Chapter 86: Clear Conscience
A few days passed.
The innkeeper remained in the hall daily, greeting guests and keeping an eye on the comings and goings. He wasn't sure if the sound he heard in the middle of the night that day was a coincidence, but ever since he had been paying more attention to the young man who claimed he would make Lord Li do good deeds.
However, everything had been as usual in the past few days.
Sometimes the gentleman would go out in the morning, other times in the afternoon or even at night for a stroll. Yesterday, he claimed to be tired and stayed in the inn all day.
Sometimes he ordered food at the inn, sometimes he ate out. When ordering at the inn, he was never stingy with money, and the innkeeper found himself going out almost every day to buy meat for him. The gentleman explained that he had traveled through a few hundred li of the old mountain roads from Xuzhou, where good food was scarce. Now that he was in the city, he wouldn't shortchange himself.
He was also kind to the cat, buying fish for it every day.
The clothes in the backyard had dried, and the gentleman collected them yesterday. He had mentioned earlier that he wouldn't compensate the customers if they were lost, just to avoid having to pay if something really did go missing or if there was a false claim of loss. In reality, clothes rarely went missing.
This morning, the gentleman went out again to pick up some new clothes he had ordered. He complimented the craftsmanship of Third Lady Jiang, indicating his satisfaction.
The gentleman took the cat with him wherever he went, and the cat astonishingly followed him obediently. This reminded the innkeeper of the horse...