The twinkling stars in the sky cast a soft silver light on the earth, and the camp that had been noisy at dinner was now shrouded in the silence of the night. The campfire in the camp had been burning, scaring several beasts in the distance. Most of the caravan members went back to their tents after dinner, except for a few of the night guards, armed with scimitars and torches and bows and arrows, patrolling around the camp.

Wu Neng lay in the tent, but the silence around him made it difficult for him to sleep at this time. His heart was in turmoil, and his mind kept echoing what Shi Cheng had said to him at dinner.

He really wanted to say something to Shi Cheng on the other side of the tent, but Shi Cheng had already fallen asleep, and Wu Neng had to lie back down.

That night, he didn't sleep well.

When it was just dawn, Wu Neng was woken up from his sleep. He looked around sleepily, and then found Shi Cheng crouching beside him, a hand shaking on his shoulder.

Shi Cheng's face was as usual, as if he hadn't said anything to Wu Neng last night. Wu Neng asked a little confused: "What, what's wrong?" ”

"It's time to go." Shi Cheng pointed outside the tent, and the sound of chaotic talking and walking came from outside, and the entire caravan seemed to have gotten up.

"It's so early, it doesn't seem to be dawn yet." Wu Neng muttered softly.

"We're going to cross a desert today, and if we don't leave sooner, we probably won't even be able to pick up firewood tonight." Shi Cheng said.

Wu Neng nodded, the two of them hurriedly packed up their things, and when Shi Cheng was about to step out of the tent, Wu Neng suddenly stopped him, lowered his head and said, "Shi Cheng, what I said last night actually didn't mean that." Seriously, after listening to what you said, I thought about it a lot last night. I'm sorry, but there are some things I've thought about too little. ”

Shi Cheng paused for a moment, and didn't have any special reaction, he just said expressionlessly: "Let's go quickly, and eat breakfast when we get in the car." ”

After Shi and Wu helped the caravan pack up the tent, everyone got into the carriage together, and Cheng Yu and Yu Haiguang were still in the same car with Shi Chengwu and Wu Neng, but this morning's journey was destined to be boring for them. Wu Neng, who hadn't slept well all night, fell asleep directly after getting into the car, and didn't wake up until noon. Shi Cheng would occasionally ask about the news of the ghost village on the road, but Cheng Yu and Yu Haiguang really didn't know more about it, and Shi Cheng didn't ask anything else valuable.

In this way, they marched for another day and a night, and at the end of the next day, the group finally arrived at Baisha City.

Baisha City is a small city built on an oasis, the scale is even smaller than Redwood City, and the group did not wait long outside the urn of the city to successfully enter the city gate, and Shi Cheng and Wu Neng followed the caravan to stay at the largest Qingshui Inn in the city.

The group entered the front hall of the inn, and after walking through a corridor, everyone sat down together in the hall, waiting for the arrangement of the store.

The innkeeper seemed to be very familiar with the leader of the caravan, and the two of them hooked up as if they were old friends who had not seen each other for many years. The coachmen led the caravan wagons to the backyard, a few of the shopkeepers were busy tidying up the upper rooms on the second floor for the new guests, while others sat in the middle of the hall resting and waiting.

Shi Cheng and Wu Neng were still sitting next to Cheng Yu and Yu Haiguang, Shi Cheng took a sip of the fragrant tea sent by the guy in the store, and looked around the hall, the outside of the entire inn had just been painted once, but the walls in the store were still old, and the furnishings in the store were also different from the old and new. It seems that before the disappearance of Xieyang Road, there were probably not too many guests from other places in the entire Baisha City.

Soon, the upstairs guest rooms were cleaned up, and the shopkeeper enthusiastically led everyone upstairs. After three days and two nights of exhaustion, the group was exhausted, and after everyone made hot water, they went back to their rooms to rest.

After arranging everyone's meals, the innkeeper asked the kitchen to fry two side dishes, heated a pot of wine, and took them upstairs to catch up with the caravan leader.

As night fell, just before the curfew of White Sands City was about to begin, a man dressed as a headhunter hurried into the inn, followed by two catchers with knives on their shoulders. In the somewhat dimly lit antechamber, there was only one sleepy guy sitting at the counter at this time.

After the head catcher came in, the guy immediately gave a stir, greeted him, and asked respectfully, "What do you have to do?" ”

The catcher looked at him carelessly, and then asked, "What about your shopkeeper, tell him to come out to me, I have something important to inform him." ”

"Poor master, our shopkeeper is upstairs with a big guest from Wangcheng, and now it's inconvenient to get out, do you want to let the little one tell him about it on your behalf?" The guy asked cautiously.

The head catcher was furious in his heart, if he didn't have other important things to do and couldn't stay for a long time, he would now want to tear the shopkeeper off the second floor directly.

He suppressed the fire, and said angrily in a cold voice: "This Qian Laosan, relying on the business has been good in the past few years, and now he is really less and less concerned about people, what a big shelf!" ”

The guy apologized repeatedly, and his head lowered more and more.

The head catcher didn't have time to stay here for a long time, so he had no choice but to say to the guy: "There has been an accident on the official road to the royal city recently, and the specific situation is still being investigated, you should quickly inform your shopkeeper, if there are guests who want to go to that road recently, try to persuade them to take a detour or stay in the city for a few days, and then make plans after the official government finds out the situation!" ”

After leaving the words, the head catcher left in a hurry with the two catchers, and when the catcher walked outside the store, he seemed to suddenly think of something, turned his head and asked: "You look a little raw, are you the new recruit of your shopkeeper?" ”

"Exactly, exactly." The guy nodded and said: "I came from a nearby village to join relatives, and my uncle has some connections. ”

"No wonder." The head catcher nodded, waved his hand, and went away in the night with two of his men.

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Early in the morning of the second day, all the caravans got up early in the morning. Since everyone went to bed early last night, although it was not yet dawn at this time, everyone was in good spirits - except for the drunk last night, the team leader who was still a little dizzy.

The whip sounded softly, and the caravan faded away under the eyes of the money shopkeeper.

An hour later, the guys in the Qingshui Inn basically arrived at their posts, and the entire inn started a new day's operation. Just as the money shopkeeper was counting yesterday's income at the counter, a tall catcher in official clothes stepped into the store with a few tired looks.

After entering the hall of the inn, he looked at the money shopkeeper who was counting money on the counter with a cold look, and said lightly: "The money shopkeeper is really making money every day, and in two years, I am afraid that I will not become the richest man in this Baisha City. ”

The money shopkeeper was frightened, his body trembled, and he quickly raised his head, and said with a smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, where did Hu Zhutou say, please come in, please come in!" After speaking, the money shopkeeper immediately turned his head and pulled his throat to the back kitchen, asking them to give Hu Zhutou hot wine.

Hu Zhutou shook his hand: "I'm just going to take a routine look around here, and I'll leave immediately, I'm afraid this area is going to be eventful in these days." The bird goods that have been hit by thousands of knives have not stopped since yesterday. ”

"What's wrong?" The money shopkeeper asked nervously, "Is it a thief?" ”

"It's weirder than that." As soon as he finished saying this, Hu Zhutou was stunned for a moment, and asked a little strangely, "Why, you don't know?" ”

The money shopkeeper was a little confused, and said: "How can I know about this kind of thing?" ”

"Didn't I come to you before curfew last night, and asked the guy in the store who was on night duty in the lobby to pass you a message. Recently, the official who went to Wangcheng had an accident, and asked you to remind the customers in the store not to go that way, don't tell me that you don't know about it. Hu Zhutou said angrily.

"The guy in the store? Why didn't anyone come to me and tell me about it? The shopkeeper's head couldn't turn for a while, and just as he was about to say something, he saw a gray-clothed catcher running out of the corridor in a hurry.

The catcher walked quickly to Hu Zhutou's body and whispered, "My lord, something happened!" None of the brothers who went to inspect the official road last night have come back so far, and none of the brothers guarding the entrance of the official road have replied to the letter! ”

"Quick! Take me to see it! Hu Zhutou's face turned pale, and he walked away with his subordinates in the blink of an eye, leaving only the money shopkeeper standing in place, stretching out his hand at Hu Zhutou's departing figure, not knowing what to say.

After a while, the money shopkeeper reacted, and hurriedly called his right-hand man, and asked angrily: "Lao Liu, who was on duty in the front hall last night!" Why didn't Hu Zhutou come over to deliver such a big thing as telling me?! ”

Lao Liu opened his mouth wide and stammered and replied: "Shopkeeper, there were too many guests last night, and it was dinner together, the back kitchen was really busy, no way, I had to call the guys on duty that night to help, you were on it and Old Man Chen was catching up, I could only temporarily lock the door of the store, all of this was according to the rules of the store, and there was no one left in the front hall at that time." ”

"I didn't ...... Didn't keep anyone? Are you sure? Since the door is locked, how did Hu Zhutou get in last night? The money shopkeeper suddenly felt a little hairy in his heart.

"It's true!" Lao Liu replied, looking at the money shopkeeper in front of him with a strange look in his eyes.

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