Sick beauty loses horse in thriller game

Chapter 5 Orange Blossom Town 5
"Rumble!" A dull thunder sounded.

The blood-red lightning became more dense.

It was so dense that even Jiang Lai, whose eyes only had a little sense of light left, could barely see clearly the round face closest to her under the constant illumination of lightning.

Big raindrops fell down in pitter-patter patterns.

The rain is getting heavier, like a typhoon passing through.

Looking at the heavy rain outside the window, the mayor couldn't help but frowned, as if he was greatly frightened, and his face was very ugly.

"It's raining so hard, I'm afraid... the way back will be difficult..."

He said something and hurriedly sent someone to leave the villa and go outside to check the situation.

Seeing this, Jiang Lai guessed that they would probably be detained here tonight.

Several servants who went out to check on the situation soon returned with bad news.

"Lord Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, the wind and rain outside are really strong and have broken some trees. The only road down the mountain is blocked. It will take at least three days to repair it..." said a male servant.

After hearing this, the mayor couldn't help but tremble, as if he thought of something particularly terrible.

After a while, the mayor shook his body and said to the others...

"My lords of the inspection team, as well as all my colleagues, gentlemen and perfumers, I have no choice but to live in a villa for one night tonight. The town will find a way to clear the road as soon as possible."

There were quite a few people stranded in the villa. In addition to the servants, there were between 40 and [-] people.

But the villa only has fifteen rooms.

Ever since, even as a distinguished adult, Jiang Lai could not continue to have a room to himself.

She was assigned a roommate, Miss Emma, ​​the perfumer.

Because it rained heavily, they could not return to their original residence and could only temporarily live in this remote manor, which made everyone feel depressed.

The perfume tasting party originally planned to be held until eleven o'clock in the evening also ended early.

Jiang Lai and Miss Emma were sent back to the room by the maid.

"Miss Emma, ​​please rest first. I need to go to the companion's room next door and talk to everyone in the inspection team." Jiang Lai said.

"Okay." Emma nodded, "If I fall asleep, don't forget to ask me to get up and lock the door when you come back..."

After hearing this, Jiang Lai immediately turned around, with a pair of dim eyes, accurately located where Emma was standing, "looking" at her and asked:
"Why do you have to lock the door? Is there any danger here at night?"

Emma's face paled when she heard this, and her expression immediately became unnatural.

"Xiao Ai is at your service! The lady in front of you looks very unnatural. She even lost color for a moment and her face was distorted. If she continues to maintain that expression, I can guarantee that if you send her to the local slave market, the price will be very high. It will be greatly discounted, [-]% off based on visual inspection. You have to know that generally speaking, a female slave of this appearance is worth at least five pounds in this era."

Jiang Lai listened calmly to Xiao Ai's precise explanation.

When she heard Xiao Ai directly give Miss Emma a valuation, she controlled the urge to twitch the corner of her mouth.

Probably because of the hard work he endured, Jiang Lai's expression became abnormal.

Seeing the change in Jiang Lai's expression, Emma suddenly woke up from a dream, smiled awkwardly, and said:
"How could it be possible...Don't think too much about it. I just think that since we two single young girls live here, it would be better to lock the door at night..."

Hearing this, Jiang Lai said nothing more, nodded, and left the room with his blind stick.

When Jiang Lai returned to the room, she had taken off the heavy dress she had worn before and put on a man's white shirt and black trousers.

Although this outfit was not as good as her own clothes, it was at least much more convenient than the seventeenth-century evening dress.

When she returned to the room, Emma was still awake. "You...your clothes..." Emma looked at Jiang Lai in surprise.

Jiang Lai understood Emma's surprise.

Because for women of Emma's time, it was probably unimaginable and outrageous for a woman to wear pants.

"Oh, I borrowed it from the servant. The dress I wore before was sent to be washed." Jiang Lai said, "It's getting late, let's go to bed early."

Emma nodded, and just as she was about to walk over and lock the door, she heard a woman's scream coming from the next room.

Jiang Lai frowned.

Living next door are Yuanyuan, the woman in the red dress and Bai Jing.

The screaming sound just now sounded like it was coming from Bai Jing.

"Let's go over and take a look." Jiang Lai said immediately.

She was already standing at the door, so she walked out of the door with her blind stick and walked towards the next room.

Seeing this, Emma turned around subconsciously, glanced at the window behind her, and hurriedly followed.

It was obvious that she didn't want to be alone in the room.

Jiang Yankilai knocked on the door, and Yuanyuan immediately ran over and opened the door for her.

Bai Jing looked panicked, with tears still hanging from her eyes.

"What happened just now?" Jiang Lai asked.

At this time, four male players also ran out one after another, and even the mayor and others were rushing towards this direction.

Everyone gathered at the door of Bai Jing and Yuanyuan.

"I...I just saw a person...standing outside in the heavy rain, standing under the blood-red lightning! No...I think that's probably not a person..." Bai Jing said excitedly.

"It means...you saw something that looked like a human being standing in the rain?" the man in the suit asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah." Bai Jing nodded fiercely.

The frightened look on her face had not faded away, and she was obviously frightened by something terrible.

"My lord, could it be that you were blinded just now?"

The old mayor stood up and said: "After all, the rain outside is too heavy and I can't see anything clearly... Don't worry, everyone, the villa is safe and nothing will happen..."

Jiang Lai raised his unfocused eyes and looked toward the door. He was able to roughly locate where the mayor was standing with his voice.

"Are you sure it's safe here? Why is your voice trembling?"

"Ah, this..." The mayor's aging face looked a little embarrassed.

"Ahem, maybe...it's because of this damn storm that gave me a cold..."

When everyone's eyes were focused on the mayor, no one noticed that the eyes of the man in the suit and the woman in the red skirt briefly met...

The woman in the red dress nodded, and the man in the suit said:
"Mr. Mayor, if you know something, I hope you won't hide it. After all, hiding something from the inspection team is definitely not a good thing for you."

The man in the suit tried to threaten the other party with his identity as a member of the inspection team.

The mayor's face became even paler after hearing his threat.

(End of this chapter)