Chapter 140: Encountering Old Acquaintances in a Foreign Land (2)
The long queue to enter the city finally came to an end, and the shouts of the officers and soldiers in charge of the body search also called Su Mu back from his memories.
"Hurry up, put all your belongings here!" the officer and soldier in charge of Su Mu's column shouted impatiently. Today, he has searched more than 100 people, and he is already exhausted to the point of prostration, even more tired than he used to participate in the training, and now he only hopes that the next group of officers and soldiers will come to change shifts quickly, so that he can quickly go back to the camp to rest and rest.
Under this state of mind, it is not difficult to understand the anxious mood, and the officers and soldiers at this time are like powder kegs, which may explode immediately at the slightest irritation.
Su Mu skillfully removed the sword and burden on his back and let the officers and soldiers check it. Su Mu, who was close at hand, saw very clearly, the officers and soldiers were very rough in inspection, and they didn't even pull out their own sheaths, so they roughly swept and flipped over, and asked Su Mu's identity, the purpose of coming to Beijing, and whether there was a predetermined place to stay, and then he used gestures to tell Su Mu that he could go in.
Is this really an inspection? It's just a formality. Su Mu didn't think much about it, just thought that the officers and soldiers were too tired to do it, and they didn't have the energy to check everyone so carefully, so he picked up his luggage and stepped into the corridor of the city gate.
Before he knew it, the sky had completely darkened, the air was extremely dull, and the keen Su Mu could vaguely feel that the surging thunder between the clouds had begun to become more and more intense.
A rainstorm is already poised to start.
It is obviously not a good idea to wander outside at this time, originally Su Mu and Wang Shi and others agreed to meet at the Four Seas Inn in Dongcheng, but now they are not familiar with life, and they asked several passers-by in a row to say that they are also outsiders and are not very familiar with Luo Jing, so they fell into a deadlock for a while.
But God doesn't pity a certain person, and the fine raindrops have fallen one after another, and there is a tendency to fall bigger and bigger.
In desperation, Su Mu had no choice but to find a nearby restaurant, thinking that he would take shelter from the rain here, and then go to the Four Seas Inn later.
This restaurant is called Zuixian Lou, and it looks a little old from the outside. At present, the entire Luojing can be said to be overcrowded, and even such a very simple and simple restaurant is already crowded with people dressed differently at this time.
Seeing the signboard of this Drunken Immortal Building, Su Mu couldn't help but smile bitterly, this name evoked a not very good memory for him.
It should be said that the result should be good, but the process is really thrilling enough.
At this time, Su Mu stood outside the door of the restaurant, put away the umbrella, and thought that he would rest here for a while, but he didn't expect that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the rain did not tend to decrease at all, but the people who had the same idea as Su Mu gathered more and more, and for a while, the door of the restaurant was about to be blocked.
Soon Xiao Er, who was greeted in the restaurant, found out about this situation, came out angrily to drive people away, and scolded loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, this is not the street, if you don't eat or stay in the store, hurry up!
Xiao Er raised the broom while saying and kept waving it, it was a torrential rain outside, and many people's trouser legs had been stained with mud, Xiao Er swept indiscriminately at this time, and swept more filth to the people who were sheltering from the rain at the door, and the scene was very chaotic for a while, and many people were complaining, accusing Xiao Er of being unreasonable.
Some people left helplessly and rushed into the rain, while others immediately said that they wanted to stay in the hotel, and the crowd that was originally crowded with people soon went their separate ways.
Su Mu also frowned slightly, it was already a little dark outside, and it was raining heavily, he really didn't want to stain his only outfit at the moment, so he had to tell Xiao Er that he was also going to live in the hotel, so he was confused.
Su Mu's original plan to hide from the rain for a while and leave obviously could not be realized at this time, and when he entered the city, the officers and soldiers had already informed him that Luo Jing was implementing a comprehensive curfew, and the inn would no longer accept new guests after that time, and it seemed that he had to spend the night in this drunken immortal building first, and then go to the agreed Four Seas Inn at dawn the next day.
At this time, the lobby of the restaurant is not much better than outside the door, the inn on a rainy day is dirty, and there are so many people at this time that there are so many people, the smell of all kinds of food, the smell of people's sweat, and the smell of rain and cement are intertwined and mixed together, straight to Su Mu's brain, Su Mu quickly covered his nose, and for the first time in his life, he hated his senses so keenly.
It took a lot of effort for Su Mu to break out of the crowded crowd and come to the front desk of the inn.
Surprisingly, although there are a lot of people in the lobby of the inn, there are almost no people near the front desk, and it seems that most people are just hypothetizing that they want to stay in the hotel, but in fact they are still wishful thinking about how long they can mingle.
Su Mu tidied up his appearance, pretended to be an experienced traveler, stepped forward, and lowered his voice and said, "Shopkeeper, stay in the hotel." After that, he didn't look at the shopkeeper at all, but kept looking east and west, and his mouth kept making a slight tsk.
This trick was also taught to Su Mu by the Butterfly Fairy. Last time, Butterfly Fairy was very angry when she heard that Su Mu had gone to the Drunken Immortal Residence and was defrauded of so much money, so she told Su Mu some details of the hotel.
"Mu'er, listen up! Don't ask the price immediately after entering the store, so you look like a hillbilly with little knowledge, you have to pretend to look around while waiting for the shopkeeper to speak first!"
The teaching of the butterfly fairy is still vivid, and she also told Su Mu that she pretended to look around in order to give the shopkeeper a feeling of comparing horizontally and picking the inn's thorns, and also to facilitate the price reduction, in addition, no matter how much the shopkeeper quotes, he will cut the price by three percent first, so as not to suffer a loss.
Su Mu was very surprised, he didn't expect that the butterfly fairy, who had always seemed to be light and breezy, would become so careless when it came to money, obviously he didn't care about the expenses at all when he was treating himself and Ning Ning.
Despite this, Su Mu still obediently remembered everything that the butterfly fairy said, and he did exactly what he did at this moment.
"Staying in the hotel?" Unexpectedly, the innkeeper didn't raise his head, just kept fiddling with the abacus in his hand, and said absentmindedly, "There is only one room left, the private room on the third floor." ”
"Hmm. Su Mu nodded, waiting for the innkeeper's offer.
"Ten taels a night. ”
"How much?" Su Mu, who was just about to settle accounts and bargain, was dumbfounded all of a sudden.
"Ten taels. Oh, by the way, don't think about bargaining, you can't do it for a penny. The shopkeeper still didn't look at Su Mu squarely, leisurely crossed Erlang's legs, and said jokingly.