It wasn't very convenient for the two of them to ride a horse-drawn carriage all the time, so Liu Sisi thought they would hire a carriage when they got to the county town. It would be more comfortable for them to take a carriage back.
By the time we reached Datang Town in Xueshan City, it was already getting dark.
Since Liu Sisi and Tiantian couldn't enter the space, they had no choice but to find an inn to stay at.
When the waiter saw that they were two young girls, he warmly went up to greet them.
"Esteemed guests, would you like to stay at the inn or have a meal?"
"I'd like a single-person room and a few dishes," Liu Sisi replied.
"Okay!" The waiter agreed and went to arrange the room.
A short while later, the waiter came over with the menu again and asked Liu Sisi to order.
Liu Sisi handed the menu to Tiantian.
"Sister Tian, you order what you like to eat, and I'll order the rest. Don't be shy."
Sweetie was flattered and took the menu, ordered a stir-fried vegetable and pork dish, and handed it to Liu Sisi.
Liu Sisi ordered a soft-fried chicken and a seafood dish. The waiter took the menu and went to prepare the dishes.
At this moment, two men came down from the second floor of the inn, talking and stretching as they walked down.
Just as they were about to go outside, they saw Liu Sisi and Tiantian.
"Where did such a pretty young girl come from, Xiazi? Have you seen her before?"
"Never seen them before, just two girls. They're pretty, but they don't look very old. Juan, do you have a thing for that kind of girl?"
The man called Xiazi replied.
"Uh, no, no, I was just asking." Let's go, let's go to Huamanlou for a stroll.
The man and Xia Zi walked out of the inn with lewd expressions.
The rice and dishes were served, and Liu Sisi and Tiantian ate heartily.
During this period of busy travel, Liu Sisi has not had a proper meal. In her space, she usually eats bread, pancakes, or noodles. She will only go to the supermarket's small kitchen to cook a meal if she really wants to eat.
Needless to say, Tian Tian's family is quite poor, and they can only eat meat during holidays like Chinese New Year.
"It seems like it's almost Chinese New Year! We probably won't be able to go back before then," Liu Sisi said with some regret after finishing her meal.
Sweetie was also out for the first time, and she sniffled when she thought about not being able to spend the New Year with her parents.
"It's okay, little sister. If we can't make it this year, we can celebrate with our family next year too," Sweetie comforted her.
"Hmm, are you full? If you are, let's go to sleep. We still have to travel tomorrow."
"I'm full." Tian Tian picked up her bundle and went with Liu Sisi to the room that the waiter had arranged.
Soon the two went into the room and fell into a deep sleep.
Xia Zi and Juan, who had just returned from drinking and carousing, staggered back home.
As soon as Xia Zi returned, she went straight to her room, while Hu An stopped the waiter on the first floor and asked Liu Sisi and the others where their rooms were.
The waiter hesitated for a moment, and Juan immediately slipped a piece of silver into his hand.
The waiter took the silver and immediately smiled.
"Brother An, come with me. Please keep your noise down so as not to disturb our business."
They're clearly used to this kind of thing.
The waiter led Juan to Liu Sisi's room, weighed the loose silver in his hand, and then left.
Juan first punched a hole in the paper window of the inn and saw that Liu Sisi and Tiantian were both asleep.
He then pulled out a sleeping powder tube from his pocket and blew it into the tube.
Liu Sisi smelled a strange odor in her sleep, so she immediately found a mask in her storage space and put it on.
Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly. Who was the fool who tried to drug us?
Liu Sisi took the antidote from the pills given to her by the imperial physicians and swallowed it. The imperial physicians had anticipated that she might encounter this level of sleeping powder on the road, so they specially prepared the antidote for her.
She had been living in the space since she arrived, so she hadn't encountered many people, including bad guys. She didn't expect to run into them on her way back, before she even left Snow Mountain City.
She swallowed the antidote, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, waiting to become the "lamb" to be slaughtered.
Juan went back to his room and waited for a while. Feeling that the effect should be about right, he quietly sneaked into Liu Sisi's room.
He intended to force the door open, but to his surprise, it opened with just a gentle touch.
He strode inside, and the door closed by itself.
While he was still secretly rejoicing, he saw two pairs of glowing green eyes looking at him from inside the room.
He subconsciously took a few steps back, and when he tried to turn around, he found two pairs of yellow eyes staring at him from behind.
He rubbed his eyes hard. "Damn it, am I seeing a ghost?"
After finishing the massage, Liu Sisi suddenly turned on the oil lamp, deliberately yawned, and looked at Hu An, saying...
"Hey, who are you? What are you doing in my room?"
Juan froze instantly. "I, I..."
He initially wanted to find an excuse to leave, but upon closer inspection, the room was completely empty. Then he thought, "She's just a young girl! What's there to be afraid of? I'll just do it. Nobody will know anyway."
He tried to pounce on Liu Sisi, but suddenly Liu Sisi blew out the oil lamp.
Liu Sisi released all the spirit pets in the space except for Xi Yu.
The white snake coiled around Juan's feet, several monkeys tugged at his clothes, and the snow wolf and snow leopard stared at him with their bright eyes.
Several squirrels scurried inside his clothes, and snowbirds kept pecking at his hair.
He couldn't move at all, and the room was dark. All he knew was that his body was surrounded by a group of things.
Soon, Liu Sisi retrieved her spirit pet and lit an oil lamp to look at him.
"Hey, uncle, why are you still in my room?! Don't you go back to your own room to sleep?"
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