Soul echo

Chapter 667 The Li Family

Zhong Ye traveled alone. It only took him an hour and a half from Jingzhou to Zhijiang.

He didn't ride a horse, but came running with his own legs.

Because he was walking in a straight line, the distance was shortened a lot, but because of the severe wear on the soles, he could only slow down a little.

If he doesn't need to control the speed, he can even compress the time into an hour.

When he arrived at Zhijiang, Zhong Ye didn't take a breath, breathing as usual, and he couldn't tell at all that he had just run more than 100 kilometers.

As soon as he arrived at Zhijiang, Zhong Ye saw a group of shacks close to the city wall from a distance. If nothing else happened, the people living there were refugees who escaped from the side of Huguang near Bashu.

Seeing that shanty town, Zhong Ye couldn't help frowning.

It is a good thing that Zhijiang gathered the refugees, but regardless of whether the refugees were infected with the plague, they were arranged to live near the city wall. What if the refugees were carrying the plague?
In Zhong Ye's opinion, Zhijiang's treatment was extremely unreasonable, even stupid.

Zhong Ye sighed softly, and walked towards Zhijiang County.

Zhijiang seems to be closed, the city gate near the refugee camp is closed, and other city gates are open as usual, but according to Zhong Ye's perception, there are not many movements inside and outside the city, even less than the chirping of insects and birds.

Zhong Ye also bypassed the refugee camp, and entered the city through another city gate, listening to those people's groans and sighs.

"Who is coming?"

It was deserted and deserted in front of the city gate, so the soldiers guarding the city gate saw Zhong Ye at a glance, subconsciously clenched their spears, and immediately shouted.

When Zhong Ye approached, they panicked even more.

The gun in his hand was not as tall as that person. Although the person was unarmed, it could be seen from his muscular body that this person was by no means simple.

"My name is Zhong Ye, and I'm from Jingzhou." Zhong Ye took out the Supervisory Censor Order, "It's the Supervisory Censor."

The soldiers didn't understand this, and neither did the gatekeepers, so they all fell into a daze when they looked at the token in Zhong Ye's hand.

Then, they looked at each other, hesitating.

"Huh? Zhong Ye?"

At this moment, a soldier gave a sound of surprise, and suddenly remembered where he had seen the name 'Zhong Ye' before.

"'Jade Faced Yama' Zhong Ye?!" The soldier screamed, his face pale.

He came from Jingzhou, he was tall and handsome, he was the supervisory censor, and he called himself 'Zhong Ye'—isn't this the Zhong Ye in "The Record of Heroes"?

If only 'Zhong Ye' was mentioned, the others would not be impressed, but when the word 'Jade Faced Yama' was mentioned, they jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Now who doesn't know that there is a murderous Zhong Ye in Jingzhou?

This person will draw his sword and kill as long as he has anything to do with evil spirits, whether he is a high-ranking official or a commoner.

It is said that Jingzhou was killed by him until the blood flowed like a river, and there were hundreds of dead.

Although the number of people traveling between Jingzhou and Zhijiang has increased in the past half month, and Zhong Ye's reputation has improved a little, they still feel afraid of Zhong Ye.

The soldiers looked at Zhong Ye, then at their little arms and legs, swallowed, and turned to look at the doorman.

Noticing their gazes, the gatekeeper couldn't help cursing from the bottom of his heart, forced a smile on his face, and said tremblingly: "Master, sir, please, I, younger one will take you to the Yamen..."

The gatekeeper saw Zhong Ye's eyes slanted and looked at him, his heartbeat seemed to stop suddenly, blocking his chest.

"Please lead the way." Zhong Ye nodded.

After finishing speaking, he turned his gaze to the deserted streets in the city, and frowned.

Jingzhou has also taken in hundreds of refugees, but life inside Jingzhou is as usual, which is not as cold as Zhijiang.

Zhijiang county magistrate's management methods are not very good. If the ban is longer, the people will probably riot.

After all, the Dan world is not comparable to the earth in this era. Most common people have no savings. The ban means tension, which will lead to rising prices of firewood, rice, oil and salt. But do the officials in Zhijiang have a record to solve this problem?

Zhong Ye felt that they should not exist.

The gatekeeper was leading the way, but he felt like a light was on his back, and his legs couldn't help shaking. Fortunately, Zhong Ye didn't speak suddenly on the way, otherwise he might be so scared that he would sit down on the ground.

"My lord, just ahead is the yamen." The gatekeeper stammered.

Zhong Ye had noticed it a long time ago, and after thanking the gatekeeper, he turned and walked towards the yamen.

Looking at the closed door in front of him, Zhong Ye frowned slightly, knocked with his fingers, and broke the latch through the door panel, then pushed open the door and walked in.

The gatekeeper was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, but seeing Zhong Ye directly push the door into the county office, he was still a little puzzled—couldn't the gate be bolted?
Because the whole city was closed, there was no work to do, and most of the yamen servants rested at home, so that the county yamen was silent and there were no people coming and going.

Suddenly, Zhong Ye frowned, stepped on the frozen air and climbed up to the roof, standing on the roof overlooking the backyard of the county office.

In a pavilion in the backyard, several middle-aged and elderly people were pushing cups and changing glasses, laughing and talking.

With a soft snort, Zhong Ye stepped on the air and walked towards the backyard, slowly descending from the sky.

A middle-aged man who was joking with others saw Zhong Ye stepping down from the sky, his eyes widened and he screamed.

His exclamation attracted everyone's attention, they all turned their heads and stood up abruptly.

"Who are you?!"

Zhong Ye took out the censor order and threw it away.

The token was facing up and landed on the stone table in the pavilion. Everyone's eyes were also attracted to it. After seeing the words on the token, their brows and eyes twitched.

"You should have heard of my name." Zhong Ye said slowly, and walked over, "My name is Zhong Ye."

Hearing this name, everyone present was stunned, as if a gust of cold wind hit them, freezing their vision and their bodies becoming stiff.

Zhong Ye... the Zhong Ye who killed [-]% of the officials in the Jingzhou government?

Who knows, the teeth began to chatter, and the upper and lower teeth collided together, making a strange sound.

Zhong Ye also noticed the voice, and turned his head to look, "Are you afraid of me? Why? Are you involved with demons?"

"No! No!" The man screamed immediately, turned his head to look at Zhong Ye in horror, and then had an idea, "Lord Zhong, I confess! I shouldn't have taken money from the Li family, and I shouldn't have proposed to the county magistrate. City! I was wrong, I was really wrong!"

After hearing what he said, Zhong Ye glanced at the supervisory censor order on the table, but there was no change.

Picking up the token from the table, Zhong Ye looked at the others, "What about you? Do you have anything to say?"

The others hurriedly shook their heads, fearing that Zhong Ye would cut off their heads if they were a second or two late.

Looking at them like this, one can tell that their power has basically been established.

Zhong Ye took a breath, tapped the stone table with his finger, "You should know what Zhijiang looks like now, right?"

"Clearly..."

Someone answered in a hurry, but he didn't hear other people's voices. He turned his head and looked at the others, all of them were silent, staring at him angrily, and realized with a buzzing head what stupid things he had just said.

"Since you know, why are you still drinking and having fun here?"

Zhong Ye's voice drifted from their ears into their minds, causing huge waves in their minds.

They found that Zhong Ye was looking at them with eyes as if he was looking at a dead person, and their bodies couldn't help trembling.

"Now I am in charge of Jingzhou according to His Majesty's will, so I am the prefect of Jingzhou, and you must obey me."

Seeing the fear of these people, Zhong Ye smiled coldly, and continued to imprint on their hearts, making them fear him even more.

"I don't care who you took the money from, the Li family, the Wang family, the Sun family or any other family. Now I will give you half an hour to call all the people from the county government. I want to take over Zhijiang and deal with it. The problem of refugees outside the city."

After speaking, Zhong Ye took out a pocket watch and glanced at the time, "The counting starts from now."

Several people were still a little dazed, not quite understanding what he meant by this sentence.

But soon someone reacted, his face changed suddenly, and he ran wildly.

The others stared blankly at the running back of the man, thought for a while, and then their expressions changed, and they hurriedly opened their legs and shouted.

"Xiao Cui, hurry up and prepare clothes for me, master! Hurry up!"

"Ji Nan, you go and call the police, Li Dongfeng, you go and call the other officials, and let them all gather at the county government office!"

Hearing their panicked shouts, Zhong Ye sat down on a chair, glanced at the 'food and wine' on the table, and sneered.

　I misremembered the previous setting in the last chapter, and now I changed the destination
　　
　
(End of this chapter)