She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 205: A Night Rain Encounter with a Thieves’ Inn, and the Presence of Hypnotic Scent

Chapter 205: Chapter 205: A Night Rain Encounter with a Thieves’ Inn, and the Presence of Hypnotic Scent

Xiang Ying glanced over, her brows furrowed.

"This desolate mountain, there actually is an inn."

"Should we go over and ask?"

After thinking for a moment, Xiang Ying had Qi Fengyi drive the carriage to the front of the inn.

She got off first, planning to observe the place.

However, Xiang Ying discovered that, although light was shining from within the inn, the doors were shut.

She gently knocked on the door, and, in a coarse voice, called out: "Innkeeper, can we still get rooms, innkeeper!"

No response came for a long while, but Xiang Ying was keenly aware of some rustling noises inside the room.

What could this be?

Before long, a rough voice came from inside.

"Coming!"

The door was opened a crack, and the person inside revealed a pair of triangular eyes, a thin face, and a pair of moustaches shaped like the number eight.

He sized up Xiang Ying with his eyes: "You wish to stay at the inn, sir? How many in your party?"

As he spoke, his gaze wandered over Xiang Ying’s shoulder.

He saw her large carriage, as well as several children and attendants.

Xiang Ying replied, "Seven of us. I need two of your best rooms; do you have any?"

Triangle Eye nodded his head: "Yes, yes, come in, please."

He swung the door open, and the moment Xiang Ying stepped inside, she detected an unusual odor.

Qi Fengyi subconsciously gripped the longsword in his hand tighter.

That smell... Is it blood?

Aren noticed marks on the ground that seemed freshly washed and couldn’t help asking: "It’s so late; you’re still cleaning the inn?"

Triangle Eye smiled obsequiously with his hands clasped: "We had no guests, couldn’t sleep either, so I decided to give it a wipe. Come, follow me upstairs, guests."

But Xiang Yuanshuo tugged at Xiang Ying’s sleeve.

"Dad, I’m hungry."

Hearing this, Triangle Eye hurriedly said, "We’ve used up the earlier ingredients. There’re only dry cakes left in the kitchen. If you’d like some, I’ll bring them up shortly."

Xiang Ying nodded: "That would be great, please include that in the bill."

The two best rooms were next to each other, Xiang Ying stayed with the three children while Qi Fengyi shared the adjoining room with Tao Xue and Aren.

After Triangle Eye left, Xiang Ying scattered a layer of orange-red powder outside the windows of their two rooms.

Should anyone try to climb through the windows, they would touch the powder first, causing their palms to go numb instantly, losing sensation.

After finishing these preparations, Xiang Ying heard a pattering noise outside.

Right under the eaves where she had placed the powder, rain would dissolve but not wash it away.

As Triangle Eye was about to close the door downstairs, he saw three travelers rush in abruptly.

They wore the clothing of scholars, shook the water from their robes, and complained to each other about the badly timed rain.

Triangle Eye wondered: "Are you also here to stay at the inn?"

The leading scholar, with a refined demeanor, clasped his hands together apologetically: "Sorry to trouble you at this late hour, innkeeper. We are scholars heading to Shangjing City for the examinations. We ran into this heavy rain on our way, and fortunately, saw your inn. Please provide us a room on the upper floor."

The three scholars scraped together their Silver, finally handing over the money.

Annoyance flashed across Triangle Eye’s face.

A bunch of poor scholars, all coming to die, they’d be hardly worth the effort to kill!

"Follow me upstairs!" Triangle Eye, after taking the Silver, led them upstairs grudgingly.

Xiang Ying peered through the crack of the door and saw that the three scholars were staying opposite her.

Qi Fengyi came out of his room, searching for Triangle Eye to ask: "Innkeeper, bring up two pots of tea."

Triangle Eye quickly nodded: "Alright, I’ll go prepare right away."

Watching him go downstairs, Xiang Ying released an invisible drone from her space, following behind him.

Through the screen, Xiang Ying saw that there were five or six men with knives in the kitchen, their robes stained with blood!

The corner of the kitchen was piled with several bodies, which appeared to be the real innkeeper and his helpers.

So they had all been murdered.

No wonder Xiang Ying smelled a faint scent of blood when she entered.

These people must be bandits!

Sanjiao Eye seemed to be their leader.

He whispered conspiratorially, "Three more scholars have arrived, it’s just perfect to send all ten of them on their way!"

"I’ll put sedatives in the tea later, you guys just wait here. When you hear my signal, as soon as I blow the whistle, take action and kill them!"

"Those seven people in Room No. 1, with three children, we can keep the children to sell for silver, but kill all the others. Their carriage will also belong to us."

"As for the rest of the scholars, chop them up and throw them behind the mountain."

Just as he finished, a scholar’s voice suddenly came from the doorway of the kitchen.

"Innkeeper, do you have thick blankets? We got rained on and are chilling severely."

Sanjiao Eye was startled, and even Xiang Ying was taken aback.

This scholar, unaware of the situation, would be dragged in and have his throat slit without anyone knowing.

Those brawny men indeed clenched the handles of their knives, their eyes fierce as if ready to move.

Just as Xiang Ying prepared to use drones to poison them and bring them down, Sanjiao Eye lifted his hand to stop his comrades.

He replied, "I’ll bring it to your room in a bit, just wait!"

The scholar’s voice of gratitude came through the door: "Then I’ll trouble the innkeeper." ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

After hearing his departing footsteps, Sanjiao Eye spat out a curse under his breath.

"Damn it, I’m a bandit, and these people are getting addicted to ordering me around."

He prepared two pots of hot tea and poured sedatives into them.

Xiang Ying retracted the drones and emerged from the space, waiting quietly.

Not long after, Sanjiao Eye went upstairs, knocked on the door, and handed over the teapots with a smile.

Xiang Ying said, "Thanks, innkeeper, but it’s very cold because it’s raining. I’d like hot water to bathe the children."

Sanjiao Eye, bearing his temper, said, "Alright! I’ll bring it up soon."

Watching him deliver another teapot next door and then rush to the scholars’ room with blankets, he was too busy to take a break.

Xiang Ying, with a cold smirk, quietly closed the door.

There was no need to worry about Qi Fengyi; she had been instructed earlier not to consume anything from this inn.

Sanjiao Eye brewed hot water, cursing softly to himself.

Did they really take him for a servant? He would soon plunge a knife in deep to vent his frustration!

He had just delivered hot water to Xiang Ying’s room.

Across the way, another scholar opened the door, looking anxious: "Innkeeper, do you have medicine? Our companion is sick; could you bring us some medicine?"

Xiang Ying clearly saw Sanjiao Eye’s fists crackling.

Yet he still had to wear a smile: "Okay, I’ll bring it soon."

Sanjiao Eye turned and went downstairs, Xiang Ying made eye contact with the scholar across the hallway.

The other party nodded first and then closed the door.

The medicine was quickly delivered across the way, and Xiang Ying guessed it was probably no good.

She blew out the candle, pretended to be asleep, and sounds of heavy objects falling could be heard from the scholar’s room.

Xiang Ying gently tapped the wall, signaling to Qi Fengyi with a prearranged secret code that she too should extinguish the candle.

Sure enough, after a moment, the sound of many footsteps going upstairs could be heard.

Sanjiao Eye shouted angrily: "Damn it, these people are treating me like a servant, don’t go soft when you stick the knives in later!"

"To prevent them from struggling, light up the hypnotic scent."

Xiang Ying’s eyes suddenly snapped open in the darkness.

She sat up and saw through the crack of the door, indeed, a lit hypnotic scent stick being inserted, slowly emitting green smoke.

"Mother..." Xiang Xiuxiu, pretending to sleep, covered her little head, "I feel so dizzy."