Riding a chopping horse and stepping into the world

Chapter 126 Zhang Tie Returns
As soon as he entered Biancheng County, Zhang Tie instantly felt the changes in Biancheng County. In the ten days since he left, Biancheng County has become completely different.

When walking, although the street is clean, there are indeed not many shops on both sides of the street, and there are not many pedestrians.

Now, not only are there more shops on both sides of the street, but there are also more pedestrians coming and going on the street. These people coming and going are naturally shoppers, and the spirit of each pedestrian is also very different.

Shops are the biggest source of income in each county. When you open a shop, you don’t open it for nothing. You have to pay taxes, and this tax will go into the county’s treasury.

Now that there are more shops, the income of Biancheng County will naturally increase, which greatly reduces the burden on Zhang Tie and others. After all, soldiers need wages.

Biancheng County would receive wages from the higher-ups every three months. Chief officials like Zhang Shun and Liu Yi would not deduct wages from the higher-ups, but soldiers' wages were hard to say, and deductions were common.

But you have to pay the wages of the soldiers, so naturally you need the money from taxes to pay the soldiers.

The passers-by seemed to know Zhang Tie, and they showed bright smiles to him, and Zhang Tie also nodded with a smile in response.

In this way, Zhang Tie led the horse with a smile all the way to the outside of the county government office.

When entering the yamen, the yamen servants at the gate saluted Zhang Tie, nodded slightly, and Zhang Tie stepped into the yamen of Biancheng County, which he hadn't seen for a long time.

Entering the backyard, there are only Zhang Tie's mother Yuping, younger sister Zhang Xiaohua, and the female soldier Jiang Bilan in the yard.

Seeing Zhang Tie's return, Zhang Tie's mother and younger sister Zhang Xiaohua happily stepped forward to watch him, asking questions from time to time, mostly asking about the situation on the railway and whether he was injured.

Regarding the inquiries from relatives, Zhang Tie was warm in his heart, and answered their questions carefully.

Jiang Bilan, who was washing clothes by the well, looked at Zhang Tie with twinkling eyes from time to time, with admiration and an indescribable emotion in her eyes.

Once he noticed that Zhang Tie was looking this way, he immediately lowered his head and continued to wash the clothes in his hands. After a while, he continued to peek at Zhang Tie again.

While Zhang Tie was talking, he looked at Jiang Bilan strangely. Jiang Bilan's situation today made Zhang Tie a little strange and a little embarrassed.

She thought it was because she was busy on the road these days, didn't wash up, and her body was in a mess, which made Jiang Bilan look at him from time to time.

After talking with his mother for a while, Zhang Tie took out a small box from his luggage and opened it, revealing four little clay figurines inside.

When he was in Liexue Town, he specially asked someone to do it, and it looked exactly like Zhang Tie's family.

"Hey, little sister, you must put this away. This is our family."

Zhang Xiaohua took the box, looked at the villain inside, and nodded to Zhang Tie seriously.

"Don't worry, big brother, I will take good care of them."

After washing up, Zhang Tie changed into the equipment he took out from the inventory, and then walked out of the room again.

After asking where Zhang Shun and the others had gone, he bid farewell to Zhang Xiaohua and the others. Zhang Tie left the Yamen and walked towards where Zhang Shun and the others were.

Near the Biancheng County School, Zhang Shun, Zhang Sanfeng and Qiao Shan stood in the open space, looking at the warehouse that was about to be completed in front of them.

Under the command of a few craftsmen, more than a dozen soldiers lifted huge wooden blocks like hardworking ants and built them on the beams. On the top of the beams, craftsmen had already been on top of them, and they used small wooden hammers to buckle the wooden boards. Together.

With the last piece of wood paneled, the entire warehouse is officially completed.

"Okay, now the warehouse is completed, I'm just waiting for my brother to come back and renovate it."

Seeing that the warehouse was completely completed, Zhang Shun and the others let go of their burdens.

Food in Biancheng County is becoming more and more scarce now, and those refugees who have just been recruited outside the city are almost out of food, and the current food and grass can last for more than ten days at most. Only this year can we feed the refugees.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. Everyone comes to receive the ten-cent reward, go have a drink, and have a meal. Before Shen Shi (around three o'clock in the afternoon), go to Sanhu Village to build a sentry tower. I have already sent people to transport the materials. , you have all built it before, and when the time comes, you just have to build it accordingly."

Under Zhang Shun's signal, Qiao Shan picked up a bunch of copper coins that had been prepared a long time ago and distributed them to everyone present one by one.

The craftsmen and soldiers happily took the copper coins from Qiao Shan's hands, bowed to Zhang Shun, and said thank you. After that, the soldiers and craftsmen joined hands and prepared to have lunch and have a drink by the way.

When Zhang Tie came, he happened to see this scene.

"Brother, you are back!"

"Tie Daner, you're back!"

When Zhang Shun and the others found Zhang Tie approaching, they shouted happily and went up to meet him at the same time.

Zhang Tie also shouted happily: "Father, Shunzi, Hanmu, I'm back!"

The few of them talked about some daily matters first, mainly Zhang Sanfeng asked about the current situation in Liexue Town.

For Zhang Sanfeng, who grew up in Liexue Town, unlike Zhang Shun and Zhang Tie, Zhang Sanfeng has had a relationship in Liexue Town for nearly 40 years. There is a trace of nostalgia.

For the bandits that suddenly appeared in Liexue Town, Zhang Sanfeng's face changed slightly, and he became worried for Liexue Town, but he was only worried, and the top priority now was to protect the border town in front of him.

After Zhang Tie finished talking about the situation in Liexue Town, Zhang Shun asked, "By the way, brother, aren't you an escort now?"

Zhang Shun's question was somewhat hesitant, and he was the only one who knew the price Zhang Tie would have to pay after his dismissal.

Shaking his head slowly, Zhang Tie smiled, "I'm still an escort, but I don't have to go back to Liexue Town, because——"

Zhang Tie made a detour on purpose, and when he aroused the curiosity of Zhang Shun and the others, he said, "Because, the Deng family is going to set up a bodyguard bureau in Biancheng County, and I am the chief bodyguard here."

Everyone was happy, Zhang Shun was happy that Zhang Tie would not lose the mission reward, Zhang Sanfeng was happy because Zhang Tie didn't have to break his promise.

After Zhang Tie explained the ins and outs of the whole matter to Zhang Sanfeng and others one by one.

Qiao Shan, who was silent all the time, suddenly said: "If you say it this way, then the bodyguard agency here can be said to have become the Zhang family."

Qiao Shan's sudden words stunned Zhang Tie and the others, and then they all came to a sudden realization.

Isn't it true that the Deng family doesn't take a penny from Zhang Tie, but also provides contacts for Zhang Tie, and collects money for the escort of the Deng family's caravan. This undoubtedly does not mean that this escort agency already belongs to Zhang Tie up.

Deng Wei did this because, firstly, he wanted to use Zhang Tie's subordinates to conduct trade with Mongolia, South Korea and other countries, and secondly, he wanted to please Zhang Tie.

From the very beginning, Deng Wei knew that a person like Zhang Tie was definitely not something in the pool, and would rise to the sky sooner or later, and what Zhang Tie did also confirmed Deng Wei's conjecture. First, he killed more than a dozen people. The gangsters, and directly wiped out the bandits in a county within ten days (five days).

Naturally, Deng Wei wanted to take advantage of Zhang Tie's lack of fortune, and quickly establish a good relationship with Zhang Tie. This escort agency was the benefit Deng Wei gave Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie and the others were thoughtful, and then looked at Qiao Shan in amazement. Unexpectedly, among these people, it was not Zhang Shun who thought of it first, but Qiao Shan, who was a doorman, immediately saw the hidden truth. .

ps: I worked too hard yesterday. I wrote this in the middle of the night last night. I am in a bad state. I hope everyone can forgive me and I will be able to recover this afternoon.

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