Xu Gongzhu frowned, and this expression made Zhou Ze even more feel that this matter was not simple.

"Hejiang County belongs to Luzhou, and is the westmost part of Shu. It is separated from the Western Zhou Dynasty by a Baisha River. On the south side is a cliff, but on this side is a mudflat.

A generation of monsters appeared in Huangjing Mountain in the northwest, and people often suffered casualties. This morning, he reported that Liu An, the demoted county magistrate of Hejiang, died tragically when he surrounded and suppressed monsters. He took office less than three months, and the three county magistrates had almost the same fate."

Zhou Ze couldn't help but tremble and cursed in his heart.

In ancient times, officials from remote areas were usually demoted and exiled. How could they offend people after just passing the top scorer?

"I didn't offend anyone?"

Xu Gongzhu looked apologetic and suddenly thought of someone in her mind.

"It seems that I have implicated you. If I had known that the process of asking you to speak out the reasoning process, I would have lost all these things today."

"What's the meaning?"

Xu Gongzhu waved his hand, and everyone around him dispersed, and entered the main hall with Zhou Ze, and then said slowly:

"In the past two years, the Monster Hunting Department has lost its power as it was. Although my teacher Zhang Tianshi controls the Monster Hunting Department, he rarely participates in the saint's decisions. After all, several princes have become adults, and the saints are more willing to follow what He Zhenren said and pursue immortality.

But Zhenren He always felt that the demon hunting department was annoying. He wanted to cut off the saint many times. This case was also something that Zhenren He had been holding on to him, so I investigated so thoroughly. After all, King Langya and Zhenren Zhang had close contacts."

Zhou Ze suddenly realized that it seemed that he had inadvertently touched such a network of interests, but at that time, he had no choice in order to survive.

"It's not a bad thing to stay away from the capital."

"With that being said, Hejiang County is too dangerous. It takes a thousand miles to go from the capital. It takes one month to walk the official road, and it takes twenty days to walk through the Crescent Valley, and go through the Guangyuan waterway. It takes twenty days to go south, but the road is not peaceful."

Zhou Ze's face suddenly collapsed, time waited for no one, but now he had no travel expenses. When he talked about this, he suddenly remembered the lost money.

"The money is recovered?"

Xu Gongzhu shook her head.

"Someone deliberately used tricks, and I can't find this."

Zhou Ze rubbed his hands.

"You feel a little guilty about this because of you?"

Xu Gongzhu nodded with sincerity on her face. She grabbed her wrist from her sleeve. The cat demon Xiaobai fell directly into Zhou Ze's palm and raised a finger.

"You have been following me for a year. If you don't fulfill your gratitude, your life will be difficult to continue and your cultivation will be greatly damaged. Then I will complete the contract with you today. From now on, I will protect Zhou Ze to Hejiang County and protect his life for one year. If the contract is completed and regained freedom, are you willing?"

Xiaobai widened his eyes and pointed his little paws at Zhou Ze, looking disgusted.

"He is just an ordinary person, and he has been protecting for too long for a year..."

Xu Gongzhu's eyes moved downwards, and his second finger was about to stand up.

The cat demon raised his claws and gently placed them on Xu Gongzhu's hand.

"Okay, it's only one year, even if you die the next day, it has nothing to do with me!"

Xu Gongzhu nodded, pinched out a little silver powder, and drew a special pattern in the void in front of Zhou Ze, and the powders floated like this.

"I want to extract a thread of your soul and make a contract."

Xiaobai stretched out his claws, grabbed his forehead, and a drop of blood flew into the pattern, then turned into two balls of light, which fell on Zhou Ze and the cat demon respectively.

Zhou Ze's legs became weak and almost fell down. He grabbed the armrest of the chair to avoid embarrassment.

The little white jumped to one side with disgust on his face and licked his paws.

At this moment, Zhou Ze could clearly sense Xiaobai’s place and her dissatisfaction. It seemed that this was the contract that took effect. No matter what, it was good to have a free bodyguard.

Unfortunately, it is a cat that is the size of a palm, so weak!

Feeling the contempt in Zhou Ze's eyes, Xiaobai stopped his movements, turned around and fell from the table, and at this moment his whole body twisted and turned into a girl in white, with her unique eyes with blue and green eyes, which was so beautiful that it was suffocating.

"I have never completed the contract. The demonic power was suppressed and I couldn't transform, and I couldn't maintain the demonic body. How could I be weak? Do you still have a disgusting look?"

Looking at Xiaobai who was tilting his head, Zhou Ze swallowed a saliva and showed a simple smile.

"You think too much and I'm weak, by the way, bad handsome, do you have money on you?"

Xu Gongzhu was stunned and didn't understand what Zhou Ze meant for a moment.

After touching up and down, Zhou Ze felt a little contemptuous.

"That's all?"

Xu Gongzhu reached into his arms, and this time he found two silver notes, one fifty taels and one twenty taels. Zhou Ze sighed, reached out to take all of them and stuffed them into his arms.

"It's enough to make do with it on the road."

Xu Gongzhu wanted to get it back, but Zhou Ze was already covering his chest.

"This is my silver."

Zhou Ze nodded.

"I know, I lost my money and had no money. Didn't you just say that this was caused by you? Could it be that I wouldn't help me raise any money?

OK OK, okay, is it the head office I borrowed from you?"

“…”

Xu Gongzhu didn't know what to say for a while, but those thieves really couldn't catch them for a while, and Zhou Ze couldn't wait.

"You prepare and set off tomorrow. I'll go and see if the thieves leave traces in Beijing."

Zhou Ze bowed his hand and said that such a friend is pretty good, and he is giving away women... It's not right, he is a bodyguard, and he is a silver, and he has no complaints at all.

"Thank you, bad handsome, will you come to see me tomorrow?"

"When will you leave?"

Zhou Ze thought about it and found that there seemed to be only a small carriage at home. The three of them were more than enough to prepare the necessary items, or leave early and live a good morning. After all, no one knew what could happen on the road.

"The weather is getting colder, it's a bit rushed to get up too early, and we will set off tomorrow at the end of the day."

Xu Gongzhu took the people away, and Zhou Ze glanced at the cat demon Xiaobai, looked up and down at his clothes, and licked his lips hesitantly.

Xiaobai snorted, turned around and landed on the table, and turned into a cat as big as a palm again. His tail circled his body and his eyes closed.

"Don't treat me as a woman, and you're ready for clothes. Don't you have no money?"

"Can you know what I think?"

Xiaobai rolled his eyes.

"No, your eyes are too straightforward, what can you not understand?"

When Zhou Ze heard this, he subconsciously covered his chest tightly and nodded quickly.

"I'm right. I'll ask Sanbao to prepare dry food and a lot of items. Sanbao comes in and hurry up to prepare dry food and all the clothes. We'll set off tomorrow."

The three treasures came in response and were stunned when they saw the extra cats on the chair.

"When will the young master raise a cat? It looks so ugly!"

Xiaobai narrowed his eyes, and a trace of danger flashed through his eyes.

Zhou Ze held his forehead, this kid's mouth was so smelly.

Sure enough, Xiaobai turned into a human form toward the table, and sat on the table. Sanbao opened his mouth and wanted to roar, but Zhou Ze covered his mouth.

"Okay, don't be excited, it's just a cat?"

The Three Treasures were so scared.

"This is not a cat, this is a demon, it will turn into a human fairy!"

Zhou Ze nodded.

"The bad coach gave it to you. The road is dangerous. You can protect us with Xiaobai. Otherwise, what should I do if I encounter danger on the road? Are you going to fight and resist?"

The three treasures instantly stopped the sound and secretly looked at Xiaobai from Zhou Ze's side. Seeing that it turned into a cat again, they swallowed a mouthful of water and said something for a long time.

"I'll go buy dry food."

.....................

The next day, at the end of Chen.

It was drizzling.

A somewhat shabby carriage staggered out of the south city gate.

Sanbao was wearing a straw hat to drive the car, and Xiaobai was lying on one side of the carriage. She looked like a cat without saying anything.

The fur on my body is very soft without touching it. After staring at it for a while, the little white figure still always appears in my mind.

The car swayed and stopped.

Zhou Ze picked up Xiaobai and put it on her shoulder. Xiaobai was very dissatisfied. She has been unhappy since Xu Gongzhu used the promise of protecting Zhou Ze as a promise to repay her kindness.

Zhou Ze felt like a mirror in his heart. Xiaobai felt that he was weak and protecting himself was a waste of money, but so what? It was always good to have a free bodyguard, and he had to protect himself if he didn't want to.

He saluted Xu Gongzhu seriously at the horse who was coming down.

This person looks lazy, but is actually very persistent. If he hadn't insisted, Zhou Ze would not have come out.
To be continued...