Chapter VIII First Arrival in the Capital
Li Yuntong sat in the bumpy carriage, looked at the box containing the high-quality fabric, and asked slowly: "Uncle Chen, how long will it take to get to the capital?"
"It's almost done. I guess I'll be able to reach the gate of the capital before dark." Chen Shuangliang lifted the curtains of the carriage, looked at the road where the carriage was located, and said with an estimated view.
Sure enough, when the city gate at the entrance of the capital was about to close, the carriage that Li Yuntong was riding arrived at the entrance of the capital and successfully entered the city gate. However, it was already dark at this time.
"Miss, let's find an inn nearby to stay. It's already dark. This place is still a long way from our destination, and it's remote and the road is not easy to walk on." Chen Shuangliang suggested to Li Yuntong sincerely.
"Okay, just do what you said." Li Yuntong said in agreement.
So the carriage that Li Yuntong and his group were riding stopped in front of a nearby inn, and they entered the inn to stay in.
"Uncle Chen, just like last time, put the fabric box in my room." Li Yuntong said seriously in a slightly commanding tone.
"Okay, Miss." Chen Shuangliang responded in compliance, and then arranged for someone to carry the box into the room where Li Yuntong stayed.
Li Yuntong sat quietly in the room. When she looked at the box containing the high-quality fabrics that she was worried all the way, she suddenly thought of the slight sound from the roof she heard in the inn she stayed at last, and couldn't help but feel a hint of worry hitting her heart.
"I wonder if something will happen tonight, I hope these fabrics will be intact." Li Yuntong thought to herself.
At this time, the waiter brought the food to Li Yuntong's room.
"Customer, please use it slowly." The waiter said respectfully and then left.
"Miss, have a meal." Caidie smiled and said softly to Li Yuntong.
"Okay, let's have a meal." Li Yuntong said lightly with a hint of worry on her face.
Shortly after dinner, Caidie served Li Yuntong and went to bed. The lamp on the table was also blown out, and the room was dark and dirty.
Li Yuntong lay quietly on the bed, with her eyes open and staring at the roof. After passing the sneaky things in the inn last time, it was impossible for her to fall asleep like this easily this time.
Gradually, it became late at night and the room was very quiet. Suddenly, Li Yuntong heard a slight sound from the roof again. Li Yuntong became nervous, but immediately she calmed down again. Li Yuntong quietly walked out of the bed, holding the stones that had been prepared in her hand, guarding a corner and quietly watching the movements on the roof.
I saw a tiles on the roof were slowly uncovered, and then a masked face looked around at Li Yuntong's room through the hole formed by the tiles. Then a wet handkerchief tied with a thin rope was quietly passed through the hole as the string gradually moved downward. Suddenly, Li Yuntong smelled a pungent smell that seemed familiar, and she soon realized that it was a porridge. The last time the robber used this
The smell of drugs made her dizzy. So Li Yuntong immediately covered her mouth and nose, and quickly threw the stone in her hand towards the masked face on the roof. The person on the roof held back the pain and whispered, and hurriedly ran away. The handkerchief stained with drugs fell into the room. Li Yuntong quickly picked up the handkerchief in the moonlight, opened the window, and quickly threw the handkerchief out. Li Yuntong calmly closed the window, then lay on the bed again, and gradually fell asleep.
The next morning, Li Yuntong had just woken up. Thinking about what happened on the roof last night, she felt a little worried. She opened the box containing the high-quality fabric beside her, and carefully checked it carefully, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
After Li Yuntong finished breakfast in the room, it was time to set off again.
When Chen Shuangliang was organizing the guys to carry boxes to the carriage, Li Yuntong found that a guy named Liu Chengxing, who followed her to the capital, was injured on the face. She suddenly fell into deep thought, and then suddenly realized, "It happened that I was injured by a stone last night?"
"What's wrong with your face?" Li Yuntong walked to Liu Chengxing and asked deliberately.
"I - I - when I went to the cottage last night - because it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, so I accidentally hit my face against the wall, so my face was injured." Liu Chengxing stammered and said unfluently.
"So accidentally." Li Yuntong said softly, already very suspicious that he was the person who tried to faint her last night.
"Yeah, yes." Liu Chengxing said slightly unnaturally.
"Okay, go and do your business." Li Yuntong calmly let Liu Chengxing go.
Li Yuntong found Chen Shuangliang and whispered: "Uncle Chen, someone quietly uncovered the tiles on my roof last night, trying to use a handkerchief stained with a drug to faint me."
"How could this happen?" Chen Shuangliang looked shocked, restrained his emotions and said in a low voice.
Li Yuntong whispered to Chen Shuangliang in detail about the strange things he encountered in the inn these two times, and explained his suspicion of Liu Chengxing.
"Uncle Chen, I hope you will investigate Liu Chengxing secretly." Li Yuntong said softly and sincerely at the end.
"Okay, Miss." Chen Shuangliang agreed unshirkable.
Afterwards, Li Yuntong took his maid Caidie and Chen Shuangliang to the carriage. The box containing high-quality fabric was also carried into the carriage. Then the coachman drove his horse to continue driving towards his destination.
"Miss, it should be here at noon today." Chen Shuangliang said to Li Yuntong with a smile.
"That's good. This time I make sure that there is no problem with this batch of goods and we can deliver the goods smoothly." Li Yuntong looked at the box containing the goods in front of her and said with a smile. A stone in her heart finally fell to the ground. And the person who made her store's reputation damaged seemed to have a look at her and she felt that the trip was worth it.
"Mr. Chen from Chang'an is an old customer of our store. Although our store has experienced that storm, Mr. Chen still trusts our store." Chen Shuangliang said with a wry smile. Thinking that since that storm, the business in the store has become much quieter, he feels unspeakable pain.
"Uncle Chen, everything will be fine. Our store was just plotted against. I believe it will be revealed soon and the truth will be revealed." Li Yuntong comforted Chen Shuangliang, always believing that the Li family's store's business will be as good as before.
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