Chapter 293: The Shelter
However, although his speed is fast, Zhang Wen is faster than him!
At the same time as the middle-aged man retreated, Zhang Wen had already come to the top of his head with the Cloud Breaking Sword, and he was about to completely kill the middle-aged man with a sword.
"Stop!"
At the critical moment, the disciples of the Nanxiang Society, who had just gone out to move the rescue troops, unexpectedly reappeared. Next to him, a man dressed in the costume of a disciple of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce shouted Zhang Wen while quickly flying to the middle-aged man to defend him with a sword.
"Cousin save me!"
When the middle-aged man saw the other party coming, his face instantly showed ecstasy. Regardless of whether his cousin's strength could suppress Zhang Wen, the middle-aged man believed that Zhang Wen no longer dared to do anything to him.
Because the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce is the heaven of Lingcheng, no matter how they fight each other, they can't afford the consequences of provoking the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce. No matter how strong Zhang Wen was, the middle-aged man didn't believe that he dared to provoke the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce head-on.
However, the next scene was completely different from what the middle-aged man had imagined. Not only that, but the people of the Nanxiang Society were also stunned when they saw it, almost thinking that they were hallucinating.
Sonor!
A crisp metal clash came out, and Zhang Wen's Cloud Breaking Sword and the opponent's long sword slashed out a series of sparks, and everyone was dazzled.
Although the disciple of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce who had just appeared saved the middle-aged man's life with his sword, his long sword was directly broken in two under the attack of the Cloud Breaking Sword. If Zhang Wen hadn't stopped in time, I'm afraid that this Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce disciple and the leader of the Nanxiang Society would have been directly split in half by the Cloud Breaking Sword.
"Zhou Jianyun!"
Zhang Wen had already recognized this Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce disciple when he appeared, so he stopped in time to prevent the other party from dying under his sword. But his face was not good-looking, and he was obviously very unhappy with Zhou Jianyun's help to the middle-aged man and others.
The man Zhou Jianyun's eyes widened as he looked at the cloud-breaking sword above his head, and a layer of fine sweat couldn't help but break out on his face. It wasn't until he heard Zhang Wen's voice that he suddenly realized that the person who fought with the middle-aged man was actually Zhang Wen.
"Senior Brother Zhang Wen, why are you here?"
He hurriedly put aside the middle-aged man beside him, came to Zhang Wen and asked happily. But then Zhou Jianyun remembered the current relationship between the two, and immediately bowed solemnly to Zhang Wen, and sincerely expressed his apologies to him.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man and the other members of the Nanxiang Association all looked at Zhou Jianyun and Zhang Wen as if they had seen a ghost, and their eyes were full of disbelief. Immediately afterward, the middle-aged man realized that things were far beyond his control, and his eyes were full of remorse and apology when he looked at Zhang Wen.
"Get up and tell me what's going on!"
Zhang Wen is upright by nature, even if he doesn't know Zhou Jianyun, it is estimated that he will not treat the other party differently because he is a disciple of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce. It's just that he saw that he was once the same door as Zhou Jianyun, so he didn't beat them to death with a rod, but gave the other party a chance to explain.
"I'm sorry, Senior Brother Zhang Wen, this person is one of my cousins, because there are only two of us left in our entire big family, so I have been a little indulgent to him during this time. If you want to punish Senior Brother, please punish me with you!"
Because before Zhang Wen was expelled from the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce by Ye Ye, he had always been the person of the year in the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce who was second only to Chen Xian, and naturally there were some followers around him, and Zhou Jianyun was one of his followers at the beginning. After Zhang Wen left the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Jianyun thought that he would never see Zhang Wen again, but he didn't expect the two to reunite in such a way today.
Zhou Jianyun understood Zhang Wen's temper, and as soon as he saw the other party's Tie Qing's face, he knew that Zhang Wen was dissatisfied with him. But Zhou Jianyun did not shirk his responsibility, but explained the ins and outs of the matter to Zhang Wen with a wry smile. He didn't ask for Zhang Wen's forgiveness, he just hoped that Zhang Wen would open up to the middle-aged man and others in his face and give them a chance to mend their ways.
Seeing the helpless look on Zhou Jianyun's face, Zhang Wen gradually lost his breath and slowly withdrew the Cloud Breaking Sword from its scabbard.
He glanced at the middle-aged man and the others with regret on their faces, and did not continue to attack them, but turned his head to Zhou Jianyun and said in a stern tone: "If I find out that they are robbing houses in Lingcheng again, don't blame me for not remembering the original love for the same family!"
"Thank you, senior brother, for not killing!"
When Zhou Jianyun heard Zhang Wen's words, a relaxed smile immediately appeared on his face. He hurriedly asked the middle-aged man and others to come to Zhang Wen to plead guilty, temporarily easing the relationship between the two parties.
When the matter was settled, Zhou Jianyun finally asked about Zhang Wen's experience after leaving the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce. The two exchanged messages with each other, and their faces gradually became solemn, obviously worried about the current situation in the southwest.
And after Zhou Jianyun learned that Zhang Wen came to Piaoxiang Mansion to find someone, he immediately patted his chest and promised him that he would use his network in the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce to help him find Song Qi's whereabouts. It's just that Zhang Wen didn't want to continue to wait, he just wanted to join the Winged People Army after completing Chen Qingxuan and Song Jing's entrustment as soon as possible, so he immediately urged Zhou Jianyun to return to the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce with him to verify.
On the other side, after Song Qi separated from Zhang Wen, he immediately went to the nearest shelter to seek refuge.
She had originally guessed that every shelter in Lingcheng would be overcrowded, but when Song Qi came to the door of the shelter, she realized that she still underestimated the crowding of the shelter in Lingcheng.
Because almost the entire southwest of the city has gathered in Lingcheng, the accommodation and materials in Lingcheng are tense to an unimaginable extent at this time. Basically, there was a long queue in front of the door of each shelter, and it took Song Qi nearly a whole day just to register his identity information.
But that's not all, and the process of receiving supplies and allocating accommodation after registration is extremely slow. When the morning sun rose the next day, Song Qi finally couldn't help but fall asleep, and fell asleep in the place where he was queuing. In front of and behind her, there were also people who couldn't help but rest on the spot, and the sparse breathing made the whole team look so lifeless, as if they would never reach the end.
At noon, a wave of hunger woke Song Qi from her sleep. The rumbling stomach seemed to protest, so that Song Qi could not continue to sleep.
The staff at the shelter just handed out a large cake to everyone and ignored it, and Song Qi and the others could only endure the torture of hunger while queuing.
An old man who looked to be in his fifties walked around the team from time to time, as if to maintain order and as if he was inspecting his own territory, and his face was full of pride and pride.
This person is none other than Huo Yusheng, the person in charge of this shelter, and he is also the head of the Huo family, the peripheral force of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce.
Unlike the Hong family, who has completely surrendered to the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce, the Huo family is still only a vassal force of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce, and they are not really members of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce. In fact, if it weren't for the Huo family's ancestral land in Lingcheng, a small family like theirs wouldn't even have the qualifications to become a subsidiary of the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce.
When Lingcheng was in chaos and the Jade Leaf Chamber of Commerce was in dire need of manpower, Huo Yusheng was fortunate to be selected as the person in charge of this shelter, and the excitement and pride in his heart were difficult to hide. With the convenience of being in charge of this shelter, their Huo family was also more calm than the other families in Lingcheng during this catastrophe.
Huo Yusheng felt that his life had reached its peak, and after handing over some chores to his subordinates, he would come to the queue waiting to receive supplies every day, showing off his superiority to these people.
Looking at the envious and awe-inspiring eyes of these refugees, Huo Yusheng couldn't help but feel a little fluttering, and even hoped that Lingcheng would always be in this state. Because it is only in such moments that he can truly appreciate what it is like to be a human being.
"Huh!"
Just when Huo Yusheng appeared in the inspection team again, Song Qi, who had a gentle temperament and beautiful appearance, suddenly walked into his field of vision. Even though Song Qi's body was a little messy at this time, and her head and face looked even more embarrassed, the pitiful aura on her body still grabbed Huo Yusheng's eyeballs tightly, making a malicious smile gradually appear on his face.
At this time, Song Qi didn't know that she had become someone else's prey, and when she was waiting in line to receive supplies, she kept thinking about what happened to Zhang Wen now.
After a while, a shelter staff suddenly came to Song Qi, politely asked her name and origin, and then took Song Qi into the shelter first, and came to a room with elegant decoration.
Huo Yusheng was the only one in the room, and the staff of the shelter turned around and left after taking her in, and deliberately closed the door.
Song Qi was a little nervous in his heart, but he still mustered up the courage to walk up to Huo Yusheng and asked him politely, "Is this the accommodation assigned to me by the shelter?"
Huo Yusheng looked at Song Qi's beautiful face, and the smile on his face became more and more obvious. He didn't answer Song Qi's question, but asked Song Qi lightly, "Your name is Song Qi, right? Do you know why you can be the first to enter the shelter without queuing and be assigned to such a good room?"
Song Qi seemed to have guessed something in his heart, and the whole person involuntarily took a step back. She didn't answer Huo Yusheng's question, but quietly glanced around the room, as if she was looking for something.
Huo Yusheng didn't notice Song Qi's small movements, he saw that Song Qi was silent and didn't answer, so he continued to Song Qi with his own thoughts: "I have read your information and know that you used to be the shopkeeper of a wine shop in Lingcheng. As fellow Lingcheng people, we should naturally help each other, so that we can give ourselves another way out in the troubled times. ”
Song Qi looked up at the other party suspiciously, thinking to herself that she had misunderstood him?
However, since Huo Yusheng didn't show any malice to her for the time being, Song Qi naturally didn't want to reply coldly, so he bowed to Huo Yusheng and thanked him gently: "Thank you for your care, the little girl is grateful! If there is a place for Song Qi in the future, please make it clear to the adult, Song Qi is unavoidable to repay the adult's kindness today!"
Huo Yusheng saw Song Qi's knowledgeable appearance, and he liked her even more. After Song Qi finished speaking, he rushed to Song Qi, forcibly took Song Qi's hands and said to her: "Don't wait for the future, I will have a place to use you now." As long as you can be my woman with peace of mind, it will not be difficult to eat and drink spicy food in the future, and I guarantee that you will live more comfortably than before!"