What a lucky world!

Chapter 88 What’s wrong with this world!

Chapter 88 What’s wrong with this world!
The next day.

Zhang Mu got up very early.

Yesterday he obtained Zhuang Xiaomeng's consent and bought some food from the escort agency's warehouse at a fair price and sent it to Ya Ye.

Zhang Mu guessed that Xuan Ji's silver was all in her stomach. There should be some food stored in the temple, but it was definitely not much, after all, there were so many rats working there.

After delivering the food, Zhang Mu kept some and planned to send it to Shi Yansheng. While walking on the road, he suddenly heard the sound of gongs in front of him.

Zhang Mu looked forward and saw a convoy of prisoner vans, so he stood by the roadside.

Zhang Mu heard about this in the escort agency yesterday. Now that food prices have skyrocketed and there are many disaster victims in the city, there are frequent incidents of looting, smashing and burning. The county government has also taken severe measures against this. Anyone caught will be paraded through the streets and executed.

Zhang Mu didn't care too much about this kind of thing. After all, it was understandable to use severe punishments to govern troubled times.

I remember the last time I saw a prison van parade was with Luo Sanpao's dad...

Zhang Mu looked at the prison vans passing by him, and suddenly his eyes froze.

He actually saw an acquaintance.

In the prison van, that ragged, dirty man, isn’t he Zhou Yuanguang from Lixing Store?

The young man who helped him save the women and children who were kidnapped by the beggars.

Why is he in this prison van?

Zhang Mu immediately chased after him, shouting, "Zhou Yuanguang! Zhou Yuanguang!"

Zhou Yuanguang heard someone calling him, then he looked up and saw Zhang Mu. He forced a smile on his face, but tears dripped from his eyes.

"Make way, make way... Hey, Escort Zhang..." The yamen runner on the side stepped forward to drive Zhang Mu away, but recognized Zhang Mu at a glance.

"Do you know me?" Zhang Mu asked curiously.

"Hey, when you brought the fox demon's corpse into the city, I followed Li Tou..." The yamen runner smiled and pointed at Zhou Yuanguang in the prison cart and asked, "Does Escort Zhang know him?"

"I know him." Zhang Mu asked as he followed the prison van. "What crime did he commit?"

"Alas... murder! Once the parade is over, I'll just kill him!" The bailiff sighed. "It's not that I don't want to give you a break, it's just not appropriate to stop and let you chat alone."

"If you know him, I'll let him know later and have him move to the front of the line so I can give him a good beating."

"You don't understand, when the executioner gets too exhausted after the chopping, the person being chopped off really suffers!"

Zhang Mu was stunned, and looked up at Zhou Yuanguang again. Zhou Yuanguang just shook his head at him, and there was no desire to survive in his eyes.

Seeing this, Zhang Mu couldn't help but pull the yamen runner aside and asked, "Why did you kill someone for no reason?"

Hearing Zhang Mu's question, the yamen runner looked around, left the escort team, pulled Zhang Mu aside, and said, "Alas, Escort Zhang, you're the only one asking me this. I really don't respond to anyone else's questions."

"Thank you for your trouble." Zhang Mu stuffed a piece of silver into the other person's hand without leaving any trace.

The man squeezed the silver coins Zhang Mu handed over and said, "Master Zhang, let me make this clear first. If it were two days earlier, this man could still be saved, but now, it's impossible."

"Can you tell me what happened?"

"This matter...ah..." The yamen runner sighed, then said, "A while ago, the county magistrate let the disaster victims into the city, which really caused chaos for a while."

"Manager Zhou's wife...sigh, she was raped by some disaster victims and jumped into a well. Her brother tried to save her but was also beaten to death."

"Isn't Zhou Yuanguang's wife pregnant?" Zhang Mu said in astonishment.

"Isn't it!" The bailiff shook his head. "To be honest, I feel like a beast!"

"When his wife's parents heard the news, one of them died on the spot, and the other one was almost there too."

"Speaking of Zhou Yuanguang, he's a real man. He took care of the funeral arrangements for his family of four, then blended in with the disaster victims to find out who had harmed his family."

"He actually found it out."

"That night, he killed twelve people by himself! If it weren't for Li Tou's intervention, we wouldn't have dared to step forward!"

"But who can be blamed?"

"This is the way of the world..."

After listening to this, Zhang Mu looked at the prison van going away and sighed deeply.

After a while, he took out another piece of silver and stuffed it into the yamen runner's hand, saying, "Brother yamen runner, thank you for your trouble. Give him a quick death!"

The yamen runner collected the small change and said, "Master Zhang, would you like to see him off one last time? I'll give you a seat near the front."

"No, I can't see you." Zhang Mu waved his hand.

Upon hearing this, the bailiff said no more, bowed to Zhang Mu, and chased after the convoy of prison vans.

Zhang Mu let out another long breath, as if trying to let go of all the bad emotions in his heart. Zhang Mu stood there for a long while before coming to his senses. He looked at the food in his hand and continued walking towards Shi Yansheng's residence.

……

Tianma Lane.

Zhang Mu remembered that the last time he came here, although it was poor, it was still lively. This time when he came again, he felt that it was desolate and there was no sound of people.

Zhang Mu walked to Shi Yansheng's door, knocked, and waited for a moment but there was no response.

Zhang Mu pushed the wooden door lightly with his hand and it opened.

"Mr. Shi..." Zhang Mu stopped talking halfway through his words.

He saw a body hanging in the air in the main room facing the gate.

"Mr. Shi!" Zhang Mu's face changed and he rushed in suddenly, only to see that Shi Yansheng had hanged himself.

Zhang Mu hurriedly carried Shi Yansheng down, but found that the body had already become stiff.

Turning around, Zhang Mu saw a suicide poem written in blood on the wall.

I wish I would never be born again in this world and experience all the sorrows and sufferings of this world.

My son, please wait for your father to come, even if we become ghosts in the underworld we will be reunited.

Zhang Mu punched the wall, feeling filled with grief and anger but not knowing how to vent it, so he could only gasp for breath.

what happened?
What happened!
Zhang Mu squatted down, looked at Shi Yansheng's body, thought of Zhou Yuanguang's matter, and what he had seen along the way, and felt suffocated.

They always say that this world, this world...

What’s wrong with this world?
……

Yuanwei Escort Agency, Flower Hall.

Zhuang Xiaomeng looked at the man in the hooded cloak in front of him and said, "Sir, I have already sent him away. If you have any requests, please tell me."

The man nodded, took off his hood and mask, revealing a face covered with scars.

"Mrs. Zhuang, this is an emergency, please don't blame me."

"That's fine! It doesn't matter if you don't reveal your true face." Zhuang Xiaomeng waved her hand. "After working in the escort agency for so many years, I understand some of the rules."

"Tell me, what dart do you want to send?"

The man whispered, "Human escort, head to Yongning Prefecture."

"What is the identity of the human bodyguard?" Zhuang Xiaomeng picked up the brush to record.

"Song Haowen, the county school instructor!"

Zhuang Xiaomeng paused with the pen in her hand and looked up at the other person: "Who are you?"

"I'm just a servant, sent by my master to follow Mr. Song's orders." The scarred face said, "My master's status doesn't fall within the scope of being entrusted with an escort."

Zhuang Xiaomeng nodded and continued, "I see that your cultivation is quite strong, at least at the eighth or ninth level of the Tongmai realm. Can't you escort them yourselves?"

Scarface hesitated for a moment and said, "We have another mission and can't leave."

Zhuang Xiaomeng looked at the other person and fell silent.

The scarred face frowned: "What? You don't want to answer?"

Zhuang Xiaomeng smiled when he heard this: "You are joking, sir."

"We at Yuanwei Escort Agency are open for business. There's no reason for us to push business away."

"If this gets out, will my escort agency's reputation still be in jeopardy?"

"As long as it's a route assigned by the escort agency, we will accept it."

"That's good!" Scarface fished out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and placed them on the table. "This is the money for the escort."

Zhuang Xiaomeng glanced at the stack of banknotes and nodded: "After midnight, send the escort here and go through the back door."

Scarface nodded and bowed to say goodbye.

After the other party left completely, Zhuang Xiaomeng called out: "Chunxi——"

The maid Chunxi immediately ran in: "Madam, are you calling me?"