Chapter 27 First Arrival in Yichang
From January to April, many things happened. The first thing was that Liu Laosan left the capital and went south to travel around the world. Before leaving, he came to see me and took two and a half-old children. I don’t know where he kidnapped me, saying that he was an apprentice.
The reason why Liu Laosan hurried south was that he heard that someone had come from his hometown and said that he wanted him to go back and take charge of the Mayi family.
I know that the Mayi family where Liu Laosan is actually the most famous literary master in our industry. There are 40% of fortune tellers in the world who are all masters. There are also big fans who are proficient in various arithmetics, and there are also big fans who cheat on the world. The so-called world has a lot of branches and channels. Most people just want to ask for a full meal, so the quality is not the same, which is normal.
However, although there are many geniuses in the world, there are few people who can thoroughly study. The Mayi family is powerless at this moment, so they want Liu Laosan, a son who has been wandering outside, to come back to pick up the flag and hold the head of the sect.
In this way, Liu Laosan was actually very prominent, which was very different from what he showed on weekdays. However, Liu Laosan was not willing to be too restricted. He also felt that if he returned to the Mayi family, his realm and practice would inevitably be involved and he would not move forward. It would be better to travel around the world and experience the sufferings of the world to gain true enlightenment.
This is actually a kind of practice, a worldly practice. The realm of this world cannot be understood by practicing hard all day long. You must have a mind that understands the nature of heaven and earth before you can gain something.
After saying goodbye to Liu Laosan, I went to Panjiayuan again and visited Boss Hu and Fatty Wang who provided us with the news. However, I was turned away. The owner was not at home. I don’t know whether he was going to do business elsewhere or avoiding the trend brought about by the recent destruction of rats. I couldn’t see them, but I saw Ding Yi. This guy was also rewarded by his superiors and was full of red. I heard that his superiors were about to upgrade him to another level recently. When I saw me, I said I wanted to invite a drink.
Chen Zihao conducted three months of pre-job training at the training base in the suburbs of Beijing, and finally changed his identity and file to rejoin his job.
His new name is Lin Hao, and he finally retained a name. This guy cherished this hard-won opportunity, and he was very sleek in the world, and was very good at dealing with things, so he quickly integrated into the team of the Special Service Group. Not long after he joined the company, our group received a task, and it was also a field mission.
In fact, for the past six months after the establishment of the Special Service Team, we have been in a relatively leisurely situation. Apart from raising our energy in the western suburbs, we basically don’t have much work to do. This is determined by our own characteristics. All kinds of things happen to this country at every moment, but our functions are basically to deal with things related to practitioners. As for other cases, local public security organs and national security agencies will handle them. If you rush to reach out, it will be annoying.
By the same token, in general, the cases that occur in the local area are basically digested by various provinces and bureaus, and will not rise to us. What we play is a strategic duty department, which bears a trump card responsibility and is always in accumulating energy. Once it is used in our place, it will be blocked immediately.
However, because our department is not very strong and has always been in a secret front, there are always situations in which the local area cannot handle it, so it is possible to ask for help from the superiors.
The destination for this business trip is in Yichang, northern Hubei.
Our bureau started to divide and build a large area last year. Yichang area, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Bureau, was assigned to the Central South Bureau. However, the Central South Bureau's strength here was not strong, which made it impossible to solve after the matter was done. Later, it was elevated to the General Administration. As a result, the leaders above decided to send us a group.
As far as I know, the General Administration's idea is to let our special service teams go out as much as possible. A sharp knife is always hidden in the scabbard and it may become rusted.
Since we have such an idea above, we have nothing to say. Besides, both me and my team members need certain achievements to truly gain a foothold, gain qualifications, and have room for improvement, so we all yearn for more cases.
In the office of Deputy Director Song, Nur and I learned about the case that this business trip was going to handle. It was said that in the area near Xiling Gorge in Yichang, there were always strange legends of water ghost mountain mandrills. In addition, there have always been cases of children missing in many mountain villages and towns there in the past two years. Some people suspected that it might be a ghost. The local relevant departments went to investigate and did not find anything abnormal. However, more than a dozen or twenty children were missing every year, which caused panic, so we asked us to go down and investigate.
Deputy Director Song sent me the number of people missing this year and other related information. I felt aroused in my heart and asked him subconsciously: "Are most of the missing children a girl?"
Noor knew that I thought of the Meizu family and pointed out the gender analysis in the table, and then I realized that more than 80% of them were boys.
Over the past few days, except for daily things that need to be handled, most of my time has been spent on practicing and reading internal reference materials. I know that such things happen more frequently before liberation, because children are easy to cultivate, the living can feed on doing all kinds of evil things, and the dead can directly refine countless evil magic tools. If natural causes are really ruled out, then there are actually many filths in it that can be revealed.
After receiving the task, I returned to the office. There were quite a lot of people needed for this operation, but there were also people here in Kyoto to take care of the overall situation. After a while, I decided to let Zhang Daming understand Zhang Shi, Zhang Liangkui and Zhang Liangxu stay with four people from the Zhang family, and provide support at any time. I, Nur, Yin Yue, Xu Danding, Zhang Liyun, Zhao Zhonghua, and Lin Hao, who had just finished the training, rushed south.
In fact, if you want to stay and lead the overall situation, both Xu Danding and Nur are more suitable than Zhang Daming. However, considering that Xiling Gorge is one of the famous Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, close to the Yangtze River, if you encounter a problem of turning the river and entering the sea, Xu Danding's family's origins may be more suitable; as for Nur, he is no less than my master. If he wants to fight a tough battle, what can he do without him?
Regarding this matter, Zhang Daming and San Zhang complained about me for a while, thinking that I had treated them as logistics, so I had to promise that I was just going to take a look. If things didn't go well, I would still have to let the four of them come to support me.
After saying this, Zhang Daming immediately put his hands together and prayed, saying that we would be unfavorable to go to the army. This made everyone laugh and scold him again.
Without further ado, the bachelors I chose were all bachelors and there was nothing to clean up. After getting the task, I immediately booked a train ticket and headed south, went all the way to Wuhan, and then took the river turn to Yichang.
This is a riverside city located at the junction of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is located in the transition zone between the mountainous areas in western Hubei and the Jianghan Plain. The city is not very big, but it is particularly charming. After getting off the boat at the dock, someone from the local religious bureau came to greet us. The leader was a thin middle-aged man with his surname Huang and the director of the Municipal Bureau. He was very enthusiastic and looked like he was welcoming the imperial envoy, which made me embarrassed to take the matter.
From the dock to the local municipal bureau, I was riding the leading car, a brand new Santana. Director Huang kept telling me with fear and fear that I would bother with my superiors this time, but they were also quite helpless and had no choice.
As soon as I learned about it, I realized that in the past, they were under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Bureau. Among the several major divisions of the Religious Bureau, the Southwest Bureau and the Northwest Bureau were the most powerful and had many experts. However, in the past two years, they have allocated the Central South Bureau to the Central South Bureau. As we all know, the two places, the Central South Bureau and the Southeast Bureau, have the weakest strength. With the reform and opening up over the years, the Central South Bureau has also increased its investment, but the Central South Bureau has always been short of people. Their reports have been put on for a long time, but there was no reward at all. This time, it can be regarded as a way to return us.
Although it is a secret front, there are differences between different places. As far as I know, although there is such a department in many places, it has never recovered its vitality due to the influence of more than ten years ago. Of course, this is exactly the meaning of our existence. If everything in the local area can be done, then we can just retire.
The car directly pulled us to the municipal bureau and met with the leaders of the local department. The local area gave us great support for our actions this time. He held my hand and promised that he could help coordinate any needs. After some politeness, he divided two coordinators to us, one man and one woman, the man was called Guyu and the woman was called Huang Ziling. They were all very smart and capable. We held an afternoon meeting in the municipal bureau conference room, and then the relevant leaders invited us to dinner. All these favors needed to be dealt with. After the wine party broke up, we returned to the local guesthouse to rest.
The night in Yibin is not beautiful, but it is lively. At night, many citizens come out to stroll, and there are also many night market stalls selling some local specialty foods. A group of people walked back. I took the little white fox in front, thinking about tomorrow's itinerary in my heart. Suddenly, the little white fox broke free from my hand and walked quickly forward.
I subconsciously looked over and saw her walking to a beggar who was lying on the ground on the street, took out a few dollars from her pocket, and put it in the beggar's bowl.
I accidentally saw the beggar's eyes, and there seemed to be a sense of greed inside.
Chapter completed!