Chapter 270 The Goods Were Robbed

The next morning, Shen Ning originally wanted to get up early to see Xiao Nanchen off, but she didn't expect to feel a slight chill on her forehead while she was still dreaming.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Xiao Nanchen already dressed and kissing her gently between the eyebrows.

"I'm going back to Beijing, Ningning."

"Wait, I'll get up and see you off." Shen Ning quickly sat up, but was held down by him.

"It's very cold outside. Sleep a little longer and don't go out."

Xiao Nanchen held her hand and placed it on his lips, kissing it softly: "If you leave, I'm afraid I'll want to delay for another day..."

Shen Ning laughed sleepily.

Xiao Nanchen leaned over and kissed her cheek softly: "We agreed to get married in the spring, don't go back on your word."

Shen Ning smiled and hummed: "I'll give you a wedding gift then."

Xiao Nanchen laughed: "You and I are getting married, why are you giving me a wedding gift?"

Chen Ning didn't care at all: "That's fine... After all, if we can abduct the most handsome and wonderful Prince Ding, the Great Xuan War God, we must show our appreciation."

Xiao Nanchen didn't want to leave in the first place, but she seduced him so much that he could hardly move. Furthermore, Chen Ning flirted with him with her long hair loose and a lazy look on her face. His Highness Prince Ding's tone darkened a bit, and he said helplessly, "Do you really have to seduce me so much that I can't sleep at night after returning to the capital?"

Shen Ning couldn't help but laugh: "You don't even have that much determination, and you're still the king."

Xiao Nanchen leaned closer and kissed her again: "I'm the one who abducted the best Ningning. I'm happier than you are... From now on, I will give Ningning all the best things and make her the happiest woman in the world."

Shen Ning nodded: "Okay, I'll wait."

Xiao Nanchen held her hand and kissed it again before standing up.

With his soft armor cloak fully on, he looked deeply at Chen Ning, then turned around and strode away...

Just as His Royal Highness Prince Ding disguised himself among a group of soldiers and entered Liaodong Pass, heading west back to the capital, a convoy of escorts was staggering forward on the official road ahead.

Nie Rang and his entourage were being escorted from Liaodong prison to the capital.

The escorting officers were all old acquaintances.

After leaving the city and reaching the official road, the officers took off the shackles of several people and treated Nie Rang and his companions very politely and kindly, saying, "Master Nie has suffered a lot."

"It's not our intention to offend, we simply had no choice. Alas, how come Lord Nie has been hated by Princess Yong'an? What will Lord Nie do now that Prince Ding is here in the capital?"

Nie Rang sneered, "So what if it's Prince Ding? He has people above him!"

Prince Ding still has to listen to the Queen, so what is he afraid of!

The officer nodded with a smile: "He can even maintain some dignity in front of the Empress. Lord Nie must be quite capable..."

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was heard from behind. The officer hurriedly drove the carriage to the side and watched the group of armored soldiers galloping towards them.

But as they passed by them, the soldiers stopped and someone asked, "What are you doing?"

The officer held his head high and puffed out his chest: "We are the guards of Liaodong Pass. Who are you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the token handed over by the person closest to him. The words engraved on it were written in powerful handwriting: Feng Ning.

Fengning Iron Cavalry? !

The officer's expression suddenly changed, and he explained with a forced smile, "We are escorting a prisoner to the capital. What instructions do you have, my lords?"

"The criminals, are they Nie Rang and the others?"

In the prison van, Nie Rang raised his eyes quickly and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

The officer hurriedly said, "That's right."

"I have been ordered by His Royal Highness Prince Ding to take possession of the prisoner and hand him over to us. You may return and report."

The officer was stunned: "This, this..."

Nie Rang was also anxious: "We are going to the capital to stand trial. It was the order of His Royal Highness the Second Prince. You..."

“Swish!”

A long sword was pointed at the officer leading the team.

The officer looked at the Fengning Iron Cavalry's token, then at the sword at his neck, and raised his hand tremblingly: "No, let's talk it over. How should we report to the Second Prince when we return? Please, please give me some advice."

"Just say that His Royal Highness Prince Ding ordered you to hand over the prisoner."

"……yes."

After a while, the group drove the prison cart carrying Nie Rang and others forward. The Liaodong Customs officer looked back every few steps and hurried back to Liaodong Customs.

Xiao Nanyong was a little surprised when he heard the news.

Prince Ding's men took over the prisoners?

He raised his finger and someone immediately dodged.

Two hours later, the secret guards returned with a message: "Your Highness, the bodies of Nie Rang and others were found in the woods thirty miles outside Liaodong Pass. They were all hanged from trees."

Xiao Nanyong: ...

The Seventh Brother really protects people very well. Anyone who offends Princess Yong'an doesn't even need to be convicted, but will be hanged on the road?

Xiao Nanyong had a subtle expression and raised his finger, and the secret guard retreated.

Soon, Shen Ning also received a letter: Nie Rang and several others who were escorted to Beijing for trial committed suicide out of fear of punishment and hanged themselves on the way.

She subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but those termites were dead, and her future would be much quieter.

However, facts proved that a life of hard work would not last long. The day after Xiao Nanchen left, Hua Yingxue's ship was hijacked.

When Shen Ning learned that someone dared to rob her ship in Beihai Prefecture, she almost laughed out of anger. Then she easily found the pirates' lair, which was a well-known local gang called the Jiaolong Gang.

The bandit leader was a woman named Nu Jiaolong.

The Jiaolong Gang's water stronghold was built on an island. Chen Ning personally led the people from two Fu ships to the water bandit stronghold. From a distance, some water bandits drove their boats towards this side, cursing and shouting at them to stop their boats. However, after the two water bandits' sand boats were blown to pieces by two thunder bombs, the other side became quiet.

The other small boats fled in disgrace. Soon, when Shen Ning's boat approached the water fort, the bandit leader Nu Jiaolong appeared.

He looked to be in his thirties, with a slightly dark complexion. He was dressed very neatly in a red suit. He bowed to the ground towards Chen Ning on the shore and said, "I wonder why Princess Yong'an has come to our small gang."

In essence, they are pirates, but in public they are a water transport gang. They just couldn't survive in recent years because of the bad business, so they turned to sea and became pirates.

Qiyue sneered beside him, "How dare you! You dare to rob the princess's goods, and now you dare to ask why we are looking for you? Why don't you see if your little water fort can withstand the attack!"

Nu Jiaolong's expression changed slightly: "Hijacking the princess's goods?"

She was a little incredulous. "Could it be that the medicinal herbs on that ship belonged to you, the princess? ... The people who were scouting the area said we took action because the goods were from Liaodong Pass. If we had known it was yours, we would never have offended you in the slightest."

Qiyue sneered: "Isn't it too late to say this now?"

Nu Jiaolong's expression changed several times, and then he shouted: "Bring Lin Xiaoer here and ask him how he stepped on the spot!"

But soon the man returned and told Nu Jiaolong, "Lin Xiaoer ran away and is nowhere to be found."

Nu Jiaolong immediately realized that he had been set up...

Those elders in the gang have been trying to force her to give up her position since her husband's death, and they do bad things from time to time. This time, it goes without saying that they want her to offend the princess and get into trouble.

Seeing the princess in gorgeous clothes standing at the bow with a smile on her face, not to mention the murderous soldiers on the two Fu ships, the thunder bombs that only the army had were not something their water fort could withstand.

Nu Jiaolong no longer dared to act arrogantly and knelt down to apologize: "Princess, please understand. I was deceived and didn't know that it was your ship... In any case, it was my Jiaolong Gang that committed the crime. I will now return the remaining cargo. Please calm your anger!"

Shen Ning said playfully: "The rest?"

Next to Nu Jiaolong, a man with a sinister face whispered to her, "The boss has come to our door. It's better for us to fight them than to be eaten by humans."

"Shut up! If you want to die, go ahead and die. Don't bring trouble to the people in the village!"

After scolding his subordinates, Nu Jiaolong bit his lip and said with a hard heart, "I dare not deceive the princess. I have sold half of the cargo on that ship to buy winter clothes and food for the brothers and families in the water village... There are more than 2,000 people in our village, and they can't survive."

Nu Jiaolong kowtowed again and said, "If you don't believe me, please come to my village and check it out."

Even as this was being said, waves of people slowly poured out of the water stronghold…Except for the young and strong men who came out with Nu Jiaolong at the beginning, the vast majority of those who came out later were actually the elderly, children, women and children.

Those people surrounded Nu Jiaolong tightly, staring intently at the two huge Fu ships opposite and the people on the Fu ships who they knew were unable to resist...but no one retreated.

"The boss's goal is to keep everyone alive. Please show some mercy, Princess!"

"My Lady Princess, everyone in Beihai Prefecture says you're the reincarnation of a bodhisattva. You've provided for so many people in Beihai Prefecture, and you've sought justice for the civilian miners and killed the evildoers... Please have mercy on us and spare us."

Some people knelt down and kowtowed.

"Please have mercy, Princess. We know we were wrong and we really won't do it again."

A child was crying: "Wow, don't kill my aunt..."

Chen Ning saw that the old, young, women and children were wearing simple but brand new winter clothes, while Nu Jiaolong and the young and strong were still wearing thin clothes.

After a moment of silence, she raised her hand.

With a whoosh, the man who had just been beside Nu Jiaolong and encouraged her to fight with Princess Yong'an was shot through the forehead by a crossbow arrow and fell to the ground with a bang.

Nu Jiaolong was suddenly shocked and his whole body began to tremble.

Are we going to take action?

Their water stronghold is about to die today...

But the next moment, she heard Princess Yong'an on the boat speak calmly: "He will be your lesson. Return the remaining half of the cargo. This will not happen again."

Nu Jiaolong's tense heart suddenly relaxed, and he kowtowed: "Thank you, Princess, for your forgiveness."

The gang members around them, who had just escaped from their desperate situation, also knelt down and kowtowed...

Soon, the remaining goods were returned honestly, and Shen Ning returned with his troops.

Qi Yue hesitated to speak, but finally couldn't help asking, "Miss, we don't lack these things. You also feel sorry for them, so why do you want them back?"

Before Shen Ning could speak, Wu Yue beside her smiled and said, "Are you stupid? They robbed our things. If they came to our door and felt sorry for us, they would even deliver it to us. What if someone else imitated them next time?"

Qiyue was furious: "You are the fool. Miss, look at Fifth Brother...if you have the guts, go and show off in front of Big Brother Yuanyue."

Yuan Yue had previously shot the subordinate who instigated Nu Jiaolong to take action with a crossbow as a warning. At this moment, he was standing in an inconspicuous place on the other side of the ship and was caught off guard by Qi Yue. He glanced over, but when he met Chen Ning's gaze, he immediately looked away and bowed respectfully.

Shen Ning laughed helplessly.

These little brats, the noisy ones are too noisy, and the quiet ones are too quiet...it's really frustrating.