(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

On 17 April, the fifth day of the withdrawal of the Donghai Kou, that is, the day after Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army back to Chongzhou and conquered the Guangjiao Temple, Lin Jian jointly issued a post in the name of the Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy and Wu Meijiu, who temporarily represented the Chongzhou Governor, to announce the case of the bandits to calm the people's minds. He also posted a list of selected talents, selected talents from the localities to supplement officials, and rebuilt and operated several sets of county government teams.

Lin Jian unceremoniously stamped his seal on Wu Meijiu, forming a de facto situation in which the garrison controlled the place.

Before last night, Wu Meijiu might have to fight with Lin Jian for the power of Chongzhou.

Seeing that Lin Lian calmly and indifferently stabbed Cihai, who was kind and kind-eyed and looked like a high-ranking monk, to death with a knife, and the Guangjiao Temple, which had two hundred and fifty or sixty monks and soldiers, was taken by the Jiangdong Left Army effortlessly, Wu Meijiu completely gave up the idea of fighting with Lin Lian, and only thought about asking someone to find a relationship, and leaving this place where there was no oil and water to fish.

Chen Jiawei.

Listening to the first rooster crow, Chen Lei turned over and woke up, the window paper was broken, the weather was warm, and he didn't have the heart to close the hole/eye. Although this time the city was plagued by a catastrophe and the countryside suffered no crime, who knows when those pirates who should be killed will come ashore again?

Looking at the fog from the hole/eye, I realized that there was a fog outside.

"Didn't you say you were going to the city?" Chen Lei's mother-in-law listened to the sound of her husband turning over and sitting up, opened her eyes and asked him.

"What's there to see, I took a look at it the day before yesterday, and there are corpses in the Xiahao River in the north of the city, and no one cleans it up, maybe there will be a plague. You remember to tell your family about it, and you have less contact with outsiders. Chen Lei said. The Chen family has a shop in the city, and afterwards a guy fled back, saying that the shop was burned down, Chen Lei went to the city to see it the day before yesterday, but he couldn't bear to tell the family about the remnants of the shop, so he said that he stopped outside the city.

Enze was killed along with other boys in the county school, and it was a disaster for the Chen family, and then the shop in the city remained. The shop was destroyed, there was nothing, the silver was empty, half of the yard was burned, and the shopkeeper and two men were killed. The account books are burned to ashes, and the accounts of others hanging up the shop are not counted, but the accounts owed by the shop to other families, as long as others can find their roots, they must also be repaid - Chen Lei had a headache about these things, thinking about buying dozens of acres of land in the countryside, the shopkeeper and the two guys died because of guarding the shop after all, how much to say to their family, and the rest can almost be used to pay off debts.

How to live in the future, Chen Lei hasn't had time to think about it.

Chen Lei has not slept well these days, tossing and turning, and the things in the field at this time can be done by Zhu Gui, a long-term worker, without the help of the master's family, but he just can't sleep well. Simply picked up the gown from the foot of the bed and put it on, Chen Lei heard the dog barking in the yard, afraid of startling the only remaining mule in the backyard, he was about to go out and kick the dog in the stomach twice, when he heard someone passing by outside the yard, he barked and tossed endlessly.

"Bang bang!" Someone knocked on the courtyard door outside, and there seemed to be the sonorous sound of clanging swords on the iron armor.

Chen Lei was taken aback, who would come to the door so early?

His mother-in-law also sat up in fright, her face pale. On the day Haikou landed, Chen Lei's mother-in-law was also in the city, and she thought that she would die with her husband at that time, so she didn't stay in the city that seemed safer at the time, and fled back to the countryside. His mother-in-law had heard the sound of the pirate armor tapping in the ditch, it was too similar, she subconsciously thought that there was a pirate running to Chenjiawei.

As soon as Chen Lei was about to ask who was outside, his mother-in-law covered his mouth desperately and didn't let him speak.

"Chen Er Mazi, Chen Er Mazi ......"

Hearing the voice of the first chief Chen Jingkui, Chen Lei's heart was also relieved, he broke his mother-in-law's hand, raised his eyebrows and scolded softly: "What's the matter, you treat Bai Banmi's face as a ghost?" Chen Jingkui had a big white spot on his face, and the villagers called him "white half face".

Chen Lei put on his clothes and walked into the yard, he was not happy that others called him "Chen Er Mazi", and responded while buttoning it: "Call you daddy, call you daddy, such a loud voice early in the morning, shout again, be careful that my sunspot bites off your eggs!" ”

"So much nonsense, the county sent someone to find you!" Chen Jingkui scolded outside the door.

Chen Lei was startled, listening to the voice, the people around Chen Jingkui are soldiers, what is the county sending troops to look for him?

Chen Jingkui banged on the courtyard door outside and said, "Where is your weak heart?" The county said that it was a meritocracy to make up for the officials - you were chosen. ”

Chen Lei opened the courtyard door and saw two strong, brave and strong armor-clad warriors standing behind Chen Jingkui, the first chief, and his heart was even more weak, and his mother-in-law also put on her clothes and looked behind the door.

"You are Chen Jiawei Chen Lei, not pretending?" The soldier at the head opened a paper booklet and pointed to the small characters on it and asked Chen Lei.

Chen Lei was also strange in his heart, but it was indeed written in the booklet that he was busy saluting the two soldiers: "The two soldiers have worked hard...... The little one is Chen Jiawei cloth clothes Chen Lei, and Chen Jiawei doesn't have a second person named Chen Lei, it's just a matter of picking up the virtuous and doing things, is it the wrong person? He glanced at Chen Jingkui suspiciously, how could he suddenly make up for the officials who could make up for the merits?

"I can't be wrong, I came back from the county overnight. In the county, from the magistrate Chen Kun and Hong Changji down, except for Li Shuyi in Xisha, the others are all dead. The county is short of manpower, and at this time it can only be by-elected from the local government, how can you be wrong if you can settle accounts and be literate? Chen Jingkui said, he also felt that this matter was strange, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to recommend his second child to the county, but he didn't know what shit Chen Lei ate, and no one mentioned him, but he was listed in the by-election list, "I didn't say that I must use you, I have to go to the county to answer questions and answers, and only through the questions and answers will I officially be elected to the by-election." You're quick, and you're going to get to the county before noon. If you make a mistake, blame it, don't blame me for not reminding you! The monks of Guangjiao Temple killed more than 200 last night! ”

"Ahh Chen Lei was stunned there, the news in the countryside was blocked, no one went to the city, what was going on in Chongzhou County, basically no one knew, the soldiers were in chaos, no one would wander around outside, Chen Lei naturally didn't know about the Jiangdong Left Army returning to Chongzhou to attack Zilang Mountain yesterday, "What's going on?" Why did the monks of Guangjiao Temple kill so many? Tokai Kou is here again? "He actually doesn't want to be an official, if Donghai Kou comes again, he will die faster than anyone else!

"Pig ...... Lord Lin came back yesterday with the Jiangdong Left Army," Chen Jingkui ate the word "Qian'er" into his stomach, and the chief of the township invited him to Zilang Mountain last night, and he hurried back to lead the way to invite Chen Lei to Zilang Mountain, he had first-hand information, and said to Chen Lei, "The monk of Guangjiao Temple is a thief monk, and the East China Sea Kou went ashore, which is the road led by those thief monks." As soon as Lord Lin came back, he immediately took the opportunity to kill those thieves and monks—damn it, dozens of wounded pirates hid in the temple to recuperate from their injuries, and pulled them out together. The monasteries suspected of bandits in various townships were controlled by the Jiangdong Left Army, and the monks and nuns had to gather in Zilang Mountain for interrogation. ”

Chen Lei had a lot of eyes in his heart, thinking that the Jiangdong Left Army would know about the monks and bandits of Guangjiao Temple just after returning yesterday, could it be that someone on Xisha Island had already seen the monks of Guangjiao Temple colluding with pirates?

With all kinds of doubts, Chen Lei put the last remaining mule in the family on the saddle, took the long-term worker He Gui, and rushed to Zilang Mountain with Chen Jingkui under the protection of two horseback warriors, and walked forty miles, it was already noon.

Chen Lei rushed to the mountain gate at the northern foot of Zilang Mountain, the Jiangdong Left Army had been officially stationed along the north foot and the east foothills, and the command tent was set up in the Donglu Zen Temple, and the main camp of the Jiangdong Left Army was also in the east foothills, and the North Foot Zen Temple was used as a temporary county office, and several posts were posted on the pink and white walls on both sides of the mountain gate.

Chen Lei instructed He Gui to lead the mule to guard at the mountain gate, don't go far, he went to the wall to look at the notices, some said about the bandits, said that there was disaster relief and comfort to the people, all of them were urgent matters, and they were too urgent, and there was no order, but the two big seals commanded by the Jinghai Metropolitan Supervisor and the Jiangdong Zuoying Township Army were conspicuously pressed on the big seal of Chongzhou Zhixian.

The election of officials in the county was originally the duty of the magistrate, Wu Meijiu temporarily acted as the magistrate of Chongzhou, Chen Lei and Wu Meijiu had no relationship for eight lifetimes, and they were very confused from early morning to now.

The official history of the so-called "Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy" sounds unfamiliar, and I don't know what the origin is, but the order of the notice printing is very elegant, and it is naturally heavier than the Chongzhou Governor or the Hailing Mansion Sikou to join the army. In addition, it is appropriate for Lin Tie and Wu Meijiu to use the seal together for the notice of the bandit case, but the notice of Anmin and the notice of selecting talents, Lin Tie also uses the seal on it, which has a great meaning.

Chen Lei thought to himself, he was selected, could it have something to do with this? He walked into the courtyard of the Beishanmen Zen Monastery with Chen Jingkui, saw Hu Zhicheng walking over, and hurriedly beckoned him: "Brother Zhicheng!" You're here too......" He knew that the Hu family had moved to the island and was close to that Lord Lin, and wanted to ask what was going on. Because his son was robbed by pirates in the county school together, and at first they thought of ways to make up money and beg for help, Chen Lei, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng knew each other like this, and they still moved around with each other, but after the Hu family went to the island, they didn't have much contact. If Hu Zhicheng and Hu Zhiyong helped to speak, it would make sense.

Hu Zhicheng was so busy that his butt was smoking, Wu Meijiu was quite cooperative, and everything was pushed on his and Li Shuyi's heads, Cao Ziang and others did not have an official name after all, and he and Li Shuyi had not closed their eyes and taken a nap since last night. To transport a batch of relief grain from Xisha Island, he was about to rush to the riverside to have a look, but he really didn't have time to say anything to Chen Lei from Chenjiawei, so he hugged his fists and said: "Brother Chen Lei is here, this is all dinner, someone arranges for dinner, and I will talk to you when I have to be free......" After a few words of greeting, he hurriedly said goodbye and left.

Chen Lei was only then that he was sure that he was suddenly elected, and it was the Hu family brothers who helped him speak, and he was grateful, seeing that they were really busy, he did not delay him, and he and Chen Jingkui went to the designated courtyard.

Chen Lei is not the farthest road, like the Dongshe area, he didn't leave until dusk, and just like that, there were already sixty or seventy people in the courtyard. Chen Jingkui led him here and left, the chief of the inner and the first has his own call, unless he is in the by-election, there is no need to stay here...... There are many people Chen Lei doesn't know, and there are several people who are relatives of the kidnapped boy in the Chongzhou boy case, Chen Lei knows, and thinks that Mo Dao is recommended by the Hu family brothers? Seeing so many people, I wondered in my heart: so many people are needed for this by-election?

The county magistrate, county magistrate, and county lieutenant are all officials sent by Beijing, and it is not the turn of the local government to call the shots, and the only people in the county who can be temporarily by-elected are the six-room clerks, post officers, and the leaders of the three-class officials and bow and knife teams, and thirteen or fourteen people can do it.

"Where is Chen Jiawei?" A soldier came into the courtyard and asked.

"Master Bing, the little one is from Chenjiawei......" Chen Lei wondered what was going on.

"My little general wants to see you, and I want to be polite to you," the soldier said, "I don't dare to call the soldier master, you come with me ......."

Chen Lei followed the soldiers out of the Beishanmen Zen Monastery and walked to the east, the garrison in the east was heavily guarded, and Chen Lei became more and more empty-hearted: What did he do in the barracks? The Hu brothers didn't look for him, and a little general appeared out of nowhere.

Walked to the Dongshanmen Zen Courtyard, passed through the door, walked to a remote courtyard, saw the young armor-piercing general waiting for him there, and asked the soldiers who brought him to go out first. Chen Lei kept the rules, didn't dare to stare at people, opened his mouth and was just about to say goodbye, when he looked up, he instantly felt that this young general was so familiar, and his heart seemed to give Lei a blow, isn't this the grace he gave to his son who has been robbed for two years? He raised his sleeve and wiped his eyes, just as he was dazzled, there are not no people in the world who look alike.

Chen Lei was about to take a closer look, but Chen Enze knelt on the ground and shouted, "Daddy, the child is on his knees!" ”