"Tianxiang Village?" Li Mai looked at him in surprise.
Zhou Quan told her what he had just heard.
Li Mai scoffed, "I've heard of this place before. I heard it's a bandit stronghold. I never imagined that there would be people cooperating with bandits in this inn."
"Let's go find the shopkeeper," Li Mai said, and the two of them packed their things and walked towards the front hall.
Upon seeing the innkeeper, Li Mai's expression turned cold, and she said indifferently, "Innkeeper, I really didn't expect that your business, which is so large, would dare to collude with bandits in secret, trying to make money off the guests?"
The innkeeper suspected that Li Mai was trying to scam them and didn't want to pay, so his face turned cold. "Sir, are you trying to extort money from our inn?"
"Heh, you don't want to admit it? Last night, two thieves blew sleeping potion into our room in the middle of the night and searched it. If my husband and I hadn't been good at martial arts and hadn't been alerted in advance and escaped, what you see today might be our corpses."
"Furthermore, we also followed them. Those two are from Tianxiang Village. They said that a waiter from your inn named Erluzi contacted them, saying that there were fat sheep staying there. Does the innkeeper not want to admit it?"
“That’s alright, I’ll pay the rent as usual. But I’ll tell the magistrate about this and ask him to investigate the case. I’ve heard that the magistrate is a rare honest official!” After saying that, Li Mai took out a tael of silver and put it on the table, and he and Zhou Quan prepared to leave.
Upon hearing that the matter was about to be reported to the authorities, the shopkeeper became frightened and quickly stepped forward to stop Li Mai and Zhou Quan. "No, no, gentlemen, let's talk this out. Don't rush to report it to the authorities. Let me inquire about this matter. I really don't know anything about this."
"If that's really the case, I'll personally deliver this idiot to the authorities!" The shopkeeper's attitude became serious this time, and he quickly made a promise.
Li Mai nodded and sat down on a stool with Zhou Quan. "Okay, then you can ask your people!"
Soon, a waiter named Erluzi was brought in by the manager's men. After some interrogation, Erluzi couldn't withstand the manager's intimidation and confessed.
It turned out that the two people from Tianxiang Village had approached him on their own initiative. They only wanted to get some money to spend and specifically asked him to keep an eye on the wealthy people staying at the inn.
The shopkeeper was so angry that he slapped Erluzi and said he would personally escort him to the government office.
Li Mai and Zhou Quan were too lazy to care about their business, so they left directly.
How to deal with this waiter and how to resolve this matter is the innkeeper's business.
The two found a noodle shop, ate some noodles, and then drove their carriage away from Yongzhou City, heading towards Xiabei Town.
That evening, they arrived at a mountain village, put away the carriage, and strolled through the mountains, finding the winter mountain scenery to be quite charming.
As the sun set, the two stood on a hilltop, watching the sun slowly sink below the horizon.
After that, the two of them disappeared on the mountaintop.
A day later, the two arrived in Xiabei Town and stayed at an inn.
That evening, Zhou Quan used his hearing to probe around and said, "That Lord Nan already knows that the two of us have come to town."
Li Mai chuckled, "The town is small, and news really does come in concentrated areas. I wonder how the Yang family is doing now!"
"Then you rest first, and I'll go out and investigate?" Zhou Quan asked.
Li Mai shook her head. "It's none of our business. Why bother checking their house? Go to sleep. We'll go to the Zhang family tomorrow."
Zhou Quan responded with a "okay".
After washing up and locking the door, the two of them went into the space to cultivate as usual.
The spiritual energy in the space was the best cultivation resource for the two of them.
Inside the government office, Nan Anyang looked helplessly at the young woman in front of him.
He saw his wife looking up at him with a stubborn expression, and the wolf next to her was also looking up at him with the same stubborn expression.
"No, Lele, stop messing around. It's so late, everyone must be resting!" Nan Anyang said helplessly and with a headache.
Nan Anyang didn't know why his wife suddenly became so interested in that young couple. When his men reported that the couple had come to stay in town again, his youngest daughter kept pestering him to take her to meet them.
Xu Changle chuckled, then suddenly said unhappily, "You don't like me anymore, do you?"
Nan Anyang stared silently at his wife, gritting his teeth, "Say that again!"
"Hmph, if you won't take me, I'll go by myself!" After saying that, Xu Changle called out to White Wolf, "White Wolf, come on, I'll take you out to play for a few days."
After saying that, the man and the wolf opened the door and ran away.
Nan Anyang rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on, and quickly chased after him.
When the couple arrived at the inn one after the other, the innkeeper nervously led them to the room. They saw that the light had been blown out, which meant the person was asleep.
"Sir, look here, the guest seems to be asleep!" The shopkeeper quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead.
I wonder who this young couple is, that they could attract the town magistrate and his wife to come in person.
"Lele, let's go back first. They definitely won't leave tomorrow. Let's come earlier tomorrow, okay?" Nan Anyang coaxed his little woman.
Xu Changle nodded, then turned and left with the white wolf.
Ever since she heard about the method she used to help her husband examine the body that day, she had wanted to meet this woman.
Li Mai and Zhou Quan were unaware of these things while in the space.
The two got up the next day, had breakfast at the inn, and were about to leave when they met the innkeeper at the door. The innkeeper told them that the town magistrate and his wife had come to see them the night before.
Li Mai looked at Zhou Quan with surprise.
Zhou Quan nodded, "Okay, we'll go over there in a bit."
But as they were talking, two men and a wolf walked out onto the street.
White Wolf?
Ha, that's quite something, the town magistrate's wife actually keeps a wolf!
Upon seeing them approach, Li Mai and Zhou Quan first bowed to the professor.
The professor waved his hand, "You two don't need to be so polite. My wife heard you were here and wanted to meet your wife..."
"call!"
Just as Professor Nan was exchanging polite words, the white wolf beside Xu Changle suddenly rushed towards Li Mai like a gust of wind.
However, the next moment, a strange scene occurred. When the white wolf was only a foot away from Li Mai, it suddenly braked sharply, turned around, and hurriedly returned to Xu Changle's side.
He even hid behind her back, secretly peeking out with one eye to watch Zhou Quan next to Li Mai.
It initially liked the scent emanating from Li Mai and wanted to pounce on her to rub against her. However, a sudden burst of flames, seemingly designed to scorch its wolf soul, rushed straight towards its face. The white wolf quickly fled back.
It thought that if it was too slow to escape, it might become roasted wolf meat.
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