200~201, ice and snow, encountered halfway
When the words fell, Huang Shihu's eyes hesitated, and most of the people present exchanged eyes, but no one answered.
Including Chen Zheng, he also looked at his nose and nose, and did not say a word.
"Thunder Zen Zhengong" is in hand, he has been addicted to cultivation recently, and he doesn't know how much time it will take to go this time, of course, he doesn't want to be distracted.
And the entire Supervision Department, except for Huang Shihu's pursuit, who is still loyal to his duties, the other three inspectors are also in the position of corpse meal, everyone is rotten, and no one takes the initiative to ask for it.
Liu Yuanming saw that no one answered, and he was immediately annoyed:
"Nobody wants to go? In that case, I'll assign it directly! ”
The people present still did not say a word.
Liu Yuanming couldn't bear it anymore, and his eyes fell on Chen Zheng's body after looking around:
"Chen Zheng, I plan to hand over this task to you, but is there a problem?"
Well?
didn't expect to be picked, Chen Zheng raised his eyebrows, and said loudly:
"Appointed by the adults, the subordinates should obey it, but after all, the subordinates have only been in the Supervision Department for a short time, and they are relatively inexperienced in tracking down evil demons and the like, so they ...... in this regard."
Liu Yuanming obviously considered it, and suddenly waved his hand:
"I see your abilities, don't be presumptuous. The reason why you are arranged to go is also based on strength considerations. After all, according to Li Hongda's information, the things that are doing trouble in Liangshan County, whether they are cults and demons or evil and weird, are not easy to deal with, so I can rest assured if you go. ”
In addition to Teng Qilong, several inspectors looked at them quite complicated.
The events at the birthday banquet of the Thunder Martial Arts Dojo spread far and wide, and they also knew that Chen Zheng had already had an amazing cultivation of three blood exchanges.
The top boss Liu Yuanming, the commander, has been in trouble for twenty or thirty years, and now he has only changed blood three times, how old is Chen Zheng?
At this age, the future of this state is unimaginable, and the small temple of the Supervision Department will inevitably not be able to accommodate it for too long, and they naturally sigh to themselves.
Speaking of which, Chen Zheng couldn't find any more excuses, so he could only agree:
"Lord Liu has won the award, since this is the case, his subordinates are ready to ......"
"Wait."
However, at this time, a casual voice suddenly sounded:
"Lord Liu, I'm also a little interested in this eucalyptus, why don't you let me go with Inspector Chen?"
The one who opened his mouth was Teng Qilong, who had been wandering outside the object.
Well?
I didn't expect this second ancestor to take the initiative to take the job, and whether it was Chen Zheng or anyone else present, it was extremely unexpected.
Liu Yuanming's eyes also flashed with surprise:
"You want to go too? Liangshan County is not very far, but the situation there is quite complicated, let alone ten days and half a month......"
Teng Qilong ignored everyone's surprised gaze and smiled slightly:
"It's okay, I've been in Lingqiu County for a long time, and I want to go out for activities."
With Teng Qilong's identity, he can't control what he wants to do.
But to buy a good thing, Liu Yuanming was also happy to push the boat and waved his hand:
"In that case, you can go with Chen Zheng, you can discuss it by yourself and set off tomorrow!"
Teng Qilong arched his hand casually.
Chen Zheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the other party who did not move retracted his gaze, and responded:
"Yes."
Then the crowd dispersed.
"Inspector Chen."
Chen Zheng had just walked out of the conference hall, but Teng Qilong behind him stopped him and asked with a smile:
"Since we are on the same mission, let's go together tomorrow?"
Teng Qilong is above the top in the eyes of the Supervision Department, and even Liu Qiming doesn't pay much attention to it, so it is undoubtedly a bit abnormal, Chen Zheng raised his eyebrows:
"Okay, then tomorrow at three o'clock, how about starting from here?"
"Okay, then it's three o'clock tomorrow."
Teng Qilong nodded, didn't say anything more, and turned to leave.
After his figure was far away, Huang Shihu behind him walked up to Chen Zheng with a suspicious look in his eyes:
"The sun is coming out in the west today? Why does this Teng Qilong have to go on a mission with you? ”
Chen Zheng also frowned slightly:
"I don't know, is it boring?"
Huang Shihu thought for a while and reminded in a low voice:
"It's hard to say. Teng Qilong, a noble kid with a good temperament, is not a good person, you pay attention to it on the road, and try to avoid conflicts with it. ”
The other party obviously had good intentions, and Chen Zheng nodded slightly:
"Thanks for the reminder."
After chatting a few words, Huang Shihu also said goodbye and left, while Chen Zheng's eyes narrowed and his thoughts flew around.
He had a faint feeling that Teng Qilong suddenly got involved, not out of the blue, but as if he had another purpose.
However, the other party has a prominent background, and he looks down on his colleagues at all.
In the month since he joined the Supervision Department, he and the other party have only met several times in total, and they have said no more than five sentences, and he can't think of what the other party can do for a while.
"Forget it."
Thinking about it and not having a clue, Chen Zheng turned around and went to gather four of his subordinates to prepare.
......
In the blink of an eye, a day passes.
Early the next morning.
Gray lead clouds were thick, and goose feathers and snow fell between heaven and earth, enveloping the whole city.
On the avenue, a layer of ice and snow has accumulated to cover the surface of the feet, and everywhere you look is covered in silver, dazzling snow white.
When Chen Zheng braved the wind and snow to come to the Supervision Division, he saw that Chai Tiefeng, Changqing and others were already ready at the gate of the government and ready to go.
After the four subordinates greeted him, Chen Zheng asked:
"What about Teng Qilong, haven't come yet?"
Chang Qing shook his head and said, "I haven't come yet." ”
At this moment, it was not long before the agreed departure time, Chen Zheng frowned: "Then wait." ”
However, a full two quarters of an hour passed.
More than a quarter of an hour after the appointed time, when Chen Zheng became more and more impatient, in the cold wind and heavy snow, he saw a horse team late.
I saw Teng Qilong dressed in a big horse, sitting on a handsome black horse, and nearly ten horses behind him.
In addition to the four attendants, there were two pretty maids dressed as men, following left and right.
The entourage and maids seem to be Teng's domestic servants.
The rest of the empty horses were loaded with blankets, tents, wine jars, and other miscellaneous things, and at first glance they looked like they were going out to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
Teng Qilong came to the waiting few people and said with a smile:
"Commander Chen, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."
After waiting in the wind and snow for a long time, Chang Qing and the others did not dare to have any dissatisfaction, but Chen Zheng said expressionlessly:
"Commander Teng, this is planning to go out for a winter trip?"
Teng Qilong didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Chen Zheng's words, and said slowly:
"It's six or seven hundred miles away, it's a long way, and it's natural to prepare more."
Chen Zheng didn't bother to talk nonsense with this kind of perverse second ancestor, so he immediately turned over and waved his hand:
"Let's go!"
No more gossip, the two sides set off.
Rushing out of the East City Gate, Chen Zheng led his men to take the lead, galloping on the snow-covered avenue, heading to the direction of Liangshan County.
Behind him, Teng Qilong followed behind with a group of entourage.
Not long after, on the vast snowfield, Teng Qilong and the others were left far behind, almost invisible.
Chai Tiefeng, Chang Qing and the others glanced back, and then said in a loud voice to Chen Zheng in front of him:
"My lord, why don't we slow down and wait for them?"
Chen Zheng didn't want to pay attention to it, but after seeing the pleading looks of the four subordinates, he still raised his hand to pull the rope and slowed down.
Naturally, he was not afraid of Teng Qilong's appearance, but the four subordinates were obviously very scruples about him, for fear of offending each other.
After all, with Teng Qilong's family background and the means to deal with Ying Zong, how can Chai Tiefeng be afraid of a few petty officials?
However, it was already very easy to get lost in the heavy snow, and the speed was not fast, and with Chen Zheng's consent, their team also slowed down.
Then, as the snow fell heavier and heavier, there was a white expanse everywhere, and the four fields of heaven and earth were indistinguishable, and the road became more and more difficult.
Fortunately, Chang Qing has been to Liangshan County a few times, and he can be regarded as an old horse who knows the way, stopping and stopping all the way to discern the direction.
It wasn't until near evening that the crowd had made less than half the way.
However, with the guidance of Evergreen, they found an abandoned inn to settle down in before dark, avoiding the trouble of sleeping in the snow and on a snowy night.
By the time they arrived at the abandoned inn in the midst of darkness and nightfall, there were already people inside.
Teng Qilong's horse team was still a mile or two away, and when Chen Zheng came to the outside of the post station wall, he saw a faint fire shining through the broken doors and windows inside.
Now he is not what he used to be, he is naturally fearless, and immediately turned over and dismounted, and led people into the hospital.
Then at a glance, I saw two unkempt and ragged figures looking through the broken doors and windows of the post station, looking in fear.
Chai Tiefeng's eyes swept away: "My lord, it seems to be a homeless person." ”
Chen Zheng stepped into the dilapidated post station, and then saw a small fire that was nearly extinguished, a dozen or so ragged and scrawny homeless people gathered around to keep warm, and even three or three women with children.
There were also a few stiff bodies lying on the other side, motionless, as if they had lost their breath.
Seeing Chen Zheng's group of freshly dressed and angry people coming in, the dozen or so homeless people who were warming were terrified to the extreme, and shrank into the corner.
One of the middle-aged men who looked like the leader, dressed in coarse cloth and skinny, asked in a trembling voice:
"Few, how many masters, who are you?"
"The government official is on a business trip!"
Chang Qing stepped forward, looked at it and asked:
"Who are you?"
As soon as he heard the official errand, a kind of homeless person was even more afraid, and the leading man trembled:
"Return, go back to the master, we were originally tenants in Lianshan Town near here, some time ago, horse bandits plundered villages and towns, up to the landlords and down to us, the peasant households, and most of the homes were looted.
We grass people had no surplus food in their homes, and they were looted by this time, and there was no way to live, and two or three hundred of them starved to death and froze to death in a few days.
But today there was a sudden heavy snowfall, and our family members were frozen to death on the road, so we couldn't catch the road, so we took shelter from the wind and snow at this post station for a night, and left early tomorrow morning, and asked a few masters to answer......"
Two or three hundred people died of freezing and starvation......
The appearance of these people is obviously not fake, so many panicked and pleading eyes are projected, Chen Zheng sighed in his heart:
"It's okay, just stay here."
As he spoke, he glanced at the fire that was about to be extinguished, and he turned to look at Chang Qing: "You said you brought some charcoal earlier?" ”
The weather is cold, and the wind and snow all the way, although the martial arts practitioner is physically strong and not very needed, Chang Qing is also very careful to prepare some charcoal before departure.
He immediately understood what Chen Zheng meant:
"What are you going to give them a little bit of?"
In the ice and snow, there was not much to make firewood in this abandoned post station, Chen Zheng nodded:
"Since we have met, let's give them some, we should be there tomorrow before dark, and it doesn't matter if we use less. There are also dry rations to carry, and the surplus is given to them a little more, so that they can last a little longer. ”
Knowing Chen Zheng's style, Chang Qing didn't say much, and after answering, he went out and took a leather bag from the horse, and then poured a pile of charcoal next to the fire where the group of homeless people were warming.
The other three had nothing else to say, and took out the dry food they had brought with them, divided a part into a bag, and handed it to them.
As if he didn't expect such a good official to have such a good official at all, a kind of inhuman-shaped homeless who was blue and hungry from the cold was all stunned, and then fell to his knees in ecstasy, and was grateful:
"Thank you, thank you, sir!"
"Salvation Heavenly Venerable bless, you are a great good person, you will live a long life, and your children and grandchildren will be full!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, Xiaomin has kowtowed to you!"
The sound of banging kowtow was endless, and Chen Zheng waved his hand:
"All right, get up, don't kneel. Otherwise, I'll take it all back! ”
As soon as these words came out, all the homeless people were a spirit, and they immediately got up and stopped kowtowing.
In such a world, there is only so much that can be done, Chen Zheng no longer paid attention to these people, waved his hand and led people to another corner to settle down.
As for the homeless people, they didn't care about thanking them, and immediately the leader began to distribute dry food, and brought back a handful of snow from outside, and used snow water to gobble up the dry food.
Chen Zheng and the others carried fine dry food, and they were all dried meat, and these homeless people seemed to have never eaten such good food in their lives, and even cried with joy while eating.
Chen Zheng glanced at it and then retracted his gaze, and couldn't help but think of Ge Tiandao.
The Guangwu Heavenly Dynasty has been in decay and turmoil for 1,800 years.
Although there are terrible existences in this world that harm people's lives, corrupt officials and cruel officials, landlords and powerful landlords, horse bandits and thieves, none of the scourges are less harmful.
Just like the villages and towns where this group of homeless people lived, a single raid by horse bandits can cause hundreds of people to die of starvation, and even more so to the evil spirits.
If the original Heavenly Dao and Dao Master Lu Weixian could succeed, I don't know if the world would be different now.
Just in the middle of the thoughts.
There was a sound of horses' hooves and neighing, and it was obvious that Teng Qilong, who was in the rear, finally arrived at this foothold with a group of followers.
The homeless people who were gobbling up were stunned for a while, and after a period of noise, a gust of wind and snow came from outside the door, and they saw Teng Qilong dressed in a big hat, and the stars and the moon stepped in with the attendant of the maids.
However, as soon as he entered, he saw the circle of homeless people gathered around the corner, and he was stunned for a moment.
Then, with extreme disgust in his eyes, he coldly commanded behind him:
"Where do you get so many mud-legged pariahs here? Wu Da, Wu Er, throw them all out to me! ”