Chapter 47: Undercurrent (3)
"It's true, this is a bureau, but it's not for us!" After pondering for a long time, Liu Tiandong said to Murong Hui categorically.
"Brother Liu, you, why did you come to such a conclusion? If their target is not us, then how can we explain Heshan's disappearance? I really don't understand, so I ask Brother Liu to tell me if the situation is urgent. Murong Hui looked at Liu Tiandong with his eyebrows locked and asked.
Liu Tiandong smiled slightly, then pointed to the door and said: "Actually, everything is obvious, those three people are the main ones, but we have fallen into this troubled water by mistake." At the same time, our presence has disrupted the plans of the innkeepers to a certain extent, forcing them to temporarily change their strategy, as evidenced by the empty rooms outside. Because they didn't intend to let any unrelated people in, the whole inn was just waiting for those three guys. Don't you notice that there are still cobwebs hanging in the corner of our room? Do you have the impression that the fat shopkeeper and Xiao Er disappeared for a while, and then suddenly appeared out of thin air, what does this mean?"
"Could it be, Brother Liu, are you saying that our room was temporarily cleaned up? No wonder they will make it difficult in every way and don't want to take us in. However, why did Heshan's disappearance have anything to do with them? Could it be that they, like the three mysterious people, also discovered the child's secret and robbed Heshan by the way?" Murong Hui thought for a moment and asked.
"Well, this situation is not impossible, but at least Heshan is safe for now, and the next thing we have to do is to think about how to find him, and then leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible while being as safe as possible. As for the of those two groups, we can't take care of it, and we don't care about it. Liu Tiandong replied, just saying that it was so, how easy it was to leave without knowing it, and what was even more tricky was where they should go to find Heshan?
Speaking of this, Liu Tiandong and Murong Hui invariably fell into deep thought, because they were too passive, Liu Tiandong guessed that their every move must be under surveillance, and even the conversation between him and Murong Hui just now may have been listened to, so it is really difficult to do what to do next, but they can't do nothing......
At this moment, there were three knocks on the door, the sound was very low, but it was enough for the people in the room to hear it clearly.
Liu Tiandong and Murong Hui immediately looked at the door, and a clear person was photocopied on the window paper on the door.
"Who?" Murong Hui lowered his voice and blurted out, and at the same time, an arrow stepped over and slammed the door open, her body was extremely fast, and all the movements were completed in one go, almost at the same time as her "who". Liu Tiandong also followed, but when he arrived at the door, he found that there was no one outside the door, and the whole corridor was still surprisingly quiet, but there was someone outside the door just now, and it would never be wrong.
Liu Tiandong and Murong Hui glanced at each other, no one said a word, and retreated first, and Liu Tiandong closed the door again. It's obvious that they're being watched.
Liu Tiandong pointed to his mouth and then to the outside, signaling Murong Hui to beware of the wall from now on. Of course, Murong Hui understood what Liu Tiandong meant, nodded, and gestured with her hand, she pointed to the window paper where the figure appeared just now, and stretched out two more fingers.
"That's right!" Liu Tiandong immediately understood what she meant, because the shape of that figure was very similar to the shopkeeper in the inn.
"Yes, it had to be him. This guy suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly, and he was so fast that he didn't even leave a trace, he must be a master. However, a master like that wants to eavesdrop on our conversation can do it without being noticed, but what does it mean that he wants us to see him? Is it deliberately teasing us without taking us into account? Is that just too boring? In addition, his deliberate three knocks on the door also seem to be intentional. ”
Thinking of this, Liu Tiandong shook his head vigorously, it was so unbelievable, he felt that his brain didn't seem to be enough. But it seems that the distance from the truth is separated by a layer of window paper.
"Could it be that I have overlooked something?"
Murong Hui also looked similar to Liu Tiandong at this time, her brows tightened, she bit her lip and her eyes were motionless, as if she was thinking about something......
......In the silent and eerie night, there were three banging sounds floating in a flash.
"What's that sound?" Liu Tiandong asked Murong Hui absentmindedly and casually.
"Hey, I didn't expect it to be three watches!" just listened, Murong Hui replied weakly.
"What? "What?" Liu Tiandong almost exclaimed, but immediately lowered his voice and asked again: "You said, that voice just now was ......?"
"Yes, that's the sound of patrolling at night, why doesn't Brother Liu know? Eh, no, this inn stands alone on the side of the official road, and there are no villages and towns around it, how can there be the sound of patrolling?" Murong Hui asked suspiciously, but as she spoke, she suddenly noticed something strange.
"The monk knocked on the door under the moon, and the person was about after dusk. Liu Tiandong muttered to himself and read a poem softly.
"Brother Liu, what do you mean by this......?
"Hmm. I guess we'll see the answer soon. Liu Tiandong nodded to Murong Hui and said.
"Fire, it's on fire, protect the adults and get out quickly. Liu Tiandong's voice did not fall, and suddenly, he heard a commotion outside the door, and he didn't need to go out at all, but he saw patches of red light reflected through the window paper.
"It's on fire!" The shout seemed to be in the direction of the three guys' room. Is this what we have to wait for?" Liu Tiandong immediately linked several things together in his mind, and at the same time, he grabbed the door and ran out.
Sure enough, I saw the guest room diagonally opposite, at this moment, there were several flames suddenly coming out of the wooden window, accompanied by bursts of smoke, the three guys in the room had already run out of the room at this time, and the two servants in Tsing Yi looked nervous to protect the young man.
At the same time, there were several figures scurrying back and forth in the corridor, shouting and screaming, as if they were busy fighting the fire, although the scene was very chaotic, but the fire did not seem to be so big, and after a while, the flames were suppressed, but the choking smoke was still rising.
"It's strange, why did the good ones suddenly catch fire? Why did so many people suddenly appear?" Liu Tiandong muttered in a low voice.
Then, out of nowhere, the fat shopkeeper came out of nowhere, trotted to the three of them, and made a vigorous move. They spoke loudly, and although Liu Tiandong was far away, he could hear it clearly.
"Oh yes, what do you say, it's good to walk the water, it is estimated that the rats knocked over the oil lamp and ignited the wood on the ground, fortunately the fire is not big and does not hurt anyone, but it frightens the three of you. ”
"Hmph, what kind of ghost inn are you, disturbing my master, how many heads do you have to deal with? In my opinion, this fire may have been deliberately set by you!" the Tsing Yi servant on the young man's right scolded angrily.
"No, no, no, where do the little ones dare, it's really a fire, a fire. ”
"Oh, I'm choking people to death in the middle of the night, how do you want us to rest......"
"It's just ......"
At this time, suddenly several figures appeared in the corridor on the second floor, chattering and complaining.
The fat shopkeeper could only turn around and make a move one by one, "Everyone, you are really sorry, in this way, please go to the first floor to rest first, don't be impatient, and when the smoke here is gone, I will ask you to go back to your room to rest, and tonight's shop money shop will be free for you." ”
As soon as he said this, most of the people seemed to be satisfied, and soon they stopped making noise and shouted, and walked downstairs in a hurry, and the three guys also followed the crowd downstairs, and before going downstairs, the young man also glanced at Liu Tiandong. Seeing that Liu Tiandong and Murong Hui were also preparing to go down with the crowd, they didn't speak.
It's just that he may not know that Liu Tiandong and they won't go downstairs at all, not only because this fire is too bizarre, it can't be an accident at all, and it's not that the fat shopkeeper hugged the crowd downstairs and smiled weirdly at Liu Tiandong, but at the moment when Liu Tiandong stepped out of the door, there was a major discovery.