Chen Ji listened to Xiaoman's rushing footsteps running further and further until he disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Sometimes he couldn't understand the maid, who was sometimes stupid, sometimes smart, and his moral level was erratic.

He said she was a bad person? But she had never done anything to be sorry for Chen Ji. She secretly picked up Buddhist Tongbao and put it down again and again.

Say she is a good person? But she wants to kill someone and sell news...

It seemed as if someone was teaching her the truth that she had some missing a few pieces. Or, the person who taught her was like this, Xiaoman just followed her like this.

Now, Chen Ji is the one who can't understand the most. The other party is obviously an official, so why is he willing to stay in Chen's house as a maid?

At this moment, the curtain in the room was lifted open, Zhang Xia walked out in neat clothes, and asked with a smile: "The princess said you have gone all the words greed and anger, and only one word ignorant is left. As expected, more than a thousand taels

The silver was given as soon as he said it.”

Chen Ji stood by the window and was slightly stunned. No one mentioned this sentence for a long time.

While thinking, a knock on the door suddenly came.

Chen Ji winked at Zhang Xia, walked to the door alone with a whale knife, and opened a gap to the door.

The shopkeeper stood outside the door in a black cloth shirt, smiled and bowed, "It's so early, when will you go to open the cauldron? I told the guy to leave a table for you and prepare some desserts and candied fruits."

Chen Ji leaned the whale knife aside without hesitation, then opened the door and replied with a smile: "I'm sorry, the shopkeeper has to worry, we'll go down later."

The shopkeeper changed his subject: "You have thought about where to go after the opening of the hall? Fengshengzhou, Jingchao Road, Xijing Road, is a good place to go."

Chen Ji thought of the wailing sounds and bloody smell in the secret passage, and immediately replied: "I haven't decided where to go yet. I'm afraid I'll stay for a few more days. What if there is still a chance to do business in Guyuan City."

The shopkeeper sincerely said, "You are a foreigner and you don't know that this Guyuan city is very messy, especially whenever my Longmen Inn opens, it will be a time when demons dance. At that time, you will be coveting the powerful people in your hands.

There are as many as a crucian carp across the river.”

Chen Ji asked back: "Can they dare to enter Longmen Inn?"

The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes slightly: "They dare not enter Longmen Inn... Forget it, since the guest officer intends to stay for a few more days, I will stop persuading you, otherwise the guest officer will think I have other thoughts."

Chen Ji responded politely: "How could it be? I remember the shopkeeper's kindness in my heart."

The shopkeeper bowed: "If there is nothing else, I will take it back first."

"Shopkeeper walks slowly." Chen Ji slowly closed the door. When the wooden door was completely closed, the eyes of the two people with thoughts inside and outside the door became cold.

The shopkeeper stood in front of the door and thought for a while, turned around and went downstairs, waved to Xiaowu who was sweeping the floor.

Xiao Wu limped over with a broom and said, "What's wrong with the shopkeeper?"

The shopkeeper instructed: "Diss the news of someone opening the hall and let the powerful men on the street gather here so that the guest official can know where Guyuan is."

Xiao Wu said in confusion: "Didn't you say that some of them have lights and copper coins? We still want to be evil? And they are the ones that the Third Master is targeting, so we can't touch them, right?"

The shopkeeper said calmly: "Of course we can't move, but after others move, we pick up ready-made ones. It's not considered a violation of the rules, right?"

Xiaowu murmured in a low voice: "If the governor knew about it, he would definitely not like you."

The shopkeeper looked at him coldly: "Do you think I'm for myself? How much money has the inn made in the years cost me myself? So many people are waiting for food and clothing. If we don't make money, what do they eat and drink?"

Xiao Wu shrank his neck: "I know, I know, let's go now!"

The shopkeeper returned to the main hall of the inn.

In less than a stick of incense, the inn's cotton curtain was lifted open, and six bearded men entered one after another and found a table in the corner to sit down. The six men had short knives on their belts and the handles of the knife

Sapphires are inlaid with oil and water.

The cotton curtain was lifted up again, and a fragrant wind blew over the face. The madam next door, whose red sleeves still charmed, waved her silk cloth handkerchief, twisted her waist and walked through the tables, and smiled and greeted the people from all over the place.

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A man took advantage of her passing by and reached out to force her into his arms. The madam just chuckled, and her body turned slightly and avoided it like a flying butterfly.

The moment the two touched each other, a long hole was cut on the man's wrist by the blade hidden on the madam's fingertips, and blood was flowing. The man suffered a great loss but did not dare to speak out, so he could only cover his wrist and escape.

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Someone sat at the table and laughed: "You dare to eat tofu that is not eye-catching, and you can't even eat the tofu that is attracted by the black widow!"

Various Guyuan snakes flocked to us. After another stick of incense, the main hall of the inn was already crowded, with only two tables left empty.

The originally deserted inn hall was as hot as a stove, with greasy smell on the fur coat, sweat smell and spice smell mixed together.

At this time, the curtain was lifted up again, and a man with his left eye blind walked in indifferently, but saw him wearing a lambskin coat and a piece of leopard sleeves.

In an instant, everyone in the main hall stood up, and someone said in surprise: "Third Master!"

"When will the Third Master return to Guyuan?"

"San Master, I'm fine?"

The third master did not answer. He swept the rest of his eyes over everyone, then passed by the Eight Immortals tables as if no one was around, walked to the counter and asked calmly: "Who is opening the hall today?"

When the guests saw that the third master was not interested in paying attention to them, they were not angry and sat down and whispered.

Seeing that the shopkeeper did not answer, the third master emphasized, "I'm asking you!"

The shopkeeper didn't even raise his eyelids: "I haven't seen anyone for two days. Why did you disturb me such a small matter as opening the house?"

The third master sneered: "Who was the one who opened the hall?"

The shopkeeper casually said, "It's the one you are staring at."

The third master's face changed: "Is it him?"

The shopkeeper stared at the third master: "Why do you react like this? Who is he?"

The third master glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "Don't ask if you shouldn't."

The shopkeeper sneered: "Can't you trust me?"

The third master sneered and said, "Why should I believe you? The second brother, lift the mask on your face and look in the mirror, look at the word "subside" on your face and tell me if I should believe you."

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and gritted his teeth and said angrily: "How many times do I have to say it? The general asked me to go there back then. If it weren't for me, Guyuan would have been broken back then! The governor said he believed me, why don't you believe it?"

The third master looked at him deeply, turned around and walked to the empty table in the middle of the main hall to sit down.

The madam with Hongxiuzhao waved the silk handkerchief in her hand and asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, didn't you say anyone has opened the business? Everyone has put down what they are doing, why is there no movement?"

The shopkeeper was silent for a moment, turned to the friend beside him and explained, "Go upstairs to urge the guests."

In the third floor house, Chen Ji waited from early morning to noon, but never saw Xiaoman come back.

The guy went upstairs and urged him three times in a row. Seeing that the guests downstairs were restless waiting, Chen Ji had no intention of going downstairs.

When the guy came to urge him for the fourth time, he found an excuse to send the guy away and then closed the door.

Zhang Xia asked in confusion: "What did Xiaoman do? Why haven't he come back yet?"

Chen Ji smiled: "Maybe he really ran away?"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Zheng next to him suddenly said, "She won't run away."

"Oh?" Chen Ji looked at Zhang Zheng: "You are the ones who argue with her the most fiercely on weekdays, why are you still talking to her now?"

Zhang Zheng said excitedly: "I quarrel with her on weekdays to pass the time, but I know she is not bad-hearted. Although she always choked me, when we met a thief on the road, she didn't even say anything.

I stopped her. I was awake when she touched Chen Ji's clothes last night. I saw her take out the Buddhist Tongbao and put it back. If she really wanted to run away, she should have run away last night and would not wait until now."

Chen Ji looked up and down at Zhang Zheng: "Then will you still quarrel with her in the future?"

Zhang Zheng laughed happily and said, "It's so noisy, why don't you make a noise? You're idle too..."

Before he finished speaking, the door of the house suddenly opened. Xiaoman stood at the door panting, glared at Zhang Zheng fiercely, and then said to Chen Ji: "Young Master, I'm back."

Chen Ji asked with a smile: "What have you done? Why do you look like you're panting?"

"Aren't you in a hurry to come back?" Xiaoman took out a land deed from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Ji.

Chen Ji unfolded and said in confusion: "You bought a shop?"

Xiaoman explained: "As Jing Chao was about to siege the city, I bought a grain and oil shop in advance, and the 2,100 stones of grain in the shop. By then, as soon as Jing Chao's army arrived, the grain price would rise three times! How about it?

Like, is this business cost-effective?"

Chen Ji was amused and crying: "It's time? You have to spend money even if you have the life to make money."

Xiaoman paused for a moment, and then said, "There is a cellar hidden in the well in the backyard of this grain and oil shop. Even if the grain is not sold, it is enough for us to hide it in the cellar for a long time."

Chen Ji was slightly stunned: "How did you know?"

Xiaoman lowered his head and whispered: "Don't worry about this. In short, if Jing Chao really besieged Guyuan, there will be your retreat for you, Mr.."

At this time, a knock on the door came again, and the guy shouted outside the door: "Customer, the shopkeeper asked me to come and ask you again, when will you go down?"

Chen Ji put the land deed into his sleeve and replied loudly: "Here you come."

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In Kucha Street, Li Xuan led four Yulin soldiers to change into casual clothes, wear hats, and quietly looked around.

As a few people passed by, the silk veil on the upper floor fell like snow, and the sound of orioles and swallows were heard endlessly.

All of them said in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, why did you take me to the brothel? Are you not afraid that I will go back and tell my sister?"
To be continued...