Chapter 41 Path
After using [Fox Fragrance], one's body odor will increase, so Yang Chang naturally cannot accept this negative attribute; after giving it up, he got [Fox Fragrance Sand], which will dissolve in water and release the odor, which lasts for twelve hours.

Yang Chang had few resources at the moment, and was unwilling to throw away toys like the 'stink bomb', thinking that he could use it to escape or repel the enemy.

The five-day holiday ended in a flash.

I brushed off five rabbits and ended up with zero drops.

Only then did Yang Chang realize how precious [Throbbing Pills] were. He wondered if he had bought the wrong rabbit, or maybe the drop rate from domestic rabbits was low?
But he was not worried about it, as he was young and could not use this kind of functional pill.

In early July, Yang Chang rushed back to the county.

The sky was clear in the morning, but by noon there was a strong wind and dark clouds. In an instant, thunder roared in the sky and heavy rain poured down.

Things changed too quickly in midsummer. Yang Chang returned to the yamen drenched, only to find a stranger in his residence.

"็ Hello Who are you"

"Yan Jin, the commander of the infantry, who are you?"

"Uh..." Hearing that it was the new captain, Yang Chang hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "So it's Captain Yan, I'm Archer Yang Chang, I used to live here."

"I heard about it." Yan Jin nodded calmly, then pointed outside the door and said, "From now on, the captain will live here, and the archers should live in the class dormitory. Your bedding is over there, go and look for it yourself."

"Yes"

Having lost Wu Song's protection, Yang Chang could no longer live in a single room. Although he was unwilling, he had to accept it.

Later, when they arrived at the big house, a dozen of his former comrades looked at Yang Chang strangely.

It was like the assistant to the general manager was suddenly assigned to the workers' dormitory in the workshop. His roommates' eyes showed a mixture of sighs, secret joy, and gloating.

Yang Chang, who looked like a drowned rat, walked in calmly upon seeing this scene. He quickly found his bedding in the corner of the dormitory and wiped the rain off his body.

The big house was like a zoo at that time, with more than a dozen people staring at Yang Chang. Finally, Xu Ji from next door came and broke the strange atmosphere.

Xu Ji called Yang Chang out of the house and walked to a secluded place before speaking.

"Where have you been? Why did you come back?"

"Isn't it time to rest for five days at my uncle's house in Jingnan Township?"

"Alas, the weather has changed!"

"I know."

Seeing Yang Chang pointing at him, Xu Ji shook his head and sighed: "It's not the sky above, but the sky in Yanggu that has changed. County Magistrate Fang has been transferred to Ruzhou, and now it's County Magistrate Zhang."

"No wonder they arrived at Xindutou. They must have been brought here by Magistrate Zhang?"

"Of course. Magistrate Fang wanted to promote you to be the leader of the team, but now that everyone is gone, who can you ask? You missed your chance."

“Will there be a handover?”

“Very little.”

Seeing Xu Ji's pessimistic words, Yang Chang couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart. His official career ended before it even began?

County Magistrate Fang admired Wu Song so much, what if he had to hand over to the new county magistrate? After all, the team leader was not very important and would not affect the interests of the successor at all, but Yang Chang overestimated Fang Shen.

Fang Shen's verbal promise to Wu Song was just a polite remark at the time, and he might not be able to do the job if he was not transferred.

After Yang Chang was reinstated and waited for a few days, he found that no one came to talk to him, so he guessed that the matter had fallen through. Moreover, without Wu Song's care, he was assigned only difficult tasks.

Either guarding the government office or the city gate, there is no way to be lazy in the wind and sun.

After working for about a month, Yang Chang felt bored. Since the rewards dropped by the animals were low and of poor quality, he thought about going north to join the border army, so that he might have a chance to pick up corpses and level up.

When he was daydreaming at the city gate, his companion Xu Ji suddenly pulled his sleeve.

"What are you doing? Someone is looking for you."

"Ah? Where?"

"Look." Xu Ji pointed outside the city gate and saw a carriage parked there. Yang Chang scratched his head and followed curiously. The side curtain was lifted to reveal a familiar face.

"You are."

"Haha, I thought I was seeing things, but it turns out it's really you, Xiao Bi San!"

"What did you say? You can't yell."

Yang Chang had already recognized the man by now. It was the 'Li Lang' whom he met twice in Tokyo during the Chinese New Year. However, Xiao Bi San and Xiao Biesan sounded similar, which sounded weird, so he quickly stopped the other party.

But Li Lang looked puzzled after hearing this, and said confidently: "Aren't you called Bi Duan? And you are the third child, so why can't you call me Little Bi San? The young master calls you that."

"Sir?"

Yang Chang immediately thought of the young man in white.

"By the way, we ate the Wuji buns you praised before and thought they were just average. Don't come to Tokyo and brag about them. I thought you were a big shot, but you turned out to be just a city guard."

"How could you have eaten it?"

"Haha, as long as our young master wants, there is no delicacy in the world that he can't eat. Let's go."

After Li Lang finished speaking, he lowered the curtain and told the driver to set off. Yang Chang was stunned for a moment and then trotted to chase him, shouting as he ran: "Sir, wait a moment, Sir, wait a moment!"

Yang Chang didn't control his strength well and nearly turned the carriage over. Li Lang was so frightened that he poked his head out angrily, "What are you doing?"

"Excuse me, may I ask where the man who made the buns is now?"

"Want to know? Then come to Tokyo and look for me. I'll tell you when you find me."

Yang Chang smiled bitterly after hearing this and ran to Tokyo to play hide-and-seek with you, thinking, are you kidding me?
Based on the clues this person had just left and the secret that Ximen Qing had dropped, Yang Chang guessed that Pan Jinlian was really in Tokyo. If the young man was not a member of Cai Jing's family, he must have a close relationship with Yang Jian, otherwise he would not be able to eat the buns she made.

Wu Dalang is dead, and only Pan Jinlian, who was by his side, knows how to make it. But it is very likely that she did not learn the skill well enough, so the food she made was not tasty enough.

The culprit Ximen Qing is dead, and it is unclear whether Pan Jinlian is an accomplice. Did she rush to Mengzhou to tell Wu Song?
When Yang Chang was struggling, Xu Ji quietly came over and asked curiously, "Sanlang, who is that noble man?"

"When I accompanied Wu Dutou to Tokyo, I met him once on the street. I think he was one of Cai Jing or Yang Jian's men."

"What? No."

Xu Ji's eyes widened as he stared at Yang Chang in disbelief. "Brother, if you have such a powerful connection, why do you stay in Yanggu to guard the city gate? You don't even want a captain."

“But I’m not familiar with it.”

"If you don't know someone well, just try to get acquainted with them. I don't know what you are thinking."

“I’ll have to think about it.”

The two men said that they were not on the same wavelength. A few days later, Yang Chang asked for leave from the government to visit his relatives. Xu Ji thought that Yang Chang had come to his senses and went to Tokyo, but Yang Chang went to Jingnan Township to say goodbye.

He had no intention of going to Tokyo to curry favor with the powerful, nor did he want to look for Pan Jinlian to question her, nor did he want to stay in Yanggu to guard the gate.

Although Yang Chang has not been in this world for long, he has become indifferent to everything and is even a little disappointed.

Ordinary people oppress each other (Yun Ge, Zi Shi Street neighbors), landlords and bandits are no different (Zhu Jia Zhuang), officials and businessmen collude for personal gain (Fang Zhixian, Ximen Qing), and the powerful in Beijing cover the sky with one hand (White-clothed Young Master)
Yang Chang didn't know which side to stand on, so he simply stood on neither side.

Of course, there are more honest people like Wu Da. It is precisely because honest people suffer the most and are hurt the most. Those who stutter will not resist, and such teammates are the most difficult to lead.

Since you are not satisfied with the world in front of you, you can either try to adapt to the world or find ways to change the world. But first you have to try to stay alive and make yourself stronger so that you won't be bullied. Fortunately, Yang Chang has the fate of picking up corpses, which is a shortcut to becoming stronger.

After half a year of exploration, Yang Chang discovered that the loot dropped by wild beasts was worse than that of humans, and the ferocious beasts like those in Jingyang Ridge were hard to come by and difficult to kill, so the fate of picking up corpses was most suitable for the battlefield. However, the Song Dynasty was too poor at foreign warfare, and those who guarded the border might never return.

In addition to this, there is another way, which is to go to Liangshan and live a leisurely life, where you can pick up corpses by doing some minor fights.

But he had to rely on someone powerful to go up the mountain, otherwise he would become a small fry and cannon fodder. Yang Chang could only rely on Wu Song. He didn't know how Wu Song was doing in Mengzhou now, and he didn't want to be a gatekeeper anymore.

But when Yang Chang came to Jingnan Township and expressed his idea of ​​not being an archer, he was fiercely opposed by Yang De.

(End of this chapter)