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Chapter 561 Taihu Divine Turtle

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    Taihu Lake is 36,000 hectares, vast and dim, with its shadow soaked in the sky.

    There are many small islands in the lake, scattered among the mist and rain. The trees on the islands are dense and there are reeds that are taller than people.

    It¡¯s simply an excellent water bandit¡¯s den.

    ¡®If you carefully hide the location of your nest, you will be safe in Taihu Lake.  ¡¯

    This is the experience that Yu Liu, the ¡®Taihu Divine Turtle¡¯, who has lived on Taihu Lake for half his life, learned from his predecessors.

    For twenty years, he has kept this iron rule in mind and is always willing to spend more time than others to hide his whereabouts.

    Therefore, the colleagues who went into the water with him basically fed the bastards in Taihu Lake. Not only did Yu Liuye survive, but his business grew bigger and bigger.

    It was precisely because he was cautious and low-key that he was spotted by the big boss on the shore, who provided him with weapons and protection.  Let him not have to worry at all, he will be wiped out by the government and the army.

    Correspondingly, he has to obey the big boss's orders and do some shameful things for him.

    Generally speaking, it includes hijacking ships and stealing goods, blackmail and threats, etc. This is the business scope of Taihu water bandits, and they are naturally familiar with it.

    "But Yu Liu knows the pros and cons, and knows that the people the big boss wants to deal with are not ordinary people.

    Therefore, whenever there is such an activity, he will personally plan the action plan, be more careful to restrain his subordinates, and will not make any extraneous matters, expose his identity and lair, so as to avoid being visited for revenge.

    ¡°For example, a few days ago, he received a secret order from the big boss, asking him to intercept Wu Ji¡¯s grain ship from Yixing.

    Mr. Yu Liu is not willing to provoke Wu Ji, who is wealthy and has a large number of people, but he has to obey the orders of the big boss.  They could only order their subordinates to cover their faces with black cloth, and were not allowed to call each other's names, let alone kill people at will.

    After the hijacking was successful, he ordered Wu Ji's crew and sailors to be driven into the cabin and locked up, and his men drove the five grain ships back to their home base.

    Then he arranged for his subordinates to keep strict watch day and night, keeping Wu Ji's people from showing their heads from beginning to end, so as not to reveal their location.

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    The lair is very simple, because they only get together when they commit crimes, and they break up immediately after they succeed.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????:???????? I became an honest and honest fisherman of Taihu Lake. You can let your officers and soldiers search Taihu Lake, and I can still fish under your nose.

    "When the government and the army advance, the bandits turn into civilians, and when the government and the military retreat, the people turn into bandits. This is the fundamental secret why Mr. Yu Liu has been able to persist in this business for more than 20 years."

    At this time, in a bamboo house in the center, a copper kettle sat on a charcoal brazier, and the kettle was boiling water.

    Next to the brazier was a low, oily table, on which were placed two fat chickens, two salted ducks, a package of soy mutton, and a few pig trotters that had been chewed to the bone.

    Mr. Yu Liu rolled up his trouser legs, sat on a piece of tiger skin, held a shallow wine bowl with three fingers, and touched it with his four leaders.

    "Dry!"

    The five people drank all the rice wine in the bowl.  A big black fat man wiped his mouth carelessly with his sleeve and sighed: "This is my damn life. I'm bored at home all day long."

    "Hey, the boss has become more and more cautious in the past two years. Is this the third sale this year?" A scarred man muttered while chewing chicken bones.

    The other two also nodded, obviously not satisfied with the harvest in the first half of the year.

    "What do you know? You don't want to see what direction this year will take?" Mr. Yu Liu said slowly while picking his teeth: "Those high-ranking families were fighting fiercely. On the first day of the first lunar month, there was a fire in Huzhou, and then the whole Taihu Lake was in chaos. Also.  I don¡¯t know what kind of medicine they took, but they had to fight to the death.¡±

    "We little characters, if we don't restrain ourselves at this time, we may become gunmen for others and die without knowing how." Yu Liuye gloated and said with a smile:

    "The 'Hunjianglong' group in the south and the 'Shui Flying' group in the west just hit the muzzle of the gun, and they all fed to the bastards."

    "So this time, the boss won't be worried?" the older leader asked.

    "First, I rejected the big boss several times, so I don't agree anymore." Yu Liuye said leisurely: "Second, I've been through it all. Wu Ji is an Hui merchant, and his hometown is in Yangzhou. He is not that powerful in Suzhou."

    "Besides, as soon as people hear the ransom we want, they will know what is going on." Mr. Yu Liu picked up the wine bowl and asked his men to fill it.  "Even the ship, cargo and people are not worth ten thousand taels, but we want one hundred thousand taels. Is this serious kidnapping?"

    "Not serious." The four leaders shook their heads together.

    "Can someone give it to me?"

    ?"Can't give it." The four leaders continued to shake their heads.  "One hundred thousand taels of silver, that's enough to load several ships."

    "Unless Madam Ye is kidnapped, I won't give it to them even if I kill them."

    "So." Mr. Yu Liu was very proud of his wisdom and gently touched the wine bowl with his men.  "People will know right away that we are doing things for others. Every grievance has its owner, and its debtor has its owner. As long as we don't hurt their people, they won't care too much about us."

    "People can be spared, but the food cannot be withdrawn." The four leaders shouted: "With these five ships of food, plus the three thousand taels of silver rewarded by the big boss, it will be enough for us to have fun for a while."

    "That's natural." Mr. Yu Liu smiled faintly.  "The rules still have to be followed. You can't miss the target."

    In fact, the real reason why he was willing to take the risk was that the big boss gave him five thousand taels of silver.

    He took out two thousand taels and distributed them to the water bandits below, and the other one thousand taels were divided among the five of them.

    What¡¯s the other two thousand taels?  Where is it?  You heard wrong.

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    While Mr. Yu Liu was secretly feeling proud, he heard a burst of rapid footsteps.

    The five people quickly grabbed the weapons at hand, only to see that the men who broke in were the men sent out for inspection.

    "Your mother is dead? Running in such a hurry scares me to death." The scar-faced man threw away the ax in his hand.

    "Big, big boss." But his subordinates ignored him and reported to Mr. Yu Liu: "Wu Ji has paid the ransom!"

    "Oh?" Mr. Yu Liu was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that today is the third day.  The deadline for paying the ransom has come.

    Because there was no hope, he even forgot about it.

    "How much did you pay?" several leaders asked impatiently.

    ¡°There are so many boxes that I can¡¯t even count them.¡± The subordinate¡¯s face turned red with excitement.  "Master, go and get it! There's so much money piled up on the island, I'm worried to death!"

    "Can you see clearly that it's silver?"

    "Yes, they are all!" The subordinate replied in a trembling voice: "I dug it up and looked at it. It's all white money."

    "Hiss" Mr. Yu Liu gasped in surprise and almost sucked a duck bone into his throat.

    "Hiss" The four leaders also gasped and stood up impatiently: "Master, they really gave it to me!"

    "Go get some money, Mr. Boss!"

    "I'll gather the brothers right now!"

    "Don't be anxious!" Mr. Yu Liu, however, sat firmly as a mountain and shouted in a low voice: "Be careful of fraud!"

    "If you lose your life, no amount of money will be of any use." Mr. Yu Liu, who was always steady, asked his subordinates in a deep voice: "Is anyone watching you?"

    "Don't worry, Master, there is absolutely no chance." The subordinate shook his head decisively and said: "Before coming back, I followed the Master's instructions and made several rounds. Anyone who is watching will definitely find out."

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