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. Today is also the case

After snow began to fall in the afternoon, work at an open-air construction site overseen by Chen Yixin had to be temporarily suspended, 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 brand new experience for Chen Yixin himself. He was born in Fujian and had never experienced the winter in the north before traveling across the country. Therefore, like most of his subordinates who were born in the south, this year

It is also the first time to spend the winter in such a cold environment, and it requires an adaptation period. This kind of adaptation is not only for life, but for the troops, it is more important to maintain a good combat status, so even if the sky has begun

Even if it snows, Chen Yixin still insists on letting the troops gather for training. After all, when a war really comes, the opponents may not all be cowards like the Dengzhou Ming Army. They may not even consider a truce in the snow. They should adapt to the snow earlier.

Combat in the sky is also one of the military qualities that garrison troops must possess.

At the Fushan Copper Mine, in addition to the garrison and miners, the permanent population is almost all young and strong men. Only the cooking, medical and health and other logistics departments have a small number of women, so when Chen Yixin saw Sun Zhen passing by the school with a young girl,

, he was immediately stopped 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 a young woman travel far away alone, not to mention that she had to travel dozens of miles in between.

In the mountainous area, this area used to be under the control of the Wanjia Army. Although the Wanjia Army was defeated, 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 difficult for a little girl to walk this road alone.

It's so counterintuitive.

Moreover, Chen Yixin looked suspiciously 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

It was colorful and looked like sheets. How could someone go out like this? It was more like fleeing than visiting relatives. Chen Yixin was suspicious and naturally wanted to have someone check it out.

While the female soldier was checking the luggage, Chen Yixin saw that the little girl was so anxious that she was about to cry. She immediately felt that there was something wrong. Soon the female soldier finished checking the large luggage and came over and whispered.

Reported the results to Chen Yixin.

"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 carry fifty taels of cash out of the house, not to mention in Fushan County, even in the entire Dengzhou area, must be at the level of a lady or a child of a wealthy family.

Now, it is almost impossible to travel far alone. Not to mention how big the crowd is, you must have at least a few old ladies and maids to take care of you, and it is impossible to carry large and small luggage by yourself. This

The origin of this poor 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 were also some gold and silver ornaments, and a sandalwood fan hanging with a soybean-sized pearl string fan pendant.

There was even a glass brush made from Haihan carefully wrapped in cotton cloth and placed in a thin bamboo tube. Added together, the market price of these little things was dozens of taels of silver.

"Miss Lin, please tell me, where did you get these things?" After Chen Yixin looked at the evidence presented by his subordinates, his face became even more ugly. He really didn't want to dress the person in front of him cleanly.

Jing, a pretty girl, was connected with a thief who broke into a house with empty hands, but all kinds of unreasonable things pointed to the conclusion he guessed. If the other party was uglier, he might have asked Sun Zhen to

People were arrested.

"These... are all my little girl's own things..." Ma Yuling felt very aggrieved, but she also expected that the other party might speculate 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, and 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 someone as a gift to the little girl and her hairpin. I have been reluctant to use it, and even the glue on the pen tip has not melted."

Chen Yixin's description of a pair of things was quite accurate, but he still did not dare to be careless and asked further: "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 would not even look carefully at the clothes she packed away one by one. If it did not belong to her, it would definitely not be the right one.

But Chen Yixin was really wrong this time. When Ma Yuling packed her luggage before running away from home, she picked it up most of the night. Every piece of clothing she took away was carefully selected. How could she not remember it?

Just like a collection of treasures, he described the styles and fabrics of the clothes in the package, 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 were indeed consistent with Ma Yuling's figure. If

Chen Yixin also felt that it was a bit unreasonable to insist that she was a female thief who stole clothes based on her figure, and it was an apology to her own conscience. The most important thing was that Ma Yuling was already sitting on the ground crying.

With such a miserable look, Chen Yixin really couldn't open his mouth to say 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.

She looked at the female thief of things. This kind of injustice was the grievance she had never suffered before. Now there was no one around to speak for her. She thought that she might be imprisoned as a thief in the future, and her family would not find her at all.

Without me, the tears would be as unstoppable as a dam bursting.

"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. Under Chen Yixin's recognition

Zhizhong, eating something when you are in an unhappy mood is an effective way to relieve your mood. Although the current situation may not be right, you can only try it first.

The female soldier took Ma Yuling away. Chen Yixin called Sun Zhen to him with a sullen face and asked him what happened. Just now, he almost overturned the car because of his cleverness. So many of his subordinates were watching helplessly as he took a

The little girl was made to cry, and now all she can do is try her best to undo 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 had not played the role they should have in this matter, but had become the culprit that led him to misjudge. If because of this,

If he hurts an innocent little girl, he will indeed feel guilty in his heart. He is a person with a strong sense of justice, otherwise he would not be so clear about such irrelevant trivial matters, but the more this happens, the more he will

The more uneasy I feel about my 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 of words, then this little girl

The girl's crying seemed to be a bit 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 just gave to the female soldiers was to take the little girl with them first.

Come here to eat.

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 and 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 let his subordinates see the joke 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 came out when he heard the voice: "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 all this time. I was crying."

Are you hungry? 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 it's been left out for a long time!"

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 did not dare to ask any more questions and quickly picked up the chopsticks. Seeing that she had already started, Chen Yixin got up and went to the kitchen, poured a cup of hot tea, took it out and put it on Ma Yuling's table.

On the table in front of him, he saw that Ma Yuling ate quite dignifiedly, 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 put down her chopsticks after finishing the meal, 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 will send a few of my men to escort you home."

Ma Yuling looked happy when she heard the first part, but when she heard the last sentence, she couldn't help but panic. 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 that she wanted to return to Qixia County

, in fact, she didn’t even have a 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 expect that the other party would actually take it seriously and send someone.

If you were escorted by someone, wouldn't it be exposed in minutes if you go to the local area?

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 deserted mountains and wild mountains in the snow. 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 target of Ma Yuling's embarrassment when she came. At that moment, her mouth tightened, and tears began to roll in her eyes again. Seeing this, Chen Yixin quickly advised: "Crying can't solve the problem, Lin

If a girl feels any grievance, she can speak up and see if there is anything I can do to help you."

Ma Yuling said with a tearful tone: "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!"
Chapter completed!