Chapter 289: Start Again
With a plan in mind, at the crossroads ahead, Xiao Wu tightly tightened the reins of the horses and forced the four horses to turn their heads to the left.
Four frightened horses, with a wagon full of smoke and fire, rushed madly towards the lake, and the streets were full of people running around, and for a moment there was a chaos.
"Grandpa!"
Liusan shouted, drove his horse behind the carriage, and chased desperately.
Soon after, with the chaotic neighing and "clicking", Xiao Wu and the four horses that kicked up and flew with the burning carriage, "Goo Dong, Goo Dong" fell into the lake with a few sounds.
The people around the lake clearly saw a man in an official robe, who was thrown into the lake and struggled for a moment before sinking into the water.
After Xiao Wu entered the lake, she deliberately fluttered for a while, and then made a drowning appearance.
Xiao Wu got into the water, took off Zhou Dan's official uniform, swam to the side of the carriage, threw the official robe into the car, and then dived and swam to the shore with reeds in the distance.
After swimming for a while, he crept ashore and knocked a passing man in a cloak unconscious, dragged him into the grass beside the reeds, and stripped off his clothes, cloak, and shoes.
Xiao Wu changed into his robe and waited, so he hurried to the vicinity where the carriage fell into the water, and saw that the salvage person sent by the official had already started the salvage.
On the surface of the water, there are more than a dozen people who are sometimes diving up, sometimes diving down and who are familiar with the nature of the water, and a person who looks like an official is full of anxiety, directing the search for people and salvage vehicles.
Xiao Wu put on a cloak and hat, most of her face and wet hair were hidden inside, and she stood far away under a tree, as if she was curious to see the lively passers-by.
Xiao Wu expected that among the people who cared about whether Zhou Gong was alive or not, there must be a messenger from the assassination organization.
They brazenly assassinated Zhou Gong on a bustling street, and in addition to facilitating escape, they must have deliberately wanted to make things bigger and cause social panic, with the purpose of sabotaging the holding of the first meeting.
In addition to assassinating Zhou Gong, they must have other actions, and they must find their lair as soon as possible and catch the mastermind in order to stop what may be even more crazy actions.
Xiao Wu's eyes kept patrolling, carefully observing the movements in the crowd around her, and sure enough, she circled a suspicious man, the man was wearing a straw hat, holding his arms and watching the salvage scene all the time, occasionally, he would look around very alertly.
Wearing a straw hat in late autumn is unusual.
Suspicious, sneaky, and abnormal.
Xiao Wu carefully looked at the man who was circled, and saw that he was dressed as a man and wore a straw hat, covering most of his face.
Although the man's eyes were half-squinted, the divine light revealed was sharp, coupled with a steady and solid gait, Xiao Wu felt that this man should be a practitioner.
Seeing Jiang Er, who was sticking to his mustache, galloped on a horse with an anxious face, looking at the body of a horse salvaged and the Zhou Dan official uniform that Xiao Wu took off in a daze.
Xiao Wu walked over, walked past Jiang Er, pretended to touch him with her elbow, and whispered in ventriloquism.
"Don't look back, I'm out of danger, the minister and the enemies of the Dog Rong clan are in danger, go back quickly"
Jiang Er didn't look at Xiao Wu, knowing that Zhou Dan's stand-in was safe, and he must have discovered some secrets, so it was inconvenient to show up, so he hurriedly replied in ventriloquism.
"Stay safe"
After Jiang Er finished speaking, he rode away in a hurry, he heard the voice of Liusi, and then thought about the petite figure around him, and determined that the stand-in was Liusi.
Didn't June Fourth be in the VIP Mansion to assist Zhou Gong in doing things?
How did he end up here?
With a string of questions, Jiang Er's horse had run far away, and he had to rush back to the VIP mansion immediately, bring the news back, and in addition, give the anxious Zhou Gong a word of safety.
The bodies of the four horses and the carriage were salvaged, but Zhou Gong still did not see anyone alive and dead.
The officials on the shore were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, constantly shouting, asking those who were not lightly frozen to go into the water to continue to go into the water to find them.
"You guys, don't stop, go look for it again"
A person who seemed to be the leader, with a bitter face, complained in a low voice: "My lord, it's too late, the water is too cold, everyone can't stand it, and if you go down, you will die."
"Look again, you know, how important it is"
"I know, alas, brothers, if you come warm, you will go down with your eldest brother and touch it carefully."
The person who called himself the eldest brother called for helplessness, and jumped into the water first, followed by a few more, and also jumped into the water "poof".
After about half an hour of salvage, Zhou Gong's body was still not found, and the man wearing a straw hat pressed the straw hat, looked around, turned around and strode away.
Xiao Wu followed from a distance, and after a long while, the man with a straw hat entered an inn called Yuelai.
Xiao Wu followed up the inn and was about to follow upstairs, when he was stopped by a guy with beady eyes.
"Childe, it's a new guest, stay in the hotel...... You have to pay the money first, please do this"
Xiao Wu was stopped and caught a glimpse of the man with the straw hat, disappearing around a bend in the cloister on the second floor.
Reluctantly followed the guy to the counter, Xiao Wu touched and touched the sleeve, and said with a bitter face: "Ah?...... Oh, my purse has been stolen, can you, give me a room first? My guy is going to buy something...... In a moment, it will come".
The shopkeeper behind the counter replied decisively, "No! Childe, this is the rule."
Xiao Wu remembered that when she slept with her hair, she combed her hair with her hands, and her grandfather pulled out one of his hostas and inserted it on his head, and the hosta was very valuable at first glance.
Xiao Wu plucked the hosta from his head and handed it over, "Look, this one will bet on this first...... I want a room."
The shopkeeper in the counter picked up the hosta and looked at it, raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Wu again, and immediately smiled on his face.
"Okay"
The shopkeeper said to the guy next to him, "Take the son...... Go to the upper room on the second floor and say hello."
"Gotcha!"
The guy responded and took Xiao Wu into a room on the second floor, "Childe, just live in this room, if you have anything, you can greet the little one at any time."
"Good!"
After seeing the guy leave, Xiao Wu looked around the room and found that there was not even a window in the room.
There's no window in the upper room? That's not right.
couldn't take care of it anymore, Xiao Wu quietly opened a crack in the door, looked out of the door, and saw that she didn't seem to be noticed, so she opened the door and walked out.
Just as he ran into another guy and came out of another room, Xiao Wu pretended to be watching from the porch, and after he left, he walked to the corner of the second floor where the man with the straw hat disappeared.
When I walked around the corner, I found that there was another long corridor, where eight or nine guest rooms were located, empty, and there was no shadow of anyone at all.
Xiao Wu pushed open the door one by one and found that there was only one room, she panicked and said that she had entered the wrong room, and was scolded by a while behind her.
Observing all the way, I found nothing.
Just as he was wondering, a door suddenly opened, and a man walked out.
The man looked suspicious, secretly looked at Xiao Wu who was standing alone on the porch, and left quickly.
Xiao Wu pretended to look at the scenery downstairs, and the late autumn wind blew on her underwear that was still wet, which made her shiver and suddenly sober up a lot.
Why did that guy stop himself? and not stop the man in the straw hat?
Will they be in a gang?
Could this be the place where they pass on their information?
With more and more questions, Xiao Wu turned around on the second floor, but didn't find the figure of the straw hat man, there was nothing on the second floor except for the room, and there was only one staircase that he had just walked up and down the second floor.
Where did the man with the straw hat go?
The entire inn needs to be explored, and Xiao Wu has made up her mind.
Xiao Wu went down the stairs, avoided the guy and the shopkeeper, and also inspected the first floor, and found that it was only some low-grade rooms and kitchens.
There was a long and narrow courtyard at the back of the building, and a hunchbacked old man was sitting by a well washing dishes, and Xiao Wu stepped forward to inquire.
"Uncle, let me inquire, just a kind person...... Help me find my wallet, and before I can thank him, he left, entered the inn, and came this way."
The hunchbacked old man glanced at Xiao Wu and asked with a puzzled face, "Oh?...... What does he look like?".
Xiao Wu hurriedly replied, "Oh, he wears a straw hat, dressed as a man, in his thirties, very sturdy, uncle, I guess, he should be a guy here, if the old man knows, please tell me, I want to thank you in person."
The old man stacked the washed dishes and asked, "Is he also wearing...... Clothes like me?".
"It's not"
The old man glanced at Xiao Wu with slanted eyes, "That's not it, before, people ...... You don't need to thank you after that...... I don't think about it, Childe should go, we're all very busy."
Xiao Wu's face was full of disappointment, "Oh, I didn't have time to say it before, I thought, I can thank you in person afterwards, okay, I bothered the old man, thank you."
Xiao Wu returned in vain, unwillingly wandered out of the inn, pretending to be bored and wandering, taking advantage of the lack of people, climbing to the roof of another house where the whole inn could be seen, and observing the movement of the inn from a distance.
Set a small goal first, such as remembering in 1 second: book guest residence