From a refugee to a martial artist

Chapter 79 Dinner
"I'll come to see you the day after tomorrow!" Nie Yannian patted Meng Yuan's shoulder.

When they left the box, they saw Jiang Tang still talking to Nie Qingqing, and Tie Niu sitting beside them with empty eyes.

After bidding farewell to Master Nie and his daughter, Meng Yuan and the other two returned home.

It was already nightfall, but the streets were still bustling with luxurious carriages and fine horses, and hawkers carrying loads on their shoulders going about.

For a moment, Meng Yuan felt as if the chaos he had just heard about was in two different worlds from here.

But if you think about it carefully, it is true. These are two different worlds.

The reason why I can get here is certainly because of my hard work and ambition, but it is also due to some luck.

Holding the lantern given by Nie Qingqing, Meng Yuan walked in the middle and looked at Jiang Tang next to him. He saw that her face was a little red and she lowered her head slightly, and he didn't know what she was thinking.

"Ouch." After taking a few steps, Jiang Tang tripped and grabbed Meng Yuan's hands with both hands.

Although he hasn’t grown much older, he has become more and more cunning.

However, the Qing people were rough and unsophisticated, and it was not a big deal for men and women to walk hand in hand in the street. And it was night time, so Meng Yuan let her hold his hand.

"This land looks flat!" Tie Niu bent down to see if the road was flat.

"What did you talk about?" Meng Yuan asked.

"Nothing. Sister Qingqing asked me about my time in the palace." Jiang Tang replied softly, moving closer to Meng Yuan and rubbing her head against Meng Yuan's arm.

She was quite ladylike just now, but now she has changed.

On the way back home, Jiang Tang saw that Old Man Jiang had also returned, smelling slightly of alcohol, so he quickly cooked some sobering soup.

After drinking the soup, Meng Yuan returned to his room and sat quietly.

Only after another acupoint was opened did he fall asleep peacefully.

On the second day, he went to the training ground, packed up his bow and arrows, and long sword, and polished them carefully, which caused Hu Qian to come and ask about them frequently.

She was clearly itching to go out.

"Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. When you are more capable, you will have the time to work hard for the princess!" Meng Yuan spoke as if he were a master.

Hu Qian snorted twice and left.

After a day of hard work in the training ground, Meng Yuan returned home and opened another acupoint. Then the day set by Master Nie had arrived.

After breakfast that morning, Nie Yannian came and took Meng Yuan away.

"Don't you want to tell Xunmei?" Meng Yuan is a cautious person.

"It has been arranged long ago!" Nie Yannian smiled.

The two men chatted nonsense, carrying swords and bows, and each led a horse out.

He did not go to the guard post to find Zhang Guinian, but went straight out of the north gate and waited outside the gate.

It was past mid-morning before people from the Demon Suppression Station showed up. There were sixty or seventy of them, dozens of them riding horses, and a dozen or so donkey carts loaded with sacks, which must be food.

That’s not all, there were also two or three hundred government runners and able-bodied men, some driving donkey carts and some pushing wheelbarrows.

The government office and the demon-suppressing garrison were not subordinate to each other, one was a civil service sequence, and the other was a military sequence.

However, the matter of exterminating demons concerns people's livelihood, so the two families often cooperate, which is inevitable.

"Do we still need to bring food?" Meng Yuan asked curiously.

"The prefect is kind-hearted. He said he couldn't bear to disturb the people, so he asked us to bring our own food. He also gave us the food for the garrison." Nie Yannian nodded at the scholar surrounded by the yamen runners. "The prefect's assistants are keeping an eye on us."

Meng Yuan nodded, thinking that the prefect was doing a pretty good job.

"The government troops are not contributing?" Meng Yuan asked again.

"Your brain is becoming less and less useful." Nie Yannian laughed, "If the government troops go, the more monsters they kill, the more food they eat, and the fewer people they have."

Meng Yuan nodded and asked no more questions.

After lingering outside the north city gate for a while, the group finally set off. Meng Yuan and Gong Zihua were familiar with each other, so the two walked side by side in front, chatting.

The destination this time is Qingtian County, which is more than 200 miles away. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and monsters often appear there.

Later, when disaster struck, the people fled, and the monsters came down the mountain to cause chaos and even occupied the land.

When the disaster was over and the refugees returned, there was a monster eating people, but at that time, the Qingtian County Office was short of staff and the number of residents in the county was small, so they could not deal with the monster at all.

Later, the case was reported to the provincial capital, but there were many counties and towns with the same situation, and the Demon Suppression Division was unable to handle it all. In addition, there were also the matters of the Buddhist demon and the Luo Sect, so they had no time to spare.

Now we have time to take care of it, but the monsters have already developed a taste for meat, and several towns and villages under Qingtian County have been affected by the monsters.

After Meng Yuan inquired carefully, he had a rough idea of ​​the outcome.

Those monsters that came to disturb the people were mostly spirits, and the leaders were mostly old monsters of the ninth and eighth ranks.

As for the seventh rank, it is a little less so and can be called a great demon.

After walking for more than ten miles, there was a sudden sound of hurried horse hooves from behind. Meng Yuan looked back and saw a dozen people riding horses with a young man.

The young man, riding a fine horse and a precious sword, pushed his horse as hard as he could and passed the others. The prefect's assistants and several constables also followed him immediately, looking quite anxious.

The young man in front laughed wantonly, "I'm going to kill the monster! Get rid of the harm to the people!"

"Who is this young man?" Meng Yuan asked with a smile.

"He is the second son of the Lord of the Mansion. His name seems to be Jie Shen. I heard that he is also a... hehe, famous nobleman." Gong Zihua said with a smile.

Meng Yuan understood that the word "young master" means a playboy.

We are not afraid of the second generation being useless, we are just afraid of the second generation having to do things.

In comparison, Meng Yuan felt that Dugu Kang was truly handsome and had unparalleled talent for poetry.

We followed the official road all the way and had only traveled about fifty miles by nightfall.

After resting for a night in the deserted post station, Zhang Guinian made assignments after daybreak, leaving the food and fodder to be looked after by the yamen runners while he led his men ahead.

After another day of urging the horses, they finally entered the territory of Qingtian County at nightfall.

The second son of the prefect had already disappeared.

After another night's rest, in the early morning, Zhang Guinian called Gong Zihua and said, "Take Xiao Meng and explore the way forward. You know what to do if something happens."

Gong Zihua and Meng Yuan were very obedient and set off on horseback immediately.

After walking for less than ten miles, they saw farmers running in the fields beside the official road, followed by two dog monsters.

The two dog demons each held a knife, looking very happy. One of them even held a bloody human arm in his hand.

Meng Yuan immediately urged his horse forward, took out his bow and drew his arrow.

When they were a hundred steps away, the two dog demons heard the noise and wanted to escape, but it was too late.

An arrow shot directly into the dog demon's eye. The dog demon staggered a few steps and then fell to the ground.

On the other side, Gong Zihua also made a contribution, shooting an arrow into the belly of another dog demon.

The two men dismounted to check. Gong Zihua went to ask the dog demon that was seriously injured but not dead, while Meng Yuan came to the dog demon that he had shot to death.

With his back to Gong Zihua, Meng Yuan had fire on his fingertips, which slowly fell on the dying dog demon.

The flames spread rapidly, and then completely covered the dog demon.

Gong Zihua heard the noise and saw that Meng Yuan had already set the monster's body on fire. He didn't say anything, but when he turned slightly, he saw that Meng Yuan's face looked a little intoxicated.

Gong Zihua didn't know what to say. He just felt that this man was like a man who had been hanging around for more than ten years and suddenly married a young wife. It also seemed that he came to have a feast instead of to kill the monster and make merit.

"Are we going to see another killing god? He looks quite quiet. Senior Nie also said that he has read all the Confucian and Taoist classics and loves reading history under the lamp..." Gong Zihua murmured.

(End of this chapter)