Seeing the leader of the water bandits in the pocket, the man who was just about to jump into the water with him quickly steadied himself and darted to the other side of the boat, leaping into the water and swimming desperately towards the far side.
Song Wangyue raised her hand to aim at him and shot a sleeve arrow straight into the man’s back, the man didn’t even let out a cry of pain as his body plunged into the water.
Dang!
The leader of the water bandits was thrown onto the deck, followed by four men climbing onto the boat, none other than the four guards from the Zhang family, who saluted towards Song Wan Yue before standing off to the side.
“Yue’er, is everything alright?”
Song Lin asked as he poked his head out of the room, a knife in his hand, he had wanted to come out and help too, Song Wan Yue had told him to stay with the old man.
“It’s fine for now, you guys don’t come out yet.”
Song Lin retreated back into the room.
Song San and Song Wu went over and got the leader of the water bandits out of the net and escorted them to Song Wan Yue.
The leader water bandit was unconvinced and was still cursing, “Stinky girl, you’d better let me go or ……”
A dagger was placed against the side of his neck, Song Wangyue lowered her body slightly and looked at him coldly, “I don’t want to talk nonsense to you, who told you to come and kill us?”
The little girl in front of him was only about ten years old, standing was not as tall as he was kneeling, the leader of the water bandits did not look at the man in his eyes, straining his neck, “Kill me if you have the guts, Laozi ……”
There was a flash of cold light in front of his eyes, before the leader of the water bandits could sense anything, the water bandits tied up next to him let out a cry of surprise!
The head water bandit subconsciously felt bad and wanted to reach out and touch his neck, but his hands were clamped down and he could not move.
“You guys put ……”
The words were not finished when he felt pain coming from his neck, followed by something warm running down his neck, realizing what it was, he changed his face in shock and looked incredulously at the dagger in Song Wangyue’s hand, shiny as new, without the slightest trace of blood.
Only then did he realise that Song Wangyue was not a child as he thought, and his face turned white instantly.
Song Wangyue waved her dagger.
The leader of the water bandits swallowed several times, clearly feeling the blood flowing out faster, and hurriedly begged for mercy, “Aunt forgive me, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you.”
“Yes, it was the man you killed just now, he went to the mountain two days ago and gave me 10,000 taels of silver, saying that he would give us another 20,000 taels if we got rid of you.”
“Is he the only one?”
“No, no, there were six others, and they all stayed on the mountain.”
Song Wangyue gestured for Song San to gag him and throw him in with the group of water bandits as she turned and went to Meng’s house.
Several of Meng’s people heard Song Lin’s question and Song Wan Yue’s answer, and were relieved to know that everything was okay. Seeing Song Wan Yue enter, Meng and Xu got up at the same time, “Yue’er, how are you?”
“Mother and grandmother don’t worry, I’m fine.”
After saying that, fearing that they wouldn’t believe her, she spun around.
Seeing that she was indeed unhurt, the two of them dropped their worried hearts back.
“Speaking of which, we have to thank a few of Madam Zhang’s guards, if they hadn’t chiselled through the bottom of the water bandits’ boat, we wouldn’t necessarily have been able to catch them.”
Madam Zhang smiled and waved her hand, “Don’t say that, Miss Song, if you hadn’t let us take the boat, we would probably still be floating on the water right now. …
Song Wan Yue sat down beside Xu, “It seems that Madam knows a lot about water bandits, even the guards in the house are so well versed in water.”
“I was born and raised in Qingyang, so naturally I know everything about it, especially these water bandits, everyone here knows about them, and the guards at home know a bit about the water, so that if they come across them, they can protect themselves.”
“So that’s how it is.”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “In that case, can Madam do me a favour?”
“You say.”
“When we get to the pier, could you help me find a boat and lend me your escort for a while.”
Madam Zhang didn’t ask her what she was doing with the escort, she simply agreed, “Yes, I’ll go back to my husband and ask him to find a boat for you.”
“Many thanks, Madam.”
Madam Zhang went back inside, a set of wet clothes was thrown on the floor, her husband had just changed into dry clothes, he had just followed him into the water, afraid that Song Wan Yue would find out, and climbed up from behind while she was interrogating the leader of the water bandits.
“She’s looking for a boat, I reckon she wants to go to the water bandits’ den.”
The man frowned slightly, their mission was to safely escort Song Wangyue and her group past Qingyang, if Song Wangyue went to the water bandits’ den, it was not good for them to follow.
“She said to take the four of them with her.”
The man’s frown then relaxed, “I’ll find them when we get to the docks, you go back and stabilise them, don’t show anything.”
Song Wangyue went back to the deck to find Master Chu, “Master, I’ll take my men on a trip to the water bandits’ den, you stay on the boat and watch over my family.”
Master Chu didn’t say anything, but nodded slightly.
After the boat docked, Madam Zhang’s husband quickly found a boat and introduced it to Song Wan Yue, “Miss Song, this is the boat boss, I always take his boat when I go to the capital.”
The boat boss nodded nervously towards Song Wangyue, not thinking that she was a young girl and neglecting her.
Song Wan Yue also nodded her head slightly, “Do you know where we are going?”
The boat captain’s long and simple voice was also simple, “Yes, Mr. Zhang said, although it is a bit dangerous, but Mr. Zhang paid more for the boat, I am willing to make this trip.”
“Go and bring your boat to the back of this one of ours.
Dear, this chapter is not finished, there is the next page oh ^0^”
Song Wangyue went back to the boat, detached Song Lin and gave the old man the word that he was going to the water bandits’ den.
After hearing her out, the old man’s face changed, “Yue’er, we’ve already passed Qingyang, there’s no need to mess with them again.”
“I’ve asked, someone paid for the murderers and hired them to kill us, all but one followed us over, the rest are still on the mountain, I’m not sure of myself until I find out who’s behind this.”
“But it’s too dangerous. For so many years, the local officials have been unable to catch these water bandits, there must be something special about the place where they are entrenched. If you go over there like this, Grand-Grandfather is really worried. If you really want to go, we can report to the officials first and let them follow you.”
“That would be spooking the snake, and those few people might take advantage of the opportunity to escape. Don’t worry, I’ll bring all my guards with me, plus those four guards from the Zhang family, it will be fine.”
Seeing that her mind was made up, the old gentleman could only instruct and instruct, still uneasy, and if he hadn’t known that he was too old and would be a drag if he went, he would have wanted to go along himself.
Song Wan Yue went to see Meng again and said that she was going to take the water bandits to the government with her men.
Song Wangyue answered and looked at Madam Zhang, “Please stay with my grandmother and the girls for a while longer, and you can leave when I return.”