Volume 5: The Two Great Prideful Sons (Part 2) Chapter 154: Yue Lai Inn
Three days later.
Su Weiyun is already on the road.
He waited for a whole day, and Su Ying did not disappoint his expectations. She quickly brewed a small jar of "Xuanbing Liehuo Wine" in an extremely special way.
Su Weiyun spent another two full days refining the medicinal power in the wine, practicing his internal energy, and opening up his meridians. He made sure that the cold and yin power of the "Goddess Pill" had been basically eliminated and his internal strength had increased significantly before he left Guishan.
Ride at full speed and travel for a day.
Su Weiyun saw the Liuquan City that Su Ying mentioned.
Compared to Anqing City, Liuquan City is indeed smaller, but it is located by the mountains and rivers, and has a great geographical location. There are also many wine flags fluttering in the wind in the city, so it looks very lively from the outside.
But when Su Weiyun entered the city, he found that the long streets in the city were extremely empty, the doors of all the shops were tightly closed, and there were very few pedestrians walking along the way.
"This city... has large houses and vast land, and is well-built. How come it is so sparsely populated?"
The summer breeze blew along the streets. Only the scorching sun was still warm, while everything else seemed cold and deserted.
Su Weiyun felt that something was wrong, so he asked the only middle-aged man he could see on the street, "Brother, why is there no one in the city? Even the restaurants and inns are closed?"
The middle-aged man looked around cautiously, covered his ears with his hands, and whispered, "Are you from out of town? Go away, go away!"
After the man said this, his face became serious, as if he had committed some terrible disaster. He immediately ran away quickly, and no matter how Su Weiyun called him, she couldn't stop him.
As Su Weiyun walked, he murmured, "What kind of wicked bullying did Wei Wuya do in this city? He actually caused a small city to fall into ruin?"
Not long after walking, when Su Weiyun was about to reach the east gate from the west gate of the city, he finally saw the only inn that was open for business.
It is probably also the largest and most comfortable inn in the city: Yuelai Inn.
Yuelai Inn can be said to be one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. This inn can be seen in many cities, and it has branches almost all over the world.
Su Weiyun saw the sign and walked in without much hesitation.
——If this inn is open for business as usual, then he should go in and eat and drink normally; if this inn is a black shop, then of course it is most likely related to the weirdness of Liuquan City, so he still has to go in and investigate.
So he had to go into the store anyway.
Maybe this inn was waiting for him to enter.
"Sir, do you want to stay overnight or stay in the hotel?"
This sentence is almost universal among waiters in all inns. Such a friendly question can be heard in any inn at any time and any place.
But Yuelai Inn doesn’t have it.
There are no waiters here at all.
There was only a drunk and drowsy boss lying weakly at the counter.
When he saw Su Weiyun coming in, he didn't even greet her, but asked directly: "Is your surname Du? If not Du, get out!"
Su Weiyun was stunned, but not annoyed, and asked, "Which Du?"
The drunkard boss said impatiently: "Which other Du could it be? The Du with a soil character on the right of a wood character!"
Su Weiyun smiled and said, "Oh, then my last name is Du."
The drunk boss suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked Su Weiyun up and down, as if he was identifying a rare antique. He slowly asked, "Is your last name really Du?"
Su Weiyun nodded.
The drunk boss suddenly perked up, pulled him to a table, and said, "Come here, you are a distinguished guest, have some water, have some water."
He poured a bowl of tea from the teapot beside him. The tea was very cold, as if it had been left out for a very long time.
Su Weiyun smiled and said, "If the tea is cold, it won't taste good. You can drink cold wine, but not tea."
The drunk boss frowned and asked, "You must drink hot tea?"
Su Weiyun said: "I don't like drinking cold tea."
The drunk boss suddenly smiled and said, "Well, sir, I'll go and warm it up for you right away."
Su Weiyun said: "No need."
The drunk boss asked curiously, "No need?"
Su Weiyun said calmly: "I don't like drinking poisonous tea either."
The drunkard boss's face changed, and he said in a daze: "Sir...you...what do you mean?"
While he was speaking, he suddenly pulled out a steel claw made of fine iron from his arms. The tip of the claw was glowing green, and it was obviously poisoned!
Chi!
The steel claws swung out quickly, making a sound of breaking through the air, like the sharp paw of a ferocious beast, digging fiercely into Su Weiyun's face!
clang!
Somehow, the steel claw inexplicably broke in two from the middle. Suddenly, the drunkard boss's weapon was reduced to just a small piece of steel handle.
The drunkard boss stared blankly at the broken steel claw, then looked at Su Weiyun in surprise, who seemed to be standing there motionless, with a very confused look on his face.
"You...you don't seem to be Du Sha!"
His gaze shifted from Su Weiyun's face to his right hand, as if he had just sobered up from drunkenness, and said, "Du Sha should not be a young man! And it is said that Du Sha's right hand is an iron hook!"
Su Weiyun said coldly: "If I were Blood Hand Du Sha, you would have died just now."
The drunk boss suddenly felt cold sweat on his back.
"With your mediocre skills, you still want to plot against the ten evil men?"
“I…I…”
Su Weiyun said, "I'll ask you a question and you'll answer it. If your answer doesn't satisfy me, then you can drink the cup of tea, okay?"
Of course the drunkard didn't dare to refute and could only nod repeatedly.
Su Weiyun asked, "Are you Wuya's disciple?"
"yes!"
Su Weiyun laughed and said, "A soldier of the Wuya sect can be killed but not humiliated. How could Wei Wuya teach such a useless person like you?"
The drunkard boss was sweating profusely and said, "I... I am a beginner. Grandmaster Wei, the Grandmaster has not taught me martial arts yet."
Su Weiyun asked curiously, "Then why did he accept you as his disciple?"
The drunkard raised his head tremblingly, looked at Su Weiyun's face, and then said: "Because... because I am the owner of the Yuelai Inn branch, and I know some martial arts that are not very good, so..."
Su Weiyun frowned and said, "You mean... Wei Wuya plans to use Yuelai Inn to do something?"
The drunkard broke down and cried, "It's not just me. All the branches of Yuelai Inn in the nearby cities have been held hostage! Ah, they forced me to do this... They said that if I didn't join the Wuya Sect and help them run a black shop, I would die. Then they gave me a poison called 'Seven Rats'!"
Su Weiyun corrected: "It's the poison of the Seven Rat Flower."
The drunkard said, "Yes, it's this poison. If I don't listen to their instructions and wait here for a man named Du Sha to stay at the inn, they will stop sending me the antidote!"
Su Weiyun asked: "So everyone in this city has fled, and you are the only one left?"
The drunkard said, "That group of rats... the rat ancestors threatened us and asked us to help him find Du Sha. We didn't take his words seriously, so they... they used rat poison to pollute the water source of Liuquan City! In just three days, the city was plagued by diseases and people were in a panic, so everyone ran away!"
Su Weiyun suddenly asked: "When will they come to see you next time?"
The drunkard said, "The time we agreed on is tomorrow."
Su Weiyun thought for a while and said, "Okay, this is the antidote, you can go."
The drunkard took a small red pill in a panic and asked in surprise: "Ah? What kind of antidote is this?"
"What I mean is - your inn was previously requisitioned by the Toothless Clan, but now it belongs to me. You may not accept the antidote to the Seven Rat Flower poison, but you must accept what I say."
