Chapter 340: Where are the people

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

He had stayed in Shuntian Prefecture for nearly thirty years and felt fresh about traveling by boat; water travel had less trouble of boat and car fatigue and sleeping in the wilderness than land travel, and he could hurry on the road while 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 first to coordinate and make arrangements with Wang Hai and Xiao Si, while Li Miao took Zheng Yi, Cao Hanyan, and Gao Anyu to sail along the Yangtze River toward Nanjing.

But as they moved forward, the speed of hurrying on the road slowed down day by day.

The reason was simple—there were more and more water bandits.

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

"Yaksha of the Turning River," "Bald Jiao of the Waves," "Ghost Hand of the Water," "Pig Dragon of the Whirlpool," each name was bigger than the last, but they died faster than the last.

By now, even Gao Anyu was a bit 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 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 Li Miao "Uncle Li" again.

He was the only one who dared to complain to Li Miao.

"Uncle, there are too many water bandits."

Gao Anyu looked left and right, and seeing that Zheng Yi was indeed not there, he lowered his voice and said.

"Actually, the number of people is not the issue. These green forest bandits have trashy Wu Gong, and Brother Cao and I can handle them cleanly in a few moves—the key is that Sister Zheng's methods are too ruthless!"

Li Miao had shed his disguise, and Zheng Yi naturally didn't need to disguise herself anymore. Originally, Gao Anyu wanted to call her "Aunt Zheng" as before, but was glared at several times, and now he changed the address to "Sister Zheng."

"With one sword from Sister Zheng, the person is split in two, and the filthy things splash over most of the deck—Brother Cao and I have to spend more than half an hour washing it!"

"Now Brother Cao is brushing the deck outside!"

Li Miao found it funny, listened to it, and sure enough, there was a "brushing" sound from the deck outside, and Cao Hanyan's occasional long sigh.

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

Gao Anyu said, staring at Li Miao with eyes full of expectation.

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

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

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

"Zheng, Sister Zheng..."

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

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

"Officer, I think it's better to continue on the water route, maybe we can coincidentally find the first breakthrough."

Li Miao raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"How to say?"

Zheng Yi stepped forward, kicked Gao Anyu away, took out a piece of paper from her bosom and spread it on the table.

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

Zheng Yi pointed to a place.

"We are here now, it should be the territory of Zhou Sanhua, the 'Yin River Eel,' one of the twenty-eight leaders, so it is not strange to meet a water bandit."

"But the key is that the water bandits we met these few days are too many and too messy."

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. Logically speaking, the water bandit business 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 the upstream won't be full and the downstream won't be hungry."

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

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

Zheng Yi circled on the map.

"Here is Zhou Sanhua's stronghold."

"Officer, the twenty-eight leaders are all colluding with the four Nanjing garrison eunuchs, and this Zhou Sanhua has problems at this juncture, eight out of ten it has something to do with the matter we want to investigate."

"Look, shall we?"

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

Li Miao laughed.

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

"By my side, your murderous nature has grown 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's. When something happened, the first thing she thought of was who could be interrogated to find out the truth, who could be killed to solve the problem, and there was no idea of taking a detour.

"Officer..."

Zheng Yi was embarrassed.

Li Miao waved his hand with a smile.

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

"However..."

Li Miao twisted his fingers and said slowly.

"Since these leaders are all colluding with the garrison eunuchs, it is best that I don't appear in front of them, so as not to alert the enemy and ruin my subordinates' layout."

"Like this."

Li Miao grabbed into the void, and the door opened wide.

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

"Little Cao, I lent you to her, his brain is active, 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 to explore, kill if you should, ask if you should, and see what the situation 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 sigh of relief and complained to Li Miao.

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

"She hits people really painfully."

Li Miao pointed at him with a smile.

"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, don't expect 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 main character when he spoke behind people's backs, and he was already at a disadvantage, so he stopped talking about this matter.

After a while, Gao Anyu found a topic.

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

"Hey! Listen, people on the ship!"

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

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

"My steel saber is not long—"

*Boom! *

The door panel flew horizontally like a cannonball, the "Little Green Dragon of the Waves" was shouting with a saber, and was smashed by the door panel, the whole person flew out with a *boom*, vomiting 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?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 341 =====