Chapter 2: Before Returning to Beijing (2)

Everyone and the giant snake swirled around, slowly forming an encirclement of the giant snake, but at this moment, the giant snake opened its bloody mouth and pounced towards Xu Qing. Everyone was shocked and hurriedly came back to protect Xu Qing, but the snake shook a shot, turned its head, swung its tail, and got into a withered vine next to it.

The dead vine was broken by the snake, and then Huang Shimei shouted: "Xu Qing, isn't this the cave!" ”

Xu Qing looked around, although the trees were withered, but if he looked closely, he could see that the terrain was still the original one. Sure enough, it was the place where the cave was located, Xu Qing couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, didn't it mean that there must be a strange beast guarding next to the treasure, such a giant snake living in this cave, could it be that the weird fragment is really something amazing?

Xu Qing sent two people back to save the fainting man, and the rest piled up some firewood at the entrance of the cave and lit a smoke fire to force the snake out.

The fire was blazing, a pile of firewood was burned, and the two who had left also came back with the fainted man on their backs. After feeding him a sip of water, the man woke up and muttered in pieces, where is the snake? What about snakes?

Huang Shimei sighed and said that this person was frightened, and she had to ask someone to summon the soul to be frightened, otherwise she would become a fool in the future.

The man was still chattering, I know this snake, it's called the safflower python, fortunately it's gone, otherwise it would be a big trouble.

Someone comforted him and said, "What's the trouble, there are so many of us!" It would have been beaten to the point that it only had half a life.

When the man heard this, he was not happy and exclaimed: You have injured it, but you have not killed it?

What's so scary, isn't it just here now? Hey...... The crowd began to laugh, but the frightened man still looked terrified.

Xu Qing saw it, felt bad in his heart, stared at the entrance of the cave, and when everyone was laughing, he saw a tongue suddenly sticking out of the entrance of the cave. The tip of the tongue is forked, it is a snake's, but unlike the previous one, this tongue is jet black, not scarlet.

Another snake!

When the people noticed the anomaly, they stopped laughing, and the man who was lying down said that the snake was usually two of the same. Ju, the one just now is a female, and there must be a male one within a few hundred meters!

The male snake is more ferocious, more violent, more fierce, and not only that, but the male snake is also highly venomous!

"Bang!"

I heard that it was highly toxic, Xu Qing shot decisively! A shot hit, knocking back the snake head that had just been exposed. The gun is full of scattered bullets, which can peel off a layer of skin from the snake's head, but it can't hurt its roots.

Sure enough, the male snake came out again, and the female snake came out with it, and the female snake snake was dying, but it was still awe-inspiring. The top of the male snake's head was bright red, not because of Xu Qing's shot, but because it was furious!

When Xu Qing saw it, where were his subordinates willing to show mercy, and another shot was fired over, peeling off another layer of skin on the top of his head. But it's not dead!

There are many embers of firewood at the entrance of the cave, and two large snakes twist. The snake body moved, "snorted" in the ashes, and shrank back. Seeing that he couldn't crawl, he prepared for a moment and stood up. Xu Qing and the others were startled, this snake stood taller than all of them!

This snake is going to pounce!

Everyone was already ready*, and at this time they were launched together, swishing, after all, they were animals, and they didn't know how to dodge, and they were pierced through the heart by multiple arrows at once.

The male snake was the most frightening, so the arrows hit the most, and finally could not hold it anymore, and fell down, black blood flowing from his mouth.

Naturally, the female snake could not escape death, and was cut into seven or eight pieces by everyone. The original person who fainted to death was shocked, and hurriedly asked Xu Qing, what is in his hand, how can it thunder? Xu Qing said with a smile, I have thunderbolts in my hand, and I brought a few of the things over there in the Western Regions when I came from Chang'an.

Oh, it turned out to be something from the Western Regions! The people in the Western Regions are wonderful, and they can make such a big noise.

Xu Qing put his mind at ease, before he put the gun, in fact, it was put in his sleeve, and everyone looked at the snake, but they couldn't see the sound behind him.

Unfortunately, after entering the cave to search, only two snake skins and a nest of eggs with baby snakes were found. It turned out that these two giant snakes had just shed their skin and had not eaten, so they were so weak, otherwise Xu Qing would probably have five or six more shots to no avail.

As for the strange fragments, they seemed to have disappeared, and they couldn't be found even after digging through the caves. Xu Qing wondered if she was wrong, but she asked Huang Shimei, and Huang Shimei said that she also saw it, and it should not be Xu Qing's own hallucination.

But where did the things go? Only God knows. If the fragment could not be found, Xu Qing had no choice, and whether the fragment was related to that dream was only speculation.

He burned the snake and went down the mountain.

In about a month, several people who came with Xu Qing this time all died, and the family received a very generous pension. Xu Qing checked, and it turned out to be Huang Shimei's secret hand. When asked, Huang Shimei didn't quibble, just choked back tears and said: I'm afraid that they will talk nonsense and hurt you.

Xu Qing was silent, what Huang Shimei did seemed to be blameless, but he didn't have this qualification.

Suddenly, he remembered a character - Zhang Chunhua, this person may not be known, but her husband should be known to everyone - Sima Yi, the old man.

At the beginning, Sima Yi was lying on the bed pretending to be sick, and when he was drying books one day, it suddenly rained heavily, and he couldn't hold back for a while, jumped up to save the book, and then was seen by the people at home.

And this scene was seen by Zhang Chunhua again, so Zhang Chunhua, who was only ten years old at the time, took a sharp knife and killed the man. From then on, every time he quarreled, Sima Yi always had to admit his mistakes first, and he had to make excuses for the child's face. Sima Yi has defeated countless enemies in his life, and the only one who has accepted defeat is his wife.

Huang Shimei is such a woman.

Shimei, I don't blame you.

No one can blame it, either blame fate for arranging such a scene, or blame yourself for not having the strength to defeat fate.

That's an afterword.

At this time, Xu Qing was still in a happy mood, although he didn't find the shit fragment, but he came out for a walk, killed the snake again, took risks, and played a good game. Especially when I went down the mountain, I bumped into a stupid roe deer, and I was caught at once, and I got a barbecue.

Back at home, Niu Eater and others came to ask about the situation of returning to Beijing, they served in the state soldiers, and they didn't know where they would go after Xu Qing left.

Cattle eat grass Wang Shan is Xu Qing's general-style character, so he naturally wants to follow Xu Qing, and the two young generals of Chujiang and Qitai don't know what to do.

First, they want to follow the old master, Xu Qing's ability is also obvious to all, and he has a future and a head start. Second, both of them are locals in Cangzhou, and I heard that they are still talking about marriage with the daughter of a certain family recently, and they feel very good, and they are reluctant to let it go like this.

What to do, please ask Xu Tingshi to show me. The two of them asked the same question,

Xu Qing groaned and said, Chu Jiang is good at the water army, and the people of Huanghua Port are not what they are without you. And the rest of the state soldiers also need to lead the generals, Qi Tai, you are the most qualified.

Now that you are ready to settle down in Cangzhou, then don't run around, there is nothing good about Chang'an, it is better to be stable in Cangzhou. If you plan to be promoted in the future, it will not be difficult for me to help you two get alive in Chang'an.

However, if this military attache wants to be promoted, maybe he will be transferred to the frontier to kill the enemy, and if he accidentally loses his arm and head, he wants me to say that it is not good to rub his skin. It's still better to be a general soldier in Cangzhou and be a leader.

Xu Qing was reasonable, the two said to think about it, and bowed their heads and went out.

There are also two people, Xu Qing doesn't know how to arrange it. That is Han Zibang of the Department of Commerce and Taxation, as well as Wei Xian of the Education Bureau, Wei Xian has not replied to the last time he sent "Di Zi Gui", I think he may have been an official, and Cui Shannan, who went with him, has not heard from anyone.

Since this is the case, the position of the manager of the Education Bureau will be changed to another candidate, but Xu Qing has no available generals. This matter still has to be discussed, after he leaves, it means that there will be no one to preside over the state school.

There is also Han Zibang, so far, he can be regarded as the lowest achievement among Xu Qing's protégés, and he is not a county order, and he has no chance to go to the central government. At this last moment, I have to find a way to promote him, so as not to favor one over the other.

It was night, and it happened that the cow was eating grass Wang Shan, so he stayed for a light meal, and Xu Qing cooked it himself.

After eating, Xiao Yue came to Xu Qing with a stack of account books.

"Young master, here is the living money in the house, and here is the fixed property in the house. These are to be returned to the government, and these are what we can take from the government...... Uh, this part is what you said, young master......"

Xu Qing listened to it, didn't care, and was too lazy to read the book, so he directly asked Xiaoyue to count.

Xiao Yue continued: "Young Master, your private property, ten shops on the street, as well as Yanshan, there are also some industries in various counties, the inventory in the treasury in Guantian Village, and the dowry brought by Shimei, which is also our family's private property. If they are all sold, they will get eighty thousand taels of silver......

"A Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, 80,000 I can barely be enough......" Xu Qing took a sip of tea, his silver was not looting ordinary people, not from Liaodong, or robbing a family.

Xu Qing thought for a moment and then said: "Don't move Shimei's dowry, don't sell the shops on Yanshan and on the street, and sell the rest." ”

"Then it's less than fifty thousand taels of silver," Satsuki replied.

"Fifty thousand taels, it's a lot of money in the hands of the people, and it's still a clean official in my hands." Xu Qing smiled self-deprecatingly, but still said: "Those good medicinal materials in the warehouse, jewelry and jade can be sold, don't take it for nothing, don't ......take it, don't take it."

"Okay, we only have the ones in the Assassin's Mansion, the ones that are often closed and the outer positions, which belong to the people, and we don't take them." Xiao Yue also held the account book and smirked: "I calculated, if I can sell these things, I will have 70,000 taels of silver." ”

Hugging Xiaoyue, Xu Qing said: "I don't know what happened to Luonan, I will send Luonan with 20,000 silver on a dry road." 30,000 to the dark river for them, and the rest for someone to pick up to fulfill our dream of traveling around. ”

Xiao Yue was slightly surprised: "Ah, isn't that still 20,000 taels?" Just pick it up?! ”

"Hehehe, we can buy whatever we want when the time comes," Xu Qing said with a smile: "Xiaoyue, let's go to Nanpi tomorrow to have a fun, okay?" ”

"Nanpi?" Xiao Yue poked her head out of Xu Qing's chest and asked suspiciously.

"That's right, I came to Cangzhou, and I only went to Nanpi once," Xu Qing said: "That's the time we came, this time I left, I don't know when I came, go back and see how Nanpi is under my governance." ”