Chapter 25 (1/2)

Maybe it's too late. The dining hall on the first floor is empty. There is no one on duty. Only an old man sat at the counter, his eyes closed, as if he were dozing. His face was as thin as a withered bark, and his hair was gray. Gouzhu used to knock on the table for a long time, but he didn't lift his eyelids.

”Shopkeeper, we made a reservation first.”

The man opened his eyelids and left five keys on the counter.

”Do you have any food and wine now?” Asked the pig. After running all night, he was a little hungry. Although he may die at night, he doesn't want to be a starving ghost.

”No The old man did not move at all, and the word almost came out of his nostrils.

”If the kitchen is out, it's OK to have something cool. Find some leftover cooked meat and cut it at will.”

The old man seemed to feel very annoyed and pointed to the gate with his hand: ”love to live, not to live - go.” It seems that he wanted to say ”go away”, but he thought it was too much, so he changed it to ”go”.

Gouzhu was going to have an attack, but when he thought that it was dark, it was too troublesome to go out and look for other Inns at this time. The old man also caught their weakness. They had to go upstairs hungry.

Song Ruhai inspected the environment on the second floor. The hotel is not big. There are only ten rooms on the second floor and the third floor. Besides one room on the third floor, I don't know who lives there. All the other rooms are empty.

This is because they were originally a group of nine, so when they came to dinner, they paid for nine rooms in advance. The inn was almost taken over by them.

”If there is a possibility of an attack at any time, we must take turns on duty.”

Fortunately, the five rooms they lived in were all on the second floor, separated by thin wooden boards. If someone is on duty, a call can wake everyone up.

”I'm the night watchman.”

”We three men, each for an hour, and the night is over.” Song Ruhai said, ”according to my age, I'll wake up the hook pig and exchange it in an hour. Finally, I'll make wood. We'll go back to the jade palace as soon as it gets light. ”

The reason why they stay here is to wait for the young man in royal clothes to bring people here, so that they can return the dark iron wood species to each other and end the gratitude and resentment. But by dawn tomorrow, these people haven't come, and it's meaningless for them to stay here.

Song Ruhai has always said no two, Gouzhu also dare not disobey, had to go to the room to sleep. Song Ruhai is in the corridor. He kept it for an hour, and it was the third watch, and he was safe all the time. He wakes up the pig and goes to bed by himself.

Gouzhu didn't intend to wake anyone up again. If the other party comes, he quietly returns the seeds to them, and does not let the elder martial brothers and sisters get involved, that is the safest.

”Where will they come from?” Gou pig thought for a long time, ”may not come in from the gate.”

In the dead of the night, it seemed that everyone was asleep. It was quiet all around. There were only crickets in the dark. Gouzhu pushes the window open, and the moonlight spreads on the sleeping Qingyang Town. It's almost dead outside. There seemed to be barking in the distance, but it was at least a few miles away.

”It's so quiet. If anyone comes, I can hear you.” He jumped to the window and grabbed the eaves with his hand. Then he turned over and went to the roof.

The inn is on the side of the official road. There is a circle of open space around. If anyone approached, he could see clearly from the roof.

”I'll just sit here and stare,” he thought, ”if they come, I'll go straight to them.”

But his biggest problem is that he can't sit still.