Master of Soul-Building - C319

Not a single one of them didn’t speak of high quality stuff when they and I saw it.

Brother Fang’s face was filled with glee. He sighed and said: “There’s really no other way, tomorrow I’ll choose a few subordinates that can be trusted. They will go with us and push the wheelchair over to us.”

The next day, as promised, Brother Fang got a Buick GL Series large scale commercial vehicle, and the driver was the man in a suit.

“This guy’s name is Pingzi. He’s been by my side since he was a teenager. He’s very reliable. Just call him that from now on. We’re all brothers.”

I took a look at him. He’s called Pingzi, and he’s about 25 or 26 years old. He has a crew cut, a very white face, and very bright eyes.

The young man was in good spirits. Holding the steering wheel, he nodded to us and called out to each of us.

“Drive.” Brother Fang said in satisfaction.

It was more than an hour on the way to Sho Fang. Pingzi’s car drove so steadily that we all fell asleep on the road. When we woke up, the car was already parked by the side of the main street of the county town.

“Brothers, we’re here. Where are we?” Pingzi whispered in our ears.

As I slowly opened my eyes, what I saw was nothing but a large bronze statue outside the window.

The statue had a European and American look to it. It was a general straddling a standing horse, and the warhorse, with its hooves forward, held high.

The general held a gun in his hand, and his eyes were glowering forward. He looked like a horse and a red rabbit among men.

I asked Tuohai which general this statue was made of, and if there had been any famous generals in Shuofang’s time.

Tu Hai shook his head. “Hehe, Brother Qin, if you ask me anything else, I might be able to answer. But I really don’t know anything about this, there doesn’t seem to be anything else that I can pick up from Shuo Fang.”

This caught my attention. The Sheep’s Lodge was a place that existed in every county in the Northwest Territories. What was so special about it?

“But you don’t know, these shepherds from Shuofang, especially the old shepherd, are called the ‘one hundred sheep’.” But you don’t know, these shepherds from Shuo, especially the old shepherd, they are the ‘one hundred sheep’.

Although the last sentence sounded careless, it was what truly mattered.

Because of the unique topography of the northwest region, there was a unique type of plain wolf. Its body was extremely skinny and was about the size of an average dog.

These wolves roamed around in packs. When they appeared, they were usually around twenty to thirty large wolves that attacked the sheep.

Above the northwest, there were twenty to thirty wolves coming and going like the wind, which was not something an ordinary sheep dog could handle. Therefore, if the shepherds could protect the sheep in this situation and were taken away by the wolves, then it would be a top-notch technique.

When I heard this, I nodded and asked Toohey if his friend was the shepherd who kept the sheep. We are already here.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already asked him to come.” Toohey looked at the chat interface on WeChat in front of me. At that moment, there was a sound of glass being knocked on outside the car.

At first, Pingzi thought it was the parking attendant. He rolled down the window and was about to take some change, but who knew that he would be the first to push a stick of tobacco from the passenger seat into the pot?

It was an old-fashioned smoke pot, the brass ones still steaming. Pingzi was startled and let out a cry. Then, he saw a head peeking out of the window as he said with a mouthful of yellow teeth:

“Brother Jin told me to come here, it’s Brother Jin.”

“Old Ya Zi.” As soon as Tu Hai heard this, he quickly opened the door of the MPV. When he opened it, he saw the appearance of the shepherd.

This person couldn’t be considered tall, at most five feet tall he was wearing a faded flowery cotton coat and a white sheepskin towel. One of his eyes on his dark face was narrowed into very small slits, and smoke kept drifting out from the pot in his mouth.

“Let’s get in the car and talk.

Tuhai pulled him into the car. This man was called Ya Zi, probably because he had a body like a child’s, so he gave him such a name.

As soon as he got in the car and saw the four of us, he was also shocked and said:

“What’s going on? You were fine the last time we met. We haven’t seen each other for more than a month and you’re already dead.”

“It’s a long story, I’ll talk to you later.” Tuhai took out a pack of Ashima cigarettes from his pocket and scattered a few of them.

Only now did I realize, that old Ya Zi was addicted to smoke, after receiving the cigarette his eyes lit up, he took a deep breath and sprayed it on the roof of the car, his face full of comfort.

Seeing this, Tu Hai didn’t say anything else and just handed the remaining half of the Ashima cigarettes to Hei Zi.

“This is good stuff. It smells much better than my smoke, but it’s just not strong enough.” Even though he said that, he put the packet of cigarettes into his pocket.

I said that since the guide had already been found, then what should we do next? I carefully made some plans, and in a week’s time, I spread out over three things. Each matter could at most be handled in a little more than two days.

It would take at least half a day to get back and forth, so we could stay here for no more than two days.

Time is of the essence, so I didn’t say too much. However, Tu Hai didn’t seem to be in a hurry, so he told us:

“Old Ya Zi’s family lives in the countryside, let’s go to his place first, you all don’t know how good he is as a sheep, that’s one of the best.”

“Diagram…” “Tu Hai.” I frowned, thinking I didn’t want to waste any more time here, but Toohey blinked at me as if he had read my mind.

I knew at once that he meant what he said, and that he would go to the country without saying anything else.

Shuofang County was already desolate, there weren’t many skyscrapers in sight, and the overall architecture was similar to that of the 1990s. In the countryside, it was even more dilapidated.

It was surrounded by walls made of tamped earth. There were old houses with tiles inside. It seemed like they had decades of history.

This could be considered a good house, where the old man lived, it was even more dilapidated, it was like building a new shed in the sheepfold.