"In the prefecture, the imperial guards in the prefectures should prevent thieves and bandits and guard the local area. If there is any trouble, they should prepare for military service. If there is no government, the prefectures will not be allowed to serve. However, the imperial guards are now serving as the former army. Although the generals and officials are in existence, they have no official duties. Only military officials are sent... The military commanders go down and the private service are numerous, which are the resources for corrupt officials." - Song Zhi

Ye Qing looked at the people in front of him and was about to let them go home and planned to report to the Imperial Guards tomorrow when he saw Wu Gui running over in panic. Not far behind Wu Gui, Lu Zhong was standing at the door of a teahouse, looking at him quietly.

"Ye Qing, come with me, General Lu has something to ask you for trouble." Wu Gui never had a good impression of Ye Qing and Li Heng, so even if Lu Zhong asked him to come and call Ye Qing over, his tone was still cold and full of disdain.

"What's the matter?" Ye Qing felt his right eyelid start to jump up again. He came to the so-called Song Dynasty in less than two months. There were no surprises and accidents. What troubles are going to happen today!

"I don't know, follow me quickly." Wu Gui urged impatiently.

Ye Qing, who felt a little guilty, couldn't help but look at Li Heng next to him, and saw that the guy also looked sad and dying.

Before he could communicate with Li Heng, how to continue to be as strong as a stone to cope with the tragic experience of fate, Ye Qing was pulled by Wu Gui and ran across the street. Standing in front of Lu Zhong, he didn't even have the time to speak, so he could only follow Wu Gui and then listen to Wu Gui's report.

"Come in with me." Lu Zhong stretched out his hands with his back, pointed at Ye Qing and said.

"Yes, general." Ye Qing glanced at Wu Gui, whose face was full of incredible things, and hurriedly followed Lu Zhong and walked into the teahouse.

After entering the teahouse, there was no noisy situation as Ye Qing imagined, but it seemed a little quiet, and a faint smell of sandalwood rushed into his nose.

Obviously, this is a very high-end teahouse with relatively high consumption. The sound of the piano like flowing water comes from the corner. The moment you step into the teahouse, you give people a feeling of relaxation and freehand painting.

Lu Zhong took Ye Qing to a table, then took out the transfer order he had just filled out from his arms, pointed to the signature and seal at the bottom and said, "Do you know how to read? If you don't know how to read, press a handprint."

As Lu Zhong said, a teahouse maid brought a piece of ink paste and placed it on their table. After saluting slightly, she quietly retreated.

"This...is this..." Ye Qing was a little confused and stared at the documents with many blank spaces, thinking to himself: Isn't this going to be where to send himself?

Now I have a sister-in-law in my family to take care of. If I send myself to Lingnan and spend my life with Ye Heng, the cheap sister-in-law at home will really have to be alone but will be in vain.

The wealthy businessmen or wealthy families in Lin'an City have privately found Lu Zhong and Wang Zhiwang upstairs to buy guards, not once or twice. So when he looked at Ye Qing's hesitant and hesitant expression, Lu Zhong naturally knew what they were thinking.

"From tomorrow, I won't have to go to the Imperial Guards again. I have found you a good job, which is more than the salary I earn from the Imperial Guards, and it's also in Lin'an City. Of course, you are still the leader of the Imperial Guards. If there is any major and urgent matter in the future, you will still have to go back to the Imperial Guards, but you won't use it when you have nothing to do. In this way, you can also earn more extra money outside, which is also the court's consideration for you soldiers to support your family." Lu Zhong said this set of words at least five times this year, so he is extremely familiar with it.

"Just... Is it just myself? Where to go? What do you do?" Ye Qing suddenly remembered Li Heng for some reason.

Since I came here, I am like that guy's nemesis. Good things have never been implicated in him, but unfortunate and tragic things will definitely involve him. So I hope that God will open his eyes again this time, but I must not leave him behind, otherwise I will not be able to bear it alone.

As if he heard Ye Qing's prayer, a hint of impatientness flashed in Lu Zhong's eyes. After looking at Ye Qing who still had no signing and sealing, he said patiently: "It's not just you, but the nine people you led, you will go to the home outside Yan Hongyuan to guard the house. Of course, after you arrive at someone's mansion, you can just follow their orders."

"Then...these blanks are...." Ye Qing pointed to other blanks of the Ministry of War documents. He could see Lu Zhong's face clearly with his head down, but he was already thinking in his heart what expression would be on Li Heng's face if he knew this order.

With a snap, Lu Zhong slapped his hand heavily on the table. Even the sound of the piano seemed to be interrupted for a moment, and there was a pen and a token on the table.

"You don't have so much nonsense. If you ask you to sign, you can sign it. This general can still make you unable to sign it! Sign it quickly! This is all for your own good!" Lu Zhong, who raised his head, hated talking to people of this height. Whenever he met such a subordinate, he always felt like that subordinate, so his attitude towards Ye Qing would naturally not be much better.

Ye Qing looked at Lu Zhong calmly, then looked at the pen that Lu Zhong patted on the table and the token that proved that he was a general. He slowly picked up the pen and signed his name on it. Then, at Lu Zhong's instructions, he pressed his handprint.

In the past two months after being demoted to the Imperial Army, Ye Qing had some knowledge of the activities between Lu Zhong and other upper-level generals, so he was sure that the blank space that the Ministry of War did not fill in was the imperial soldiers who were scattered in case of accidents. Fortunately, they had these blank spaces, and they had the way to survive for themselves to escape responsibility.

But Ye Qing could not resist now and could only obey these people. Fortunately, he did not let himself leave Lin'an and go to Lingnan to accompany Ye Heng, who was exiled. This was already a burning incense.

Since the first day he traveled over, he had a defeat with the Jin soldiers in Niushou Mountain outside Jiankang Mansion. His brother was killed in battle. Then Ye Heng was impeached and exiled, which seemed to have nothing to do with him, a time traveler.

But I was demoted to the Imperial Army for no reason. Apart from the reason why the court ordered the repeal of the redemption, was there no conflict between the upper-level officials of the court, so was my small pond fish affected?

Ye Qing is just thinking about it in his mind now. After all, this reasoning is not very tenable. After all, after he arrived in the Song Dynasty, his status was despicable day by day. From the regular army of Jiankang Prefecture to the reserve service of Lin'an Prefecture, he became a thug who guarded the house for people in a few days.

The official position also went from a small team official to a head that could not fall any further. And he was not the real head, but just another name for the head coach.

Now, I have become a weasel's cub. One nest is worse than one nest, but one day is worse than one day. It is probably no one else who can get to this position of time travelers.

Following Lu Zhong climbing up the stairs from the bright wooden steps, Ye Qing saw another... leader who was about to let him obey his orders after he came over?

Yan Hongyuan sat alone in the tea room. Wang Zhiwang, the Minister of War, did not appear, but hid in the inner room of the tea room. After all, in Wang Zhiwang's eyes, a small man could see him sitting with a wealthy businessman and a big businessman here, and even if he lost his face and identity, it would be easy for these soldiers to gossip after seeing this scene.

In this way, it is not possible that those gossips will affect their reputation in the court and their business dealing with these wealthy businessmen. So every time in the end, Lu Zhong comes forward, and he just negotiates the price with the wealthy businessmen and trades.

Yan Hongyuan, who was extremely elegant, looked no different from ordinary people, but his face looked a little pale. After seeing Lu Zhong leading Ye Qing in, Yan Hongyuan hurriedly stood up from behind the tea table and bowed to Lu Zhong and said, "I'm sorry, General Lu, I hope General Lu will take care of him in the future."

After saying that, a stack of silver notes slid out of Yan Hongyuan's cuffs and handed them to Lu Zhong, who was silent.

Lu Zhong also smiled and signaled, looking at the inner door curtain behind Yan Hongyuan, and said naturally: "You are welcome, Mr. Yan wants to thank you, please thank Master Wang more."

The closed door curtain made Lu Zhong feel at ease to take the silver notes handed over by Yan Hongyuan, and then put them in his sleeve bag without looking at them, and continued to say to Yan Hongyuan: "I have already explained that I can go to your mansion to work in the morning tomorrow. The people chosen are naturally those who can conquer warriors. And to put it bluntly, although our imperial guards are not as good as before, we soldiers all came down from the battlefield. Yan Yuanwai can feel at ease to hand over their safety when they are out."

"Yes, thank you, then." Yan Hongyuan was talking to Lu Zhong, but the light of his eyes kept glancing at Ye Qing's body, making Ye Qing feel uncomfortable all over.

From the moment he entered the door, Ye Qing felt like a commodity or a slave, sold to Yan Hongyuan by Lu Zhong in front of him.

Now, it’s just time for others to inspect the goods to see if you are qualified.

So when Yan Hongyuan once again focused more attention on Ye Qing, Ye Qing wanted to shout at Yan Hongyuan: "Do you want to open your mouth and let you see how your teeth are?"

But just as ten thousand grass-mud horses floated in his heart again, Yan Hongyuan suddenly bowed to him, with a very gentle attitude and said kindly: "In the future, the safety of Yan and his family in the mansion will rely more on Brother Ye. This is some money. Yan's little respect is just to treat it as a wine money for Brother Ye and his brother."

After saying that, a ingot of shiny snowflakes appeared in Yan Hongyuan's hands.

"You will take it for you. I haven't thanked Mr. Yan. Not everyone will be blessed to meet such a good Mr. Yan." Lu Zhong looked at the ingot of snowflakes and was naturally not jealous. After all, the silver notes in his arms could be exchanged for a lot of these things.
Chapter completed!