Chapter 50
Fuxing Inn is a large inn on Qiushui Street.

The design of the inn is round and square, and there are four large water tanks in the four corners of the yard.The two floors are connected by a solid wooden staircase, which is accessible in all directions.

There are many flowers and plants planted in the courtyard, the lighting is good, the price is affordable and three meals are provided.

Of course, the most eye-catching one is the thirty-year-old proprietress of the inn.

Fuxing Inn has been open for seven or eight years, and there are many guests coming and going.

Every time I see the proprietress standing alone at the counter, yelling at the waiters after they are busy, someone always asks, "Madam proprietress, where is the boss?"

The proprietress winked, and tapped her little abacus, "That kind of heartless person was picked up by a dog on the road, how would I know? Guest officer, two days' rent plus three meals a day It’s two twenty-five dollars in total, I’ll give you a change, and you’ll be fine with two taels.”

The payer smiled and handed over the money, and wanted to touch the proprietress's hand, but she slid over.

"The next guest... Yo, isn't this Brother Hai? Are you here to do business again in Xiancheng?"

The proprietress looked at the group of guests who came in from the door of the inn with a big smile on her face. The person who paid the bill earlier saw that he couldn't get any more benefits today, so he had to leave angrily.

Hai Keyin glanced at the man who left, and then looked at the face of the proprietress smiling like a flower, and without saying anything, he dropped a piece of ten taels of silver to the proprietress.

"It's still the old rule, four guest rooms on the second floor, two meals a day, morning and evening. I'll put the money here first, and I'll refund any excess on the day I leave."

"Okay, okay, these are old habits, I can save them!"

The landlady accepted the ten taels of silver with a smile.In fact, she does have a good appearance, she has a charm when she is not smiling, and she is full of philistines when she smiles.

Hai Keyin glanced at her again, didn't say anything, and took a few people behind him up to the second floor for accommodation.

On this day, it was still busy. At night, the proprietress yawned and changed shifts with the night watchmen.He beat himself to stand for a whole day, his waist was sore and his back was sore, and he was going to go back to the room to wash, wash and sleep.

At this moment, the slightly opened door of the inn was suddenly pushed open forcefully.

The sound of the wooden door slamming made the proprietress tremble in fright. She turned her head and saw a man in black holding a large object tightly wrapped in black cloth.

Judging from the appearance, the thing is about 1.5 meters long and less than half a meter wide. It looks quite hard, and I don’t know what it is.

The person's whole body was covered tightly, and no trace of his face was exposed under the cloak.

The clerk didn't seem like a good stubble, but he was a guest, so he stammered and asked, "Guest officer, should I be a top... or, or stay in a hotel...".

"Stay at the hotel."

The landlady came back from the stairs at some point, covered her mouth with her hands and gave her a smack. Her beautiful eyes deliberately cast a few flirtatious glances at the visitor, but he did not move.

"Do you want to go to the room or something else..."

The clerk regained his composure and took out the account book to prepare for registration.

The proprietress slapped her palm on the table, and stared at the waiter with wide-eyed eyes, "This is how I teach you to receive guests on weekdays? Don't you know how many rooms are left in our Fuxing Inn?"

Then she turned her face and smiled, looked at the man in black and said, "Guest officer, there is only one upper room on the second floor left tonight, half a tael a night, look...".

"Give me the room key."

The man in black put down a tael of silver on the counter, took the room number and key from the clerk, and said, "No one is allowed to approach my room before noon tomorrow."

He turned around and went upstairs, leaving behind the thoughtful proprietress and the clerk who breathed a sigh of relief and started keeping accounts.

The next day, the sun rose from the east, cut through the fish-belly white sky, and gradually rose higher and higher until it hung high in the sky.

The guests staying in the inn left one wave after another, but the proprietress who went upstairs to rest last night never came down.

The three or five guys in the store felt a little strange. Although the proprietress would occasionally sleep in on weekdays, it was so high in the sun today that no one came down. This is really a strange thing.

While several people were discussing, Qiuer, the little maid bought by the proprietress, fetched a basin of hot water from the kitchen and prepared to go upstairs with a towel. It seemed that the proprietress was about to wake up.

A buddy named A Xiong patted his companion on the shoulder, "Brother Shui, don't worry, isn't he going to wake up now? Besides, she is the boss's wife, so how long she wants to sleep is her business. We just give it to you." As a human being, you should put away those little thoughts of yours."

When he said the latter sentence, Ah Xiong deliberately lowered his voice, but Brother Shui's ears were still bloodshot to the base of his neck.

Brother Shui likes the matter of the proprietress, and the four guys in the shop, as well as the cook and Mrs. Zhao, who is helping the cook, all know about it. In the whole inn, only the proprietress and her maid, Qiu'er, don't know about it.

Brother Shui was betrayed by someone, so he pushed Axiong away in displeasure, and turned to water the flowers in the yard.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" sound from the second floor, which was the sound of the pot falling to the ground.

At the same time, there was a shrill female scream.

Everyone trembled.

Brother Shui was the first to regain his senses, and rushed up to the second floor. The room where the proprietress lived was in the northeast corner.

When he came to the door, he saw Qiu'er who was sitting slumped on the threshold, with water all over his body, and the washbasin dropped by his feet, and he didn't know how to pick it up.

Trembling all over, she tried to reach out to Brother Shui, but he missed it.

Qiu'er didn't dare to look at the direction he was facing, so he could only cover his face with one hand, and climbed out of the room with all hands and feet.

When the others arrived, they all saw such a scene without exception.

A naked woman's hands were tied with ropes and she was hung on a beam. Her hair was loose and her eyes were wide open. She didn't know what she was looking at.

From her face to her feet, there were bloodstains everywhere, and some of them looked like their flesh was rolled up, which was shocking and even disgusting.

There was a pool of thick blood under her feet, which was almost solidified now.

Brother Shui put the person down first, and after checking his breath, he found that the person was gone.

Someone has already reported to the official, the yamen servant is on his way, and the proprietress' room is surrounded by onlookers.

Many people were pointing at the body of the landlady.

Some people were pitying the woman, while others were staring at her body.

With an ugly face, Brother Shui found a robe and wrapped it up for him.

After covering the clothes, he saw the open eyes of the other party, and felt a little apprehensive.

Just when he was about to reach out to help her close the opened eyes, the corners of the deceased's mouth that should have been stiff suddenly opened, revealing an extremely weird smile.

(End of this chapter)

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