At dawn.

The sky was pale and blue, not yet fully bright.

Lin Xin rode on horseback and slowly walked along the earthy yellow horse path towards the huge city in front of him.

The castle looks like a large block of bricks placed on the hills and plains, and the red and yellow tiled spire houses are everywhere, and you can see large square-like walls between the houses surrounding many flat-roofed houses.

Some of the smaller and shorter spire houses have white silk hanging faintly on them.

On the road where the three of them were riding horses, a mourning procession with trumpets was coming, and white flags were held high, and various symbols of the dead were drawn on them.

Two black coffins in a row were dragged slowly by ox carts, and a group of family members on the side were crying profusely, their eyes red and swollen.

"This is the third team, why are there so many dead people?" Yu Chang frowned and said in a low voice. He said so, but his eyes kept spinning on the beautiful women in the funeral procession,

"Something is wrong. Shu Luoyi nodded. This one was indeed looking closely at the coffin.

Lin Xin rode behind the two of them without saying a word.

In front of me is a huge castle that stretches for dozens of miles, but the closer you get at this time, the more you see white silk hanging everywhere to represent the funeral, and most of the people you see look blank.

Looking at the huge Peacock City area in front of me, there is a faint feeling of depression and dreary.

The three of them sped up, and more and more houses on both sides of the road grew, from simple wooden houses at the beginning, to more and more white-walled compounds.

Some carriages and horses also passed by the trio from time to time, and occasionally there were convoys of officers and soldiers.

Yu Chang took the lead at this time and led the two of them towards the place where his house was.

Soon the three of them arrived at a red-painted gate, in front of which there were stone pillars and stone lions, and two officers and soldiers guarded it, a solemn scene.

"The eldest young master is back!" As soon as he saw Yu Chang dismounting, the officers and soldiers guarding the door took the initiative to come over, and the other turned around and opened the door and shouted to report.

"Go and tell my father, just say that I have to stay for a few days when I come back this time, and I must be treated well with my two friends from the sect. Yu Chang said with a smile in the tone of a son-in-law.

"Okay. I'm going to call Xiao Liuzi!" The officers and soldiers seemed to be very familiar with Yu Chang, turned around and entered the door with a smile, and soon several small servants ran out, leading the horses and picking up things. They are all very attentive.

Lin Xin didn't want to bother here, after all, he and Yu Chang were not familiar with each other.

"Brother Yu, I still have a friend to visit, why don't we separate here, and come back in two days to disturb and act together. ”

Anyway, this mission is just a task that is not difficult to find people and deliver letters, and the three of them should have taken this kind of task to do something else, to see family and friends.

"Then I don't know if Brother Lin has a fixed place to live? Yu Chang smiled.

"You can go to the inn and look for me. Lin Xin reported a predetermined address.

"Farewell. He gave up.

"Farewell. Yu Chang and Shu Luoyi replied.

The three were separated.

The inn is where Lin Xin inquired from Kong Yuhui, and it is also one of the two largest inns in Peacock City.

After asking a random passer-by, Lin Xin quickly rode to the gate of the inn.

On the left, a luxurious house with the eaves of Suzaku is being renovated, and the inside is clanging, and there are piles of sandstone bricks piled up outside, and workers are coming in and out.

After dismounting, the innkeeper took the lead in catching up with him, signed the horse, and gave him a horse plate with a mark on it.

"Then you will lead your horses with this. The little guy explained.

I followed the man into the inn, and there was a large space inside.

It's like standing in a hollow venue, and you can see the rooms on the first to third floors on both sides.

From bottom to top, each floor is filled with red lanterns.

Lin Xin looked up and saw that the ceiling at the top was a stone slab with a black background, and several gilded characters were engraved on it: uncertain comings and goings.

There were people coming and going in the inn, but the business was good, and the little guy led Lin Xin to the counter to pay the money, pressed the deposit, and the room was very spacious. Lin Xin asked for a first-class suite. Enough space for three people.

Led to the suite by another maid, the furniture is mahogany and silver, carved and hollowed, and there are still gossip bronze mirrors hanging on the wall from time to time.

Around the corner, you can also see large ornamental vases, rockeries, wood carvings, etc.

"Send me a letter to the Kongfu of Peacock Gate, to Kong Yuhui, this is a token. Lin Xin asked the maid to call the messenger of the inn and pressed the red jade pendant on the envelope that Kong Yuhui gave him as a contact token.

In front of him, the messenger sealed the mouth with red wax drops, and left with the letter and the jade pendant.

Closing the door, Lin Xin slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the luxurious ancient bedroom with lanterns hanging in front of him, he had a feeling of unreality.

There was a faint smell of incense in the room, and I don't know what the smell was, but it smelled very elegant.

Lin Xin walked to the desk, and the silver candlestick on it was as thick as a wrist. There is also a pineapple wood sign on the table below, and some words are written on it. They are all words that wish guests a good night's sleep, pay attention to safety, and rattle bells when they need service.

There is a row of red strings above the wooden signs, and above each rope hangs a small sign with words written on it.

'Breakfast', 'Lunch', 'Dinner', 'Bathing', 'Dressing', 'Dressing', 'Miscellaneous'.

A total of seven brands.

Except for Lin Xin, who didn't know what it meant, the rest could understand.

"It's worthy of being a top luxury bedroom, eight taels of silver a day, it's really luxurious. He couldn't help but sigh a little.

Walk to the low coffee table, sit down on the wooden couch on the side, this wooden couch is the same as the wooden sofa, around the low coffee table in a circle, there is also an incense burner in the middle, there is a matching flint on the side, placed in a regular manner.

Taking off the four swords one by one along with the ordinary long sword at his waist, Lin Xin took off his coat and pulled off the red rope for bathing.

Dingding

A subtle brass bell rang.

Soon in less than five minutes, two strong men knocked on the door with a large wooden barrel.

opened the door and watched the two of them put the wooden barrel in the special shower room in the suite, and someone brought buckets of hot water in and poured it in. Soon the barrel was full. Bath towels, prepared pajamas, towels, incense rose petals, etc. The two quickly prepared everything and walked away.

"What about the people who rub their foreheads?" Lin Xin was about to ask, when he saw four young and beautiful women walking in wearing only white tulle.

"Serve the master to bathe and change clothes. The neat and coquettish voices of the four made Lin Xin's heart feel a little weak.

"It's really corrupt. He sighed in his heart. "It's so corrosive!"

Looking at the four girls in front of him who are all good-looking, if this is the kind of life that is lived every day, Lin Xin can suddenly understand why there are always so many swingers in costume dramas before.

But after thinking about it, he still waved his hand to leave a more innocent girl, and he asked himself if he was not a sanctimonious man or a gentleman. Should be enjoyed or will be enjoyed.

It's just that the girl doesn't have that kind of service, but waits for him to take off his clothes and get into the water first, and then comes in to rub his back to heat the water, but it is only limited to rubbing his back, just a little ambiguous friction and touch.

Lin Xin was also about to ask about some things here.

"How can you see funeral caravans everywhere around Peacock City? Has there been a plague recently?"

A white hosta was inserted in the girl's hair, and Lin Xin simply called her a hosta.

"Yes? I don't know if it's a plague or something lately, many people have been inexplicably sick, and then in less than a few days they are skinny, and they still starve to death after eating, so that people can't even sleep at night. When the hosta mentioned the recent incident, she still looked apprehensive.

"But the plague is it, right? Several doctors in the city could not find the root cause of the disease, and those who were close to the sick were fine, but people who were completely unrelated suddenly fell ill. I heard that the sitting hall of Shengjitang also rushed over from the capital, saying that it was a worm sting. ”

"Worm sting?" Lin Xin sat in the barrel and straightened up, asking her to help rub her back.

"Yes, I was bitten by a bug. The hosta said softly.

"Have you studied before?literacy?" Lin Xin asked casually.

"Yes, the slave family is from Lutang Hongliu, and he used to enter the school when his family was good. I also learned to be a child, but unfortunately I didn't pass the school exam, and then dropped out of school," the hosta replied in a low voice.

Lin Xin nodded understandingly, here Song Guo also allows women to take the test to gain fame, and they can learn children's lives, which are proper junior high school students in modern times.

Translated, it means that this girl dropped out of junior high school after studying, and because her family was in the middle of the road, she came out to work on her own.

"Then aren't you only eighteen years old?" Lin Xin asked again.

"Yes, the slave family has only turned fifteen during the New Year," the girl whispered back.

Lin Xin glanced at her plump breasts that didn't look like fifteen-year-olds, obviously not believing it. At least two years old was falsely declared.

There was a hosta serving and taking a bath, Lin Xin changed his clothes, and not long after the hosta went out, Kong Yuhui came.

"Brother Lin, you've really arrived!" Kong Yuhui's face was still indifferent, but there was a hint of joy in his eyes.

The two closed the door and locked it, sat on the wooden couch, and Lin Xin poured him a cup of hot water.

Looking sideways, it was almost afternoon.

"Brother Kong, is there anything you need my help with?"

"It's not a big deal. Kong Yuhui relaxed and chuckled, "My Peacock Gate is within a radius of hundreds of miles from Peacock City, and they are all second to none, and more than half of the people in the official yamen are the disciples and elders of my sect. Even if there is a big event, you and I don't need to do it. ”

"What's the matter, I just got down and sent you a letter, and you came in a hurry. Lin Xin smiled.

"It's just that I happen to have a few friends at home, all of whom I have made when I go out, and I will take you to drink and get to know each other. Kong Yuhui obviously won't have such a simple purpose.

Lin Xinlai had inquired about the internal situation of the Peacock Gate before he came.

In addition to Kong Yuhui in the Peacock Sect, there are two other candidates for the heir of the sect, namely his sister Kong Xiushan and eldest brother Kong Lei.

Both of them are also masters of the house, and they have a wide range of contacts, and as soon as they heard that they had arrived, Kong Yuhui hurried over, probably to win himself over and show the other two.