The Legend of the Condor Heroes: I became one of the Five Great Masters by drawing cards
Chapter 81: Secret Room of the Wild Inn
Chapter 81: Secret Room of the Wild Inn
"Why is there human habitation in such a deserted village?"
Mu Nianci looked at the faint smoke coming out of the chimney on the roof and couldn't help wondering.
Gu Ping'an also pretended not to know, tied the horse in front of the house, and gently knocked on the door.
Although the door was closed, it had fallen into disrepair and was not bolted. He only knocked once and it creaked open by itself.
A girl with disheveled hair and clothes came out from the back kitchen, staring blankly at the two people outside the door with her round eyes.
She looked unintelligent, with a thorny hairpin in her hair. Perhaps because her hands were stained with stove ash, she accidentally left a few black marks on her cheeks, making her look like a tabby cat.
"Miss, are you the owner of this shop?" Gu Ping'an asked knowingly.
The girl blinked and shook her head blankly.
Seeing that her expression was not normal, Mu Nianci asked patiently, "Sister, is there anyone else in your family?"
"I don't know," the girl continued to shake her head, then smiled innocently, "Hey, sister, you are so beautiful, so beautiful."
She was clearly a few years older than Mu Nianci, but she addressed her as sister, unable to even tell the elder from the younger.
Gu Pingan pinched his eyebrows and sighed: "I'm afraid this is a silly girl"
The girl didn't wait for him to finish. She grinned and laughed, "How do you know my name? My name is Shagu, which is a very nice name!"
When Mu Nianci heard her "name", she found it funny at first, but suddenly felt a little distressed.
She looked around and saw that the room was full of dust and cobwebs, the doors and windows were broken and leaking drafts, and there was only a tattered mat on the bed, not even a decent quilt.
It's okay in the middle of summer, but if it's winter, I don't know how she can survive.
She stepped forward and took Shagu's hand, not caring that her fingers and palms were dark, and asked softly, "Where are your parents?"
"Mom and Dad? They died a long time ago!" The silly girl sobbed twice, but not a single tear fell.
She only knew that she should cry at this time, but she didn't know what sadness felt like.
Mu Nianci pursed her lips, took out a clean white handkerchief from her bosom, and wanted to wipe the stove ash off her face.
"Oh no! That's terrible!"
Before she could wipe it twice, Sha Gu suddenly screamed, broke free and ran towards the kitchen.
When she was young, she learned some self-defense martial arts from Qu Lingfeng. Mu Nianci didn't use much strength, but she was still able to break free.
"She has kung fu!"
Mu Nianci has been traveling around the world with Gu Ping'an for several months. Although she is still kind, she is no longer as blind as before and suddenly becomes alert.
"Be careful, she might be pretending to be crazy!"
"It's okay, let's go and take a look." Gu Ping'an was very satisfied with her reaction. He protected her and "carefully" entered the kitchen.
All the firewood in the stove was pulled out and scattered aside. Sha Gu reached out to stir the brown rice in the pot, not even caring about the heat, with a look of grievance on her dirty face.
She had lit the fire too brightly, and the rice should have been out of the pot long ago, but in the time it took her to speak a few words, half of it had already been burnt.
She was so heartbroken that she burst into tears, and she felt even sadder than when she mentioned that her parents had died.
After dispelling her doubts, Mu Nianci quickly pulled her hand out of the pot, and Gu Pingan also stepped on the firewood that was about to ignite the hay.
"The pot is so hot, how can you eat it with your hands?"
Seeing that her hands were burned red, Mu Nianci quickly helped her soak them in the water jar next to her, and couldn't help complaining.
"Oh my food."
"This place is not far from Lin'an. You take care of it first. I'll go buy some food to compensate her."
"Okay, hurry up and come back."
Gu Ping'an nodded and left, using his Qing Gong to speed northeast towards the Houchao Gate. Using Qing Gong for short distances was faster than riding a horse. The round trip was only twenty miles, and including the time spent buying food, it took Gu Ping'an less than half an hour.
Worried that the Hu pancakes would be hard to swallow, he even brought back two roast chickens.
When I entered the shop, it had already been cleaned briefly, with the dust on the tables and cobwebs in the corners cleared away.
Sha Gu sat obediently on a bench, her face was wiped clean, the blisters on her hands were pricked and carefully wrapped with a torn scarf.
It's really the Southern Song Dynasty version of the Snail Girl.
Gu Ping'an sighed inwardly and asked, "Silly girl, where is your sister?"
"Not my elder sister!" Sha Gu showed an expression that said "you are so stupid", "It's Sister Mu, I am the elder sister!"
Gu Pingan was at a loss for words and coaxed, "Okay, okay, then where did your sister Mu go?"
As he was asking, Mu Nianci came out of the kitchen with a serious look on her face.
"Brother Ping'an, come here and take a look."
Gu Ping'an thought for a moment and immediately guessed what she had discovered. He put the paper bag in his hand on the table and followed her into the kitchen.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, he was hit by a foul smell. Even though Mu Nianci had opened the window to ventilate the room, the smell still lingered for a long time.
I saw that the place where the cupboard should be had turned into a dark hole.
"I just wanted to wash the dishes, but I found a trap in the cupboard. I didn't dare go in rashly, so I waited here for you to come back."
Mu Nianci pointed at the dark cave.
"That cupboard looks like it hasn't been touched in years. I've already tested Silly Girl, but she probably knows nothing about it."
Gu Ping'an secretly thought that she was thoughtful, which saved him the trouble of running over to "discover" the entrance mechanism of the secret room.
He nodded, took out a tinder and shook it at the entrance of the cave to make sure that the foul air was gone, then leaned over and crawled in.
Mu Nianci was worried that he was in danger, so she paused for two breaths to give him space to dodge before following him in.
"what!"
There were no more harmful traps in the cave. She looked over Gu Ping'an's shoulder and saw a dead skeleton neatly placed on the ground. She couldn't help but scream.
"Don't be afraid." Gu Ping'an held her hand behind his back and walked forward again.
In addition to the skeleton lying on the ground, there was another one at the end of the secret room, lying on a large iron box, nailed to the iron box lid with a sharp knife.
"Could this place have been a shady shop in the past?" Mu Nianci was led by her, feeling relieved and asked bravely.
"Hard to say."
Gu Ping'an shook his head slightly and pointed at the corpse lying on the box.
"Look, that man seemed to be trying to open the iron box, but was attacked from behind and stabbed to death; as for the man on the ground...
He squatted down again to check.
"His ribs were all broken. He must have been killed by a powerful palm strike. This scene looks a bit like an internal conflict, a fight to the death."
Mu Nianci looked around as he said, and her sharp eyes noticed something on the ground, sparkling in the light of the fire.
"There seems to be something next to the box."
Gu Ping'an went forward to pick it up. It felt heavy in his hand. It turned out to be a pure gold waist badge.
"Shi Yanming, the Imperially Appointed Military Officer and the Protector of Zhongzhou, is in charge of the imperial weapons." He read by the light of the fire, "Surprisingly, he's even a fifth-rank official."
Mu Nianci was puzzled when she heard this: "Why would an official in the imperial court run a shady shop?"
Suddenly found that I can post pictures
(End of this chapter)
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