Chapter 161: Going to Jiang City for the Assignment (1/2)
Chapter 161: Going to Jiang City for the Assignment
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The sky cleared after a light rain, leaving the moist and fresh air.
Early in the morning the shabby city gate of Jiang City was already open. As soon as the gate was open, oxcarts crowded out of the city with all sorts of sounds mixed together. Some were shouting to drive the carts. Some were yelling to rush out of the way, and some were cursing for their dropped commodities. Some were greeting their acquaintances with laughter.
It was the tapestry of each early morning in Jiang City. As the most important water transport dock of Zhonghe Prefecture, Jiang City had a prosperous business. It was the biggest commodity distributing center in Zhonghe Prefecture. Each day it was flooded by countless horses and carts, especially in the early morning, it was just like the morning rush hours of Junior Leopard's previous life. Nobody knew how many goods needed to be carried out. When they were out of the city, the carts would move a dozen miles along the official route. As they reached a crossroad, different merchandisers would separate and head to their destinations respectively.
Rain had wet the ground yesterday. Although it was the official route, as an official route situated outside a small county, it wasn't well constructed. Numerous carts crossing the route had caused the damp road to become a mess in less than one hour. Mud and stones were thrown in the air, water accumulated on the soil, causing it to flow everywhere.
Stretching his body, Su Ergou walked out of the city gate with a big broom in hand. It was nearly noon now, merchandisers that had awoken early had long been out of the city, so it was no longer busy here. Those who were walking were all ordinary people. Some were heading towards the city, some were heading towards the rural areas. All were scattered around.
Su Ergou began to sweep the ground with his broom from the city gate to the road pointing away of the city. He cleared all the mud and accumulated water off the road, but his purpose was not to keep the road 100% clean, the goal was merely to make sure the ground wasn't too messy and was flat enough.
This was his daily work. Having lived in the Jiang City for 56 years and doing this job for 40 years, he was half admitted as the civil servant here. Life could also be called easy.
Words had it that it wasn't safe in Jiang City recently. But however messy this place was, it wouldn't influence Su Ergou's life. What trouble would a cleaner get into after all?
Therefore, contrarily, he was having a better time compared to those full-time civil servants.
Su Ergou swept the floor once in a while. It was obvious that he was absent-minded now. He had many things to think about on his mind!
His neighbor, Old Huang's family was ruined. He was such an idiot. He could make an enemy of anybody, but had chosen to make Sergeant Wu his enemy. Just by relying on the cloth store, he thought he was powerful, but he did not expect he would be charged of colluding with the water bandits by Sergeant Wu. Now his store had been ransacked and he was thrown into the jail. The cries were miserable when the County Administration's yamen runner went to his house and caught him.
”Old Huang's daughter is pretty and well educated. Now that their family has been ruined, I can probably seek a chance to get her. If I succeeded, then...” A pleasant smile climbed on Su Ergou's face as he was thinking of the matter. Just as he was feeling the best, he suddenly felt that something wasn't right. He raised his head, but a strange yelling followed, then the broom that was previously in his hand was thrown afar. He moved backwards continuously and only when he had walked 30 to 40 feet did he stop. As he stopped, he immediately slumped onto the ground.
”You, you, you, who are you?”
Sitting on the ground, Su Ergou stumbled, pointing at the figure as if he had seen a ghost. Standing in front of him was a man and a beast.
The man looked normal. He was young, tall and appeared powerful. But in these days, many people appeared powerful, because anyone who had practiced martial arts had an unconscious Qi Power all over their body. Having swept the floor in this Jiang City for such a long time, Su Ergou had surely seen such people before.
But what terrified him wasn't the man, it was the huge silver dog. No, it was a wolf. No, it was...
No matter if it was a dog or a wolf, it was one of them. He had seen a lot at the age of 56, but frankly speaking, it was the first time that he saw such a huge dog. It was even bigger than a calf. As it stood there, its height could reach his shoulder. Covered in shiny and silvery fur, the dog was incomparably magisterial. It stood facing the wind and was staring at him with two cyan eyes as if he was its dinner. Su Ergou immediately felt desperate.
The tall lad who was standing beside the silver wolf did not answer Su Ergou's question. He gently patted at the wolf's head, ”Little Du, I've told you many times. Don't randomly scare people!”
The lad then turned his head and smiled at Su Ergou, ”Excuse me, there must be Jiang City, right?”
”Yes, here is Jiang City!” Su Ergou nodded non-stop. He glanced at the Silver Wolf and stepped back unconsciously, ”Are... Are you getting in the city?”
”Yeah!” The tall lad nodded his head and patted the Silver Wolf's back. It roared in a low voice glaring at Su Ergou as if letting off its dissatisfaction. Then it followed behind the lad towards the county.