1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1160 Protection Umbrella

Although Arita Hatomo and the foreman sent by the Ministry of Construction are in charge of the infrastructure project of the Fushan Copper Mine, due to the shortage of manpower, Chen Yixin must often act as a supervisor on the construction site. Recently, he rarely goes to the school to supervise the daily training of the mine garrison.Today also after the snowfall started in the afternoon, Chen Yixin had to temporarily suspend work on an open-air construction site supervised by Chen Yixin, so he returned to the camp and gathered his subordinates on the school grounds, intending to let them get used to the winter in the northern region.

Of course, this is actually a brand new experience for Chen Yixin himself.He was born in Fujian, and he had never experienced the northern winter before crossing, so like most of his subordinates from the southern region, this is the first time he has spent the winter in such a cold environment, and he needs a period of adaptation.This kind of adaptation is not just about life. For the troops, it is more important to maintain a good combat state, so even though it has started to snow in the sky, Chen Yixin still insists on letting the troops gather for training.After all, when a war is really going to happen, the opponents may not be all cowards like the Dengzhou Ming Army. They may not even consider such a snow truce. Adapting to snow combat earlier is also a must-have military quality for the garrison troops. one.

In the Fushan Copper Mine, apart from the garrison and miners, the resident population is almost all young and strong men, and only a few women are in the logistics departments such as cooking, medical and health, so when Chen Yixin saw Sun Zhen passing by the school field with a young girl , Immediately stopped him for questioning.

The little girl peeked out from behind Sun Zhen, Chen Yixin glared at her, and saw the little girl sticking out her tongue and retracting her head, this playful expression made Chen Yixin's heart move, but it was only for a moment , and immediately regained his sanity.

Chen Yixin didn't quite believe the little girl's reason for "visiting relatives".The public security situation in Fushan County in the past few years was very bad. No family dared to let young women go out alone, not to mention passing through tens of miles of mountainous areas. This area used to be under the control of the Wanjia Army. It was destroyed, but the security situation here has not really returned to the level of not closing the door at night and not picking up lost things. It is really unreasonable for a little girl to walk this distance alone.

Moreover, Chen Yixin looked suspiciously at the other party's large bags of luggage. Generally speaking, there is a lot of luggage for long-distance travel, and they will be packed in boxes. However, this little girl's luggage is all wrapped in cloth, and the wrapped cloth The colorful ones seem to be bed sheets or something, how could someone go out like this?This was not so much a visit to relatives, but more like fleeing from a disaster. Chen Yixin was suspicious, so he naturally wanted someone to check it out.

When the female soldier called was checking the luggage, Chen Yixin saw that the little girl was about to cry, and immediately felt that there was something wrong.Soon the female soldier finished checking these large bags, and came over to report the results to Chen Yixin in a low voice.

"Your luggage is full of gold, silver, and new clothes. Did you just leave relatives, or did you pack some lady's boudoir?" Chen Yixin turned to Ma Yuling with a straight face after hearing this. Asked: "Please explain clearly, what's the matter with this luggage?"

Before Ma Yuling could reply, the big grandson in front of her spoke up first: "Chief, what's wrong with this luggage...?"

Chen Yixin said: "Do you think the little girl who goes out with 50 taels of cash will look like her?"

Sun Zhen opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.A little girl who can bring 50 taels of cash to go out, not to mention Fushan County, even in the entire Dengzhou area, must be at the level of a lady and a rich family. It is almost impossible to go out alone.Not to mention how big the front and rear are, at least a few old mothers and maids are necessary, and it is even more impossible to carry large and small luggage by yourself.The origin of this lovely and pitiful little girl is obviously not that simple.

At this time, the medical soldiers who checked the luggage had picked out all the valuables and presented them to Chen Yixin.In addition to silver and copper coin strings, there are some gold and silver ornaments, a sandalwood fan with a pearl string pendant the size of soybeans, and even a glass writing brush from Haihan, which was carefully wrapped in cotton cloth and packed in a fine In the bamboo tube.Adding up these odd and small things together, the market price would be tens of taels of silver.

"Miss Lin, tell me, where did you get these things?" After Chen Yixin saw the evidence presented by his subordinates, his face became even more ugly.He really didn't want to associate this clean-dressed, pretty girl with a burglar with empty hands, but all kinds of unreasonable things pointed to the conclusion he guessed.If the opponent was uglier, he might have asked Sun Zhen to arrest him.

"These...are the little girl's own things..." Ma Yuling was very wronged in her heart, but she also expected the other party's speculation about this, so her tone was not very firm, because she hadn't thought of how to deal with it for a while. Explain who you are.

"Your things?" Chen Yixin sneered and said, "How do you prove that these things are yours?"

Ma Yuling replied weepingly: "These ornaments are all selected by the little girl herself. The pattern carved on the pair of gold bracelets is a lotus flower, and the peach blossom picture on the sandalwood fan is drawn by the little girl herself... and the pen , it was brought back from Zhejiang by my father, and given to the little girl Ji Zhinian as a present, I have been reluctant to use it, even the glue on the tip of the pen has not melted."

Chen Yixin said exactly about the pair of things, but he still didn't dare to be careless, and asked again: "Then what color and material are the clothes in this package, can you tell?"

He thought to himself that if the other party was a thief, he wouldn't even have to carefully look at the clothes he packed away. If it wasn't her own, it would definitely be wrong.

But Chen Yixin was really wrong this time. When Ma Yuling was packing her luggage before leaving home, she spent most of the night picking and picking. Every piece of clothing she took away was carefully selected, so how could she not remember it.Immediately, like a few treasures, he described the clothes, styles and fabrics in the package, only omitting a few obscene clothes.

Now it was Chen Yixin's turn to be dumbfounded. What Ma Yuling said was completely true, without any mistakes or omissions. Moreover, when the female soldier took out the clothes and inspected them one by one, she found that the clothes did match Ma Yuling's figure.If you want to insist that she is a female thief who steals clothes according to her figure, Chen Yixin also feels that it seems a bit unreasonable, and she is sorry for her conscience.The most important thing was that Ma Yuling was already sitting on the ground crying pear blossoms and rain. This miserable appearance made Chen Yixin really unable to speak some hurtful words.

Ma Yuling felt that she was too aggrieved. She ran away from home in order to escape marriage, but as soon as she went out, many things went wrong. She finally found a place to avoid the snow, but found that she broke into the military camp by accident and was taken as a thief. The female thief of things looks at it.This kind of grievance is something she has never suffered before, but now there is no one around to speak for her. She thinks that she may be imprisoned as a thief next time, and her family will never find her. This tear It's like breaking a dam and can't stop it.

"Okay, okay, don't cry!" Chen Yixin didn't know how to comfort the little girl, so he could only ask the female soldier to help her put away her luggage first, and then take her to eat some hot food.In Chen Yixin's cognition, eating something when you are in a bad mood is an effective way to relieve your emotions. Although the current situation may not be right, you can only try it first.

The female soldier took Ma Yuling away, and Chen Yixin called Sun Zhen to him with a sullen face, and asked him what happened.Just now I was so clever that I almost overturned the car on the spot. So many subordinates watched him make a little girl cry, and now I can only try my best to restore this bad influence.

Sun Zhen also knew that his unintentional action would almost embarrass his boss, so he didn't dare to hide it at the moment, so he called the young men who had been guarding the gate outside the mine before, and you explained the whole process of Ma Yuling's appearance sentence by sentence. clear.

"Could it be that I misjudged it?" Chen Yixin suddenly felt that his ingenuity and life experience could not play its due role in this matter at all, and instead became the chief culprit that led him to misjudgment.If he hurt an innocent little girl because of this, he would really feel sorry in his heart.He was originally a person with a strong sense of justice, otherwise he wouldn't have asked so clearly about such an irrelevant matter, but the more so, the more disturbed he was about his attitude just now.

In addition, Chen Yixin still felt that the little girl's behavior of traveling alone was unreasonable, and there must be some hidden secrets in it.Looking back on the situation just now, if it was only because she was wronged for her words, then the little girl's crying seemed a little too exaggerated.Although Chen Yixin didn't quite understand the little girl's mind, since this matter was already in front of him, he couldn't just run away from it, he had to figure it out.

After asking Sun Zhen and others, Chen Yixin handed over the task of training the queue to his subordinate officers, and went straight to the officer's canteen next to the camp.The order he gave the female soldier just now was to let him bring the little girl here for dinner first.

Walking to the entrance of the cafeteria, he had already seen the back of the little girl sitting at the table, and suddenly remembered something, turned around and told several followers: "You are waiting at the door."

The reason why he left the entourage at the door was because Chen Yixin was worried that he would overturn the car again after talking with the little girl, and let his subordinates watch the joke again.After entering, the female soldier saw him first, and quickly got up to salute: "Hello, Chief!"

Chen Yixin saw that a bowl of hot ramen had been placed in front of the little girl, nodded immediately and said, "I have something to tell her, you go to the door and wait."

Before Chen Yixin sat down, the cook had already heard the voice: "Chief, do you want something to eat?"

Chen Yixin said: "No need, you are busy with your work."

Chen Yixin sent the cook away, and then pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Ma Yuling. Seeing that she had wiped away the tears on her face, she felt relieved, pointed to the big bowl in front of her, and said, "Just now we cried, cried Are you hungry? Eat something first!"

Ma Yuling didn't move her chopsticks, and asked pitifully, "Master Jun, everyone here is respectful to you, so you must have a high official position, right?"

Chen Yixin coughed dryly and said, "Actually, I'm just a small military officer, and I don't have any official or non-official positions."

Ma Yuling said with an aggrieved face: "Then I would like to ask the military master, will the little girl be punished by hitting the military stick for trespassing on the military camp?"

Chen Yixin laughed and said: "Who wants to beat you with a military stick? Besides, you didn't trespass, someone brought you in. You'd better eat the noodles first, it won't taste good after a long time!"

Ma Yuling asked: "Then after eating, will I be kicked out?"

Chen Yixin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why do you have so many questions? Eat quickly, if you don't, I'll kick you out right now!"

This simple and rude method actually worked. Ma Yuling didn't dare to ask any more, so she quickly picked up the chopsticks.Seeing that she had started, Chen Yixin got up and went to the back kitchen, poured a cup of hot tea, and put it on the table in front of Ma Yuling.He saw that Ma Yuling's food was dignified, and she found unfinished pancakes in her luggage earlier, so it seemed that she was not very hungry.

Chen Yixin waited patiently for her to put down her chopsticks after eating, and then said: "Miss Lin, I had some attitude problems just now, so I will apologize to you first. You want to avoid the wind and snow here, that's no problem, after the snow stops, I will send a few men to escort you home."

Ma Yuling was still happy when she heard the first half, but she couldn't help feeling a little flustered when she heard the last sentence, she waved her hands repeatedly and refused, "No, no... no need!"

Chen Yixin said, "Why don't you use it?"

"After the snow stops, the little girl can go on the road by herself, and the military master doesn't need to send troops to escort her!" Ma Yuling didn't want to be escorted back to Majiazhuang by a group of soldiers, so she immediately declined.As for her false claim that she was going back to Qixia County, in fact, she didn't even have any relatives there, and she had never been there before. She just knew that the road to Qixia County would pass through this place, so she just lied by the way, but she didn't. Expecting that the other party took it seriously and sent someone to escort him, wouldn't it be that he would be exposed every minute when he went to the local area.

Seeing her resolute attitude, Chen Yixin felt a little strange in his heart, and immediately insisted: "You are a girl, and it is very dangerous to walk alone on this road in the wild mountains and mountains in snowy days, and you carry so many luggage in big and small bags. If you walk alone, you may not be able to walk a few miles in a day."

Chen Yixin's words just hit Ma Yuling's embarrassment when she came here, and her mouth puckered as soon as she said it, and tears began to roll in her eyes again.Seeing this, Chen Yixin quickly persuaded: "Crying can't solve the problem. If Miss Lin feels wronged, she can speak up and see if there is anything that can help you."

Ma Yuling said with tears in her voice, "The little girl is indeed in trouble, it's just about this matter... Lord Jun may not be able to help you."

When Chen Yixin saw this charming and grievance, he couldn't help but exploded with machismo: "Is there still someone who bullies you? Don't be afraid, tell me, and I can protect you!"

(End of this chapter)