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Er Laizi squeezed his eyes together and stared at the tip of Gu Fei’s dagger: “Yes, he lives in a courtyard on the backstreet of Prince Qi’s Mansion, you can go there and ask, and you’ll know.”

Gu Fei nodded: “Okay, I’ll go find him myself, every grievance has its perpetrator, my feud with you ends here.”

“On the premise that you never mess up my store again.”

“If you dare to mess up again, your life will be in jeopardy.”

Er Laizi stared at the dagger: “I dare not, I will never dare again.”

At this time, the bed made a slight creaking sound, Gu Fei glanced inside the bed, and the woman wrapped in the quilt was shivering.

Gu Fei was somewhat amused, retracted her gaze, and slowly said: “Then it’s settled.”

“In the future, if you pass that street, you walk across the street, do you hear me?”

Er Laizi’s voice trembled: “Yes, yes, I, I will try not to pass that street in the future.”

Xiao Yu was lying on the roof and heard it funny.

It was not a big deal, just a gangster who went to the store to make trouble, just beat him to death, as for this late at night, holding a dagger to scare people?

On second thought, Housekeeper Wu was also the same, he can bully others, so how can you bully Xiao Fei?

After asking, Gu Fei climbed out of the window, and even closed the window as it was, to prevent Er Laizi from catching a cold.

She put away the dagger and walked back, thinking, Housekeeper Wu was a rich bastard for three generations, and a servant of a prince.

He was not like Er Laizi, she could beat and scare him.

The chief steward of Prince Qi’s Mansion was powerful. It was estimated that the governor of Donghai County would have to be polite when seeing him.

This man must be dealt with in other ways.

He must not be killed. Prince Qi’s Mansion will not let her go if she kills him, and she doesn’t want to commit any capital crime.

Better talk to Housekeeper Wu tomorrow.

Gu Fei walked quickly and arrived at the inn in about two-quarters of an hour. She took out the key to open the side door, pushed the door in, and turned around to bolt the door.

Xiao Yu was lying on the roof. When he saw Gu Fei enter the house, he jumped down from the roof and walked towards Prince Qi’s Mansion.

After walking a few steps, Xiao Yu said to Shitou: “Tell Housekeeper Wu tomorrow that I order him not to bother Xiao Fei again.”

Shitou glanced at his young master: “Young Master, actually, you don’t have to be so anxious about this matter.”

Xiao Yu raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

“Think about it. If I go and tell Housekeeper Wu about it, Xiao Fei won’t know that you help her behind the scenes. Isn’t this a waste of this good opportunity?”

Xiao Yu had a blank expression on his face: “What do you mean to say?”

Shitou’s mouth curled up proudly: “Of course, we should wait for Xiao Fei to beg you. Think about it. If Xiao Fei knows that it was Housekeeper Wu who was behind the scenes, will she have any other way to solve this problem except to come to you?”

“When the time comes, if you help her again, Xiao Fei will be grateful.”

Xiao Yu snorted coldly. “I don’t want her gratitude.”

Shitou rolled his eyes silently: Prince, let’s see how long you’ll be stubborn.

Sure enough, Xiao Yu didn’t walk two steps and said: “Forget it. Let’s not talk to Housekeeper Wu first. I don’t bother to care about that girl.”

The two of them didn’t walk far before they saw Zhuzi squatting on the side of the street with a sad face. He tied three horses to the side of the road.

Seeing the two, Zhuzi cried with joy: “Young Master, you’re back. Can you please not abandon me in the future?”

Xiao Yu snorted, untied the reins, jumped on the horse, and the three horses rushed straight to the mansion.

 

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Gu Fei calmed down and climbed in through the window.

She squinted her eyes and looked around. The room was very small. There was only a table, a bed, and two chairs.

There were two people lying on the bed. Gu Fei got closer and looked. Although the light was dim, she could still tell that the man lying outside was Er Laizi, with a cloth wrapped around his head.

She turned her wrist and a dagger appeared in her hand. She covered Er Laizi’s mouth with one hand and stabbed Er Laizi’s arm with the dagger.

Er Laizi woke up immediately, opened his eyes, and saw a figure in front of him. He wanted to scream instinctively, but Gu Fei covered his mouth, blocking his voice in his throat.

Gu Fei lowered her voice and said: “Don’t shout. If you shout, I can’t hold the dagger in my hand.”

“I came here just to ask you a few questions. If you answer them obediently, I won’t kill you.”

Xiao Yu lay on the roof, listening carefully to the movements below.

It was very quiet at night, and he could hear Gu Fei’s words.

Er Laizi heard her voice and then saw that it was Gu Fei.

He was panicked for a moment. This time he really met a tough guy, and he didn’t know how she got here.

His eyes were wide open, and he blinked repeatedly to show his agreement.

Gu Fei said softly: “You agreed not to scream, so I will let go.”

After letting go, Er Laizi’s eyes fell on the dagger in Gu Fei’s hand, which was shining with cold light. The dagger swayed in front of his eyelids, and Er Laizi dared not move.

Gu Fei said slowly: “I just want to ask you, who is the person who ordered you to make trouble in my store?”

Xiao Yu on the roof was stunned when he heard it. Make trouble?

Did someone go to her store to make trouble?

She ran here in the middle of the night just for this?

Er Laizi’s voice was filled with fear: “I, I can’t say it. If I say it, that person won’t let me go.”

Gu Fei took the dagger and gently poked Er Laizi’s face: “If you don’t say it, you will die now. If you say it, you may not die. I think everyone knows how to choose.”

Er Laizi was poked by the tip of the knife, and a chill seemed to pass from the tip of the knife to the bottom of his heart: “I say, I say, that person is the housekeeper of Prince Qi Mansion.”

Gu Fei frowned: “What’s his surname and name?”

“I’m afraid there is more than one housekeeper in the Qi Wang Mansion. Who knows who you are talking about?”

Er Laizi hurriedly said: “There is only one housekeeper, his surname is Wu, and his name is Dahai.”

Xiao Yu was confused. Why did Housekeeper Wu let people cause trouble for Xiao Fei?

“Did you tell him what I told you to tell him yesterday?”

Er Laizi stuttered, “No, no, I was thinking of taking your money first and then going to him to claim the reward.”

Gu Fei patted his face with a dagger: “You see, you just don’t listen. If you had told him, you might not have had this experience today.”

“Then do you know why Housekeeper Wu did this?”

Er Laizi nodded vigorously, the flesh on his chin squeezed into a ball: “I know, he has a grudge against my eldest brother, he doesn’t want my eldest brother to have a good life.”

Gu Fei said coldly, “If there is a grudge, just kill him. I think that Old Man Huang is living a good life. Why don’t you mess with him instead of messing with these tenants? What do you mean by this?”

“Are you mentally ill?”

Er Laizi shook his head repeatedly: “No, no, Housekeeper Wu swore that he would never do anything to my eldest brother, but he didn’t want my eldest brother to live a good life, so he could only mess with these tenants.”

Gu Fei snorted: “Crazy!”

“Where does Housekeeper Wu live?”

 

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Gu Fei nodded: “Okay, I got it, thank you very much today.”

The little beggar smiled at Gu Fei and ran away quickly.

Gu Fei walked into the alley, counted to the third house, stood at the door, and listened.

Then a woman inside said: “You can’t beat that girl, what are you doing, you didn’t get the money, and you came back with a bloody head, and I have to use the money to buy medicine for you!”

Then the man’s voice sounded: “What are you afraid of, it’s just a beating, I’m not dead yet. Don’t worry, I will go to that person tomorrow to ask for the reward.”

“That person is generous, seeing me like this, he will give more reward money.”

Gu Fei listened for a while and left quietly.

Back to the inn, waited until the middle of the night, and closed the door as usual.

Gu Fei returned to her room and sent Lian’er to sleep with Lanzhi.

She lay on the bed and took a nap for a while, listening to the night watch outside: “Dong! – Dong, Dong!”

Gu Fei knew it was the hour of Hai, which was eleven o’clock evening. She got up from the bed, took out a black hooded sweater from the space, put it on, put the hood on her head, and then slipped out of the room.

Walking to the side door, Gu Fei pulled the bolt, walked outside, and locked the side door with a lock.

Then she walked along the street to the west of the city.

There was no curfew in Ping’an City, and pedestrians could walk on the street at night.

But at this time, except for the patrol soldiers and the night watchmen, basically no one else was walking.

Those who were still walking on the street at this time were either in a hurry or not good people.

After walking for a while, Gu Fei suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves coming from far away.

Gu Fei dodged to the side and hid behind a pillar. When the sound of horse hooves went away, she walked forward again.

Xiao Yu was riding on the horse, thinking about the figure he had just seen. No matter how he looked at it, the figure was very familiar.

He suddenly pulled the reins hard and got off the horse: “I have something to do, you two go back first.”

Shitou was shocked and got off the horse, and hurriedly told Zhuzi: “I will follow you, you go back first.”

Zhuzi looked at the two horses that had lost their owners and wanted to cry without tears.

Xiao Yu jumped onto the roof with a few leaps, and Shitou followed him onto the roof.

Xiao Yu frowned and lowered his voice: “Why are you following me? Didn’t I tell you to go back?”

Shitou had a bitter face: “Young Master, if I don’t follow you, I’m afraid I won’t live to see the sun tomorrow.”

Xiao Yu frowned and said nothing more. He crouched and walked quickly to the place where he met Gu Fei just now.

Soon, Xiao Yu saw Gu Fei.

She walked in the shadows on the street, her steps were urgent and fast.

Xiao Yu stared at the figure on the roadside and confirmed that it was Gu Fei without a doubt.

He didn’t know why, but he recognized her after just a glance.

For a moment, he didn’t know what to feel.

Did he misjudge her?

A girl wearing a strange nightgown in the middle of the night, couldn’t be taking a walk.

Shitou didn’t recognize Gu Fei.

He just didn’t understand why the prince would bother with this matter when she was just a thief in a nightgown.

Gu Fei quickly walked to the alley she had been to before.

She counted to the third house, stood at the door for a while, and put her ear to the door to listen carefully.

A man was snoring in the room.

Gu Fei pushed the door and bolted it from the inside.

She walked to the window and pulled the window. The window opened with a “creak”, which scared Gu Fei.

On the roof opposite, Xiao Yu watched Gu Fei tremble, he laughed inside his heart, but also felt anxious inexplicably.

 

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Then Gu Fei took a stick and moved flexibly among several gangsters, hitting their legs and heads.

Tie Niu was not idle nearby. Although he knew that his cousin knew martial arts, there were four big men there, and his cousin could not handle it alone. He also rushed up and beat up a gangster regardless of anything.

Xiao Lu and Pingzi were not a close relative like Tie Niu, so they didn’t dare to do anything. They were just here to work and didn’t want to get into trouble.

Aunt Liu was originally wiping the table. Seeing this, she grabbed the broom by the door and rushed out, beating up several gangsters without thinking.

Originally, they were just gangsters with no fighting power. Er Laizi was beaten the hardest by Gu Fei. Gu Fei hit his head hard with the rolling pin in her hand several times. The last time, the rolling pin in Gu Fei’s hand was broken, and Er Laizi rolled on the ground with his head in his arms.

Then Tie Niu, relying on his young, strong, and tall advantages, also knocked the man down.

Gu Fei hit another gangster on the knee with a stick, and the gangster fell with his legs softened.

Aunt Liu was left holding a big broom and kept hitting the remaining gangster on the head.

The gangster protected his head and face with both hands and shouted repeatedly: “Stop hitting, stop hitting——”

While shouting, he saw his accomplices fall to the ground, turned around, and ran away quickly.

Gu Fei kicked Er Laizi on the ground fiercely: “Get out of here, I will beat you to death if you dare to come again——”

Er Laizi stumbled up with his head covered, and Gu Fei realized that his head was broken and blood was flowing from his fingers.

“Little girl, you are so cruel, wait for me, there will be a time when you will regret it.”

Er Laizi said a cruel word, and he and the remaining two people supported each other and limped away.

Gu Fei squinted her eyes. It was not a good idea to let this idiot come to make trouble every day. She had to find the person behind him.

She had an idea instantly. She turned her eyes and saw a little beggar squatting in the corner. She walked over and said to the little beggar: “Do me a favor and find out where that idiot is staying tonight.”

As she spoke, she put a handful of copper coins into the little beggar’s broken bowl.

The little beggar moved quickly, took the copper coins into his arms, and smiled at Gu Fei, showing a few teeth: “Don’t worry, Shopkeeper Gu, I’ll tell you when I see it.”

Gu Fei smiled and watched the little beggar run away quickly. He soon caught up with Er Laizi and the others and then followed slowly.

Gu Fei was relieved, walked back to the restaurant, and smiled at the guests who were eating: “I’m sorry, I scared everyone, I’ll give you 20% off when we settle the bill later.”

A guest smiled and replied: “The shopkeeper is very good at fighting, and she is also a good person!”

Gu Fei smiled and went to the kitchen to cook again.

At 7 or 8 p.m., the little beggar came but didn’t enter the inn. He stood at the door and called Gu Fei: “Shopkeeper Gu——”

Gu Fei hurried out and asked in a low voice: “Where is it?”

The little beggar also lowered his voice, “In a secret door in the west of the city, it’s not easy to find, I’ll take you there.”

Gu Fei raised her foot to leave and asked the little beggar: “Have you had dinner?”

The little beggar said embarrassed: “Shopkeeper Gu, I’m lucky to have one meal a day, so there’s no such thing as breakfast and dinner.”

“Then wait a minute.” Gu Fei returned to the restaurant, took two steamed buns from the kitchen, and told Erlang again before going out.

She handed the steamed bun to the little beggar, who put one in his sleeve and ate the remaining one.

The two walked along the street for nearly two-quarters of an hour, and the little beggar pointed to an alley: “It’s right here, the third house on the right.”

 

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Gu Fei said: “This sign is not only for you. If your relatives or friends come to stay, they can also get a discount by showing this sign.”

Uncle Du took the sign put it away, and left the store with the servant.

When it was time to go to bed at night, Gu Fei remembered the pot of crabapple flowers in the space, and quickly sank her consciousness into the space.

She saw that the pot of crabapple buds had already opened slightly.

Looking at the spiritual energy in the space again, it not only did not decrease, but it was more than yesterday, and the fog was thicker.

Gu Fei squatted carefully in front of the crabapple and saw that the crabapple had no signs of dying as if it was more energetic than before.

The leaves trembled slightly as if they were breathing.

Gu Fei thought about it, plants also need to breathe, so does that mean that the spiritual energy they inhale is still spiritual energy they exhale, so that the spiritual energy in the space will not decrease because of plants?

She stood up and looked at the green jade cabbage and the mutton-fat jade treasure bowl again. The green jade cabbage had completely turned into stone cabbage, and the treasure bowl was just a pale stone bowl.

This should be because all the spiritual energy inside had been sucked out.

After looking at the space, she closed her eyes and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Gu Fei was suddenly awakened by a ringing bell.

She quickly got out of bed, took out her pistol, loaded it, opened the door, and ran out.

In this yard, there was a store on the south side, a wall shared with other families on the west side, an alley on the east side, a side door on the east side, and an alley outside the north wall.

If someone comes, they can just climb over the wall from the east and north alleys.

Gu Fei rushed out of the door, first looked at the east wall, found nothing, and quickly ran back.

When she ran to the back, she saw a figure on the wall and then jumped out.

Gu Fei gritted her teeth and shouted at the wall: “Er Laizi, I know it’s you, how dare you come!”

A suppressed “Ouch” sounded outside the wall, and then a sound of footsteps gradually ran away.

Gu Fei stood by the wall for a while but didn’t chase.

She walked to the doghouse, and the dog woke up and climbed up to look at her. Gu Fei shook her head at it: “You only know how to sleep! Tell me, what’s the point of raising you? You don’t even know to call when a thief comes!”

She then walked around the yard, and when she didn’t find anything, she went back to her room to sleep.

Because the store started to get busy, Lanzhi came early in the morning.

Gu Fei asked her to sit at the counter to register and collect money for customers, and when it was busy at lunchtime, she ran to the kitchen to help Sister Hua.

While cooking, Tie Niu suddenly rushed in with a nervous look: “Cousin, Er Laizi is here again, and he brought several people with him.”

He just saw Er Laizi coming from a distance at the door, so he ran in to report the news.

Gu Fei threw the spatula and shouted: “Lian’er, you continue to fry.” Then she grabbed a rolling pin on the chopping board next to him and rushed out.

When she rushed to the door, Er Laizi was about to enter with a few people.

Gu Fei raised the rolling pin in her hand: “You dare to come?”

“You climbed over my wall last night, how come you didn’t fall to death!”

Er Laizi’s head shrank, and then he straightened his back: “Little girl, don’t talk nonsense, who climbed over your wall?”

Gu Fei was too lazy to talk to him: “Get out, get out, get as far away as you can!”

Er Laizi sneered: “Don’t think I’m afraid of you, a little girl, you don’t have martial ethics. I was ambushed by you yesterday, but that doesn’t count. Today I’ll let you know how powerful your second grandfather is!”

“Brothers, give her–”

Before he finished speaking, Gu Fei hit Er Laizi on the head with a rolling pin.

 

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Er Laizi took a long breath and no longer had any thoughts of resistance in his heart: “I, I heard it.”

Gu Fei loosened her feet: “That’s it, you can go now.”

“Remember my words, don’t come to my shop again, I’ll beat you up every time you come.”

Er Laizi got up from the ground with difficulty, holding his chest, not daring to look back, and stumbled away.

The guests in the shop started to make a noise, slapping the table and knocking the bowls: “Young lady, you beat people well!”

The waiters clapped their hands even more vigorously: “The shopkeeper is so powerful!”

Gu Fei smiled, and with a very masterly demeanor, she reached out and dusted off the non-existent dust on her skirt, bowed to Young Master Zhou, and turned to go into the shop.

Young Master Zhou was still standing at the door with his mouth open in a daze, and suddenly turned around and ran towards his shop, shouting as he ran: “Wife, wife, this is incredible——”

He rushed into the shop and went straight to the backyard.

Sister Dan heard the sound and came out of the room: “What are you shouting for? Sister Xiu just fell asleep.”

Young Master Zhou stopped: “No, Sister Xiao Fei–”

“Oh, you’ve only known each other for a few days, and you’re calling her a sister?” Sister Dan eats lemons as usual.

“Oh, no, you didn’t see it just now, Xiao Fei, my gosh, she actually knows martial arts, she kicked that idiot so hard that he couldn’t get up with just two kicks.” Young Master Zhou panted.

Sister Dan clapped her hands: “I said this girl is not ordinary. A girl of her age is still hiding at home and dare not see anyone, but she dares to open an inn by herself. She is really capable.”

She walked out excitedly: “Let me take a look.”

Young Master Zhou held her back: “What are you looking at? The fight is over, and Er Laizi has left.”

Sister Dan came back to her senses and stared at him suspiciously: “You were not in the shop just now, why did you go out again?”

“Are you going to find that little goblin again?”

Young Master Zhou rolled his eyes: “No way, I was in the shop, and I went out when I heard the noise outside.”

Sister Dan snorted: “Be careful, if I come out later, and you are not in the shop, you will be in trouble.”

Young Master Zhou laughed: “How dare I, my wife, go and rest, I’m going to the shop.”

Gu Fei sat in the shop here, feeling calm.

When she has thought of the worst possible outcome for a matter, she can accept it calmly, just do it.

Soon, the guests who were eating in the lobby left one after another.

Uncle Du came with the waiter and sat down at the counter with a smile on his face: “Boss, what should I do with the VIP card you mentioned the other day?”

He was very satisfied with his stay for the past two days.

This inn was clean and convenient.

The waiters in the store were friendly and always smiling, so it was comfortable to stay here.

Gu Fei’s eyes lit up. She smiled and said, “This is easy. As long as you deposit 2 taels of silver in the store, you can get a 20% discount on the hotel price, but there is no discount on meals. It’s a small business and I can’t make much money. Please forgive me.”

“By the way, these 2 taels of silver are considered as a deposit with me. If you don’t want this VIP card anymore, bring the card and I will return the money to you.”

Uncle Du nodded and took out two taels of silver: “That’s fine, then make me a VIP card.”

Gu Fei took out a book and registered it, then put an exquisite little wooden sign on the counter.

The wooden sign was black lacquered with gold edges, with the word VIP written on it, and the number one was written on the back of the sign, which looked very exquisite.

 

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