Chapter 302: Where are the people

Although Li Miao said it decisively, it was absolutely impossible for him to get off the ship and hurry.

He had stayed in the capital for nearly thirty years, and he felt fresh about traveling by boat, and the water route had less trouble of boat and car fatigue and sleeping in the wilderness than the land route, and he could hurry by lying down every day, which could be said to be the most satisfying way to hurry for Li Miao.

So You Zi'ang went to Nanjing to coordinate and handle things with Wang Hai and Little Four, and Li Miao took Zheng Yi, Cao Hanyan, and Gao Anyu to sail along the Yangtze River to Nanjing.

But the further they went, the speed of hurrying slowed down day by day.

The reason is very simple—there are more and more water bandits.

In just two days, they met three or four groups of water bandits.

"Turning River Yaksha," "Bald Jiao on the Waves," "Water-Dividing Ghost Hand," "Swirl Bottom Pig Dragon," the names were bigger than one another, but they died faster than one another.

By now, even Gao Anyu was a little tired of killing.

"Uncle Li, let's not take the boat, right?"

Gao Anyu leaned carefully to Li Miao's side and whispered.

He already knew Li Miao's identity, and he had been cautious for a few hours at first. Li Miao smiled and called "Little Gao" as usual, and he immediately smiled and started calling "Uncle Li, Uncle Li" again.

It was him who dared to complain to Li Miao.

"Uncle, there are too many water bandits."

Gao Anyu looked left and right, seeing that Zheng Yi was really not there, and then lowered his voice.

"Actually, the number of people is not a thing. These green forest bandits have rubbish martial arts, and Brother Cao and I can handle them cleanly—the key is that Sister Zheng's hands are too ruthless!"

Li Miao took off his disguise, and Zheng Yi naturally didn't need to disguise. Originally, Gao Anyu wanted to call her "Aunt Zheng" as before, but was glared at for a long time, and now he changed the title to "Sister Zheng."

"With one sword from Sister Zheng, the person was split into two, and the filthy things splashed all over most of the deck—Brother Cao and I had to spend more than half an hour washing it!"

"Now Brother Cao is brushing the deck outside!"

Li Miao found it funny, listened with his ears, and sure enough, a series of "brushing" sounds came from the deck outside, and Cao Hanyan's occasional long sigh.

"Right? Uncle, this can't go on!"

Gao Anyu finished, looking at Li Miao with eager eyes.

Li Miao turned his head with a smile and looked behind him.

"Little Yizi, look at you, you made Little Gao come to complain to you."

Gao Anyu's face turned bitter, he turned his head stiffly, and sure enough, he saw Zheng Yi holding a sword and pulling open the curtain and walking over, glancing at him coldly.

"Sister, Sister Zheng..."

Gao Anyu showed a fawning and awkward dry smile on his face.

Zheng Yi was too lazy to talk to him, and said to Li Miao.

"My lord, I think it is better to continue the water route, maybe we can accidentally find the first breakthrough."

Li Miao raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"How to say?"

Zheng Yi walked up, kicked Gao Anyu away, took out a piece of paper from her arms and spread it on the table.

"My lord, this is the Jiangnan waterway map I drew from memory, look."

Zheng Yi reached out and pointed to a place.

"We are here now, it should be the territory of Zhou Sanhua, one of the twenty-eight leaders of the Jiangnan waterway, it is reasonable to meet a water bandit or two, it is not strange."

"But the key is that we have met too many water bandits in the past few days, and they are too mixed."

Li Miao smiled and said.

"The tiger hasn't died yet, there shouldn't be so many animals in the mountain grabbing food, right?"

"Yes."

Zheng Yi nodded.

"I grew up in a water bandit stronghold since I was a child. Reasonably speaking, the business of water bandits should pay attention to 'long-term flow.' Which section of the waterway has how many people, whether to rob merchant ships or passenger ships, are all set, so that it won't be that the upstream is full and the downstream is hungry."

"But the ones we met in the past few days have no rules at all. They move weapons as soon as they come up, three or four groups of people in two days, if this goes on, the merchant ships on this waterway will die out."

"Doing so breaks the rules and cuts off the financial path of other strongholds, which is to fight to the death... this Zhou Sanhua is simply like he doesn't want to live."

Zheng Yi reached out and circled on the map.

"Here is Zhou Sanhua's stronghold."

"My lord, the twenty-eight leaders all colluded with the four garrison eunuchs in Nanjing, and this Zhou Sanhua has problems at this juncture, eight out of ten are related to what we want to investigate."

"Look, shall we?"

Zheng Yi cut down with her palm and looked at Li Miao.

Li Miao smiled.

"Little Yizi, you are becoming more and more like an Embroidered Uniform Guard now."

"By my side, the murderous nature has risen a lot."

Zheng Yi's face was embarrassed.

Indeed, Li Miao said so, and she reacted.

I don't know when it started, her way of thinking became more and more like Li Miao. When something happened, the first thing she thought of was who could know the truth, who could solve the problem by killing, and there was no thought of detours.

"My lord..."

Zheng Yi was embarrassed.

Li Miao waved his hand with a smile.

"I just said it casually, in fact, with your martial arts, you don't need to worry too much in the Jianghu, it is the right way to do so, detours are a waste of time."

"However..."

Li Miao twisted his fingers and said slowly.

"Since these leaders all colluded with the garrison eunuchs, I'd better not appear in front of them, so as not to alert the enemy and spoil my subordinates' layout."

"Like this."

Li Miao raised his hand and grabbed into the air, and the door opened wide.

Cao Hanyan was wearing an apron, holding a brush in his left hand, a bucket in his right hand, and was grabbed in with a confused face like a woman doing work.

"Little Cao, I lent him to you, his brain is more flexible, and he has learned a lot of interrogation methods during this period, just to complement you."

"You two, go to that Zhou Sanhua's stronghold and explore, kill if you should, ask if you should, see what the agenda is."

Zheng Yi bowed.

"Good, after finding out, we will catch up with you."

After saying that, with a flash, Cao Hanyan was dragged out again with a confused face and disappeared.

Seeing Zheng Yi leave, Gao Anyu let out a long breath and complained to Li Miao.

"Uncle Li, why didn't you say it when Sister Zheng was there? Just watched me finish speaking."

"She hits people painfully."

Li Miao smiled and pointed at him.

"If you are not convinced, hold it in, your inheritance is not worse than hers, one day you can beat her, naturally you don't have to be afraid of her, still expecting me to support you?"

"She is a woman, and she is related to me, I won't offend her for you."

Gao Anyu touched his head and smiled honestly, knowing that he was caught by the master when he spoke behind his back, and he was reasonable, so he didn't say anything about this.

After a while, Gao Anyu found a topic.

"Uncle Li, you said that the eunuch's lower body is—"

"Hey! People on the ship listen!"

Before the words were finished, a loud shout came from outside.

"I am 'Little Green Dragon on the Waves' Zhou Xun, this is my territory, if you are sensible, take some silver to buy the road, if you are not sensible—then roll out early and die!"

"My steel blade is not long—"

*Boom!

The door panel flew horizontally like a cannonball, "Little Green Dragon on the Waves" was shouting with a blade, was smashed by the door panel, the whole person flew out with a *boom*, spitting blood and falling off the ship with the door panel, and there was no movement.

Gao Anyu walked out with a tiger face and scanned left and right.

"Who disturbed me and Uncle Li chatting!"

"Die—hey, where are the people?"

"Who shouted just now? Where did the people go?"