Chapter 710: Investigation

There were also Jin Yi Guards among the Japanese pirates. It was impossible for them to be of one mind when colluding with local powerful families. Both the Great Ming and the Japanese pirates were riddled with holes. So if Bai Lang really wanted to know any news, he would definitely know—he might not be able to touch the Japanese pirates, but he would definitely be able to kill all the local sitting tigers.

What if the Censor-in-Chief was in the court? If he really angered an Innate expert, he would rather not be an official and just kill the whole family. If he wanted to kill, he would kill. There were many civil officials in the Great Ming who had backbone in this regard, although they became more rotten as time went on. And Bai Lang, a civil official like a military general, was a cow-man who had the ability to kill half of the imperial court officials in one breath.

As long as he didn't block everyone's way to make money on the surface, he would pretend not to see it, but the filial piety had to be divided into a share for him. Miss Xu was sent over. Cabinet Minister Xu was indeed a big swindler. Bai Lang secretly saw that this Miss Xu had no breasts or buttocks, but her appearance was quite beautiful, and she was petite. He immediately cursed Cabinet Minister Xu secretly, and in the future, he would definitely not give his father-in-law—Cabinet Minister Xu's son—a good look.

"I remember his family was a powerful family in Songjiang, occupying hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Hum, hum, watch me make them spit it all out for his mother! For a person like Cabinet Minister Xu, if he is cruel, don't talk about human feelings and morality with him. If I am hard, he can't do anything." Bai Lang knew that his hands were black, and he had no chance of winning in the officialdom game with Cabinet Minister Xu, but he should be able to use his martial arts and power to suppress him.

Then this person remembered that it seemed that Cabinet Minister Xu's granddaughter was married to the Junior Cabinet Minister as a concubine. After Cabinet Minister Yan fell, this granddaughter returned home and was poisoned by Cabinet Minister Xu—this move could be called cruel. Although this matter was impossible to happen now, it didn't prevent Bai Lang from cursing Cabinet Minister Xu as a scumbag. He married his granddaughter to win over Bai Lang, and he would return the cannonball after eating the sugar-coated bullet.

The maid who accompanied this young lady was the same as her, a little girl with no breasts or buttocks. Bai Lang also sighed that this old man was really not a human being. She was only ten years old, right? He, Bai Lang, was at least twenty-something. Wouldn't he have to raise this young lady for several years? In fact, this young lady was not that young lady, they were several years apart. Bai Lang got them mixed up.

Anyway, it didn't matter if he got them mixed up. Cabinet Minister Xu was also not a human being—where did the hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Songjiang Prefecture and the tens of thousands of taels of gold and millions of taels of silver in his family come from? Bai Lang now had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in his family, and this was still because he didn't take the initiative to be corrupt and only accepted the share of bribes...

Bai Lang had no interest in money—what could this money do? Could it help him break through the obstacles of the world and regain the power of the Inner Scene Grandmaster? If not, he could only look at it. "Cabinet Minister Xu is pretending even with the dowry." Bai Lang looked at the gold, silver, jewelry, and clothes that Miss Xu brought with her, which were much stronger than ordinary people, but the total value was estimated to be only two or three hundred taels—at this time, Cabinet Minister Xu still had to pretend to be clean.

"Strange and dangerous, it is this old man." Bai Lang said. The wedding was still arranged one by one, and it was about to be completed. Bai Lang had a teacher, but he was far away in Huayin and couldn't come. Instead, Miss Xu's father rushed from Songjiang to be the elder. Bai Lang was a fourth-rank official, granted the title of Court-Discussion Grand Master, official Defense Commissioner of Wenzhou and Chuzhou, and Zhejiang Left Councilor. Once Miss Xu married over, she was a fourth-rank lady, probably higher than her mother, and Bai Lang's official rank was also higher than his father-in-law...

The bridal chamber was not consummated. Even if Lady Bai Xu was in tears, Bai Lang was unwilling. "The child is still young and hasn't grown up yet. It's still too early to serve the bed. Wait until she is eighteen or twenty. I, your master, can wait." Bai Lang felt that this Lady Bai Xu was a bit afraid of him. It was no wonder, who let him have the appearance of a peerless fierce general? Fortunately, Bai Lang used a room full of silver to distract this lady.

It was really a room full of silver ingots. "Madam, all this silver is handed over to you." Bai Lang waved his sleeves. It was fine to make rules at home. Bai Lang also clearly stated that he could deduct money but not beat people, especially not to beat servants to death. In particular, try to give living contracts to maids and servants in the house. The two big maids, Ren Yingying and Blue Phoenix, were exceptions. This was managed by the master.

The news reported by the Jin Yi Guard was that Linghu Chong was indeed restless and ran to Fuzhou to make a fortune, and there was an old man who took him together. And there were traces of people who might be Dongfang Bubai among the Japanese pirates. Not only the Japanese pirates, but even Western large ships appeared on the sea of the Great Ming. As the Defense Commissioner of Wenzhou and Chuzhou, this matter probably couldn't be ignored.

The guard stations under Bai Lang didn't have many ships, and they were all broken ships in the near sea. Even such broken ships were used for short-distance smuggling and transportation. Bai Lang, as an official, could only hide his identity and board a merchant ship—he used martial arts to sneak on. Ordinary merchant ships couldn't let strangers board. Bai Lang used his peerless martial arts to dodge the sight of the people on the ship, and he hid in the cabin to eat, drink, and rest.

According to the intelligence, this ship was going to an offshore island where Japanese pirates and sea merchants lived, and the two people suspected to be Linghu Chong and the old man who might be Feng Qingyang also appeared there. Of course, there was also Dongfang Bubai. The island had become a city fortress. Wooden rows were built into so-called "city walls," and the buildings inside were quite messy and arbitrary. Fortunately, the sewage didn't flow everywhere, but ditches were dug along the mountain to the sea.

The shops inside were quite complete, with grain stores and hotels, and inns and brothels were all available. It was just that the price was not cheap. Bai Lang casually tore a piece of cloth to cover his face and walked inside with his waist bent—there would be some Japanese pirates, but the main force of the Japanese pirates should not be here. "Isn't the old man Feng Qingyang staying on Mount Hua and not going out? Why did Linghu Chong run here to make a fortune?"

Making a fortune here was indeed ten thousand times easier than on Mount Hua, but you had to have a way to do it. If you weren't a local snake in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian, who would do business with you? Let alone that you, Linghu Chong, were a bumpkin from the northwest, you probably couldn't understand the dialect here at all, right? Thinking carefully, Feng Qingyang didn't seem to be a local of Mount Hua? Where did the thing about him being cheated into marrying a wife and it turned out to be a prostitute happen? It seemed to be in the southeast? Or was it in the south of the Yangtze River? Or was that the old fool Wuchen in Book and Sword?

It was hard to say if Feng Qingyang was an Innate expert. Even if he wasn't, he was probably only a line away. Bai Lang hadn't seen him, and now he could only rely on the Innate expert's induction to find him. There were many experts in this camp. You couldn't do it without some skills when mixing on the sea, especially martial arts had to be good. In this era, the gap between sea merchants and pirates was very small.

There were at least a dozen experts at the standard measurement unit of Yue Buqun here, and there were about twenty experts stronger than him. The aura of Innate experts hadn't been sensed yet, but the average level of the guys here who looked wild and like pirates was twice as high as the Mount Hua disciples. Bai Lang even felt the aura of experts in the brothel. "Ha, you can't even be a whore without some skills?" ===== CHAPTER 711 =====