Shopkeeper Guo glanced at Dongzi, who had spoken nearby, and said with a hint of fear, "It looks like a sika deer, but its eyes are white. It exudes a foul odor, and its body is as if covered in ink."
Hearing this, she said, "Shopkeeper Guo, if you smell the scent of the black deer too much, is it possible that you will be poisoned?"
After hearing this, Manager Guo said, "Maybe he's hallucinating."
Dongzi murmured, "What on earth is the reason for this? A sika deer that was originally in good health has turned into a poisonous deer."
Seeing a hint of fear in Dongzi's eyes, Shopkeeper Guo suddenly felt less afraid of the black deer. He stroked his beard and said, "Actually, the black deer only appears once every one or two months, so it's not that scary."
Tong Wenyao asked after hearing this: "Then is there any pattern to their appearance?"
Shopkeeper Guo recalled the last time the black deer appeared, and then he spoke solemnly, "The last time the black deer appeared was during the Chinese New Year. Now if I calculate the date, it's almost here, in the next few days."
Since it was in the next few days, Tong Wenyao would prepare herself and see what the black deer looked like. However, if the black deer was highly toxic, she wondered if the detoxification pills she had prepared would be effective. She had recently read a medical book given by her master, and there was a detoxification recipe in it, which she could experiment with to see if it could work.
Shopkeeper Guo also gave her the results of his investigation in the city over the past few days. Tong Wenyao took the letters in her hand and said to Shopkeeper Guo, "Thank you very much. His uncle will be here in two days. Please tell him that I have been here."
After hearing this, Manager Guo said respectfully, "Yes." He then escorted them out and closed the door again.
At this time, he also walked over to Shopkeeper Guo. Shopkeeper Guo wiped the sweat from his hands and looked at him with disapproval, saying, "You need to change your temper. Also, next time, no matter who it is, you must let them in. Don't keep them out."
After hearing this, the waiter nodded repeatedly in agreement.
After finishing her meal at the inn, she packed a meal for Wang Liao and the others and asked Dongzi to take it back, while she went for a walk.
The houses in the south were much more expensive. This one was rented for three months, at twenty taels a month, which came to sixty taels for three months. If one were to buy the courtyard alone, it would cost three or four hundred taels. However, this courtyard was in the inner city, so the price was still relatively cheap.
If you go further inside, you can only rent three rooms with these twenty taels.
Dongzi placed the food on the table and quickly said, "The boss brought food to us brothers from the restaurant. Thinking that you guys have worked hard cleaning, we specially ordered the Drunken Goose Pot and the Rich Sea Bass." When the brothers heard this, they smiled and thanked him one after another.
After opening the basket, I saw that the food inside was so exquisite and expensive that I instantly felt that I was not worthy of eating it.
Wang Liao patted Dongzi's shoulder and said, "Dongzi, don't buy it for Mr. Su next time. This food looks expensive. It would be a waste of time for us brothers to eat it." Dongzi pursed his lips. Hearing what Wang Liao said, he could understand Wang Liao. At the beginning, he was also like that when he followed the boss, but he gradually got used to it because of what the boss had said before!
"If you don't eat now, you won't have the chance to eat when you are old!" If you think about it carefully, this sentence makes sense. If you don't enjoy more when you are young, you will still have to endure when you are old and can't walk.
He said, "Next time I will talk to the boss and ask her to pack some ordinary dishes." Wang Liao nodded. After eating, everyone cleaned the house and wiped the table.
The previous owner kept the room very clean, so there was no need to clean it much.
When Tong Wen Yao brought Xiao Xue back, the room had been cleaned. She slowly returned to the courtyard at the back. This was the courtyard rented by Wang Liao and his people. The courtyard had two entrances. The people from the escort agency lived in the front, and she lived in the back. Dongzi also lived in the next room.
There are many beautiful flowers in the yard, and some of them have even bloomed early. It is not cold in the south in February. Tong Wen Yao was wearing a thin shirt, but she was still a little hot in the sun. In addition, she was busy asking for news while shopping and did not avoid the sun, so her face was now sunburned red.
Fortunately, Dongzi knew that she was a woman disguised as a man, and when she came in, he directly gave her a basin of water and asked her to wash up. Fortunately, she didn't plan to go out in the afternoon, so she simply washed her face and removed her makeup with a special potion, which revealed her original skin.
There was a two-meter-high osmanthus tree in the yard. She asked Dongzi to move a lounge chair under the tree. She took the information she got from Xuanfeng Teahouse and started reading it, frowning as she read. In Luzhou City, three or four men disappeared every month. This was a bit abnormal.
This was still in the city, and most of the missing men were in their teens and twenties, in the prime of life. If this was the case in the city, let alone in the county and town, would there be more missing people? Thinking of this, she called out to Xing'er, and Dongzi responded from the side, "Boss, Sister Xing'er isn't here. If you have anything, just call me."
She was in a trance for a moment, then smiled and said, "I have really adapted to this era!" In fact, there was still some resistance in her heart, but most of it was obedient and acquiesced. At first, she couldn't adapt to others serving her, but now she has been subtly influenced by it. It's really fate.
However, she only ordered them to do things, and she would not exploit them like the landlords, nor would she beat, scold, punish, or even murder them like the nobles. Dongzi saw that the boss was stunned and quickly reminded her: "Boss, what were you about to say?"
After she came to her senses, she glanced at Dongzi and said, "Tomorrow, Wang Liao and the others will go to the county and the village. You can ask Wang Liao and the others if there are any missing men or women, and if so, how many are missing."
When Dongzi heard this, although he couldn't guess what the boss was going to do, he knew that he was going to find the python after all. Maybe those missing people were eaten by the python!
On the second day, Wang Liao took his men to the eastern county town to inquire, while Tong Wen Yao took Dongzi and two people from the escort agency to the western county town to inquire. This place was not far from Luzhou City, and it only took more than an hour by horse carriage.
The road was lined with mountains. They had set out early in the morning, and at this moment, a thin layer of mist obscured the mountaintops, making it look like a beautiful landscape painting. Outside, the escort agency staff sat, one driving the carriage, the other sitting beside them. Dongzi sat inside the carriage and cautiously approached Xiaoxue. Xiaoxue glanced at him, then closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"Boss, the mountains here are so beautiful." As they passed a bridge, the river, bathed in sunlight, presented a breathtaking spectacle. He quickly pointed at the river and said, "Boss, the sunlight shining on the water makes it look like a ton of gold."
Hearing this, she leaned over to the window and took a look. It was indeed as Dongzi had said, with the river surface sparkling and the floating light shining golden.
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