"Hey, you must be staying in an inn, right?" Zhang Hu asked.
"Not bad." Bai Haoming responded while putting on his leather boots.
"Let me tell you, many inns here do not provide hot water, and there are no stoves in the rooms. Living there is like an ice cellar. I recommend an inn to you. Not only does it have hot water, but each room is also equipped with one.
The stove will keep you warm," Zhang Hu said.
"Okay, which inn?" Bai Haoming didn't think much and asked without hesitation.
After all, sleeping in a house without a stove in this ice and snow is really unbearable.
"Call Youlai Inn. Just go out and walk five hundred meters east." Zhang Hu strongly recommended.
"Bai Haoming, let's go." Seeing Bai Haoming and Zhang Hu chatting happily, Jiang Nan urged.
"Here we come." Bai Haoming responded to Jiang Nan, then turned to look at Zhang Hu and said thank you before leaving.
Zhang Hu looked at the backs of Jiangnan's group, his eyes changed slightly, but he still had a smile on his face. After all, he had just earned dozens of taels of silver, and this kind of thing did not happen every day.
"Boss, I didn't expect that an inn in a place like this doesn't have a stove. How do they do business?" Bai Haoming asked in confusion as soon as he went out.
"Maybe the charcoal fire here is very expensive, so in order to save money, some inns don't have stoves." Xu Banxian explained decently.
"Then let's go to Youlai Inn recommended by Boss Zhang." Jiang Nan said with a slight smile.
"I always feel that the owner of this store is a little too enthusiastic." Yaoguang frowned slightly, feeling a little puzzled.
"The owner of this shop has made us a lot of money." Xu Banxian sighed helplessly and glared at Bai Haoming with resentful eyes.
"Why are you glaring at me?" Bai Haoming said unconvinced, "You've got an advantage and you still act like a good boy."
But having said that, since they had this fur coat to withstand the biting cold wind, the few of them felt much warmer while walking on the road.
While chatting, a few people arrived at Youlai Inn. A big plaque was hung at the door.
"Are you guys here, are you staying in the hotel or having a meal?" The owner of the store immediately came over to greet Jiang Nan when he saw her opening the door.
"You can stay in a hotel and eat there too." Jiang Nan was slightly startled when he saw the owner of the store, and realized that he looked a bit like Zhang Hu.
"Oh, you just came out of my brother's shop, right? Dear guests, please come in quickly." The shop owner recognized the fur coats they were wearing at a glance and became more enthusiastic than before.
"Zhang Hu is your brother?" Jiang Nan asked.
"Yes, my name is Zhang Liang." The store owner said with a smile: "You guys can live here at ease, I will give you the cheapest price."
Jiang Nan nodded slightly and said, "Bring us a pot of hot wine and some of the store's specialty dishes."
"Okay, I'll tell the chef to prepare it." Zhang Liang led Jiangnan and his party to a table near the stove, "Sir, wait a moment, the food will be ready soon."
The table here is a little different from other places. There is a hole the size of a washbasin in the middle.
Without much effort, the waiter shouted and brought over a pot of goose stewed in an iron pot, which was steaming hot.
After the meal, Jiang Nan and his party opened three spacious guest rooms.
The sun sets early in an extremely cold place, so Jiangnan and his party returned to the guest room early to prepare for a rest.
The inn is also closed.
"Brother, wait a minute." At this time, a black figure stopped at the door of the inn and squeezed in through the crack of the door.
"It's so late, why don't you come home?" Zhang Liang looked at Zhang Hu with some confusion.
"Brother, come out with me. I have something to tell you." Zhang Hu called Zhang Liang out of the inn just to be on the safe side.
Zhang Hu had heard that the hearing of Taoists is different from ordinary people. It would be bad if the following conversation was overheard by people from Jiangnan.
It was dark all around, the wind was howling, and cold snowflakes were hitting my face.
"Oh, how far have we come? What are you going to do?" Zhang Liang was shivering from the cold, and said angrily, losing his patience.
"Brother, I recommended to you a few customers in the evening, all wearing fur coats from my store." Zhang Hu rubbed his hands and sighed.
"I know, but I still can't see this?" Zhang Hu was a little impatient.
"Brother, do you know how much money I made from them?" Zhang Hu was a little excited.
Zhang Liang narrowed his eyes slightly, "How much?"
"A full seventy taels of silver! And they didn't hesitate when giving the money!" Zhang Hu said.
"Well, what happens next?" Zhang Liang asked.
"Brother, when I was in the Central Plains, I saw a noble man. His accessories were the same as those of those people. One piece is worth a fortune!" Zhang Hu's eyes gleamed.
"You mean they are not ordinary people?" Zhang Liang became angry again, and stayed in the cold in the middle of the night, just because of this?
"Brother, they are definitely not ordinary people." Zhang Hu looked around, and after seeing no one, he leaned into Zhang Liang's ear and whispered: "Think about it, they came here in the ice and snow, even if they are
Is it normal to freeze to death?"
"If they freeze to death, all their accessories will be ours."
"Change those accessories into money, and let's move to the Central Plains. Who is still here to suffer like this?"
"You mean killing people and intercepting goods?" Zhang Liang frowned slightly.
"Yes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Zhang Hu said.
Zhang Liang didn't speak and was lost in thought. He had never done anything like killing people and intercepting goods, but Zhang Hu was right. This was an excellent opportunity. If you miss it, it would be gone.
"Brother, this thing couldn't be easier. I'm ready." Zhang Hu chuckled and took out a finger-thick bamboo tube from his arms, "This is the Mongolian sweat medicine I bought. It's in their room.
Blow it and they will faint."
"After they faint, we don't need to kill anyone. We just leave them outside and they will freeze to death."
Zhang Hu talked about his plan to get rich overnight and waited for Zhang Liang's response.
"Okay, let's do it like this." After Zhang Liang hesitated for a moment, he made up his mind, with a sinister look in his eyes, "Anyway, we are going to hurt people, why not keep those two girls who are like gods, and you and I can enjoy it.
It’s enough, and it can still be sold at a good price.”
"This is my good brother! Haha." Zhang Hu seemed to have a thousand taels of gold in front of his eyes, and he patted Zhang Liang's shoulder with satisfaction.
Brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Hu were so excited that they no longer felt cold in this ice and snow.
They walked towards the inn with long strides.
Returning to the inn, they found that the oil lamps in Jiang Nan's room were still on, so they decided to wait.
It wasn't until the lights in the Jiangnan group's room went out for an hour that Zhang Liang and Zhang Hu decided to take action.