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Xiao Zhuzi said anxiously, "But what if she secretly comes home with us? There are only the two of us at home."
Little Bamboo and Little Sparrow were orphans, and the two girls lived together. The thought of possibly bringing a ghost home terrified them.
Xiao Que said, "Why don't you stay with us tonight, Sister Yue Lan, and don't come back?"
Seeing that the two girls were genuinely frightened, Xia Yuelan said, "That's fine too..."
"No, no!" Little Bamboo suddenly exclaimed.
She ran towards the backyard: "Brother Fu?"
Fu Hai's voice came from the backyard: "What's wrong?"
Little Bamboo cried out, "Little Sparrow and I are scared, can you take us back?"
"Okay! Wait a minute." Fu Hai's loud voice came from the backyard.
Little Sparrow ran over and, upon hearing Fu Hai's reply, excitedly clapped her hands with Little Bamboo's: "Yay!"
Xia Yuelan was confused. Just now she said she would send it, so why did she suddenly ask her senior brother to send it? What's the difference?
She looked at Song Lingyue: "What are those two doing?"
Song Lingyue held the teacup on the table and sipped slowly: "They want their senior brother to protect them and not come back. They want to stay at their place tonight and sleep together."
"Wow, you two are dreaming." Xia Yuelan rushed over, grabbed the two girls, and dragged them out. "I'll take you back."
Chapter 194: Side Quest "Crystal Palace"?
Fu Hai dried himself off in the backyard, changed into a dry coat, and returned to the lobby: "Where are the two of them? Didn't they say they wanted me to take them home?"
Song Lingyue sat leisurely at the octagonal table, sipping her tea: "Yuelan took them back. The two of them said they were afraid of ghosts, so Yuelan might stay at their place tonight."
Fu Hai said, "Oh? That's fine too, anyway, that girl has nothing to do."
He looked at Qiu Ying and asked, "Sister Qiu Ying, do you also know about the art of the zither? Could you teach me?"
He moved the Luoxia Qin (a type of zither) in front of Qiu Yingjie and looked at her expectantly.
Sister Qiu Ying shook her head and said, "I don't understand."
“How could that be?” Fu Hai said, “You can tell what kind of zither it is just by looking at it. When I first came to the music store, all kinds of zithers looked pretty much the same, and I couldn’t tell them apart at all.”
"Later, I heard Miss Cen and Cen Yao talking about it, and I learned that each type of zither has a different timbre."
Sister Qiu Ying said calmly, "I only recognize it; I don't know anything about the zither."
"Really?" Fu Hai was a little skeptical.
"Really!" Qiu Ying said expressionlessly.
Seeing her insistence, Fu Hai had no choice but to give up.
Song Lingyue stood up: "I'd better go upstairs and see if Yuelan has closed the doors and windows. Don't leave them open; the house will easily get damp in this weather."
After saying that, she went upstairs.
Fu Hai said, "I'll go wash the clothes I took off first. Sister Qiu Ying, after I'm done washing them, I'll hang them up to dry. Could you bring them inside for me tonight?"
Sister Qiu Ying said, "Okay, boss."
Fu Hai then went to the backyard.
For the time being, only Sister Qiu Ying remained in the hall. She touched the Luoxia Qin in front of her with some nostalgia, picked up the strings, and gently plucked a string.
Outside, in the rain, ten feet away, a large stone tablet by the roadside shattered into pieces with a loud crack.
Rainwater washed away the stone chips scattered on the ground.
She shook her head.
The art of playing the zither is a deadly art, but the master is not a person who enjoys killing.
I won't teach! I won't teach!
Song Lingyue arrived at the main room, which had three rooms. The room Yue Lan had just come to was obviously room number three, which had been unoccupied for a long time.
Room number three faces east, and the east side of the inn is all mountains. The mountain ridges connect with the city wall, making it impossible to go directly from the south gate to the east gate by going around the city wall.
The northwest side of Anjun's capital city is also a combination of city and mountains.
The city walls themselves served as a strategic pass, capable of blocking ordinary troops.
Of course, even a martial artist with exceptional lightness skills can't stop them from traversing mountains and valleys.
The view of the rain from here is indeed quite nice. Yue Lan had just moved all the stools, chairs, and blankets onto the balcony to watch the rain, and she hadn't put them back in yet.
Song Lingyue shook her head. Her junior sister had prepared so thoroughly, but she hadn't even lain down for a few minutes.
Helpless, she moved everything back inside, closed the balcony door again, left the main room, and then closed the main room door as well.
She gently lifted her skirt and descended the steps, only to hear a shout from downstairs: "We are from the Six Doors. Have you seen a little girl like this here?"
When Song Lingyue arrived at the corner of the stairs in the main hall, she saw four burly men wearing straw raincoats with black and yellow robes underneath, but carrying different weapons.
One of them showed Qiu Yingjie his Six Doors badge and slapped a portrait painting off his shoulder.
Song Lingyue glanced at the faces of these people from the side, looking somewhat puzzled.
She knew most of the constables and fast horses in Anjun, but she had never seen any of these four people before.
Sister Qiu Ying said softly, "No, sirs, business here is slow. No one has come by all day. Would you gentlemen like to stay overnight?"
Just then, the senior student from the backyard came out: "What's wrong?"
The burly man said, "This is an official inquiry! Have you seen this girl before?"
Fu Hai glanced at the waist badge he showed: "Are you gentlemen out of the city on official business?"
The burly man shouted, "Why ask so many questions? Just answer!"
Another man stepped forward, stopped his companion, and said kindly to the boy being questioned, "We are from the prefecture. This child is the lost daughter of a wealthy family, and we suspect she has been abducted."
"Her family is still worried. If you see her, please let us know immediately."
Song Lingyue came to her senior brother's side, looked at the painting, and was secretly surprised.
The painting was so lifelike that it far surpassed the usual missing person notices issued by government offices. The person in the painting was clearly the strange little girl from earlier.
A thought flickered in her mind, and she quietly raised her hand, intending to secretly poke her senior brother.
"I've never seen it before!"
But then his senior brother said, "No one came today."
The more amiable-looking man asked, "Have you seen any children coming out of the city gate?"
Fu Hai shook his head: "No. It's raining, so we only opened the gate halfway. There's no one watching at the gate, and it's far from the city gate, so we can't really see clearly."
"Would you gentlemen like to stay at an inn or have a meal?"
"No need!" the burly man said.
The four men quickly left the inn, put on bamboo hats, mounted the four sturdy horses that had been parked outside, and set off on the official road, heading south along the road.
Fu Hai stood at the gate and waited until they were far away before turning back.
Song Lingyue asked, "Senior brother, how did you figure out there was something wrong with them?"
Fu Hai said, "Ah, Lingyue, you noticed it too?"
Song Lingyue said, "I'm just a little curious."
“The constables from the prefecture are unfamiliar with this place, so they usually seek assistance from the local Six Doors to solve cases, but they have no one to guide them.”
"There was no one at the south gate. The county soldiers guarding the city should have seen the girl leave the city. It's unreasonable that they, as members of the Six Doors, didn't ask the county soldiers first."
Fu Hai said, "Ah! Junior sister, you're so smart. I really didn't think that much about it. I just saw Sister Qiu Ying hinting to me that those people were suspicious."
Sister Qiu Ying said softly, "I didn't say anything, I just glanced at you, boss."
Fu Hai laughed and said, "Who are we to each other, Qiu Ying? Just by looking at me, I knew exactly what you were going to say."
Qiu Ying turned away, not looking at him, but she seemed a little dazed.
Song Lingyue thought, "Senior brother's flattery of Sister Qiu Ying is too deliberate, but Sister Qiu Ying seems to really fall for it? Sister Qiu Ying looks like a very capable person."
She asked, "Sister Qiu Ying, how did you know they were acting strangely?"
Qiu Ying said, "The official badges they showed were fake."
Fu Hai and Song Lingyue exchanged a glance.
They really couldn't tell that.
The waist badges of government officials all looked pretty much the same to them, and they hadn't really looked at them carefully before.
They were originally locals, and the constables and horsemen who came and went in the county basically knew each other.
In the event of any major case, the inn is the first place to be notified and investigated. It also has close ties with the government, so why would it need to check someone else's badge?
As for ordinary people, they were immediately frightened when the other party showed his badge, and they dared not question its authenticity.
"They even dare to forge the official Six Doors badge," Fu Hai couldn't help but worry. "What exactly do they want from that little girl?"
Just as he finished speaking, he heard a "ding".
The system panel will automatically display information.
[The system detected that the host has come into contact with clues related to the mysterious instance "Crystal Palace".]
[The host can spend 300 points to unlock the side quest "Crystal Palace". Upon completion of this side quest, the expected rewards are: Crystal Palace *1, over 1000 mermaid beauties (excluding those over six years old), and numerous treasures such as mermaid pearls and corals (estimated at over 100 million taels of silver).]
[Do you want to start the "Crystal Palace" side quest?] ◎
Chapter 195: Let it begin! My Crystal Palace
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