The young monk didn't want to pay attention to Dongsheng. After all, the master was strict and he didn't want to cause trouble for himself. But when he saw Dongsheng opening the money bag and seeing so much money in it, a list of delicious food flashed through his mind subconsciously.
"Okay, I know a restaurant that serves delicious food, let's go there."
"Everyone listens to my little master."
Seeing that the young monk agreed, Dongsheng nodded quickly in agreement, but the money bag was not taken away by the young monk so easily. Instead, he stuffed it back into his arms pretending to be casual.
The young monk originally thought about getting the money, but his happy thoughts were instantly annihilated.
In desperation, he had no choice but to take Dongsheng to Zuiyanlou, his favorite restaurant.
As soon as the two of them entered, they were led directly into a private room in a secluded part of the backyard by the waiter. The little monk happily ordered the dishes, while Dongsheng was always ready to find an opportunity to escape.
This is his only chance!
Bai Ling took a carriage and arrived near the Lu'an Inn. The driver of the carriage felt that the place was remote and did not want to stay here for a long time, so Bai Ling paid him to leave first.
It was winter now, spring was still a few months away, and there were not many caravans passing by, so this small inn seemed particularly deserted.
Bai Ling walked towards the inn cautiously, while paying attention to the movements around him.
There were no carriages or horses outside the small inn. Could it be that the people who tricked Xiaomei have already arrested her and left? Bai Ling thought, her heart sank, and she quickly walked into the inn.
When she decided to catch up just now, Bai Ling found a clothing store on the road and changed into men's clothes. After all, in this deserted inn, if she came dressed as a woman, she would attract too much attention.
After entering the door of the inn, we went directly into the lobby. It was not a meal. The lobby was very deserted. Only the waiter was cleaning the table.
Seeing Bai Ling enter the door, he immediately greeted her.
"Sir, do you want to work in a hotel or stay in a hotel?"
"Stay in the hotel, give me a room, and prepare some side dishes for my room." Bai Ling took out a silver coin and put it on the table beside him.
When the waiter saw the silver, he immediately beamed with joy.
"Okay, sir, please come with me."
The waiter took Bai Ling all the way upstairs, chose a south-facing room, opened the door and asked Bai Ling to come in. Bai Ling looked at the inn and the waiter in front of him from the moment he entered, but couldn't see anything unusual.
After Bai Ling entered the room, he looked around and nodded with satisfaction.
"The room is not bad, brother, have you seen a girl today?" When Bai Ling opened the window just now, he happened to see horses in the stables in the backyard of the inn, and there was a row of houses not far away.
"Hey, there are so many people coming and going in this store, I can't remember..."
"I am the only guest in this whole inn, where are the people coming and going? Second brother, are you trying to fool me?" Bai Ling sat on the chair, squinted at the waiter, and took it out with his backhand.
Some money, but this time he kept it with him instead of pushing it in front of the waiter.
"The shopkeeper said, don't look at anything inappropriate, otherwise there will be no good end. I advise you, young master, not to meddle in other people's business. You keep the money. I don't want it, and I won't talk too much." The waiter looked at the money on the table.
, when I refused, I felt my body hurt.
"So, have you really seen it?"
"No, no, sir, please rest. I'll go and get busy first... Ah, you, what are you going to do!" The waiter pushed away and was about to leave, but he didn't expect Bai Ling to hold a dagger to his neck, and he was instantly frightened.
.
"You just need to tell me where I am. The money is yours, and your life can also be yours. How about that?"
"I, I tell you..."
The waiter thought about refusing, but the coldness of the knife on his neck gave him goosebumps all over his body, so he had no choice but to tell him about meeting Li Xiaomei.
Bai Ling let him go as agreed, but in order to prevent him from going out and tipping others off, she still found a rope and tied him up.
Before going out, she put the money she had taken out into his hand.
"These are for you, don't make any noise, I will untie them for you when I come back."
"Hey, don't go, let me go, let go..." The waiter didn't want to be tied up here like this. If Bai Ling couldn't come back, wouldn't he be starved to death?
So out of instinct, he couldn't help but scream. Bai Ling was about to open the door and leave, but now he had to sprinkle some powder on his back and let him sleep well.
After coming out of the room, Bai Ling went out from the back door without any delay and walked towards the mountainside not far away.
The row of houses we just saw from the window of the room is the upper room in the backyard of the inn. The waiter said that there was a house in the morning.
The man took over all the rooms in the backyard and was generous.
More importantly, half an hour ago, one of them carried a sack up the mountain...
Although he didn't get the exact information, Bai Ling first felt that these people's whereabouts were the most suspicious, so he decided to go take a look first.
After all, judging from the time, if they really carried someone up with a sack at that time, it was probably Xiaomei...
Because the upper room area of the backyard he wanted to go to was on a hillside, and there was no shelter in the middle, Bai Ling thought about it and found a hidden place to enter the space and went directly up the mountain.
After coming up, I discovered that the houses on the hillside only have the front row when viewed from down the slope. In fact, there is a large yard at the back, but because of the angle, it cannot be seen from below.
Bai Ling used the space to directly enter the courtyard, and then searched the rooms one by one, trying to find Li Xiaomei as quickly as possible.
However, Bai Ling walked around here and didn't find anyone, which made her wonder if she had gone in the wrong direction of the investigation. Maybe the waiter in the shop made up some random words to deceive her in order to survive.
indefinite……
Just when Bai Ling thought there was no one here and was about to go down the mountain, a rope was suddenly thrown out of the well in the yard!
Someone!
Bai Ling exclaimed in his heart, drove the space to move over, and found a man climbing up from the well. The man was bald and looked familiar...
The fake monk of the Li family? The middle-aged monk who was knocked unconscious by them, the young monk Liao Wu?
Bai Ling was just thinking when he saw a man walking quickly to the door and respectfully greeted a man in a black cloak.
"Master, the person has been captured and is in the secret room, but she refuses to speak. I will find a way to make her speak..."
"Take me to see it."
"yes."
The man in the cloak took off his cloak and revealed his face. Bai Ling could see his appearance clearly now, it was Li De!
So, Xiaomei is indeed here, and she is probably under this well...