Bai Ming pushed open the door.

The room was still clean and empty, just like every time he came here.

However, for Bai Ming, something had completely changed.

He sat on the chair, sighed deeply, and then began to imagine what the shopkeeper would look like when he saw him.

I wonder what the shopkeeper, who always looked so calm, would look like when he begged for mercy?

Feng Xiruo cleaned the rag in his hand, then looked at the people gathered in the backyard, and sighed helplessly, "Don't gather here, there are many guests in the backyard, you will scare them."

"Let me advise you, you don't have to open here for a while, you might as well clean up and close early." A man with a very high cheekbone and small eyes said.

Feng Xiruo looked up at him, and remembered that An Huoshaxi had told him a few days ago that a group of people in Huaci Building would be cleared out recently. He didn't say anything, but just spread his hands.

"Then let's go outside for a cup of tea first." He said.

Perhaps because Feng Xiruo's tone was more tactful this time, and it sounded more like a compliment, the group of people in the backyard looked at each other and followed him out of the backyard.

Feng Xiruo made a pot of good tea and poured it for the group of people. Just when he was thinking about when these people would be finished, he heard a noisy sound coming from outside.

"What's wrong?" He leaned out to ask, and a man who was running towards him almost bumped into him.

Seeing the panic expression on the man's face, Feng Xiruo grabbed him and asked, "What happened?"

"Yangzhou, there is a monster in Yangzhou City!" The man said as he flew away.

What he said made people completely unable to understand what he meant, and he didn't leave any explanation.

"What monster..." Feng Xiruo didn't understand what he meant, but it was always a bit confusing.

When he came back, he heard the group of people behind him laughing and saying, "I'm afraid our people have passed Yangzhou City!"

"They seemed to say that they wanted to stop by the inn on the way. These ordinary people are really timid. They just saw so many people and said there was a monster."

"The leader of the Five Mountains should be here soon. The shopkeeper must have heard the news in advance, so she left in a hurry, right? But even if she can outrun the monk, she can't outrun the temple."

"That..." While these people were talking, a lazy voice came from the side.

"Although I don't mean to interrupt you."

"But speaking of it, it seems that something happened to the Five Mountains Sect some time ago, and they probably can't come over recently."

"Huh?" The group of people looked at Feng Xiruo who had been sitting there just now, and one of them said with a smile, "Master Feng, you are a smart person, I tell you, if you line up now, then in the future, maybe your Life and Death Villa can still be the largest villa in the world."

Feng Xiruo listened to these words lazily without even raising her eyelids, "Thank you for your kindness."

"But, Master Feng, you are much worse than your father." An older man in the crowd looked at Feng Xiruo and said, "Your father never stood on the wrong side in his life. I didn't expect that you are not as smart as your father at all. You have wasted his reputation in vain."

Feng Xiruo lowered his head and remained silent.

Just when everyone thought that he would not say anything else, he suddenly laughed coldly and his voice became low.

"Life and Death Villa will never stand on the wrong side."

"You..." Those people frowned slightly and looked at Feng Xiruo, "What do you mean by this?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the street become noisy again.

"People from the imperial court are coming! People from the imperial court are coming to suppress the situation!"

Those who were drinking tea in the lobby stood up suddenly.

Feng Xiruo gave them a playful look.

"That's impossible." The older man showed some panic on his face, "Didn't Huacilou block all the news? How come people from the imperial court are coming?"

"Wait, could it be..." He turned his head and glanced at Feng Xiruo who was smiling all the time. There

was silence in the lobby for a few seconds, and he suddenly rushed to the backyard to find Bai Ming.

Feng Xiruo sat down slowly, and then looked at the scenery above the street.

"Master Bai, Master Bai!" The group of people outside knocked on the door desperately, trying to let Bai Ming in the house hear their voices.

"Something big has happened. People in the imperial court actually know the news!"

From the outside, the door is just a simple door. There is nothing strange about it. When Bai Ming entered just now, he just pushed the door lightly and it opened.

However, for some reason, the door is tightly closed and cannot be opened no matter how hard they knock.

"How is it possible?" The group of people outside the door were anxious, but no matter how many times they tried, the door was as hard as a steel door, and there was no sound in the room.

"Owner! Owner!" They were dumbfounded.

...However, in a place that these people could not see.

At the door handle of the door.

——A fingerprint lock was flashing wildly there.

It kept making the sound of wrong fingerprints, which was very responsible.

If it was a real person, I'm afraid it would scold loudly now.

- You bunch of idiots, I told you that the fingerprints were wrong, why did you force it?

However, the fingerprint lock can't talk, and no one present can hear its sound.

Even in everyone's eyes, there is only a strange decoration on the door handle, and this decoration itself should have no use.

...

"How come the owner of the building was able to get in just now? We can't get in?" Someone said with a look of collapse.

He listened to the noises outside and became more and more panicked.

At this moment, even the dumbest person can roughly guess that their plan may be exposed.

No, not only were they exposed, but perhaps they were being played like fools from the beginning to the end.

One after another, a trace of fear arose in everyone's heart. It would be fine if they could contact Bai Ming, but now they couldn't even contact him.

This situation was the most powerful blow to morale.

So, everyone couldn't help but feel a little bit of the urge to retreat.

Finally.

The first person retreated slowly.

And this person's retreat was like a horn. When the others heard the horn, they couldn't help but want to retreat as well.

Feng Xiruo was wiping the table in the lobby. Before she finished wiping, she suddenly saw a group of people running past her, one after another, faster than when they came.

"I haven't even finished my tea yet. If I had known, I wouldn't have used such good tea." Feng Xiruo glanced at the steaming tea on the table and sighed.

"But it doesn't matter. Someone will get into trouble soon."

"Just think of it as a little compensation to the person who gets into trouble." As he spoke, he threw the rag into the water and washed it.

... I don't know when the chaos outside started. In the Nameless Inn, it seems that even time has slowed down.

Or maybe this place is always so quiet, like a paradise.

When the people in the inn were sitting at the table eating lunch, they suddenly heard someone running in from outside.

An Huo Sha Xi walked in while panting, "I'm so tired, I can finally take a break."

The people who were eating were very calm, no one asked her what she was busy with, and no one asked about the results.

Li Qi said lightly, "Do you want to eat something?"

"Let's eat later, it's too busy, I haven't found someone yet." An Huo Sha Xi sat down and poured herself a cup of tea, and said while drinking.

"Someone? Who?" Chu Chang Zui asked.

"Children should not interrupt when adults are talking." An Huo Sha Xi said.

"Oh." Chu Chang Zui silently lowered his head and drank another sip of soup. Li Qi raised his eyebrows and didn't say much, but smiled lightly.

After seeing Li Qi's smile, An Huoshaxi also glared at him secretly, then picked up the soup bowl and took a sip, but suddenly heard Feng Xiruo's words beside her.

"By the way, the shopkeeper seemed to have said before leaving this morning that she would give someone a gift. Is that true?"

"It seems so." Chu Changzui beside him also said, "But I don't remember it very clearly. After all, I'm just a child."

An Huoshaxi raised her head suddenly.

"The gift was put in the backyard." Li Qi said, "The shopkeeper rarely gives gifts to others, but she seems to have prepared this gift very carefully, maybe she started preparing it a long time ago."

"After all, the only person who can let the elder of the Beggar Gang collect intelligence for her is the shopkeeper." Chu Changzui beside him also said.

"I'm not like some people who don't even recognize the chief elder of the Beggar Gang and think he's just an ordinary beggar. They don't even know why he keeps hanging around them."

They talked one after another.

However, before they finished speaking, An Huoshaxi was no longer in the lobby.

The three people in the lobby were holding their own bowls and still eating slowly, as if they hadn't said anything just now.

An Huoshaxi came to the door of the small house, and for some reason she suddenly didn't dare to push the door open.

However, after a long time, she finally pushed the door open with a little force.

The shopkeeper was indeed a person who was usually not willing to express her emotions, but at this time An Huoshaxi thought, why was she willing to help herself?

When she met the pair of terrified eyes in the room, she felt that she had figured it out.

... Perhaps, it was because the shopkeeper knew the pain of being deceived and betrayed.

Just like the shopkeeper.

Although she always looked like she didn't care about anything.

However.

The shopkeeper is really worthy of being the shopkeeper.