“Ah, finally, dear Fuyun City, here I come!”
Meng Xiaoyu shouted excitedly at the ancient city before her.
At this moment, Meng Xiaoyu was extremely thrilled.
She hadn’t slept in a bed for over a month.
Ever since she became the disciple of that old geezer, she had been learning martial arts in the small forest with him.
Every day, she trained until she was half-dead.
It wasn’t until two days ago, when the old geezer left, that she got a bit of rest.
But resting in the wild was always uncomfortable, and she had been on the road for the past two days with very little rest.
Even though she was riding on Xiao Hui, it was still exhausting.
Now that she had finally arrived in Fuyun City, how could she not be happy?
All she wanted now was to quickly enter the city, find an inn, have a big meal, take a hot bath, and then have a good night’s sleep.
Thinking of this, Meng Xiaoyu patted Xiao Hui’s head and said, “Xiao Hui, let’s hurry into the city, find an inn, have a big meal, and then have a good sleep. What do you think?”
Xiao Hui seemed to understand Meng Xiaoyu’s words and happily barked twice.
Han Rubing looked at the excited Meng Xiaoyu and thought with amusement, “This little one is really happy! It seems that the time spent camping in the wild, plus the rush over the past two days, has really tired her out!”
Han Rushuang glanced at the excited Meng Xiaoyu and then walked towards the city.
“Shopkeeper, two rooms, please,” Meng Xiaoyu said loudly to the shopkeeper who was calculating accounts at the counter as she entered the inn.
The shopkeeper, who was busy with his accounts, looked up and saw Meng Xiaoyu and Han Rubing standing in front of the counter.
He smiled and said, “I’m really sorry, dear guests. Our regular rooms are all full, but we do have a few superior rooms left. Would you like to take those?”
“Is that so? Then we’ll take two superior rooms,” Meng Xiaoyu replied after hearing the shopkeeper’s words.
“Alright, two superior rooms will be five hundred taels in total. Plus a deposit of three hundred taels, that makes eight hundred taels. Please pay the room fee first,” the shopkeeper said with a smile, looking at Meng Xiaoyu.
“Eight hundred taels? That’s so expensive! Are you robbing us? Do you think this is a five-star hotel? Or are your rooms made of gold? If you don’t give me a reasonable explanation today, I won’t let this go!”
Meng Xiaoyu, who was already exhausted from camping in the wild and rushing for two days, jumped up upon hearing the shopkeeper’s words.
She grabbed the shopkeeper’s collar across the counter and started yelling at him.
Although Meng Xiaoyu didn’t know the exact value of money here, she knew that two wen could buy a meat bun.
She had asked Han Rubing before, so she knew that one tael of silver was equivalent to a thousand wen.
In modern times, a meat bun cost one and a half yuan, which meant that two wen here was equivalent to one and a half yuan in modern times.
So, one tael of silver was equivalent to over six hundred yuan.
A hundred taels would be over sixty thousand yuan, and eight hundred taels would be over four hundred eighty thousand yuan!
That was enough for her to eat at KFC for a long time!
While Meng Xiaoyu was yelling at the shopkeeper, Han Rubing frowned slightly.
She knew that because of the upcoming Hero Conference, many martial artists would come to Fuyun City.
The prices of the inn rooms would inevitably be much higher than usual, but she didn’t expect them to be this high, several times the usual price.
“Dear guest, please… please calm down. Can… can you let me finish my explanation?”
The shopkeeper, who was being yelled at by Meng Xiaoyu, stammered, seeing that she wouldn’t let go until he explained clearly.
Hearing the shopkeeper’s words, Meng Xiaoyu finally let go of his collar, staring at him intently, as if saying, “If you don’t explain clearly, I won’t let this go.”
The shopkeeper, seeing Meng Xiaoyu’s terrifying gaze, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said, “Dear guest, our inn’s prices are the fairest. Right now, all the inns in Fuyun City have similar prices, and most of them are fully booked. Our inn is one of the few with superior rooms left. I estimate that our inn will be fully booked in a few days as well.”
“In that case, please take us to our rooms. Here are eight hundred taels of silver notes,” Han Rubing said, stopping Meng Xiaoyu from saying anything further.
She took out eight hundred taels of silver notes from her pocket and handed them to the shopkeeper, asking him to take them to their rooms.
“Alright, I’ll take you to your rooms right away,” the shopkeeper said with a smile, taking the silver notes from Han Rubing.
