C6

Meng Xiaodie knew that there must be something wrong, but it was hard for him to figure out what was wrong.

There must be something wrong with Jiang Qisha's heart; he probably didn't want him to continue investigating.

Then let him have his way. Meng Xiaodie sneered inside her heart. She deliberately showed a helpless expression as she looked at Jiang Bufan.

"I don't live here, so where can I live?"

"The Mage City is so big, how can we not have a place to live? Don't worry, I'll find you a place to live comfortably."

"Then I'll be troubling Constable Jiang."

Meng Xiaodie followed Jiang Qisha through a few streets and arrived at a house. There was a signboard hanging at the entrance with the words "Linglong Courtyard" written on it. This house was indeed not big, but it was a two-story house.

"It's been a long time since anyone has lived in this courtyard. It's also very clean."

The courtyard was not big, but the layout was very particular. The flowers and trees of the courtyard made the small building on the second floor seem very lonely and secluded, and all the doors and windows were covered with ivy. There was a pool of water in the middle of the yard. It was dark green in color and the bottom couldn't be seen. In the pool stood a stone statue that looked both like a human and a monster.

Meng Xiaodie stopped and looked at the stone statue.

"This stone statue is called Linglong Beast, it is a divine beast that protects the safety of our region."

Meng Xiaodie looked at the stone statue again. He remembered that when he first entered the Mage City, there was a statue of a beast carved on top of the city gate.

The things they advocated were also very different from those of the Central Plains. However, this stone inscription of the Exquisite Beast looked a little strange, its head was huge, its body was long and thin, its two ears were square, it had no nose, but its eyes were very close to its mouth, and the sunken eye sockets seemed to reveal a sense of danger.

This kind of stone beast statue did not give people a sense of peace, but more like an ominous feeling.

Jiang Bufan brought Meng Xiaodie into the house. This two-story building had a big living room on the ground floor with some old furniture. There were a few rooms separated from each other on the upper floor, and each room had a wooden bed.

"This seems to be an inn?" Meng Xiaodie looked at the beds and asked.

"This is not an inn, but the residence of a merchant. However, no one will disturb you here, so you can rest assured. "

He discovered that Jiang Xian acted like two people overnight. Yesterday, he had handed the Tiger Eye Bead to the Mayor, and he didn't know what exactly had happened between them, or what kind of person this Mayor was.

He planned to wait and see. Moreover, he had followed Sima Yun Ying's trail all the way here, so maybe Sima Yun Ying was still in the city. While he was looking for Sima Yun Ying, he wanted to unravel the confusion he had encountered.

After settling Meng Xiaodie down, Jiang Bufan said that he had important matters to attend to, so he took his leave. Before he left, he instructed Meng Xiaodie not to wander the streets to avoid any trouble.

Leaving Meng Xiaodie alone in the empty stone building, when he had nothing to do, he began to walk around one room at a time. He discovered that these rooms had a unique layout, like a maze. Walking over there, he actually saw that all the rooms were the same. He made a mark in one of the rooms and then walked out of the room.

Meng Xiaodie was extremely surprised. He had seen many strange things in his many years out in the world, but this kind of situation had never happened to him before.

These rooms were too strange, just like the grocery store he had stayed in before. Could it be that the entire castle was filled with these kinds of houses? This was too strange.

Strange things often made people feel like they were being cheated. Some people might intentionally mystify things, or they might pretend to be mysterious or deceiving people. Meng Xiaodie felt that there must be something behind all of this. Was it a real ghost? Or a fake? Was this ghost Feng Dama after all? Or Jiang Bufan? A series of question marks appeared in Meng Xiaodie's mind.

He simply lay on the bed in one of the rooms and slept soundly.

This was a habit of Meng Xiaodie's to think and solve problems. When he was faced with a difficult problem, it was simply sleeping. When he woke up, his mind would clear up and he would be able to sort out those random things.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a gloomy face and did not know when, but Jiang Bufan had already stood in front of his bed.

"You're awake. Let's go, I'll take you to the Apricot Pavilion to drink." Jiang Qisha's expression turned from gloomy to clear.

The change in her face was too fast. Before Meng Xiaodie could react, she had already followed Jiang Bufan onto the street.

Meng Xiaodie followed Jiang Bufan and walked into an alley. This alley was very long, and there were only a few shops on both sides, but there were very few pedestrians. Every shop was gloomy, and behind the counter, there were many wooden faces.

"What is this place?" Meng Xiaodie was a little curious.

"This is the Ghost Lane." Jiang Bufan smiled mysteriously.

"Ghost Lane? Constable Jiang, there was a haunted house earlier, and this is also a ghost alley.

"Hahaha, Meng Xiaodie, Hero Meng, are you afraid of ghosts too?"

"I'm not afraid of ghosts. No matter how terrifying a ghost a person disguises himself as, he is still a human."

"Meng Xiaodie, the heartless black blade, is indeed a hero."

"I say, Constable Jiang, don't boast for me. I'm just a wanderer. Did you bring me here to drink or to capture ghosts?"

"Ahead of us is the Apricot House, where there is a well-built and stuffy donkey fire."

As they spoke, they had already arrived in front of a tall stone building. The reason it was so tall was because this stone building was a bit taller than the surrounding houses, and several times larger as well.

The stone tower was five or six stories tall, like a stone tower. Meng Xiaodie loved to drink. He had been to a lot of restaurants before, but this was the first time he had seen one like this.

"Actually, the donkey fire here isn't the signature wine. Its signature wine is the bitter apricot wine."

"That's why it's called 'Bitter Apricot Pavilion' and 'Bitter Apricot Wine'. It makes one drool just by hearing this name."

"Then let's get it drunk and not go back until it's drunk." Constable Jiang was talking and laughing as he stepped through the main door of the Apricot Tower.

On the ground floor was an empty hall with four pillars supporting it. These four pillars were not ordinary stone pillars, but four huge stone carvings. The stone was grayish-black, and it was the kind of hard diamond with four monsters baring their fangs and brandishing their claws engraved on it.

Of course, Meng Xiaodie had never seen these four monsters before. Its head was like a cow, its body was like a python, but its body was full of feathers.

"What kind of monster is this?" Meng Xiaodie was shocked by this huge beast.

"This isn't a monster, this is a divine object offered up by the Agarwood Restaurant." Jiang Xian didn't say the monster's name.

At noon, the Apricot House was already filled with customers. The entire hall was noisy and clamorous.