Chapter 401: The Thing for Killing Time

As planned, Jinrong, Ye Xinyan, and their party hurried along, only managing to enter a town by sunset, where they stayed at an inn that the guards had booked in advance.

After freshening up and resting for a short while, Ye Xinyan received a message from Jinrong inviting her to join him in a private room of the inn's main hall for dinner.

The town where they stopped was not large—even though the guards had booked the best inn available, it was still quite basic. The main hall of the inn could fit seven or eight tables and had been partitioned by Hongzhi and his men, with the private room taking up nearly half of the hall's space.

Jinrong purposely shared a table with Ye Xinyan and, while they dined, discussed the proposition from Jiang Yifan about operating the railway carriages in the capital, seeking her opinion and asking whether she would like to undertake the task.