Chapter 467: Yafei Wants to Marry Yano

Yafei bit her lip; now it was her turn to be silent.

After a moment of silence, she said faintly, "Dad, could you tell people that I was adopted?"

Lao Ya Tou:...

Like his wife, he had seen and understood all along that his daughter liked her brother.

It was precisely because they wanted a son that they had never brought it up, but he hadn't expected his daughter's love for Yano to be this deep.

For his sake, Yafei was even willing to deny her own identity.

"Alright, I'll go tell Yano." Lao Ya Tou agreed.

"Thank you, Dad, you're so good." Yafei excitedly hugged her father's arm and shook it continuously, as happy as a little girl.

When Lao Ya Tou found Yano, he was shirtless on the pier, working alongside the sailors!

A trace of guilt welled up in the old man's heart; he had never lied in his life, but this time he was using the scars on Yano's body to lie.

He said that when he saved Yano, many people were hunting him down, all of them from his Clan, and the scars on his body were the proof.

That was why the cruise ship had searched so grandly, and the Ano Hao had always hidden to avoid being found by the people on the cruise ship—it was because they felt the people on the cruise ship must be enemies!

"Yano, Yano!"

He called out twice, and Yano handed his work to someone else and ran toward him briskly: "Dad, do you need me for something?"

"Yes."

Lao Ya Tou nodded: "I have something very important to tell you, let's go over there."

Behind the pier was a row of wooden racks, once used by fishermen to mend their nets; they were abandoned and unused now, but they made a good place to talk.

The father and son walked toward the racks, and once under them, Lao Ya Tou took a box of high-end cigarettes from his pocket, pulled one out for himself, and handed one to his son.

Yano took the cigarette, pulled a lighter from his pocket to light his father's first, then lit his own, took a deep drag, and exhaled a pale blue ring of smoke.

He hadn't smoked when he first arrived at the Fishing Village.

But the men in the Fishing Village all smoked, and some women did too; it was a tradition of the Fishing Village, so he followed the local customs.

Lao Ya Tou was simple and didn't beat around the bush; he went straight to the point: "Yano, do you like Yafei?"

"I do."

Yano answered directly without a second thought.

He was even a bit strange; why did his father suddenly ask such a weird question?

Yafei was his sister, of course he liked her.

Lao Ya Tou was very happy; he threw the half-finished cigarette butt onto the ground and turned to leave: "As long as you like her, I'll go tell Yafei."

Yano:...

He sensed that something was wrong.

So he hurriedly chased after him: "Dad, wait a moment, what do you mean by asking if I like Yafei or not?"

Only then did Lao Ya Tou realize he had forgotten to say the most important thing.

So he said: "I hope our family of four will always be a family of four, so your mother and I both want you to marry Yafei, that way we can be together forever."

He didn't say this was his daughter's idea.

Yafei was a woman, and it wasn't good for a woman to bring up such things herself.

Yano:...

He reminded him: "Dad, Yafei and I are siblings; if we get married, outsiders will gossip."

Lao Ya Tou laughed and said: "You don't need to worry about that, we've already discussed it. People in the village won't say anything, and if outsiders ask, we'll just say Yafei is a child we adopted and you are our biological son, so no one will gossip."

Yano:...

He didn't know such a miraculous maneuver existed.

Yano agreed.

Pirate Ship.

A celebration was being held on the ship.

This haul was enough for them to live in comfort for three or four years without worry; although they had lost some men, it was nothing compared to the harvest.

The captain, drunk, carried a bottle of XO to the Military Advisor: "Zhu, Mr. Zhu, why aren't you drinking?"

The Military Advisor was different from everyone else on the ship; he didn't smoke, didn't drink, and didn't mess with women.

The Military Advisor turned his head: "I'm wondering, was that ship that warned us to leave actually a warship?"

"Hahahahahaha..."

The Pirate leader burst into loud laughter; he thought his Military Advisor didn't drink and his brain wasn't as clear as his own.

He slurred his words: "No, it wasn't a warship. Could they, dare they meddle in our business? They wouldn't dare even if they were given the guts to do so, Mr. Zhu, you're overthinking it."

The Military Advisor's surname was Zhu, and his name was Zhu Henjiang.

He had been hijacked from the sea five months ago, or one could say, picked up.

At the time, they had boarded that small speedboat without meeting any resistance; there were only two people left on the boat, both on the verge of death.

When Zhu Henjiang saw the Pirate Ship, he wasn't afraid; instead, he offered to join them with his own money, as long as they threw the other person into the sea to feed the fish.

Such a condition was nothing at all; the other person's head was covered in blood, and even if they hadn't thrown him into the sea, he didn't look like he would live long anyway.

Better a quick end than a long one; throwing him into the ocean could even be considered an act of charity!

So the severely wounded man was thrown into the ocean, and they brought Zhu Henjiang back to the ship.

Originally, the Pirate leader hadn't intended to keep him, only thinking about whether he could use him to get more ransom.

But once Zhu Henjiang arrived on the Pirate Ship, he gave them several "good ideas" in succession that allowed the Pirates to earn several times more money than usual.

There was even one time they were almost caught by the coast guard, and at the most critical moment, Zhu Henjiang came up with a brilliant plan to escape, allowing everyone to turn danger into safety.

The Pirate leader had trusted him implicitly from the start and listened to everything he said; Zhu Henjiang had also leaped from a backup hostage to become a key figure on the Pirate Ship, the Military Advisor!

Now, the Military Advisor felt that the shouting from the warship was fake, and after the Pirate leader laughed, he also felt it made sense!

The logic was simple—they hadn't actually seen a warship, they had only heard the shouting.

Furthermore, the "warship" hadn't announced its nationality and designation as usual.

"Go, go out and find out if there have been any military exercises in the waters of Half Moon Bay these past few days."

The underling minion agreed and left, returning shortly after: "Boss, we've been tricked. There are no military exercises in those waters at all. The one shouting at us at the time was a fishing boat called the Ano Hao."

"Ah! Bastards."

The Pirate leader was furious, and with a "bang," he smashed a wine bottle hard against the ground.

He glared with bloodshot eyes, gritting his teeth: "Ano Hao, I will definitely tear you all to shreds!"

According to his personality, he wanted to gather his men immediately to go out to sea and take revenge on the Ano Hao.

But he was stopped by Zhu Henjiang: "Boss, calm your anger. We just suffered a huge loss in our last operation; we cannot act impulsively again."

"Then what do you suggest? You want me to swallow this insult? Impossible."

Zhu Henjiang said: "Boss, I didn't say you shouldn't take revenge, but know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. We don't know how many people or how many weapons are on the Ano Hao. If we act rashly, I'm afraid we'll suffer a great loss. How about this..."

He whispered his plan into the boss's ear; it really wasn't something thought up on the spur of the moment, but the result of careful deliberation.

The look of rage on the boss's face gradually vanished, a smile slowly spread across his face, and he nodded repeatedly: "Good, good, good, we'll do exactly as you say."