Deep in the dense forest of the lake island, in the central bamboo house.

Master Yu Liu walked back and forth around the charcoal basin with his hands behind his back.

The heads of the Four Heavenly Kings also started spinning in circles along with him.

"Boss, why are you still hesitating?"

"Why are you hesitating?" Yu Liuye blew his beard and glared, "Why would they give 100,000 taels? Can you figure it out?"

"I don't think there's anything to think about." The big black fat man said in a muffled voice: "If they give it to us, we'll take it. Once we get it, we'll disband and let them find it!"

"Yes, boss, why do you care why they gave it to us? If they gave it to us, we should just take it. Why do you complain that the silver is too hot?" said the scarred man.

"Boss, if you don't take the silver piled there, what will you do if someone passing by takes advantage of it?" said the third leader.

"Boss, meow..." The older leader was rubbing his hands anxiously.

"You've all been blinded by money!" Yu Liuye pointed at the bunch of idiots speechlessly. "This is called being blinded by greed, you know?"

"That's right, big brother." The four of them nodded and said in unison, "But they gave us too much."

"Hey, you guys..." Yu Liuye smiled bitterly and finally told the truth: "Okay, in fact, I am also full of money and I can't think too much."

"That's it!" The four guardians jumped up excitedly. "Let's go out and get the silver!"

"We can't all go, right? We have to leave someone behind to look after the house." The older leader calmed down a little.

"What are you still looking for?" The third leader said, "Take the money and we'll go our separate ways. Anyway, I won't be able to come out for a year or two."

"Hehe." The other two leaders agreed. The scarred man said, "I want to visit all the brothels in Changmen!"

"I want to have a good gamble!" The dark-faced man's face turned red.

Mr. Yu Liu thought so too. The fact that the other party offered 100,000 taels of silver to redeem a person meant that there must be some big shot on the ship.

After that big shot goes back, maybe he can offer another 100,000 taels of silver to destroy me.

What? Killing to silence someone? Are you kidding? In that case, Wu Ji would use one million taels to kill himself...

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he didn't dare to stay here for a moment.

Well, take the silver quickly and flee far away. Hide in the south for a year or two, and come back after the storm has passed.

"Stop making noise, everyone can hear us, how are we going to divide it?" As soon as Master Yu Liu opened his mouth, he always wanted to eat alone.

"That's right..." The four Vajras immediately quieted down.

Although one hundred thousand taels seemed like a frightening amount, they had about two hundred people.

If divided equally, each person would get 500 taels.

I guess no one will be satisfied.

Therefore, the best way is to do as before and let the people below think that they only got 50,000 taels of ransom.

In this way, each of the five of them can get 10,000 taels.

Ah, ten thousand taels...

Forget it, let the people below think that they got a total of 20,000 taels.

Aren’t there a few people who reported the incident who need to be silenced?

So twenty thousand taels is reasonable.

The five of them whispered to each other and came up with a countermeasure.

"How about this, the five of us will go quietly and take five boats each to get the silver." Yu Liuye finally made the decision: "After we get the silver back and hide it, send someone to tell the little guys to disband. Is that okay?"

"Okay." The four Vajra nodded. The oldest one asked again, "What about those people from Wu Ji..."

"Let it go," said Yu Liuye, waving his hands hastily. "But not now. Wait until everyone else leaves."

"Okay." The four of them left the bamboo house and called their trusted men to prepare to set out on the boat.

Master Yu Liu also called in the subordinate who reported the news and asked him to find ten strong and capable brothers to go with him.

During the meal time, the five men, each leading a dozen fully armed men, arrived at the wild pier.

Everyone looked behind each other and smiled awkwardly.

On the bright side, this means you don't trust others.

To think of the worst, what the hell is going on? Are they trying to rob their fellow thieves?

"Are there too many people?" Mr. Yu Liu laughed dryly.

“A little bit.”

"The boat can't hold all the stuff."

"How about halving them all?"

“Half.”

"Can."

The five bosses each left five men behind and took the other six men on board the gunboat.

Then Master Yu Liu waved to the people at the dock and said, "We have important things to do. You guys should keep an eye on the house and don't let the hostages escape."

"Don't worry, big boss." The subordinates who were still in the dark hurriedly responded loudly. "Everyone, please go and come back early..."

Yu Liuye and the other five nodded, thinking, "Goodbye, I'll take you there."

The pirates held up the bamboo poles, and five gunboats slowly sailed away from the wild pier.

At the deepest part of the wild pier, five grain ships were stranded.

Compared with the pirates' gunboats, the five grain ships were like giants, with their sides higher than the roofs of the gunboats.

On one of the grain ships, a two-finger-wide observation hole was actually opened at the joint of the wooden boards on the side of the ship.

A pair of vigilant eyes watched through the observation port as the five gunboats left the dock one after another.

When the dock returned to calm, the man turned and ran to a cabin at the bow.

Another person immediately took over and continued to monitor any movement at the dock through the observation port.

First the man made his way through the crowd and came to a closed cabin at the bow.

He knocked on the door first, then said respectfully, "Boss... Shopkeeper, not long after that gunboat came back, five more boats left."

"Can you tell who they are?" A girl's voice was heard in the cabin.

"Like their leader, everyone is fawning over him."

"Yeah." The girl responded, and then asked, "What's the situation outside now?"

"It will be dark soon."

"Huh?" The girl made a surprised sound.

The outsiders didn't dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing her thoughts.

After a moment, the hatch opened.

A girl wearing men's clothes and with dirty paint on her face came out.

"The young lady has given the order, grab your weapons and get ready to fight!"

"Okay!"

"Yes, sir!"

The sailors and men of Wuji, who had long been suffocated in the dark and stuffy cabin, immediately perked up.

They worked together quickly to pry off the wooden boards of the cabin wall, revealing Japanese swords, long swords, and muskets and bows and arrows wrapped in oilcloth hidden therein.

Only a part of the weapons were taken away by the pirates, and the other half were well hidden.

The sailors and men hurriedly strung their bows and arrows, loaded their muskets with powder and bullets, and began to get ready.

The girl who delivered the message turned and went into the cabin, where there was a girl in men's clothing sitting. She was Jiang Xueying, the eldest daughter of Wu Ji.

Sister Xueying is so depressed that she is about to die.

She actually knew that Taihu Lake was not peaceful.

So we usually take the safe Grand Canal.

But this time, aren’t you concerned about the situation in Kunshan and want to see Brother Zhao as soon as possible?

Moreover, it would definitely be a plus if I brought a few ships of food to see Brother Zhao.

Whenever I think of the scene where Brother Zhao personally came to the dock to greet me, his eyes filled with tears of emotion, and he lifted me up high... and then I cross out the last line...

Sister Xueying got excited and thought that she could easily surpass the previous one by scoring points this time, so what was the point of being a county lord?

She decided to take a small risk occasionally and follow the fleet across Taihu Lake to Kunshan.

In theory, the risk is really not that great. Who in the underworld doesn't know the details of Wu Ji?

We should not give the Buddha any consideration and should not attack the descendants of their old predecessors.

But who would have thought that there would be someone who really didn't give face...

The daughter of Wuji had her boat capsized in Lake Tai. She was wearing men's clothes, with ash on her face, and was locked in a stinking cabin for three whole days.

This is such a great shame!

ps. Chapter 4, let's stop here today. In addition, everyone said that it's boring to post chapters one at a time. So starting tomorrow, I will post three chapters in a row for the first time, and then add two chapters if I have the ability, and two chapters every other day if I don't have the ability... Anyway, I won't post them one at a time anymore, ok?