Six Gods

Chapter 50
Two days later

"According to what you say, let's stay here first?" Song Ning, who finally broke free from weakness, asked with her thin eyebrows after receiving the hot towel from Xiang Yuan.

"This is the best choice for us at the moment." Picking up the fried dough stick with two fingers and putting it into his mouth, Xiang Yuan puffed his cheeks and said:
"First of all, we are all newcomers, and we don't have enough experience in dealing with ghosts. If we rashly enter a ghost-hit area like Wancheng, it's easy to get trapped and it's too dangerous.

Xiadu is currently the place where the ghost disaster is the shallowest in the Liaohe area.

Let's accumulate experience here first, and then it's not too late to go to places like Wancheng.

For things like military merit, you still have to save your life to come in handy. "

Feeling that Xiang Yuan's analysis was well-founded, Song Ning nodded and agreed to the plan.

"Eat breakfast first, and in the afternoon, let's visit the local yamen." Looking up, he poured a bowl of sweet soy milk into his mouth, and glanced at Song Ning's untouched bowl of salty soy milk , muttered in a low voice.

"Salty soy milk is heresy..."

……

After lunch, Xiangyuan Songning, who tidied up his clothes, took the wooden note and came to the east of the city according to Fan Guchun's previous instructions, and found the Mito tea stall located at the entrance of a wide alley.

Under the blue and white shade cloth propped up by two bamboo poles, five tea tables were polished.

In front of the tea stall, a large pot was supported, and five or six cages were sitting on it. In the steaming white mist, there was the scent of dim sum buns.

"Guest officers, would you like some tea?"

The owner of the tea stall is not tall, with a dark yellow skin, some drooping eyes, small but shrewd, and a pair of blue and black linen short shirts with two or three patches, making him look a bit simple.

"Don't drink tea, does the shopkeeper recognize this?" He spread his right hand, revealing the wooden note left by Fan Guchun, and asked Xiang Yuan softly.

Seeing the wooden note, the owner of the tea stall's eyes froze for a moment, but he soon returned to his previous smile: "Who are you two?"

"No need to ask, just lead the way."

Without answering the tea stall owner's question, Xiang Yuan's voice was low, showing a bit of impatience.

Seeing Xiang Yuan's expression of displeasure, the owner of the tea stall quickly apologized and said with a smile:
"My lord calm down.

Liu Shan, take the two of you to the house to pick up the snacks you ordered earlier. "

Laughing a couple of times, the owner of the tea stand shouted back, and a boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old rubbed his sleepy eyes and came out from behind the tea stand, muttering.

Seeing the boy's sleepy look, the tea stand owner raised his head and kicked the boy's ass:
"Come on, these two are distinguished guests, don't neglect."

He bit heavily on the word "guest", and the boy was woken up by the boss's kick. Hearing the boss's meaningless words, he nodded quickly: "I know, I know."

Under the guidance of the young man, Xiang Yuan and Song Ning walked into the wide alley behind the tea stand.

Leading Xiang Yuan and Song Ning forward, the young man turned his head from time to time to peek at the two behind him.

Sensing the young man's gaze, Xiang Yuan's expression moved, and he suddenly stepped forward with a thick arm, clamping the young man's neck: "Little guy, why are you always looking at us!"

Clamped by Xiang Yuan's arm, the boy struggled hard.

But the arm around his neck was like a steel bar made of refined iron, and it couldn't be shaken at all.

"I didn't... I'm just curious, are you like Master Fan and the others, are... masters."

Blushing, the boy tried his best to explain.

Hearing this explanation, Xiang Yuan smiled and let go of his arms. He also knew that the young man was just curious and was just teasing him:

"You guessed it right, we are experts like Fan Guchun, you are good to lead the way, if you miss a big deal, you can ask me."

Frightened by Xiang Yuan, the young man didn't dare to look around anymore, so he quickened his pace and brought Xiang Yuan and Song Ning to the gate of a deep courtyard at the end of Kuan Alley.

The deep courtyard is surrounded by a brick fence with a height of two people, and there are rows of square holes at the height of one person.

On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were pasted two pieces of Double Happiness letters that had turned yellow. It looked like it had been there for quite some time.

There was only one knocker left on the maroon gate, and the bright red door couplet was torn to pieces.

A gust of wind blew in the alley, the corners of Song Ning's mouth twitched slightly, and he turned to look at Xiang Yuan beside him:
"This is Xiadu's guardian yamen?"

Looking at the courtyard in front of him that looked like a civilian residence, Xiang Yuan was also a little dumbfounded.

"Maybe it's to better hide our identity. After all, guarding the yamen sounds high-ranking, but we are a hidden organization after all.

If you really come up with a majestic appearance, wouldn't it be known to the world. "

No matter what, they have already reached the door, and there is no way to go back.

Xiang Yuan stepped forward and lightly knocked on the courtyard door knocker.

Tuk tuk, tuk tuk!
"coming."

Hearing this reply, Xiang Yuan waved to Song Ning.

Creaking, the courtyard door opened, and Fan Guchun's face appeared in front of Xiang Yuan and Song Ning.

"Brother Xiang? Please come in quickly." Seeing Xiang Yuan coming at the appointment, Fan Guchun looked very happy, and quickly walked into the yard to meet Xiang Yuan and the others.

Walking into the yard, Xiang Yuan looked around. On the left side of the small yard, there were some martial arts training stakes and stone locks, while on the right side, there were scattered piles of household sundries and a well.

From the looks of the whole courtyard, there is no trace of the Yaoman Mansion guarding the yamen, it is completely an ordinary or even a bit simple dwelling.

Seeing the slight surprise in the eyes of Xiang Yuan and Song Ning, Fan Guchun sneered twice:
"I'm really sorry, because it's not an important city.

Therefore, the government office on our side should look a bit cruder, I hope you two will not be offended. "

"It's all right, I don't know if the Lord Guardian is here, so we can visit." He waved his hand to signal Fan Guchun not to care, and said to Yuan.

There are a total of 69 cities in Bazhong County, except for small cities like Zhuyang and Guangling, 26 of them have guarded yamen.

These 26 guarding yamen, because of the different sizes of the cities stationed, the scale is also large and small.

According to Shi Jinwu, who taught Xiang Yuan, there are as many as eight, nine, or ten people scattered in various places guarding the yamen, and as few as three or four.

Although this number is not large, it refers to hidden soldiers. If there is a crisis, the guarding yamen has the right to mobilize the local county government or even the garrison to assist. .

The guarding yamen in each place has a guarding officer personally appointed by the branch government, and this guarding officer is also the boss of the entire guarding yamen, the chief.

The other hidden soldiers guarding the yamen must obey the deployment orders of the guarding officer, otherwise they will be punished as disobeying the military order!
Both Xiang Yuan and Song Ning are newly recruited hidden soldiers, and they don't belong to any guarding yamen for the time being.

Now that they came to Xiadu, according to the rules, they first had to pay a courtesy call to the local town guard.

"Sit first." Leading Xiang Yuan and Song Ning into the main room, Fan Guchun poured two cups of tea for them:

"There were signs of ghosts in Zhouzhai Village yesterday, and the boss went to investigate.

The others also dealt with the situation in other villages individually. "

"How many hidden soldiers are there in Xiadu's guarding the yamen?" Xiang Yuan asked with a sip of the slightly bitter tea.

Patting the soot on the trouser legs and sitting down, Fan Guchun smiled: "There are five people including me.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of many ghosts in the center of Liaohe, the manpower in our place would be sufficient. "

What Fan Guchun said, Xiang Yuan nodded secretly.

Indeed, if a guarding yamen can have five permanent registered hidden soldiers, the usual guarding tasks must be enough.

If it weren't for the uncontrollable situation, Fan Guchun and the others would definitely not be so anxious to increase their manpower.

While chatting with Fan Guchun about the basic situation of Xiadu, he waited.

Xiang Yuan and Song Ning sat until the sky was full of sunset, and the gate of the yamen's courtyard was pushed open.

A burly bearded man leaning on a basket came in cursing.

"His mother is Xipi, I finally met a big guy, but he ran away.

Next time I bring everyone with me, I must dismantle that guy! "

Hearing the bearded man's scolding, Fan Guchun, who was talking with Xiang Yuan, hurried up to greet him, and whispered a few words in the bearded man's ear.

"Damn it, why didn't you say it earlier, causing people to wait here for a whole day." Grinning, the bearded man complained to Fan Guchun, flipped his hands off his back basket, and walked into the main room with a big smile.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't know that the two colleagues came and caused you to wait for a whole day, forgive me, forgive me." The bearded man's voice was loud and his laughter was crisp, and he bowed his hands and apologized in the room.

"Master Guardian, you're being polite. We didn't say hello before we came this time. I don't know what your name is." Noticing the way the bearded man walked, Xiang Yuan moved his eyes and said with a smile.

"What about adults and villains, I... Cough, my name is Sun Deyi, I look a few years older than you, you can call me Big Brother Sun or Old Sun." talk.

It's just that today is the first time we've met each other. Facing Xiang Yuan and Song Ning, the town guard of Xiadu City still suppressed his nature, and swallowed the swear words that came to his lips abruptly!
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　The temperature has dropped, everyone should keep warm, the feeling of a cold is really uncomfortable.

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