Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 510 Miss Lin: Just what great thing did that Young Master Lin do?
"Girl~"

"Judging from Long'er's words, he had a conflict with the local residents in town before."

"He and Master Lian fought back fiercely and knocked down several people."

"However, the other side had a large and powerful force."

Seeing that they were outnumbered, he escorted Master Lian to retreat, but a great hero descended from the sky and single-handedly repelled the bandits.

At this point, Zijuan blinked her eyes and said, "That hero has already invited us aboard for a banquet."

inside the cabin.

A young girl was seen sitting sideways on a stool, holding a book in her hand.

She wore a cover-up, revealing her slender, jade-like neck.

Her shoulders were slender, and her clothes accentuated her delicate waist, which could be encircled by one hand.

She wore a loose skirt underneath, but no stockings.

Her hair hung low, with a jade phoenix hairpin inserted at an angle.

Two arched eyebrows, seemingly furrowed yet not furrowed, and a pair of watery eyes, seemingly joyful yet not joyful.

The girl put down the book in her hand and frowned. "Long'er's words are nothing to worry about."

"Those who love to boast will never speak the truth."

"Why does Master Lian need to invite people onto the boat? There are many inconveniences involved."

There were women on board, and they were unmarried women.

Even if you're hosting a banquet for men outside your family, it should be held in a restaurant.

It would be inappropriate to invite you aboard.

Although the two women, master and servant, were intelligent, their social status prevented them from obtaining detailed information.

Without information, it is difficult to deduce the cause and effect of the matter.

They didn't go to restaurants because they were afraid of retaliation from the Canal Gang.

This was, after all, the territory of the Grand Canal Gang, and once the news spread, it wasn't difficult to gather several hundred people.

Furthermore, Jia Lian was intrigued by Lin Dao's description of alchemy, and with nine parts disbelief mixed with one part expectation, he reluctantly agreed.

"Lin~ Brother Lin~"

Jia Lian, who prided himself on his excellent drinking capacity, became slurred after a round of drinks, asking, "Is your alchemy real?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the wine glass, saying, "It's turned into gold!"

"Hahahaha~"

He laughed as he said it, because he didn't believe it.

Yet, there is also this expectation.

There's no way around it; even though he's the son of a Duke's mansion, he still needs money to maintain his status.

Reaching out to pick up the wine glass, Lin Dao smiled without saying a word, stood up, and went behind the screen.

Before long, when he came out again, the wine glass in his hand had turned into a silver one.

Jia Lian blinked.

He reached out and took the wine glass, examining it closely and even squeezing it.

After confirming, he looked up at Lin Dao, and his drunkenness had mostly subsided.

"It really is a silver wine cup!"

"I remember, there wasn't one on the ship."

Shaking his head, Jia Lian stood up.

He sobered up considerably, looked around, grabbed the wine jug, and handed it over.

Lin Dao smiled and went behind the screen again.

When he returned, the porcelain wine pot in his hand had been replaced by a silver wine pot.

Jia Lian's drunkenness completely vanished.

His face was flushed and he was breathing rapidly.

With trembling hands, he reached for the wine table.

"stop."

Lin Dao raised his hand to stop him, saying, "Things shouldn't happen more than three times, and..."

He tapped his fingers on the table. "You're too greedy."

"Yes yes~"

Jia Lian was so agitated that he was at a loss for what to do.

This is alchemy!

Even if it's made of silver, it's still money, even if it's made of copper!
"Brother Zihou~"

Even the usually composed Jia Lian, overwhelmed with emotion, instinctively asked, "Could you teach me such immortal techniques?"

"Brother Jia," Lin Dao looked at him with a half-smile, "What do you think?"

"Yes Yes."

Jia Lian chuckled and said, "Your foolish brother is being presumptuous."

Under the influence of the power of time and space, Lin Dao's appearance hardly changed, almost exactly as he claimed to be forever eighteen years old.

Given their friendship, it would be appropriate for Jia Lian to address him as "brother."

"Come, come, come~"

"Let's drink! Let's drink!"

"Long'er, bring the wine, the best wine!"

Jia Lian also suspected that Lin Dao might have hidden the silver wine cup and wine pot in advance.

But then I thought, this was just a spur-of-the-moment idea. Who would prepare something like this on the first meeting?
However, we still need to test the waters a bit later.

If it really is alchemy, then this friendship must be held onto no matter what.

The original plan to spend some money to send this god of death off the ship after the banquet had vanished without a trace.

As for the mysterious origins of the forest path, the strange handgun, and so on.

Nothing else matters when it comes to money.

There were too many boats on the Grand Canal, which meant that the official boats could not travel very fast.

Lin Dao settled in with peace of mind.

He would feast with Jia Lian every day, occasionally demonstrating his alchemy skills to impress him.

In my spare time, I read books to learn about the information of this place and time.

He left at night under the pretext of going into seclusion.

In just a few days, they had gotten much closer to Jiangdu County.

Meanwhile, the 600-li urgent message that Lin Dao had previously sent back had also been delivered to the capital.

Lin Dao hadn't opened the letter to read its contents before.

This is an urgent military report, an urgent intelligence report on the Annamese invasion of the border.

An urgent military intelligence report was delivered to the emperor, who was in the middle of having sex with his concubine. The emperor, having just finished his business, immediately summoned his senior officials for a meeting.

All they did was order cities along the Annam border to strengthen their defenses, discuss candidates to resist and fight, and raise money, food and supplies to prepare for war.

The Great Zhou Dynasty has a vast territory, and such urgent military situations from all over the country occur several times a year.

It's nothing extraordinary or unbelievable.

However, what the Minister of War said next was extremely rare.

"Your Majesty~"

"The Director of the Imperial Carriage and Transportation Department reports..."

"This urgent message, which travels 600 li, was intercepted and killed by bandits in Sheyang County, Yangzhou Prefecture."

These words caused an uproar in the imperial court.

Even the emperor, with his narrow eyes, was stunned and widened his eyes in surprise.

The reason was simple: intercepting and killing a courier on a 600-li express route was a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of his family.

Moreover, the courier had no money on him, and the bandits weren't crazy or stupid enough to provoke him.

Throughout history, such things have only happened a handful of times.

"Director of the Imperial Carriage and Imperial Stud".

Suppressing his anger, the emperor said, "Explain yourself."

A doctor will come forward and give a detailed report.

"According to the thief himself, he was Wei Xiaobao, a notorious bandit from Sheyang Lake and a dragon that stirred up the lake."

"He is also the chief leader of the thirty-six strongholds and seventy-two villages."

"When he arrived at the post station, he made wild claims that stopping and killing the post station workers was the first step in rebelling against Zhou."

"They even vowed to overthrow Zhou and restore the Ming dynasty!"

Well, all that trivial matter of Annam's border incursions has become nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

The most important matter in the imperial court right now is Wei Xiaobao, the number one traitor in the world!
No one knew this person before, but now he is the number one traitor in the world!

After the Qin and Han dynasties, the most important task for successive dynasties was to guard against internal rebels.

Its importance even surpasses that of the bandits and foreign invaders.

Such a traitor who openly clamors for overthrowing Zhou and restoring the Ming Dynasty must have his entire family exterminated.

The conclusion is that elite troops should be immediately selected from the Beijing garrison and dispatched to Yangzhou Prefecture to wipe out this traitor Wei and his cronies, including all their mountain strongholds and water fortresses!
Wei Ni's entire clan, including his nine generations, must be buried in the Iron Mound Tomb.

Centered on the murder of the courier, within a mile radius, even ant nests were flooded with mercury.

Within a ten-mile radius, even eggs would be shaken apart.

Within a hundred miles, anyone who has any connection with this traitor Wei and his henchmen will be beheaded.

If this cannot be accomplished, the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be shaken and in crisis.

The various mountain bandits and river pirates of Yangzhou Prefecture had no idea that a catastrophe was about to rage upon them.

Moreover, many of them, along with numerous factions, have intricate connections with the Grand Canal Gang.

Unbeknownst to them, the catastrophe of the Grand Canal Gang was about to unfold.

Even their powerful backers couldn't save them from such a heinous act as treason.

Meanwhile, the elite members of the Grand Canal Gang, who were most deeply involved with various mountain bandits and river bandits and would later become the founders of the Green Gang, were chasing after an official ship.

The hall master's son was killed, and more than a dozen elite guards were wiped out.

This momentous event undoubtedly shocked the canal gangs.

If they fail to avenge themselves, they will be laughed at in the martial arts world.

Anyone dares to come up and kick them a few times, and they can hardly hold onto their current advantages.

Therefore, revenge is necessary.

After careful questioning and investigation, it was learned that the official ship belonged to the Rongguo Mansion in the capital.

This is very tricky.

They were nobles, after all!

The nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty had never experienced the Tumu Fortress incident, where they were tricked by civil officials.

It's not a problem for the canal gang to clash with the sons of noble families.

If you have good relationships and spend money, things can be settled.

But what if someone dies?
Fortunately, the details revealed that it wasn't the Rongguo Mansion's members who did it, but rather a passerby who stepped in to help.

That makes things simple.

Hundreds of elite members of the Canal Gang's secret service blocked the official boats that were staying overnight at the dock.

They first blocked the waterway with their boats, and then sent people aboard to make a statement.

It means that all they need to do is hand over the people; they're here for revenge, and it's nobody else's business.

Jia Lian was both shocked and furious, but even if he invoked the reputation of the Rongguo Mansion, it wouldn't work at this moment.

The canal gang insists they have nothing to do with your Rongguo Mansion, and the person they're looking for isn't surnamed Jia.

You're not leaving until you hand over the people.

Left with no other choice, Jia Lian had to seek advice from Lin Dao.

"Brother Lin, have you not emerged from seclusion yet?"

Extremely anxious, Jia Lian called out and knocked on the door from outside the cabin, but there was no response for a long time.

When asked, Xing'er, who was guarding the gate, replied that he would not go out again once the gate was closed each night.

Jia Lian wanted to barge in, but he was afraid of disturbing Lin Dao's secluded cultivation.

After all, he had some knowledge of cultivation, and the consequences of being affected during cultivation were severe.

In her anxiety, she saw Zijuan timidly approaching to ask what had happened.

Fortunately, Jia Lian was not his father, so although he was anxious and impatient, he was still able to maintain basic manners.

He offered a few words of comfort, assuring her that it was nothing serious and that he could handle it.

Let Zijuan go back and take care of Miss Lin.

"girl."

Back in her cabin, Zijuan's face was pale, and she looked nervous. "There are so many torches and so many people outside. What if they rush onto the ship?"

At this moment, she already imagined the terrible fate that awaited her if she fell into the hands of thieves.

"We are now close to Jiangdu."

Miss Lin, sitting on a stool reading a book, appeared flustered but not panicked.

"This is an official ship."

"Unless they are rebels, they will not dare to act recklessly."

Despite this, Miss Lin put down the book in her hand, blinking her eyes with curiosity in them.

"What great thing has that young master Lin done to attract so many enemies?"

Zhou Shuren, whose courtesy name was Lu Da, once said...

When a woman wants to know your story, your story is about to begin.
(End of this chapter)