The next day, Chi went to the letter post on the outskirts of the city to deliver a message to Yang Mansion. In order to prevent Zhuo Zhan and the others from running away, he took Jiang Xueyan with him. The two of them went out early before everyone got up.

The messengers in Nanshan all use Qu Rulai to deliver messages. Qu Rulai is a large human-faced bird unique to Nanshan. It can fly high, has good endurance, and can deliver messages safely and quickly.

Thin turtle-back pieces are used for communication, which can be placed in bundles in bamboo messenger tubes. Some light and small objects can also be placed in the letter tube for Qu Ru to deliver.

The letter post is run by the government, to put it bluntly, it belongs to the Chi family, so it is naturally very convenient to send messages.

The few people who stayed in the posthouse were bored until the sun was up, so they sat on the bamboo couches in Zhuo Zhan's house, drinking tea and eating pine nuts, enjoying the warm sun and wind in the morning, and looking at the beauty of the back streets through the windows.

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The alleys in this back street are very narrow, not as prosperous as the main street. They are all small workshops such as blacksmith shops and bean grinding mills that do not require foot traffic.

Each store is also very narrow, and the front is only about three meters wide. Of course, there are not many pedestrians coming and going. The occasional visitors are almost all cargo owners who go straight to various workshops and some mediocre people doing manual labor.

However, there is a teahouse in this row of workshops, and its cold atmosphere seems incompatible with the busy small workshops around it.

This teahouse faces the window of Zhuo Zhan's room, and they can see it very clearly from the second floor.

It's more of a tea stall than a teahouse.

There seemed to be no tables or chairs inside the house, and the door was always closed. There was just a simple thatched shed outside the house, a small cover, two old wooden tables, a few benches, and a pile of stoneware tea bowls.

The listless waiter was playing with stones beside the shed. Only the faint fragrance of tea from a pot of coarse tea boiling on the stone stove reminded passers-by that this was a teahouse, and everything was so simple that it was unbelievable.

"Hey, can you be more careful about the business of this teahouse? How can you make money by opening a shop in such a deserted backstreet and looking so indifferent? How can you make money?

My mother saw it and scolded him to death every minute!" Zhuangzi lazily leaned against the window, chewing pine nuts and complaining.

"Hmph, selling dog meat on a sheep's head is actually a trap." Duan Fei took a sip of semi-cold tea and said calmly.

"What is a secret door?" Duan Yue, who didn't know what was going on, asked innocently.

"They are prostitutes who close their doors to receive customers." Duan Fei explained.

The more I understand the word "secret prostitute," I can't help but blush when I hear it.

"Hey, how did you know that?" The strong man who had been leaning against the window suddenly became energetic. He sat up straight and stretched his neck to look inside the tea shed.

"This teahouse is so dilapidated. It's obvious that they are not doing business sincerely. Moreover, the teahouse is opened in this sparsely populated back street just to avoid the eyes and ears of the officials. If you think about it, you will know that the drunkard is not interested in drinking anymore." Zhuo Zhan said calmly.

Analyze.

"Zhuozhan, you also noticed it, why didn't I?" Zhuangzi looked confused.

"Look inside the tea shed and see the woman by the door."

Several people looked in the direction of Zhuo Zhan's intention, and saw a woman sitting by the door of the small house. She was covered in purple robes, with a white silk fan in her hand, her breasts slightly exposed under her slender jade neck, and her bare waist.

A bunch, not enough to hold, even a pair of loose brocade boots lifted up under the skirt seems to be sending out an alluring invitation.

However, this outfit seems to be slightly inferior compared to her expression. Although the woman is a little older, she still has charm. Her pair of red and phoenix eyes are smiling and charming, the corners of her slightly raised mouth are plump and moist, and her gestures are full of charm.

, exuding a seductive temperament from the core.

"Hey, I haven't seen it yet, but here is a beautiful eldest sister, she has a really good figure, tsk tsk." Zhuangzi couldn't help but pursed his lips, his expression was very wretched.

"I have always felt that something is wrong with this teahouse." Duan Yue frowned and murmured, "I kept observing this place yesterday when you were playing cards. There were almost no people coming to drink tea in the tea shed outside. Even if they came to drink tea,

After having a drink and chatting for a while, we went inside."

"Sister, aren't you talking nonsense? Didn't they both say that this is a secret door? If there is a business, of course you have to go to the house to do it. Is it possible that you are fighting outside?" Zhuangzi's mouth has never been closed.

, the same is true in front of girls.

Duan Yue's little face flushed with embarrassment, he rolled his eyes at Zhuangzi, and continued hesitantly: "That's not what I meant... What I want to say is that from yesterday evening to now, more than twenty people have entered one after another.

, but no one came out."

"Perhaps there is a back door, so I left through the back door. After doing this kind of thing, it is normal to leave through the back door, so as not to be embarrassed when meeting a prostitute who comes out of the front door and meets someone who looks familiar." Zhuangzi muttered.

"We can also see the back of the row of houses from the second floor. I looked and found that no one came out, not in front or behind!" Duan Yue said seriously.

"Are you sure?" Zhuo Zhan looked at Duan Yue seriously, with a bad feeling in his heart. If it was really like what Duan Yue said, it would be really strange. This small room can hold five or six people at most, and it has to be

You are standing next to me, and I am standing next to you. There is no room for more than three people if there are any bedding and furnishings. If more than twenty people come in but no one comes out, there must be something fishy.

"I'm sure!" Duan Yue said decisively.

"Is there a cellar?" Zhuangzi also became interested.

"It's not like there is." Zhuo Zhan analyzed nervously, "A cellar that can hold more than twenty people must have large vents. You see, the doors and windows of this house are tightly closed, and there are no signs of vents around the outside.

, unless it’s…”

"Dead man." Duan Fei said coldly, and everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

"If that's the case, they must be seeking wealth and murder," Zhuo Zhan Surong said.

"Do you want to go check it out? Since we have guessed it, we can no longer let them continue to harm people." Duan Fei said bluntly.

"Don't try to be a hero. We have traveled through time and have nothing to do with this place. Everyone has his own destiny, so let's stop meddling in our own business." Don't look at Zhuangzi who always pretends to be an uncle when he is usually talkative. He is so serious.

When Zhang Er was young, he cherished his life very much.

"Yes, brother. Sister Xueyan and Chi are not here. Should we wait for them to come back before making plans? Sister Xueyan told us yesterday not to use witchcraft easily to avoid causing trouble. Besides, Chi's eldest brother is

The feudal lord can definitely take care of this matter."

As Duan Yue was persuading, several people saw a strong man with a black face and a beard enter the tea shed, followed the beautiful woman into the house, and closed the door.

Duan Fei stood up angrily: "No, we can't wait any longer. The man in front of us is in danger of life. What's the difference between sitting back and doing nothing and killing someone? You stay here for now. I'll go over alone to explore the truth first."

Duan Fei, a good student, president of the student council, and a proud man of heaven, is born with a pleasant-goat-like sense of superiority. This kind of person is most likely to step forward in dangerous situations and act as a righteous partner. The more you persuade him, the more he will be encouraged.

His arrogance could not be pulled back by eight horses at this time.

Zhuo Zhan understands his brother and understands this truth, so naturally he no longer tries to persuade him: "That's fine. However, you can just go and test it out. Don't go too deep. Just get a general idea of ​​the situation. Let's find a solution when we get back."

"Don't worry!"

Duan Fei said and ran downstairs.

After a while, several people upstairs saw Duan Fei's figure appearing in the tea shed. The beautiful woman was no longer at the door. Duan Fei exchanged a few words with the waiter who was playing pebbles, and was led into the house by the waiter.

Inside, the door was closed.

Not long after, the waiter came out, but Duan Fei didn't come out.

"Damn, this is bad..." Zhuangzi couldn't help but quench his spit, and slammed the table: "I told him not to let him in, but he went in, now it's better, he failed to save the person, but got himself in instead.

.If you ask me to say that Duan Fei is just like Jiang Dizha Mengzi, I don’t know the depth of it!”

Zhuo Zhan quickly winked at Zhuangzi, signaling him not to talk nonsense in front of Duan Yue. If something happened to Duan Fei, Duan Yue would definitely be the most disturbed.

The two of them looked at Duan Yue at the same time, only to see Duan Yue holding the window lattice tightly with a solemn expression. The color of his eyes had turned into a light silvery gray, and the gems on his earrings were also intermittently emitting the light of fireflies, just like before.

The magic weapon shop is the same as before.

"There is indeed something else inside this house, but it is not a cellar, but an overlapping of spaces." Duan Yue said cautiously but with certainty, "I saw with my eyes that they are the frames of different rooms. There are at least four or five spaces in the house.

Nested together.”

"If I go, I can see all this. Yue Yue, have you opened your eyes?" Zhuangzi said in surprise.

"Zhuang, don't interrupt!" Zhuo Zhan immediately interrupted Zhuang Zi, "Xiao Yue, can you see the person inside?"

"You can't see it. The frames of the house are all stacked together. It's such a mess inside that you can't really see the figures. But... the whole house looks like... like... a giant beast!" Duan Yue finished speaking.

He stopped talking and stared at the tea shed with a pair of big eyes in horror.

"Look at its outline. Does it have a big belly, a small tail, and tentacles on its head?" Zhuo Zhan asked eagerly.

"That's right, the round body is rolled up by a slender tail, the mouth is the door, and the tentacles on the head are densely packed, extending forward like blood vessels..." Duan Yue replied tremblingly.

"It's a round beast."

Zhuo Zhan remembered that his father's drawings and notes mentioned this kind of beast. It could hide in the eyes of mortals and take the form of trees, houses and other inorganic objects. It could expand space within its body, and even more powerful ones could realize telescoped space.

"Then what should we do now?" Duan Yue asked timidly, and tears could be seen in his eyes that had faded.

"It seems that we can't go in blatantly. Xiao Yue, you will knock on the door later and hold the waiter on the pretext of buying tea. Zhuang and I took advantage of him and went into the house to save Duan Fei. Remember, how long can you delay?

Wait for how long. If you can't hold on any longer, get out first. Tell the person in charge of the inn that the guests on the second floor got into a fight with the tea shack in the back street and were trapped. Ask them to report it to the official. Then you can ask people about the location of the suburban post.

Go find Sister Xueyan and Chi." Zhuo Zhan Dingrong ordered.

"I understand, brother Zhuo Zhan, don't worry." Duan Yue nodded with tears in his eyes.

"Well... I want to go too... How about I stay on guard..." Zhuangzi hesitated, very reluctantly.

"The situation inside is unknown and dangerous. If Duan Fei goes in alone, he is afraid of disaster. Don't you want to save Duan Fei?" Zhuo Zhan looked at Zhuangzi with sharp eyes. He knew that "narrow sense" was Zhuangzi's destiny.

"No... of course not! Aren't I afraid of holding you back... Oh no, just go, or we'll both die together, risk it all!" Zhuangzi gritted his teeth and slapped his thigh.
Chapter completed!