Chapter 456: The Soft Persimmon Has Come to the Door

On the Great Marsh, four wide-bellied square boats were riding very deep in the water, drifting and swaying toward the valley.

Liang Qu and Seeing Ran Zhongshi entered the center of the ship's cabin from the stairs on both sides, passed through a narrow corridor, and cold white air rushed toward them, ethereal and sinking.

"Phew, it's much more comfortable inside than outside."

Liang Qu exhaled a breath of hot air, lifted his foot and stepped into the ice storage room where white mist flowed, stretched his shoulders, and felt happy all over.

Outside, it was late May, full of dazzling sunlight, shockingly hot. With the slightest movement, one couldn't help but drip hot sweat.

Inside the cabin, however, it was like a cold storage.

Walking a few steps inside, the white mist was thick, dispelling the scorching heat, extremely pleasant.

People passed by the side of the deep blue ice cubes, and the cold air flowed along the folds of their clothes.

The entire cabin was covered with a layer of insulating cotton material, and the floor was sprinkled with saltpeter powder to ensure the old ice melted as little as possible. There were also several machines, humming and emitting cold air.

The principle looked similar to an ice platform, and reaching out, the temperature blown out was even lower.

The surface of most ice cubes combined with water vapor to grow white frost, and one had to scrape off an inch-thick layer to see the deep blue old ice inside.

Liang Qu used his Green Wolf to dig out a piece the size of a fist and placed it at the intersection of sunlight to observe. The pale blue light and shadow cast down, pure and flawless.

Bai Yinbin was right.

This batch of ice was very pure.

The manager accompanied them and said: "When it was mined, it was close to 1,250,000-plus jin. Even rushing, it was inevitable that a few tens of thousands of jin melted."

"The loss rate is quite small." Seeing Ran Zhongshi wiped his fingertips and flicked away the frost, "Does the manager know what we came here for?"

"Understand, understand. Master Lu and Master Ren have said so. Please rest assured, everyone, our Heavenly Ship Chamber of Commerce has a reputation."

"Anyone brought here today will absolutely not enter within twenty miles of the anomaly, and will leave immediately after delivery."

"If anyone violates the rules, once discovered, there is no need to ask us, just leave it to the masters to deal with."

"There's no need to be so serious. Your four cargo ships, how many people in total... no one followed behind, right?"

"No one followed!" The manager said decisively, "We mined the ice and went downstream along the Black Water River all the way, never resupplying along the way."

"No one knows where we are going, let alone what goods are on the ship or why we are passing through. There are so many merchant ships coming and going on the Great Marsh every day, basically no one noticed us."

"Not necessarily." Liang Qu suddenly interjected, "I actually saw quite a few mice mixed into the ship."

Seeing Ran Zhongshi and the others looked sideways.

The manager was slightly puzzled: "The master might as well speak more clearly."

Seeing Ran Zhongshi stepped forward two steps and asked in a low voice: "Found something?"

Liang Qu put his Green Wolf back into his waistband and took out a Profound Water Arrow.

"When boarding the ship, several gazes were full of malice toward me, or to be precise, toward 'us'."

Lu Kaiyun, Ren Yipeng, Bai Yinbin: "?"

They had been on the ship for half a day, how come they didn't feel anything?

Seeing Ran Zhongshi weighed his words: "The gazes... full of malice? You're not joking?"

Martial artists can indeed exert killing intent and malice through their gazes, but it requires active effort.

Since the other party sneaked on board, how could they be so open and aboveboard?

Afraid the enemy wouldn't know?

"I practice a special technique."

Seeing Ran Zhongshi raised an eyebrow: "Accurate?"

"Never made a mistake."

Seeing Ran Zhongshi's gaze fell on the manager, his palm reaching slightly behind him.

Liang Qu grabbed Seeing Ran Zhongshi's wrist: "The manager is fine, otherwise I wouldn't have come in to say it. Just the few outside, their strength is around Galloping Horse, no strong people, they should be scouts."

Bai Yinbin's eyes turned: "Ghost Mother Sect?"

The manager listened for a few sentences and gradually understood the situation. Although it was worth being happy that he had cleared his relationship, as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, he couldn't shirk his responsibility for this happening.

"That shouldn't be, masters. Our ships and manpower collected the ice, and we didn't stop at all along the way. Every day we even had to send people to row for half a day, there was no personnel change, rushing all the way..."

Liang Qu interrupted: "It might be during the transport, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy!"

Bai Yinbin said: "Replace the peach with the plum, the sheep replaces the ox?"

Liang Qu looked up and stared at the manager: "In normal water transport, the fleet wouldn't cross the center of the Great Marsh, right?"

The manager bowed: "The master is right. The Jianghuai Great Marsh is extremely deep and vast, with countless water beasts. Ordinary water transport merchant fleets mostly travel along the shallow water areas to take a detour."

"It's far, but it's safe. Crossing like us, although the route is several times shorter, costs more money to buy demon-repelling ointment."

"Even so, there is still a risk of being attacked by water demons. Halfway through our trip, we also hung the flag of the River Patrol Office."

Can't deal with the imperial court, can't deal with a merchant fleet?

A merchant fleet without a background, if unlucky, is completely a canned gold and silver can traveling on the water.

Open one, and you'll make a fortune.

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Lu Kaiyun said: "What now?"

Liang Qu looked at Seeing Ran Zhongshi.

"Ashui, can you recognize them all?"

"As long as they look at me, yes!"

Seeing Ran Zhongshi didn't hesitate much: "Try to catch them alive, see if we can interrogate for clues. Manager, use the excuse that we are about to arrive at the destination and need to move the ice, and gather everyone on the deck!"

"Yes!"

The manager hurried away.

"What an unexpected harvest."

Bai Yinbin sighed.

Brother Xu is not good at fishing, but he is quite accurate at fishing for other things.

Sending Liang Qu and Seeing Ran Zhongshi was completely a temporary idea, didn't expect to really dig up dirty things.

"It is rumored that the East Snake and North Fish have secret connections with the Ghost Mother Sect, perhaps it is not groundless. Even if they are truly innocent, the Frog Clan and the Iron-Head Fish have been confronting each other for so many days, they wouldn't be idle if they got the news, just don't know which branch the people who came are from?"

"Heh, no matter which branch, the Martial Saint is hard to move, and wanting to continue to mix in the Great Marsh, not daring to send a Jiang Zongshi is the second.

Just these two points, and going down, no matter how many come, they are all our military merits! Ashui is not here today, hiding sneakily could still add some trouble, but now, they can't even add trouble."

Liang Qu thought for a while.

"Makes sense. The Ghost Mother Sect lives in the Great Marsh, doesn't dare to completely offend the South Frog, shrinks its own space for maneuver, and is itself lacking in successors..."

Ordinary cultivation is a pyramid, the higher you go, the fewer people, same principle as the food chain.

Only the Ghost Mother Sect, based on historical legacy issues, has a different situation.

The last branch with the surname Huang, two Grandmasters as leaders, actually only had two Great Martial Artists below!

Grandmasters have long lifespans, one person passes down ten generations, the father leaves and the grandfather is still there.

Great Martial Artists, without taking life-extending treasures, live at most one hundred and thirty or forty years. The remnants who fled to the Great Marsh in the past died early.

However, the population base of the new generation is small, resources are limited, and it is difficult to cultivate. Being able to become a Great Martial Artist is already extremely difficult, mostly in the middle and lower realms...

If they really send people over, it's just this level.

"The soft persimmon has come to the door!"

Several people's thoughts turned, their spirits lifted, and quickly centered on Liang Qu, acting one after another, cleaning up the big mice hiding in the dark ship by ship.

Those delivering ice were busy, and those receiving ice were not idle either.

Long Binglin, Long Eying, and Long Yanrui were preparing to finish the battle in one go, driving the Iron-Head Fish out of the valley range.

Only Long Zong Yin brought people to receive the goods himself.

"Is it or is it not..."

Long Zong Yin spun the pearl string on his wrist, his thoughts numerous.

Two days, almost three, enough for Long Zong Yin to find Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe, then take a White Sturgeon to discuss with the Great Elder and Second Elder for a whole day, and come up with a preliminary plan.

"You two, such a big thing, actually didn't tell the clan."

Behind Long Zong Yin, Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe showed shame.

At first, the two guessed and guessed, thinking Liang Qu was for the Dragon Lord.

The Dragon Lord's will is naturally higher than the Dragon-Man Clan's will.

Until they finished dealing with the Snake Demon, the two realized they might have guessed wrong, but they were embarrassed to shake Liang Qu's matter clean.

Liang Qu treated them well.

He didn't deliberately use the two because of the similarities with the Dragon Lord, and verbally always denied that he was the Dragon Lord.

It was their own wishful thinking.

So, struggling, they always shelved it.

Didn't expect that only a few days after returning, the elder named them and found them, making a fuss.

Didn't hide it.

Spilled out quite a lot of things.

The matter of the White Ape, the two brothers didn't say, just bit down that the true form manifested was very different from the Dragon Lord.

Long Zong Yin didn't go to force a question, he didn't need to know the specific result.

What the truth is doesn't matter, the key is "not Dragon-like", plus the attitude of Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe, whether the other party is the Dragon Lord is already in doubt, needing time and evidence to slowly verify.

As for the current relationship with the other party...

Discussing with the other two elders, the three all thought this matter was not difficult to handle, even simple.

Back and forth, the Dragon-Man Clan only has one road.

Being friendly is never wrong.

Everything is right.

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