Chapter Thirty-Seven: Gu Diao Street
After wandering around the largest street in the North End of Beta Town, the young wizards finally gave up looking for an inn in the North End and decided to return to the North District Pier, where they found a clean-looking inn with strict gated gates.
The name of the inn is 'Jan Pinel's Inn'.
The bronze plaque hanging at the entrance of the inn bears three lines of clear bold letters: 'Founded in 999 by the pioneer Yang and the pioneer Peniel, it is only for sorcerers, and the store provides fish floss, cats and dogs are welcome, and tricksters, widows, and fishmen are not allowed'.
Looking at the nameplate, it is full of discrimination.
"Such a store is opened in the northern district of Beta Town, and it has not been seized by the Wizarding Alliance?!" When he pushed the door into the store, Zheng Qing couldn't help but sigh: "Aren't they worried about a riot in the northern district?"
"It's just getting used to it. Xiao Xiao shrugged and didn't explain much.
Next to him, Xin Fatzi, who is more familiar with the northern district of Beta Town, enthusiastically began to do Mopu: "This is a problem left over from history...... In fact, the fact that the store had already been included in the 'Third List of Monumental and Historic Monuments of the Wizarding Alliance' before the relevant discrimination law was enacted, preventing future generations from retouching it to some extent. ”
As they spoke, the three of them had already entered the hotel.
A fairy waiter in a brown tuxedo greeted him respectfully and handed the guests a red silk scarf, which was said to be tied to the body to ward off bad luck and ward off the curses of the Silent Forest.
The fairy attendants are very low, only about a meter, with big eyes and white skin, and when they speak, they speak softly, never looking directly into the eyes of wizards.
This made Zheng Qing not only novel, but also an unusual sense of awkwardness.
It's like walking with a pebble in your shoe, and you get panicked with every step you take.
I don't know if other people feel this way, in short, the follow-up check-in to clean up, the whole process is unusually quiet. Even the fat man Xin, who is usually a bit talkative, keeps his mouth tightly closed.
It wasn't until I walked out of the hotel that the strange feeling of low pressure that lingered around me slowly dissipated.
After about ten minutes, after the door wall of the Jan Pinel United Hotel had completely disappeared from everyone's sight, Zheng Qing sighed in hindsight: "I just realized that we live in a hotel with a golden bean for one night...... If we stay in the North District for two more days, we won't even be able to earn back our travel expenses. ”
"Then don't stay two more days and get things done in the Gini hut today. Xiao Xiao replied in a brisk tone.
"And my investigative report. Fat Xin accosted him on the side.
"Your report can be done in the North End while the school gates are open, and you don't have to squeeze in the same day as the doctor's incident. Zheng Qing glanced at the fat man with some annoyance, and then became a little worried: "Alas, I don't know if we can take these expenses outside to the public account in the store......"
Because the funds in the public account involve a series of policies and regulations such as tax payment and deduction, even if D&K's money bag is in Zheng Qing's hand, he can't just take it out as pocket money.
"Then you have to ask Fox Wu, it's been in charge of accounts lately. "Fat Xin has never cared much about this kind of thing.
Hu Wu is the servant of the Qingqiu Su family, because of the shortage of manpower in the store at the end of the period, he was borrowed by Zheng Qing to help look after the store, and then he never returned it. Qingqiu Mansion didn't seem to care either, and didn't rush this matter.
But after all, he borrowed someone and didn't pay it back, so Zheng Qing has always kept this matter in mind.
As soon as he heard the fat man mention the name 'Fox Five', he couldn't help but panic in his heart, raised his head and looked at it as if he was covering, and then turned his head to look at Xiao Xiao: "Where is the Gini hut you said?"
"Beta Town North District, No. 33 Gudiao Street, 2nd Floor...... There is no house number, so I guess the entire floor is their club. Xiao Xiao opened the notebook and speculated while reading from the book.
From leaving the hotel to now, the three of them have made a few turns in the streets and alleys of the North District, and Zheng Qing has completely lost the distinction between the southeast and the northwest.
To the left and right were low, dilapidated houses, with smoke billowing from the garbage heaps, dirty walls, graffiti, and gloomy-eyed men, women, and children.
The whole North End seems to be the same.
There was an air of coldness, restlessness and disappointment.
"Gu Diao Street, Gu Diao Street ......" Zheng Qing muttered this term, and finally shook his head: "The name is fierce, it doesn't sound like a good place to go." ”
"Huh. Xiao Xiao sneered.
Xin Fatzi has another opinion on Zheng Qing's caution: "Whether it is a good place to go depends on your specific needs...... If you're here to play and you've been touched in the North District, it's not a good place to go, but if you're here for fun, the North District has pretty girls for you to choose from...... Many times, a simple potion prescription can make you happy. ”
Zheng Qing stared blankly and looked at the fat man a few times.
"It's not because you're so active in the North District to conduct investigations. He bit the last four-character idiom very hard. This made the fat man's originally white face immediately turn red.
"Nonsense! Blood spews people!" After scolding for a few words, the face of the fat man suddenly returned to his original state, and he snorted: "Then again, did you really blow up the descendant of that Satorogua?"
suddenly brought up this topic, which made Zheng Qing's originally leisurely mood slide back into a trough.
"I just shot the wrong shot at the wrong time, in the wrong place. The young state-funded student summed up his opinion by borrowing a very famous sentence:
"I'm stupid, really, I should have been hiding in the cabin with you guys in the first place...... Even if I was dragged by the old man, I should stick to my mind and hide in the cabin. That way you won't get into trouble. ”
Xiao Xiao led the way in front, and didn't say a word back when he heard the words: "You're not stupid, you're just a little stupid." ”
This evaluation made Zheng Qing's face darken suddenly.
What he just said was just habitual modesty and throwing the pot.
Anyway, a demon, and a demon with a lot of background, exploded under his own talisman, which is a very face-saving thing after all, and it is worth bragging about.
If it weren't for the fear that he would be fined by the school for taking this matter on his shoulder, and that there was some unspeakable threat from the starry sky, then he would certainly not be so cautious and modest in front of Ms. Pulitzer just now.
Just when he was racking his brains to think about how to fight back against the doctor's personal attack beautifully, Xiao Xiao, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and almost tripped him.
"Why did you stop all of a sudden?!" the wizard grumbled dissatisfiedly as he stood firm.
"Here we are. Xiao Xiao said softly.
Zheng Qing raised his head suddenly.
In front of the three of them is the entrance of a crooked and deep alley, and on the wall on the left, there is a Gu carving woodcarving, on which are crookedly carved three words - Gu Carving Street.