Chapter 1160 Protective Umbrella
Although Arita Yeyou and the foreman sent by the Ministry of Construction are in charge of the infrastructure project of Fushan Copper Mine, due to lack 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. After snow started to fall today in the afternoon, an open-air construction site overseen by Chen Yixin had to temporarily stop work, so he returned to the camp and gathered his subordinates on the school field, intending to let them adapt to the winter in the northern region.
Of course, this is actually a new experience for Chen Yixin himself. He was born in Fujian and had never experienced the winter in the north before crossing over. Therefore, like most of his subordinates who were born in the south, this was the first time he had spent the winter in such a cold environment, and he needed an adaptation period. This kind of adaptation is not only in life, but for the troops, it is more important to maintain a good combat condition. Therefore, even if it started to snow in the sky, Chen Yixin still insisted on having the troops gather for training. After all, when there is a real war, the opponents may not all be cowards like the Dengzhou Ming Army. They may not consider a snow truce at all. Adapting to fighting in snow early is also a military quality that garrison troops must possess. one.
At the Fushan Copper Mine, in addition to the garrison and miners, the permanent population is almost all young and strong men. Only a small number of women are found in the logistics departments such as cooking and medical care, so when Chen Yixin saw Sun Zhen passing by the school with a young girl, , and immediately stopped him for questioning.
The little girl poked her head out from behind Sun Zhen to peek. Chen Yixin glared at her and saw the little girl sticking out her tongue and retracting her head. This playful expression made Chen Yixin feel moved, but it only lasted for a moment. , and soon regained consciousness.
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 travel far away alone, not to mention that they had to pass through dozens of miles of mountainous areas. This area used to be under the control of Wanjiajun. Although Wanjiajun It was aborted, but the security situation here has not really returned to the level where the house is not closed at night and the streets are not picked up. It is really against common sense for a little girl to walk this stretch of road alone.
Moreover, Chen Yixin looked suspicious at the large bags of luggage of the other party. Generally speaking, when traveling far away, a lot of luggage would be packed in boxes, but this little girl's luggage was all wrapped in cloth, and the wrapping cloth They were colorful and looked like sheets. How could someone go out like this? This was more like fleeing for safety than visiting relatives. Chen Yixin was suspicious and naturally wanted to have someone check it out.
While the female soldier who was called was checking the luggage, Chen Yixin saw that the little girl was so anxious that she was about to cry, and immediately felt that there was something wrong. Soon the female soldier finished checking the large bags of luggage and came over to report the results to Chen Yixin in a low voice.
"Your luggage is full of gold, silver, soft goods and new clothes. Have you just left relatives, or have you packed up some girl's boudoir?" After hearing this, Chen Yixin turned to Ma Yuling with a straight face. Asked: "Can you please explain clearly what happened to this luggage?"
Before Ma Yuling could reply, the big man in front of her, Sun Zhen, spoke up first: "Chief, is there something wrong with this luggage...?"
Chen Yixin said: "Do you think a little girl who goes out with fifty taels of cash will look like this?"
Sun Zhen opened his mouth, but nothing came out. A young girl who can take fifty taels of cash out with her, not to mention in Fushan County, even in the entire Dengzhou area, must be at the level of ladies and children of rich families. It is almost impossible to go far away alone. Not to mention how big the crowd is, there must be at least a few old ladies and maids who can take care of them, and it is impossible to carry large and small luggage by yourself. The origin of this pitiful little girl is obviously not that simple.
At this time, the medical soldiers who checked the luggage had already picked out all the valuable items and presented them to Chen Yixin. In addition to strings of cash and copper coins, there are also several gold and silver ornaments, a sandalwood fan hanging with a soybean-sized pearl string fan pendant, and even a glass brush from Haihan carefully wrapped in cotton cloth and placed in a small box. In the bamboo tube. Added together, the market price of these little things is dozens of taels of silver.
"Miss Lin, please tell me, where did you get these things?" Chen Yixin's face became even more ugly after looking at the evidence presented by his subordinates. He really didn't want to connect the neatly dressed and pretty little girl in front of him with the thief who broke into the house with empty hands, but all the irregularities pointed to the conclusion he had guessed. If the other party looked uglier, he might have asked Sun Zhen to arrest him.
"These... are the little girl's own things..." Ma Yuling felt very aggrieved, but she also expected the other party's possible speculation about this, so her tone was not very firm, because she had not thought of what to do for a while. Explain who you are.
"Your things?" Chen Yixin sneered: "How do you prove that these things are yours?"
Ma Yuling cried and responded: "These ornaments are all hand-picked by the little girl. The pattern carved on the pair of gold bracelets is lotus. The peach blossom picture on the sandalwood fan was painted by the little girl herself... and the pen." It was brought back from Zhejiang by my father as a gift to the young girl. I have been reluctant to use it, and even the glue on the pen has not melted. "
Chen Yixin was right about the things he said, but he still didn't dare to be careless and asked, "Can you tell what color and material each of the clothes in this package are?"
He thought to himself that if the other party was a thief, she wouldn't even look carefully at the clothes she packed away one by one. If it didn't belong to her, it would definitely be wrong.
But Chen Yixin was really wrong this time. Ma Yuling picked and picked for most of the night when she was packing her luggage before running away from home. Every piece of clothing she took away was carefully selected, so how could she not remember it. At that moment, he listed all the clothes in the package like a treasure trove, and listed the styles and fabrics of the clothes, leaving out only a few items of obscene clothing.
Now it was Chen Yixin's turn to be dumbfounded. What Ma Yuling said was completely true, without any errors or omissions. When the female soldier took out the clothes one by one and inspected them, 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 based on her figure, Chen Yixin also feels that it seems a bit unreasonable, and it is an apology to her own conscience. The most important thing is that Ma Yuling was sitting on the ground crying her eyes out. This miserable look made Chen Yixin unable to speak any more hurtful words.
Ma Yuling felt that she was too frustrated. She ran away from home in order to escape her marriage. As a result, she had a lot of troubles as soon as she left home. She finally found a place to take shelter from the snow, but found that she had accidentally broken into the military camp and was treated as a thief. Something a female thief looks at. This kind of injustice was something she had never suffered before, but now there was no one around to speak for her. She thought that she might be imprisoned as a thief, and her family would not be able to find her. These tears It's like a dam bursting and it can't be stopped.
"Okay, okay, don't cry yet!" Chen Yixin didn't know how to comfort the little girl. At the moment, he could only ask the female soldier to help her pack her luggage and then take her to eat some hot food. In Chen Yixin's opinion, eating something when he is unhappy is an effective way to relieve his mood. Although the current situation may not be right, he can only try it first.
The female soldier took Ma Yuling away, and Chen Yixin called Sun Zhen to him with a stern face and asked him what happened. Just now, he almost overturned because of his cleverness. So many of his subordinates watched helplessly as he made a little girl cry. Now he could only think of ways to try his best to reverse this bad influence.
Sun Zhen also knew that his unintentional move had almost caused his boss to lose face, so he did not dare to hide it at the moment. He also called in several young men who had been guarding the gate outside the mine, and you and I explained the whole process of Ma Yuling's appearance sentence by sentence. clear.
"Did I really make a misjudgment?" Chen Yixin suddenly felt that his intelligence and life experience did not play the role they should have in this matter, but instead became the culprit that led him to misjudge. If he hurt an innocent little girl because of this, he would indeed feel guilty in his heart. He was originally a person with a strong sense of justice, otherwise he would not be so clear about such irrelevant trivial matters, but the more he did, the more uneasy he felt about his attitude just now. In addition, Chen Yixin still felt that this little girl's behavior of traveling alone was contrary to common sense, and there must be some unknown secrets in it. Looking back on the situation just now, if it was just because she was wronged in words, then the little girl's crying seemed to be too exaggerated. Although Chen Yixin didn't quite understand the little girl's thoughts, since the matter was already in front of him, he couldn't just run away from it and had to figure it out.
After asking Sun Zhen and others, Chen Yixin handed over the task of training the formation to his subordinate officers and went straight to the officers' mess next to the camp. The order he gave to the female soldier just now was to bring the little girl here to eat first.
When he reached the door of the cafeteria, he had already seen the back of the little girl sitting at the table. Suddenly he remembered something, turned around and told several followers: "You guys wait at the door."
The reason why Chen Yixin left his entourage at the door was because he was worried that he would end up talking to the little girl later and make his subordinates laugh again. After entering, the female soldier saw him first and quickly stood up and saluted: "Hello, Chief!"
When Chen Yixin saw a bowl of hot ramen placed in front of the little girl, he nodded and said, "I have something to tell her. You go to the door and wait."
Before Chen Yixin sat down, the cook heard the voice and came out: "Chief, do you want something to eat?"
Chen Yixin said: "No need, you go about your business."
Chen Yixin sent the cook away, then pulled up a chair and sat down opposite Ma Yuling. Seeing that she had wiped away the tears on her face, he felt relieved a little, pointed to the big bowl in front of her and said: "I was crying just now, crying." Are you hungry? Let’s eat something first!”
Ma Yuling didn't move her chopsticks and asked pitifully: "Master Jun, everyone here treats you with respect. I guess your official position must be very high, right?"
Chen Yixin coughed dryly and said, "Actually, I'm just a junior officer. I don't have any official title."
Ma Yuling looked aggrieved and said: "Then I would like to ask the military master, if the little girl breaks into the military camp without permission, will she be punished by being beaten with a military stick?"
Chen Yixin laughed and said: "Who wants to beat you with a military stick? Besides, you are not trespassing, someone brought you in. You'd better eat the noodles first, it won't taste good if you leave it for a long time!"
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Ma Yuling asked: "Are you going to be kicked out after eating?"
Chen Yixin couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Why do you have so many questions? Hurry up and eat. If you don't eat, I will kick you out now!"
This simple and crude method worked. Ma Yuling didn't dare to ask anymore and quickly picked up the chopsticks. Seeing that she was already moving, Chen Yixin got up and went to the kitchen, poured a cup of hot tea, brought it out and placed it on the table in front of Ma Yuling. He thought that Ma Yuling ate quite modestly, and he had found some uneaten pancakes in her luggage, so it seemed that she was not very hungry.
Chen Yixin waited patiently for her to finish eating and put down her chopsticks, and then said: "Miss Lin, there was something wrong with my attitude just now. I want to apologize to you first. If you want to avoid the snow and wind here, that's no problem. After the snow stops, I’ll send a few of my men to escort you home.”
Ma Yuling looked happy when she heard the first part, but she couldn't help but panic when she heard the last sentence. She waved her hands 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 her own. The military master does not need to send troops to escort her!" Ma Yuling did not want to be escorted back to Majiazhuang by a group of soldiers, so she quickly declined. As for her previous lie about going back to Qixia County, in fact she didn't even have a single relative there, and had never been there before. She just knew that the road to Qixia County almost passed through this place, so she just lied by the way, but she didn't. I expected that the other party would actually take it seriously and send someone to escort him. If he went there, he would be exposed in minutes.
Seeing her decisive attitude, Chen Yixin felt a little strange in his heart, and then insisted: "You are a girl. It is very dangerous to walk alone in the wild mountains on a snowy day. You are carrying so much luggage in big and small bags. It is very dangerous for you. If you go alone, you may not be able to cover a few miles in one day.”
Chen Yixin's words hit the mark on Ma Yuling's embarrassing state when she arrived. At that moment, her mouth tightened and tears began to well up in her eyes again. Upon seeing this, Chen Yixin quickly advised: "Crying can't solve the problem. If Miss Lin feels wronged, she can speak up and see if there is anything I can do to help you."
Ma Yuling said with a tearful voice: "The little girl is indeed in trouble, but this matter... I'm afraid the military master can't help."
Seeing this touching look of grievance, Chen Yixin couldn't help but burst into chauvinism: "Is there anyone else bullying you? Don't be afraid, tell me and I can protect you!"
(End of chapter)