Nie Xiaoman listened to Jing Mo's words and nodded slightly. He took off his coat, sent Jingmo to the bedside, and explained softly.

"This may be an accident and has nothing to do with us. Yesterday you advised me not to spend much brainpower on the riverboat, and now that your own body is not sound, why bother with it? It's late at night, so go to sleep. ”

But what happened just now still made Jing Mo feel at ease, and he always felt a little strange where he could sleep. So Jing Mo continued to ask.

"When you came into the inn, was there anything unusual outside the door?"

"Uh-nothing."

"Then why did you have this tiptoeing gait when you came in?"

"This—it's just your own suspicion. Wouldn't it be nice to go back to a public dwelling in the middle of the night and disturb the rest of others with a loud voice? Okay, okay, don't think about it, look at how you look like a patient, you better quickly undress and close your eyes and sleep. If you ask any more questions, you're welcome, and I won't answer you. “

Nie Xiaoman's tough attitude, Su Jingmo really can't—and can't—disobey. In the end, he could only be obedient, and although he was not satisfied, he could only sleep helplessly.

Jingmo slept for a short time when he suddenly had a nightmare that an assassin had entered his bedroom to assassinate him. Jing Mo was immediately frightened awake, and when he opened the tent, he saw that Nie Xiaoman's tent was also trembling there.

Jing Mo shouted lightly: "Xiaoman! …… Have you ever fallen asleep? ”

Nie Xiaoman immediately replied in a low voice, "Jingmo? Why don't you sleep yet? ”

"I fell asleep and dreamed that you were injured by an assassin—"

"Jingmo, stop thinking nonsense! Sleep! It's almost dawn! ”

Su Jingmo then lay down again, and when he slept for the second time, he was more deeply, but he was awakened by an exclamation. Jing Mo sat up suddenly, got out of bed and looked, the slightly white dawn had been revealed on the window paper. And the exclamation came from the room of the two young men next door.

"Ouch! …… Ouch! …… Oh no! ”

Nie Xiaoman had already sat up from the bed and was busy getting dressed. There was also some urgency in his voice.

Xiaoman said: "It's not good, maybe there's something wrong in the next room!" - Jingmo, don't panic. Get dressed first and don't get caught in the cold. Wait in the room for a while, and let me take a look. ”

However, this time Jing Mo no longer listened to Xiaoman's orders, his curiosity had been aroused, and he couldn't hold back any longer. After half a pillar of incense, Jing Mo had already put on his robe and followed Nie Xiaoman to the next room.

A slender middle-aged male guest with a yellow character in the left compartment was also alarmed, and rushed into the Xuanzi number to see the excitement.

A guy on night duty was running downstairs to wake up Mr. Tent.

The little white-faced Jia Huizhou was still shouting again and again: "Oh no! …… Oh no! …… See you in my wallet! ”

The middle-aged resident with the yellow number asked, "How much money is in it?"

Jia Huizhou said: "There are two hundred taels of silver tickets, some silver ingots, and-"

Before these words were finished, Li Kerong, a companion with high cheekbones, suddenly exclaimed loudly.

"Back to the boat, my trolling is gone... Alas! And what about my baggage? Ouch, unbelievable! There's something important hidden in the baggage! ”

"W-what can I do?"

"It's over, it's over, it's over this time"

The exclamations of the two men were in a mess, and the dancing movements of the two of them added to the chaos of the atmosphere.

The slender yellow guest, with a slightly gray hair, was wearing an embroidered cotton robe. Jing Mo looked at his face very much like some brains, and he seemed to be out of the house. He said loudly as he slowly put on his clothes.

He said, "Young man, be determined. Don't panic like that, it's useless to panic. Now we have to find out how these things were thrown away after all. ”

Li Kerong hurriedly responded: "Naturally, someone came in and stole it." ”

The skinny guest said, "Who found out about the theft?" ”

The white-eyed Jia Huizhou responded: "I found it." ”

"Oh, how did you find out? Did you hear something? ”

"No, I was very asleep at first, and I didn't hear anything. Just now I got up to solve it, and suddenly I saw the door of the room ajar. I want to call Ke Rong, but Ke Rong is still asleep. I distinctly remember that I had locked it myself, so I knew something was wrong. I opened the drawer on the table and looked, and sure enough, my money was gone. There must be a thief in this inn! ”

Li Kerong echoed: "Yes, let's go and call the officer, hurry up and search in this inn, maybe you can also get both thieves and thieves." ”

After Nie Xiaoman and Jing Mo stepped into this Xuanzi number, they just stood behind the middle-aged thin guest, watching and listening, and did not express any opinions. It was only then that Xiao Manfang spoke.

Nie Xiaoman said: "This opinion is good. But let's take a look first and see if there are any clues. Now look at the door, since the door is locked, how can the thief come in? ”

The skinny tenants agreed, and everyone walked to the door to observe.

The skinny guest suddenly said in surprise: "Alas, this lock must have been broken by something." Look, aren't there obvious marks on the keyhole? ”

Nie Xiaoman lowered his head, took a closer look at the keyhole, and nodded slightly. He was about to give his opinion, but he heard a sound of panicked footsteps outside the door, running up the stairs.

One man shouted, "Go knock on the door!" …… Knock on the door! ”

Jing Mo was secretly shocked when he heard this. The place number is the room of himself and Xiaoman. Could it be that someone suspects that he is a thief? Nie Xiaoman's actions were very fast, and he immediately opened the door and went out.

Xiaoman said loudly: "I am the tenant who lives in the land number." What's the matter with you? ”

Jing Mo's eyes also looked over Nie Xiaoman's shoulder, and saw that the person who was shouting was a bald frustration, as if it was the tent of this Taiyu Inn. As soon as he heard Nie Xiaoman's words, he hurriedly stopped.

He asked, "Are you Lord Nie Yu Shi Nie of Jinling...... Ouch! Quite a coincidence! Master Nie, this matter will always bother your old man——-"

Nie Xiaoman interjected: "Don't make a noise, you walk in and talk." ”

The two lost owners and the thin guests all looked at Nie Xiaoman in unison. It seems that Nie Xiaoman's name, they have heard it a long time ago, but they didn't know it in person just now, but when they heard the words of the tent room at this moment, they all showed an unexpected expression.

Nie Xiaoman said to the same account room: "Brother, there is a lot of money loss in this theft case. This little brother also had important things stolen together. ”

The bookkeeper hurriedly said, "Yes, yes—but the rules of our inn are not responsible for compensating for damages. Just like Lord Nie has important things to hand over to us for safekeeping, we are naturally responsible. If the tenant hides himself or in the bedroom, it is naturally not the business of the store? So—"

Jia Huizhou opened his eyes and said sharply: "Your mouth is amazing!" If a guest loses their belongings, you won't be liable for the loss. Someone obviously broke open the door and stole it. Needless to say, the person who stole it was in the inn, maybe it was another guest. If you are so unreasonable, I might as well say that you are sheltering thieves and deliberately encroaching on the property of our guests. and—one"

Nie Xiaoman shook his hand to tell them not to quarrel, and said, "Shut up, now is not the time to quarrel." Why all this nonsense? Now we have to look more closely. If the thief were in the inn, we would have to find out who stole it. Isn't it some kind of guy? Or any other guest? Or it so happens to be this bookkeeper—"

The tent anxiously shouted, "What? It's me? ”

Nie Xiaoman smiled and said, "I'm just hypothetically, don't worry. Now we have to find out what is the right way. Come, let's go out and see if there are any thieves coming and going. ”

Before they had left the bedroom, a man suddenly ran in and said to the bald tent.

"Sir, we've found a way out for the thieves!"

The man who reported this report was named Erzhu, a short and sturdy teenager, and his report attracted Xiaoman's deep attention.

Nie Xiaoman asked first, "Where is the way out?" ”

Erzhu said: "It's in the window opposite the end of the stairs, please come with me." He turned around and exited first.

The rest of the group followed the young man, and walked down a short corridor until he reached a window near the staircase.

There are two windows, completely open. There was a hemp rope tied to the window, which swung down to the bottom, and there was an iron hook at one end of the hemp rope that was hooked to the window railing, and the other end was dragged to the ground outside the window. Outside the window was a small street, and it seemed that the thieves were going up and down this rope, which was really a very appropriate shortcut.

The tent man surnamed Wang was overjoyed and said, "Good! This can be demonstrated. The thief was not a guest in the inn, but had clearly come in from the outside. ”

The stolen Jia Huizhou and Li Kerong were unconvinced and glared angrily at the bookkeeper, but they looked at each other again, stunned and unable to find the words to fight back.

After another while, Jia Huizhou finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said angrily: "No matter what, you must always be responsible." You blindly want to shirk, I can't let your wishful thinking succeed! You must compensate us! ”