Chapter 189 – Qing Zhou’s Old Friend?

Everyone’s encounters are different, and if you miss it, you miss it, and no amount of regret can undo it.

It will probably take some days for the red-sleeved lady who misses a hit and cries her eyes out before she realizes this, and then regulates herself in a very long period of sadness.

Red sleeve flower girl cried like this, can only quit playing tea round, Wei Gongzi and others are worthy of the knowledge of the book readers, not only did not complain blame, but to comfort the red sleeve good rest.

After sending Red Sleeve away, Duke Wei and the others continued to drink, places like the Department of Education were meant to be places for socializing and socializing.

The presence of a beautiful woman is the icing on the cake, and it doesn’t hurt if she’s not there. Men should drink and chat with each other.

“Just now, wasn’t it said that a night watchman came to beat the tea enclosure?” Duke Wei’s heart stirred, remembering this detail, and asked the maid accompanying the wine by his side:

“Just now, Lady Red Sleeve said that one of them claimed that Floating Fragrance was his lover?”

“It seems so.” The maid said.

Duke Wei had a vague guess within himself and stopped drinking, staring solemnly at the maid, “So… what is the gong called?”

“My lord, the slave doesn’t know.” The maid shook her head and said that I didn’t care.

The other eunuchs were all smart people, associating the Red Sleeve Maiden’s abnormality just now, they were taken aback, “So, that Xu Ning Banquet has come to Yuzhou?”

The case of the Program Transportation Envoy only happened today, and hadn’t spread in Yuzhou yet; of this group of schoolchildren, only Duke Wei had an official background, but it would take a day or two to learn about these things.

“To-morrow you may go to the post, and if the night watchman lives at the post, it will be necessary to pay him a visit.”

….

Stagecoach!

The carriage slowed down and stopped outside the stagecoach.

Inspector Zhang got down from the carriage, his face serious, and returned to the post with Jiang Ruizhong, who was accompanying him. At this time, it was already a night with the full moon high in the sky.

Governor Zhang looked at the slightly distant stables, where only a few horses were tied up sporadically, and entered the post, asking the postman, only to learn that almost all of the watchmen were out fooling around, and hadn’t come back to the post.

Governor Zhang, who was already in a heavy mood, said angrily, “Ridiculous, we are under imperial orders, how can we be so slack and greedy for pleasure.”

Jiang Lizhong laughed, “They have been held on the ship for so many days, it is only human to relax and unwind. It doesn’t matter what happens to the others if the governor is unharmed.”

The two went upstairs and were greeted in the dark hallway by a guy in pants, clutching his shoulders and shivering in the cold.

Jiang Lunzhong, who possessed night vision, stared at the visitor and wondered, “What’s your whole thing.”

“I just got out of a cold shower.”

Xu Qi’an, who didn’t have a nighttime teaching post, replied.

“And then?”

“This is the south.” He said without a clue, and suddenly sighed, “Find the old feeling …. Jiang Jinluo Zhang inspector you guys are back. The others stayed behind to go to the Church and Workshop Department.”

Inspector Zhang nodded and went into his room on his own.

“Why haven’t you stayed overnight in the Churchyard?” Jiang Ruizhong scrutinized Xu Qi’an; as far as he knew, this brat was also a veteran of flower farms.

“Any transaction tied to silver is vulgar and sinful. Resolutely boycott such behavior.” Xu Qi’an finished with a serious face and walked straight away.

Jiang Ruizhong looked at his back and said, “This kid is drunk. Saying all the confusing things, moreover, an Essence Refining Realm martial artist has long been free from cold and heat, yet he is acting like he is starving and cold.

Xu Qi’an entered her room, closed the door, entertained herself with shivering, quickly ran to bed, rolled up the quilt, and pretended that she lived in the cold, damp south.

According to geographic location, Yuzhou was not the coast, but it was still the south. Unlike the bone-chilling winds of the capital, the cold of Yuzhou was close to the skin and drilled into the pores.

It reminded Xu Qi’an of the south where she lived in her last life, bathing in the middle of winter, turning off the hot water and wiping the soap, shivering as she did so.

After showering and getting dressed and wearing it, snot came out of my nose.

Unfortunately, Qi Practicing Realm martial artists had a strong body, so they wouldn’t feel cold at idle. Even if they were to soak in ice water, at best, they would feel cold.

Wrapped in the quilt, Xu Qi’an peacefully entered dreamland.

….

The candles were like beans, swaying with a dim glow.

Inspector Zhang sat in front of the case, lifted the pen, and wrote the folding:

“I was passing through Yuzhou and inadvertently detected a case of embezzlement in which Yan Kai, the program carrier of Yuzhou’s canal government office, instructed the local gang, the Yellow Flag Gang, to kill the escort guards, embezzle iron ore, and secretly transport it to Yunzhou ….

“I consulted the shipwreck files of the Yuzhou Transportation Yamen and found that within ten years, the number of shipwrecks totaled forty-three, and two million pounds of iron ore were lost, which is a huge amount, and it is outrageous. The national traitors have been milking the Dafeng kingdom without a word, knocking out the bones and sucking out the marrow, and calling people to shudder.

“Yuzhou, a single state, has lost two million pounds of iron ore in ten years; how much more will it be if the sixteen states of Dafeng accumulate it? I ask Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the barge capsizing incidents at the Da Feng states’ transportation offices.

“The former Minister of Public Works colluded with the Witch God Cult and secretly supported the bandits in Yunzhou, fearing treason.

“In addition, Causeway Xu Qi’an is a pillar of the nation with his exceptional skills and abilities. This person should take the first credit for solving the barge case.

“The trip to Yunzhou is perilous and unpredictable, and I will do my best to bow and die.”

…..

At dusk the next day, the group left Yuzhou and continued on to Yunzhou by boat.

During the day, Xu Qi’an took the Huben guards and fellow night watchmen and procured some seasonal vegetables, wine, rice and grain in the city.

It’s on the account of the Cao Yun Yamen, which is equivalent to whoring for nothing.

That night, the ship’s cooks made a sumptuous dinner for the Chinaman’s team, and after a full meal, Xu Qi’an sat cross-legged in his room and exhaled.

“Ning Banquet, ah, it’s such a pity that you didn’t sleep with the flower girl from Yuzhou’s Church and Temple Department yesterday.” Song Tingfeng even felt pity for his colleague.

“Hey, that Red Sleeve Lady looks down on vulgar martial artists like us.” Xu Qi’an said.

“That’s because you didn’t reveal your identity, if you tell her that you’re the great talent who wrote “Dark Fragrance Floating Moon Dusk”, she won’t be in a hurry to introduce herself.” Song Tingfeng replied.

Xu Qi’an then wondered a bit, “If that’s the case, why don’t you say it for me?”

Song Tingfeng sneered, “Shit, I can’t even be jealous enough to make a name for you and then watch you sleep with the flower girl again?”

“You don’t have a fling every day.”

“Can it be the same.”

“It’s all the same with the lights off.”

“It’s blowing out the lights, isn’t it?” Sung Tingfeng corrected.

Oil lamps are for blowing. What’s the point of turning them off?

Zhu Guangxiao was likewise exhaling, and when he heard this, he paused for a moment, opened his eyes, and said, “In addition to the Flower Leader of the Department of Education, I see that that Sheriff Lv of the government office is also very much in favor of the Ning Banquet.”

Song Tingfeng instantly became more sour, “How did you do it? The ability to tease a good family is too strong, teach your brother a few tricks?”

“Brother?”

“Teach your brother a few tricks.”

“You need to call Dad.”

“Scram!” Song Tingfeng flatly refused, he had been tricked once before by Xu Ningyan using the same routine.

“Call it or not?”

“Dad.”

Xu Qi’an laughed.

“What do you mean?” Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao didn’t understand.

“Go for the heart, not the kidneys.” Xu Qi’an said.

“Seems a bit reasonable, but are you really qualified to say that.” After Song Tingfeng finished speaking, he suddenly said angrily, “You lied to my old man about a father again, hurry up and shout back or I’ll kill you.”

He said and lunged over, ready to strongman lock the male.

At that moment, the three men’s ears twitched as they heard cries for help from outside.

“Something’s wrong… “Xu Qi’an stomped away from Song Tingfeng, not bothering to put on his boots, and rushed out of the room.

The two cohorts followed close behind.

Almost at the same time, the highly cultivated silver gongs rushed out, followed by the copper gongs.

There is no boat in the night, moored in a zone of gentle current, the dark water, a Hubenwei’s man made a strong flutter, sometimes sinking into the water, sometimes hard to drill out.

He looked like he could swim, but something underneath the water was pulling at him, dragging him dead center into the water.

“Hmph!”

From the cabin, there was a cold grunt from Jiang Ruizhong.

That Huben Wei who fell into the water all of a sudden seemed to be unbound and floated to the surface without continuing to sink.

The watchman on deck dropped the rope and pulled him up.

At this time, many more Huben guards rushed up from the bottom of the cabin, cloaked and tense.

“It’s fine, it’s just someone who fell into the water.” Xu Qi’an twisted his head to reassure him, then, turning his head to scrutinize the hanyou who had fallen into the water, he saw a greenish-purple handprint at his ankle.

“What’s going on?” A silver gong asked, a silver gong under Jiang Luchong’s command.

This time, the one who led the team was the golden gong Jiang Ruizhong, and except for Xu Qi’an, who was assigned by Wei Yuan to practice, the rest of the night watchmen were under Jiang Ruizhong’s command.

As for Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao, it was Xu Qi’an who dragged them along because the travel allowance was too tempting. And there was another opportunity to establish merit.

The hanyou spat out a few mouthfuls of water and quickly recovered, only his face was a bit pale, presumably from the shock.

“I’ve been drinking too much wine, and just now I ran up there to let the water out…Suddenly I heard someone in the water calling me, and when I looked down, it was my late old mother.

“I don’t know what happened, but when I remembered how much my old mother had raised me, I mourned so much that I jumped.

“After falling into the water, my humble servant came to his senses, even if my old mother had turned into a ghost, how could she appear here. But that thing grabbed my feet to death and dragged me toward the bottom of the water ….”

“It’s a water phantom,” said an experienced boatman, a little alarmed, “The corpses of the dead are transformed into shadowy creatures that often lure passers-by into the water. I don’t know how many people have to die in this canal every year, so the Yin Qi accumulates over time, and it is inevitable that water phantoms are spawned.

“It’s better for grown-ups to stay out at night; the water charmers never go ashore, so long as they don’t come on deck. When we go out on the ship, we eat and drink in the cabin every night. That’s the rule of the trade.”

The crowd could not help but turn their heads and look at the dark water, encountering this kind of thing at night, strange oozing.

With this episode, the armorers of the Hubenwei stopped coming out at night to solve their metabolic problems, and the watchmen did what they had to do.

Let’s just say that Xu Qi’an, every time at night, deliberately ran to the deck for a dip, but didn’t encounter the legendary water phantom.

It wasn’t that Xu Qi’an was so bold that he wanted to let Water Mistress take maternity leave, he just wanted to see what a water monkey looked like. In his previous life, he had been scared by the stories of water monkeys.

On this day, the Chinaman’s party finally arrived at the Qingzhou wharf.

After arriving at Qingzhou, they will have to change to the dry road, and by taking the dry road, they will have to have carriages and horses, which are not available to the Chinaman’s team.

Need to get the Qingzhou government to help with dispatch.

After getting off the boat, Inspector Zhang smilingly walked over to Xu Qi’an and said, “The Prefect of Qingzhou is a great scholar from Yunlu Academy, Yang Gong Yang Ziqian.”

Xu Qi’an didn’t react for a moment, and Inspector Zhang added, “No. Ziyang Jushi.”