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Chapter 497: Old Man Gan's Reminder

"Little Tree, come on, come on! Run the big circle! Believe in yourself, you can definitely do it! Ah, this is a good spirit! Persist! Persist! Persist!"

Time passed quickly with anxiety and torture. Nine days later, in the backyard of the inn, Yu Xiangdi was guiding Sun Xiaoshu face to face in practice in order to improve his magic power.

After all, as Sun Xiaoshu himself said, he is a "lazy man". Along the way, whether he treats his companions or fights against the enemy, all the effects are all based on on-site performance, and he has never been systematically practiced. In fact, he is young and has great potential, and his healing skills play a crucial role in the entire team. Therefore, during this waiting period, in response to the requests of his companions and his own wishes, everyone took turns to help Sun Xiaoshu practice systematically.

On this day, Sun Xiaoshu's instructor was Yu Xiangdi. Of course, although Yu Xiangdi was guiding Sun Xiaoshu "face to face", he could not see the majestic demonic aura emitted by the child. He did not know that above Sun Xiaoshu at this moment, the image of the filthy Vajra had gathered, as clearly as the spiritual body summoned by the purifying messenger.

Sun Xiaoshu squatted on his horse stance, shouting, his face flushed red, just to release the demonic power to the fullest. After continuously exerting force, another breath could not keep up, and he sat on the ground, panting, and the demonic energy and filthy traces around his body disappeared in an instant.

"Brother Yu, this time the demonic power is still controlled, right?"

After Sun Xiaoshu asked this, Yu Xiangdi had not answered yet. Suddenly, the owners of the inn, Old Man Gan and Chen Shuqing appeared at the door. Old Man Gan asked Chen Shuqing in confusion, "What are they shouting?"

Chen Shuqing knew that Old Man Gan could not see the demonic aura, so she could only see Sun Xiaoshu and Yu Xiangdi's inexplicable "performance", so she evaded: "Aren't we the same opera troupe? Isn't we rehearsal?"

Old Man Gan looked at Sun Xiaoshu who was sweating heavily and kept praising: "It turns out that the troupe who acted for the emperor is so dedicated to rehearsals! It's eye-opening, eye-opening, hehe."

Chen Shuqing smiled awkwardly, and then said to the two: "Our half-month lease term will expire tomorrow. We only paid ten days of rent before, and we are still five days away. Who else has money on you?"

Yu Xiangdi then remembered that when they first arrived at the inn, Pu Zixuan was still in the team. At that time, everyone expected to stay here for up to ten days. After Pu Zixuan, a rich man, paid the rent for ten days in one go, everyone never asked about the rent. Unexpectedly, the time point of "the big break of the month" appeared later. The lease period was forced to be extended for five days, but Pu Zixuan happened to be away, so everyone had to face the rent for the remaining five days by themselves.

Chen Shuqing took the initiative to say this, and it seemed that she had no extra money on her body, and she could not count on the penniless Sun Xiaoshu. Yu Xiangdi had to ask, "How much is it missing?"

Old man Gan replied: "One room is twenty cents a night, and nine rooms are nine hundred cents a night."

The "nine rooms" mentioned by Old Man Gan, that is, each of the eight adults, and Zhou Faning's children live in one room. When Yu Xiangdi saw Old Man Gan's calculations, he immediately stopped doing it, "What? We have three rooms and no one lives in these days, so do we have to calculate the money?"

Old Man Gan smiled and said, "When you said you wanted to postpone the five-day extension, you did say that all the rooms were postponed together. Although no one lived in those three rooms, I kept them for you and didn't dare to rent them to others." Then, he turned to Chen Shuqing and said, "That was you saying that?"

Chen Shuqing nodded and said, "I did say that. Yu Xiangdi, just pay him 900 yuan. Turn around, when I see Pu Zixuan, I will ask him to return it to you."

Yu Xiangdixin reluctantly took out a tael of silver and handed it to Old Man Gan, and said angrily: "Go and find a supplement!"

Old Man Gan did not leave immediately, but asked Chen Shuqing carefully: "Miss Chen, are you sure you will only live until tomorrow and will not renew your lease?"

Seeing Chen Shuqing say "um" and Old Man Gan shook his head and sighed. After all, all the nine rooms with rent every day were suddenly returned, and no one would feel heartbroken.

Chen Shuqing said calmly: "Tomorrow, our opera troupe will leave this place and go to the capital. Please let me settle our accounts today."

"Okay." Old Man Gan turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly thought of something, turned back and asked curiously, "I still don't understand... Several guests, your companions, Pu Zixuan, and the two men I can't name, why are they not here all these days?"

Chen Shuqing didn't expect Old Man Gan to ask this question, but since the other party had already asked, he didn't want to answer, so he had to say perfunctorily: "The three of them have to go to the capital to do something first, so they took a step first."

"Then, why do you keep a room for them?"

Chen Shuqing immediately cursed that Old Man Gan was troublesome, but on the surface he had to haha: "The court will eventually reimburse us for the expenses we spent along the way. Anyway, it's not about spending our own money, so spend whatever we like."

"Oh, so, now the court, ah..." Old Man Gan wanted to speak but stopped, and kept shaking his head to express his helplessness, and then said with relief, "But they are fine. To be honest, I heard the sound of bears coming from the building that day, but I was really sweating."

"Bear?" Seeing that Old Man Gan suddenly said such a sensitive word, Chen Shuqing's expression suddenly became focused, "What's wrong with Bear?"

"Haha, our Dagou Town has been troubled by bears for many years. There are often some bears of unknown origin that attack the houses."

Chen Shuqing suddenly thought of the day that Pu Zixuan told her. When Old Man Gan heard Zhou Xiaojin's scream, he immediately judged that it was a bear call. He suspected that Old Man Gan often deals with bears. Now that he heard Old Man Gan say this in person, Chen Shuqing even believed that Old Man Gan still had information to dig here, so he asked: "What kind of bears are they?"

"Haha, there are all kinds of bears. I have seen them all. They are huge and have twitching claws, which is so scary! There is an idiom called "Talk about Tigers and Fears". The residents of our Dagou Town, but "Talk about Bears and Fears and Fears"!"

Sure enough, it was Naveres' minions who were dry!

Yu Xiangdi couldn't help but interrupt, "Why did those bear monsters attack the houses? Do they want to eat people?"

Old Man Gan smiled bitterly and said, "It's strange that although those bears attacked houses, they never eat people. However, they especially like red things. They will snatch them when they see red objects. So you see, my inn never dares to use red objects. Not only me, but the residents of the town, go and see, basically there is nothing red in the house!"

After hearing this, Chen Shuqing, Yu Xiangdi, and Sun Xiaoshu were all stunned, but they soon thought of something - the bear demon was obsessed with snatching red objects, and it must be on the order of Veres. Will the reason why Veres is so obsessed with red?

While thinking, Old Man Gan said again: "So, isn't there a strong man in your opera troupe who always makes a red cloak? I'm really afraid, what's wrong with him being given to those bears... It's fine, it's fine, hehe."

After saying that, Old Man Gan turned around and left.

The "strong man" that Old Man Gan refers to Zhu Yuanliang. When he walked away, Chen Shuqing thoughtfully said: "In this way, Veres really doesn't hurt humans much. So, if he fell in love with Zhu Yuanliang's cloak, he would just take it. Why don't you put Zhu Yuanliang back?"

Sun Xiaoshu said carefully: "Can Brother Zhu be given to Veres by Brother Zhu during the resistance..."

Chen Shuqing gave Sun Xiaoshu a blank look. She did not disagree with Sun Xiaoshu's guess, but she still had a glimmer of hope in the optimistic direction. "Can you? In fact, Zhu Yuanliang and Zhou Faning were lost? You probably don't know Yu Xiangdi. When Zhu Yuanliang came to Guangxi to find us, he couldn't even distinguish between Guiping and Guilin, and ran a lot of detours."

Yu Xiangdi thought for a while and said, "That day, after we separated from Zhu Yuanliang, Xiaoshu and I went to the east of Chengde Summer Resort, and they went west. Perhaps, we can try to inquire about something wrong there."

After hearing this, Sun Xiaoshu immediately walked away and said to the two: "I'm far away now, you should be able to find the breath of the outside world."

Chen Shuqing and Yu Xiangdi immediately focused on inquiring. After a while, Chen Shuqing opened his eyes and wondered: "Strange, there is a strange aura of a purifier in the mountainous area not far from the west of Chengde Mountain Resort. Just yesterday, there was no such aura there. Who could have arrived there at such a fast speed?"

Sun Xiaoshu immediately said happily: "Is it related to Brother Zhu?"

Yu Xiangdi disagreed and said, "It's not that coincidental? Zhu Yuanliang is neither a monster nor a purifying messenger. How could he have something to do with an unrecognized purifying messenger?"
Chapter completed!
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