Chapter Forty Three.

Duan Xinyue rides for several miles and stops when they reach a certain ghost town where there is rarely a single soul walking around even though it's now afternoon. They look outside surprised by how deserted the town is. This town is called Widow town because most of the women who live there are widows. It was once a busy town but now it's deserted with a few people living in it.

"Should we make a stop here? I'm hungry,"Du Yichen suggests.

"Fine let's have a meal,"Duan Xinyue excitedly seconds and pulls over the carriage outside a certain restaurant.

"I'll wait in the carriage,"Lei Qiang responds.

"What about you Brother Hong?"

"If my Lord is not eating then I'll not eat."

"Such unwavering loyalty you have there,"Duan Xinyue says sarcastically,"Don't worry we'll bring you some food."

Duan Xinyue and Du Yichen enter the restaurant.

There is no single customer in the restaurant. Duan Xinyue rubs his fingers on one of the tables and ends up collecting a ton of dust.

"Looks like no one has been here for a long time. Is the food here even edible?"

"Let's try and we'll know."

"Is anyone here?"

After a minute of calling out a lady in her forties finally comes. She's tall with a pale and expressionless face and her clothes are neither decent nor ragged. She doesn't greet them making the atmosphere more tense. Duan Xinyue takes the initiative to start a conversation.

"Madam, how are you? Are you the owner of the restaurant?"

"Just order what you want,"the lady replies coldly still maintaining her expressionless face.

"Four servings of rice and pork and any kind of wine; please pack two of the servings for us. That's all,"Duan Xinyue speaks smiling nervously.

"Got it,"the lady turns around and leaves after receiving the orders. In a few minutes the lady comes with two other women in their late twenties carrying the food. They place the food on the table and walk away before Duan Xinyue asks about the price.

"These ladies look a bit creepy should we just take the two servings and leave?" Duan Xinyue suggests.

"If we take two servings they won't be enough for us . Let's just eat and leave quickly."

Suddenly all the windows and doors are locked all in unison like they are being controlled by some sort of mechanism. The room becomes dark with only little light coming from outside through the small openings on wall and windows.

"See I told you. We should have left."

"If they wanted to trap us here then we wouldn't escape even if we tried to leave."

A group of about thirty women wearing seductive attire walk towards them like zombies . Their eyes are full of lust like they might eat them whole up .

Meanwhile outside the restaurant Hong Yi is busy stroking the horses gently as Lei Qiang takes a rest in the carriage. He then notices the restaurant has been closed and rushes over to inform Lei Qiang.

"My Lord, Duan gongzi and Young Master Du have been trapped inside!"

"What?"

Lei Qiang alights from the carriage and is shocked by how the restaurant looks like it hasn't been opened in centuries.

"My Lord, what do we do?"

"Looks like the doors are being controlled by a mechanism so we can't get in."

The women inside are groping the two men shamelessly like they were born for it. Most of the women seem to be attracted to Duan Xinyue so he's having a harder time than Du Yichen.

"Sir do you want to sleep with me first?"one of the women asks Duan Xinyue.

"I don't want to sleep with any of you!"Duan Xinyue declares raising his voice.

"Sir,do you think you have a say here?"

Duan Xinyue laughs in embarrassment and admits defeat. One of the women cups his chin to kiss him but he sucks his lips in.

Duan Xinyue and Du Yichen try to communicate through their eyes on how to save themselves. They can't kill them because they think it's inhumane and it would also attract other people's attention.

Lei Qiang and Hong Yi are trying to figure out a way to save them from outside. They peep in to the restaurant through some small openings. Lei Qiang isn't pleased with what he sees.

"My Lord we carried some explosives. Should we use them?"

"If we blow the whole restaurant everyone might die. "

"Then what do we do?"

"There's a simpler way to save them."

Since Lei Qiang still has the perfume Duan Xinyue gave him that turns into sleeping incense when it encounters a burning flame,he takes one of his perfumed robes,rips it into pieces ,attaches it on sticks, lights fire on them and slips them in through the gap under the door that seems to be bit bigger in this case. Hong Yi is still shocked after seeing Lei Qiang rip his favourite robes into pieces within no minute.

Upon seeing the burning pieces of cloth,the women start screaming in fear.

"Don't be afraid they won't burn down the whole building,"Duan Xinyue says in an assuring tone. Duan Xinyue walks over towards the door with the excuse of putting out the fire.

"Shu Jie Jie open the doors!"one of the women yells.

Shu Jie Jie is the leader of the widows' association and she's the one who served Duan Xinyue and Du Yichen earlier. She's also the only one who knows how to operate the door mechanism. The perfume's scent fills the whole room making the women pass out one by one.

"Yichen it's now time to figure out how to open the door,"Duan Xinyue says excitedly. When he turns around he's surprised to see Du Yichen lying unconsciously beside the ladies.

"You're indeed a dummy,"Duan Xinyue shakes his head in both disbelief and disappointment.