Fortunate Young Gentleman

The text of Ruyi Xiaolangjun, Chapter 547, Crushing the Ministry of Personnel. Trivial matters are what Tang Ning encounters most when he travels through the six ministries.

Other ministries may have nothing to do on weekdays and are very idle, but the Ministry of Personnel is different. Official promotions, examinations, nobles, royal relatives, and all upper-class people in the State of Chen are under the overall planning of the Ministry of Personnel.

Tang Ning was busy all afternoon and didn't even have time to drink a cup of tea. When he picked up the teacup, he found that there was no tea in the cup.

He was about to pour tea, and suddenly someone picked up the teapot, helped him fill the cup, and smiled: "Don't be too tired, Master Tang, your health is important."

Si Feng Langzhong is the best at observing words and expressions among the four Langzhongs of the Ministry of Personnel, and he also looks the most honest.

Tang Ning looked at him and asked, "Doctor Feng, are you here to hand over the list of the Sifeng Division?"

Doctor Feng put a thick book on the table and said, "Yes, this is the list of the ladies in the capital compiled by our department. I will leave it here so as not to disturb you. I will take my leave first."

Tang Ning nodded, and when Doctor Feng was about to leave the duty room, he asked casually, "From Doctor Feng's accent, he should be from the south, right?"

Doctor Feng stopped and turned around and said, "Your Excellency, my ancestral home is Runzhou. I settled in the capital after passing the imperial examination."

Tang Ning waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you can go and do your work."

Runzhou belongs to the East Road of Jiangnan. In this way, this Doctor of the Sifeng Division is a genuine Jiangnan person.

The two officials sent by the Ministry of Personnel to Jiangnan both got into trouble, but after Doctor Feng, an official from Jiangnan, was replaced, everything was calm. This coincidence is too coincidental.

However, Tang Ning did not intend to investigate the matter further. The problem in Jiangnan had been going on for more than one or two days. Even Emperor Chen was powerless to deal with it, and Tang Ning did not want to get into trouble.

His current troubles had not been completely resolved yet, and he did not know how the confrontation between the Blade and the Shadow Guard was going. As a special operations force, they had just undergone half a month of mountain terrain training. He hoped that they would not go too far and leave some pitiful face for Emperor Chen.

The back mountain of the Cavalry Camp.

When the two teams of Shadow Guards found the Blade camp, they found that the camp was empty and no Blade member could be seen.

This was not unexpected. After all, the opponents were not fools and would not wait there stupidly. They were afraid that they were already spying in the dark and preparing to attack them.

The leader of the Shadow Guard looked around and said, "Act alone as a team of ten. Once you find the enemy, take action immediately and don't be soft..."

He gave such instructions to the members of the other team, and the two teams separated on the spot and disappeared into the forest.

At the same time, the members of another team of shadow guards were carefully searching in the forest.

The ten of them were separated by several steps, ensuring the search range, but not too far away. As long as one person was attacked, the ten people could quickly gather together.

A team leader searched for a while, and then immediately said: "Count!"

He called "one" first, and the people behind him counted according to the distance until "ten". This was a method they had discussed before leaving the camp.

"Two!"

"Three!"

...

"Eight!"

"Nine!"

After he finished speaking, the sound of counting continued to come from behind him, until someone shouted "nine", and no one answered.

The team leader stopped and asked: "Where is Zheng Xing?"

Everyone stopped and looked around, and finally someone said in horror: "Zheng Xing, Zheng Xing is gone..."

The team leader was shocked and angry when he heard this. They hadn't even seen the other side's people, and one of their own people was missing first. If this continues, how can they beat them?

He frowned and said, "Look!"

Everyone gathered together and searched along the way they came, but they couldn't find the missing teammate.

Someone asked in a trembling voice, "Could it be some wild beast?"

The team leader shook his head and said, "If it was a wild beast, we couldn't have heard the sound. It must be the blade's people..."

"Everyone, get closer and pay attention to the surroundings!" Faced with this strange situation, he slowed down and issued the next order.

The nine people who stayed behind got closer and felt much more at ease. There was no such strange atmosphere.

What they didn't know was that as they slowly moved forward, pairs of eyes were watching them in the shade of the trees above their heads and in the grass beside them.

At a certain moment, the captain said again: "Count!"

"One, two, three,... seven, eight!"

"Where's nine, where's Wang Dong?"

One looked behind him and said in horror: "Captain, Captain, Wang Dong is gone too!"

Seeing that it was about to get dark, they had already lost two people, but they didn't even see the shadow of the opponent. Even though they were all elite guards, they couldn't help but panic at this moment.

Even if they all knew how to poison or be poisoned, they couldn't use any advanced poison techniques without seeing the opponent.

Looking at the darkening sky, someone finally couldn't help but say: "Captain, it's getting dark, why don't we go back to the camp first?"

"Yes, Captain, it's dark, and the road is not clear. It would be bad if we encounter any poisonous insects or beasts. Let's go back first..."

"I just seemed to hear some beasts calling in front of us. Let's go back to the camp first?"

...

After one person made a suggestion, the others immediately agreed.

People are naturally afraid of darkness, not to mention that in this strange deep mountain, the inexplicable disappearance of teammates has already put them under great psychological pressure, not to mention that no one knows what kind of dangers there are in the darkness ahead.

The team leader actually had the intention to return to the camp a long time ago. He pretended to be in deep thought for a moment and slowly said: "It will be dark soon, which is not conducive to our actions. Return to the camp immediately..."

When the remaining eight people returned along the original route, several long-hidden figures finally moved not far from them.

The night was completely shrouded, and the shadow guard team began to return along the original route.

This was agreed before they left the camp. They would return to the camp at night and meet up, and then act again during the day.

In half a day's work, there were quite a few casualties among the ten teams. What's more strange is that most of them didn't even see the shadow of the opponent.

On the way back to the camp, a certain team suddenly heard a low roar in front of them.

One person hurried forward and said, "Captain, it's bad, there's a blind bear ahead!"

The team leader's face changed and he said, "Go back by a detour!"

A moment later, in the Shadow Guard camp, it was already a quarter of an hour past the agreed time to return to the camp.

The general looked gloomy and asked, "Count the number of people."

One person walked over and counted, and soon ran back and reported, "Seventy-six people returned, the fifth team was wiped out, including the team leader, no one returned."

The Shadow Guard general looked gloomy. The first day of the battle ended in their defeat. They had not even seen the enemy, but had already lost twenty-four people. How could they compete?

He looked around and said, "Let's have someone guard here at night. Be alert and beware of their sneak attacks!"

An assistant officer said, "Captain, we haven't eaten all day..."

The Shadow Guard leader thought for a moment and said, "Send ten people out to see if there are any rabbits or pheasants around the camp. Bring some back. Don't go too far from the camp..."

When the atmosphere in the other Shadow Guard teams was tense, the fifth team seemed much more relaxed.

In the temporary camp of the sharp blade, they saw the two missing members of the team again, including the other fourteen Shadow Guard teammates.

Of course, they also saw the true face of the sharp blade.

Most of their clothes were painted green, and their faces were black and white. Although they looked ugly, no one dared to look down on them.

After all, the other party was dressed in such an ugly outfit, rushed out of the bushes, jumped down from the tree, covered their mouths at a speed that they could not react, and knocked them out directly... However, although being caught was embarrassing, at least there was no need to face the fear of the unknown with trepidation, which could be regarded as a relief. When everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly heard a low roar. A young man with mud on his face turned his head and asked, "What's going on?" Another person came over and smiled, "The guys from the fifth team killed a blind bear when they came back today." The young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he strode over and said, "It's just right, we can have an extra meal tonight..."