Daming: Internship also counts as work experience

Chapter 58: Scared
These people must have a time limit. Jia Chuan estimated that it would be two days at most. If they still couldn't succeed after two days, the higher-ups would definitely send more people. Even if he had to pay for it out of his own pocket, it would be better than letting the people in the palace know that he was not doing a good job.

What kind of people would be sent next? Jia Chuan felt that someone of his rank wouldn't be able to be killed by a death squad.

He agreed with a few people that starting from tomorrow he would go out in the morning when there were few people on the street. Gao Yuntian and the yamen runners would wait in plain clothes on the street in advance. When someone started a fight, Gao Yuntian would rush up. Jia Chuan meant that he must injure one or two people, the kind that made it difficult for them to walk, and then give them a chance to escape. As long as they were still outside, he would have a chance to delay for another day and confirm their residence. Anyway, they could not escape, so he would catch them when the time came.

If he didn't catch any fish in the morning, Jia Chuan would go a few more times and he would always succeed once.

But what Jia Chuan didn't expect was that he also underestimated those people.

That night, after they had dinner, Gao Yuntian rested in Jia Chuan's house, and patrols were also arranged outside the yard.

Jia Chuan took the opportunity to ask about Gao Yunduo. He was very curious why both of Gao's children learned martial arts. What was the point of a girl learning it?
Gao Yuntian explained that his grandfather, in order to survive at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, met a master by chance and learned kung fu. The thing that was most lacking in those days was war, and his grandfather was confused and didn't know who he was following today and who he would follow tomorrow. Anyway, he delayed getting married and kept fighting on the battlefield. Eventually, he joined the Red Turban Army.

When the world was initially settled, my grandfather was injured and had a limp, so he returned to his hometown to get married and live out his retirement.

My grandmother was ten years younger than my grandfather. She had a son and a daughter. My grandfather taught them personally since they were young, and both children were skilled in martial arts.

The girl is naturally Gao Yuntian’s mother, and the boy is Gao Yuntian’s uncle.

My grandfather hoped the court would reopen the military examination so his son could get a government job. In the 20th year of the Hongwu reign, the Ministry of Rites petitioned to reopen the military examination as per the previous dynasty's practice. The Ming Taizu said this was "separating civil and military careers into two paths and belittling the fact that there are no fully talented people in the world." He flatly rejected the proposal.

When my grandfather heard the news, he gave up the idea. Being able to stay alive is more important than anything else.

Jia Chuan grasped the key point and asked, "Your maternal grandfather was never an official, and your uncle also holds no official position. Has your uncle always been engaged in business?"

"He doesn't know how to run a business. It's just that his grandfather left him a lot of money, so he doesn't need to work hard."

Jia Chuan's eyes widened. Just as he was about to ask, "Did your grandfather ever serve under Zhang Shicheng?" he heard someone outside shout, "There's a fire!"

……

Jia Chuan was speechless, absolutely speechless.

Several torches lay dying in the yard.

You get what you pay for. What kind of work can you expect from such a cheap company? After being stripped of layer after layer of evidence, what else can it be but shoddy work?

Gao Yuntian and Dong Yuanyuan had already rushed out of the yard. Dong Shu wanted to grab his daughter, but if he hadn't let go in time, he would have followed his daughter out.

Shunzi came out a little late. Seeing that Dong Yuanyuan had already gone out, he ran out without hesitation.

Jia Chuan looked at Dong Shuben, who was slumped at the gate, and walked around the torch to ask, "If you're worried, just follow me. Why are you letting go?"

Dong Shuben struggled to stand up and said, "I'm old. Yuanyuan can beat two people by herself. What's the point of me going out?"

"Don't you know this?"

"You know it, but when you become a father you'll understand that there are some things you can't change."

As the two were talking, Dong Yuanyuan came back carrying Shunzi.

Jia Chuan glanced at Shunzi sympathetically, then heard Dong Yuanyuan angrily scold him, "What are you doing out there? What if those people don't leave? Can you kill them or run away? If they have knives and stab you through, I'll be a widow for the rest of my life!"

Dong Shuben asked anxiously, "What do you mean by 'living widowed'?!"

"Dad, don't protect him. You have to know how much food you can eat and how many acres of land you can cultivate!"

"How could I protect him? I meant..."

Gao Yuntian appeared at the door and shouted, "I'm going to the county government office. These people dared to come out at night, so they must be living in the city. I'll report to the county magistrate and search them overnight..."

Jia Chuan said, "Listen to me first."

Gao Yuntian entered the yard.

"I said before that maybe we could have two days, but it seems I overestimated. Or maybe they were delayed on the way. It seems that if they fail to kill me today, they will have to give up the money they earned, so..."

Gao Yuntian frowned and waited for Jia Chuan to come up with a solution.

"Please invite Duoduo here tomorrow. You'll have to go back and forth to the county government office. I don't know what the next person sent here is capable of, but they're definitely better than the ones here today. I think Duoduo's kung fu is no worse than yours..."

"She's better than me. Grandpa loved her the most. He passed on everything he didn't pass on to me."

"So you agree?" "Do you want to call my uncle as well? Even though his martial arts skills are not very good, they are still better than those yamen runners."

Jia Chuan waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Don't alarm the old man. You two brothers and sisters are enough. How capable can the newcomer be?"

"He's not even forty yet, four years younger than my mother..."

Jia Chuan coughed lightly and said:
"We'll discuss these details later. Go back to the yamen and tell the county magistrate that these people must live nearby. It's curfew now, and there are patrols outside the courtyard. It's too far to reach the house with their intelligence, so they would be caught. The fact that they were able to avoid the patrols outside the courtyard means that they were observing outside for a while, calculated the right time to appear, threw down the torch, and ran away. But if they run hard, they will easily be discovered by the patrol..."

"The patrolmen didn't find them, which means they live nearby!" Shunzi answered quickly.

Jia Chuan nodded and said, "When we came this morning, they probably didn't have a place to stay yet. Let's ask the Lijia to lead us to see if there are any houses that have been rented out in the area today."

Gao Yuntian nodded and turned to leave the yard. Dong Yuanyuan immediately stepped forward to lock the gate, then turned and said seriously to Shunzi, "You protect my father. I'll watch over Big Brother tonight!"

"What the hell!" Dong Shuben was really anxious.

Shunzi also helped Dong Yuanyuan explain: "Yuanyuan means..."

"What does she mean? Are you really stupid or are you really dumb?" Dong Shuben asked Shunzi angrily.

Jia Chuan was speechless and said, "How about this, the four of us go together. I'll ask the kitchen to make some food, and the three of you stay with me while I wait for Gao Yuntian to come back, okay?"

When Dong Yuanyuan heard that there was food, her eyes lit up immediately. She grabbed Dong Shuben and looked at him pleadingly.

Shunzi was just about to say a few words to help Dong Yuanyuan when he saw Jia Chuan looking behind him. His eyes changed from helplessness to fear, and his face turned pale in an instant. Shunzi's first reaction was to pull Dong Shuben and Dong Yuanyuan to hide behind Jia Chuan.

At this moment, Shunzi still regarded Jia Chuan as someone he could rely on, and before he could react, he realized that Jia Chuan... was not good enough in this regard.

Unfortunately, Shunzi failed to pull Dong Yuanyuan, but only pulled Dong Shuben to run behind Jia Chuan.

Jia Chuan's heart was almost broken. He had never made such an outrageous mistake before. He was hit left and right all night and his face was hurting.

Ever since the ghostly black figure appeared silently above the courtyard wall under his gaze and then landed gently on the ground, Jia Chuan's breathing became a little disordered.

Dong Yuanyuan realized something was wrong and turned around suddenly. She saw a person standing in the dark behind her, who she couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman. She was so scared that she screamed with all her might.

Dong Yuanyuan's cry was so loud that it shook the heavens and the earth, and it almost made Jia Chuan fall to the ground. Even the man who had just arrived took two steps back in fear.

It was this shout that frightened Jia Chuan so much that he ran away two miles and called back his spirit. He actually took two steps forward, blocked Dong Yuanyuan behind him, and said to the person in the darkness: "The person you want to kill is me, it has nothing to do with others. This house is not mine, and it would be bad if it was stained with blood. Let's go out and fight alone!"

After saying that, Jia Chuan was about to walk towards the gate when Dong Yuanyuan grabbed him and said seriously, "Brother, you can't beat him."

Jia Chuan glanced at Dong Yuanyuan with a look that said, "Isn't that nonsense?" and said, "Don't worry. Everyone dies, and everyone has died."

"Since you understand this truth, it doesn't matter where you die. Don't worry about your afterlife."

After saying that, the man suddenly rushed over. This was not what Jia Chuan expected. He thought that people in the martial arts world were loyal, so if he showed his loyalty, the man should go out with him. When they were outside the yard, someone patrolling the county government office would see them and run to inform Gao Yuntian in the county government office. He only needed to say a few words according to the martial arts novels he had read in middle school, and Gao Yuntian would come over.

But the man did not play according to common sense and rushed over directly.

Jia Chuan hesitated for a moment. Should he rush forward and die without implicating others, or hide behind Dong Yuanyuan?
It was at this moment of distraction that Dong Yuanyuan bumped sideways, and Dong Shuben and Shunzi rushed forward almost at the same time.

All this seemed to have turned into slow motion in Jia Chuan's eyes, except for the cold blade in the man's hand, which did not slow down at all. Seeing that Dong Yuanyuan was about to be stabbed by the tip of the knife, a mountain suddenly collapsed and rolled on the ground, and the man fell to the ground with a cry of "Oh my God".

Jia Chuan's eyes were about to burst open. He never expected that Dong Yuanyuan was so smart. She fell to the ground and rolled, and the man had no time to avoid her. At this time, Dong Shuben and Shunzi had already rushed up. Neither of them thought that Dong Yuanyuan was smart. They really thought that Dong Yuanyuan had fallen down. The two of them hurried forward to support her. At the same time, the man stood up again in a strange posture.

Jia Chuan knew it was his turn to take action!
"You're from Northeast China, right? Liaodong? Ningguta? Changbai Mountain? Mudanjiang? Mohe? Harbin..." Jia Chuan wanted to delay time, and he didn't care whether these places existed or not, so he just reported them.

The man stroked his wrist and interrupted with a sinister tone, "What are you doing? Fellow villager?"

"Let me make you a bet."

"What's the bet on?"

The man kept the knife in his hand when he fell, and his wrist was sore from hitting the ground. He wanted to take the opportunity to relax.

"You are a grown man, but you don't say hello before taking action. What kind of man are you?!" Dong Yuanyuan was helped up by Dong Shuben and Shunzi and shouted at the top of her voice.

The man turned sideways, feeling like he was being attacked from both sides. He looked at Dong Yuanyuan with a sullen face and asked, "Who is your master?"

(End of this chapter)