At dusk, Xia Leng and his carriage arrived at a small town called Huaiqiu.
It was already getting late, and it was not convenient to travel. Moreover, they were not in a hurry, so they chose to spend the night in the only inn in the town.
The name of the inn is very cliché, called Yunlai Inn, which is based on the artistic conception of guests coming like clouds. Unfortunately, the location of this small town is relatively remote and not on the edge of the official road, so there are not many tourists coming and going.
However, today may be an exception. Business in the inn is good, and people come to stay from time to time. There is a shopkeeper and a waiter in the shop, so the two of them are extremely busy.
"Guests, I'm really sorry, we are full." The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Xia Leng and the others apologetically: "For some reason, business is so good today. I haven't seen this kind of business in several years."
That being the case, how about you go to the stables and spend the night together?"
Xiao Xiuer suddenly became unhappy after hearing this, and said to the shopkeeper: "With my status, how can my young master live in a place like a stable?"
Xia Leng glanced at Xiao Xiu'er. In fact, he really didn't care about things like face. Let alone sleeping in a stable, sleeping on the street was fine, but Xiao Xiu'er and Feng Tianling's bodies might not be able to bear it.
"There are really no rooms left." The shopkeeper said with a bitter look on his face, "How about you go to a residential house in the town and try to stay overnight."
"No." Xiao Xiu'er shook her head, "It's easy for the people to sleep peacefully. It would be bad to wake them up now. You run an inn, so there is no reason to drive the guests away."
"Then there's really nothing we can do." The shopkeeper spread his hands and said, "It's not that I don't have money, but I really don't have a room."
"We'll pay more, and you'll have someone vacate the room." Xiao Xiuer quickly thought of a compromise plan. In short, she would never allow her son to sleep in the open.
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and immediately laughed: "How much more?"
"Is this enough?" Xiao Xiuer threw a small bag of gold coins on the table, "Is this enough?"
"Enough, enough, enough!" The shopkeeper smiled so hard that his back teeth were exposed. He weighed the bag of gold coins and shouted hurriedly: "Waiter, come here quickly, clean your room, and let a few guests stay.
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A skinny boy hurried down from the second floor. Hearing what the shopkeeper said, he was stunned and said, "Shopkeeper, my room has been given to the three previous guests."
"Is there any?" The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, "Did you remember it wrong?"
The waiter added: "Three customers with swords gave the shopkeeper five taels of silver."
The shopkeeper finally remembered and slapped his head in annoyance: "Oh, what should I do?"
"Stop acting. You've already collected the money. If you don't have a room, let's see how we deal with you." Xiao Xiuer crossed her arms and sneered, not interested in this little trick.
"If you don't have a room, why not come to my room." A figure on the second floor leaned on the railing and said to Xiao Xiu'er with a smile: "My master likes a charming little girl like you the most, and I will definitely take good care of you.
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Xia Leng and the others looked up at the person who was speaking, and found that he was a middle-aged man in brocade clothes. He was short and fat, with a pair of small eyes that gave off a lewd light.
"Where did a dead fat pig come from that could actually speak human language?" Xiao Xiuer also had a very venomous mouth. "It seems that Yunzhou is indeed a fertile place. Can even pigs afford to live in an inn?"
The middle-aged man in brocade clothes was furious and pointed his chubby finger at Xiao Xiuer: "You cheap maid, who are you calling a pig?"
"I'm going to scold you!" Xiao Xiuer glared at the other party: "Fat pig, dead fat pig, short and fat dead fat pig."
"Okay, very good. Today I have to let you, my little maid, taste the power of my young master." The middle-aged man in brocade clothes was furious and said to the two people standing behind him: "Ah Jia, Ah Yi, give this wretched maid to me."
I'll catch him."
Two figures fell from the second floor and reached out to grab Xiao Xiuer's shoulders.
Xiao Xiuer was very talkative, but in fact she was very timid and immediately hid behind Xia Leng.
Of course, these two people didn't need Xia Leng to take action. Ji Jiu punched each of them and knocked them to the ground.
"Hey, you are a good guard, how about letting me do it?" The middle-aged man in brocade clothes was not angry but happy, and he fell in love with Ji Jiu again: "How about I pay you five hundred taels of silver?"
Xia Leng now understands that his unreliable father always likes to call people idiots. In fact, some people don't even have any brains when they go out.
"It seems too little?" The middle-aged man in golden clothes smiled and said nonchalantly: "For those five thousand gold coins, sell me your guard and that little maid."
Xia Leng didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of person. He just said to the shopkeeper: "I don't care what you do. In short, clear a room as soon as possible. Do you understand?"
"Yes, yes, I will ask the waiter to clean out my room right now." The shopkeeper originally wanted to take the opportunity to knock out some more money, but when Xia Leng's eyes met, he couldn't help but be scared, "Waiter, you
Why are you standing there, why don't you take this young man to his room!"
The waiter nodded and immediately led the way.
"Hey, kid, don't pretend to be deaf and dumb, I'm asking you a question!" The middle-aged man in Jinyi was furious, pointed at Xia Leng and shouted: "I am a member of the Yun family in Yunzhou, you'd better think about it!
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Feng Tianling whispered to Xia Leng and said: "The Yun family is one of the four major surnames in Yunzhou, Fengyuyunlei. It is gaining momentum now. I heard that it has hooked up with a certain royal family of the Ji Dynasty."
"Huh, what's the big deal? Our young master is... well, I won't say it anymore." Xiao Xiuer wrinkled her nose and was about to say something when she raised her eyes and met Xia Leng's gaze, so she had to reach out and cover her mouth.
"I'm not interested in which family you are from." Xia Leng said indifferently: "But you living here will make me very uncomfortable, so get out."
The eyes of the middle-aged man in golden clothes were full of disbelief, and he said coldly: "Did you make a mistake, or did I hear it wrong?"
"We also want his house." Xia Leng pointed at the middle-aged man in rich clothes and said to the shopkeeper: "You ask the waiter to clean it too."
The shopkeeper was stunned: "He, he is from the Yun family!"
"Hahahaha..." The middle-aged man in golden clothes couldn't help laughing, "Boy, you are so funny. After so many years, you are still the first one who dares to talk to the Yun family like this. It's a pity that you made the wrong mistake.
If you kill someone, your life may not be guaranteed."
Xia Leng casually ordered: "Ji Jiu, throw him out."
"A Ding, A Bing, go teach this kid a lesson and let him know how powerful our Yun family is." The middle-aged man in Jinyi shouted loudly at this time: "Don't kill him, take off his clothes and cut open his belly."
Let it dry outside overnight."
These words were said in a very vicious way, saying that he was not going to die, and also saying that he would cut open his belly and let it dry overnight. In fact, he just wanted Xia Leng to suffer a night of torture before dying.
Two more figures flashed out from behind the middle-aged man in Jinyi, like two ghost figures rushing toward Xia Leng.
Bang! Bang!
Unfortunately, they didn't even touch the corner of Xia Leng's clothes. Ji Jiu took the initiative and swept the two of them with a whip kick, kicking them out of the inn, and also threw Ajia and Ayi who were lying on the ground.
go out.
"Who are you?" The middle-aged man in golden clothes was finally a little scared. After all, the four guards he brought were all martial arts masters, especially A Bing and A Ding, who were master-level masters. Unless they met a cultivator, otherwise
, absolutely invincible in the world.
"Could it be that you are cultivators of immortality?" The middle-aged man in brocade clothes was so frightened that he was sweating profusely.
"The less we know, the better for you." Ji Jiu didn't want to waste Xia Lengbaogui's rest time, so she didn't answer the middle-aged man in brocade clothes, fell to the second floor, grabbed his collar and threw him out of the inn.
The middle-aged man in brocade clothes was really scared, so he got up from the ground and ran away. Before going out, his elder Qian Dingzhu Wan told him that he can mess with anyone in Yunzhou, but he must stay away from immortal cultivators, otherwise the family will not be able to protect him.
But he never expected that he would be so unlucky to meet an immortal cultivator in such a small inn.
There are two rooms now, and Xia Leng and the four of them are just enough. Xia Leng naturally shares a room with guard Ji Jiu, while Xiao Xiuer shares a room with Feng Tianling. In fact, Xiao Xiuer wants to take care of Xia Leng personally, but is afraid of Ji Jiu
Jiuhui bullied Feng Tianling, and she couldn't help but feel a little tangled.
"Sir, are you really a cultivator of immortality?" The waiter finished cleaning up the room for Xia Leng and the others. After walking a few steps, he turned back and looked at Xia Leng timidly.
Xia Leng said calmly: "What's the matter with you?"
"Well, um, do you know how to catch ghosts?" The waiter looked around warily and asked softly.
"Is there a ghost here?" Xia Leng asked casually.
Ji Jiu kept staring at the waiter and remained silent.
"There really is a ghost." The waiter nodded hurriedly: "Yes, it's an evil ghost. He often comes out to eat people in the middle of the night. Some time ago, a guest at our inn was eaten by a ghost."
"Have you seen it with your own eyes?" Xia Leng was somewhat interested. After all, he had never seen such a creature as a ghost.
The waiter shook his head hesitantly: "That's not true, but the customer who was eaten by the ghost was the one I served."
"Tell me what the specific situation is." Xia Leng subconsciously felt that there was something wrong here. He was bored and could pass the time by listening to ghost stories.
"It happened three days ago, and at this time, there was also a young master, and he brought two beautiful maids, too..." The waiter in the shop is obviously a talker, but unfortunately he doesn't have much vocabulary, and he can't talk back and forth.
Xia Leng only frowned when hearing a few adjectives.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xia Leng knocked on the table, "Otherwise, go out and don't disturb my rest."
The waiter suddenly stopped and his eyes were so wide that they almost fell out of their sockets, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.