Niujiexiang·Weijia Hotel
This place is about two or three miles away from Kaiqiaofang. It is located in a remote place with variegated alleys and looks inconspicuous. There were usually few visitors, but now the rain is getting heavier. Even Caiyun Pavilion, which is usually the busiest at night, there are always a few visitors on weekdays. Listening to the opera and drinking wine, there are few people in Yemen at this time.
A white shadow quickly arrived here and stopped under the eaves. There was still a light here, and the dim light shone through the gap, and it turned out to be a white-furred fox.
The white-furred fox had almost no water on it, and it looked like something extraordinary at first glance. At this moment, it raised its little head and looked at the hotel's signboard, then chirped twice, knowing that it was in the right place.
"Pa-ta, pa-ta!" Someone was trotting towards us, dripping with water. The white-furred fox quickly dodged and hid in a corner.
After restraining its breath, it boldly stuck its head out to look around, and quickly saw the person coming over.
This is a person who is easy to find if thrown into the crowd. He is in his twenties and has an extremely ordinary face. His whole body is covered by a raincoat. He quickly walked to the door of the hotel and raised his hand to knock a few times. .
"Boss, boss."
"Who is it? Are you here so late?" There were footsteps quickly coming from the door, accompanied by an impatient voice with a hint of sleepiness.
He sounded like an ordinary innkeeper whose rest was interrupted, but when he opened the door and saw someone coming, the innkeeper's eyes flashed, and the large mole under the corner of his mouth trembled.
"Boss, I'm here to stay. I wonder if there are no rooms available tonight?" the man in a raincoat asked in a low voice.
The hotel owner looked around the alley, and there was no one else except this man. There was only a watchman carrying a small lantern, beating the gong, and he was also gradually moving away. Then he replied: "I'm really sorry, guest sir. We The store is already full.”
"Then can you let me in for a glass of wine to warm myself up? I only need to warm up half a jar of wine and a plate of soy sauce meat, and then I'll leave after eating." The man in the coir raincoat said again.
These words sounded very normal, but the big fox looked around and saw that the two of them had serious expressions, as if they were talking to each other in secret.
After hearing this, the hotel owner knew in his heart that this was the person he was waiting for, so he pretended to be a little helpless: "Hey, I'm going to sleep now, but you've already come. If I just let you go like this, wouldn't it look like that?" Am I too inhumane? Come in, come in."
With that said, he made way for the man in the raincoat to enter.
When the big fox saw the door closed, he swooped up to the roof with extremely quick movements.
When the two of them entered the hotel, even if there were tourists, in the eyes of the tourists, they just gave them food and drinks, paid money, and had no further communication.
But he stared at it with his fox eyes narrowed. Under the soybean oil lamp, the boss gave him food and wine, and the man gave him money. A piece of paper followed the money and fell directly into the hands of the innkeeper.
"Everyone who comes is a guest. Xiao Liuzi, please take care of yourself. It's raining. Give the guest some towels and hot water to wash his face. I'll go and rest for a while..."
"Okay, boss, just rest and I'll take care of the guest." The waiter seemed to respond very attentively, and as expected, he brought out a basin of hot water and a towel. I don't know if it was just a coincidence.
The hotel owner looked at the ants and asked the waiter to look after him. He walked through a corridor and came to the residence at the back. He pushed the door in and closed the door.
Seeing that there was no one around, he lit the note with a candle and baked it for a while. A line of writing appeared on the blank piece of paper.
This was something that even the man in raincoat who sent the information had not seen it. After carefully reading the information that appeared above, the innkeeper showed shock on his face.
"A great eunuch led his armored soldiers to search Prince Dai's palace at night?"
If this is true, after tonight, the situation in the capital may change drastically! The hotel owner is certainly not an ordinary person, so he thought that there was a sudden crackling sound outside.
The innkeeper had a half-arm-length knife hidden under his undress. Hearing the sound, he immediately held down the knife and asked, "Who is it?"
At the same time, he tiptoed to the door and opened it suddenly.
It was raining heavily outside the house, the ground was wet, there were no footprints, and there was no one in the nearby corridor.
The hotel owner frowned slightly, did he hear wrong just now?
Impossible, the sound does exist.
The innkeeper pressed the hilt of the knife and continued to search carefully. At this time, a flash of lightning struck, and the surrounding area was illuminated as bright as day. Taking this opportunity, the innkeeper saw clearly that there was no one around him.
"Maybe it's the sound of branches being blown off." He glanced at the ground and found that there were some large and small branches scattered. The wind outside was sometimes strong and sometimes weak. When it was strong, it could indeed break the branches in one blow. Although the sound just now sounded like someone I stepped on a branch, but if I think about it carefully, if someone steps on a branch, the sound should not be so quiet, but should be duller.
The more he thought about it, the innkeeper's heart finally dropped. He turned around to go back, but when he turned around, he saw what seemed to be a bright light in the corner of the corridor.
what is that?
The innkeeper walked over with his knife in his hand, looked down and was immediately happy.
"silver?"
But how can there be money in this place? Could it be that the guest left it behind and why didn't I notice it just now? The clerk definitely didn't see it. If he had seen it, he would have taken it long ago.
The innkeeper picked up the silver with some suspicion and weighed it. It should be five taels of silver ingots.
I didn't dare to bite it directly, but as a hotel owner, I naturally had my own way of distinguishing gold and silver. I took it over and over and looked at it, and I could tell the authenticity.
"It's really silver, and it's official silver, of high quality!" The hotel owner was secretly surprised: "How can there be silver here?"
After looking carefully, I saw that the money was money. After knocking it, it was solid, so I kept the money.
If it were other items, the innkeeper might still be suspicious, but this is a solid silver ingot. Generally speaking, the government will collect broken silver and melt it into standard ingots. This way it is easy to count and store - it is difficult to detect if the broken silver is lost.
Then it will flow to the private sector along with the official silver, and then be cut into pieces.
No matter who is carrying the silver, five taels of silver is not a small amount. It can be enough for food and drink for a month. If he picked it up, it would naturally be him.
Then he put it away and walked towards the house.
The innkeeper took out the information that had been read just now, read it again, and then reached out to Zhu Yan.
The flames licked the paper, and the paper quickly burned clean. Under the candlelight, the hotel owner suddenly felt many emotions in his heart.
"I think back then, I, the great ancestor of the Wei Dynasty, fought against the fierceness of my father and ancestors, destroyed all the countries and unified the world, then captured Guiyue from the south and ruled it, then swept the Xiongnu from the north, destroyed their king's tent, divided their hundreds of tribes, taught their culture, and the dynasties of all dynasties It's incomparable, how majestic it is!"
"Even if Pseudo-Zheng claims to be extremely prosperous, it is actually far behind."
"South Vietnam is independent, the rebels in the southwest have repeatedly rioted, and the grassland has become a serious problem. It's not as good as it is!"
"How can the fake Zheng replace Wei!"
(End of chapter)
