Rebirth: Ordinary Life and Living

After that, many people started drawing their knives and poking the rice bags hard.

When the seventh uncle saw this, he begged for mercy and said, "Sir, these are all food. If you poke them like this, won't it be a waste of all the rice?"

The leader glanced at the seventh uncle and said, "As long as we can find the person the emperor is looking for, it doesn't matter if I spend a few bags of rice. Keep searching."

It was unknown how long these black-armored soldiers had been poking, and they did not let go of any bag of rice.

After a long time, the search was finally completed and there was nothing suspicious.

They responded quickly: "No, sir, nothing suspicious."

The seventh uncle secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly, "Sir, we are really an ordinary merchant ship. We really haven't done anything illegal. Please believe me."

The rice bags were turned upside down by the black-armored soldiers, exposing the walls of the ship.

The general walked slowly towards the wall. Zhou Xinyue and Fanxing were so nervous inside that they dared not move.

The leader slowly approached the wall. As he got closer, the seventh aunt-in-law suddenly shouted outside, "Oh no, my dear, my granddaughter is trying to commit suicide. Someone come quickly, someone come quickly."

Uncle Seven shouted hurriedly: "What's going on?"

The seventh aunt held Kang'er and cried, "I went upstairs to see my granddaughter, and she said she was not alive. She was seen by two men. She is not alive. You should go and take a look as soon as possible."

The seventh uncle was so angry that he turned around and said, "Sir, you must give us an explanation today. My granddaughter is a good and virgin girl who was offended by your men. How will you deal with her? You must give me an explanation."

The leader turned around, frowned, looked at the seventh uncle and said, "My men were just following orders, and they didn't cause any harm to your granddaughter. I think it's better to forget about this matter. What do you think, old man?"

Uncle Seven cried out in grievance, "The most important thing for a girl is her reputation. My granddaughter is a pure and innocent girl, and she was offended by your men like this. Can you just let it go?"

The leader shouted in displeasure: "What? Do you still want to settle accounts with me?"

The seventh uncle said with tears in his eyes, "Sir, of course I dare not. You are a high official, and we are just ordinary people. We dare not do anything, but I will report today's events to the owner of Wu Manor. The owner of Wu Manor will definitely take the golden plaque bestowed by the emperor to the gate of the palace and beat the drum to ask for an audience with the current emperor. The current emperor once said that as long as the owner of our Wu Family Grain Manor takes this golden plaque bestowed by the emperor, he can enter the palace immediately. In the past month, only our Wu Family Grain Manor ship has gone to Bazhi and Disi. If we do not arrive in Bazhi as scheduled, the people of my Wu family will report to Cangdu General Manor, and the people of the General Manor will report to the court. The emperor has always valued grain and our Wu Family Grain Manor. The taxes paid by our Wu Family Grain Manor to the court every year can solve many of the emperor's urgent needs. How much the emperor values ​​us, I believe you know. You can kill us all here, but I don't know the consequences."

The leader frowned and looked at the seventh uncle sharply, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing that the leader was somewhat moved by what he said, the Seventh Uncle continued, "When the time comes, the Emperor will send an imperial minister to investigate the matter. Even if you have the means to conceal the truth, we have marks along the way. As for where these marks are and what they are, I am not in a position to tell you. When the Emperor sends people to investigate, the ships of our Wu Family Granary disappeared in the place under your jurisdiction. Do you think you can get away with it? Do you think you can get rid of suspicion?"

The leader looked at the seventh uncle with anger on his face. The seventh uncle said hurriedly: "The emperor will take a fancy to the Wu family or a small general like you. I believe you know which one is more important. I believe that the emperor will not abandon the entire Wu family for a small general."

The leader hurriedly said with a smile: "Old man, I think there may be a misunderstanding."

"I don't know whether it's a misunderstanding or not. I only know that if our Wu family's ship disappears here, our manor owner will never let it go and will definitely ask the emperor to seek justice for us."

The leader smiled and said hurriedly, "Don't worry, old man. It must be a misunderstanding. Bring Xiao Si and the others in."

The two black-armored soldiers of Xiao Si were brought in. The leader looked at the two men, swung two knives, and the two black-armored soldiers fell down.

The leader smiled and said, "Well, I wonder if the old man has calmed down?"

Seventh Aunt-in-law hurriedly covered Kang'er's eyes.

Seventh Uncle also gasped, because he didn't expect that the general would vent his anger for them in this way.

The general sneered and said, "I have already dealt with the two hooligans who bullied your granddaughter. Since it was a misunderstanding today, let's clear it up. So you can rest assured, old man. Are you satisfied with this treatment?"

The Seventh Uncle swallowed fearfully and said, "Okay, okay. It's okay."

The leader wiped the blood off the knife with a cloth and said with a smile: "In that case, let's just pretend that what happened today never happened. I am very sure that your ship is not suspicious, so you can let it go. I hope the old man will not take today's incident to heart, and don't report it to your owner, okay?"

The Seventh Uncle nodded hurriedly and said, "General, you have done this, this is natural."

The general nodded with satisfaction when he heard this and said, "Very good. In that case, I will not bother you any more. Let's go."

After saying this, the general led the black-armored soldiers off the boat in a large group.

Everyone on the boat breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhou Xinyue and Fanxing, who were hiding in the cracks, also breathed a sigh of relief.

It was really a close call. If it weren't for my Seventh Uncle and Auntie's cleverness, I'm afraid they would have been discovered.

Uncle Seven hurriedly said to a young man behind him, "Go and see if those people have got off the boat. Look around."

The young man hurried out to look around, and came back to tell his seventh uncle that those people had returned to their own boat and had also taken the two planks away.

My seventh aunt-in-law and my seventh uncle-in-law suddenly felt their legs go weak and they sat on the ground.

Seventh Uncle broke out in a cold sweat.

The seventh aunt-in-law quickly handed the child to another young man and asked him to go upstairs.

Wiping the sweat off her forehead, the Seventh Uncle said quietly, "Old man, I'm lucky to have you. It has to be you. Otherwise, I really don't know what to do today."