"Midnight?" Xiaoyu asked doubtfully.
"Isn't that right? Sir, are you two staying at the hotel?" the shopkeeper asked.
The shopkeeper's face is unshaven. He looks to be in his fifties. He has a flat face and a lot of wrinkles. He has small eyes, a small nose and a big mouth. He has a big mole on the bridge of his nose. He is wearing a mink hat and a big cotton-padded jacket. , rubbing his hands from time to time.
The waiter is a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing an old rag cotton jacket and a floral cotton hat. He looks skinny.
The restaurant is called Shanxing Restaurant. Judging from the scale of the restaurant, it is considered a larger restaurant in this town. From this perspective, generally larger restaurants are not run by the owner himself, especially if they are open all night. In this restaurant, the shopkeeper who is on duty is at best a steward.
Xiao Yu listened to the shopkeeper's words, nodded, and replied: "Yes, we are staying in a hotel. I wonder how much money it will cost to stay overnight?"
Hearing this, the shopkeeper replied: "A regular room costs six cents, a regular room costs eight cents, and a VIP room costs one or two cents."
Xiao Yu took out the money bag from her arms, took out a pile of broken silver, counted twelve coins and handed it over, saying: "I just need two ordinary rooms, stay here for one night."
The shopkeeper collected the money, looked up at the guest sign hanging on the side wall, walked over, took two signs made of bamboo slices, and placed them next to the counter. Then he took the brush placed on the inkstone on one side and dipped it in He wrote down the room number and the appearance of the guests in ink, and then summoned the waiter: "Wen San'er, take the two guests to the room. Come, here is the number plate."
The waiter Wen San found out the house number and said to Xiao Yu and Yu Liufei: "Two distinguished guests, please come this way."
The shopkeeper placed the brush on the side of the inkstone again, yawned, and prepared to go back to sleep.
The second brother led Xiao Yu and Yu Liufei all the way to the backyard. As he walked, he pointed to various places in their backyard and muttered, such as, "This is the latrine, and where is the water room. The two guests need to fetch water by themselves if they want to wash..." .' and so on. He arrived at the house and the waiter picked it up.
The house numbers were assigned to Xiao Yu and Yu Liufei.
The bamboo door plate not only has the room number, but also a key to unlock it, and every double wooden door in the backyard has the room number written in numbers, which shows that this restaurant is quite large.
The waiter brought the two of them to the door, raised his finger and pointed at the two rooms next to each other, and said to them: "Two guests, these two rooms are your guest rooms. The key is in your hands. Ming When you check out, just put the key number on the table in the room. If you two have nothing else to do, the younger one will go down first."
Xiaoyu frowned and asked, "Aren't you going to get us water to wash up?"
The waiter replied: "Two guests, what you want are two ordinary guest rooms. Without this service, you need to take your own basin to the water room to fetch water for washing. I have just pointed it out to you one by one."
Xiaoyu wanted to curse, what a shabby place, and a restaurant with such crazy demands, it was really annoying. She suppressed her anger and didn't care. Just when the waiter turned around to leave, Xiaoyu shouted: "Hey, brother, second brother, Walk slowly, may I ask where this place is?"
Xiao Yu took two pieces of silver from her arms and handed them over, ready to ask him something.
The waiter's eyes widened when he saw the money. He carefully collected the money and put it in his arms. He looked around to make sure no one saw him. Then he stood up and replied to Xiao Yu: "Sir, we are here at the Pear Blossom Market. Do you have any?" If you have anything to ask, just ask, I will answer you one by one."
Xiaoyu asked again: "Which prefecture and county is the Pear Blossom Collection? Be more specific!"
The waiter then replied in detail: "We are here on the border of Qianzhou, in the Tancheng Pear Blossom Collection in Xiaodongxing Mountain."
"Xiao Dongxing Mountain?" Xiao Yu wondered, "What does it have to do with Dongxing Mountain?"
The waiter replied: "Guest, you are not locals, are you? Our Xiaodongxing Mountain is a small peak to the east of Dongxing Mountain. Because it is very similar to the main peak of Dongxing Mountain, it is called Xiaodongxing Mountain. .”
Xiaoyu asked again: "Is your place haunted?" Xiaoyu thought of the rumors he heard around Donghang Mountain at the end of last year, saying that Donghang Mountain was haunted. Ghosts often came out in the middle of the night to abduct children and dig out their hearts. He and The original intention of Yu Liufei and Liu Bo were to come here to investigate the hauntings, but now they are here by accident. Although it is not the main peak of Dongxing Mountain, it is also called Xiaodongxing Mountain. They have a close connection with each other. ask.
When the waiter heard this, he was so frightened that he made a 'shhh' gesture and whispered to Xiao Yu: "Sir, please don't mention this. It's in the middle of the night, especially when that guy is causing trouble. Our area is not peaceful."
After hearing this, Xiaoyu thought to herself: Sure enough, this place is also haunted. She hurriedly gave the waiter a few more coins and asked, "Can you tell us something? The two of us just lost a child, so we came here in the middle of the night. This is the hotel."
The waiter in the shop looked anxious, and he had a sword on his waist. He just didn't know why this boy was walking around the world with a pole. But this was not a question he should understand. After all, there were many more weird people than him. , he collected the money and replied honestly: "My guest, to be honest, Qianzhou has been uneasy in the past six months, especially in Tancheng at the foot of Dongxing Mountain, where children often get lost. Until At the beginning of this year, this kind of thing spread to our Xiaodongxing Mountain. We do have children getting lost in Lihuaji, but not many. Where do you two come from? I wonder what the relationship between this child and you two is?"
When Xiao Yu heard this, it seemed that the second brother knew a lot, so he pretended to be sincere, pointed at Yu Liufei beside him, and replied: "That child is our sister, this is my eldest brother, we are brother and sister The three of them took a boat to Moyun Mountain and passed by here. However, at a gorge not far from here, their sister was kidnapped. After searching for a long time with no results, they came over in the middle of the night and prepared to stay in the hotel tomorrow. Keep looking."
After hearing this, the waiter frowned slightly and his eyes showed pity. He waved his hands to the two of them and comforted them: "My dear guests, I'm sorry. Our area has been haunted for half a year, and the lost child has not been found. Those who have been here, please express my condolences. I think the shopkeeper..." The waiter in the shop whispered here, for fear that the shopkeeper in the front yard would be irritated after hearing it, and continued to murmur, "Our shopkeeper's youngest daughter was also raped in the middle of the night. After arresting her, the shopkeeper hired a dozen men with lanterns to dig through Xiaodongxing Mountain in the middle of the night. But they still haven’t found her? You guys, hey, you want to find your sister. , It’s so difficult.” After the waiter finished speaking, he shook his head helplessly.
After hearing what he said, Yu Liufei patted Xiao Yu's shoulder, looked at Xiao Yu with a frown, and asked, "Xiao Yu, what should I do?"
Xiao Yu sighed and continued: "Brother Yu, how about we go into the mountain to look for it again?"
When the waiter heard this, he hurriedly said to the two of them: "Two guests, I'm afraid it's in vain to go here, but..."
Xiaoyu saw the waiter hesitating and asked hurriedly: "But what?"
The waiter replied: "But the shopkeeper's little daughter was found three days later. When she was found, her heart was ripped out by a ghost. I heard her hair was messy and there was a big hole in her chest. It was scary! "
After hearing this, Xiao Yu secretly thought that there was indeed something about Dongxing Mountain being haunted, but it was just an unlucky thing that they caught up with it. It was really unlucky.
But they were not familiar with the direction of the Mingshui River. Who would have thought that their big brother would pass near Xiaodongxing Mountain in Qianzhou, which was a twist of fate.
The two opened the door to a room, Xiaoyu locked the pole inside, then went out and locked it. Finally, he asked the waiter to collect the keys for them, and then followed him to get two lanterns and prepare a few new large candles. He went back to Xiaodongxing Mountain, hoping to find some clues about Xiao Xiao.
The waiter watched the two of them go out late at night, and murmured a few words to the shopkeeper, but did not dare to say more, for fear of mentioning the haunting and making the shopkeeper angry. After all, the shopkeeper's youngest daughter was also lost in this way... ..
He closed the door ajar and lay down on a table by the door, preparing to take another nap until dawn. As for their house keys, he left them at the counter and waited until dawn tomorrow to tell them when the waiters from other stores would change shifts.
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at the same time.
The ship Dugu Yi, Xu Jian, and Liu Bo were on was also on the river where Mingshui River turned to Liujiang River in the south. It was already late at night.
The three of them were still in the attic of the ship, chatting happily in the private room, drinking and drinking, and the cups and plates were in a mess.
Just when Xunxun was about to get drunk, Uncle Liu asked Duguyi, "Second brother, you have already given Xiaoyu the fourteen-style sword technique, why not pass on the remaining nine-movement sword techniques to him as well?"
Uncle Liu originally planned to come to the southwest with Xiao Yu to investigate the hauntings, but when he was visiting lame old Xu on the way, he met his second brother, Dugu Yi. Since his second brother invited him, Uncle Liu naturally would not refuse. At Kangzhou Ferry, Xiaoyu and his party parted ways and went to the South China Sea. It had only been half a day since we last saw each other, but I missed this quirky boy a little bit, so I mentioned it.
Dugu Yi raised his glass and took a sip, wiped the corner of his mouth, and muttered: "This guy is not bad, but he is not my disciple. I gave him the sword skills I have created all my life without calling him master." The secret skill is really not worth it..." Before he could finish his words, a big burp came up. Dugu Yigululu took a sip of saliva and continued: "If we can successfully regain my old face this time, , defeated the old monk, and when I return to the Central Plains in the future, I will go meet the stinky chess player for a while, and then consider passing him on."
"Come on, drink! Let's keep drinking! Speaking of which, that boy Yu Liufei is really stupid! The second brother didn't know what he was doing right in front of him, and he foolishly begged me to tell him... Hahaha" Lame Old Xu He picked up the wine glass, cursed, and then, using the strength of the wine, shouted: "Drink! Let's drink, this pot
Go down, stop drinking, get drunk! ! "
Before Dugu Yi and Uncle Liu could raise their glasses, he drank from the wine bottle and took a few sips. He couldn't say anything else and fell asleep on the carpet.
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