Zhao Cheng hurriedly said: "How can that be done? How can any gentleman go to see the students? If Mr. Zheng goes, I will be too rude."
Then he said to Xiao Yue'er: "Don't worry, Xiao Yue'er, I have already brought you candy."
Xiao Yue'er clapped her hands and danced towards Zhao Cheng: "Congratulations, brother, for being a high school criminal!" Zhao Cheng hurriedly took out the candy and handed it to Xiao Yue'er.
Zheng Yucheng stroked his beard and said: "The fact that you were the first to win the case shows that your efforts during this period have not been in vain. However, you must guard against arrogance and impetuosity and calm down to prepare for the government examination."
Zhao Cheng knew that he had just started on the road to the imperial examination. If he wanted to truly enter an official career, he still had to cross several single-plank bridges.
He sent the gift to Zheng Yucheng's home and chatted with him in the yard for half an hour. Seeing that Zheng Yucheng was a little depressed, Zhao Cheng said goodbye.
"Mr. Zheng, I'm going back first. I may have to attend the banquet prepared by the county magistrate tomorrow."
Zheng Yucheng hummed: "Go ahead and take a good rest these days. By the end of February, you will be preparing for the imperial examination."
While Zhao Cheng was busy running around the county trying out Chinese food, the MSG warehouse in Moon Bay had also been completely cleaned up.
A dozen barbarians cleaned up all the materials, packed the finished MSG into jars, and loaded it into the carriage that Zhao Cheng had prepared long ago and transported it away.
The remaining tanks and firewood in the warehouse have been cleaned up, and even the waste water is poured into the bank trough outside for fertilization.
There was nothing else to do in the warehouse. Ahufeng looked around the warehouse. During this period, he and a dozen tribesmen had been working hard here day and night, while waiting for news about Achi.
Now that A Chi has finally arrived, their hard work has been considered to be in vain.
Ahufeng looked around the warehouse with emotion and said to Achi: "We can leave now. Let's go back as soon as possible. Du Zhao's patience is limited. Several years have passed since we came out to find you. I only hope that Du Zhao Zhao keeps his promise and will not harm our people until you go back."
A Chi glanced at Ah Feng and said in a sullen voice: "Du Zhao is not qualified to interrogate us. He is not a bloodline of Fenghuang Mountain, and his surname is not even Pan. What qualifications does he have to interrogate us?"
Ah Feng was so angry that he slapped Ah Chi on the back of the head: "Of course Du Zhao is not qualified, but he has soldiers. Should we go to war with the Chen Dynasty?"
A Chi touched the back of his head, which was numb due to the beating, with a gloomy expression, but said nothing.
Du Zhao was one of the generals who guarded the border areas in the Chen Dynasty. The majority of people near his garrison were She people. Because he pursued the border town policy of the current emperor of "taking care of people who are far away, and keeping righteousness in restraint", he has always been a member of the Xuan Dynasty. A sharp sword on the heads of these She people.
Ah Feng glanced at A Chi and asked, "At that time, have you ever been to Qingzhou and had you had any contact with people from the Chen Dynasty? Tell me first."
Ahufeng is the leader of this branch, and everyone listens to him, except Achi.
A Chi didn't want to tell Ahu Feng this, nor did he want to say what he had experienced in these years, because he knew that even if he did, it would be useless and the leader would not understand.
Moreover, the leader's vision is limited to the thousand-mile radius of Phoenix Mountain. Beyond that boundary, he doesn't care even if the sky falls.
So A Chi didn't believe that Ahu Feng could understand what he said. If he couldn't understand it, then why bother talking.
"Ahu Feng, do you know? It will take at least a year for us to return to Phoenix Mountain by land, and we don't know how many mountains we have to climb and how many rivers we have to cross on the way."
"But if we take a boat from Qingshui River all the way east, it will take a month to reach the seaside."
"It was just April at that time, and the water on the sea would surge south. It would only take more than two months to go south by boat, and you would return to Qianfan Port. From there, it would only take half a month to return to Fenghuang Mountain."
"Together, we will be home before July, saving half a year."
Ahufeng glanced at Achi: "Do you recognize the waterway?"
A Chi nodded, then shook his head: "I know this route, but I have never taken it before."
Ahufeng said: "It's not that I, an old antique, refuses to take a shortcut, but by taking you with me, I am carrying the hope of the whole clan."
"If you run away on the road, we can catch you, or at least go back a little way and look around."
"But on the sea, when a wave hits, all directions are lost. If you take the opportunity to run away, you don't know where to find you."
"The people in the clan are waiting for me to take you back, and I can't let their hopes fail."
A Chi frowned and retorted: "But this time I took the initiative to come back. You have been waiting here for me. I took the initiative to contact you."
Ah Feng slapped Ah Chi on the back of the head with his backhand: "If I hadn't brought your mother's headscarf, would you have come back?"
At this time, in the county government office of Qinghe County, Master He was having a conversation with a middle-aged scribe.
"Mr. Sun, in your opinion, Brother Mao was actually killed? Is this unlikely?"
"To be honest, there have been no homicides in our Qinghe County in the past three years. The people are simple, the place is peaceful, and we have the care and protection of Lifang. If something happens, we can quickly gather together. It is very safe."
The middle-aged scribe was Sun An, who was surveying for traces outside the city in the morning. He waved a fan slowly and said: "According to my observation, after the murderer succeeded, the wheel marks continued to the north and did not enter the city."
Chief He slapped his thigh: "Yes, so there is no murderer in Qinghe County."
Sun An shook his head: "But this is just the murderer's maze. Don't be fooled by him. The car is going north, but the person must be going south. It should be in this city."
When Master He heard what Sun An said, he couldn't help but feel a headache.
When Maowu came to Qinghe County before, he always kept to himself. Even if he wanted to, the county couldn't curry favor with him. What's more, Maowu was mysterious and many things were not suitable for others to know.
Therefore, Master He really has no way of finding out Maowu's whereabouts.
Sun An said: "Master Chief He, don't worry. I have sent people to chase Maowu's body. There is no need to worry. As long as there are traces, they will be found."
"I came to see Mr. He because I actually wanted to track down the murderer."
"The murderer?" Chief He felt that Sun An was a bit boastful. Without even seeing the body, you can make things up to make things look real, and you don't know if it's true or not.
Sun An took out a small silver ring from his sleeve and placed it on the table.
"This silver ring should have been left behind by the murderer. I came to see Mr. He just to borrow some county officials to surround the murderer to prevent him from escaping."
