Chapter 220: Madame, Please
readx;? Getting rid of the doubts in his heart, Lu Yifan and the others decided to rest early tonight after hurriedly eating their meals. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
And the interesting thing is that there was a small episode before Lu Yifan and a few people fell asleep, in the dead of night, there was a little girl about fourteen or fifteen years old who took advantage of the darkness in the inn to sneak in front of many guest rooms on the second floor of the inn and eavesdropped on them, although this little girl's movements were very light, but still did not hide from Lu Yifan's ears and eyes, just when she tiptoed to Lu Yifan's door, she was already ready to go Liu Sandao suddenly shot and carried it in. The strange thing is that this little girl who looks shabby and cowardly has no intention of harming them, on the contrary, she has not even cultivated any soul power, not only does she not pose the slightest threat to Lu Yifan and the others, but even her own physique looks thin and pitiful, obviously because she can't eat enough all year round. The little girl didn't say a word after being caught by Liu Sandao, she kept standing trembling and trembling, looking very scared, which made Lu Yifan and the others feel stunned for a while, Xie Yun asked again and again and finally failed to ask half a sentence from the little girl's mouth, and finally Lu Yifan guessed that she might be just a little thief who came out to steal things when she was very hungry, so he gave her some money and wine and food, and let the little girl go.
What Lu Yifan didn't expect was that the little girl didn't accept Lu Yifan's alms, but when she heard that Lu Yifan asked her to leave, she ran out of the door in a panic, and in the blink of an eye, she fled without a trace.
This matter was regarded as an inconsequential trivial matter, except for laughing, and they didn't take it to heart at all. After all, it's too normal to go out and meet one or two thieves, not to mention a thief who steals things, even if it is a thief who kills people and oversells goods, it is not surprising that it appears in this kind of place.
Maybe it's because I've been so tired from traveling for days in the past few months, so Lu Yifan's sleep is surprisingly heavy, and the environment of Night City has to be said to be too quiet. Although this analogy is not appropriate, it is very much in line with the feeling that this night gave Lu Yifan.
In such a quiet environment, even Liu Sandao, who was in charge of the night vigil, couldn't help but support his chin with his hand, leaning on the table and taking a nap, but when he came to his senses again, the sky outside was already bright.
"Not good!" Liu Sandao woke up suddenly, and the first thing he did after opening his eyes was to set his eyes on Lu Yifan and Xie Yun on the bed, and when he saw that both of them were safe and sound, and they were sleeping with a well-balanced breath, he relaxed his suddenly tense heart, and then moved his muscles and bones slightly to stand up and stretch, "Tut-tut, it's really strange, I actually fell asleep!"
"Maybe the guest officer is too tired!" Just when Liu Sandao's words to himself fell, there was a sudden indifferent response from outside the door, this voice was enough to startle Liu Sandao, because he was also just awake, so he didn't notice that there was someone outside the door, and when he realized that there was still a person standing outside the door, the long knife on the table was also instantly unsheathed by him.
"Who is it?" Liu Sandao got up and crossed the table with a harrier, and then the long knife in his hand sparked straight along the crack of the door, although the speed of the blade was not fast but extremely accurate, as long as the answer outside the door was slightly wrong, Liu Sandao's blade would not hesitate to poke out.
"Don't worry, the guest officer, I'm a guy in the store, and the shopkeeper asked me to send some tea and pastries for the morning to a few distinguished guests!" The guy outside the door didn't seem to notice Liu Sandao's actions at all, and his reply was still as flat as water, and there was a hint of respectful tone.
"It's also strange to say, whether it is the shopkeeper or the guy in this Red Flower Inn, they are so calm and calm when they speak, and they don't look panicked at all when they are questioned, I really don't know if they are well trained, or they are born with a calm temperament. At this moment, Lu Yifan and Xie Yun had also been woken up, and naturally they also heard the conversation between Liu Sandao and his buddy, so the first thing Lu Yifan said after waking up was to sigh at the guy in this inn.
"Squeak!" After hearing the answer outside the door, Liu Sandao frowned slightly, and then opened the door slammed at the same time as he put away the knife, and standing in front of the door was an innkeeper guy with tea and snacks in both hands, and the guy nodded at Liu Sandao with a light smile.
"How long have you been standing here?" asked Liu Sandao as he looked at the guy with his eyes.
"I just came here and heard the guest officer speak, so I answered!" said the guy with a smile, and then he lifted the tea and snacks in his hand upwards, and said earnestly, "This guest officer, please let me put breakfast in the room, okay? I have to be busy delivering it to the other guest officers!"
"Give it to me!" Liu Sandao took the tray in the man's hand, and then did not forget to poke his head out and look around the other guest rooms, he found that there were already seven or eight guys busy delivering breakfast to different rooms at the moment, and they looked no different from the guy in front of him. And under the knock of these guys, the guests in the various rooms in the inn also woke up one after another.
"Slow down, guest!" the man respectfully instructed and was about to turn away.
"Wait!" However, at the moment when the guy had just turned around, Liu Sandao's voice suddenly sounded. Because just now, he suddenly found that among the many rooms, there were a few rooms that seemed to be extremely deserted, and instead of the men going to deliver tea, even the doors were wide open, and it was obvious that it had become an empty room where no one was staying. But Liu Sandao clearly remembered that when he secretly inspected this inn late yesterday night, every room was full of people.
"What else does the guest officer command?" asked the guy as he turned around slowly, smiling with a low brow.
"Where did the guests from the No. 9 upper room go?" Liu Sandao pointed to the No. 9 upper room next to him, because the No. 9 upper room was looking like a vacant room at the moment, "Yesterday I remembered that there were still a few businessmen living in it!"
"If you go back to the guest officer, they have already left before dawn!, I'm afraid that the noon sun is too poisonous, so I want to hurry early!" replied the fellow respectfully.
"What about the other rooms? They also left early?" At this moment, Lu Yifan also walked to Liu Sandao's side, glanced at the situation in the corridor, and asked.
"Yes!" the man's reply was still slow and polite.
"It's okay, you go down!" Without waiting for Lu Yifan to ask again, Liu Sandao's eyes suddenly moved, and then quickly sent the guy down, closed the door and walked back to the room quickly.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yifan suddenly discovered Liu Sandao's strangeness, and asked curiously, "Did you find something?"
"Yes!" Liu Sandao nodded slightly, "I found that these people who left early, the rooms they stayed in all had a common feature!"
"Red Flower Marker!" Without waiting for Liu Sandao to reveal the secret, Lu Yifan suddenly thought of the strange thing that Liu Sandao had explored and came back last night.
"That's good!" Liu Sandao nodded in response.
"Do you mean that this Red Flower Inn may be a black shop?" Xie Yun asked tentatively, "And those guest rooms marked with red flowers are the ones they want to harm?"
"I can't figure it out!" Lu Yifan sat at the table with a solemn expression, and there was a tangled look between his eyebrows, "If the people in the inn had bad intentions against the guests in the upper room of No. 9 last night, it is impossible for us to live so close without noticing it......?" Unless ......"
"Knock knock!"
Before Lu Yifan's words were finished, a crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded, and then a weak woman's voice sounded from outside the door: "It's Lu Yifan's son who lives inside?"
"Who are you?" Lu Yifan raised his eyebrows and asked with a puzzled face, "How do you know my name?"
"I am the maid of the Zhao Mansion in the Night City, and my wife wants to invite Prince Lu Yifan and your friends to the mansion for a gathering!"
"Who is your wife?" Xie Yun opened the door, and a woman dressed as a maidservant appeared in Lu Yifan's field of vision, "Why does she want to get together with me?"
"These slaves and maids don't know, Mrs. only said that Lu Gongzi and Lan Gongzi and their entourage have worked hard all the way from Jinling City, and now invite the two of them to get together in the house, so that my wife can do some of the friendship of landlords!"
"What if we don't go?" Liu Sandao asked playfully, "What can your wife do to us?"
"Childe is serious, my wife will not treat you well! It's just that my wife knows that along the way, many of Lu Gongzi and Lan Gongzi's subordinates are poisoned by miasma or infected with malaria, these diseases are extraordinary, if they are not effectively treated, they will soon hurt their lives, although there are many medicinal materials in the whole night city, there are very few really symptomatic ones, and there are just some extremely symptomatic medicinal materials in my house, Madame generously wants to give some to Gongzi, hoping that Gongzi can take care of the safety of his subordinates and smile!" This maid has sharp teeth, and she speaks with just the right amount of care, which will not make people feel that she is threatening, but the meaning in her words cannot tolerate Lu Yifan's direct refusal.
"Oh, it looks like you're catching ducks on the shelves?" Liu Sandao's tone began to become a little unkind.
The maid didn't answer directly, just quietly looked at Lu Yifan who was sitting in the room, as if she knew that Lu Yifan was the one who was really in charge of the three people.
"Lu Yifan, have you also been invited by Mrs. Zhao Mansion?" At this moment, Lan Chen also walked over with Hai Lao and Sanchun, and when Lan Chen saw the Zhao Mansion maid standing next to him, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, obviously he had just experienced such a scene.
"I'm curious, who is your wife?" Lu Yifan asked, "Why does she know that we are from Jinling City, and why does she know our identity?"
"There is nothing in this night city that can be hidden from my wife, and my wife will get acquainted with all the passers-by who pass through the night city. The maid seemed to be quite proud when she said this, "Mrs. Zhao of Night City is famous in the Northridge area, hasn't Gongzi heard of it?"
Lu Yifan shook his head blankly: "Mrs. Zhao, what is her relationship with Night City? Could it be that she is the real master of this Night City?"
The reason why Lu Yifan said this was because he never believed that in a city with hundreds of thousands of people ruled by no one, everything would be as orderly as it is now. Even if there is no nominal city lord, there must be a supreme power that secretly controls all this. Now an unpredictable Mrs. Zhao has appeared halfway through, so Lu Yifan naturally connects this Mrs. Zhao with the Lord of Night City.
"Even if it's the lord of Night City, I think it should be Master Zhao!" Lan Chen sneered and walked into the room, sitting unceremoniously next to Lu Yifan, while Hai Lao and Sanchun were standing behind him very consciously, obviously Lan Chen has always put himself and Lu Yifan on an equal footing, of course, in fact, he does have this capital and identity, "Why didn't your lord come forward, but let a lady come out and show his face? Is it because our status is too low?"
Lan Chen's words were intended to remind this maid that since this Mrs. Zhao knew the names of Lu Yifan and Lan Chen, and also knew that they were from Jinling City, she must also know the true identities of the two of them. Looking at the land of the Holy Land, the sons of the Duke of Zhenbei and the Duke of Wending, how many people still dare to say that their status is low? Although Lan Chen's move is suspected of being arrogant, it also echoes his identity.
Lan Chen's words made a flash of anger suddenly flash in the maid's eyes, although the maid concealed it very quickly, but it was still noticed by the careful Lu Yifan.
"The two sons don't know, there is only Mrs. Zhao in the Night City, there is no Master Zhao!" The maid forcibly endured her dissatisfaction and said lightly, "Madam is just the honorific title of the people of the Night City for my master, but it does not mean to marry into the Zhao family as a wife! ”
"You dare to talk to me like that?" Lan Chen's gaze gradually became cold, and at the same time, the strong soul power of the soul faintly came out, and in an instant, this stubborn maid trembled uncontrollably, and the huge pressure she endured made her closed teeth tremble.
"Lan Chen!" Seeing this, Lu Yifan couldn't help frowning, and then waved his hand, and suddenly a soft force swept away Lan Chen's coercion, and the maid gasped for breath as if relieved, "She's just a messenger, what are you doing for her?"
"Hmph! When the minions are so sharp-toothed, then wouldn't their master be proud to the sky!" Lan Chen snorted coldly and argued, "If you don't give her some color, this little Lord of Night City really wants to think of himself as the Earth Emperor!"
"That's it! If you ask for someone, you must be controlled by others, only the Zhao Mansion in the entire Night City has medicinal materials for treating miasma and malaria, and if you break up with this Mrs. Zhao, then I don't know how many brothers will die here!" Lu Yifan said with a solemn expression.
"It's just a group of minions, so what's the matter if a few die?" Lan Chen's understanding of human life has always been divided into high and low.
"Your subordinates are minions, but mine is not!" Lu Yifan stood up suddenly, and then said to Lan Chen in a righteous manner, "Every human life should not be in vain! Now it is not pigs, dogs, cows and sheep that are lying outside the city and suffering pain, but my brothers! What's more, we haven't met this Mrs. Zhao yet, I don't think it's too late to discuss what we have to say after we meet!"
After that, without waiting for Lan Chen, who was full of anger, to speak, Lu Yifan walked straight to the maid, took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "Where is your wife?"
"At the house!" replied the maid respectfully, "I have prepared tea and waited for my son's arrival......"
"Alright, lead the way!"
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