Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2417 Bring a Message 80.0
"I told you that you like to worry about things at such a young age." Xia Chen rolled his eyes helplessly, "If I was really suspected, would I still be sitting in front of you today? Wouldn't I have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish?" He stretched out his hand and gestured, "I saw it with my own eyes. Such a big fish swallowed up our bucket of small fish in one gulp. If it wanted to swallow a person, it would be no problem at all."

"Pfft, pfft, pfft! Knock on wood!" Merlin had just refilled Xia Chen's cup with tea when he heard him say this. He quickly grabbed his hand and knocked on the small coffee table next to him three times. "Sir, please stop talking nonsense and be careful with your words and actions!"

"Okay, okay, bah, bah!" Xia Chen knocked lightly on the small coffee table beside him and looked up at Merlin. "Xiao Linzi, I didn't expect that a military commander like you would have such taboos!"

"Sir!" Merlin glared at him, "Be careful with your words!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I won't say anything more." Xia Chen smiled and looked at Xue Ruitian. "You, just listen to the story carefully. Although it's a little thrilling, but..." He smiled, "it's still safe."

"This is natural."

"Now that we have reached a consensus, can I continue?"

"Of course." Xue Ruitian made a gesture of invitation. "They only arranged for you to go to their temporary rest island. It's probably a routine operation. After all, similar things happen several times a year, right?"

"You're right. Their temporary resting island will also take in some merchant ships that accidentally enter after such an extreme astronomical phenomenon. After the formation is repaired, they will send them out."

"Have all of you landed on the island?"

"Of course not. I was the only one on the main ship who went to the island with a few guards and some food and drinks, while the rest of the people stayed on the ship. On the ship carrying the cargo, all the people stayed where they were and looked after the cargo. After all, we were doing business in the name of business. If the cargo was abandoned, that would be the biggest problem."

"Well done!" Xue Ruitian raised an eyebrow at Xia Chen. "Every failure makes you wiser. This is true. People's minds are hard to predict. It's better to be on guard. Although this will lead to misunderstandings, it will reduce a lot of losses, right?"

"That's right. Wasn't it because of the word 'human heart' that I was deceived by the person who thought he was my friend? If I don't learn my lesson, I will be sorry to the people who helped me sincerely." Xia Chen snorted coldly and took a sip of hot tea. "Besides, the place where the remnants of the previous dynasty are located will be more or less guarded. These people look kind on the surface, but who knows if they have a black heart!" He sighed softly, "In recent years, they have been quieter, but in the early years, they made a lot of trouble."

"Seventh Brother is right. In unfamiliar places, it is better to be safe than sorry."

"Like Xiaocha said, it's better to be careful when you're in an unfamiliar place."

"That's also why Seventh Brother brought his own food and drinks to the island, right?" Shen Cha looked at Xia Chen and smiled.

"Xiaocha is really smart and knows my intentions." Xia Chen glanced at Shen Haolin, "When you go out, you always have to be extra careful, right?"

Shen Haolin glanced at him and nodded slightly.

"So, your defense was effective?"

"It is indeed effective. They have lived up to my efforts."

"What?" Shen Haolin frowned slightly, "Did they attack you?"

"They knew we were on guard because we didn't intend to hide it. We told them clearly that we didn't need anything on their island, but only borrowed some space. When we left, we gave them some silver to thank them for the charcoal and other things they provided. Although they were surprised, they let us go, so they didn't do anything to us at all."

"We didn't do it to you, but on the boat." Shen Haolin took a sip of tea and looked at Xia Chen and said, "Did they sneak onto the boat?" "That's right!" Xia Chen snapped his fingers and smiled at Shen Haolin, "They sneaked onto the boat and were captured right away."

"Both ships on board?"

"Yes!" Xia Chen nodded, "I didn't leave any one behind. I took them all."

"These people really don't have good intentions. They still doubt your identity and want to attack you from the ship." Xue Ruitian sneered and said, "Now that the people have been caught, how do you explain to the people on the island?"

"What's there to explain? Those who sneaked on board were just half-grown children. It's obvious that they are here to take the blame."

"A half-grown child?" Jin Miaomiao frowned. "A teenager?"

"Yeah!" Xia Chen nodded, sighed, and continued, "The youngest is only seven or eight years old, and the oldest is only eleven or twelve years old. Aren't they just half-grown children? My people asked these children privately, and they said that the adults asked them to go for a walk on the boat, and if they came across something good, they would take it away. If they were caught, they would immediately kneel down and admit their mistakes, saying that they were just curious and didn't really want to do anything bad."

"Your people can actually get the truth out of these kids?"

"Children of this age love delicious food, good drinks and fun things the most. With all these, aren't you afraid that they will tell the truth?"

"That's true. Those islands are very secretive. The people on the islands are reclusive and can't see most of the things from the outside world. It's easy to be tempted when you see these new and novel things." Jin Miaomiao sighed and said, "What happened next?"

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"What's the later? The adults who accompanied us advised us that the children were young, naughty, and ignorant, and acted pitiful." Xia Chen spread his hands, "They have already lowered their attitude so much, how can we blame them anymore? We are just being unreasonable, a bunch of children."

"So what?" Jin Miaomiao also picked up a piece of beef jerky and held it in her mouth, "Are you really going to let him go?"

"They knelt down in front of you and said that they were just ignorant children who had never seen such a big ship. They were very curious about it and wanted to go up and take a look. They broke the rules all of a sudden. Please don't argue with the child. If it was you, what would you do?" Xia Chen spread his hands. "Listen, does this statement sound very familiar?"

"Hmm!" The Third Master yawned, leaned lazily on the rattan chair, and said with half-closed eyes, "Many children from the powerful families in Linhuang Prefecture got into trouble, and the adults in the family took the children to apologize..."

After all, we are living under someone else's roof, so we have to be careful. If things really get out of hand, we won't be able to leave."

Xia Chen watched the two people grinding their teeth with beef jerky and felt that there was something missing in his mouth. He looked at his small coffee table and saw that there was nothing on it. He stood up, walked to Jin Miaomiao's coffee table, took some, and distributed them to the Third Master, Jin Jing, Shen Haolin, and Shen Cha one by one. He did not give any to Madam Ning because the old lady did not want it and could not bite it.

"He who knows the current situation is a hero. It is the right choice not to conflict with them and to make a big thing small and a small thing nothing." Shen Haolin nodded. "How long did you stay there?"

"one day one Night."

"Didn't you see anyone else besides the patrol boat?"

"No." Xia Chen said, and gestured, "Let me think about it. I vaguely remember that I seemed to have met a very strange person."