Strange Tales from the Northern Qi Dynasty

Chapter 47 Send Me a Ride

The tall city gate was wide open, like a ferocious beast with its bloody mouth open, waiting for its prey to enter.

The soldiers on both sides are the monster's fangs, which they use to chew and break up the raw meat.

He Ananda stood at the city gate and looked up. The gate was full of heads.

The heads fluttered in the wind, so densely packed that it was impossible to count how many there were.

Among them were white-haired old men, blood-stained women, and even half-grown children.

Their faces were numb, with no joy or sadness. They just silently watched this cannibalistic world, waiting for its destruction.

"Mr. He."

The clerk at the door looked at him with an uneasy expression.

He Ananda glanced at him and asked, "Is this the bandit the county lieutenant is fighting against?"

The clerk raised his head and looked at the rows of heads. His expression was grim. "They are the bandits outside the city."

"Well, that's it."

He Ananda said this in a very stiff tone.

The clerk didn't dare to say anything. He Ananda had just been promoted to the position of county patrol, responsible for investigating thieves.

Then, dozens of thieves appeared in Cheng'an, and their heads were hung all over the city walls. It was a major case of group theft.

He knew that Mr. He must be in a very bad mood at the moment.

A group of dozens of bandits appeared outside the county town of Jingcheng. This is not the achievement of the local sheriff. This is a damn disaster.

Mr. He had just sat down and hadn't even warmed up to the seat he had just sat down in, and he was probably about to get up and leave.

It's getting dark.

He Ananda dragged his disheveled body and returned home with a sad face.

Several servants hurried forward, but He Ananda just waved his hand, ignored them, and went straight into the study.

Sitting in the study, he sighed again.

I thought I would be promoted to the position of county lieutenant with the support of a noble person and my merits, but I didn't expect that in the end I would just be a patrol officer. If it was just a patrol officer, it would be fine, but I met such a county lieutenant.

The county lieutenant had only been here four or five days, but the trouble he had caused was enough to cost He Ananda his life.

This county lieutenant from the Bohai Gao family is both stupid and evil! !
He always flatters himself, but his words are nonsense. He says that he is a legitimate son of the Gao family. How can a legitimate son come here to be a mere ninth-rank official?
Absurd!!

There was a flash of anger in his eyes, and he threw the book beside him to the ground.

Suddenly a dark shadow flashed by the window.

He Ananda trembled, suddenly took down the sword on the wall, and pointed it outside, "Who?!"

There was no sound outside.

"Squeak~~"

The door was pushed open.

A hunchbacked old man walked in from the shadows.

He Ananda didn't say anything, just stared at the other person coldly.

As the hunchbacked man entered the room, he slowly straightened up and stretched out his whole body.

He raised his head and looked at He Ananda.

He Ananda put away his sword, walked quickly to the door and closed it.

"Are you crazy?! How dare you come to my house?!"

he questioned.

At this moment, the person standing in front of He Ananda was Taozi's old acquaintance, the shop owner Wang Fu.

Wang Fu looked completely different from before. Even his face shape had changed, and he had lost a lot of weight in a short period of time.

The unkempt hair and beard made him almost a different person.

"Don't worry, Mr. He. No one saw me."

"I'm already dead, so it doesn't matter if someone sees me."

He Ananda was very angry, but he didn't dare to vent, "You shouldn't have come to me anyway!!"

Wang Fu's face was full of helplessness. "There is a madman outside the city who is leading an army of several hundred people to kill people indiscriminately."

"If I hadn't dodged in time, I would have been caught and beheaded."

"Is there no one among you Qi people who is not crazy?"

He Ananda did not speak. His face was gloomy. He stared at Wang Fu. "You said you were willing to die for the general, but now you come to me to survive. You want to expose me and ruin everything."

"Is there anyone in the world more hateful than you?"

Wang Fu's face was calm. He sat on the small Hu bed beside him and looked up at He Ananda.

"I'm not afraid of death. I would have died a long time ago."

"I am only staying here to fulfill the general's order."

He Ananda sat in front of him and said, "I saw him. He is in the county government office, the Sanliyuan."

"Liu Taozi? No, he is not the most important now. Originally, Liu Taozhi was the most important. But now it seems that Liu Taozhi doesn't care about his son at all and only took his wife away."

"Then Liu Taozi won't be that useful to us."

"Then why don't you just die?"

Wang Fu said calmly: "Someone else will take care of Liu Taozi's affairs. My target is Gao Su."

"I need your help. I want his exact whereabouts." He Ananda stared and exclaimed.

"Ha, you want Gao Su's whereabouts? I'll ask him for you?"

"I think you are crazy. Can you get Gao Su's whereabouts just because you want it?"

"Don't even mention me. Even that new lunatic is not worthy of meeting Gao Su. The people we deal with are all Gao Su's followers and servants!"

"Besides, there are more soldiers protecting him inside and outside the county government than there are soldiers in the county!"

"No one knows where Gao Su is or where he will come from!"

Hearing the other party's words, Wang Fu smiled.

"That's why I came to you. Just think of it as sending me off. We've been colleagues for many years, and haven't you always been hoping for my death?"

"You'll find a way, right?"

"farmer."

The next day.

County government office, west backyard.

Gao Xun stood in the room, gently stroking the blood-stained armor in front of him with a gentle expression.

"This armor has been with me in battle for many years."

He suddenly looked at He Ananda beside him, his eyes full of arrogance, "But the bandits here are really vulnerable!"

"I charged into the bandits, hacking left and right, and I was unstoppable for even a single round! Not even my armor could touch me!"

He Ananda stood beside him, with his head lowered, his eyes very bright.

"Mr. Gao is a mighty and powerful man, no one can defeat him!"

Gao Xun couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this.

"To be honest, since I was a child, people have said that I have inherited the legacy of my uncle!"

"My uncle is compared to Xiang Ji, his horse lance is peerless and he is invincible in the world! I have also practiced martial arts since I was young and imitated his character!"

"I am nineteen years old this year, but I have no rivals in Bohai. No matter who the warrior is, he cannot last more than one round in my hands!"

He Ananda nodded, "I've heard that Lord Gao is very brave and invincible."

"We in Cheng'an County also value martial arts. The county lieutenant is so brave that he will surely be admired by everyone."

Gao Xun was stunned, then looked at He Ananda.

"What's your job in the county?"

"Traveling."

"What?"

"The main focus is on patrol and arrest."

"Well, then you must have some good players under your command, right?"

"Of course, this is an important place in the capital, and the people around me are all brave warriors."

Gao Xun's eyes lit up, "Great! Great! Call these experts here to compete with me in martial arts. If you can beat me, I will reward you with a thousand coins!"

"Lord Gao, you are invincible in the world. Although the people around me have some martial arts skills, they are not good enough to compete with you."

"I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

"No problem! Just find it for me!"

"If you don't obey, I will punish you!!"

"only."

Gao Xun nodded with satisfaction and looked at him approvingly, "You are a good official, please don't follow the example of that Cao."

"Of course not."

"Today's meat!!"

The food official arrived at the inner courtyard with delicious food and shouted loudly. Everyone stood up with smiles on their faces.

Everyone received their food and sat down. Zhang Li ordered, "Send some to the outer courtyard as well."

"only."

Everyone was busy, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was much better than before.

Facts have proved that a qualified commander can have a huge impact on the whole.

When He Xingseng was on duty, government affairs were in chaos and distribution was unfair. No matter whether they were clerks or substitutes, they were all exhausted. It can be said that "one incompetent general leads to the death of the entire army."

Zhang Li was different from him. He knew how to assign tasks, and he would personally take on the most dangerous and important ones.

The situation in the Sanliyuan suddenly improved. Zhang Li would not withhold everyone's food, nor would he condone flatterers to "slack off". Now everyone really recognized this chief official.

Zhang Li sat in the crowd, surrounded by the center, with a smile on his face.

"Starting today, the county government will provide a meat meal every five days, as well as vegetables and fruits. The county government has sent people to contact the big households in the county to purchase them on a regular basis."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang!"

"Why are you thanking me? I don't have the ability to do this. It has to be County Lord Gao. The County Lord is worthy of being the County Lord. This was all his arrangement in the beginning, but it has only been implemented now."

The clerk smiled and said, "We have to thank Mr. Zhang. If it was still the same person as before, how could we have eaten the meat and vegetables? I'm afraid he would have sold them all."

Zhang Li smiled and shook his head.

“You guys”

(End of this chapter)