Chapter Eighteen: Violent Resistance Against the Law

  Everyone saw Euler's predicament and looked at him with a strange expression. Although everyone wanted to help the Duke, the Duke and the Prime Minister were secretly vying against each other, making it difficult for them to take action without a clear order or excuse.

  Oola looked at Ye Feng for help, feeling embarrassed. He found that under the crazy attack of Paozi's horse, he was still calm and composed, and admired him very much.

  How did he know that a frequent bootlicker who was used to flattering others and being flattered by others with "My admiration for you is like the Yangtze River... unstoppable." seems that the level of this fatso is only equivalent to a shepherd boy in a remote mountain area.

  Ye Feng walked up to his side, smiling gloomily and said in a low voice: "If you can't afford it, I'll have Diana practice with you every day."

  Ouyang's face turned pale with fright, thinking of Diana's recent brutal methods, and he couldn't help but shudder. He pointed at the fatty's greasy big face and shouted: "Less nonsense! Young master is busy every minute now, no time to dawdle with you. Hand over the money quickly!"

  The fatty looked at the fingers poking in front of his nose, blinked his eyes and said: "No problem, Mr. Oola. But how much do you want?"

  Euler hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said what he thought was the largest amount: "Fifty gold coins."

  "Fifty gold coins, that's enough for a middle-class family to live comfortably for a year. But the fatty didn't even bat an eyelid: 'No problem, young master. I'll go get it for you right away.'"

  "Wait a minute." Oola saw Ye Feng glare at him fiercely and hastily changed his words, saying: "The fifty gold coins are just the tea water fees for my subordinates. There's also an additional fifty gold coins inspection fee."

  "No problem, young master." The fat man paused for a moment, but still said with an unchanged expression. He turned around and took down a heavy money bag from the boat, then walked back.

  He weighed the pouch in his hand, then respectfully placed it on the table in front of Orla and said: "Young Master Orla, there are a total of 150 gold coins here. The extra 50 gold coins are a small token of respect for you and the young lady. Please accept them."

  Oula looked at the money bag on the table, speechless. Originally he had planned that as long as the other party showed a hint of resistance, he would immediately order his men to rush up, but now this fat man was extremely smooth, leaving himself with no handle to grasp.

  Ye Feng couldn't bear it anymore and walked straight over. He grabbed the money bag on the table, didn't even look at it, and threw it into a nearby trunk.

  He patted the fat man's shoulder and said with a double meaning: "You're really a talent!"

  The fatty pretended to be unaware and accompanied by a smile said: "You're overpraising me, sir."

  Ye Feng turned his head and glanced at the merchant ship parked by the shore, casually asking: "What is loaded on the ship?"

  A flash of fear crossed Pong's eyes as he hastily said, "It's just some small things the Prime Minister wants."

  Ye Feng's suspicious mind was suddenly raised. Although the two sides had grievances, Baozi was being overly cautious to ensure peace and safety, but his behavior was too fawning, making people suspect that he was trying to cover up something.

  He waved his hand and ordered: "Send a few people up to take a closer look and see if there's anything suspicious."

  The fat man's sweat immediately came down, pulling his hem and almost pleading: "Sir, I have already paid the money as you said."

  Ye Feng saw his expression and became even more certain that there was a ghost on the ship. He gently patted the fat man's hand, speaking in a calm tone: "We are very professional, since you've paid the inspection fee, of course we'll do a thorough check to ensure your ship's safety, lest pirates get on board."

  Several soldiers received the order and rushed up like wolves. At this time, a cold hum came from the ship, and a tall and majestic swordsman wearing armor appeared on the deck. Without seeing how he moved, several soldiers had already rolled down from the ship like rolling melons.

  Everyone was shocked and did not expect someone to dare to resist openly on their own turf.

  It's been a long time, and I'm delighted instead of surprised. He thought to himself: "Finally arrived."

  He was already pounding the table and jumping up. Following what Ye Feng taught him yesterday, he shouted loudly, "Rebelled, rebelled! In broad daylight, dare to violently resist the law. You guys, get me the stuff, I must beat her until she can't even recognize her own mother."

  The soldiers suddenly woke up like a dream, shouted loudly, picked up their weapons and rushed forward. These guys were not fools at all, knowing that this was an excellent opportunity to show off.

  Ou La and Ni Ya are watching from behind. If they perform well, they will be promoted to the Duke's Mansion as a personal guard, and at that time, eating meat and drinking wine is much better than blowing wind at the city gate, so everyone is brave and fights with all their might.

  The swordsman saw the crowd rushing over, unhurriedly stepped forward a few steps, just in time to guard the plank. In this way, the soldiers who wanted to fight him could only go up one by one through the plank.

  The swordsman's long sword danced lightly in his hand, and after a few exchanges, the soldiers who charged forward were like dumplings being knocked off the plank into the river.

  The remaining soldiers saw this and retreated in fear. The swordsman saw this, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes. With a wave of his long sword, he pointed at the crowd and said: "I've heard that among you is a Red Blood Dragon Rider who dares to fight 4,000 pirates alone. Let him come out and compete with me. I'd like to see if he's just a name."

  Everyone heard and turned their heads to look at Ye Feng.

  The Norma Empire was founded by force of arms and has been at war for over a hundred years, so everyone is fond of martial arts and also extremely admires heroes. This is also the reason why Ye Feng can quickly gain people's respect after the Great War and become the mentor of Ola as an outsider.

  It is precisely for this reason that if someone issues a challenge and the other party does not avoid fighting, they will be despised.

  Ye Feng glanced at the fat guy next to him who was sweating profusely and whispered in his ear, "You're dead meat." The fat guy's face turned pale with fright.

  Ye Feng waved his hand and let those soldiers retreat, while secretly scolding in his heart: This group of rice buckets, next time should let Diana train them well.

  He walked slowly over, his hands empty and lazy, and stopped at one end of the diving board. He yawned towards the blue sky, then beckoned with a flourish, as if calling over a stray dog from the side of the street, saying "Come on over."

  His sword-wielding hand saw that he didn't even take a weapon, obviously not putting himself in his eyes, angry and red-faced, the long sword in his hand swung, and he roared and rushed over.

  Ye Feng waited until he rushed to the middle of the springboard, his toes pointing at the springboard with a light kick, just enough force to kick one end of the springboard from the shore into the water. The sword hand only had time to shout "Despicable!" before losing balance and splashing into the water.

  Ye Feng spat into the water and scolded, "You don't even consider whether you're worthy or not. Does my reputation need to be evaluated by a brat like you?"

  Then he ordered the soldiers to pick up their long guns and beat him as soon as the sword hand showed his head. These soldiers had no other skills, but they still knew how to beat a fallen dog.

  A large net scooped the swordsman out of the water. Everyone immediately surrounded him and gave him a good beating. The soldiers who had fallen into the water were especially resentful of the swordsman, and they fought with extra strength. By the time they were satisfied and stopped, the swordsman was no longer recognizable as human.

  Despite that, the sword hand was still exceptionally sturdy, unable to hum a single note. He simply glared at Ye Feng furiously, his eyes seeming to spew out fire.

  Ye Feng squatted down, patted his face and smiled: "Is it because you think I didn't win with real skills, so you're particularly unhappy?"

  "That swordsman shouted in a shrill voice: 'Despicable! What kind of skill is it to resort to trickery?'"

  Ye Feng smiled and continued, "Using true kung fu doesn't conform to my aesthetic views. I've never used true kung fu when fighting. Not using true kung fu is what truly counts as skill."

  His eyes rolled back and he almost fainted.

  Ye Feng stood up, sternly shouting at the soldiers: "Violent resistance to the law, attacking the guard, arrest everyone on the boat, confiscate the boat and auction it off later. Give everyone a bonus."

  The fatty hastily ran to Ye Feng's side, squeezing out a smile that was even uglier than crying, and fawned: "Sir, sir, we are innocent, this person is just a passenger we picked up halfway. His behavior has nothing to do with us, I completely and utterly didn't know about it! That's right, he must be a hidden pirate, we were deceived by the pirates, thank you sir for being wise and catching this bad egg, otherwise there would definitely be a pirate attack on us, sir is brilliant!"

  Ye Feng didn't bother with the fatty, instead he stepped onto the gangway and led a large number of guards in rushing onto the ship. He loudly ordered: "Get everyone up on deck, thoroughly investigate whether there are any accomplices of this person."

  The soldiers rushed into the cabin, and a series of banging sounds came out. The fat man hurriedly ran into the boat and came out again with a large bag of money in his hand. He handed it to the soldier next to Ye Feng and said, "Sir, this is to thank you for catching the pirates on the boat and saving everyone on board. It's not enough to show our respect."

  Ye Feng saw the soldier struggling to hold the heavy money bag, and smiled at the fatty: "Too polite, should we do all this?" Then his face suddenly turned stern, saying: "So for your safety, we should thoroughly search again, see if there are any accomplices of the pirates, and take everyone on the ship to the city guard station, let the city guard manage the ship."

  Ye Feng said with a gentle smile: "We will conduct a thorough and detailed investigation one by one, don't worry, our efficiency is still very high, it's just a matter of one or two hundred days, absolutely won't delay your business."

  Fat boy saw Ye Feng's face changing faster than flipping a book, and he was furious in his heart: that damned sword hand, who pointed at himself on the boat, now gave himself a big trouble, he was just a biting dog raised by the prime minister. Now he had no choice but to bleed again, this time if he messed up, the prime minister would directly throw himself and his family into the lion's cage in the backyard.

  "Sir can rest assured, the remaining people are all slaves on the ship and my companions I brought with me, only that pirate got on the ship halfway."

  Fatso said as he took out a small bag from his bosom and stuffed it into Ye Feng's hand.

  Ye Feng grasped it in his hand and pinched it, many granular, round, about the size of a small thumb, diamonds! Ye Feng's heart suddenly became excited, and he knocked out a big bamboo stick.

  Fat boy is bleeding in his heart on one side, that's the private house money he has accumulated for many years, originally intended to make a big profit by selling it, all gone.

  "Alright, I can see you're an honest businessman. Next time be more careful and don't pick up hitchhikers, it's very dangerous." He turned to the soldiers and said: "Disband, let him go."

  Ye Feng disembarked from the ship with a satisfied expression, and turned around to wave goodbye to Fatso with a happy smile, both of them laughing heartily.

  Oola hurried over, and Ye Feng directly threw the large money bag at Oola. The heavy bag almost made Oola stumble and fall to the ground. The bag containing the gemstones had been kept by Ye Feng on his person before getting off the boat.

  "Euler exclaimed: 'Great harvest!'"

  Ye Feng saw that everyone was excited and forgot themselves, disdainfully curled his lips, a group of country bumpkins who had never seen a big scene.

  Ye Feng pulled Niya to one side, leaned in close to her ear and almost biting her ear said: "Someone is watching the Prime Minister's boat and everyone on it, they would rather pay such a price than let us search, there must be something fishy here."

  Niya's face turned red and her ears were burning, a ticklish feeling spread from the edge of her ear to the bottom of her heart, like having a dozen kittens scratching inside her chest, she took a few deep breaths before calming down, then said to Ye Feng: "Then why don't you just take them all away."

  "Stupid, you're scaring the snake while trying to catch it. If we lock them up, how will we know what they want to do or who they're looking for?" Ye Feng whispered into Nia's ear, pretending not to notice her discomfort.

  "Cough, cough." Orla coughed behind the two of them: "Sorry to interrupt you both, but what's going to be done about that drowning dog?"

  Niya's face turned bright red, she raised her hand and gave Oola a violent slap on the forehead, then turned around and left to arrange for people to monitor the Prime Minister's boat.

  Ye Feng kicked the sword-wielding man with his foot, only to find that he was still alive. After some thought, he said: "Hang this idiot up, hang him at the water gate, and hang a sign on his body that says 'This is the result of violent resistance to the law', let's see who dares to haggle with us again. From now on, if we encounter such things again, deal with them in the same way."

  Ora gazed at Ye Feng with a worshipful look, and Ye Feng patted Ora's head, saying: "No need to be like that, I'll feel embarrassed. In the future, you can learn from me, haha." Thinking of the package of gems in his arms, Ye Feng smiled even more happily.

  They had no idea that just a board away, there was such a figure. If they stayed on the boat for a while longer, they might have been able to achieve a major victory for the Norman Empire over the Kingdom of Galtia on the continent of M.

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