It's clearly a crossover game, but the system insists it's a pirate game.

"Found you two, a big, clumsy guy and a little girl. And the one you're holding in your arms, that's Jiang Feng's child, right?"

After picking up the two little ones, the two adults and two children headed towards Jiangling Prefecture, intending to withdraw money and then find a suitable city to settle down in.

Unexpectedly, the people of the twelve constellations blocked them halfway.

"You guys are too slow, much later than I expected."

Zhou Ye handed the baby in her arms to Huang Rong, saying, "I'll be right back. Be careful."

Huang Rong nodded. She wasn't worried at all, because even if they couldn't beat them, the people of the Twelve Constellations couldn't catch up with them. They were in an invincible position from the start, so she couldn't relax.

But one should still be careful. People of the twelve zodiac signs don't care about chivalry or honor; they have plenty of underhanded tricks up their sleeves.

People in the martial arts world are still people. They live in the deep mountains and forests on ordinary days, and the government has no say in their lives. But if they want to enter a city, they have to accept the government's management, such as... identity records, travel permits, and so on.

Zhou Ye didn't have these things, Huang Rong didn't have them, and neither did the two Jiang Xiaobao'ers, so they needed to "grease palms" if they wanted to enter Jiangling City.

Huang Rong came up with a plan: to deliberately expose their whereabouts, attract the Twelve Constellations, and then take their heads to the government office to claim the reward. Not only would they get the reward, but they could also solve their identity problem, killing two birds with one stone.

However, the twelve constellations were a bit slow. They had walked the entire way without riding horses, taking carriages, or using any special abilities or light-footed skills. Even so, they were almost at Jiangling City.

Zhou Ye quite approved of Huang Rong's idea. Even though he looked down on the bounty offered by the Twelve Constellations, he was still happy to use their heads to gain future benefits.

shave!

Finger gun, finger gun, finger gun!

The Twelve Constellations are supposed to be twelve people, but only four of them came this time. The others were all scoundrels from the martial arts world who were on good terms with them, so Zhou Ye had no psychological burden at all when it came to killing them.

But he underestimated the integrity of the twelve constellations. Of the four, he only killed three, while the other escaped in the chaos, and quite a few of them did too…

This is the drawback of not having a wide-area damage skill, but these alone should be enough.

"The host has defeated the rival pirate crew and taken the first step towards becoming famous on the high seas. Reward: Navy's Six Powers - Moon Walk."

This is an unexpected surprise...

Zhou Ye glanced at the scene, quickly tidied up, and then, with Huang Rong and the two Jiang Xiaobao, continued towards Jiangling City.

Upon arriving at the gates of Jiangling City, in front of the guards, he pulled out the heads one by one, then spread his hands and said, "Gentlemen, I'm here to collect the bounty."

So, they were escorted by soldiers to the Jiangling government office, where their heads were taken away to verify their identities and calculate their rewards. They were received by the Jiangling government's clerk.

"Master Zhou, our Prefect admires chivalrous heroes like yourself most. Do you have any other requests, Master Zhou?"

"Master Jiang, I don't really care about the bounty. As you can see, our family can't just keep drifting around in the martial world forever. If we could use the bounty to help us get a proper identity or something, we could settle down."

Master Jiang clapped his hands and laughed, "Such a small matter doesn't need our master's help. I can handle it for Master Zhou, Madam Zhou, and the two young masters!"

The head of the family is named Zhou Ye, the mistress is named Huang Rong, and they have two sons, one named Jiang Wuque and the other Jiang Xiaoyu.

A family of four, with three different surnames...

The advisor looked up curiously, but when he saw Zhou Ye's smile and Madam Zhou, who was obviously still a young girl, he seemed to know something, but it was a very vague feeling.

The identity issue has been resolved, and two-thirds of the bounty has been lost, but that doesn't matter, because the real money isn't here.

"You big oaf, are you sure you want to settle down in Jiangling City?"

As Zhou Ye changed his clothes, he casually replied, "The climate here is nice, just what I like. Tomorrow, we'll go to a real estate agency to buy a bigger house, and then hire some servants and a wet nurse so that the two little ones can have a better life."

Because she needed to look after the child, Huang Rong didn't go with him, but she had already decided what kind of big house she wanted to buy, and what kind of furniture she wanted to prepare inside...

This is the mistress's privilege!

Tianning Temple was fairly popular, and there weren't many monks guarding the gate at night, so Zhou Ye easily sneaked in. He slipped behind the Buddha statue in the main hall, activated his Observation Haki, and easily found the mechanism, then proceeded to violently destroy it.

These treasures are all highly poisonous, so Zhou Ye had prepared sturdy cloth and put on poison-proof deerskin gloves.

I didn't even manage to take them all in one go...

Zhou Ye made three trips back and forth before he could empty all the treasures from the Buddha's belly. The next thing he had to do was to squat by the river late at night and clean the poison off the treasures: he took a bamboo brush and cleaned each item one by one, and he stayed up until dawn.

Honestly, if it weren't for money, Zhou Ye might not have had this kind of patience.

He wasn't the only one who hadn't slept all night; Huang Rong hadn't slept either. A young girl with two children, one would cry in the middle of the night, and then the other would cry too. Then it was a constant cycle of feeding, changing diapers, and changing water and milk. Just when things finally calmed down a bit, Zhou Ye came back.

"Big dummy, I'm about to collapse..."

Seeing her looking like she'd been drained of all her yang energy, Zhou Ye felt both sorry for her and amused: "Alright, I've arranged everything. The brokers have already started working on it. We should be able to move into our new home as early as tonight. We can take our time with the furniture and stuff."

With money, most things can be accelerated.

Actually, finding a house was the easiest thing to do. Most of the luxury homes in major cities were controlled by real estate brokers. Zhou Ye paid a deposit and made his request, and someone immediately took him to see the house. What really took time was the servants Zhou Ye requested, especially full-time staff like wet nurses.

It was supposed to be evening, but by the afternoon, the brokers had arrived. The house was ready, and all the people were there. Zhou Ye took a look around and, finding nothing wrong, readily paid the money. Then, he moved in with Huang Rong and the two Jiang Xiaobaos.

"It's alright..."

After surveying her territory with her hands behind her back, Huang Rong gave a fairly fair assessment before rushing into the study. She wanted to see what kind of furniture Zhou Ye could design, as well as make some modifications to the house.

Time flies, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. When the first snow of winter fell, Zhou Ye, dressed in his home pajamas, sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) teaching the two energetic little ones how to build with blocks.

Huang Rong sat to one side, baring her teeth, frowning, and occasionally flashing a murderous glint in her eyes as she embroidered two plump ducks.

Just when everything was quiet, a servant suddenly knocked on the door: "Master, we have a guest."

guest?

Zhou Ye raised her head, and Huang Rong stopped embroidering. Since settling in Jiangling City, the two had lived a secluded life, making no friends in the past six months, so this guest…

After simply changing into a long robe, Zhou Ye followed the servants to the main hall. When he saw two women sitting in the guest seats drinking tea, he raised an eyebrow in surprise.

He had never met them, but he had heard of the infamous two female demons of the Yihua Palace, and these two…

"What brings you two ladies here?"

"Hand over Jiang Feng and Hua Yuenü's bastard child!"

This taste... wow!

But it was this sentence that confirmed Zhou Ye's identity as the two people, but he was not in a hurry at all: "This is Palace Master Yaoyue, right? The bastard you mentioned is my crew member. I don't have the habit of handing over my people to others."

crew?

Yao Yue merely raised an eyebrow, preparing to make her move, but at that moment, her heart skipped a beat. Looking at Zhou Ye's finger pointing at her, she suppressed her temper: "Boy, do you know the consequences of what you're doing?"