It's hard to be a prodigal

Chapter 36

The Jiang family's cargo ships set off one after another, and Jiang Zong and Le Lian stayed at the end to count the cargo.

Le Lian leaned against the thick poplar tree, looking down at the ledger, occasionally counting a few silently, and showing Jiang Zong a look.

Jiang Zong was bored, sitting in the nest of dry branches, stepping on the tree trunk, dangling his other leg, resting his hand on Le Lian's cheek, fiddling with Le Lian's eyelashes.

"Brother Zong, I'll pack up the things for you when the cargo ship departs. Take a look again and don't leave anything behind." Le Lian distractedly instructed, picked up a pen and cleared the last page of the account, rolled up the account book and put it in his pocket inside.

"It's enough for me to take you away." Jiang Zong rubbed his face with a lazy smile, and suddenly Le Lian grabbed his wrist and lifted him up. Up, holding his buttocks up and up.

"Hey! Boy." In order not to let himself fall, Jiang Zong had no choice but to hug Le Lian's neck tightly, his legs wrapped around his waist, and he muttered softly, "If I fall..."

"No." Le Lian carried him on his back on the rocky beach covered by the afterglow of the setting sun, and occasionally stopped and turned around a few times, making Jiang Zong yell in fright: "Stinky bastard, I can't catch it anymore!"

Le Lian supported him firmly with his hands, and said with a faint smile, "I'm supporting him."

Tired of playing, he stopped in front of the rocky beach, sat cross-legged, let Jiang Zong sit across his legs facing him, Jiang Zong leaned against Le Lian's shoulder, heaved a sigh of relief, and giggled.

If he could meet Le Lian like this in his previous life, Jiang Zong would like to share his real youth with Le Lian, and dye Le Lian's loneliest days with his own breath and color.

It's just that Le Lian from his previous life was not worthy of him.

Jiang Zong pinched his earlobe and said dotingly: "You are the only child I love."

Le Lian smiled, and didn't mind that Jiang Zong often came up with boring nicknames for himself, no matter what nickname Jiang Zong said, Le Lian was extremely happy and accepted it calmly.

When the sun goes down to the bottom of the water, the sunlight is buried all at once, and at night the flickering fishing fires of the tide sea ferry reflect the shallows.

Jiang Zong looked back at the water not far away, and licked his lips: "It's almost time."

Le Lian followed his gaze and hummed lightly.

The silence in Chaohai City was suddenly torn apart, and officers and soldiers of the brigade surrounded the house of Shi Youcai, the boss of the Shi family, with torches.

Shi Youcai was fat and trembling, out of breath, and was escorted to kneel on the ground, shouting in a hurry: "Your Majesty! Dare to ask why my Shi family's courtyard was copied! It's his fault!"

The prefect of Chaohai glanced at him coldly, and threw the arrest warrant in front of Shi Youcai: "Look for yourself."

Shi Youcai was sweating profusely, lowered his head tremblingly, and read word by word.

The prefect of Chaohai was very angry: "I thought that your Shi family would not dare to cheat on the goods, but I didn't expect you to be so greedy and stupid that you secretly exchanged the stone pearls sent to Cangzhou Prince Lu's mansion for furnace ashes!"

As soon as these words came out, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, Shi Youcai's small eyes stuffed in his flesh were widened, his neck was stuck and he was speechless for a long time.

"My lord! The goods in the cargo ship were checked by you yourself, the villain was wronged!" Shi Youcai already knew that Jiang Zong Lelian had slapped him hard, and this time he was completely defeated.

The prefect of Chaohai's countenance changed when he heard the words. He was most afraid that this matter would be brought to him, causing him to lose his official uniform, so he yelled even more severely: "Bold! Are you trying to slander this official?!"

Jiang Zong and Le Lian squeezed in from the crowd, saluted the prefect of Chaohai, and came to see Shi Youcai's joke.

When the prefect of Chaohai saw Jiang Zong, his face inexplicably became better, and he even took the initiative to say: "Jiang Zong, don't meddle."

Jiang Zong turned his head and said sincerely: "My lord, I'll just have a word with him."

The magistrate nodded, Jiang Zong slowly squatted down beside Shi Youcai, and whispered in his ear, "Your cargo ship carrying [-] catties of stone pearls has already left for Jinzhou. I took [-] catties from the goods...I sent it to Cangzhou Prince Lu's Mansion for you, and asked them to check it carefully, how about it, please be considerate."

"You are despicable!" Shi Youcai frantically struggled towards Jiang Zong, but was held tightly by his arms, barking like a fat dog on a leash.

Jiang Zong got up and smiled, "Thank you. In terms of despicableness, I can single out the eighteen generations of your Shi family ancestors. Le Lian, bring your knife, and I'll peel an orange for Uncle Shi so that he can go on the road with peace of mind."

Shi Youcai almost desperately cried and begged: "Master Zhifu! It's all Jiang Zong! Jiang Zong changed the cargo ship!"

Jiang Zong explained innocently: "I also bought my goods from you, sir."

The prefect of Chaohai no longer listened to Shi Youcai's nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, Shi Youcai was taken away by the officers and soldiers wearing heavy shackles, and beheaded in public at [-]:[-] noon tomorrow.

Chaohai's stone pearl business is unmanned, and has been handed over to Jiang Le's family to take over the management. There must be no further mistakes.

At dawn, the last cargo ship of Jiang's family set off with a load of [-] jin of stone pearls. Le Lian was afraid that Jiang would be afraid of the water, so he wouldn't let him get close to the side of the ship, and tried to support him on the slightly shaking deck.

Along the way, Le Lian was more silent than before, silently accompanying Jiang Zong.

Jiang Zong seemed to be at a loss, pretending to have no intention of saying: "...I will try not to do anything in the future."

Le Lian in the previous life was tired of him killing people, I don't know if it is still the case now.He can give in as a favor for the child.

"It's nothing." Le Lian could understand himself in his previous life. He could bear all the messy things on his own, but he hoped that Jiang Zong's hands would be clean and free from blood. Now, it seems that they are facing the oncoming blade together. That's what Brother Zong has always been looking forward to.

Seeing that Le Lian finally responded, Jiang Zong climbed up to his neck and hugged him tightly, kissed the corner of his lips comfortingly, and coaxed: "Be good, don't be angry."

"I'm not angry." Le Lian smiled helplessly, and his tense body relaxed a lot.

Occasionally, Le Lian would feel jealous. How could Brother Zong never forget that he was so bad in his previous life.

He can protect Jiang Zong and do whatever he wants.

This is something that Le Lian in the previous life would never be able to do. The self in the previous life must have been a headstrong and arrogant guy, with a high self-esteem and indifference, not knowing the value of sincerity, and reckless.

In an instant, the outside suddenly lit up, and immediately after, the deck was ablaze.

Le Lian's sudden reaction was to push Jiang Zong into his arms, lower his head, blow out the candles in the room, lean against the window sideways, slightly open the wooden window with the scabbard, and quietly look out.

It is roughly estimated that fifty or sixty big men in tight black clothes went up to the deck with their knives raised, and the clothes on their bodies dripped, forming puddles under their feet.

Le Lian said in a low voice: "It's a water ghost, there are 63 people."

Cargo merchants traveling on the water called the robbers who robbed cargo ships water ghosts.

The sail was splashed with oil and ignited, a scorching smell filled the nostrils, the corridor outside the door was in chaos, Jiang Zong was pressed tightly by Le Lian, quietly lying on his chest, holding his breath, listening to the movement outside the door, muttering to himself Yu: "I didn't make any money. The imperial court gave us the stone pearl business. Does that count?"

The gang of water ghosts broke into the interior of the cargo ship and searched one by one along the corridor. The chaotic and noisy door kicking was mixed with the shouts and wailing of the craftsmen on the ship. Half of the bodyguards had followed the first two ships a few days ago. The cargo ship left, leaving behind 60 men who resisted more than [-] murderous water ghosts like mantises.

The sound of kicking the door was getting closer, and the leading water ghost loudly threatened and questioned: "Who is Jiang Zong! Tell me, and spare the others!"

Jiang Zong clutched Le Lian's skirt tightly, and pressed his body close to him. His inner garment was wet with cold sweat, sticking to his body, but he didn't dare to move rashly.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Le Lian and Jiang Zong hid behind the door, holding the blood-red knife in one hand, and holding Jiang Zong in his arms with the other.

Jiang Zong looked around, looking for an exit to escape. If he forced his way in, there were many water ghosts outside, and it was definitely not a wise move to fight one against sixty. The chances of surviving by jumping out of the window were higher, and it was impossible to determine whether there were water ghosts on the deck. ambush.

There is a ventilation window above the head, deep and dark, and I don't know where it leads.

Jiang Zong and Lelian saw the ventilation window at the same time, their eyes met, Jiang Zong climbed onto Lelian's shoulder, Le Lian raised his hand, and pushed Jiang Zong onto the ventilation window.

Jiang Zong bowed and handed Le Lian his hand: "Let's go."

Just as Le Lian was about to put his hand on it, there was a shadow of a strong man outside the door, Le Lian's eyes changed slightly, he pushed Jiang Zong's hand up, and in an instant he raised his knife and stabbed through the wooden door.

There was only a muffled groan, and blood sprayed all over Bai Xuan on the door.

"Here! Le Lian is here!" This move alarmed all the water ghosts, and dozens of water ghosts burst into the door in an instant. The wooden window jumped out, and dozens of water ghosts chased after it.

"Lelian..." Jiang Zong gritted his teeth and crawled along the ventilation window, thinking about the strangeness while crawling.

The water ghost didn't snatch the goods first to collect money, but just named him Jiang Zong when he came up. This is because someone secretly wanted his life.

Back then, the gang of robbers in Jinshuishan also directly asked for Jiang Zong's life. It seems that buying murder is the usual tactic of that person.

Although the second uncle and the third uncle said that they didn't like the big house, buying murder was not their style of doing things, not to mention that the second uncle and the third uncle were reluctant to spend the money, and they couldn't make friends with people in this way at all with their means.

Those people recognized Le Lian, and it seemed that they were not the only ones who wanted to kill Jiang Zong.

In the previous life, he had an enmity with Jiang Zong, and was able to make friends with gangsters. He was cruel and could not tolerate sand in his eyes. Only the young master of the Le family, Le He.

Two years ago in the Yingchun Tower, Jiang Zong arranged Lehe together, Lehe is a man who cares about every detail, even if he steals chickens and does not lose money, his reputation will be damaged, and he will be forced to marry a maid to be his concubine. No.

"Lehe." Jiang Zong pulled the corners of his mouth coldly, and said silently in his heart, "I hurt a finger of Lelian, and I'm waiting to take you as a pig to pay back."

In the previous two lives, no matter how vicious the oath was, Jiang Zong kept his word.

When he climbed two sticks of incense along the dusty passageway of the ventilation window, his palms were rubbed red, and his body was covered with cobweb dust, like a fish in a dry rut, a dog that lost its home.

Thinking about the previous life, he also drilled through the dog hole, and suffered the humiliation of his crotch. Jiang Zong has a thick skin, even if he falls into a stinky ditch, he can climb out and start over.

Pushing away the wooden fence above the head, finally seeing the light of day again, the ventilation window leads to the drying platform at the height of the cargo ship, on which there are a few strings of dried fish drying, and underneath is the stone pearl powder covered with oilcloth, which just covers Jiang Zong's body.

Looking down at the deck, the ground was scorched black by flames, dirty blood splashed all over the ground, fragmented corpses, and the glow of the sky leaping from the water was reflected on the ship's side. Knife, gently shake off the blood on the blade.

His whole body was covered in dirty plasma, and he singled out about sixty tall and burly water ghosts alone. Have a fight.

At this time, there was a muffled sound from the ship's side, and a dozen climbing cables were fastened suddenly. Dozens of water ghosts climbed onto the deck along the ropes, and rushed into the cabin to kill anyone they saw.

The rest of the group came together towards Lelian, with the vast ocean behind them, and they would surely die in the bottom of the sea if they jumped off, not to mention that Jiang Zong was still on the boat, and there was no way for Lelian to retreat.

He could feel that Jiang Zong was above his line of sight, but he didn't dare to raise his eyes, for fear that his gaze would reveal Jiang Zong's whereabouts.

"Brother Zong...it's best to find a chance..." Le Lian turned to look at the sea.