I, seal everything

Chapter 24 Exchange and Surprise

"Brother Zheng, what's wrong?"

Hearing this, He Daming couldn't help being a little puzzled:

"This bastard followed us into the mountain, plotted a sneak attack, and plotted against the law. Even according to the canon, it is a punishment of three swords and six holes. Madam will never blame her if she knows it. Why should we cover it up?"

"Stupid!"

Wu San immediately retorted:

"That Xu Jiehu is different from us. He is one of Qi Gang's capable generals, and he is very popular with him. Madam will definitely not blame us if the matter spreads, but Qi Gang is different!"

Chen Zheng nodded and said:
"That's right, the church is not a place to be in the limelight. Maybe no one will blame this matter on the surface, but it's hard to say whether someone will vent their anger. There's no need to ask for trouble."

Everyone has lived in the stronghold for a long time, and they all know how powerful they are, so they nodded involuntarily:
"Understood, Brother Zheng."

"We will definitely not talk nonsense outside."

There was nothing to say next, the three of them rested for a while, and finally felt the numbness in their bodies gradually subside.

At this moment, the sun was starting to set in the west. Under Chen Zheng's arrangement, everyone first went to bury Xu Jiehu's body hastily.

Burial is not a kindness, it is simply to bury the corpse and wipe out the traces, so as to avoid being discovered prematurely by other hunting teams entering the mountain.

As for whether or not there would be wild beasts smelling the smell and digging out the corpses to feed their hunger, Chen Zheng couldn't control it.

After doing this, everyone picked up the prey that had been bundled before and started their return journey.

Because of poor physical condition, they had to abandon one prey and only brought three wolves and one bear.

But even so, this trip home is extremely difficult, even more difficult than the first time returning to the mountains.

Walking and resting along the way, everyone worked hard for more than an hour, and finally returned to the stronghold when it was dark.

After returning to the small courtyard to lay down their prey, the four of them, including Chen Zheng, were exhausted, hungry and thirsty.

Dragging their exhausted bodies, Wu San and the others hastily lit a fire, skinned and deboned a wolf, and roasted it on top of the fire.

In less than half an hour, the roasted wolf meat was full of oily aroma, and Wu San sent the fattest hind leg, and Chen Zheng ate it without saying a word.

The meat quality of carnivores is far inferior to that of herbivores and omnivores, but perhaps because they are so hungry, Chen Zheng unexpectedly felt that this tasteless wolf hind leg was quite delicious.

Including the other three, they also seemed to be reincarnated from starvation, and their food was full of oil.

In the end, the stomach was filled as quickly as possible, and Chen Zheng didn't have the energy to cook other prey, so he let others go back and deal with it tomorrow.

After the three of them left, he was finally free and returned to the bedroom to rest completely.

The oil lamp was not lit, and the moonlight shone in through the window paper outside the window. Chen Zheng sat cross-legged on the bed, and drew out his own knife.

There are gaps all over the blade, which shows how fierce the fight between Lin Jian and Xu Jiehu was.

"This knife is useless, I have to go to the Internal Affairs Hall to get another one."

Chen Zheng's heart suddenly moved:
"Or, seal it?"

After the Emperor's Jade Letter was sealed, the quality of this ordinary mortal iron long knife would inevitably be greatly improved, and it would become a sharp weapon for blowing hair and cutting hair.

And a sharp weapon can significantly improve the strength of a warrior.

However, Chen Zheng thought for a while, and decided to hold back for now.

It's still the same sentence, it's a crime to be pregnant.

The sword is a commonly used weapon, if a precious sword is really sealed, it will inevitably be exposed to the eyes of others.

In this ghost place, if other congregants and even the people above find out that he has an extra precious sword for no reason, it is simply asking for trouble.

"Five quarters of Heavenly Skill, ten quarters away from the imperial seal of "Tianmu Formation Technique", I don't know when we will be able to get it all together."

"You can't blindly accumulate. You must transform in time to improve your strength. It is best to upgrade to visceral training as soon as possible. In case of any danger, you will have more protection."

"After you've mastered the viscera, you can be regarded as a master in this stronghold, then you can consider leaving this ghost place."

The night passed in the blink of an eye.

Early the next morning, Zhao Wu, Wu San and three others came to the door to help Chen Zheng prepare the remaining untreated prey.

The blind bear, which was neither big nor small, was skinned and cut up, and divided among four people.

As for the two wolves, they were sent to the Foreign Affairs Hall intact, and weighed 180 catties together, which was included in the additional tasks.

Counting the previous 240 catties, the team completed a total of 420 catties of tasks, nearly one-third.

After going to the Foreign Affairs Hall, Chen Zheng went directly to the Internal Affairs Hall, and after getting a brand new knife, he proposed to the steward, Gu Liangsheng, that he wanted to exchange for a jar of wine.

In exchange, he offered a pair of bear paws as a gift to the other party.

Even if the value of a pair of bear's paws is exchanged for ten jars of good wine, it is enough, not to mention that the wine in the stronghold is just the most common grain wine. kosher salt.

After returning home with two jars of wine, Chen Zheng brewed bear liver and gallbladder with several herbs picked from the mountains according to the experience handed down by Zhao Wu's family.

In order to prevent someone from breaking into the empty door while he was away, he buried the wine jar in a corner of the yard to prevent it from being stolen.

After dealing with these chores, it was already afternoon, and during this period of time, the stronghold was calm, and it seemed that no one had noticed Xu Jiehu's disappearance.

Chen Zheng didn't care about this, and stayed in his small courtyard with peace of mind, studying hard and practicing hard, sweating.

Until the morning of the third day when Chen Zheng and others came back.

"Ok?"

In the foreign affairs hall, Qi Gang, the envoy, sat at the main seat, looking at a senior congregation who came to report with an unhappy expression:
"You said that Xu Jiehu didn't show up for two days in a row, and he wasn't at the residence? Doesn't this idiot know that I'm looking for him?"

Xu Jiehu belongs to the personnel stationed in the village, and he happened to be resting on the mountain these few days; the high-level congregation was talking to Wang Kun, the chore instructor who was in charge of the drills of the low-level congregation on the mountain. He also said with a puzzled look:
"My lord, my subordinates really don't know. I asked around, and no one saw him yesterday. Only in the early morning of the day before yesterday, some congregants patrolling the mountain seemed to have seen him go down the mountain alone. It's just that It seems like I never came back.”

"Go down the mountain alone and never come back?"

Qi Gang frowned, faintly feeling something was wrong, and suddenly got up:

"Go and see where he lives!"

Without further ado, Wang Kun led the way respectfully and went down to the mountain road in a short while, before coming to the area where the senior congregation lived.

Go straight to the No. [-] courtyard and push open the concealed courtyard door. There is a locked iron lock on the door of the main house inside, which shows that no one is inside.

Qi Gang stepped forward coldly, stretched out his hand and squeezed it.

Click!
I don't know what kind of terrifying power, it actually directly pinched the iron chain and broke it.

Pushing the door open and walking into the house, after a round of inspection, Qi Gangdang's expression changed slightly:
"No reason!"

(End of this chapter)