A city guard suddenly came to the Changshou Hotel to see me by name, which made me feel very sudden, I don't know what he came to me for? However, as soon as we met, he called out my name before I could ask him what he was going to do!

"Zhai Zisheng!"

The voice was familiar, but I couldn't remember who it was. The city guard took off his helmet at this time, oh, it turned out to be Cao Zhe!

"It's you, kid! Damn, coming to me dressed like this makes me nervous! I laughed and scolded, and naturally stepped forward and hugged him warmly.

He also smiled and patted me on the shoulder as a sign of affection. It's only been a month since they saw each other, and the two young people, who have known each other for less than a day, feel like old friends for many years, and they feel very excited.

"How are you doing?"

"Oops, busy!" As soon as Cao Zhe came, he poured bitter water, "The city guards are very short of manpower now, and they have to be on duty twenty-four hours a day, so we usually stand by in the camp in Shangcheng except for work, and we can't go anywhere!" ”

"Then how did you have time to come to me today?"

"Recently, a team of people has come back from a mission out there, and they are a little more well-staffed, so now I can have a day off every three days."

Cao Zhe pointed to the top of his head again and said, "I just came down from the top shift, and I happened to be around here, thinking of coming to talk to you." Anyway, I don't have many acquaintances in this Yin City, and you are the only one who can talk to you. ”

"You know I'm here?"

"That day in Uptown, I heard from Tenbury that you were assigned to a hotel in Downtown, but I really don't know where. It wasn't until a few days ago that the Big Head Gang and the Iron Kidnapper Gang were fighting, and I followed our captain down to hunt ghosts, and I actually saw you kidnapping ghosts at this door, so I knew you were here! ”

"Oh, I see!" I laughed, "I saw a dozen city guards coming down from the stone pillars that day, but everyone was wearing helmets, and I couldn't even recognize which one was you!" ”

"Hehe, even if you recognize it, we didn't have the time to chat at that time!"

"That's right!"

Cao Zhe talked about his own situation for a while, then looked at me and the Changshou Hotel behind him, and asked, "How is it, you have been working in this hotel for almost a month, and you feel okay?" ”

"Pretty good!" I nodded, "My boss and colleagues here are very nice to me." Come on, come on, come in, I'll introduce you to know! ”

I first introduced Cao Zhe to several nurses standing at the door. Wei Dahu went to pick me up that day, Cao Zhe had seen it, and the two of them greeted me again. I dragged Cao Zhe into the hotel again and introduced the boss Teng Shuli and my roommate Tian Laolu to him.

When Teng Shuli heard that Cao Zhe was the person sent by the Teng family to the city guard, he was also very enthusiastic, and wanted to entertain him to stay for dinner.

Cao Zhe hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no!" I'll come to talk to Zhai Zisheng, and I'll go back to Shangcheng in a while! ”

"Then I'll have someone make a pot of tea for you?"

Cao Zhe still looked embarrassed and said: "I don't look good to drink tea here dressed like this, and I'm afraid that it will affect the business of the store......"

"Then go and sit in my dorm room!" I simply proposed. Cao Zhe rarely came here, and I also wanted to exchange with him about his experience in the past month in Yin City. He's on duty in the City Guard, and he must know more than I do.

"Okay!"

Teng Shuli also waved his hand and said, "Then you two will go to the back and talk, I will grant you half a day off!" ”

I took Cao Zhe to the dormitory, ran for another pot of tea, and the two of them continued to sit down and chat. But basically Cao Zhe said a lot, and I've been listening to it. He was a talker, but he was assigned to a place with strict management and serious discipline like the city guards, and he couldn't find anyone to talk to him, which suffocated him!

After chatting and chatting, I finished talking about my own side of things, and then talked about some new things in Zuoqiu City. I live in the lower city, and Cao Zhe lives in the upper city. After I told him some interesting things that Tian Laolu told me, Cao Zhe couldn't hold his mouth anymore and took the initiative to expose some inside stories about Shangcheng to me.

The highest Yin Gong cultivation in Zuoqiu City is naturally the Zuoqiu City Lord, who is said to have already reached the sixfold realm. Zuo Qiu Mao is clearly as rumored in the rivers and lakes, he used to serve as a marshal in the underworld, and was later exiled here after being defeated. Therefore, with his extremely high cultivation, he was able to suppress a few powerful ghosts in the city.

In addition to Zuoqiu Maoming, there are also three deputy city lords, all of whom have reached the fifth level of Yin Gong cultivation, and each is responsible for a part of the city's management affairs. The Teng family is attached to one of the deputy city lords, named Yin Fa. It is said that he was an old subordinate of the lord of Zuoqiu City when he was in the underworld, and he followed him all the way here. Therefore, he is also the right-hand man of the city lord of Zuoqiu, and he trusts him.

Yin Fa is mainly in charge of the Yin Affairs Division, and he is in charge of the living people in the Yin City. It was a good job, and he used his power to control many properties, both overtly and implicitly, including restaurants, money houses, caravans, and so on, and received countless benefits from various families every year.

At the same time, Yin Fa also sent people to join the city guards through a family like the Teng family, intending to compete for power in city defense and law and order.

The other deputy city lord is called Leng Yuankui, who is in charge of the Ghost Affairs Division. The origin of this Leng Yuankui is a little unclear, and he has only been the deputy city lord for a few years, and the biggest controversy is that he is a ghost raiser!

Ghost keepers are notorious in the yang world, but in the underworld they are a "legitimate profession". However, their name is to raise ghosts, but in fact, they are more about refining ghosts and exorcising ghosts, and their reputation is always not good, and the ghost cultivators always hate and fear him. The city lord of Zuoqiu used him to take charge of the ghost affairs department, obviously to fight poison with poison, so as to knock and knock on several ghost gangs in the city.

Leng Yuankui's ability to accumulate wealth is not inferior to Yin Fa, but it is a little unsightly. He did not blatantly start an industry, but controlled several major ghost gangs through the Ghost Affairs Division, and several major ghost gangs domesticated tens of thousands of ghost slaves, plus the ghost slave transactions in the right city were all taken by the Ghost Affairs Division, and under the power and money transactions, the benefits would naturally not be less.

Leng Yuankui is low-key, and he is generally reluctant to compete with others for power, but no one will deliberately curry favor with him. However, being able to take charge of the Ghost Affairs Division and restrain several major ghost gangs is enough to see his power and strength!

In addition to Yin Fa and Leng Yuankui, there is also a deputy city lord who is an old woman, surnamed Wu, called Wu Fang, so people give them the nickname: "Old Witch"!

Wu Fang is mainly in charge of city defense affairs, and the city guards directly obey her. Although this Wu Fang is a woman, her personality is straightforward, decisive and hardliners. It was her decision to take the initiative to suppress the ghost bandits, after nearly ten years of hard work, the large ghost bandit gangs around Zuoqiu City have disappeared, and only a few fish that have slipped through the net still occasionally appear, but they are no longer in any climate.

Wu Fang has another identity that is even more talked-about, she is also the head of a Yin cultivation gang. The gang is called the Shengyang Gang, at first glance, the name of this gang is very masculine, but in fact, all the disciples in the gang are women!

According to the rumors of good deeds, including Wu Fang himself, the female yin cultivators in the Shengyang Gang are all women who have been hurt by men, so they are willing to endure loneliness to practice yin gong and merge into the underworld for penance. The name Shengyang Gang, after careful pondering, you can see Wu Fang's disdain for men: women are determined to be better than men, and yin is better than yang.

Although the number of female disciples of the Shengyang Gang is small, because they focus on practice, they have no distractions, but are capable. They mainly serve as important positions in the city's city defense and the captains and captains of the city guards, and half of the city guards in the city guards are from the Shengyang Gang, and the people sent by various families can only be their subordinates and listen to their orders.

Compared with Yin Fa and Leng Yuankui, Wu Fang is much more incorruptible, and it is rare to hear rumors that she uses power for personal gain, and the female disciples under her command also belong to the pragmatic school that does not enter the oil and salt. The reason why the city lord of Zuoqiu handed over such an important responsibility of city defense to Wu Fang was obviously also interested in this.

However, the relationship between Wu Fang and Yin Fa was the most tense, because Yin Fa always wanted to insert people into the city guards in an attempt to weaken Wu Fang's control over the city guards. Wu Fang was helpless about this, after all, the city guard was really short of people, and the Shengyang Gang did not recruit male disciples, so it would not be able to maintain its operation if it did not rely on the families to send new people in every year.

After saying this, Cao Zhe said to me enviously: "The work of the city guard is no better than that of you as a chef in this restaurant, and you have to deal with those ghost gang fights every day. On the contrary, it was more relaxed when it was the turn to guard Zemen, and there was usually nothing to do over there. ”

"But if another tide strikes, won't it become the most dangerous errand?" I shook my head. Ze tide is the death of Ze monster attack, when the number is large, it is like the tide, so it is called "Ze tide". The pattern of the tide is uncertain, but it is generally once every few years, and the size is random.

"Alas, it's all right! It only broke out once in the previous two years, how can it come again so quickly? Cao Zhe disagreed, "Actually, what I'm most worried about now is that I will be sent to participate in the suppression of ghost bandits!" ”

"So fast?"

"Well, it's possible!" Cao Zhebian flattened his mouth and said, "Because I am still a newcomer, I have not been arranged to participate in the assignment for the time being, and I may have to rotate in two months." ”

"What is an expatriate assignment?"

"Some are escorting large caravans to other Yin Cities to do business, or to transport military supplies, and some are just going out to suppress ghost bandits!"

"I've heard others say that it's dangerous! Be careful! I reminded.

"Don't worry, I'm just a team member, if I can't beat it, I'll run!" Cao Zhe grimaced, "Besides, this kind of task is not very often. ”

"Anyway, pay attention to yourself!"

"Okay! It's time for me to go, I've just finished my curfew shift, I need to go back and get some sleep! Cao Zhe chatted for so long, and finally temporarily relieved his "mouth addiction", and finally got up and prepared to go back.

I nodded, sent him outside the hotel, and finally said to him: "Come and play with me when you have time, and next time I will ask for a leave, let's go to Zuoqiu City for a good time!" ”

"It's a deal!"