Lord, pay for the wine

Early the next morning, Yan Anxuan was sitting in the front hall early drinking tea, quietly looking at the entrance of the inn.

"Oh? What do you think happened to the shopkeeper?" Xiao Er asked quietly with his arms around Xiao San's neck.

"Little brother, you scared me to death!" Xiao San patted his chest and said.

"It's all right." Xiao Er gently stroked Xiao San's head and said, "Come, tell me what you think of the shopkeeper."

"The shopkeeper has been abnormal since the inn was stolen last night." Xiaosan said.

"...That's right, the shopkeeper is usually so stingy, and now he lost so much money all at once, how could he recover immediately." Xiao Er nodded understandingly.

"Yeah, that's right!" There was a echo from behind the two of them.

"Ah!" The two jumped up in shock.

"Shhhhh." Lin An put his middle finger on his mouth and signaled, "The shopkeeper is still sitting there."

"Oh." Xiaosan said.

Xiao Er knocked Lin An once, and complained: "You know the shopkeeper is there and scare us from behind."

"...I wanted to talk to you from the front, but isn't the shopkeeper sitting there? My young master won't let me do something that makes the shopkeeper unhappy."

"That's why you came to scare us." Xiao Er said in an unhappy tone.

"Yes... I'm sorry." Lin An bowed his head and apologized.

"You kid—"

Seeing Lin An's appearance, and looking at Xiao Er's appearance, Xiao San stopped Xiao Er in time and said, "Brother Xiao Er, isn't it all right? What we need to care about now is the shopkeeper!"

"That's right." Xiao Er said to Lin An: "Xiao Wu, do you know why the shopkeeper has been sitting there since he came downstairs?"

"...No... I don't know."

"Tsk, really, why don't you even know this!" Xiao Er said dissatisfied.

"Then why do you know to ask me?" Lin An retorted.

"..."

When they were silent, they suddenly saw the shopkeeper's figure move, and the movement of drinking tea also stopped. Following the shopkeeper's line of sight, they saw Zong Jinyu's figure appearing at the door of the inn.

"Where have you been?" Yan Anxuan's voice was cold.

"Just looking around."

"Look around, get up so early just to look around?"

"I didn't sleep last night."

"What? Why didn't you sleep?" After asking this question, Yan Anxuan suddenly remembered that he got up from Zong Jinyu's bed this morning, so he knew the reason why Zong Jinyu didn't sleep.

It's just, why doesn't he go to sleep in my room?Hate my room?Thinking of this, Yan Anxuan felt a little upset again, especially after hearing Zong Jinyu's next sentence.

Zong Jinyu said, "I thought the shopkeeper knew about it."

Who knows?I just had a drink last night!How did you wake up in your bed?Although my room was burglarized last night, it's not like I can't sleep!Dislike me?

Wait...wait a minute, Yan Anxuan thought to himself: My room was burglarized last night, and then I drank some wine because of..., it should be..., so he took me back to his room to sleep, saying that he Did he put me into his room to sleep because he was afraid that I would be in danger if I slept in my own room?

Although he didn't know Zong Jinyu's real thoughts, after thinking about it, Yan Anxuan's mood improved a lot.

"Shopkeeper, do you want to report to the official?" The chef came to ask when he heard that the shopkeeper was sitting motionless in the front hall.

Chef, you are too slow to hear the news!Lin Yuehua complained.

"Report to the official? Will it work?" Yan Anxuan said: "There is a bandit in the town who robbed and robbed so much property and no one cares about it. Will someone care if our inn is stolen?" Yan Anxuan stared at him after finishing speaking. A glance at Zong Jinyu.

"This... this." The chef didn't know what to say.

"Shopkeeper, then we can only suffer from being dumb?"

"How could it be?" Yan Anxuan looked at Zong Jinyu with a smile and said, "Isn't there Jin Yu? We have him here, so we need to trouble someone from the government! Jin Yu, right?"

Zong Jinyu looked at Yan Anxuan fixedly, without saying a word.

"..." Yan Anxuan just looked at him fixedly.

"Is there any clue in the shopkeeper's heart?" Zong Jinyu asked casually.

"Yes!"

"Oh? Are you next?" Zong Jinyu's voice was still slightly careless.

"..." Yan Anxuan was silent for a moment, and then replied: "Yes!"

The short conversation between the two of them caused the rest of the people to explode.

"What? What did you say, shopkeeper?"

"...Actually, I have the same idea."

"What? You also have the same idea, Xiaosi? When did it happen?"

"Yeah, Xiao Si, why didn't you tell us if you had this idea?"

"Yeah, Xiao Si! It's so uninteresting!" Xiao Er complained.

"Master—you didn't tell me." Lin An's eyes were full of tears.

Zong Jinyu didn't pay any attention to the discussions of the other people, and Yan Anxuan just looked at Zong Jinyu fixedly.

"When did the shopkeeper have this idea?" Zong Jinyu said lightly.

"...It's really you?" Yan Anxuan's tone was unstable.

"Isn't that what the shopkeeper said?"

"..."

"Did the shopkeeper have such an idea this morning or last night?" Zong Jinyu's tone was still flat.

"..."

"It seems that this morning, is it because I was not there when the shopkeeper woke up?"

"..."

"It seems so, does the shopkeeper know where I went this morning?"

"...Didn't you say to walk around?"

"Well, I did walk around, but I accidentally walked to the hill outside the town."

"……so what?"

"That's why I discovered this." Zong Jinyu took out a contract of sale, oh no, to be precise, half of it was placed in front of Yan Anxuan.

"What is this? A piece of paper?" Yan Anxuan took the piece of paper.

After a cursory look, I found that the handwriting was very familiar. After a closer look, I found that it was my own handwriting.

Why is there my handwriting on this piece of paper?Wait, what is this?Lin An's name?Lin An?So familiar name?Yan Anxuan thought for a while.

"Master, what are the shopkeeper and Jin Yu doing?" Lin An asked Lin Yuehua.

"Xiao An, keep your voice down." Lin Yuehua said softly.

"Well, master, I know—"

Wait, wait a minute!Yannianxuan suddenly realized: Isn't Lin An the real name of Xiao Wu?Why did I forget, isn't this piece of paper Lin An's deed of sale?

Thinking of this, Yan Anxuan looked at Lin An and Lin Yuehua nervously, and found that the two were looking at him in confusion, so he stuffed the half piece of paper into his cuff, and hurriedly dragged Zong Jinyu upstairs.

"Master (second brother), why did the shopkeeper drag Jin Yu upstairs?" Lin An and Xiao San said in unison.

"Why didn't the shopkeeper take me there?" The chef asked puzzledly as he watched the figures of the two disappear at the stairs.

Xiao Er patted him comfortingly and said, "Chef, the shopkeeper loves you. I'm afraid it's too hard for you to climb the stairs, so he asked you to wait for him downstairs."

"Is Xiao San like this?" The chef turned to ask Xiao San.

Seeing Xiao Er making eye contact with him, Xiao San replied solemnly: "Yes, Brother Xiao Er is right!"

Looking at the chef who was still silent, Lin Yuehua also came to agree: "Chef, you see that Xiao Er and Xiao San are right, so you can go to the kitchen without worry!"

"Yes, chef, my young master is right!"

The chef recalled that only Lin Yuehua and the shopkeeper had the same idea just now, and felt that it was indeed the right choice to support Lin Yuehua, so he went to the kitchen with confidence.

"You said, why is the chef so obsessed with the shopkeeper?"

"Maybe it's because the chef is still a baby!" Xiao Er replied casually.

"What are you talking about, little brother?" Little San blushed.

"...Master, should I say don't see evil, don't listen to evil, etc." Lin An looked at Lin Yuehua with curious eyes.

Lin Yuehua nodded very usefully, and then explained: "But what Xiao Er said is not entirely wrong."

"Not all wrong? Which one is correct?"

"It's a very common phenomenon that the newly hatched chicks think the first creature they see is their mother, so it's not wrong for Xiaoer to say that the chef is still a chick." Lin Yuehua explained seriously.

"...In this way, he is indeed."

Besides, Yan Anxuan pulled Zong Jinyu upstairs, then hurriedly entered his room, and carefully closed the door and window.

He said to Zong Jinyu who was sitting on the stool, "Where did you get that piece of paper?"

"The shopkeeper should know that place very well."

"...it's really there." The place we've been to twice.

Zong Jinyu nodded.

"You should have seen this piece of paper, it's Lin An, Xiao Wu's contract of prostitution." Yan Anxuan said.

Zong Jinyu nodded again.

"Then... what about other things?" Yan Anxuan looked at him expectantly.

"only these."

"Only these?" Yan Anxuan was in a hurry: "Why not? I put your deeds of sale and my other belongings together! How can this one be there and the others not?"

"..." Zong Jinyu quietly waited for him to vent.

After Yan Anxuan finished speaking, he found that Zong Jinyu hadn't spoken, so he asked, "Why don't you speak?"

"I'm waiting for the shopkeeper to finish speaking."

"...Those things were not moved by you." Yan Anxuan looked into his eyes, then lowered his head and said sullenly, "You must be reading my joke."

"I won't!" Zong Jinyu replied very quickly.

"..." Yan Anxuan sighed and said, "I've been having a weird feeling lately. First I met you, then I was a bandit or something, and then the inn was smashed. You worked as a clerk in the inn, and I will suddenly forget someone, and the worst thing is, my inn will be stolen!"

Without waiting for a response, Yan Anxuan continued to say dully: "Did I get some kind of punishment because I suddenly forgot someone?"

After Yan Anxuan finished complaining, Zong Jinyu took out the string of agate beads, put his palm in front of Yan Anxuan, and said, "Shopkeeper, do you know this?"