Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 202 Before Returning to Beijing (2)

The crowd and the giant snake circled around, and slowly formed a siege around the giant snake, but at this moment, the giant snake opened its bloody mouth and rushed towards Xu Qing.Everyone was shocked, and hurried back to protect Xu Qing, but the snake feinted, turned its head, swished its tail, and got into a dead vine next to it.

The withered vine was pierced by the snake, at this moment Huang Shimei shouted: "Xu Qing, isn't this the cave!"

Xu Qing looked around, although the trees were withered, but if he looked closely, he could see that the terrain was still the same.It really is the place where the cave is, Xu Qing couldn't help but secretly rejoice, didn't it mean that there must be strange beasts guarding the treasure next to it, such a giant snake lives in this cave, is it possible that those strange fragments are really something extraordinary?
Xu Qing sent two people back to rescue the fainted man, and the rest piled some firewood at the entrance of the cave, and lit the smoke to force the snake out.

The fire was blazing, and the pile of firewood was burnt out, and the two people who left also came back with the fainted person on their backs.After taking a sip of water, the man woke up leisurely, muttering, where is the snake?What about snakes?
Huang Shimei sighed, and said that this person was frightened, and she wanted someone to summon his soul to stop the frightening, otherwise he would become a fool in the future.

The man was still talking, I recognize this snake, it's called the Red Flower Python, luckily it's gone, otherwise it would be a big trouble.

Someone comforted him and said, what's the trouble, there are so many of us!It was beaten to half life.

Hearing this, the man was not happy but surprised and said: You injured it, and you still haven't killed it?
What's so scary, isn't it just surrounded here now?Hehe... Everyone started laughing, but the frightened person still looked terrified.

Xu Qing looked at it and felt bad. He stared at the hole, and when everyone was laughing, he saw a tongue sticking out of the hole.The tip of the tongue is forked, it is snake, but it is different from the previous one, this tongue is jet black, not scarlet.

Another snake!

The people noticed the abnormality and quickly stopped talking and joking. The person lying down said that usually two snakes live together. The one just now was a female, and there must be a male within a few hundred meters!
Male snakes are fiercer, more violent, more fierce, not only that, male snakes are also very poisonous!

"boom!"

Hearing that it was highly poisonous, Xu Qingguo disconnected the gun!One shot hit and knocked back the snake's head that had just been exposed.There are shotguns in the gun, which can peel off a layer of skin under the snake's head, but it can't hurt its root.

Sure enough, the male snake came out again, and the female snake came out together. The female snake was dying, but still fearsome.The male snake's head was bright red, not because of Xu Qing's shot, but because it was furious!
When Xu Qing saw him, his subordinates would not be merciful, and shot him again, peeling off another layer of skin on the top of his head.However, it is still not dead!
There were a lot of embers of firewood at the entrance of the cave. Two big snakes twisted and moved the snake body, "squeaked" in the ashes, and then shrank back.Seeing that he couldn't crawl, he got ready and stood up.Xu Qing and the others were startled, the snake was taller than all of them standing up!

This snake is going to pounce!

Everyone had already prepared hand crossbows, and now they fired together, whizzing, swishing, after all, they were animals, and they didn't know how to dodge, and they were pierced by multiple arrows.

The male snake was the most frightening, so it was hit by the most arrows, and finally couldn't support it, and fell down with a thump, black blood flowed out of its mouth.

Naturally, the female snake could not escape death, and was chopped into seven or eight sections by everyone.The person who fainted was shocked, so he quickly asked Xu Qing, what was in his hand, how could it make thunder?Xu Qing smiled and said, I have thunderbolts in my hand, and I brought a few things from the Western Regions when I came from Chang'an.

Oh, it turned out to be something from the Western Regions!The people in the Western Regions are amazing, they can make such loud and noisy things.

Xu Qing felt relieved. Before he fired the gun, he actually put it in his sleeve. Everyone looked at the snake, and they couldn't clearly see the sound behind him.

Unfortunately, after entering the cave to search, only two snake skins and a nest of eggs with young snakes were found.It turned out that the two giant snakes had just shed their skins and hadn't eaten, so they were so weak. Otherwise, Xu Qing's five or six more shots would probably be useless.

As for the strange fragments, they seemed to have disappeared, and they couldn't find them after searching the cave.Xu Qing wondered if he saw it wrong at the beginning, but he asked Huang Shimei, and Huang Shimei said that she had seen it too, and it shouldn't be Xu Qing's own hallucination.

But where did things go?God only knows.Xu Qing had no choice but to find the fragments, and whether the fragments were related to that dream was just a guess.

Burn the body of the snake and go down the mountain.

About a month later, several people who followed Xu Qing died unexpectedly, and the family received a very generous pension.Xu Qing checked and found that it was Huang Shimei who did it secretly.When asked, Huang Shimei didn't argue, but said with tears in her eyes: I'm afraid they will hurt you by talking nonsense.

Xu Qing was silent, what Huang Shimei did seemed to be beyond reproach, but he didn't have the qualifications.

Suddenly, he thought of a person——Zhang Chunhua, this person may not be known to everyone, but her husband should be known to everyone—the old schemer Sima Yi.

At first Sima Yi was lying on the bed pretending to be sick, and one day when it rained heavily while drying the books, he couldn't hold back for a while, jumped up to save the books, and then was seen by the servants at home.

And this scene was seen by Zhang Chunhua again, so Zhang Chunhua, who was only in his teens at the time, took a sharp knife to kill the servant.From then on, every time there was a quarrel, Sima Yi always had to admit his mistake first, and also made an excuse to save the child's face.Sima Yi has defeated countless enemies in his life, and the only one who conceded defeat is his wife.

Huang Shimei is such a woman.

Shimei, I don't blame you.

No one can blame, either blame fate for arranging such a scene, or blame yourself for not having the strength to defeat fate.

This is something.

At this time, Xu Qing was still in a happy mood. Although he didn't find the piece of bullshit, he went out for a stroll, killed the snake again, and took a risk for fun.Especially when going down the mountain, I bumped into a silly roe deer, and I was caught immediately, and I got a barbecue.

Back home, Niu Chicao and others came to ask about the situation of returning to Beijing. They served in the state army, and they didn't know what they would do after Xu Qing left.

Niu Zhacao Wang Shan is Xu Qing's family general, so he naturally wants to follow Xu Qing, and the two young generals Chu Jiang Qitai don't know what to do.

Firstly, they wanted to follow the old master. Xu Qing's ability was obvious to all, and following him had a future and a bright future.Secondly, both of them are locals from Cangzhou. I heard that they are still talking about marriage with a certain daughter recently. They have feelings, and they are reluctant to let it go.

What should I do, I ask Governor Xu to show me.They both asked,
Xu Qing pondered for a while and said, Chujiang is good at sailing, and the people of Huanghua Port would not be as good without you.And the rest of the state soldiers also need to lead the army, Qi Tai, you are the most qualified.

Now that you are ready to settle down in Cangzhou, then don't run around, Chang'an is not good, it is better to be safe in Cangzhou.If you plan to get promoted in the future, it won't be too difficult for me to help you two get back together in Chang'an.

However, if this military officer wants to be promoted, he may be transferred to the frontier to kill the enemy. If he accidentally loses his arm or head, it would be bad if I said it.It's still better to be a general in Cangzhou and be a leader.

What Xu Qing said was reasonable, the two said to think about it, bowed their heads and went out.

There were two more, Xu Qing didn't know how to arrange them.Those are Han Zibang from the Commercial and Taxation Department, and Wei Xian from the Education Bureau. Wei Xian didn't reply to the "Disciple Regulations" last time. He might be an official, and Cui Shannan went with him. No one has heard from them.

That being the case, the position of steward of the Education Bureau should be changed to another person, but Xu Qing has no available generals.This matter needs to be discussed. After he leaves, it means that the state school will have no one to preside over it.

There is also Han Zibang. Up to now, he can be regarded as the lowest achievement among Xu Qing's disciples. He is not even a county magistrate, and he has no chance to go to the central government.At this last moment, no matter what, he must find a way to promote him, so as not to say that one is favoritism than another.

It was night, just when the cattle were grazing, Wang Shan was there, so he stayed for a light meal, and Xu Qing cooked the kitchen himself.

After dinner, Xiaoyue came to Xu Qing with a stack of account books.

"Master, here is the living money of the mansion, and here is the solid property of the mansion. These are to be returned to the government, and these are what we can take from the official warehouse... Uh, this part is what you said, young master... "

After hearing this, Xu Qing didn't take it seriously, and was too lazy to read the notebook, so she asked Xiaoyue to tell the truth.

Xiaoyue continued: "Master, your private property, ten shops facing the street, and Yanshan, there are also some properties in the counties, the stock in the warehouse in Guantian Village, and the dowry brought by Shimei, It is also our family's private property. If we sell it all, we can get 8 taels of silver..."

"For a magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, [-] snowflake silver, [-] is barely enough for me..." Xu Qing took a sip of tea. His money was either from the common people, from Liaodong, or from a family that robbed him.

Xu Qing thought for a while and then said: "Don't move Shimei's dowry, don't sell the shops on Yanshan and the street, and sell the rest."

"That's less than 5 taels of silver," Xiaoyue replied.

"5 taels, it's a huge sum of money in the hands of ordinary people, but it's still an upright official in my hands." Xu Qing laughed at himself, but still said: "Those good medicinal materials, jewelry and jade in the warehouse Let's sell what can be sold, if you don't take it for nothing..."

"Okay, we only have the ones in the governor's mansion, the Changping warehouse and the outer warehouse, which belong to the common people, and we don't take them." Xiaoyue also held the account book and smirked: "I did the math, if I can sell these things, I already have 7 taels of silver."

After hugging Xiaoyue, Xu Qing said: "I don't know what's going on in Luonan, so I sent [-] silver to Luonan on the dry road. [-] was given to Anhe and the others, and the rest was picked up to complete our tour." dream."

Xiaoyue was slightly surprised: "Ah, isn't there still 2 taels? Just pick it up like this?!"

"Hehehe, then we can buy whatever we want," Xu Qing said with a smile, "Xiaoyue, let's go to Nanpi tomorrow, shall we?"

"Nanpi?" Xiaoyue poked her head out of Xu Qing's chest and asked in doubt.

"Yes, I have only been to Nanpi once when I came to Cangzhou," Xu Qing said, "It was the time we came, and we left this time. I don't know when we will come. Go back and see how Nanpi is under my management. What's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)