Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

In the second half of the night when it was almost dawn.

Shuiyue finally arrived at the Tiancang River with his three men.

But when she came back this time, she was completely shocked. She saw that of her more than 40 warships, only more than 30 were still floating on the river, and the other more than 10 had already sunk into the water.

Fortunately, Gu Chan did not kill them all, so the soldiers on the more than ten warships were able to climb out of the water and climb onto the more than thirty warships that were still floating. Otherwise, she would have lost thousands of soldiers that night.

Seeing that she had finally returned, a deputy general ran to the bow in an extremely embarrassed manner and said, "General, you are finally back. Previously, a spirit beast stirred up a storm in the Tiancang River, causing huge waves and over a dozen of our warships to sink into the water. If it hadn't stopped, I'm afraid our losses would have been even more severe!"

"Can you see clearly what kind of spirit beast that is?" Shuiyue asked.

"It's too dark and I can't see clearly. Anyway, I just feel that it is like a snake, moving freely in the water. Its spiritual energy is also very powerful and extremely terrifying!" said the deputy general with a look of fear.

Shuiyue fell silent, her face changing from gloomy to bright, and she began to feel wary of Gu Chan.

It was not until now that she realized that what Gu Chan said in the pavilion was true. If she had been willful, she would probably not have lost more than ten warships tonight.

The deputy general asked, "General, what should we do next?"

"Give the order to let everyone rest on the warship. Until the general and his men arrive, we can only stay on the Tiancang River and must not rashly enter the tributary Jiangnan River." Shuiyue came back to his senses and gave the order.

"Yes, General." The deputy general responded respectfully and hurried down to pass on the order.

Shuiyue stood on the bow of the boat, looking in the direction of Jiangnan City with an extremely solemn expression.

It was because she completely understood that this kid Gu Chan was by no means as simple as he seemed on the surface, and it was not just luck that he could become the new lord of Jiangnan!

On the other side, in Jiangnan Academy.

Gu Chan was waiting for a group of academicians in the pavilion of Tingfeng Garden and fell asleep while waiting.

When she woke up, it was already daybreak. Just when she was about to take the white fox to find the old academician, the old man ran into the pavilion and said to her happily, "Lord, good news! After a night of discussion, Lord Yan has agreed to allocate money to us, and we have also discussed the preparations. I think the Jiangnan Poetry Festival can be held smoothly in half a month."

"That's good. Anyway, this matter can't fall on my hands." Gu Chan said with a smile.

"Oh! Where are the four distinguished guests? Have they left?" The old academician looked into the empty pavilion and then he remembered to ask Shuiyue and the other three.

Gu Chan said with a fake smile, "They had something urgent to do, so they left last night. They also asked you to take me to see the old gang leader. Do you know where he is being held captive?"

"Oh! Is that so? All right then! Lord, please follow me." The old academician said respectfully.

After saying that, he took Gu Chan and left Tingfeng Garden and headed towards another courtyard.

After a while, Gu Chan saw him in the small courtyard where the nine-fingered old beggar was imprisoned.

When the two of them met again, the old beggar with nine fingers couldn't help but ask with a smile, "How was it last night?"

"Don't worry, I have many ways to deal with her. Look, she has already retreated to the warship on Tiancang River with her men. I guarantee that she won't dare to cause trouble in Jiangnan City for some time to come." Gu Chan said proudly.

"Well done, little brat, you really have some skills! I thought last night that you would have a fierce fight and you would be beaten to a pulp by her!" The nine-fingered beggar teased.

Gu Chan said disdainfully, "Tsk! She dares to hit me, the lord? Even if she has ten times the courage, she still wouldn't dare."

"Not bad, you are worthy of being the kid I have chosen. You didn't disappoint me this time." The nine-fingered old beggar praised.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Let's go back to Jigong Temple, have a good meal, and then get some sleep afterwards." Gu Chan said with a wry smile.

The nine-fingered old beggar nodded without comment.

After that, the two of them said no more and immediately said goodbye to the old academician. They swaggered out of the yard with the white fox and walked towards the outside of Jiangnan Academy.

When they arrived outside the gate, the old academician suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "My Lord, please wait. I have something else to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Gu Chan said while stopping.

"The four distinguished guests last night brought not only this old beggar, but also a young man, who was also detained in another small courtyard. Do you want me to ask someone to bring him out, and you can take him away as well?" the old academician asked hurriedly.

When Shuiyue's two men brought Nangong Jin to Jiangnan Academy last night, they did not reveal his identity as the young prince to the old academician, so it is understandable that the old academician does not know how to deal with him now.

Gu Chan touched her chin with her hand and said with a sly smile, "No need, just lock him up! Just send him a meal every day, and if he dares to make a noise, send someone to beat him up, beat him up every time he makes a noise, until he behaves."

"Ah? Are you really going to beat him?" the old academician asked in shock.

"I'm going to beat him for real! Am I kidding you? The elder sister said last night that she dislikes this kid very much, so she wants to lock him up here for the time being and teach him a lesson first. Anyway, you don't need to care what he says. If he doesn't listen, just beat him to death by the elder sister. If he asks who treated him like this, you just tell him that it was the elder sister who gave the order." Gu Chan said with a grin.

When the old academician saw Gu Chan's appearance, he always felt something was wrong, but since Gu Chan was the lord, he didn't dare to ask more questions and could only nod in agreement silently.

Gu Chan and the nine-fingered old beggar looked at each other, then they both laughed and took the white fox into the carriage and left.

The old academician turned around in confusion and went back to Jiangnan Academy, then sent people to guard Nangong Jin as instructed by Gu Chan.

More than an hour later.

Gu Chan and the other person returned to Jigong Temple safely.

The first thing Gu Chan did after returning was to ask Yuan Jie to prepare a table of good wine and food, set it up in her room, and then helped Cheng Hao and Yuan Ying to sit down at the table.

Then the five of them sat together, talking and laughing as they ate.

On the other hand, Nangong Jin was currently in the room, being beaten by two guards sent by the old academician. He was curled up on the ground with his head in his hands, in great pain.

The two guards naturally conveyed to him everything Gu Chan had said before.

"Shuiyue, you bitch, you're just going to kill me now, right? Well, just wait, I won't let you go like this, don't fall into my hands, or I will make you live a life worse than death one day."

Look, at this moment, he was curled up on the ground, cursing Shuiyue in his heart. He really hated her to the core!