Ye Moxun: "..."
Song Tantan lifted the carriage curtain and saw him standing there with his brows furrowed, seemingly lost in thought. "What's wrong?" she asked. She quickly helped him down so she could help her aunt down as well.
“This is a shady business. I’m considering whether to go in.” Ye Moxun looked at her, seeking her opinion with his eyes.
"How many of them are there?" Song Tantan asked.
Ye Mo inquired with the system and, after receiving the answer, said, "There are currently three people in the inn: a manager, a beautiful landlady, and a waiter."
Three thugs? Dealing with them would be a piece of cake.
"However, there are also a dozen or so bandits who are with them. When they make their move at night, those dozen or so people will come to help." Ye Moxun added the information provided by the system.
"What are these dozen or so people doing here to help?" Are they going to help kill and dismember the body?
Song Tantan considered that Song Zhuiyan was pregnant, and if she accidentally disturbed the fetus, it would be a great loss. So, she decided that it would be safer to find a safe place to pitch a tent and spend the night there.
But just as she was about to speak, a thunderous boom resounded in the sky, shaking the ground beneath her feet. The weather was unpredictable; the heavens changed their tune too quickly, catching her off guard.
"Tell the dogs to be alert, we still need to stay." If we don't stay, we'll get soaked in the rain, and it looks like a downpour is about to start. There's no dilapidated temple or anything like that nearby, so staying at an inn is the only option.
A shady shop, huh? Fine, we'll just double-cross them, cough.
At this moment, Song Tantan felt a little disgusted with her space. If she could bring people in, it would be great if those people wouldn't become stupid or die. Unfortunately, when God opens a door for you, He always closes a window.
"I can bring people into the space, but unfortunately I can't go in myself." Song Zhuiyan can grow crops and vegetables in the space, and her body is as real as a physical entity, but her real body is sleeping outside. It's too ridiculous.
"Stop talking nonsense, let's go inside and see what happens." In the blink of an eye, large raindrops began to fall, stinging their faces.
"Hey, are you here for a meal or to stay the night, sir?" The waiter, with a cloth slung over his shoulder, greeted them warmly.
With this awful weather, it goes without saying that we're staying at a hotel. Who would eat dinner late at night and then brave the rain to travel? That's so unprofessional. It's definitely a rip-off.
"Let's grab a bite." Song Tantan deliberately contradicted him.
The waiter's smile froze, perhaps realizing he'd misspoke, but he quickly regained his composure and greeted them with a smile, "What would you like to eat? We have fried rice with eggs, stir-fried vegetables, and steamed buns..."
They ordered several dishes, but none of them were meat. Do they only know how to cook vegetarian food?
Even if this is a shady business, this is too perfunctory. Oh well, they won't eat here anyway. Song Tantan casually said, "Three of everything. Are there any guest rooms upstairs? We'll have two. Bring the food directly to your room when it's ready."
He just said he wanted a bite to eat, and now he wants to stay at the inn. This guy is shameless, the waiter thought to himself.
Song Tantan: No matter how thick it is, it's not as thick as yours. You've got them all under your thumb because they can't leave in the rain, so you don't even want to act. You just give them a few perfunctory words to get rid of them.
They booked two rooms. The innkeeper originally arranged for Ye Moxun's room to be far away, but Song Tantan immediately lost her temper, "Is the upstairs full or what? We came together, so give us two adjacent rooms."
"They're all full, just these last two rooms." The innkeeper said with a forced smile, as if this would prove he wasn't lying and that there really weren't any extra rooms available.
The subtext is: take it or leave it.
Song Tantan wanted to say something, but Song Zhuiyan stopped her. It wasn't a good time to make a scene, lest they alert the enemy. It would be better to wait until the other dozen or so people arrived in the middle of the night before dealing with them together.
"Alright, let's go upstairs first. Have the waiter boil three buckets of hot water and bring them up. We need to take a bath. Also, bring up dinner at the same time. Don't delay us." After giving these instructions, Song Tantan helped Song Zhuiyan upstairs.
Ye Moxun didn't say a word the whole time, and now he silently followed the two of them upstairs.
The waiter led the person to a room upstairs and then left.
"Why did you order so much food? We're not going to eat it." Song Zhuiyan sat on the edge of the bed and said in a low voice.
"Let's give them something to do, so they won't keep staring at us all the time." Song Tantan chuckled, just a little prank.
After checking the room thoroughly and finding no problems, Song Tantan sat down at the table with peace of mind. She took out a thermos from her spatial storage and handed it to Song Zhuiyan. They wouldn't touch anything from the inn; what kind of food didn't the supermarket have?
"This room only has a bed, a table, and a few chairs. What's there to check?" It's not like modern places where you can install listening devices or surveillance cameras.
"Of all the ships that sail carefully, caution is always the best policy." With that, Song Tantan got up again and tapped and banged on all four walls, even sparing the floorboards, and then listened intently after each tap.
"This is upstairs, could there be a secret mechanism here?" Song Zhuiyan was utterly speechless.
"Never underestimate the intelligence of the ancients; they were very clever," Song Tantan said seriously.
After the waiter brought the food up, he said he would go and bring them hot water. After the waiter left, Song Tantan put the food into her spatial storage and pretended that she had eaten it all.
Even without Ye Moxun's appraisal, she could smell that there was something wrong with the food. Although she wasn't a professional, she had identified so many herbs with Ye Moxun and had smelled a lot of them, so she could still identify a mere sleeping potion.
After calling Ye Moxun over to keep Song Zhuiyan company, Song Tantan went out to investigate. Dressed in black and with her face covered, she checked every room in the inn and found that there were no other customers besides the three of them.
When she returned to her room and told Ye Moxun and Song Zhuiyan the news, she heard a commotion downstairs. It sounded like more guests had arrived, and quite a few of them at that.
"I'll go take a look." Before Song Tantan finished speaking, she had already run out of the room.
However, she quickly returned and swiftly closed the door. "Ten people have arrived, including two girls disguised as men, each with two maids and four guards. This makes things easier; we have help now."
It seems those people all know martial arts. I don't know if their arrival is good or bad. Originally, Song Tantan could do whatever she wanted with the space, but with outsiders around, she has to be careful.
"We should play it by ear. Having more people is always a good thing. Besides, the other party all know kung fu. Maybe the shopkeeper won't dare to make a move because there are so many of them," Song Zhuiyan said optimistically.
My niece meant that this shop specializes in murder and robbery, and may have even made human flesh buns or something. It's an utterly heinous place, so we might as well just put them in the supermarket and let them out, and they'll become idiots, completely at our mercy.
Or they could be taken back to their hometown, but going there would mean certain death.
Song Zhuiyan disagreed, "It will not only dirty your hands, but also the space. I still need to farm back in my hometown and occasionally stay there. Supermarkets are full of food. It's one thing to put animals there, but putting people there is just disgusting."
From now on, every time I eat something, I'll think of it again. It's impossible to eat food that was stored with some idiots.
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