“Huh?”
Song Wangyue looked at the people lining up in the distance, “When I was with Gu Yi ……”
Hearing her mention Gu Yi’s name, Song Shen’s heart trembled and he hurriedly interrupted her, “I think it’s getting late, let’s hurry up and find an inn to stay.”
Song Wan Yue collected her words and nodded her head.
Song Shen let down the curtain and regretted that he shouldn’t have been curious and caused his little sister to think of Gu Yi again.
It was not until the carriage stopped in front of an inn that Song Shen let out a long sigh of relief, jumped off the carriage, turned around and helped Song Wan Yue down, entered the inn and asked for two upper rooms and two ordinary rooms.
After settling in, Song Wangyue called for her guard and gave him a silver ticket to buy five snow maidens.
The guard took the silver tickets and left the inn, only to return half an hour later, placing the snow maidens and the rest of the silver tickets on the table in front of Song Wangyue.
Song Wangyue told him to take four and split them, while she picked up the remaining one and went next door to knock on the door.
Song Shen was staying at the inn for the first time, everything was very strange, he looked all over the house and was now lying at the window looking at the street outside, when he heard the knock on the door, he quickly came over and opened it.
Song Wangyue handed the snow maiden to him, “The guards bought it, second brother quickly try it.”
Surprisingly, it was soft, Song Shen took it with curiosity and carefully took a bite, his eyes instantly lit up, not only was it soft but also elastic.
“This, this is too amazing.”
He thought the snacks sold in the county were the best, but he didn’t expect there to be anything like this.
“Is it delicious?”
Song Shen nodded his head repeatedly, not daring to eat too quickly, biting into it little by little.
Song Wan Yue laughed as she watched, “Our pastry shop in the capital has all kinds of rare pastries, let’s go there when big brother gets married and let you have enough.”
Song Shen suddenly became excited, the snow maiden in his mouth almost spurted out, “I, I can also go to the capital?”
“That’s natural, our whole family is going to be there for big brother’s wedding.”
Song Shen jumped up and down in excitement, “I can go too, that’s great.”
Seeing his joyful appearance, Song Wan Yue smiled.
Two people entered the inn, one of them carrying a bag in his hand, and the moment he entered he looked up towards the room where Song Wan Yue and Song Shen were staying and pointed to the room next to Song Shen, “We’ll come to that one.”
Seeing that the two were dressed as people from the capital, the fellow looked at them twice, and after they had paid for the room, led them upstairs.
Passing by the entrance to Song Shen’s room, the two men glanced inside at the same time.
Song Wan Yue also happened to look over, and when their eyes met, they hurriedly withdrew their gaze, and Song Wan Yue narrowed her eyes, got up, and went to close the door of the room.
Song Shen was busy taking the last bite of Xue Mei Niang into his mouth and did not see the two people who had just passed by.
“Second Brother ……”
Song Shen looked at her.
Song Wan Yue swallowed back the words that were on her lips, “Have an early rest after eating, we’ll go back early tomorrow morning.”
“I know.”
……
It was late at night and the inn was quiet, all the guests had fallen into a deep sleep and the night watchman had fallen asleep on the counter.
The door of the room next to Song Shen’s was quietly opened, two people poked their heads out, looked around, there was no movement, pushed the door open, quietly came out of the room, first tiptoeing to Song Wan Yue’s room door, ear to the door, heard even breathing from inside, returned to Song Shen’s room, one person looked around vigilantly, the other stood in front of the door, grabbed the sharp knife in his sleeve, pushed the door open a crack, put the lit incense into the door, wait for the incense to burn. The other stood in front of the door, grabbed the sharp knife in his sleeve, plucked the door open a crack, stuffed the lit incense inside, waited for it to burn out, then nodded towards the other.
The other man quickly went back inside, carried the bundle out, entered the house, put the bundle under Song Shen’s bed, then crept out, closed the door and went back into their house.
Song Wangyue opened her eyes, got up and walked to the door, stood quietly for a moment, before quietly opening the door and coming out, walking to Song Shen’s door, quietly pushing it open, dodging in and closing the door again quickly.
The smell of incense in the room had not yet completely dissipated, and Song Shen fell into a deep sleep.
Song Wan Yue’s gaze wandered around the room and finally landed under the bed. She walked over and bent down and saw the bundle underneath, peeked in and took it out, carried it in her hand, went back to her room, placed it on the window and opened it.
Song Wangyue picked them up and counted them, fifteen in total.
She put them in her arms, tied the bag, stretched out her arm and threw them under the window of the other room.
The bundle fell to the ground with a slight thud.
The two people who had just lain down in the house there heard it and jumped in fright, sitting up subconsciously.
“You, did you hear any movement?”
One of them asked in a lowered voice.
“Listen, I heard it, well, it sounded like something falling to the ground.”
The two men looked at each other in the darkness and the one closer to the window quickly got up and went to the window and opened it to look down; it was so dark that nothing could be seen.
“Should, should we go down and have a look?”
The man was unsure of himself, how could someone throw something when everyone in the inn was asleep and it sounded so close to their room.
“No, I think we’re just being paranoid.”
The man who spoke closed the window.
“We’d better be careful, there’s quite a lot of silver tickets inside, if something goes wrong, the boss won’t be able to spare us.”
“Do you want to wake up everyone in the inn?”
The man choked.
The two of them didn’t know martial arts, so if they wanted to go out and see, they would have to go out through the inn’s door, and at this hour even the fellows were asleep, so if they were to go out, they would surely make a commotion.
“Don’t forget what we’re here for, if we make a commotion at this hour, we won’t be able to act in the morning.”
Thinking of their mission, the man fell silent and went back to lie in bed.
……
The next day, at dawn, a shout spread throughout the inn.
“Ah ……”
The fellow who was sleeping on the counter woke up with a start, and before he could look up, he heard a panicked cry, “The baggage, where is our baggage?”
The baggage was lost?
Before he could reach the door, two men came out of the room and shouted at him, “There are thieves, there are thieves in the inn, they have stolen our baggage!”
The guests were awakened and poked their heads out to see.
The mate’s face went white and he went downstairs in a panic to call out to the innkeeper, who hadn’t even had time to button his clothes and hurried over to see one of them with a pale face slumped on the floor, “There are 15,000 taels of silver cheques inside, that’s the money we brothers borrowed for our business.”
Fifteen thousand taels
The shopkeeper also turned pale and panicked, instructing his men, “Go and report it to the police!”