Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

More than an hour later.

Something happened that shocked Gu Chan and the others!

Just as they were getting impatient waiting on the boat, flames suddenly shot up into the sky from the direction of the village ahead. The villagers screamed and everyone ran to put out the fire.

Cheng Hao stood on the bow, looked in the direction of the fire and said, "Master, should we go down and take a look?"

"Don't go. We are outsiders after all. This is someone else's village. No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with us. Don't make trouble." Gu Chan waved her hand to stop them.

Only then did Cheng Hao calm down and continue waiting.

After a while, Qilang was seen carrying a bag and running towards the pier like a thief, then he quickly climbed up the escalator and climbed onto the boat.

As soon as he got on the boat, he shouted, "Manager Gu, start the boat!"

"Set sail." Gu Chan ordered.

Several boatmen immediately rowed and set sail. The merchant ship quickly left the small pier and headed downstream.

"Huhuhu..."

Qilang sat on the bow of the boat, looking towards the direction of the village and breathing heavily.

Gu Chan stood beside him and asked, "What's going on?"

"I just secretly burned down the village chief's house." Qilang sneered.

"Why are you doing this?" Gu Chan asked in surprise.

Qi Lang's face darkened. "Over the years, he has relied on his position as the village chief to bully the villagers. Recently, didn't the city lord ask the villagers to retrieve corpses and give them five taels of silver for each corpse they retrieved? But when the money came to him, he deducted two taels of silver for each corpse, so in the end, the villagers only had three taels of silver. No one dared to resist. I have two hundred taels of silver now, so I'm not afraid of him."

"Then you have really made up your mind and you don't plan to come back again, right?" Gu Chan sighed.

Shichiro nodded affirmatively.

Considering the cost of living in Yexing Country, with the two hundred taels of silver given to him by Gu Chan, he could definitely live in a better place. There was no need for him to stay in this poor village and be exploited by the village chief.

As expected, no matter what time, money is always a person’s greatest confidence.

As the saying goes, if you have money you can travel the world, but without money you can't go anywhere. This statement is absolutely true.

Gu Chan had also been poor before, so she understood these principles. Therefore, she did not say much, but just reached out and patted Qi Lang on the shoulder and said, "Let's go back to the cabin! Let's continue drinking and chatting."

"Yes, Manager Gu." Qilang responded respectfully.

Then he and Gu Chan went back to the cabin and sat down, continuing to drink the fragrant rice wine.

After drinking more than thirty glasses of wine and getting a little tipsy, Gu Chan got to the point and said, "Qi Lang, let me ask you, what kind of person is your Yaoye City Lord? What kind of person is he?"

"Our city lord is a young man who has only been in office for half a year. He is a nice person and is good to the people living in the border areas. Everyone supports him." Qilang said with a smile.

"That's great. I also have something I want to talk to him about this time. If he's a good person, you won't have to worry too much." Gu Chan said with assurance.

"Manager Gu, since you are here to do business, you don't need to talk to the city lord! There are many merchants traveling to and from the border of our Yexing Country. As long as your merchant ship enters Yaoye City, someone will naturally come to discuss business with you. You don't need to worry so much." Qilang said.

Gu Chan frowned and said, "How come merchant ships can still enter Yaoye City?"

“You don’t know this! The Lanxing River passes directly through Yaoye City, so merchant ships coming to the border of our Yexing Country must pass through Yaoye City. There are many docks in the city, and they are full of ships every day!” Qilang explained.

Gu Chan's eyes lit up when she heard this. She intuitively felt that the geographical location of Yaoye City was really excellent! Compared with Jiangnan City in the Jiangnan area, Yaoye City had its natural geographical advantages. In this way, the development of this city would definitely be better than that of Jiangnan City, and the people would live a more prosperous life.

Of course, this could also explain why the mayor of Yaoye City had to pay someone to retrieve the bodies.

If these corpses are not fished out and continue to flow down the river into Yaoye City, once the corpses rot and cause plague and other diseases, it will be a huge disaster for the people of the entire city.

This can be said to be the biggest shortcoming of Yaoye City.

After understanding the situation, Gu Chan stopped asking questions and just told Cheng Hao to take Qilang to the cabin to rest, while she went back to her main cabin to sleep.

During the next three days, Gu Chan and others got along very happily with Qilang.

Since he had no parents and lived in poverty since childhood, Qilang was very diligent on the boat. Not only did he help everyone with work every day, he also helped the boatmen avoid the shallower river sections ahead to prevent merchant ships from running aground and hitting rocks.

Therefore, the journey to Yaoye City was relatively smooth. Three days later at dusk in the afternoon, the Great China finally arrived at the foot of Yaoye City. When it arrived, Gu Chan and others were shocked by the scene before them.

Just as Qilang said, the Lanxing River does indeed run through Yaoye City. The tall arched gate of Yaoye City is built on the narrow river channel where the Lanxing River enters the city. During the day, the huge iron net suspended above the gate rises to open the river channel, so that ships of all sizes can enter the city in an orderly manner from the river channel below the gate.

At night, a huge iron net would be lowered to close the river. Ships that could not enter the city could dock at the docks outside the city, waiting for the river to be opened the next day so that they could enter the city.

As for Yaoye City, it is full of tall buildings and is extremely bustling and prosperous.

Gu Chan stood on the bow, looking at the prosperous scene ahead, and couldn't help but say with emotion, "From this point of view, the strength of Yexing Kingdom is probably much stronger than that of Tiancang Kingdom. It's rare that the two countries can still be on good terms. Otherwise, if Yexing Kingdom really invades from the border like Diyue Kingdom did, the Jiangnan area of ​​Tiancang Kingdom might really be finished!"

"Master, you don't have to worry about this. The tenth princess of our Tiancang Kingdom is the Crown Princess of Yexing Kingdom, and will definitely be the Queen of Yexing Kingdom in the future. So our two countries will always be on good terms and there will be no war." Cheng Hao said standing by.

"Yes, Manager Gu, not to mention that your Tenth Princess is the Crown Princess, just the fact that the old emperors of the two countries had a close relationship when they were young, there will be no hostility between the two countries." Qilang shouted.

Gu Chan shook her head, a bitter smile appearing on her face.

The old emperors of the two countries are on good terms, that is the friendship of the older generation. It is hard to say whether this friendship can continue after the new emperors of the two countries ascend the throne.

Moreover, the Crown Prince of Tiancang Kingdom is so cruel and ruthless that he even abandoned millions of people in the Jiangnan area in order to deal with her, a small lord. So why would he care about the friendship between the two countries?

Gu Chan now only hopes that there will be peace in Tiancang in the future, and it would be best if the prince does not become the emperor, otherwise there will be endless troubles!