Chen Qingfeng screamed, followed by two people rushing out of the wing, both shirtless, holding a box cannon with a large nose in their hands, rolling on the spot to find cover, agile as a leopard, it was Chen Zikun's two horses, in the end thirty or forty-year-old veteran oil, that tactical action is simply too old-fashioned.

Chen Zikun jumped out next, but he didn't come out of the door, but out of the window, and went to the room with a rub, condescendingly shining around with a flashlight, except for the leaves swaying in the wind, there was no half a figure.

The chief of staff and the adjutant also came out of the house, Zhao Yufeng drank a lot today, his drunken eyes couldn't open, and he yawned: "What are you howling." ”

Chen Qingfeng trembled and pointed to the ground without speaking, Yan Su looked over with a lantern, and said in surprise: "Whose footprints?" ”

Chen Zikun jumped down from the roof, turned off the pistol safe, checked the bloody footprints, and then looked at Chen Qingfeng's shoes, frowned, and said, "Where did you go just now?" ”

"I went up to the hut and walked around the pool again." The little orderly replied timidly.

Chen Zikun flashed his flashlight and searched along this line, but there was no suspicious trace except for the footprints left by Chen Qingfeng.

At this time, the lights in Jian Bing and Yao Yilei's room were also turned on, it was impossible for these two rivals to live in the same room, but considering the relationship between the murderous house, the two had to abandon their previous suspicions and huddle together to keep warm.

The courtyard was quiet, Lao Wang Lao Li held the box cannon high, waiting for the battle, the moonlight sprinkled on the ground, a bright one, and in a blink of an eye, it was hidden behind the clouds, the courtyard was dark, Chen Zikun asked: "The strange voice just now, everyone heard it?" ”

"I heard it, like a cat meowed." Yan Su said.

"It's like a crying." Wang Degui said.

Zhao Yufeng was terrified, and his hands were trembling.

Chen Zikun nodded thoughtfully, searched carefully again, and finally walked to the ancient well.

The well of the county yahou house was drilled in the Ming Dynasty, it has been a few years, and a little wife of the Nantai County Order in Xinhai threw herself into the well and died in it, the well is a kind of thing, always giving people a mysterious and gloomy feeling, especially on such a haunted night.

Everyone sweated, for fear that evil spirits would suddenly emerge from the well.

Chen Zikun held a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and the wall of the well was smooth, the well was quiet, and there was no abnormality.

Nothing was found, but the bloody footprints could not be explained, and everyone went back to sleep with deep fear, and whether they could fall asleep or not was a matter of two things.

……

Early the next morning, Chen Qingfeng came in a hurry, Chen Zikun was doing push-ups on the ground, and when he saw the little orderly soldier so flustered, he jumped up and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"That bandit ......"

"Dead?"

"No, alive."

Chen Zikun went to check in person, and saw that the young man was lying under the porch, his complexion was much better than yesterday, he touched his forehead, and the fever had subsided, but he was seriously injured and could not get up.

"What's your name?" Chan asked.

"My name is Double Happiness." The young man said, he looked around and asked, "Where is this?" ”

"This is Nantai County Ya." Chen Qingfeng replied to him.

Shuangxi shuddered and seemed to be scared.

"Go serve a bowl of porridge." Chen Zikun instructed, squatted in front of Shuangxi, and continued to ask him: "How old is this year?" ”

"Seventeen."

"Why are you a bandit?"

The young man's eyes darkened, and he lowered his head and said, "Daddy and mother are gone, and I can't eat." ”

"Have you ever killed someone?" Chan asked again.

"Nope." Double Happiness's answers were brief, and although he didn't know what the shirtless young man in front of him was doing, his intuition told him that this person had no ill intentions.

Chen Zikun sighed and muttered: "The officials forced the people to rebel. ”

Chen Qingfeng came over with a bowl of porridge, and when he saw it, his eyes were straight, this was a bowl of porridge boiled with white rice! Legendary white rice! Every grain of rice is so full, shiny and extremely attractive, even the county town can't eat such good white rice at home.

Shuangxi's tears fell in the bowl, choked and couldn't speak, he only remembered that he followed the brigade to attack the camp in the dark night, suddenly the lights were bright, and he couldn't see anything, and then someone shouted to run, and then it seemed that he came to heaven in a dream, saw the fairy, and then he was in the county office, obviously he was captured by the official army, but he was treated by the army, and he was given white rice porridge to eat, how not like the treatment of a prisoner.

"The county magistrate is here." Chen Qingfeng said.

Chen Zikun nodded and patted Shuangxi's shoulder: "Eat slowly, don't worry, it's hot." Then he got up and went.

Shuangxi still couldn't hold back her tears, since her mother's death, no one has been so kind to herself, even the dearest third brother is no exception.

……

Back in the second hall, Liu Youjin said with a smile: "Protector, how did you rest last night?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "It's not good, the back house is not very peaceful, it seems that you are right, there are indeed unclean things." ”

County Magistrate Liu looked solemn and said, "Has anyone had an accident?" ”

Chen Zikun shook his head: "It's okay." ”

County Magistrate Liu breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, what are you going to do with the protectors?" Why don't I find a Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts? ”

Chen Zikun said: "It's okay, I was born not to believe in evil, but I want to see what demons and monsters dare to spread wild on my head." ”

County Magistrate Liu said: "I heard that the rich man Zhang's house in the county is not clean, and after inviting a wandering Taoist priest to do the Fa, it will be peaceful, and the Taoist priest is still in the county, or I will invite him." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Then there is the county magistrate Lao." ”

"You're welcome, it's your business." Without further ado, the county magistrate Liu immediately went to look for the Taoist priest, Chen Zikun returned to the back house, found Yan Su and asked, "How is it, have you found anything?" ”

Yan Su shook his head: "There is nothing, and the bloody footprints have disappeared, which is indeed strange." ”

Chen Zikun said: "County Magistrate Liu's performance is also very strange, he is a well-read intellectual, he actually believes in Taoist practices to exorcise ghosts, I think he doesn't want me to live here, the more he is like this, the more I want to live here." ”

As he was talking, a scream suddenly came, and the two ran over to take a look, only to see Jian Bing fainting to the ground, with a series of shocking bloody footprints behind him!

Chen Zikun hurriedly helped Jian Bing up and pinched the people, and it took a while to relieve his breath, and he saw clearly that it was Chen Zikun who was holding him, and immediately cried: "Allah, don't live in the pavilion!" ”

Yao Yilei heard the movement and ran out, and when she saw the bloody footprints reappearing, she was also frightened, and said tremblingly: "It's really not clean here, let's move out." ”

When Chen Zikun turned around, he saw her with a cross around her neck and a Bodhisattva statue in her arms, and smiled dumbly: "Which immortal are you invited?" ”

Yao Yilei didn't have the heart to joke with him, and said, "This place can't be lived, I hate it." ”

Yan Su squatted on the ground, rubbed his fingers against the bloody footprints on the floor tiles, put them on the tip of his nose and sniffed, frowned, and said, "It's not blood, the real blood stains should have a fishy smell and a little sticky, this should be a dye." ”

Chen Zikun sneered, this judgment was not much different from his expectations, Jian Bing and Yao Yilei suddenly realized, they seemed to believe it or not, but after carefully looking at the bloody footprints, they finally believed that this was really not blood.

"Where have you been?" Chan asked.

Jian Bing recalled for a moment and said, "I went to many places, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. ”

Suddenly, Chen Qingfeng ran in and said, "Big handsome, the head of the security regiment Qiu is here." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Chief of Staff, the affairs of the back house are handed over to you, and I will go to do some official business." Immediately took the orderlies to the second hall, and the county magistrate Liu had already moved out from here with great interest and went to the office of the Guanyi, and the second hall of the county government is now the Jiangbei Protector Army Embassy Office.

Qiu Fuzhao, the head of the security regiment, stood in the courtyard respectfully, saw Chen Zikun arrive, snapped upright, and said, "Report!" "Although the salute is not standard, it has a bit of a military taste.

Chen Zikun said: "What is Captain Qiu looking for me?" ”

Qiu Fuzhao said: "The humble post is here to mention people. ”

"Oh, who's mentioning?" Chan wondered.

"Speaking of bandits, didn't your lord capture more than a dozen bandits alive and put them in the county jail."

"yes, what are you talking about them for?" Chen Zikun wondered even more, the bandits were arrested by themselves, why did the security group come to pick up people.

Qiu Fuzhao smiled flatteringly: "Mention the one who went to cut off the head." As he spoke, he made a gesture of chopping vegetables.

Chen Zikun was furious: "Ridiculous, do you understand that the execution has to be tried, and besides, these bandits were arrested by Lao Tzu, what does it have to do with your security group?" ”

Seeing Chen Zikun going crazy, Qiu Fuzhao suddenly panicked, and hurriedly said: "The protector envoy calms his anger, it was Master Xia who sent a lowly post to raise people, yesterday the bandit Chen Shou came to harass him, and Master Xia wanted to borrow a few heads to give them some color to see, but he didn't mean to compete with the protector envoy." ”

Chen Zikun said: "You go back and tell Master Xia, I, Chen Zikun, have my own rules for doing things, and I can't mess around, especially when human lives are at stake, let alone kill them, I want to personally interrogate these bandits, and then make a decision, you go." ”

"Yes!" Qiu Fuzhao saluted and went back.

Chen Zikun asked the orderly to call the commander of the escort company sent by Chen Tiaoyuan, and told him bluntly: "The brothers have worked hard, each of them will be given three yuan to drink, and another hundred oceans will be rewarded for you." ”

The company commander said happily: "Thank you for the escort." ”

This company commander is not a fool, Chen Tiaoyuan is not a direct descendant, the troops under the command of Xu Haizhen's guard are not very oily, ordinary big-headed soldiers are paid six yuan a month, of which three yuan is food expenses, and there are only three yuan in hand, and the company commander's salary is not high, only fifty yuan.

"Protector, if there is anything you send, just give your orders, a word in the water and fire." The company commander patted his chest and said.

Chen Zikun said: "You have also seen the situation in Nantai, Ben Shuai has money and guns under his hands, but there are no soldiers, so he has to rely on his brothers for a while." ”

The company commander, who had sworn just now, suddenly hesitated: "It's okay to say something else, this matter...... In the end, we are the soldiers of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Jiangsu Army, if we change the court, Chen Dashuai will never spare the small ones, and the lives of the small ones are not important, but the family is in Xuzhou. ”

Chen Zikun laughed: "I and you Chen Dashuai are righteous brothers, how can you slander his soldiers and horses, I mean, you stay here for a few more days, give me a stance, it won't take long, I'll write a letter to Chen Dashuai to explain, no." ”

The company commander thought about it, anyway, when he came, Chen Tiaoyuan didn't explain when he would go back, and it didn't hurt to stay here for two more days, so he stomped his feet and said: "The army has made you so righteous, and I can't help but pay attention to it, so let's do it." ”

Chen Zikun sent him back with a smile, but he was calculating in his heart, Chen Tiaoyuan's company of soldiers and horses was useless, and could only be used to scare people, and it was impossible for these people to work hard for themselves, if they wanted to gain a foothold in Nantai County, they had to recruit their own descendants.