The waiter greeted me warmly. I had noticed before that all the guests staying in this hotel came by carriage. And the clothes are gorgeous, and they are either rich or noble.
When the waiter saw that there was no carriage behind us, and the clothes were not fancy, but only coarse cloth, his smile immediately disappeared.
The waiter's face turned serious, and his attitude suddenly turned cold. He pointed to the street on the next floor and said, "You have gone to the wrong door. Our store only entertains wealthy businessmen and nobles. Ordinary people go to civilian inns."
I didn't move. I took out a silver coin and put it on the counter. "Yes, we are wealthy businessmen, specializing in business without capital. Please give me the two most expensive guest rooms."
The clerk glanced at the money and sneered: "Think carefully, the cheapest room in our store costs five silver coins per night, and the best room costs five gold coins per night...gold!"
"Absurd. I have stayed in the most expensive inn in Yuancheng, and I have never seen such outrageous prices. How dare you, a small shop in a small town, to open your mouth, or say... this is a black shop?" Ximen Wuhen took a step forward. He stepped forward, approached the man, and looked down at him. The strong pressure made it difficult for the man to breathe.
"No, if you don't have money, just say you don't have money. What? You can't pay but you still have to beat someone?" The man swallowed his saliva and forced himself to straighten his back, not wanting to lose to Ximen Wuhen in terms of momentum.
Our luggage was carried by Nan Jiu and others and left outside the city.
What the five of us carry on our backs is the Fu family's 'liquidity'.
Ximen Wuhen took out ten gold ingots from the leather bag on his back and smashed them on the counter.
Gold is relatively heavy, so only those of us with strong martial arts skills can carry a bag of gold and silver as easily as goose feathers.
He took out five more ingots of gold, slapped them on the counter, and said loudly:
"This is the money to compensate for the cabinet."
He patted ten ingots of gold into the countertop, leaving only one third on top.
It's really hard to pull this thing out. You might have to cut the cabinet open.
The guy's attitude regained his enthusiasm, and he invited us upstairs and arranged for us to stay in the best room.
The store has three floors, each with a different style.
The main reasons are the different grades of building materials, the different levels of luxury decoration, and the different quality of furniture materials.
The washbasin and toilet in our room are all gold-rimmed with jade, the sheets, quilt covers, and pillowcases are made of the finest silk, the window curtain hooks are carved from beautiful jade, and the wood used in the tables, chairs, and wardrobes is overseas 'Wannian Xiang'.
This wood will continue to emit fragrance and taste elegant and pleasant.
The bricks paved on the floor are also the "thermostatic stone" unique to the north.
It will change with the ambient temperature. It will be warm in winter and cool in summer. It is a pure natural floor heating and floor cooling fan.
Since it is difficult to mine thermostone and its output is very small, not everyone in the royal family of various countries can use it.
Except for the emperor's bedroom, only the most favored concubines could lay thermostatic stone floor tiles.
This innkeeper actually moved the things that all the nobles in the palace couldn't get into his small shop. His background is probably...
However, although thermostone is precious, it is not prohibited from being used by the public. As long as you have the connections and money, you can still get it.
I specifically picked this store, and it seems I made the right choice.
Ximen Wuhen shares a room with Manager Zhang and Yue Nanxiang to protect them.
Yunzhou and I were in the same room. When he entered the room, he put the money bag on the table, ran to me and stared at me seriously.
His expression was stupid, but I could see his emotions in his eyes.
"It's hard to be a good person." I also put down my money bag, picked up the expensive jade teapot and poured myself a cup of tea.
The tea is the 'Morning Dew Tea' produced in Luofeng. The annual output of the thousand-year-old tea tree is so small that even the royal family of the country has to skip drinking it.
"Be a bad guy." Yunzhou tilted his head and looked at me. With his current level of intelligence, he couldn't tell the specific attributes of good guys and bad guys. He simply knew that good guys and bad guys were opposite terms.
Since his condition improved, Manager Zhang, Yue Nanxiang, and Ximen Wuhen taught him a lot of things every day.
But he can remember and understand less than 1% of the content.
Strictly speaking, he is still a fool.
It’s just an improvement in feeling the emotional changes of others.
I have facial paralysis, so how he could tell that I was in a bad mood was a mystery.
After Huaicheng's heroic deeds, we are introduced to characters with powerful backgrounds.
They are different from the Fu family and his son. Even the thugs they hire are at the level of street gangsters.
At the lowest level, they are all feudal lords, and the killers they can send out are of a very high level.
If Lord Tengxue is willing to protect them, then what we have to face will be an enemy backed by imperial power.
To be honest, I kind of want to back out.
When I decided to follow the clues, I wanted to help those poor white-haired people who were looking for their daughters. Their daughters were missing. I thought maybe I could find the Fu family's father and son's online source and find out where they were.
Whether you spend money to buy it or do something else, there may be a chance to bring the person back.
Whether in modern times or in ancient times, abducting children is an immoral act that kills a thousand people.
But at the time, I didn't expect that the people on the line for the Fu family and his son were actually relatives of the provincial officials.
If it were a purely interest-based partner, this would be easier to handle.
If family ties are involved, the provincial official will probably not kill relatives out of justice.
In particular, all provincial affairs were handled by Mo Qiwei, the wife of the provincial official. This woman promoted her natal family and gave all the lucrative jobs in the province to her natal family.
It's strange that she would enforce the law impartially to her brother.
"Oh...it's troublesome." But since he has already caused trouble, he can't be afraid of it.
Because there is no point in being afraid, even if I want to let it go, the other party will not let it go.
For example, right now, someone is spying on us outside the window.
There is a window eaves outside the window of this inn to protect from the wind and rain, and there is a person squatting on it.
"Who is that friend outside the window? Isn't it uncomfortable to squat down? Why don't you go inside and sit down?" I let out air threads that covered the whole room.
The windows are open to the outside. It is still warm in the evening at this time of year, but it only gets a bit cold at night.
As soon as I finished speaking, a black shadow flashed out of the window. The black shadow was as light as a swallow. It flew into the room and knelt down on one knee, saluting me.
"Xiaojiao has met the island owner!"
"What?" I was stunned for a moment, thinking I was hallucinating.
"Xiaojiao has met the island owner!"
"Who are you? Who is the owner of the island?" I glanced at Yun Zhou and thought to myself, is it possible that he has an island privately?
"I am a disciple of the Biyi Sect, and you are the island owner. This is a personal letter from the old island owner." The man in black took out a letter from his arms and presented it to me respectfully.
There was no poison on the letter. I took it, opened the envelope, and unfolded the folded letter paper.
At first glance, I saw the four characters "My disciple personally opened" written on the head.
Look at the signature again...'Shi Xiao Bei Tu'.
At this time, the man in black pulled off his scarf, revealing her true face. She looked three-thirds like Liu Yanyan and was about twenty years old.
Xiao Beitu has been away from us for some time.
In the letter, he said that he had retrieved his daughter's ashes and brought them back to Bizdao together with his wife's ashes.
Now that he has found his wife and children, he has no regrets in this life. He hopes that his family will be reunited and never be separated.
Xiaojiao shed two lines of tears. I guessed that the meaning of this family reunion was consistent with my understanding.
This letter is Xiao Beitu's suicide note!
The letter was long and thick, and he had a lot to explain.
Their family was reunited, but when he left, the Biyi Sect had no heir. He only had one disciple, Xiaojiao.
Xiaojiao was an orphan. Because she looked a bit like Liu Yanyan, Xiao Beitu accepted her as his disciple. However, he had been practicing martial arts in seclusion for these years and had not cared much about Xiaojiao.
Xiaojiao is not outstanding among the disciples of the Biyi Sect, and her talent in martial arts is average.
Because she looks very similar to Liu Yanyan, Xiao Beitu didn't want her to end badly, so he asked her to come to me as a lone figure.
He passed the position of the island owner to me, and the letter contained the island owner's token. With this token, I am the island owner of Byi Island, and no one can question it.
It's just that someone else has succeeded the leader of the Biyi Sect. I have never practiced the martial arts of the Biyi Sect, so I am not qualified to inherit the position of leader.
But the position of the island owner does not conflict with the position of the head. It has the 'property rights' of the island, which is similar to the landlord.
The Biyi faction are just tenants living on the island.
There has been a precedent for the two positions of island owner and head being inherited by different people.
So the disciples of the Biyi Sect have nothing to say.
Moreover, Biyi Island is a 'landlord-shared' rental, which means that Xiao Beitu left his land and property to me.
There is also a cemetery for their family of three on that land.
This is really sudden. He looks so young. He has just mastered the "evil" skills that can make him into the top twenty martial arts masters. There are many possibilities in the future.
In the end, the person said it was gone, and it was the dead end that he took on himself.
Maybe the belief that supported him collapsed...
As an outsider, I can only make guesses.
He also has no one to entrust to him. He has been closed for many years and his wife and daughter have died. As his only disciple, he has no future in the Biyi sect and is more likely to become a victim within the sect.
As Liu Yanyan's apprentice and his daughter's secret guard, I am the person with the deepest relationship with their family.
"As long as Master is here, the people on the island don't dare to bully me. Master knows that if he is gone, those people will not be able to tolerate me." Xiaojiao said while wiping her tears.
She is beautiful. Even if she only looks like Liu Yanyan, she is still a beautiful woman.
Everyone in that sect knows what kind of skills they practice.
Her martial arts skills are average because she has not practiced the evil skills of the Biyi sect and has only learned some superficial skills, such as Qinggong.
Xiao Beitu knew very well that if he was gone, those people would have to swallow Xiao Jiao alive.
So I sent her out of the island to deliver the message. In fact, she came to seek refuge with me.
She definitely wouldn't dare to go back.
After all, Xiao Beitu left me a house and land. I have to accept the people he entrusted to me.
The letter also contained several banknotes of astonishing amounts.
There is also a ring. This ring was left to him by his mother as a thought, and he has never taken it off for many years.
When I was in Yuancheng, I saw him wearing this ring all the time.
With the ring, the title deed of Bizhu Island and the token of the island owner, as well as a huge amount of money, Xiaojiao's identity should be true.
There was no poison, no poison, no injuries on her body, but she was quite tired, had severe dark circles under her eyes, and had not rested well.
"Since you have come to seek refuge with me, why are you hiding out the window? Why don't you go through the door?" If I don't call her, when will she show up?
"The guy won't let me in... I, I don't have any money." Xiaozhao was a little embarrassed, her pretty face was slightly red, and she hurriedly explained: "Just jump in through the window, I'm afraid you'll treat me as a gangster, ahem... and beat me to death."
She explained that she was thinking about how to start the fight without me beating her to death on the spot, so I called her in.
"Master said that your martial arts skills are weird. You can kill people without any internal force, and you don't even need those fists and kicks." Xiaojiao said excitedly, but also a little scared, like a person who likes to tell ghost stories but is too scared. A dying little girl.
She is twenty-one years old and looks a little tender, like a high school student in her late teens.
I think the name Xiaojiao suits her very well, and she lives up to her name.
She looks delicate and speaks with a delicate voice.
"You can stay here, but I don't have a good job for you. You can be an assistant, which means helping me carry bags, book hotels, and do chores." Seeing that she didn't understand what the assistant meant, I explained.
"Thank you, the island master, for taking me in!" She was about to kneel down again, but I stopped her.
"I don't need to give a big salute here, unless I die and the body is bid farewell."
"Also, don't call me the owner of the island. I hired you. You can call me Mr. An..." Let me experience the feeling of being a 'boss'.
"Mr. An?" Xiaojiao obviously didn't understand what this title meant.
"Yes, you are my assistant and there is nothing wrong with calling me Mr. An."
"Okay, Mr. An!" Xiaojiao bowed her hands and called out respectfully.
In fact, if you look at her carefully, the clothes on her body are extremely dirty, and the cuffs are frayed.
Not to mention the shoes, the thick-soled boots were almost worn out into socks. It was a long journey from Bizhi Island. The amount of banknotes Xiao Beitu mentioned in the letter was quite a lot. She was sleeping in the open with a huge sum of money, but she was quite 'loyal'.
I asked her why she didn't bring any money before going out. She said she did, but she was deceived out of it as soon as she left the island.
So much so that she didn't dare go to crowded places for the rest of the journey, and instead walked through remote and uninhabited mountains and forests.
She was afraid that she too would be deceived.
Then the letter she wants to send will not be delivered to me.
She hides away from people when she sees her. Although her martial arts skills are not very good, she has managed to avoid many bad guys with her cleverness.
By eating wild fruits and vegetables, and doing some disgraceful theft, she finally found me alive.
It was better on the plain side, but the road into the mountainous area in the north was too difficult, so she took the main road when it was dark and hid in the mountains to rest during the day.
I almost slipped down the cliff several times, and I was tired from rushing all the way, so I got here.
"How did you find me?" I was pretty sure that Xiao Beitu didn't know my specific whereabouts.
"Master only knew that you would come to the north, so I eavesdropped on the conversations of passers-by. I heard someone talking about a burned-down inn, saying that someone killed the top killer sent by Zhaixinglaoyuelou in the inn. I think, besides you, who else has this ability? You must have lived there, and then I will follow the news of the dead. Wherever there are dead people, and there are many dead people, I will go there."
"You went to Huaicheng." I replied quickly.
"Well, things are abuzz over there. Passers-by, drivers, and people in the fields, even woodcutters and hunters are all talking about the hero Huaicheng An." Xiaojiao's eyes brightened the more she talked, " Let me guess that the Daxia An they are talking about is you!"
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