The Four Artifacts: Qinglong Sword

Pan Suxuan looked back, the innkeeper was standing behind him with a smile on his face. "The guest officer's room is in the east courtyard, please come here!"

Pan Suxuan thought: "Since Nian Tong wants to live outside so much, I won't hold her back and make her angry." So she nodded and said, "Okay, lead the way."

The size of the inn is small, and you will arrive at the east courtyard through a moon gate. The layout of the courtyard is simple, and some flowers and plants are randomly planted around, which looks very ordinary. Lush and lush, it seems quite aura.

The shopkeeper greeted Pan Suxuan to the guest room facing under the pine tree, turned around and said with a smile: "Guest officer, this is your room, and the master's room is next door. Are you satisfied with it?"

Pan Suxuan opened the door and entered the room. Although the room was not big, it was clean and tidy. When he went to the back room, he saw that his luggage was neatly placed by the bedside, and the long sword was also leaning against the bedside.

Pan Suxuan felt a little strange, and thought to himself: "The room in the backyard has been vacated, and the luggage is not lost, so why arrange a new room for us to live here?" Just as he was about to ask a question, Zhao Niantong's voice came from next door, " Well, it's okay, but the room is a bit small, so let's make do with it. By the way, where is the young man who came with me?"

Pan Suxuan walked to the next door when he heard the sound, and said with a smile: "Young Master Zhao, what a coincidence?! You are really a confidant in the sea, and you are like neighbors at the end of the world!" Zhao Niantong pretended to be angry: "Huh!? Who wants to be your neighbor? Boss, there are others Room? I want to transfer!"

The shopkeeper said: "Guest officer, there is really no other place besides these two rooms. The day after tomorrow is the last day of the wedding ring, and the inns in the whole city are already full, so these two rooms are still small. Yes, you just stay here first, and I will change it for you as soon as there is a vacancy, do you think so?!"

Pan Suxuan said: "Brother Zhao, you are so tired of me, I don't want to force others, why don't you stay here, I'm going back home." After finishing speaking, he pretended to leave.Zhao Niantong said loudly: "Don't go! Are you willing to live here with me?!"

Pan Suxuan turned around and said with a smile: "Of course I am willing, isn't Brother Zhao unwilling to live next to me?" master?!"

Pan Suxuan smiled sheepishly, took out two pieces of silver, and said to the shopkeeper: "Just these two rooms, this is the difference in price for you, and buy some snacks, wine and vegetables." The shopkeeper took the silver, nodded and bowed back. go down.

Pan Suxuan walked into Zhao Niantong's room, carefully inspected the layout inside and out, and found that it was no different from his own room. Luggage and long sword were also placed on the bedside, and nothing unusual was found.Seeing Pan Suxuan wandering around in and out of the room, Zhao Niantong asked angrily, "What are you looking at? If you think this room is good, we can exchange it. You live here, and I'll go next door."

Pan Suxuan ignored it, brought Zhao Niantong's luggage over, and said to him: "Niantong, can you see if you lost anything?" Zhao Niantong took the luggage, opened it, looked up, and said: "Everything is there, what I didn't lose either."

Pan Suxuan frowned slightly, and murmured, "Strange, what is the innkeeper's intention in doing this?"

Zhao Niantong said disdainfully: "When you went to the toilet, the boss told me. He said that our room hadn't been checked in for a long time, and the rooms in the city were so tight recently that he rented them out to other guests. It's understandable for him to do so. , businessman, no profiteering, always trying to make money. As a result, those people did not live in, but just put a lot of luggage. Now we come back to check in, the boss feels very guilty, so he vacated two upper rooms Compensate us, that's all."

Pan Suxuan nodded, and said: "It sounds reasonable, but I think it's still a little weird." Zhao Niantong asked: "Where is the weirdness?! I think you are the weirdest. Since you came down from the mountain, you have always been sneaky, Suspicious."

Pan Suxuan said: "It's not that I'm suspicious, I'm here to ask you, how much luggage did you and I bring down the mountain?" Zhao Niantong was puzzled and said, "Why do you ask this? You brought one package, I brought two, and two more A long sword, two horses, some taels of silver, that's all."

Pan Suxuan said: "That's right, you and I have so much luggage. But guess how much luggage the guests staying in our room brought?"

Zhao Niantong shook his head and said: "How do you guess? If there are many people, it is normal to bring a few more packages." Pan Suxuan said: "How many people can be accommodated in two guest rooms? I saw it when the man was carrying the luggage. A total of eight large boxes were moved out of the room, and each box was not light, and only four people could lift it out together. If it is true as the shopkeeper said, this box contains only luggage, then the luggage of all guests in this inn It should all be here."

When Zhao Niantong heard it, he also became interested, and said in a low voice: "Brother, what do you think are in those boxes? Could it be a batch of gold and silver treasures?"

Pan Suxuan shook his head and said: "Probably not, if gold and silver and other valuables will naturally be transported by the Escort Bureau, why would they be stored in the inn?"

Zhao Niantong said: "What's so strange? Maybe this inn is a black shop, which specializes in stealing and robbing guests' belongings, and then put them in boxes. In order to deceive people and avoid the government's investigation, they deliberately put the boxes in the guest room, pretending to be guests luggage, so that no one will suspect."

Pan Suxuan still shook his head and said: "If this is the case, why didn't there be a box in the room when we checked in more than a month ago? Besides, if the box was really placed in the room, how could this room be rented out to guests?"

When Zhao Niantong heard this, he also frowned, "Then what could be in this box? And why did the shopkeeper lie to us?" Pan Suxuan said, "I think there must be something strange here, let me go and find out."

As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door.Zhao Niantong opened the door, and a clerk came in carrying two food boxes.

"Guest officers, the food and drink you ordered have arrived, please take your time." After finishing speaking, he turned to leave.

With sharp eyes, Pan Suxuan recognized that this person was the one carrying the box, and hurriedly said: "Brother, stay a step, I have something I want to inquire about."

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