If Song Tantan could hear them talking, she would definitely find their words very familiar, as if she had heard them said before.
Who else could it be but Zhang Qingyu and Zhang Qingling from back then? However, the Zhang sisters' fates were clearly much worse than those of the Bai sisters, and their demeanor was also inferior to that of the Bai sisters.
Of course, it's also possible that the Bai family was better off than the Zhang family. The Bai sisters hadn't suffered the calamity of losing their family, so they didn't experience any sense of loss or unbearable trauma.
People like Zhang Qingling are a classic example of "even the most hateful person has a pitiable side." Her family was destroyed, and she couldn't handle the shock, which drove her insane.
Just as Chen Shi (7-9 AM) was about to pass, Song Tantan had just set up her makeshift bed on the floor and was about to lie down to sleep when she heard someone downstairs banging on the door. Indeed, the force with which the person knocked on the door was no different from banging on it.
The shopkeepers are all dead, yet people are checking in at the shop in the middle of the night. Should we let them in or not?
Song Zhuiyan was almost asleep when she heard the noise and opened her eyes with a start. "What happened?"
"Someone must be checking in." There are very few guests in this desolate place. There have only been two groups of people since yesterday. This is the third group. They are probably just passing through. It's just too late.
"Judging from the force of the knocking and that raspy voice, the person coming doesn't seem like a good person. Everyone be careful." Song Zhuiyan sat up in bed and quickly took out a large knife from her spatial storage and placed it beside her.
Song Tantan even took more than a dozen insecticide sprays from the supermarket and placed them in front of her, saying, "If a fight breaks out later, I might not be able to protect you. If someone breaks in, just blow them up. I'll call Taishan and a few dogs over to protect you and the baby."
"It shouldn't be that serious." Song Zhuiyan found the tense atmosphere somewhat amusing.
"Just in case, we can't afford to let anything happen to anyone." Song Tantan felt it was very necessary. Her aunt was now the key person to protect, carrying the precious child of the Zhong, Song, and Ye families.
Unable to persuade her otherwise, Song Zhuiyan cuddled a bunch of spray cans that could be used as weapons and went to sleep. Well, in this state, she had no intention of sleeping, so she simply got up and walked around to loosen up her muscles and bones, so that she could deal with the situation in time if a fight really broke out.
"Knock knock." Ye Mo quickly came over. "Tantan, Auntie, are you asleep?"
Song Tantan went over to open the door and let him in to talk. "I was just about to go to sleep when someone came to check in. We were worried that they might have ill intentions, so my aunt and I were discussing how to deal with them."
Glancing at the bottles and jars on the bed, Ye Moxun's lips twitched. "What's the point of having these cumbersome things? If the person who comes is really a villain, just use poison. Why bother fighting them?"
Song Tantan: "What you said makes sense. Once we find something is wrong, we should poison them directly. It's better to strike first than to wait and see."
"Let's go downstairs and take a look first." Before even seeing the person, they're already thinking about how to kill them. How come they seem even more ruthless than the previous shady shop owner?
Ye Moxun whistled, and Taishan and several other dogs darted in through the window, wagging their tails at the three of them. Ye Moxun stroked Taishan's head a few times and whispered to it to take good care of Song Zhuiyan.
Taishan let out a low growl to indicate that it understood.
Ye Moxun and Song Tantan came out of the room and were about to go downstairs when they saw Bai Zhiyan and her sister standing in the corridor with three guards, looking at them as if they were waiting for them.
"Young Master Ye, what are you planning to do?" Bai Zhiyan asked in a low voice, clearly afraid that the person knocking on the door downstairs would hear.
The Bai sisters wanted to communicate with them beforehand to ensure they told the same story and avoid any slip-ups that could cause unnecessary trouble.
"Let's open the door first. These people won't give up until they get in. We'll do it like this..." Ye Moxun explained his idea, and seeing that everyone agreed, he and Song Tantan went down to open the door.
"Open the door, shopkeeper! What's going on? I've been knocking for ages and no one's come to open the door. Open the door now!" The person outside was knocking harder and harder. It seemed like if no one opened the door soon, they were going to tear it down.
"Boom!" Thunder rumbled in the sky again, the thunder so loud it seemed as if the entire sky was being torn apart and shattered.
The weather these past two days has been quite strange. During the day, it's sunny and bright, but at night it starts to thunder and pour rain. No wonder people who are sleeping on the streets have to go into guesthouses to take shelter from the rain.
"Here I come, stop knocking, it's the middle of the night and you're trying to call my soul back." Song Tantan's voice was high-pitched and shrill, which sounded very harsh.
Ye Moxun, with his unremarkable face, glanced at the person next to him with a twitch of his lips, his expression a mixture of helplessness and amusement.
At this moment, both of them had changed their appearances. Ye Moxun was dressed as a middle-aged man, wearing the clothes of the previous shopkeeper. Song Tantan was dressed as the proprietress, but she was only 1.55 meters tall, not fully developed, and had a very slender figure. Coupled with her somewhat dark and ugly face, she was simply indescribable.
I don't know why she likes to make herself look ugly whenever she changes her appearance. Is it because she thinks her original appearance is too beautiful and she's tired of seeing it, so she likes to see her looking ugly?
But she disguised herself for others to see; she couldn't see it herself unless she looked in a mirror.
However, Ye Moxun also dressed up a bit ugly this time. He had a mustache on his lips and chin, some white hair mixed in at his temples, and his face was a bit dark. But it matched Song Tantan's current image quite well.
As Ye Moxun opened the inn's door, he stood hunched over, blocking the view of the rain pouring in. He raised his sleeve to shield himself, but had to move aside.
He shouted in a rough voice, "If you're going to come in, hurry up! This rain is going to flood the living room. What are you doing rushing around in this awful weather?"
A large group of burly men, more than twenty in total, arrived carrying many boxes with the words "Da Chang Escort Agency" written on them. It turned out they were a caravan escorting goods.
The first to enter was a burly man who was banging on the door. He was probably the head of the escort team. After listening to Ye Moxun's nagging, his face darkened even more. They had been in the rain for half an hour, and their faces were red from being hit by large raindrops. They were also escorting the goods and were cold, hungry, and tired.
After finally arriving here, I saw an inn, but no one answered the door after knocking for ages. When they finally did open the door, their attitude was terrible. This is no business; they act like they own the place.
"How can you talk like that, innkeeper? It's not like we're not paying for our stay. It's not easy being away from home, especially with this torrential rain. Please, have someone boil some water so I can take a hot bath, bring a few jars of wine, and cook some dishes. Here's the silver, take it and hurry up." The head镖师 threw Ye Moxun a five-tael silver coin.
Is this considered a tip or payment for the hotel room?
Ye Moxun put the silver into his sleeve, walked behind the counter and sat down, saying in a hoarse voice, "Do it yourself. If you want to boil water for bathing, cook, or drink, do it yourself. Our inn doesn't have waiters, and there are no cooks in the kitchen."
Everyone: "..." What kind of inn is this?
"What are you looking at? This is how our shop is. Take it or leave it." When Song Tantan saw the head镖师 and the others looking at her, she immediately retorted in a high-pitched voice.
The head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) felt a lump in his throat, his anger rising immediately. He grabbed Song Tantan by the collar and said, "You go to the kitchen right now and cook! My brothers and I are cold and hungry, how can we have the energy to cook? You're the shopkeeper, we pay you, you do the work."
The other bodyguards also drew their swords upon seeing this. This innkeeper was being unreasonable and wouldn't listen to reason. If they weren't taught a lesson, he wouldn't know who he was. What kind of person would it be if he opened an inn and didn't serve his guests?
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