Chapter 402: Chapter 402 Small Town
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This was what Zhang Zifan was waiting for. He responded and ran out of the inn. However, Shen Ye and the other two did not follow him out immediately. Instead, they called the waiter and told him to take good care of the sisters. They also extended their room rent for a few more days.
After all, apart from liking Zhang Zifan, they are not bad people, and Shen Ye doesn't want to leave them unattended.
But before leaving, Shen Ye pulled the waiter aside and said to him:
"After they wake up, you will say that all this was arranged by the white-haired gentleman. Do you understand?"
After saying that, Shen Ye stuffed a gold ingot into the waiter's pocket as the fee for delivering the message. This made the waiter pat his chest with gratitude, and he said that he would praise the white-haired young man to the skies.
So Shen Ye felt relieved and left the inn with Lu Linxuan and Li Xingyun.
Afterwards, the four of them left Yuzhou City on horseback.
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The distance from Yuzhou to Zangbing Valley in Zhongnan Mountain is more than a thousand miles. If you walk, it would take ten days or half a month. Even if you ride a horse, it would take at least a day and a night without considering the horse's feelings.
However, among the four, except Zhang Zifan, Shen Ye and the other two were not in a hurry. They controlled the speed of their horses and rode slowly and leisurely. Zhang Zifan was so anxious that he complained, fearing that if he ran too slowly, he would be caught up by Qingguo and Qingcheng.
"Brother Zhang, don't worry. Didn't Brother Shen say that the sisters will have to stay in bed for several days at least and won't be able to catch up with us?" Li Xingyun first comforted him, then changed the subject and continued, "Besides, it's your own fault. If you hadn't been a bad drinker and hadn't behaved badly, you wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing. I'm different from me. I go to sleep when I'm drunk and never provoke others. Of course, I won't encounter such a person."
Zhang Zifan said with a bitter face: "It's mainly because my luck is too bad. If I met a beautiful woman, I wouldn't leave even if she chased me away."
"You're dreaming." Li Xingyun glanced at him, "How can you meet so many beauties, especially when you're drunk."
Zhang Zifan suddenly laughed and said, "Haha, that's hard to say. Maybe next time I land, I'll meet a bunch of peerless beauties."
"It's still daytime. If you want to have an erotic dream, wait till night." Li Xingyun glanced at him unhappily again: "Don't meet another "beauty" like Qingguo and Qingcheng. You won't have time to cry then, you idiot."
"Hehe." Zhang Zifan remained silent and could only smile foolishly to hide his embarrassment.
"Speaking of which, Brother Li, do you know Brother Shen's identity?"
After driving in silence for a while, Zhang Zifan looked at Shen Ye who was driving side by side with Lu Linxuan in front, and suddenly asked Li Xingyun in a low voice.
"I don't know." Li Xingyun shook his head. He had never asked.
"You didn't even know his identity, but you actually traveled with him for so many days?" Zhang Zifan asked in surprise, "How did you two know each other?"
"We met by chance outside Yuzhou City." Li Xingyun said lightly, and then told him what happened when they met by chance, but he concealed the fact that Ji Ruxue had a close relationship with Shen Ye at that time.
After listening to how Li Xingyun and Lu Linxuan met Shen Ye, Zhang Zifan asked curiously, "He is so powerful, but he is being hunted by the Xuanming Sect. Don't you think it's strange?"
"It's strange, but Brother Shen has no ill will towards me and my junior sister, and there's nothing on me that's worth his attention, so I didn't think too much about it." Li Xingyun said, and recalled the days he spent with Shen Ye, but he really couldn't think of what Shen Ye was seeking. At most, he seduced his junior sister away, but things between men and women are based on mutual consent, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
"That being said, I still feel that his background is not simple. A master like him cannot be unknown." Zhang Zifan said after thinking for a while.
Before seeing Shen Ye's true strength, he had never cared about Shen Ye's identity. But after Shen Ye defeated the two sisters who were at least in the Intermediate Heaven level with one move at noon, he began to search his memory, but he racked his brains and could not remember such a person in the world.
Li Xingyun is not a simple person, but the past few days of getting along with Shen Ye still made him think that Shen Ye is a person worth making friends with, so he said: "Hey, why think so much, anyway, he has no ill will towards us, and besides, it was Brother Shen who helped you out today, if you doubt him again, it will be unreasonable."
Thinking of what happened this afternoon, Zhang Zifan felt a little embarrassed. He touched his head and said with a wry smile, "Haha, I'm just curious, nothing else."
Li Xingyun curled his lips and said, "That would be best."
Then he looked at Shen Ye and Lu Linxuan who were walking in front of him and shook his head slightly.
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Although they were not traveling very fast, they still walked dozens of miles in the afternoon. And because they were traveling along the official road, they were lucky enough to see a town near dusk.
In response, Lu Linxuan shouted excitedly: "That's great, Brother Shen, we don't have to sleep in the wilderness anymore."
"You don't need to eat dry food." Shen Ye responded with a smile, then turned back to look at Li Xingyun. His slightly strange look made Li Xingyun feel a little puzzled.
"Brother Shen, what's wrong?" Li Xingyun asked puzzledly.
Shen Ye shook his head and smiled: "Nothing."
"Then why are you looking at me like that?" Li Xingyun continued to ask.
"Did I?" Shen Ye looked at him innocently, his eyes sincere beyond words.
Li Xingyun: "…"
Then, the four of them entered the town.
After entering the town, Li Xingyun found a local to ask where he could find accommodation, but was told that there was only one inn in the town, and it was at another entrance of the town.
So the four of them quickened their pace and rushed in the direction that the man pointed.
However, when the four found the inn, there were several carriages and dozens of horses of extraordinary quality parked at the entrance of the inn.
Zhang Zifan was very knowledgeable and could tell at a glance that those horses were all top-grade war horses, even the horses pulling the carts. He looked around the inn curiously and said to Shen Ye and the other two, "It looks like an important person is staying here. These horses are all war horses, and each one is very valuable."
"This is none of our business. We are just staying in the hotel." Shen Ye didn't know much about these things. He just glanced at them and said lightly, then turned over and dismounted, walking into the store.
But as soon as he reached the door, he was stopped by an innkeeper who was feeding hay to the war horses.
"Dear guests, please wait a moment," the waiter said with a smile. "Would you like to book a room to rest for a while or stay overnight?"
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