Tianye shot an angry glance at him. It was all Kerry's fault that his poor sister Venus and his nephew were kidnapped.
"Madam, did they say where they were going?" Xiran continued to ask.
"No, they didn't."
Kerry came up to the front of Henry and whispered some words to him. Henry nodded to him and went out.
As they had known all they should know and there was no more useful message, they were going to leave.
It was getting dark. They had to find a hotel to stay. Kerry asked the madam, "Is there any big hotel nearby?"
"There is no hotel nearby, as it is quite remote here. If you want to find a hotel to stay, you can drive to the town ahead. It will spend about an hour."
"Thank you and sorry to have bothered you. Goodbye." Kerry turned his step to the outside and was then stopped the madam.
"Sir, you and your companions must save that girl out, otherwise I will feel guilty in my whole life." the madam said apologetically.
Kerry seldom showed kind face to any women except Venus. However, he smiled to this simple peasant woman at this moment, "Madam, don’t worry. I will save Venus out, and after I save her out, I will take her to come to visit you."
The madam hastily waved her hand, "No, no, no, you needn't to visit me. You needn't have to dedicatedly come to this remote place. What I only hope is that girl will be safe, and that's enough."
"Yes, she will."
The madam sent Terry and his companions out the yard and watched their cars leaving. She sighed and turned her step back to the house when her son shouted loudly in the kitchen, "Come here, mother. Hurry up."
The madam was startled and hurried to the kitchen, " What happened?"
"Look."
Along where her son pointed, she saw three neat piles of cash placed on the kitchen table. Each pile contained 10,000 RMB, a total of 30,000 RMB. It was almost equivalent to the revenue of their family for one year.
The madam was really simple and pure, so she wanted to gave the money back to Kerry and his companions. However, this was obviously impossible.
As it was deep autumn in the mountain in October, the air was cool everywhere. Fearing that Xiran would feel cold, Tianye wrapped her with his coat, which was accepted by Xiran joyfully.
This scene was noticed by Kerry on the passenger seat. He gave them a scornful glance and thought. This woman is as strong as a man. She must not need Tianye's coat. However, if he is put in Tianye's position, he will probably wrap Venus with thicker clothes if she is beside him.
It was all dark when the car arrived at the town and they found the only hotel in the town.
Since it was the second day of the National Day, there were few empty rooms in the hotel. After all the rooms booked, they still needed one room, and the price was extraordinarily high. A simple standard room in the hotel was as expensive as the standard room in a five-star hotel.
In that case, Henry was going to stay a night in the car. Then he heard Kerry saying, "I can share a room with you, Henry."
Henry felt flattered as he knew that Kerry never shared room with others in his previous trips.
"ID Cards, please." The host reached out his hand with a smile.
"Of all?" Henry asked.
The host nodded and explained, "Since it is during the National Day, all people need to be registered."
Then a pile of ID Cards was handed to the host for registration. When the host saw the ID Card of Kerry, he couldn't help to read out his name softly, "Kerry Ye?"
Kerry was sensitive to voice and heard his name. He turned his sight to the host and asked, "Anything wrong?"
The host was stunned by his eyes and quickly said, "Nothing, I just feel a little familiar with this name." At that same time, the tissue reading the name and phone number of Kerry was quietly lying in the trash can.
"Is there any good restaurant in your town, host?" Henry asked. He acted as a butler in this trip to arrange the accommodation of the group of persons.
The host answered while making registration, "You can walk along this road to the north for about 500 meters and can find a delicious local restaurant."
"Thank you."
With all things arranged, they were going out to have meals. When Tianye passed by the checkout counter and saw the thick register, a thought came out of his mind and he stopped his step.
Xiran followed him and also stopped. Kerry and Henry just went out of the hotel. After finding this, they also turned back to the hotel.
The host was just watching a hit TV series on the computer. Then, from the corner of his eye, he saw someone was staring at him. He turned to look at the group of persons just registered.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"Will anyone staying at your hotel be registered?" Tianye asked impassively.
"Not exactly, only during holiday will everyone be registered. So what's wrong?" the host felt a little nervous for some unknown reason.
"Did someone named Heng Zhang ever come to your hotel?"
As soon as hearing the question, all the other persons understood what Tianye meant.
They were certain that Venus was kidnapped by Heng Zhang and the members of his gang. However, it was also possible that they used fake identity information as the face mask they made could even look like the real face, not to say a few ID Cards.
Even so, Tianye still didn't want to miss any key messages.
The host was scared by them and didn't dare to receive his money. He meekly push the cash to Tianye and said, "You can ask me any question and needn't give me money."
"Don't lie to us!" Tianye threatened to him.
The host immediately straightened his back and swore, "Of course not, I'm an honest businessman. I will not lie to you. What’s more, I have nothing to do with that group of persons. Why should I help them?"
"That would be best. Let's go."
"But this money..." The host pointed to the cash on the counter hesitantly.
"It’s for tomorrow's breakfast. Remember to prepare enough food."
Hearing this reason, the host was assured to receive the money and said, "My office is next to us. Let's talk inside."
Kerry looked better after all four persons sat down, although no one knew how sad he was at the moment.
"That group of persons checked in at our hotel in the evening of 28th..."
After the host told them what he knew, there was long time of depressing silence. They almost guessed what happened that night.
Venus had escaped with her baby on her hand, and on the way of escaping, they hid in the house of the madam whom Kerry and his companions visited a few hours ago. Unexpectedly, Venus was caught by Heng Zhang and his gang members again later. But from what they heard from the host, a person wearing a mask was not crude to Venus. At least he didn't make her feel hard.
"Do you know the name of that masked man?" Kerry asked.
"No, he seldom spoke. All the talks and communications were done by the person who was called Heng Zhang."
"How many persons of them in total?" Tianye asked.
The host counted with his fingers and said, "Including your friend, they have 10 adults and a baby."
"Where did they go the next day?"
"They went into the mountain."
Unsurprisingly they went into the mountain, as their purpose coming here was to find the treasure in the mountain.
"Host, is there any legend in this place, like where there is some treasure in the mountain?"
The host laughed out, "Miss, if any there is a treasure in the mountain, do you think it will remain to today? It would have been dug out long before."
Kerry stayed silent for a while and said, "Can you find a guide for us? We will go into the mountain tomorrow.
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