Chapter 22: Closing the Door
In the middle of summer, the sun prefers to stay in the sky, always reluctantly setting little by little in the west, and the summer evenings are not like the winter, the winter evenings are always overnight, and one does not care about the sky and it is completely dark.
Summer evenings are more like a toddler old man, slowly changing layer by layer, from just dark to completely dark, it always takes a long process.
Especially today, the light on the west side has not completely faded for Yu Yan and them, even if the lights have been lit in the inn, and many figures can still be seen in the distance, the guests seem to feel something strange, and they all go to bed early.
They had been idle for a while, and they all gathered at the counter, watching those monsters eating, these monsters were in high spirits, and from time to time there was a burst of laughter.
There was nothing surprising in listening to this laughter alone, and it was warm and peaceful, and there was no difference from all the happy breaths in the world, and they watched those monsters drink and eat unscrupulously, and laughed, and their hearts couldn't help but give birth to a lot of beauty.
From the time when the monsters were eating, Lu Mu looked at them, during which Yan Yan and Ho Tian all gathered, and the four of them all looked at those monsters, and they didn't say anything.
They don't know what to say again, they have said everything, they have considered all the problems, all they can do is to watch, they are three or four feet away from those monsters.
After all, they haven't come out of the village very often, and hoarding the sky and the hatred are different, after all, they have come out many times, and they have also had some confrontations with many evil forces.
In the impression of hoarding the sky, it is not so close to the opposite of them, and there is no tension between each other, on the contrary, there is more beauty.
In the eyes of others, I am afraid that it is also like this, a group of people sit together drinking and chatting, and another group of people sit leisurely very close to them, and those who sit sometimes will also glance at the drinker, always just look at it and move away, how can it be that they will be two extremes.
Ho Tian was a little self-deprecating in his heart, I'm afraid no one will believe what is happening at this moment, Ho Tian has been sitting in front of the counter for a long time, his hands on his chest, his brows furrowed and he was thinking about something.
Qiu Li was next to Hoard, he had a pot of tea in his hand, and a cup in his hand, he had been drinking this tea for a long time, but he could always pour it out of the pot, which made people wonder how big the middle of his pot was.
Yu Yan was on the opposite side of Qiu Li and Ho Tian, he was also sitting on a chair, one leg sitting on his buttocks, and one leg hanging, Yu Yan looked at the demon mirror from time to time.
The picture in the mirror has never changed, all kinds of animals eat and drink together, at first Yan Yan was very careful, but gradually he was no longer so cautious, and even a few times Yan directly pointed the demon mirror at those monsters.
The light of the demon mirror is obvious, as long as those monsters can see it as soon as they turn around, but they never look back, Yu Yan did this on purpose, and he won't let those monsters see it so easily.
He was at the back of the counter, there was a chair behind him, he didn't sit on it, his whole body was lying on the counter, and the weight of his body fell on his left arm leaning against the counter.
Lu Mu is holding a pen in his other hand, and there is an account book on the seat, just by looking at these, it is easy to understand that he is settling accounts, but he is just making a posture of settling accounts and not settling accounts, and he doesn't need to settle accounts today, because there are no accounts to calculate.
Even if he had, he was not in the mood, his mind was on those monsters, but his mind was very empty at the moment, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
At the moment, their minds are all about those monsters eating, just that, all they care about is that the monsters are eating, drinking, laughing, as for the rest, they don't think of it, at least in their minds.
Ho Tian stretched his hands upward, and let out a corresponding sigh, it was this ordinary sigh that attracted their attention.
Ho Tian didn't notice, and yawned again, and when all the movements were done, Ho Tian's eyes were watery, and Ho Tian said to himself: "Am I going to sleep too?" ”
Hoard's words were just said to himself, and the others didn't understand, and looked at Hoard's sky with some doubts, with an expression on his face that he didn't know what to do.
It was only when Ho Tian raised his head again that he saw their appearances, and this time it was his turn to be puzzled and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with you?"
They were all stunned for a moment, then smiled a little awkwardly, shook their heads, and looked at those monsters again and said, "Regardless of whether they will do bad things or not, now I know that they must be very grinding, and they can eat for an hour." ”
This is a fact, it has been an hour since those monsters eaten, which is much slower than those mortals, and there is no intention of complaining when Ho Tian says this, just to find a topic, and now the atmosphere between them is a little solemn.
Yu Yan then said: "That's it, I've already served them three times with light vegetables, and they can really eat them." ”
Qiu Li said: "This is normal, after all, they are different from ordinary people. After Qiu Li said it, everyone was silent again, still the same question, still the same mood, they have really fallen into this.
Yan Yan looked at the direction of the door and said, "It's a very scene today, there is no sound outside." ”
Lu Mu also went to see it, only then did he realize that it was strange, today is indeed very strange, this time is not too late, if it is normal, there will be a lot of people, and there will be a lot of sounds, but today there is nothing.
Lu Mu just looked at it, and he didn't think about it anymore after a little doubt in his heart, this is not their task, "I think we can close the door tonight." It was Hoarding Heaven who said this, and he also looked at the door and said.
Yan Yan and Mu were stunned again, they instinctively thought that they had misheard, since the day the inn started, they had not been shut down at night, not only because they were energetic.
What's more, they don't know what they're going to do when the door closes, they don't have to sleep, they can see clearly at night if they want to, there is no difference between day and night for them.
It's just their own habit, and after a long time, it has become one or two points of this back and forth inn, and many people's habits have also changed with going back and forth to the inn.
You don't have to go to bed very early, when you are in a good mood, or when you are bad, as long as you come, the inn will welcome you and can serve you according to your requirements.
Gradually, more people came out at night, and the night market in Longbow Town began to officially begin, and later there were also people who saw this business opportunity to do business at night, and most of these businesses were eating or drinking, and that's all.
The back and forth inn is different from them, they always have special circumstances for various reasons, there is always a day or two to close, which is also normal, they are all mortals, naturally they can't compare with them.
They don't feel tired, even if they feel a little uncomfortable, as long as they close their eyes and breathe, everything will be solved, so from the moment they go back and forth to the inn, they haven't closed the door once.
This in itself is a very strange thing, because of the reason of Lu Mu them, no one thinks it is strange, and now that Ho Tian suddenly said such a thing, Lu Mu they naturally feel strange.
Lu Mu glanced at Ho Tian and said, "Senior brother, are you telling the truth?"
He clearly heard what Ho Tian said, this is certain, but he didn't understand why he did it, he wanted to understand the reason, Ho Tian nodded.
"Why, we haven't closed the door for more than ten years, and if the door closes suddenly, will it arouse the suspicion of others, and Yu Yan also doesn't understand what the door does mean when Hoarding Heaven says.
Yu Yan is different from Yu Mu, he thinks that Ho Tian is wrong, or just joking, closing the door or not closing the door does not have a big impact on the affairs of the monster, after all, no matter how powerful a door is, it can't stop the monster.
And suddenly it is easy to arouse the suspicion of others, and Lu Yan will say that, as soon as he finished speaking, Ho Tian looked at him, and Lu Mu also looked at him, and Yu Yan understood what they meant.
What Yan Yan said would arouse the suspicion of others would not appear, as long as they moved a little, this problem would not exist, and the reason why he said that was just in a hurry.
Qiu Li hesitated for a moment and looked at Ho Tian Dao: "I don't know why Senior Brother said this." ”
Ho Tian glanced at those monsters and said: "It seems that these monsters are gathered, no matter whether they have the intention of harming people, and no matter what they want to do, it is estimated that they will do it tonight." ”
Qiu Li nodded instinctively, he agreed with this, those monsters met here, obviously for something, it can also be seen from their conversation.
If you want to do things, now that the people are all together, they naturally have to do it, but what does this have to do with closing the door, Qiu Li still can't think of it, Ho Tian continued: "Whether they move today or not, we have to watch them all the time, and naturally we don't have the energy to worry about things outside." ”
Saying that, he paused, and they glanced at each other and nodded, what Ho Tian said was true, they didn't have any energy to worry about things outside, and they should be more worried about the people in the inn than the people outside.
In the current situation, it seems that those monsters are here to absorb people's grievances, but the people outside the inn have already been absorbed, and I think those monsters also know about it, otherwise they don't need to come to this inn.
For them, any place is safer than an inn, after all, there are so many people at once, it is inevitable that it will not arouse the suspicion of others, no matter whether it is harmful for mortals to absorb resentment, it is always best to keep the original situation.
There is no need to close the door if there is only this, there seems to be no necessary practice between the two, Yu Mu has not yet come to ask, Ho Tian continued: "One more point, I think everyone has noticed the situation outside, there are so few people outside today, this is very abnormal, and there are no other outsiders except these monsters today, theoretically speaking, this is impossible." ”
They all nodded, their minds were on those monsters, and they didn't pay much attention to these things, listening to what Ho Tian said, it was indeed like this.
Generally speaking, the inn has to receive at least four or five waves of people a day, especially in summer, when the summer days are long and it is a good time to do business, and there are more people in summer.
As Ho Tian said, today there are no other people except those youkai, which is impossible, and there are very few people on the street, which is another strange thing for them, but they still don't quite know what this has to do with closing the door.
Ho Tian continued: "Today's situation must not be accidental, there should be something wrong, even if we open the door, it is estimated that no one will come up, the most important thing is that if we close the door, we only care about the people in the inn, if we open the door, we must also prevent people from coming in suddenly, it will not be good for anyone." ”
Before they finished their words, they all understood that if the monsters wanted to do something to the people of the inn and limit the danger to the inn, they could do more.