Chapter 40: Little bandits are happy

Chen Qingfeng screamed, and then two people rushed out of the wing room, both of whom were bare-handed, carrying a box cannon with a large nose in his hand, rolling on the spot for cover, as quick as a leopard, they were Chen Zikun's two horsemen. After all, they were old soldiers in their thirties and forties. The tactical movements were simply too experienced.

Chen Zikun jumped out immediately, but he didn't come out of the door, but jumped out of the window, and went into the room with a flashlight. He shone around with a high place. Except for the leaves that swing in the wind, there was no trace of a person.

The Chief of Staff and the Adjutant also left the house. Zhao Yufeng drank a lot today, and his drunken eyes couldn't even open. He yawned and said, "What are you howling?"

Chen Qingfeng pointed to the ground tremblingly and said nothing. Yan Su went over with a lantern and looked at it, and was shocked and said, "Whose footprints?"

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

"I went to the cottage and walked around the pool again." The little orderly answered timidly.

Chen Zikun searched along this line with a flashlight, and there were no suspicious traces except for the footprints left by Chen Qingfeng.

At this time, the lights in Jianbing and Yao Yilei's room were also on. Originally, these two enemies could not live in the same house, but considering the relationship between the haunted house, the two had to give up their past grudges and keep warm. At this time, when they heard the movement outside, they came out to check, but Chen Zikun shouted back.

The yard was quiet, and Lao Wang and Li held up the box cannon high and were ready for battle. The moonlight shone on the ground, and it was bright. In a blink of an eye, it was hidden behind the clouds. The yard was dark. Chen Zikun asked, "Did everyone hear the strange sound just now?"

"I heard it, it seemed like a cat's meow." Yan Su said.

"Like a girl crying." Wang Degui said.

Zhao Yufeng was creepy and his hands were trembling.

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

The wells in the back house of the county government were drilled in the Ming Dynasty. It was a long time ago. During the 1911 period, a little wife of the Nantai County Magistrate jumped into the well and died. The wells always give people a mysterious and gloomy feeling, especially on such a haunted night.

Everyone was worried, fearing that evil ghosts would suddenly pop out of the well.

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

Nothing was found, but the bloody footprints were inexplicable. Everyone went back to sleep with deep fear. It was a big deal to say whether they could fall asleep.

The next morning, Chen Qingfeng hurried over. Chen Zikun was doing push-ups on the ground. Seeing the little orderly soldier so panicked, he jumped up and said, "What's the matter?"

"That bandit..."

"Dead?"

"No, I'm alive."

Chen Zikun went to check it out in person and saw the boy lying in the corridor, his complexion was much better than yesterday. He touched his forehead and the fever subsided, but his injuries were severe and he couldn't get up.

"What's your name?" Chen Zikun asked.

"My name is Shuangxi." The young man said, and he looked around and asked back, "Where is this?"

"This is Nantai County Government." Chen Qingfeng answered him.

Shuangxi trembled for a moment, as if she was very scared.

"Go and serve a bowl of porridge." Chen Zikun ordered, squatting in front of Shuangxi and continuing to ask him: "How old is this year?"

“Seventeen.”

"Why do you become a bandit?"

The boy's eyes darkened, he lowered his head and said, "My father and mother are gone, so I can't eat."

"Have you ever killed someone?" Chen Zikun asked again.

"No." Shuangxi's answers were very short. Although he didn't know what the shirtless young man in front of him did, his intuition told him that this man had no malice.

Chen Zikun sighed and murmured: "Officials force the people to rebel."

Chen Qingfeng came over with a bowl of porridge. When Shuangxi saw it, his eyes were straightened. This was a bowl of porridge made from white rice! The legendary white rice! Every grain of rice is so full and shiny and extremely attractive. Even the juren in the county town cannot eat such excellent white rice at home.

Shuangxi's tears fell into the bowl, and she was sobbing that she couldn't speak. He only remembered that he followed the brigade to attack the camp in the dark. Suddenly the lights were bright and nothing could be seen. Then someone shouted to run away. Later, it seemed that he had come to the heaven in his dream, saw the fairy, and then he was in the county government. It was obvious that he was captured by the government army, but he treated himself and gave him white rice porridge, which was not as good as a prisoner.

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

Chen Zikun nodded and patted Shuangxi on the shoulder: "Eat slowly, don't be anxious, hot." After that, he got up and left.

Shuangxi still couldn't help but cry. Since her mother died, no one has been so kind to her, even her closest third brother is no exception.

Returning to the second hall, Liu Youjin smiled and said, "Empression, how did you rest last night?"

Chen Zikun said: "It's not very 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, "Is there anything wrong with anyone?"

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

County Magistrate Liu breathed a sigh of relief: "Good luck, what are you planning for the Guard? Why should I find a Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts?"

Chen Zikun said: "Okay, I am a man who is born to be unbearable. I want to see some demons and monsters who dare to act wildly on my head."

County Mayor Liu said: "I heard that the family of Mr. Zhang in the county is not clean. After he hired a Taoist priest Yunyou to do the Dharma, it was peaceful. The Taoist priest was still in the county, so why would I invite him?"

Chen Zikun said: "Then I will have to do anything to the county magistrate."

"Don't be polite, I'm responsible for my own affairs." Without further ado, County Magistrate Liu immediately went to look for the Taoist priest. Chen Zikun went back to the back house and found Yan Su and asked, "How is it? Have you found out what you found?"

Yan Su shook his head: "There is nothing, and the blood footprints have disappeared. It's really weird."

Chen Zikun said: "County Magistrate Liu's performance is also very strange. He is a well-read intellectual. He actually believes that Taoist priests are doing the devil. I don't think he wants me to live here. The more he does this, the more I want to live here."

As they were talking, a scream suddenly came. The two of them ran over to see that Jian Bing fainted on the ground, and there were also a series of shocking bloody footprints behind him!

Chen Zikun hurriedly helped Jian Bing up and pinched the person. After a while, he recovered. Seeing clearly that it was Chen Zikun who was holding him, he burst into tears: "Alla, don't live in the wing!"

Yao Yilei ran out when she heard the movement and saw the bloody footprints appear again. She was also frightened and said tremblingly: "It's really not clean here, so let's move it away."

Chen Zikun turned around and saw a cross hanging around her neck and a statue of the Bodhisattva in her arms. He laughed silently: "Which god did you invite?"

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

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

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

"Where have you been?" Chen Zikun asked.

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

Suddenly Chen Qingfeng ran in and said, "Master General, the security team leader Qiu, greet him."

Chen Zikun said: "Chief of Staff, I'll leave the matter to you. I'll go and do some business." Then he brought the orderly soldiers to the second hall. County Magistrate Liu moved out from here with a very tactful attitude and went to Guanyi office. The second hall of the county government is now the Jiangbei Guardian Envoy Office.

The security commander Qiu Fuzhao stood respectfully in the yard. When he saw Chen Zikun arrive, he stood at attention and said, "Report!" Although the salute is not very standard, it has a bit of a military flavor.

Chen Zikun said: "What's the matter with Captain Qiu?"

Qiu Fuzhaodao: "I am here to recommend people."

"Oh, who is the person?" Chen Zikun was very puzzled.

"When I mention the bandits, didn't you capture more than a dozen bandits alive and lock them up in the county jail?"

"Yes, what did you mention them?" Chen Zikun wondered even more. The bandits were caught by themselves, so why did the security team bring people up instead?

Qiu Fuzhao smiled flatteringly and said, "I'll behead you." He also made a gesture of cutting vegetables.

Chen Zikun was furious: "It's ridiculous. Do you understand that the execution will be tried? Besides, I'm arresting these bandits, what does it have to do with your security team?"

Seeing Chen Zikun getting angry, Qiu Fuzhao suddenly panicked and said hurriedly: "Stop the anger of the Guardian, Mr. Xia sent a low-ranking position to raise people. Yesterday, the bandit Chen Shou came to harass him. Mr. Xia wanted to borrow a few heads to give them some colors, but he did not intend to compete with the Guardian."

Chen Zikun said: "You go back and tell Mr. Xia that I, Chen Zikun, have my own rules in doing things, and you cannot do anything randomly, especially when human life is at stake, let alone kill me. I will interrogate these bandits myself and make a decision. You go."

"Yes!" Qiu Fuzhao saluted and went back.

Chen Zikun asked the orderly soldiers to call the company commander of the guard sent by Chen Tiaoyuan and told him bluntly: "Brothers, thank you for your hard work. Each of them gives you three dollars to drink, and there is another hundred oceans to reward you."

The company commander said happily: "Thank you, the guardian."

This company commander is not a fool, Chen Tiaoyuan is not a direct lineman, and the troops under Xu Hai's commander are not very rich and well-off. Ordinary big-headed soldiers are paid six yuan a month, of which three are food expenses, and only three yuan is the company commander's military salary is not high, only fifty yuan. Chen Zikun made a generous offer and rewarded the soldiers with one month's military salary, and also rewarded the company commander with one hundred yuan alone, so he naturally wanted him.

"Empression, if you have any instructions, just give me a word in the water and fire." The company commander patted his chest and said.

Chen Zikun said: "You have also seen the situation of Nantai. I have money and guns under my command, but I have no soldiers, so I have to rely on my brothers for a while."

The company commander who had just swore was hesitant and hesitated: "It's okay to say something else, this matter... We are soldiers of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Jiangsu Army. If the party changes, Marshal Chen will never spare the young one. It would be a big deal for the young one to live, but the whole family is in Xuzhou."

Chen Zikun laughed: "You, Mr. Chen, are sworn brothers, how could you cheat his soldiers? I mean, you stay here for a few more days and set me on the posture. It won't take long. I'll just write a letter to Mr. Chen to explain, right?"

The company commander thought that Chen Tiaoyuan didn't explain when he was about to come. It would be okay to stay here for two more days, so he stomped his feet and said, "The guards make you so righteous, I can't ignore it, so let's do it."

Chen Zikun sent him back with a smile, but was thinking in his mind that Chen Tiaoyuan's army was useless and could only be used to scare people. These people could not really work hard for him. If they want to gain a foothold in Nantai County, they had to recruit their own direct troops.
Chapter completed!