As a prefectural city, Huzhou City is more than four times larger than Anping County. Although Yuan Yuan has been here once, he was just passing through and was not very familiar with many things in the city.
It was getting late. Chai Yan and Yuan were walking in the direction of Yu Zhongheng's home while looking for suitable inn accommodation along the way. According to Chai Yan's accommodation requirements, the inn must first look clean and comfortable, and secondly, be affordable.
"Yuan Yuan, how is this place? It looks pretty good."
Chai Yan asked, pointing to an inn on the roadside.
Yuanyuan had no objection and followed Chai Yan into the inn.
"Shopkeeper, is there still room left?"
Chai Yan shouted as soon as he entered the door.
"Yes, yes...that person, hurry up and clean up the upper room and come out..."
The innkeeper immediately greeted me with a smile and ordered the waiters to clean up the room.
At this time, I heard Yuan say to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, clean up two rooms!"
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then he immediately realized what he was doing. He nodded with a smile, and then shouted loudly: "Who was that just now? Cleaning up two rooms!"
Chai Yan walked up to Yuanyuan and said softly: "Just stay for one night, no need to rent two rooms, it will cost more... Besides, we are so familiar with each other, hehe...
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Yuan turned a blind eye to Chai Yan, turned around, hugged the sword and looked away.
Chai Yan felt bored and had no choice but to chat with the innkeeper.
After chatting for a long time, the clerk came over to tell everyone that the two upper rooms had been tidied up.
Chai Yan and Yuan Yuan were satisfied after looking at the rooms respectively, so they checked in separately.
After putting down his baggage, the first thing Chai Yan did was to find a place to take a comfortable bath. The waiter told him that there were men's and women's bathrooms in the inn, with men's bathrooms at the east end of the backyard and women's bathrooms at the west end of the backyard.
As soon as the innkeeper left, Chai Yan ran to Yuanyuan's room and called the door.
The owl who opened the door had already taken off his hair and was asking him with his eyes.
Chai Yan asked with a smile: "Madam, do you want to take a bath together?"
"Bang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the room was slammed shut by the owl, and the door frame almost hit Chai Yan on the nose.
Chai Yan hit a wall and had no choice but to curl his lips and walk back: "If you don't want to wash it, don't wash it. Why are you so angry..."
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Early the next morning, Chai Yan and Yuan checked out of the inn and walked toward the east of the city.
After walking for more than half an hour, Yuan Yuan brought Chai Yan to the outside of a house with an elegant environment and shady trees.
Standing at the door, Chai Yan looked up at the lintel. There was a plaque with the words "Yu Mansion" engraved on it.
"Hey, Mr. Yu's family is quite rich..."
Chai Yan didn't know whether he said this to himself or to Yuan Yuan.
Then, Chai Yan stepped forward and was about to call the door, with an expression on his face that seemed to say, let me come and meet him!
"Come back!" Yuan Yuan called Chai Yan and motioned for him to wait aside.
Then, Yuan Yuan took Yu Zhongheng's sword, went up and knocked on the door of Yu Mansion.
After a while, the door of the Yu Mansion slowly opened halfway, and an old lady with white hair on her temples came out. She looked like she was a servant of the Yu Mansion.
The old woman wore a shallow veil on her head, so the old woman couldn't see her true face, so she asked: "Girl, who are you looking for?"
"Auntie, I'm looking for Mr. Yu, is he at home?" Yuan Yuan asked politely.
The old lady was startled, and after looking at Yuyuan again, she asked: "What does the girl want from my young master?"
Yuan Yuan raised his sword and said, "I'm passing through your land, so I came here to return this sword to its original owner!"
The old lady took a look at the sword and found that it really looked like something belonging to the young master. She stretched out her hand to pick it up and said, "Girl, the young master has not returned from going out. I will give this sword to the young master!"
But Yuan retracted the sword, and then said: "Auntie, I still want to return the sword to Mr. Yu with my own hands, and express my gratitude to him."
When the old lady saw this, she didn't force her. She just said patiently: "Girl, my young master went out seven days ago. With his casual temper, it will take ten days and a half at the fastest to get home. If it takes longer, it will take two or three days."
It’s hard to tell if it’s more than a month..."
Yuanyuan thought for a while and said: "Auntie, I'll come back in a few days..."
Looking at Yu Yuan's appearance, he still wanted to return the sword to Yu Zhongheng's hand with his own hands.
The old lady smiled politely and nodded, saying goodbye to the guest: "Girl, please go slowly."
After saying that, the door of Yu Mansion was closed.
When Yuan came down the steps, Chai Yan went up to meet him and asked, "What? No one is here?"
"Hmm..." Yuanyuan responded, "I said I went out seven days ago. I don't know when I will come back..."
Chai Yan was puzzled: "Isn't it the same thing to return the things to their families?"
"No, I still want to wait a few more days and see..." Yuan Yuan had her own idea.
Seeing that she was so stubborn, Chai Yan felt helpless and asked, "What should we do now? Where can we kill time?"
Yuan looked at the way he came and said, "I remember there was an inn there when I came here. Let's go there and stay there first."
"I don't object to staying here and waiting for him to come back, but there must be a time limit for waiting! If Yu Zhongheng never comes back, we can't always stay in Huzhou, right?" After Chai Yan finished speaking, he looked at Yuyuan.
Yuan said: "Then five days. If Mr. Yu still hasn't come back after five days, I will return this sword to his family."
"Okay, just five days!" Chai Yanxin said that these five days should be spent traveling in Huzhou City, which would also be able to help Tongtian Baoshu replenish some food rations.
After the two of them discussed it, they turned back to the inn they had been on.
The inn near Yu Zhongheng's home is called Xinglong Inn. The owner of the inn not only operates the inn, but also owns a two-story building next door.
The owner of Xinglong Inn is very business-savvy. Seeing the heavy flow of people on the street, he transformed the two-story building into a teahouse, and also set up many entertainment programs. On even days, there are singers and on odd days.
Life is like a story. Every day, many tea drinkers come to join us, and the business is booming.
After the two stayed at the Xinglong Inn, Chai Yan wanted to take Yuan to go shopping on Huzhou Street, but Yuan refused Chai Yan on the grounds of sword practice.
Chai Yan felt bored, but he couldn't force Yuan to go shopping, so he had to give her a few words and went downstairs alone. Before leaving the inn, Chai Yan specifically asked the waiter about the location of the nearby market.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, Chai Yan saw a market. Without Chai Yan asking for directions, Shangguan Peining took the initiative to point out the direction of the smell of blood.