#580 - Chapter 580 Weird Winery

Ye Kong thought for a moment and went straight back to逍遥 Peak.

He hadn't completed his Qi Refining +1 for today yet.

At 逍遥 Peak, Mu Qianqian and the others had already washed away the filth accumulated in the bitter sea from the Dharma hand.

Remembering what their master had said before leaving, Mu Qianqian and the others got up to look for the medicinal pills Ye Kong had mentioned.

After a while, there were still no problems.

Only her mouth was terribly dry, and her head was terribly blank.

"What's going on? Wasn't I just about to go find Little White and Little Green? How did I fall asleep?"

"And wasn't there not a single person here just now? How are there so many people now?"

Lin Yaoyao couldn't figure out the situation, so she went to ask the shopkeeper of the 紫空 Tavern.

"Shopkeeper, have you seen the two people who came with me?" Lin Yaoyao asked with a worried face.

At first, the shopkeeper looked at Lin Yaoyao with a confused expression, but then he slapped his head and remembered.

Lin Yaoyao was overjoyed to hear this and quickly said, "Yes, yes, those are the ones I'm looking for."

The shopkeeper was even more puzzled when he heard this, "Didn't you leave together yesterday?"

Lin Yaoyao asked with a face full of question marks, "We didn't leave. We ate too much and stayed at your shop."

The shopkeeper immediately waved his hand and said, "Miss, are you mistaken? You left in the evening."

"The child was riding a dog, and you and another girl were behind him."

"When you went out, I specifically reminded you that it was too late to go out and it wasn't safe. You even pointed your sword at me at the time."

The shopkeeper waved his hand as he said this.

Lin Yaoyao was even more confused when she heard this and said, "How is that possible? We ate and drank too much at the time and couldn't walk, so we stayed at your shop."

"But the next morning, I discovered that the room I originally lived in was completely different. My junior brothers and sisters were also gone, and I even found a rotting corpse in your tavern's room."

"More importantly, there wasn't a single person in your tavern."

Lin Yaoyao became very agitated as she said this, and stepped forward to grab the shopkeeper's collar, "Your shop must be black-hearted. You saw that my junior brothers and sisters were good-looking and wanted to abduct them, right?"

The shopkeeper saw that more and more people were watching the commotion, and he was in a state of panic.

He shouted loudly, "Guests, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. What you're saying is going to cost you your head."

"My 紫空 Tavern has been operating honestly for many years. When have we ever done anything to let anyone down?"

"What you said about the rotting corpse and no one in the tavern are all slanders. Since yesterday, many people have come to our shop, and it's almost always full. There has never been a situation where there wasn't a single person."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask the folks here to testify!"

After the shopkeeper finished speaking angrily, some civilians and cultivators who were watching came out to testify for the shopkeeper.

They all accused Lin Yaoyao of relying on her status as a cultivator to bully a small merchant.

Lin Yaoyao's entire brain was already in a mess, and now she was getting a terrible headache from everyone's noise.

"Shopkeeper, there's something strange about this matter. Maybe I misunderstood you. I apologize to you."

"But you must come upstairs with me now. I suspect there's something wrong with that room, because my junior brothers and sisters are really gone."

Lin Yaoyao took a deep breath and said to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was not someone who bullied others, but he had been forced to say those things earlier.

Now that he saw Lin Yaoyao offering him a way out, he took the opportunity to back down, "Miss, I know you're anxious to find people, so I won't hold it against you."

"But our tavern is honest and upright, and there's nothing shady about it."

When Lin Yaoyao heard what the shopkeeper said, she knew that the shopkeeper had misunderstood, and she quickly said.

"I don't mean anything else. Just let me go up with you to take a look at that room. I don't have the key."

The shopkeeper finally understood when he heard this.

As long as she wasn't deliberately trying to cause trouble for him, that was good. He was just a businessman, and he definitely couldn't fight against these cultivators.

"Okay, okay, everyone, go back. It's all a misunderstanding."

The shopkeeper shouted loudly to let everyone go back.

Only then did he take Lin Yaoyao upstairs to the second floor.

He opened the room that Lin Yaoyao had mentioned, and even the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment.

"Huh? I remember our tavern doesn't have a room like this. Where did this room come from?"

The shopkeeper looked at the layout and furnishings of the room with a confused expression.

"The key is still in your hand," Lin Yaoyao reminded the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper moved the key from his left hand to his right hand when he heard this and said, "Miss, listen to me, I really didn't lie to you."

"This key is indeed ours, and there is indeed a room here, but the inside isn't like this."

"Think about it, most of the people who come to our tavern are male customers. Even if they stay at the tavern, they are usually peddlers and coolies. How would we prepare such a girly room?"

"And even if there are female customers, the furnishings in this room are all red, which is also very eye-catching."

"Who would live in a room where even the walls are red?"

The shopkeeper was very worried that the cultivator in front of him would get angry and burn down their 紫空 Tavern.

Therefore, the shopkeeper explained very anxiously.

"That's true, but didn't you notice anything wrong with this room before?" Lin Yaoyao asked doubtfully.

The shopkeeper said when he heard this, "You also know that it's not very peaceful outside now, and not many people stay at the tavern at night."

"When there are people, we also take them to the more sunny rooms. This room doesn't have good lighting, so customers usually don't like it."

"Therefore, we put some unused tools in it. To be honest, this room hasn't been occupied for a year."

"If you're talking about other rooms, I might have misremembered, but I won't misremember this room."

Lin Yaoyao knew that the shopkeeper wasn't lying when she heard him say this, because there was no need to.

"Alright, sorry to bother you. Go ahead and get busy. I'll think about it more carefully."

If there was nothing wrong with the tavern, then the problem must be somewhere else.

Herself, Little White, and Little Green falling asleep.

The shopkeeper seeing herself after she fell asleep.

The original room in the tavern and the current room, herself seeing no one and most people seeing someone.

...

All the signs revealed the strangeness of the matter.

Obviously, the culprit behind all of this was the voice in the previous room, the person who wrote the note.