Chapter 124

After all, Xiao Liang was a girl. It wasn't safe to have her sleep in a room at night where the windows couldn't be locked and someone could climb in at any time.

I thought about it and said, "How about this, wait a moment. I'll go downstairs and ask the receptionist if they can change your room."

Xiao Liang nodded gently and said, "Sorry for the trouble."

I shuffled downstairs in my slippers. When I got to the first floor, I saw the receptionist of the hostel sitting in a chair, knitting a sweater.

When she saw me coming, she asked with a smile, "Young man, what's the matter? Are you looking for a little sister (prostitute)?"

I quickly shook my head. "No, I'm a decent person. Why would I look for a little sister? The thing is, the window in my friend's room can't be locked. She's a girl and is afraid to sleep at night. Can you help her change rooms?"

When the receptionist heard this, she said with a troubled expression, "Oh, this is a bit of a problem. Our hostel only has a few rooms, and they're all occupied at night. There's no way to change."

As she said this, her eyes rolled, and she came up with a solution. "If I remember correctly, didn't you book two rooms? The little girl is afraid to stay in a room where the windows can't be locked, so let those two old men stay there! Don't you think so?"

I thought, this was indeed a solution. An old lady is still an old lady.

So I turned around and went back to the second floor.

As soon as I entered the room, Xiao Liang asked me, "How is it? Can I change rooms?"

I shook my head and said, "The hostel has no vacancies."

"Then what can I do…" Xiao Liang looked troubled.

I said, "It's easy. I'll go wake up Uncle Mei and Officer Jiang now. You can sleep in our room. The windows in our room can be locked."

When Xiao Liang heard this, she quickly stopped me and said, "No, don't. They've already gone to sleep. It's not appropriate to wake them up. Besides, they've already slept in those beds. I... I'd feel awkward sleeping in them."

I asked with a smile, "What? Are you a bit of a clean freak?"

Xiao Liang blushed and said, "Girls are more or less clean freaks, aren't they?"

When she said that, I didn't know what to do.

I asked her, "Then what should we do? We're going to venture into a dangerous place tomorrow. You can't stay up all night, can you?"

Xiao Liang didn't know if she had a plan or if she just came up with one on the spot. She looked me up and down with her head down, pinching the hem of her clothes, and said a little shyly, "Otherwise, you can sleep in my room tonight and be my bodyguard. Anyway, the suite has two beds, one for you and one for me. You don't have to sleep on the sofa next door."

When I heard this, I thought it was indeed a good idea, so without thinking, I agreed on the spot.

I said okay, I was worried that the sofa was too short, and my feet would be dangling.

At the time, I really wasn't thinking about anything else. If I had any ulterior motives towards Xiao Liang, I definitely wouldn't have agreed so readily.

Besides, the two of us had pretended to be husband and wife by the Duck River before, and I had accompanied Xiao Liang to sleep at night, so this wasn't the first time.

I pointed to the bed by the window and said, "I'll sleep on the outside, and you sleep on the inside. If any hooligans climb in in the middle of the night, let them take advantage of me first, and you can take the opportunity to escape."

When Xiao Liang heard this, she laughed so hard that she bent over, and she complained, "You're so full of yourself. What hooligan would want to take advantage of you?"

I stretched and immediately took off my shoes and lay down on the bed, saying with a smile, "The bed is still more comfortable, much more comfortable than the sofa. Xiao Liang, you should go to sleep too. Tomorrow, we're going to the Dead Man's Pit to fight the evil dragon."

Xiao Liang also took off her shoes and got into bed, sitting cross-legged facing me, smiling and saying, "Chen Rongsheng, you don't really believe what Old Huang said, do you? Do you believe there's really an evil dragon in the Dead Man's Pit?"

I shook my head and said, "I'm not an idiot. How could I believe such a childish story? But so many strange things have happened in the Dead Man's Pit over the years, there must be something mysterious about it."

Xiao Liang nodded. "Yeah, you said when you were having dinner with Uncle Mei that there must still be flowing water under the Dead Man's Pit, and it might be connected to an underground river."

"It's also possible that it's directly connected to an ancient tomb." I speculated, "Also, I just took a look around the Dead Man's Pit. Don't you think the Dead Man's Pit looks like a man-made pond?"

"It does look a bit like it." Xiao Liang agreed, "It's square, it doesn't look like it was formed naturally at all. What? Do you think this pond has something to do with Liu Bowen?"

I said, "The book says that so-called dragon vein cutting is about changing the feng shui layout. Liu Bowen dug a pond here. Isn't that equivalent to changing the feng shui layout?"

"If that's the case, then it's too easy to change the feng shui layout, isn't it?" Xiao Liang questioned, "Is such a small pond enough to change the layout? I don't think it's possible."

"Who knows."

As we were chatting, I started to feel sleepy. I yawned and said to Xiao Liang,

"I'm so sleepy, I can't even open my eyes. I'm going to sleep now, good night."

"Okay, go to sleep, good night."

Xiao Liang replied softly to me. After she finished speaking, she lay down on the bed, her long legs夹着 the quilt, lying on her side facing me.

I fell asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow. The next day, Xiao Liang told me that I snored at night, which kept her up all night.

But she can't blame me, after all, she personally invited me over, hehe.

When I opened my eyes in the morning, it was already past seven o'clock. When I got up, Xiao Liang had already finished washing up.

I washed my face in her room, and then tiptoed back to the next door.

At this time, Jiang Yongguang and Uncle Mei were already awake. When they saw me coming back from outside, they quickly asked me where I had gone? What time did I get up? Why couldn't they find me as soon as they opened their eyes?

I didn't dare to say that I slept next door last night. It's not that I'm shy, the key is to take care of Xiao Liang's reputation.

If she, a girl, was known to have slept with me all night, she would inevitably be gossiped about.

I said that I woke up early today and went for a morning run.

After Jiang Yongguang heard this, he glanced at the shoes on my feet and joked, "Good fellow, running in slippers, you're quite the character."

I immediately broke out in a cold sweat. I knew it would be difficult to fool him, an experienced criminal investigator, but luckily he didn't expose me, and Uncle Mei didn't ask any further questions, so the matter was glossed over.

After everyone had finished washing up, we set off. Jiang Yongguang knocked on the door next door, and Xiao Liang immediately came out to greet us.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Jiang Yongguang asked with a smile.

Xiao Liang didn't actually sleep well, because I kept snoring and disturbing her. Her eyes were a little dark.

But she still smiled and said, "I slept very well."

After Jiang Yongguang heard this, he said meaningfully, "Is that so."

I don't know if it was just me, but I felt like he guessed something, and he was thinking about it the wrong way.

After eating a simple breakfast, we set off for the Dead Man's Pit. On the way, Jiang Yongguang used his connections to contact the local authorities and told them that we wanted to investigate the pond.

When we arrived at the scene, the Dead Man's Pit was calm and peaceful, and didn't look like Old Huang had described at all.

Xiao Liang asked Jiang Yongguang, "How are we going to investigate?"

Jiang Yongguang looked at me and Uncle Mei and said, "Problems related to water have to be asked of these two experts."

I spread my hands and replied, "How else can we investigate? I'll just go into the water for a walk."