence wall and walk towards the second house, which was far away.

As he walked, he thought: If you don't borrow, don't borrow, obviously I heard the voices of several people talking, saying that there is only one woman at home!

The second house is larger, the waist-high fence wall is also very neat, a family of 7, is around a large stone table in the fence yard, eating dinner in the night, everyone is talking and laughing, very warm.

Wu Que walked forward and gently knocked on the small wooden door on the fence wall.

The family all turned their heads and looked at Wu Que outside the fence.

They were all startled when they saw the hideous black wolf.

"Brother, what's the matter with you?" asked a man with a swarthy face who put down his dishes and chopsticks and got up.

"Big black it doesn't bite. Wu Que patted Da Hei's head, and then said, "It's getting late, I want to spend the night." ā€

"Spend the night?" the man glanced at Dahei, pointed to the east, and said, "You can go to the empty house in the east." Wu Que was stunned for a moment: "Isn't there someone living in the east room? Why is it an empty house? I just came from there, and the hostess said that it was inconvenient to stay overnight." ā€

Everyone at the table stopped eating and drinking, and looked at Wu Que in a daze.

The man who spoke before said suspiciously, "You really asked? It can't be that I am mistaken, right? I am talking about the east room!"

The man said, pointing to the east again, and at the same time, the vigilance on his face became stronger, obviously suspecting that Wu Que was deliberately making excuses.

Wu Que was also puzzled, and said, "It's the one in the east, is there several, there are several in the east? There are obviously several people living in that house." ā€

The white-haired old man stood up tremblingly and said to Wu Que: "Little brother, didn't you just be dazzled by the evil spirit? That stone house has been empty for more than ten years." ā€

It's been empty for more than ten years? Wu Que couldn't help but be stunned.

The faint sound of talking in the house just now flashed in his mind, Wu Que's eyes flashed, and he suddenly jumped up from the big black back and rushed towards the stone house in the east.

The sight in the twilight was not very good, and the people in the fence yard only saw Wu Que's body for a moment, and then suddenly disappeared, coupled with the inexplicable words that Wu Que said before, they were all frightened, and the "Bang Dang Dang" dishes and chopsticks fell to the ground.

Soon, Wu Que returned to the wooden door of the stone house in the east before.

The house was quiet, there was no sound, only unknown night insects, "squeaking" in the yard.

"Knock! knock!" Wu Que knocked on the wooden door of the fence.

No one answered, and there was no sound in the room.

Wu Que jumped up, landed in front of the stone house, and slammed his foot on the closed stone door.

The two stone doors "clanged", and he completely kicked them away, smashing heavily on the stone walls on both sides of the stone house lobby, making a loud bang, and the entire stone house trembled.

The doors on both sides of the lobby of the stone house were also closed.

Wu Que quickly kicked open the door on the left, and the door slammed against the wall.

He slowly looked in, and the room was empty, with nothing but a stone bed.

Behind the stone bed in the room, there is a small back door, and the back door is open, so that you can see the rocks and grass outside.

Wu Que rushed out the back door, the sky was foggy, the insects behind the house chirped, and nothing was found.

He turned his head to look to the right, and could see that the back door of the room on the right was also open.

He walked from the back of the house to the back door of the right room, and found that the right room also had only a stone bed and a simple stone table.

He slowly walked to the stone bed and found a layer of hay on it.

When you touch it with your hand, the hay is warm.

Wu Que grabbed a handful of hay in frustration, and suddenly felt a silky touch in his palm.

He looked closely, and there seemed to be a silk scarf mixed in the hay in his hand.

He immediately pulled the silk scarf out of the hay and shook it away.

The silk scarf is snow-white, slightly shiny in the night, and is made of extremely precious materials.

This is the silk scarf on Qianyu and Xiaomei's faces! Wu Que was convinced, so he casually took the silk scarf, rushed out of the back door of the room, and rushed towards the bank of the big river.

The reef by the big river towered, and Wu Que stood on a high post, looking at it with his eyes.

I saw that in the turbulent waves in the distance, there seemed to be a small boat faintly, which was rushing towards the opposite bank at an alarming speed, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Wu Que stared blankly at Dahe, his heart flashed the voice and appearance of the woman who pushed the window and talked to him in the stone house before, and muttered to himself: "The man in black, is it you?"