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Upon hearing this, Ben Fu could no longer hold back his nosebleed. He instinctively tried to stop it with one hand, resulting in blood spttering all over his hand. He was in a frantic, messy state.
After a moment, everyourheir gaze to Xiaomeng with a mix of astonishment.
When Xiaomeng finally reacted, enraged and humiliated, she took out the rope, ready to deal with the bastard in front of her. At that moment, a sudden burst of excmatioed from the crowd.
Everyone’s gaze was fixed on the rope in her hand, as though some strange idea had been firmed.
Before the vilge chief arrived, Xiaomeng, after drinking only a few sips of pe, was so angry that she could no longer tinue. Meanwhile, Jiang g had fihree bowls of pe and evehe side dish of pickled cucumbers . He then cautiously asked if Xiaomeng wanted more. When he saw her grim expression, he wisely stopped.
It seemed that due to the unpleasantness between them and the shop owner yesterday, the vilge chief and his group only stood in front of the shop without entering, occasionally peering inside.
Upon seeing the vilge chief, Zh stood up from the table and approached him first.
"Please wait a moment," Zh said. "I’ll go get the keys from the owhen we leave together."
The elderly vilge chief, whose forehead was creased with wrinkles, rubbed his hands iement and said with a forced smile, "o rush. You ing here is already a blessing from our aors."
Hearing this, Yu Man, who was lounging on a wooden chair with her legs crossed in a very provocative manner, sneered, "If your aors had accumuted any virtue, you wouldn't have ended up in such a state."
Of course, her voice wasn’t loud, and only a few people nearby could hear it.
Li Lu furrowed his brows but didn’t say anything.
After waiting a little lohe shop owill hadn’t appeared. From m until now, her the shop owner nor his wife had shown up.
Zh had woken up the earliest, but he simply opehe door and stood in front of it. It wasn’t until the neighb door opehat he went downstairs with everyone.
The pe had already been pced downstairs, ao the pot were eight sets of bowls and chopsticks, clearly left for them to have breakfast.
Jiang g slowly finished his st spoonful of pe, but his gaze was fixed on the position of the stairs.
Xiaomeng’s gaze was also there.
She was waiting, as the shop owner, who had inally said he would wake up early to send them off, had not shown up.
Oher hand, the vilge chief’s group had found their way inside.
The sky had brightened, and Zh, holding several keys in his hand, seemed eager. He stood up and turoward the stairs.
Before he could reach the stairs, a figure caught up to him. "Mr. Zhou," Jiang g said warmly as he walked beside him. "Let me go with you."
"Alright."
Given that Jiang g had supported him the previous day, Zh had a favorable impression of him, even though he knew Jiang g wasn’t as simple as he appeared.
They searched through the sed floor but didn’t find the shop owner and his wife.
The third floor was the same.
They hadn’t expected that this not-so-small inn only housed eight guests.
"Could they have go?" Jiang g looked around and asked. "I overheard a Fatty say that the m market has cheap and fresh vegetables. Maaurant owners like to go there early to stock up."
"Perhaps," Zh answered. He turned and said, "It looks like we’ll have to leave the keys at the ter. This way, they’ll see them when they return."
Upon hearing this, Jiang g cpped his hands and praised, "Mr. Zhou, you really think of everything!"
Zh, who had just turned around, paused in surprise and turned his head with fusion.
Jiang g tinued, "pared to you, I am like the sun pared to this dlelight. As the saying goes, after three days of separation, one must look at a person with new eyes!" He poi a dle holder at the end of the corridor and casually made the parison.
Zh: "???"
What kind of nonsense is this?
Although he thought this in his heart, he subsciously followed Jiang g’s finger and looked. The third floor was much smaller than the sed floor, with only ten rooms.
There was a corridor dividing it, five rooms on each side, fag each other in pairs.
Only one side had stairs, while the other was blocked by a wall.
Due to the ck of lighting, a dle holder was hanging on the wall.
A pale white dle flickered dimly, creating an inexplicably oppressive atmosphere.
It felt like... entering a funeral hall.
Only now did Zh notice the dle and its unusual pt on the wall. The dle ositioned in the middle of the wall, her too high nor too low, which resulted in very limited illumination. It made the pce feel even darker, and as if he had discovered something, Zh’s gaze suddenly turrange.
The wall on the opposite side also seemed off, painted in an unusual bck color.
This made the already phting of the third floor even darker. Looking dowairs into the room, it didn’t look like a wall, but more like the entrao hell.
People living in this era weren’t stupid; how could they design such a yout?
The sed, Zh’s pupils suddenly tracted.
His eyesight was excellent, and he had just seen the fme on the dle flicker violently.
Then, he felt a light breeze brush across his face. It was subtle, but he looked around, and all the doors along the corridor were closed. Where did the wind e from?
It turned out that disc the problem wasn’t his strong suit—analyzing and solving problems was. He quickly recalled the information he knew about the inn.
There were three floors. From the outside, the first and sed floors were of equal length, but the third floor was noticeably shorter.
This expined why the sed floor had fourteen rooms, but the third floor only had ten.
That meant the third floor should have been about two rooms shorter in width than the sed floor.
But Zh recalled that, iy, this wasn’t the case.
So, there was likely more space behind that wall.
And the shop owner and his wife were probably hiding there.
Without time to expin to Jiang g, he quietly stepped forward and approached the wall. He carefully stood still and moistened his finger with his tohen slowly began feeling around the edges of the wall.
Soon, he felt a slight ess against his fingers.
At a tight spot along the wall, he found a crack.
The crack was retively rough, but because the wall was pletely bck, and due to the phting, even someoanding right in front of it might not notice it.
No one would think there was a secret room hidden behind it.
The gap was rge, and Zh swallowed before he hesitated no more and pressed his head against it.
There was indeed a hidden space behind it. A white dle, nearly identical to the oside, was standing in a er of the secret room, dimly burning.
In the faint light, Zh saw a familiar figure: the shop owner, wearing a dirty apron.
He trembled, as though he was excitedly expining something, but due to the angle, Zh couldn’t see the person standing in front of him. He could only see a pair of small feet.
Those feet were much smaller than the shop owner's wife’s.
(End of the Chapter)
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