Zu An wasn’t roused up by his fierce berating at all. He instead turned to Zheng Dan beside him.
“Isn’t your young miss here? She’s obviously the one who will now take over this type of huge matter. If she wants me to take responsibility then I will, if she doesn’t then I won’t. What does miss Zheng think?” Zu An with a chuckle while looking at her.
Zheng Dan’s face blushed. Was this person deliberately trying to take advantage of her here? However, she still replied, “Everything the young master is doing is for the sake of public affairs, so how could I make you take responsibility?”
Zu An said with a hearty laugh, “I’m really happy that miss Zheng doesn’t need me to take responsibility. Seems like our relationship isn’t bad.”
From the side, Sang Qian’s brows furrowed. He subconsciously adjusted his helmet, feeling like his hat really was a bit uncomfortable today.
“Since the young miss has already given the word, then all of you should follow me.” Hou Yun walked in front and indicated for the men under him to open up the cabin.
Sang Qian waved his hand. His soldiers entered in a single file and carried out a search.
Zu An gestured to his men as well, having the Chu clan’s people follow the others inside. He already didn’t have any trust in Sang Hong’s people.
He still didn’t feel at ease, so he followed them as well.
Sang Qian and Zheng Dan exchanged a look. The two of them also followed the rest in.
Sacks were piled up like a mountain inside. The inspections of these soldiers were extremely rough. They directly stabbed their blades into the sacks and then pulled them back out.
When he watched cotton continuously flow out, Hou Yun couldn’t bear to continue watching. He immediately said, “Everyone, please be more careful! Just tell me which bag you all wish to inspect, I’ll open it up for you!”
But no one paid him any attention, so he could only run over to Zu An. “Chu clan’s young master, you’ve already inspected what you want to inspect. Your respected self should feel at ease now, right?”
Zu An declined to comment. He directly pushed him aside and entered the deepest level. He saw densely packed backs piled up on each other.
He wanted to examine the bags at the very bottom, but unless someone completely unloaded the goods on this ship, it wouldn’t be realistic at all.
But he quickly reacted. He subconsciously used his own world’s experiences as a reference. This is a world of cultivation, the strength of cultivators was many times greater than ordinary people.
As such, he helped himself to these bags, moving out bags after bags that were covering those bottommost sacks.
Chu clan’s guards also rushed over to help. Soon afterwards, they made a three square foot hole.
“Chu clan’s young master, what are you doing?!” Hou Yun panicked. He immediately rushed over to stop them, but he was stopped by Feng Daniu and the others.
Zu An’s face was extremely dark. He fished out the deepest sacks here.
“Why is butler Hou so nervous?” Zu An tossed those sacks right in front of his feet.
“Nervous? I’m not nervous at all, hahaha~” Hou Yun laughed a few times. However, everyone could see the fine sweat on his face.
Zu An gave Zheng Dan and Sang Qian a look, snickering inwardly when he saw their grave expressions.
He fished out a blade and stabbed into those sacks.
Everyone reached out their necks. What came out wasn’t cotton.
But what made Zu An disappointed was that there wasn’t any white salt, but rather yellow sand.
“Why did you store yellow sand among the goods?” Zu An was startled. His previous bad premonition finally became a reality. That was why he wasn’t all that surprised right now either.
Hou Yun chuckled. “The young master has never had to fend for yourself, so of course you don’t understand our difficulties! These are bags used for us to hold the ship down, to take shelter from great winds and great waves.”
Everyone knew that Zu An was merely an impoverished kid before he became the Chu clan’s young master, while Hou Yun seemed to have done quite well for himself these years. That was why everyone who heard his words immediately felt like they were filled with mockery.
Zu An’s eyes narrowed. This guy wants to play games with me! Sure, come at me!
He didn’t feel like speaking any superfluous words either. He examined the other bags too, seeing that most of them were yellow sand. He sneered. “Is there a need for so much of this to hold down the ship?”
Hou Yun began to wipe at the fine sweat covering his forehead. It doesn’t break the law if we bring some more yellow sand onto the ship, right?”
Zu An pointed at the goods in this ship. “If I am not mistaken, most of the goods on this ship should be yellow sand? Is this how the Zheng clan does business?”
When he said these words, he was already looking at Zheng Dan.
Zheng Dan frowned slightly. This type of action was indeed a bit suspicious.
“This… this…” That Hou Yun continuously wiped at his sweat. He clearly couldn’t find any excuses to get himself out of this situation.
“Bring him away and interrogate him!” Zu An directly ordered.
Sang Qian stood out. “I fear that this might be unsuitable. The Chu clan doesn’t have enforcing authority. This task ought to be handed over to our police camp.”
Zu An said coldly, “Today was supposed to be a smooth operation, yet after making a trip to the police camp, the illicit salt smugglers received news ahead of time, swapping out the goods. Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to still leave this to the police camp?”
Sang Qian became furious. “Are you saying that I leaked out information?”
You have successfully trolled Sang Qian for +213 Rage!
Zu An replied indifferently, “I didn’t accuse Commander Sang for leaking out anything. It is just that those in the underground businesses have eyes everywhere. There might be spies on the inside. I have no choice but to act carefully.”
“Nonsense! You are slandering me, slanding my River Patrol Army’s hard working soldiers!” Sang Qian shot him a hateful look.
The other River Patrol Army soldiers all had unkind expressions. They all moved their hands to their swords’ handles.
You have successfully trolled River Patrol Army soldier A for +66 Rage!
You have successfully trolled River Patrol Army soldier B for +66 Rage!
You have successfully trolled River Patrol Army soldier C for +66 Rage!
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Chu clan’s guards rushed over, their expressions nervous as they looked at the soldiers around them.
Zu An wasn’t worried at all. Sang Hong went so far to scheme against the Chu clan, so he was definitely not someone who would use force.