Chapter 18: The Strange Man in the Hat
As soon as Xiao Lan sat down for a moment, the shopkeeper came over with hot dishes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Well, it's so fragrant, it seems that the second boy in this shop really didn't lie to us, but he didn't dare" Xue Yan leaned her nose in front of the dish and took a deep breath.
"Hehe, that's not afraid of your eldest lady's majesty," Xiao Lan smiled with a pruning eye.
Xue Yan shook her head and said, "That is, as soon as I saw Miss Ben coming, all the delicious food was brought out, huh? No, brother, are you praising me or hurting me" Xue Yan finally found out that Xiao Lan was actually praising and belittleing overtly.
"Hey, whatever you want" Xiao Lan didn't expect that once Xue Yan became serious, she would still be quite smart.
"A few guest officers, do you have any other orders?" said the shopkeeper as he put down the dish and bowed.
Xiao Lan turned her body to the shopkeeper and said, "Oh, little second brother, that's the case, we want to ask you about something."
"In this case, please show the guest officer," the child looked around, as if he was afraid of being discovered by someone.
Xiao Lan stood up and leaned her mouth to the ear of the shopkeeper and whispered: "I want to know about the Black Mountain Thief, did the little second brother know the specific hiding place of the Black Mountain Thief?"
"Ah...... This...... This one...... I...... I don't know" The shopkeeper prevaricated Xiao Lan, but his face had turned pale.
Intuition told Xiao Lan that the shopkeeper must have some secrets, but he couldn't force it, so in order to avoid startling the snake, he had to observe secretly.
"Ha, that's it, forget it," Xiao Lan smiled awkwardly.
Since this shopkeeper looked flustered, it means that Xiao Lan and they are already very close to the secret of the Black Mountain thief, and the rest is to wait patiently to see if any clues will be exposed, Xiao Lan knows this truth very well.
"Okay, you can go down, we will call you if there is something" Xiao Lan sat down slowly again.
Tang Yueying next to her patted Xiao Lan's hand and said, "I don't know if you noticed that there was something wrong with this shopkeeper just now, I feel that he knows about the Black Mountain thief, but he seems to have any scruples."
"Who said it wasn't, I just noticed that he was a little strange, so I stopped asking, just because I was afraid that it would scare the snake and affect our future plans" Xiao Lan glanced back at the shopkeeper again.
"By the way, brother, I heard that Hua Zhangmen later came to you privately, is the purpose of this trip not just for the Black Mountain thief" Xue Yan rolled her eyes, and remembered the night before Hua Yuntian looking for Xiao Lan.
Xiao Lan waved her hand to signal Xue Yan and Tang Yueying to move closer to the middle of the table, and at the same time, Xiao Lan also leaned her head against the middle of the table and whispered: "Actually, Senior Hua asked us to secretly investigate the whereabouts of Sword Yushi in the process of exterminating the Black Mountain Thieves."
"What! It's the Sword Rain Stone again, the Sword Rain Stone that the two black-clothed men we heard in Jinling City talking about?" Xue Yan shouted loudly.
At this time, a man wearing a hat covering his face tightly at the table opposite Xiao Lan heard the voice and turned his head to stare at Xue Yan, this man was silent and revealed murderous aura everywhere.
Xiao Lan tightly covered Xue Yan's mouth and said, "Be quiet, it's that Sword Rain Stone, I heard Master Hua say that this matter is related to the peace and tranquility of the whole world, so I can't relax my vigilance."
"It's strange to say, Xiao Lan, have you noticed it, the person opposite you has been staring at us, looking fierce and vicious" Tang Yueying also noticed something unusual.
"yes, let's see what he's going to do" Xiao Lan also began to stare back and forth at the man wearing the hat.
"Ahem"
The man found that Xiao Lan and Tang Yueying were also staring at him, so he coughed, got up and walked outside the inn.
"Eh, brother, you said this person is not strange, just now he was not shy to stare at us and he was not shy, and now we have only been staring at him for a while, and he is embarrassed to leave, how funny you say!" Xue Yan cast a disdainful glance at the man.
Xiao Lan knocked on the table and said, "There is something strange, I'm afraid it's not so shy and simple, maybe it has something to do with the Black Mountain thief we are looking for."
"Yes, just because he wore the hat so low is very suspicious, if he didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't have to rush to avoid us" Tang Yueying has rich experience in the rivers and lakes after all, and such an abnormality can still be easily detected.
"Then let's let him go like this, or catch up and ask about the Black Mountain Thief," Xue Yan said and got up.
Xiao Lan grabbed Xue Yan and said, "Sit down, my good sister, when will you be able to use your brains!" This person is wearing a dark black hat and is dressed strangely, but the people around him have not noticed that he is suspicious, what does this mean?"
"This ...... This ......" Xue Yan couldn't answer for a while.
"This shows that the person often comes here to eat in this dress, and the people here are not surprised," Tang Yueying said as she grabbed Xue Yan.
Xiao Lan squinted and smiled: "That's right, that's what it means, not only that, but we can further judge that he is a local, if we recklessly chase him out, we will definitely be lost by him if we are not familiar with the place, so won't it surprise the grass and snakes, and the gains outweigh the losses?"
"Oh, so we need to wait here for him to come to the door himself," Xue Yan seemed to realize.
"That's right, this stupid sister has finally become smart again" Xiao Lan teased: "Since he has discovered our whereabouts, and he is so afraid of us, it means that this person has a great connection with the Black Mountain thief, then he will definitely send it to the door again, we just have to wait patiently"
The night gradually darkened, the guests left intermittently, the building was empty, and the bustling inn became a little desolate.
"Have you all eaten well?" Xiao Lan looked around at Tang Yueying and Xue Yan.
"Eat well," Tang Yueying and Xue Yan wiped the oil beads from the corners of their mouths.
Xiao Lan stood up and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, "Little Er, come and arrange two good guest rooms for us."
"Here we go!"
As soon as the words fell, the shopkeeper ran in front of Xiao Lan in small steps.
"In this way, you arrange two upper rooms for us, the two rooms next to each other, is there a problem?" Xiao Lan smiled at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper hurriedly nodded and said, "What is the guest officer talking about, please come with me"
The shopkeeper led the way in front, and Tang Yueying and Xue Yan followed closely behind.
"Here, this is it, two first-class guest rooms next to each other," the shopkeeper bowed to Xiao Lan and said.
Xiao Lan waved her hand and said, "Okay, there's nothing for you here, you can go down."
The shopkeeper turned around and went downstairs.
"Yueying, you and Xueyan live in the left room, and I live next to you, call me whenever there is anything," Xiao Lan instructed Tang Yueying and Xueyan.
"Well, I know" Xue Yan pushed open the door and pulled Tang Yueying in.
Xiao Lan watched the two of them enter the room, and then slowly pushed open the door and went in to rest.
Xiao Lan slept soundly that night, worried that nothing that happened had happened.
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"Ah......" Xiao Lan patted her mouth, got up from the bed with a snort, and gently pushed the door open.
At this time, the inn was still very deserted, and only one or two guests were eating downstairs.
"Yueying, Xueyan, get up and eat, if we have something to do today, get up quickly" Xiao Lan knocked on the door and shouted.
After a while, Tang Yueying and Xue Yan still didn't come out.
"Yueying!Xueyan!Come out, are you there?" Xiao Lan's tone became even more nervous.
After another moment, Tang Yueying and Xue Yan still didn't come out, Xiao Lan finally became a little flustered, and forced the door open.
Xiao Lan ran in one arrow step and looked around, there was no trace of Tang Yueying and Xue Yan on the bed or behind the picture screen.
Xiao Lan shrugged her eyebrows: Huh, what kind of smell is this, it's so fragrant!
Xiao Lan thought about it and walked to the window, and found that there was a small hole in the window paper, as if it had been pierced by something.
Xiao Lan suddenly realized that Tang Yueying and Xue Yan might have been kidnapped.
"Little Er! Little Er, come here" Xiao Lan became even more nervous.
I saw the shopkeeper hurriedly running upstairs.
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