Skilled in managing a house

The location of the Great Protector's residence was already familiar to the two of them. According to the direction drawn on the map, there is a house twenty or thirty meters diagonally ahead. This is a courtyard with four rooms. It is the residence of the chief steward of Laojun Palace. According to the Great Protector, four great stewards live in one courtyard.

Zhang Yu and the young man went into the courtyard. The courtyard was not small, larger than the courtyard where Sun Minghua lived. After all, there were four big stewards living in it.

In the courtyard, there is a room on the left and right sides, and there are two rooms side by side in the front. The specifications of the houses are all the same, and you can tell without going in. The entrance must be the main room, with rooms on the left and right sides, just like the one you live in. This is also a common architectural style for older houses.

The two first came to the room on the left. The door was locked. Zhang Yu opened the lock and the two went in for a routine search.

At present, there are only four chief stewards left in Laojun Palace, and the other sixteen were all killed in the tsunami. Therefore, such a room is different from Sun Minghua's room after all. At that time, Sun Minghua's room was searched, and there was no decent magic weapon in it. It was obviously taken away. But in this room, the two of them found a nice Taoist artifact.

However, the two of them did not take this magical weapon for themselves. After all, it was not their own. The purpose of coming here is mainly to kill time and make do with the past few days.

In the courtyard where guests live.

Among the four men in black, one stood in the middle of the courtyard, and the other three stood at the door of the three rooms in the courtyard.

In the room on the left side, there are four people sitting on the kang. Two of them were the "fat woman" with sinister eyebrows, and the other two were both tall men.

Of these four people, the sly eyebrows were relatively good, but the 'fat woman' and the two tall men all looked listless.

At this time, a man said: "Damn, I just drank a bowl of porridge tonight, and there were only a few grains of rice in total. We are going to starve to death."

Man B said, "Isn't that right? There are noodles to eat first. It's been a good two days. We all eat porridge and pickles for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Who can bear it?"

There is currently a shortage of food on the island, and only those above the management level have good food. The men in black below also eat porridge, and at best they can drink it casually. As for these guests, it would be good if they were given porridge until they could drink it to death.

The 'fat woman' also said: "I'm so hungry right now. The black market is treating us like rabbits... I'm already poisoned, and after eating such a small amount, I can't even go to the toilet or get on the bed." …”

The voice he speaks now is that of a pure man. Moreover, a beard has grown on his face.

"I don't know how many days like this will last. The people in the black market said they would prepare an antidote for us. I don't know if the antidote is worthy..." Man A said.

The evil-looking man chuckled softly and said: "The antidote... there must be an antidote on the black market... I just don't want to give it to us..."

"No way..." Man B said with his mouth wide open.

"Can you..." He said with a wry smile, "Let's put it this way, if our poisons are cured, would the people in the black market dare to raise us like rabbits..."

"That's what I say, but the black market is not that big. It will leave us with nothing to eat. Even if there is a tsunami and everything below is flooded, there will be no good ones, but there will be bad ones... Just give us a full meal..." The man A said.

"Maybe, there isn't much food on the island... Their own people can barely eat enough... As for us, we just need to be hungry... If it takes another two days, I doubt whether we can survive Let's eat..." He said with a helpless look.

After listening to his words, the faces of the 'fat woman' and the two men couldn't help but show signs of despair.

Because what he said with a sly look on his face made a lot of sense. There must not be much food on the island, otherwise, how could they be short of food? Nowadays, porridge is in limited supply. It is estimated that we will not be able to eat rice in another two days.

Moreover, they are poisoned and unable to resist even if they want to. Their fate is completely in the control of the black market.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound in the yard, "Plop..."

"What's going on?" The stern-browed rat-eye's ears were very good, and because he usually ate less, he wasn't as hungry as the other three big-bodied ones.

"Is there any noise?" Sure enough, Man A didn't hear it. He was so hungry that his hearing was reduced.

Man B and 'Fat Woman' were also like this. They said in confusion: "I didn't hear anything." "Me too."

But soon, there was a "click" and the door outside was opened. The four people's hearts tightened and they looked nervously at the bedroom door. Then, there was a soft "squeak" sound, and the bedroom door was pushed open a gap.

"brush!"

An object was shot in from the outside, and the four of them were startled. Fortunately, the object did not have much force and just fell onto the kang. The door closed and the person who threw the things left immediately.

"What do you mean..." The four people with thick eyebrows and rat eyes were quite puzzled.

They subconsciously looked at the thing that fell on the kang, and at first glance, it turned out to be an envelope. The envelope was a little bulging, as if it contained something.

"What is this?" Hanzi A said.

"I don't know, open it and take a look..." Although Man B said so, he didn't dare to move.

The four of them all wanted to see what was in the envelope, but they were also afraid of what traps there might be.

However, he thought about it for a while and said: "Let me take a look. Anyway, we are like this. If that person wants to kill us, he probably won't have to go to such trouble."

After saying that, he reached for the envelope.

"It makes sense." "Yes." "That's right." The fat woman and the two men nodded.

The thief picked up the envelope. The seal of the envelope was sticky. He tore it open and poured the contents onto the kang. Four pills and a note fell out.

This time, the four of them were even more surprised, and their eyes focused on the note. I saw four words written on the note - Here is the antidote.

"Antidote!" "This is the antidote..."...The four people's eyes suddenly brightened.

Almost at the same time, each person grabbed a pill. However, none of the four of them had anything to eat right away.

Han Zijia whispered: "Can this be the antidote?"

Han Ziyi also said: "It should be so."

The ruthless eyebrows and rat eyes said: "As I said just now, if you want to kill us, you don't need to expend such effort. I think it should be the antidote... If it is poison, it is nothing. If you die directly, it may be better than what you are now. good……"

After saying that, he popped the pill directly into his mouth.

When the other three heard this, they realized the same thing. They took the pills all at once, regardless of whether they would die of poisoning.