Chapter 25: Money Moves People's Hearts
After dragging the fat man's body into the Tai Yan Boat and simply cleaning up the bloodstains on the ground, Li Fan returned to the house as if nothing had happened.
"It's really nonsense." Li Fan commented.
The fat man obviously hadn't figured out the situation yet. Relying on his cleverness, he discovered that Li Fan might have sneaked in under an assumed name, so he came over impatiently to threaten him, probably in order to gain some benefits from Li Fan.
But he didn't think about it. It was true that Li Fan had sneaked into Liuli Island. But didn't this group of people from the outer world also obtain household registration by pretending to be disaster victims?
What is the essential difference between him and Li Fan?
Once you get the household registration of Liuli Island, you will really consider yourself as a native.
Li Fan saw it clearly. The immortal master who had covered his face and came to meet him, as well as the Tianbao Tower where Sun Zhang was, acted very cautiously, fearing that others would find out.
It is obvious that their identities as mortals in the place of exile cannot be made public.
Because of this, Li Fan killed the fat man who came to threaten him without knowing the consequences.
He didn't believe that Tianbao Tower and the people from Lijie would conduct a high-profile investigation into this.
Besides, even if they found out that the fat man had been to Li Fan before he disappeared, they couldn't even find the body now. As long as Li Fan insisted that he had never seen him, they couldn't do anything to Li Fan.
After all, if things get out of hand, it will not benefit either side.
And if Li Fan hesitated and did not dare to take action, leaving the fat man alive, it might cause all kinds of trouble.
So Li Fan decisively chose to nip any signs of possible threats in the bud.
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Just as Li Fan expected, a few days passed, and apart from Su Changyu who came to ask about it, the fat man's inexplicable disappearance did not attract anyone else's attention.
This incident was just a small episode in Li Fan's island life and was soon forgotten by him.
These days, Li Fan was inquiring about various matters on the island, while planning how to properly use the treasures in the Tai Yan Boat.
Gradually, Li Fan had a general understanding of the Liuli Island where he was now.
This sea area is called Congyun Sea.
The sea of clouds is vast and boundless, with tens of thousands of islands of various sizes scattered across it.
Liuli Island is located in the southern part of the central sea area of Congyun and is of medium size.
The island is named Liuli Island because the waters around it are rich in a kind of delicious glass fish.
Not only is the glass fish very popular among the mortals on the surrounding islands, even some immortal masters use the glass beads that occasionally appear in the body of the glass fish in their elixirs.
Therefore, there is an immortal master in charge of Liuli Island, and a certain number of Liuli beads are collected every year.
Immortal masters usually do not care about worldly affairs, and ordinary people rarely see them. All matters of Liuli Island are usually governed by the Liuli Mansion established by the Liuli Island Master.
Residents of the island can get a job in Liuli Mansion. The more dangerous the job is, the higher the pay will be.
Among these, going out to sea to catch glass fish is the most popular.
Not only is there not much risk, but the reward is also quite good.
More importantly, only 70% of the caught glass fish needs to be handed over, and 30% can be kept for sale.
So this fishing job is really popular.
Unfortunately, it takes a big ship to go out to sea, and the schools of glass fish are erratic. To find them, you need a special spirit guide made on the island.
The spiritual guide will only be issued by Liuli Mansion when going out to sea, and will be taken back after returning.
Fishing privately was no longer possible, and once caught, they would be killed.
Therefore, the fishing of colored glaze fish can only be carried out with the permission of the Colored Glaze Palace.
Those who can go out to sea to fish are the envy of the island residents.
A fleet that went out to sea a few days ago not only made a great catch of glass fish, but also encountered a shipwreck.
It is said that this ship was used by families to flee from the storm, so it carried more than a dozen boxes of gold, silver and jewelry!
Now the fleet has benefited greatly.
Regarding the items salvaged from the shipwreck, the rules on the island are the same as those for the glass fish, and you can keep 30% for yourself!
So, when the fleet returned to the port, half of the island was in an uproar.
Even the island's treasurer, the money manager, came to check it out in person.
Seeing the fleet members' mouths almost crooked with laughter, many people on the island became jealous.
They all began to look for connections privately, hoping to obtain the qualification to go out to sea next time.
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In Li Fan's opinion, he could use the same operation to slowly launder the countless treasures on the Taiyan Boat, and the risk would be relatively small.
The only difficulty lies in how to obtain the qualifications to go out to sea alone.
The existence of Tai Yanzhou must never be exposed.
There were too many people on the island who wanted to join the fleet. After asking around, Li Fan found out the key.
The three most trusted subordinates of the Lord of Liuli Island are Manager Zhao who is in charge of personnel on the island, Manager Qian who is in charge of finances, and Manager Zhou who is in charge of public security.
Most of the fleet quotas were in the hands of Manager Qian. Managers Zhao and Zhou had always wanted to intervene, but they were always firmly controlled by Manager Qian. They were only given one or two fleets.
Wherever there are people, there is struggle.
Li Fan recalled Manager Zhao's reaction when he saw him on the day he became a citizen, and thought that maybe he could meet Manager Zhao.
But Manager Zhao was not someone that Li Fan could meet just by asking for.
Li Fan plans to follow the path of Sun Zhang of Tianbao Tower.
After finding out the location, Li Fan came to the gate of Tianbao Tower and wanted to meet Sun Zhang.
But he was turned away.
"Go away, go away. Who is our Elder Sun? Do you think you can see him whenever you want? Go away!" Several big men in black at the door looked at Li Fan with ill intentions, as if they were ready to fight if they disagreed.
Seeing this, Li Fan had no choice but to leave.
He felt a little strange. Tianbao Tower was open for business after all. How could they kick people out without showing up?
Moreover, these men in black made the decision without asking for permission, as if they already knew who Li Fan was...
"He must have received instructions and is deliberately refusing to see me." Li Fan concluded that something must have happened with the people in Lijie, which caused Sun Zhang to turn against him.
After some inquiries, Li Fan finally found out what had happened.
It turned out that Su Changyu resolutely chose to become the immortal master's experimental subject in order to eliminate the miasma in his body as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Su Changyu signed his name on the remaining deed.
From then on, the three deeds were completed and the deeds were completely dissipated.
There is no connection between Lijie and Tianbao Tower anymore.
"No wonder he suddenly turned against us and deliberately avoided us. I just didn't expect Su Changyu to be so decisive." Li Fan sighed.
"Hey, we all advised him not to be so anxious. But he wouldn't listen!" Li Fan also recognized the person who said this. It was Xiao Heng who claimed to be the son of King Zhennan in the Tianbao Tower Cave.
Xiao Heng seemed to have a very good relationship with Su Changyu, and he was extremely depressed at the moment: "If it wasn't for saving his terminally ill sister, Brother Su wouldn't have tried so hard."
After hearing this, Li Fan was thoughtful.
(End of this chapter)
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