Chapter 74: The picture shows the dagger
Chapter 74: The Secret Revealed

Ye Xuan had no choice but to settle for the next best thing: "Since the manager is unwilling to say it, I won't force it. But the document does not have the signatures of both parties, which is not the rule of doing business after all."

The manager was quite angry when he heard this. This flower boat had witnessed many secret transactions between officials and businessmen, and none of them went smoothly. He had never seen Ye Xuan be so troublesome.

Just as he was about to get angry, Pang Zhenkun unexpectedly stopped him and said, "Forget it, forget it. Since Shopkeeper Ye is worrying about nothing, I will just sign and seal it for you, so what?"

After saying this, he picked up a pen and paper and was about to write his name on the document.

Seeing that Pang Zhenkun was really going to sign and seal his name, the manager couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Prefect Pang, are you really going to sign?"

The flower boats never require both parties to the transaction to sign or seal their names, because this kind of private transaction is simply a disguised form of bribery and power-for-money transactions.

Therefore, almost all officials were unwilling to sign their names in person, and over time it became an unspoken rule.

But if you really want to sign your name, it can't be said to be against the rules, it's just that no one would be willing to do that.

Pang Zhenkun was also a frequent visitor on the flower boat. In the past, many businessmen had approached him to "do business", but he had never been willing to sign. Why was he...

It's no wonder that the flower boat manager was so surprised. He had no idea that Pang Zhenkun had received guidance from a senior monk in a large temple some time ago. He was told that it was an ancient secret recipe. As long as six luminous pearls were ground into powder with relics and taken with rice wine, one could regain youth and virility!

So Pang Zhenkun has been keeping an eye on the whereabouts of the night pearl for some time, but he has not found any after searching for it for a long time.

Unexpectedly, he found it here at Ye Xuan's place. If there was only one, it would be fine, and Pang Zhenkun would not have agreed to sign the document.

After all, if we can’t find the remaining five, it will all be in vain.

But Ye Xuan hit the mark unexpectedly. He originally just wanted to rely on numbers to stimulate Pang Zhenkun's greed, but he hit his sore spot instead.

But what Pang Zhenkun could never have imagined was that the so-called eminent monk was just a fake monk who had a house in another place and specialized in deceiving those wealthy men who were old but powerless towards women.

The so-called six night-shining pearls cannot be found in a short period of time, no matter how rich one is, and by that time, the so-called monk's business would have already run away.

His purpose was just to sell a fake relic.

Unexpectedly, it helped Ye Xuan a lot.

After Pang Zhenkun signed his name and sealed it, when it was Ye Xuan's turn, Ye Xuan did not write anything, but just picked up the document and stood up.

This action puzzled Pang Zhenkun and others. The manager urged, "Shopkeeper Ye, why are you still in a daze? Hurry up and sign the seal. Isn't this exactly what you asked for?"

Ye Xuan chuckled and put the document away, saying, "No need for that. It's enough to have Governor Pang's signature on the document."

Pang Zhenkun's face changed when he heard this, and he shouted, "What do you mean by this!"

"What do you mean?" Ye Xuan said sarcastically, "You'll know when Magistrate Pang and I return to the Pacification Office!"

"You...you are a Jinyiwei!" Pang Zhenkun stood up suddenly and pointed at Ye Xuan with trembling fingers.

Ye Xuan laughed mockingly, took out the Jinyiwei token, bowed and said jokingly: "I am Ye Xuan, a captain of the Jinyiwei, and I am honored to meet the prefect!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Qiuyan and Pang Zhenkun both tilted their bodies and fell to the ground in fright.

Ye Xuan squatted down, pinched Qiuyan's cheek and said with a smile: "Miss Qiuyan, why do you need to be so scared? If it weren't for you, I would not have been able to get the evidence of their crime so easily. You can be considered to have made meritorious service while serving your sentence!" "What...what do you mean?" Qiuyan looked at Ye Xuan in horror and said incoherently.

There is no other reason. It's just that the reputation of the Jinyiwei has been so terrifying during this period that it has even reached the point where it can stop children from crying at night.

Moreover, Qiuyan herself knew what kind of activities were going on on that flower boat, and if she was caught, even death would be the least she could do.

However, Ye Xuan thought of Qiuyan's good attitude along the way, and to be honest, without her help, it would have been impossible to catch the evidence of Pang Zhenkun and Hua Chuan's crimes so easily, so he felt pity for her.

Ye Xuan patted Qiuyan's still resilient face and said calmly: "Sell the pearls I gave you just now, and find a small business to live a peaceful life for the rest of your life."

"You, are you going to let me go?" Qiuyan was still a little hesitant. This was not like the style of the Jinyiwei that she had heard from the people!

But Ye Xuan no longer paid attention to him. Instead, he jumped up and kicked Pang Zhenkun, who was trying to escape, to the ground, and said, "Prefect Pang, keep playing the music and dancing! Where are you going, leaving so soon?"

But at this moment, the flower boat manager blew a whistle suddenly, and suddenly...

There were messy footsteps and a group of thugs rushed in.

The thugs saw the situation in a cabin, and they all pulled out daggers from their pockets and surrounded them aggressively.

The manager said proudly and fiercely: "Boy, you are a real man if you dare to come here alone today, but you..."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Xuan laughed and said nonchalantly: "Who told you that I came here alone?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of fireworks breaking through the air on the deck, and one of the thugs shouted with a stern face: "It's the Cloud Piercer, they're calling for help!"

The manager was also startled, but then he said with a ferocious look on his face: "What's the use of calling for help? I'll kill you first!"

As he said this, he called for the thugs to rush forward. However, before they could make any move, several figures flew in from behind the thugs and knocked the crowd crooked.

I saw two burly men, each holding a thug and throwing them into the crowd.

Wang Feihu laughed and shouted, "Just relying on you bastards, you think you can touch my master?"

The thugs were immediately frightened. What kind of amazing strength was it to be able to lift a grown man up and throw him far away!

Song Zhenshan nodded to Ye Xuan and said, "Sir, the signal has been given. Our brothers who stayed on the shore will be able to board the ship in a moment!"

Ye Xuan didn't care, he just said calmly: "Who are the people on the ship, have you written them down?"

Song Zhenshan nodded, and Ye Xuan waved his hand and said, "Take it down!"

After saying that, he found a bench and sat down, as if the people standing in front of him were not vicious bandits, but just a group of little lambs to be slaughtered.

When he sat down, he saw Qiuyan still kneeling beside him tremblingly. He couldn't help but hold her head with a smile and asked curiously, "Why don't you leave? Do you want to get close to the Jinyiwei prison so much?"

Only then did Qiuyan finally confirm that the disguised Jinyiwei leader in front of her really wanted to let her go.

(End of this chapter)