Promise!

Chapter 72, Substitute

Two days passed quickly. Zhuang Jin stopped improving his cultivation level and focused on martial arts. He worked hard on the Black Evil Palm and made rapid progress.

Here, he was in the team leader's single room, concentrating on practicing martial arts. His subordinates did the patrols, and he also got the biggest share of the benefits and profits from mediating trivial matters. In just two or three days, he received three or five cents of silver, which means he could earn three or four taels of silver a month.

There is nothing else to say, and time quickly arrived at the third day of May.

That afternoon, Zhuang Jin invited Ke Jingxing and told him that he was asked to take over the night shift.

Because Chang Hetong had already taken care of it, Ke Jingxing naturally agreed to such a small matter.

In fact, this kind of thing is very common. If there is something urgent or you need to practice, it is no big deal to find someone to take your place.

Zhuang Jin took out one tael and five qian of silver and said, "Uncle Ke, please accept this as a token of your appreciation."

"We're both from the Three Classics. I'm a little older than you. If you don't mind, just call me Brother Ke. And... that's too much."

Ke Jingxing waved his hand: "Even if I give you money, it won't be that much."

He thought about it and only took five cents of silver.

I'm a team leader in the north of the city. My monthly salary is five taels of silver. I have to be on night duty ten times a month, which means I get five cents of silver each time.

"That's right. Please ask Brother Ke to bring his own team. The extra two coins will be considered as a favor to them for tea."

In other words, a squad leader gets five cents of silver for each night duty, a second-level warrior gets three cents of silver, and a first-level warrior gets one cent of silver, for a total of one tael and three cents of silver. The extra two cents of silver is an extra token of appreciation.

Ke Jingxing seemed to understand what he was saying after hearing this. He glanced at Zhuang Jin and accepted it. "It's true that I'm more familiar with leading my own team. Then I won't be polite with Brother Zhuang."

The two looked at each other and laughed.

……

In the evening, four of his men, Jiang Wei, came to him and asked about the night watch. Zhuang Jin said, "No need. I have asked Captain Ke to take over tonight. He is more familiar with his team and will lead his team.

"How can this be possible?" Jiang Wei blurted out when he heard this.

Du Yunqi, Pan Zimo, and Zhou Chao all looked over.

Night duty is dangerous. For example, last month they were ambushed by the Medicine King Gang and a team was almost wiped out. Such dangerous things are better to be avoided if possible. When they heard about it, their first reaction was joy, especially Zhou Chao, who almost breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously.

But why is there something wrong with Jiang Wei's reaction?

Zhuang Jin also looked over with a surprised expression.

"Ahem!" Jiang Wei coughed twice and said, "I'm saying that Captain Zhuang used his connections to ask Captain Ke's team to cover for him, and we're taking advantage of him. It's so embarrassing. How can we do this?"

"Isn't it? I'm sorry for the trouble Captain Zhuang."

"How about we also contribute to this money?"

"Yes!"

...Zhuang Jin paid money and did favors, but they just took the money without doing anything. This is indeed not a good thing.

"No need. I've hit a roadblock in my cultivation and would like to try to break through. I was the one who proposed this, so naturally I'll cover all the expenses."

Zhuang Jin waved his hand and sent Jiang Wei and the other three away as they thanked him repeatedly. He then withdrew his gaze and took the time to continue practicing his martial arts.

……

On the sixth day of May, Zhuang Jin's Black Evil Palm was still a little bit short of success, so he paid another 1 tael and 5 qian of silver and asked Ke Jingxing to take his place, using his own team as he did last time.

When the matter was announced on Saturday evening, Zhuang Jin noticed that the smile on Jiang Wei's face looked a little forced, but he did not make a "slip of the tongue" like last time.

There is also a very interesting point. During these three days, two people from the team secretly came to Jiang Wei and said that there seemed to be something wrong with him. One of them was Du Yunqi and the other was Pan Zimo.

"I have some understanding of Du Yunqi; he's a resolute and resolute man with a delicate mind. I never imagined that Pan Zimo, who appears to be quiet and reserved, is actually a man of inner beauty. Only my other silly student, Zhou Chao, lacks the cleverness he displayed when he confronted me."

Zhuang Jin secretly sighed at the talent he had under his command. At the same time, another thought occurred to him: "Du Yunqi and Pan Zimo could both sense something was amiss, and Ke Jingxing seemed to have sensed something as well. Could it be that our thoughtful Duan Zhenshou really had no suspicion or awareness of Jiang Wei, the sole survivor of last month's attack?"

"This matter... is really becoming more and more interesting!"

He listened to the sounds of the curtain rising and the opera beginning in a nearby restaurant as night fell, and a thought suddenly occurred to him: 'On the big stage of reality, whether human or ghost, everyone is acting!'

……

Fuqing Street, which is separated from Furong Street by Fuchang Street, is occupied by the Yaowang Gang.

According to the original plan, Zhuang Yutang and Zhuang Yuyong asked two friends in the same realm for help. At the same time, they contacted the nearby Yaowang Gang and found the Fuqing Street where Zhuang Jin's former team was ambushed last month. They also made an appointment.

Originally, everything was ready and the trap was set. They were just waiting for Zhuang Jin's team to be on duty at night, and then they would launch a lightning attack to wipe out the enemy completely.

But unexpectedly, Zhuang Jin did not play by the rules and actually asked someone to take his place!

It would have been fine on the third day, as they thought Zhuang Jin might have something urgent to do, so they waited patiently until the sixth day. However, they didn't expect Zhuang Jin to ask someone to take his place again, which made them wait in vain again and really broke their guard.

"Little brother, we can't wait any longer. We've already experienced this once and twice, but who knows if it will happen again or again? With that evil creature's aptitude, he's probably already completed the accumulation of the three sutra realms. Who knows when he'll break through the bottleneck and advance to the fourth realm."

"Impossible! How can it be so easy to break through the bottleneck from the third to fourth meridian?"

Zhuang Yuyong subconsciously denied this, then sighed, his face showing helplessness: "I also want to get rid of that evil creature as soon as possible to avoid any more trouble, but that little beast hides in the Furong Street base all day long. I can't bring people there and kill him by force, right?"

To be honest, the garrison on the first street is indeed better than the Shen family headquarters, and it is easier to succeed, but it is only slightly better. Usually the street guards at the fourth level of the realm are stationed there, and there are other teams of warriors. If you rush in recklessly, it is actually the same as committing suicide. How desperate is that?

"Let's wait a little longer. We, the Medicine King Gang, attacked and killed them on Fuqing Street last month. I think that little beast was scared! There's still a spy lying in ambush in that evil creature's team. Without a spy as an insider, it's not easy for us, the Medicine King Gang, to ambush them on Fuqing Street. We've been holding our breath these days!"

Zhuang Yuyong sneered at this point, "The more he holds his breath, the more ferocious he'll be when he lets it out. That little bastard will eventually come out. It's impossible to hire someone to cover for him for a whole month, right? Then, hehe!"

"That's true, but I'm afraid the longer the night, the more dreams there will be!" Zhuang Yutang was a cautious person, and he felt that he couldn't wait any longer and had to do something.

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(End of this chapter)