Chapter 120: Encountering a thief at midnight!!
Fourteen days later, we finally arrived at Luhai City, but it was already winter! Everyone put on cotton clothes, and when the wind was strong during the day, it was difficult to walk on the road.
But fortunately, everyone was wearing the face towel that Xu Zhiyi had taught everyone to sew before. Did they call it a mask? Well, at least it covered their faces and prevented the wind from drying out their faces and making them uncomfortable.
At this time, at the gate of Luhai City, there was a long queue of people entering the city. Many of the people who were fleeing famine had no cotton clothes and their faces were blue and purple due to the cold.
After entering the city, we first went to find an inn to stay in. Xu Zhiyi also booked four rooms. The inn had hot water for bathing, and each room was charged an extra ten cents. If we needed hot water, we could just tell the waiter and he would bring it to our room.
The waiter led everyone to push the cart to the backyard. There was a side door from the outside that could accommodate a horse-drawn carriage. The entire backyard was a place for guests staying in the hotel to store carts or carriages.
After everyone has unloaded the things on the cart, they can go directly into the lobby of the inn through a small door in the backyard!
Everyone carried their full bags and went upstairs from the middle of the lobby.
At this time, three men sitting in the corner of the lobby drinking tea stared at this side, and then the three of them exchanged glances with each other.
Xu Zhiyi went up to the room to pack her luggage for a while, and the waiter came up with hot water!
Seeing that Su had gone to the Su family next door and hadn't come back yet, he went to take a bath by himself! After taking a bath, he put on a cotton coat and went to massage Shen Changan's legs. After more than half a month of hard work, his legs could finally stand up with the help of the table, but he couldn't lift his feet and walk.
Shen Changan was practicing standing up by holding on to the table, and was trying to lift his legs and walk forward, but he failed after several attempts. He was so tired that he sat down on a chair to rest. When he was about to stand up again by holding on to the table next to him, Xu Zhiyi pushed the door in.
Seeing that Shen Changan was forcing himself to practice hard again, Xu Zhiyi went over and pressed him to sit on the chair: "Don't practice for now, if you continue like this, you won't be able to bear it"
Then he looked around the room, but didn’t see Shen Wuyou, so he asked curiously, “Where is Wuyou?”
Shen Wuyou, who was drowsy in the bath in the cubicle, woke up instantly when he heard Xu Zhiyi’s voice: “Madam, are you here?”
Xu Zhiyi heard the sound coming from the small cubicle on the left and immediately realized that this guy was taking a bath.
"It's me. Don't take too long to shower! Be careful not to catch a cold."
Shen Wuyou: "Okay, I'll get up right away"
Xu Zhiyi moved a shorter chair, sat in front of Shen Changan, and began to press the acupoints on his calves.
When Shen Wuyou came out after getting dressed, he also moved a chair and sat aside, supporting his chin with both hands and looking at Xu Zhiyi.
Two quarters of an hour later, the waiter brought up some hot water again, took the used water down, and Shen Wuyou carried Shen Changan into the cubicle to take a bath.
"Wuyou, Chang'an, I'm going back first! You two should go to bed early tonight."
Without waiting for their response, he went out and closed the door. It was too cold! He should go back to bed early to keep warm.
At night, when everyone began to fall asleep, three sneaky figures appeared outside the corridor on the second floor of the inn.
The third brother: "Big brother, second brother, they live in this row, there is no doubt about it, I came here specially to check during the day"
The second brother: "Let's go, light this incense."
The third brother: "Brother, we can open this window and crawl in."
The boss: "You're going to die! Move gently, don't wake up others. Also, there are so many rooms in this row, which one is this?"
Hearing this, the third brother looked at the row of rooms, scratched his hair, and apologized in a low voice: "Brother, I can't remember!"
After hearing this, the boss slapped him on the head and said, "Idiot, what use are you to?"
The second brother beside him didn't understand and asked curiously: "Brother, why do you care which room it is? We are not doing this for people, we are just doing it for money! We are stealing anyway, so it doesn't matter which room we steal from?"
Laotian rolled his eyes and said, "You are also stupid. We have been keeping watch during the day, and we are guaranteed to have money to steal from. If we just steal from any room now, and we don't have money, won't it be a waste of the incense we bought with money?"
The third brother: "That's right, I spent 500 coins to buy this incense, I have to steal it back tonight."
Then he thought about it carefully, and suddenly pointed to the right row of rooms with surprise: "Brother, I remember now, they all live in the right row, I can't be wrong."
"Are you sure?"
The third one: “Absolutely sure”
"Okay, take out the tinder, light the incense and go to the window."
The second brother: "Brother, didn't you bring the fire stick with you?"
"What do you mean I brought it? I clearly told you two to bring it, didn't you two bring it?"
After Xu Zhiyi got up to relieve himself in the room, he heard some noise outside in the corridor. It was so cold, who would get up in the middle of the night to chat in the corridor?
At this time, not only Xu Zhiyi woke up, but also the head of the village and his family, then Doctor Li, and Wang Xiaohe's family all woke up.
I was curious, who would be mumbling in the corridor late at night? Could it be a ghost?
Afterwards, everyone got up quietly in tacit understanding, opened the door gently, stuck their heads out to look secretly, and ended up meeting each other's eyes through the door.
Xu Zhiyi was afraid that everyone would make a sound, so he quickly put his index finger to his lips and made a shushing gesture.
Everyone watched Xu Zhiyi's actions and understood immediately! !
"What should we do now? Are you two so stupid? How come you can't remember a single thing I told you to do?"
The third brother took out two flints from his sleeve pocket and said, "Brother, I didn't bring a fire starter, but I brought flints!"
"Why didn't you take it out earlier? Idiot!"
The third brother replied aggrievedly: "You said a tinderbox, not a flint."
Then the eldest brother took the flint and handed the incense to the third brother. He took the two flints and found that they couldn't be struck. He gritted his teeth and said, "Third brother, have you used these two flints?"
The third brother shook his head and assured: "No, brother, it was new when I picked it up."
"Uh, you two are going to make me die of anger."
"Brother, let me do it." Then the second brother grabbed the flint and tore a piece of cloth from his clothes to start the fire. The flint snapped twice and the cloth was actually lit!
When the third brother saw the cloth was on fire, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Haha, brother, it's on fire, it's on fire!"
"Are you going to die?! You are yelling so loudly, are you trying to wake up everyone in the inn?" The eldest brother was so scared that he covered the third brother's mouth with his hand.
After the three men lit the incense, they stealthily chose a room, poked a small hole in the window, and inserted the incense into the room.
When the incense was almost burned, the three of them made a gesture and began to slowly open the window, intending to climb in through the window. When they opened the window for the three of them, they saw two people standing in front of the window, and they looked the three people in the eye.
"Ah!!" The three were so scared that they turned around and wanted to run, but they saw people standing at the door of every room on the second floor looking at them.
"ah!!!"
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