Chapter 358 Spice Merchant

"I didn't expect that not only does the business seem to be booming, but you also make a lot of money." Ouyang Xiao Leng sat down and said, looking at the brilliant decoration and saying. He had done an investigation before he came, so he was confident enough to let the boss do things for him obediently.

"Lord Wang Hu is really funny. I'm just trying to save face. When I first took over this hotel, it was 16 years ago..." The hotel owner realized that he almost mentioned something he shouldn't have said, so he quickly jumped over and said, "I've been losing money in those years, and it has improved slightly in the past two years."

"I asked someone to do a little research. The tax on your hotel doesn't match the luxury level here." Ouyang Xiao Leng completely ignored the explanation of the hotel owner and continued.

The hotel owner regretted it and blamed himself for trying to please the demon king fox teenager, but he forgot about tax evasion for a long time. Now he doesn't know how to explain it to let him go.

When he was worried, Ouyang Xiao Cooling continued to say, "These are small things. I can also turn a blind eye, but..."

"But what?! Please give the little one a point!" The hotel owner heard that there was a turning point in Ouyang Xiao Leng's words, and quickly asked him.

"I heard that your hotel was bought from a lady named Lan, so I was wondering if there would still be guests who came here when she was the boss?"

The hotel owner kept nodding and saying, "Yes, yes, I dare not say anything else here. The price is really cheap. Compared with other hotels in Wangcheng, the location is good, but the environment is a little... But there are still a lot of old guests!"

"Have any of them ever had a relationship with Mrs. Lan?"

"I want to think about it!" The hotel owner thought for a moment and continued, "I think of a guest who is in the rouge gouache and spice business. Because many guests work on this street, they stay in my store every year. He has a good relationship with me. When drinking and chatting, I heard him mention that he was a friend with his former boss, that is, Mrs. Lan, who used to be friends. At that time, she suddenly changed her boss. Mrs. Lan didn't say goodbye, which made him a little disappointed.

"Is that guest in the hotel at the moment?"

"What a coincidence. He comes to Yongchuan in early summer every year. I just checked in last night. I'm afraid I'm still sleeping because I drank all night in the pub.

The guest in the mouth of the hotel owner is called Flower Valley, which is a weasel monster. The place where he lives is called Piaoxiang Valley. In spring, the valley is full of strange flowers and plants, and many flower demons are born.

He threatened to bite the roots of the flower demons, controlled these flower demons, let them make all kinds of rouge gouache, spices and savor bags for themselves, and then sold these things to all parts of the demon world to earn a rich reward. Those flower demons were afraid of his power and had to obey him because they couldn't leave the valley and go to other places.

This weasel monster is naturally extremely ** for all kinds of fragrances. As long as you let him smell it, you can analyze which kinds of flowers and plants each savor bag or spice are configured. It is also because he has such skills that he has created many unique fragrances, and because he does not have to pay the flower demons, he has an absolute advantage in price, so he is quite popular in many places.

The reason why he became friends with Mrs. Lan started when he stayed in this sparrow hotel for the second time. He has a hobby, that is, he likes to observe all kinds of people of the opposite sex. Through observation, he can know their personalities and preferences, and sometimes he can even guess some of their stories.

In the first year, he noticed the boss's wife of the hotel. She always likes to wear men's clothes. Both her temperament and manners are vigorous. The ordinary fragrance is definitely not suitable for her. She needs a taste that is unique to her own.

So after returning to Piaoxiang Valley, he began to keep trying and blending, and finally matched an orchid-based fragrance with plants such as orchids, with scus, lilies, and a few pomegranate flowers. When he came to Wangcheng Yongchuan to do business after the spring of the following year, he vigorously recommended the fragrance he designed for her to Mrs. Lan, which was really favored by her. After that, he would ask him to match the same fragrance for himself every year.

In their relationship, he felt more and more the deep loneliness hidden behind Mrs. Lan's conversation and laughter. She was like a puppet living in a mask. The identity of the hotel owner's wife must be just a cover for her real purpose.

She is very talkative, but she talks more about other people's affairs. About her own past, she always brings it in a few words. Therefore, although we have known each other for many years, except that she came to Yongchuan to find a friend and stayed here to open a hotel, Huagu didn't know much about her.

Once, Huagu drank too much wine with the guests who bought their own goods outside, and it was late at night when he came back. He staggered into the hotel and was about to go upstairs to his room with the support of the stair railings, but he heard a sound coming from the counter. Driven by curiosity and the effect of alcohol, he couldn't help but plan to follow him to see what was going on.

As a result, he found a small door, which was the backyard of the hotel, and there was a wooden door on one wall in the backyard that led to nowhere. He opened the door and entered. The light inside was very dim, and a lot of goods and sundries were piled up. He guessed that this should be the warehouse of the hotel.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he fell into a hole in the ground. After rolling several stairs, he finally got up and took a few steps down to a flat passage. The weasel monster was naturally used to walking in the dark, so even if he didn't use the demon fire, he would not hit the walls on both sides. He was thinking about where the passage led to, and a woman's voice came from him. He quickly recognized that it was Mrs. Lan who was speaking.

"Your Excellency, as you can see, the passage has been repaired."

"Well, well done! The prince has also been agreed by us. In addition to the back mountain outside the Chenji Palace and the one in the palace, as well as the one in Chestnut Street, it is enough for my people to enter the royal city smoothly.

"Please fulfill your promise and continue to treat my son."

"Don't worry, I have had feelings for Lan Zhu for a long time, and I will definitely cure him."

"Thank you, my lord!"

"There are still a few months left. On New Year's Eve, I want to wash the city with blood and send a big gift to the demon king fox with white bones!"

Hua Gu was scared to death by what he heard. He stumbled back to the entrance of the secret road and climbed up, and then went back to his room in the hotel along the backyard. He lay on **, touched his cold sweat, and gradually fell asleep in fear. When he woke up again, he couldn't tell whether what he heard last night was just a nightmare after getting drunk or whether it really happened.

It was only on the night of New Year's Eve that the royal city had a huge change. The demon Qingyun led his men into the city unexpectedly, which not only killed countless residents of the city, but even the demon king fox's wife was not spared. At this point, the demon world also fell into endless darkness and almost declined.

In this year, Huagu still came to Wangcheng Yongchuan in early summer, but there was a depression everywhere. Although the Sparrow Hotel still existed, it had changed its owner. Knowing that Mrs. Lan was nowhere to be found and the business was difficult to continue, he had to take the goods back to Piaoxiang Valley. It would have been many years since he came here again.

He also thought about who to tell what happened that night, but he was afraid that he would get into trouble because of it. He was just a businessman and only wanted peace. He never thought about which side to turn to and whose responsibility to get, so as to bury those words in the bottom of his heart. But even after so many years, the voice of the man talking to Mrs. Lan and his terrible language are still constant themes in the nightmares that often bother him.

I was drunk the night before. I thought I could sleep well, but I didn't expect to have that dream again. Just as he was trapped in a dream and worried that he would be found by the two people talking in the dream, a rapid knock on the door woke him up. He opened his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling that he really deserved to thank the man who knocked on his door.

Outside the door, in addition to the hotel owner, there is also a teenager. Even if Huagu is still a little sleepy, it can be seen that the teenager must have an extremely noble identity. And he had a hunch that the reason why the teenager followed the hotel owner to find him may have something to do with his nightmare.

The room is very messy. Although the main goods are placed in another room on the first floor of the hotel that he rented as a warehouse, his salutes, undressed clothes, and large and small wine jars are scattered throughout the room, **, on the table, on the floor... everywhere. And there is also a strong smell of alcohol in the room, which is confused with the smell of all kinds of spices on his body, so that the hotel owner and Ouyang Xiao Leng can't help covering their noses at the same time.

"What does this smell like?" The hotel owner simply stepped back on the door.

"Ha ha, I drank more last night." Huagu stretched out and answered.

"I think it's better to talk about it at my place. How can this place be a demon king... Ah, no, your adult?" The hotel owner turned to Ouyang Xiao Leng and saw that he nodded and agreed, so he said to Huagu, "Huagu, get dressed and come with us. This adult has something to ask you. Don't ask anything yet, just do me a favor!"

Huagu casually put on a long shirt, but the belt that matched it was missing, so he tied one casually and walked downstairs with them. The three of them sat down in the room of the hotel owner and looked at each other, eliminating the polite process. Hua Gu asked directly, "I don't know who this adult is?"

The hotel owner was not sure if he could report Ouyang Xiao Leng's name, so he looked at him. Seeing that he nodded, he said, "This is the current lord of the demon world, Lord Fox!"

"I've heard that it was a teenager who ascended the throne this time, but I didn't expect to be so young!" Huagu opened his eyes wide and looked at Ouyang Xiao Leng like watching a rare thing.

"Hua Gu, pay attention to your identity!" The hotel owner reminded.

Ouyang Xiao cooled down and said, "It doesn't matter. It's easier to talk in this way. I just want to ask you about Mrs. Lan, who used to be the boss's wife in this hotel."

"So it is." Hua Gu responded as if he had known everything for a long time.

"Listen to your tone, have you guessed my purpose?" Ouyang Xiao Leng asked curiously.

"Yes. I am naturally good at observing words and colors. In addition, I have seen more guests, so this ability has unconsciously become stronger. Hua Gu smiled bitterly, and he knew that he was finally coming.