Volume 3: Evil Ghosts Eat People Chapter 169: Pleasant Beating
The road is long and the sky is high and the land is vast.
Within a few days, Xu Zun and others had passed through Changqing City and entered the territory of Yonghui.
Yonghui County is quite special in that it has a vast area, larger than any other counties in Tangzhou.
However, he has the fewest counties under his jurisdiction because the area is vast and sparsely populated, the soil is barren, and apart from the steep mountains and plateaus, it is not very suitable for living.
Moreover, this place is connected to Hanzhou in the upper part, Xiazhou in the lower part, and Shuzhou in the southeast. It is almost entirely desolate on all sides, forming a gray area where no one is in charge.
Even though it is under the jurisdiction of Tangzhou, the province is far away and the control over this place is not smooth.
What’s even more interesting is that although this place is an important road from Xiazhou to Beijing, there are no large troops stationed here and no military fortresses have been built.
The reason for this is that although Xiazhou is known for its wildness, it has been peaceful and stable for many years, and the Daxuan Iron Cavalry is stationed there, so there will be no loss.
Another reason is that this place is very close to the Hanzhou border garrison. If there is a war, troops can also be transferred from Hanzhou.
In addition, there is another most important reason, that is, Yonghui is too poor, and the cost of stationing troops here is too high.
It is said that there was not even a city built where Yonghui County Government was located. Instead, there were many houses built along the river bank, which looked more like a huge market.
Fortunately, Yonghui County still has three rivers passing through it. If these water veins were gone, it would probably be abandoned sooner or later.
At this moment, Xu Zun's convoy was traveling on the road. In order to better understand the situation, Xu Zun asked the eight guards to change into ordinary clothes and pretend to be traveling merchants.
In addition, Xu Zun also sent two guards to Yonghui early to gather intelligence so that he could be prepared.
"Sir..." Zhao Yu asked while holding a few pieces of paper in Xu Zun's new carriage, "Tell me again, what is this thing called?"
"J," Xu Zun introduced, "J, Q, K, now the two of us are farmers, Huo Anu is the landlord, we have to fight her!"
It turned out that Xu Zun had some free time on the road and made a deck of playing cards, and was teaching the two of them how to play Landlord.
" Why do we have to fight Landlord?" Huo Anu was surprised. "Besides, I'm not a landlord. My family doesn't even have any land!"
"It's not real Landlord, it's playing cards. Do you know how to play cards?" Xu Zun introduced. "You are the landlord, so you play first. I have just taught you the rules!"
"Sir," Zhao Yu said, looking at the playing cards in his hand, "what do these two ghosts mean?"
"Oh my god," Xu Zun peeked over and saw Zhao Yu holding two kings. He immediately frowned and said, "You can't do this. Two kings must be called. You have to be the local lord."
"Me? I can't be one," Zhao Yu waved his hand, "It would be more like inheriting my father's fortune!"
call……
Xu Zun slapped his forehead and said helplessly:
"Or, let's just play poker!"
"Hey?" Zhao Yu suddenly remembered something and took out the dice from his pocket. "I have some dice here. How about we play dice?"
"No, no, no," Huo Anu waved his hand, "I don't gamble!"
"Okay," Xu Zun realized that he couldn't teach these two people, so he put away the cards and said depressedly, "Then what should we do?"
"How about... drinking some wine?" Zhao Yu said, "I bought a jar of good wine from Changqing City. Would you like to try it?"
Xu Zun shook his head, indicating that he was not interested.
"Sir, sir..." Zhao Yu said again, "How about we chat? Tell us what happened to that Yuanzhou woman? Why did you insist on letting her follow us?"
"Haven't we talked about this?" Xu Zun said casually, "Keep an eye on her these days. It's no secret that we're taking her to Yonghui. I always feel like someone will come to save her!"
"That's exactly what I want, isn't it?" Zhao Yu clenched his fists, "I was just worried about not being able to find any clues!"
"Sir," Huo Anu interrupted, "We left in a hurry and forgot to say hello to Hong Gu. That girl also knows a lot of Xuanmen secrets. We should take her with us."
Xu Zun shook his head: "I have thought about this problem, but Hong Gu is still just a child, we should not let her take risks with us.
"Don't worry, I have left a letter for Taimin, asking him to temporarily leave Hong Gu in the county government for protection, just in case."
"Oh, that's good..." Huo Anu was relieved.
However, this foreign girl always had a worried look on her face. Ever since she knew that Shen Qian might be the mastermind behind the Iron Coffin Case, she has been looking worried.
After all, she and Shen Qian are very close friends, and she doesn't want Shen Qian to go astray at all.
"It's too stuffy here," Huo Anu said, picking up the iron umbrella and lifting the car curtain, "I'm going outside to get some fresh air!"
After saying this, she whistled to attract her mount, then jumped onto the horse and rode away.
"This hot girl," Zhao Yu looked at Xu Zun with a playful look, and said, "Are you still angry with the adults? I told you long ago that she was fine, but you insisted on letting me monitor her."
"Don't worry about her for now, tell me about yourself!" Xu Zun said, "The last time I met with Cai Kun, he didn't tell me that you were an internal guard!"
"What?" Zhao Yu's face suddenly changed. "You asked him? You can't do this. Isn't this the same as betraying me?"
"Still pretending!" Xu Zun threatened, "You are not even an inner guard, and you are trying to scare me?"
"Sir, what do you mean?" Zhao Yu quickly defended himself, "I really didn't lie, I really am an internal guard, just a half-baked internal guard, not a professional one!
"Huh? Impossible? If you really asked Cai Kun, he shouldn't deny it. I had already shown him the token at that time!"
"Alright, alright," Xu Zun said with narrowed eyes, "I'm just teasing you! You look so nervous, are you hiding something?"
"Oh, look at what you said," Zhao Yu said awkwardly, "How can you just talk about things like the inner guards? If things go wrong, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor. Don't scare me like this in the future..."
"Ah, it's a bit stuffy here," Xu Zun stretched and said while lying on the seat, "I'd better take a nap. You can go out now!"
"Okay, okay..." Zhao Yu smacked his lips hard, then lifted the curtain and walked out of the carriage.
However, he did not have a warhorse that could hear a whistle, so he simply sat next to the guard driving the carriage and chatted with him about the mountains.
Xu Zun lay in the carriage and smiled helplessly.
In fact, he did not ask Cai Kun whether Zhao Yu was an internal guard.
The reason why he didn't ask was very simple, that is - he forgot to ask!
Everything Cai Kun told him at that time surprised and amazed him, so how could he think of asking about Zhao Yu?
So, it's quite pleasant to use this joke to criticize Zhao Yu now.
For some reason, even though Xu Zun believed that Zhao Yu was indeed an internal guard, he still felt that he had not told the truth about something.
What Xu Zun didn't know was that although Zhao Yu was chatting with the guards in a serious manner, cold sweat had already seeped out of his forehead...
