Jiang Yue sat by the window, her eyebrows lowered, and her white knuckles tapped the windowsill lightly. "Tell me, is there anyone in those houses in the backyard?"
Jiang Nian walked over and found the door of the largest room was ajar. A pair of eyes appeared in the darkness, staring at them.
"Someone, but I can't tell."
She was surprised and turned back to look at him, "Even you can't explain it clearly?"
He frowned, "The smell of blood here is quite strong. Including that fellow, I can smell the breath of at least three strangers and countless other scents."
"But this is an inn, and maybe the smell is left by previous guests. That's why I said I couldn't tell exactly how many people are in this inn right now."
After hearing this, Jiang Yue wanted to burn some yellow paper.
"Why did he keep us here? To eat meat? But he looks normal, and the way he looks at us is normal."
After eating human flesh for a long time, their facial features will change, becoming bloated and swollen like the people in the small town. They will also emit a rotten smell.
Today's fellows had no distinctive features. Apart from being better off than the disaster victims, they looked like ordinary people. The look in their eyes was that of a simple thief who wanted to rob money and food, not outright greed.
Jiang Nian checked the furnishings in the room and found no smell of blood.
"Shall we take a break?"
The mule would need about two days to recover from its injuries. Before then, they couldn't leave. The time in space couldn't be wasted carelessly; it had to be saved to save lives.
"sleep!"
Jiang Yue spread out a mat, took off her coat, and pulled him down to sleep.
In the backyard house, the guy slammed the rag in his hand and said, "Damn it! You're treating me like a monkey!"
Old Wu lay in bed, feeling sleepy and hungry. "Aren't all these rich young men and women like this?"
"They'll be cooked sooner or later!"
The big black man leaning quietly in the corner reminded, "We have to send people over, we can't kill anyone."
The guy spat on the ground, "Then I'll have to squeeze them all out!"
The big black man spoke again, "Rich families usually bring servants with them. I just saw these two people traveling alone. They didn't have a carriage, no luggage, and they were carrying a bamboo basket. Their linen clothes were tattered. Are you sure you can really squeeze anything out of them?"
"Don't waste your time on beggars like you did before."
A few days ago, they worked hard to welcome the whole family in, and treated them to delicious food and drinks. Not only did they waste food, they also served them like dogs.
It turns out that these guys are just beggars who take clothes and shoes from the rich and even pay for the room on credit. They just rely on their mouths to cheat people.
The most infuriating thing is that they worked so hard to send the person up, but they actually said they didn’t want him!
They lost all their dignity and humiliation, and buried the entire family alive in a vicious manner.
When the guy saw that the big black guy was talking about something irrelevant, his face became even gloomier.
"Today they fed the mule steamed buns and cakes, and also a can of water! Our well only draws half a bowl of water a day! Only a rich kid would dare to do this."
Lao Wu swallowed his saliva. "Mantou, damn, what a luxury! I haven't eaten soft and fragrant mantou in months."
The big black guy's lips were chapped. He licked the blood on them to moisten his throat. "Then let's get started soon."
"They don't want to eat or drink now, let's see how long they can last!" The guy looked vicious.
Until nightfall, except for the man who went downstairs to feed the mule, the two men were so strange that they didn't leave the house or order any food or drink!
Could it be that there was really a lot of food in the backpack? He said there was no food, so where did he get a bag of beans to feed the mules? Are they kidding me?!
The guys had been guarding for a whole day and were furious. Seeing that the man was not easy to deal with, they originally wanted to give him some knockout drugs to save themselves the trouble and avoid bloodshed and the disapproval of their superiors.
Since they won't give us a chance, we'll just force our way in!
The three were about to go upstairs when someone came up the street outside.
There was a knock on the door, a trembling voice, "Is there anyone inside?"
They looked at each other, and Lao Wu and the big black guy went back to the back room first.
The guy went to open the door and smiled, "Yes."
There was also a young couple outside the door, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with fresh faces and little experience in the world. They watched the person coming out of the dark shop with a trembling heart.
"Boss, we want to stay in the hotel."
The waiter smiled warmly, "We have room service now, 10 pancakes a night."
Such a friendly attitude made the two of them let down their guard.
"We have no food. Can we give you silver?"
The guy was a little disappointed, but food would be the best, and he didn't want anything except copper coins. If he didn't have food, gold and silver would be fine.
"Sure, 10 taels of silver a night."
The young couple felt relieved and took out 10 taels of silver from their purse.
The darkness concealed their greedy looks, and they followed the waiter upstairs unconsciously.
There are no guest rooms on the first floor, and the creaking sound of the wooden floor ends in the first room on the second floor.
Jiang Yue and the others opened their eyes and sat up. Are they starting to take action?
She took out steamed buns, one for each of them. They had slept for most of the day and needed to fill their stomachs.
She sat at the window, looking down through the half-open crack, and whispered, "Two men, one tall and one short, came up with knives."
There was a new carriage in the yard, and there were three sounds coming up the stairs, indicating that two new guests had arrived.
Jiang Nian sat by the door, chewing a steamed bun quietly, his ears moving slightly.
The two men's footsteps were heavier, and they also disappeared into the first room.
Half an hour later, several people went downstairs.
No smell of blood.
Jiang Yue: "Three people, they went back to the back room and got the money and a bag of beans."
Are they thinking too much? Are they really just robbing money and food?
Then why bother entertaining them? Wouldn’t it be better to just treat them like new guests?
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