novelraw Chapter 209 There's no better plan than doing your own thing and shifting the blame to someone
Chapter 209 There's no better plan than doing your own thing and shifting the blame to someone
Linlang, the two little sisters in her family, can already walk. She hasn't met them yet, but she has already prepared a lot of toys for them as gifts.
In the past two years, the two little ones, Yu Chen and Yu Han, have taken on a lot of outside affairs. When people from ancient martial arts families come to visit, they are usually the ones who receive them.
Yu Chen settled down and followed his grandfather to learn traditional Chinese medicine. He felt that martial arts and learning traditional Chinese medicine could complement each other, and his patience, meticulousness and composure were also essential qualities for a doctor and a pharmacist.
To spare her grandfather too much hardship, Yu Chen often helped him prepare the medicines that aided his martial arts training. He was responsible for entertaining the people Grandpa Li sent to pick up the medicines, as well as counting the herbs, shipping them out, and collecting payments.
Sixth-grade Yu-hsuan is in charge of bookkeeping and accounting because fifth-grade Yu-han is about to go to Yan City for training, after which she will enter a class for geniuses and start university.
Chenjiatun also developed well. The brigade leader adopted Tong Yuheng's suggestion and planted a large amount of alfalfa on the river beach. In addition to beekeeping, they also set up a collective factory that raised sheep and cattle, processed fresh milk, and slaughtered mutton.
They raise more sheep than cattle because raising cattle is too costly. The sheep milk produced daily is processed, bottled, and sent to the county's milk station, which is a source of stable income for the village. The mutton from regularly slaughtered sheep is also directly supplied to the county's supply and marketing cooperative.
Every so often, the villagers would have a big pot of stewed head, trotters, and offal to satisfy their cravings, making other villages extremely envious. Every year, they received the most grain and money among the surrounding villages, making it easier for the young men to find wives.
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Tong Yuheng had accumulated a vast amount of data and equipment, requiring a large ship to transport them back. Several other scholars also needed escorting back to China; this task was assigned to her and Li Chengsong.
After much deliberation, she decided to hijack a pirate ship and sail directly back home. What if she ran out of sailors? Heh heh, well, she'd just rob the pirates too!
After taking stock of the resources available here, she and Li Chengsong discussed it and concluded that hijacking the ship by force would be easy for them, but they would still need support from their families to get back.
Actually, if Tong Yuheng didn't have her own space, she wouldn't have planned to do this. The main reason is that her space contains all sorts of things, too many to count, so she might as well take them all back with her.
They had already begun collecting information on this topic long ago, including not only pirates and criminal gangs, but also multinational maritime transport companies that could be utilized; these were their key intelligence targets.
After careful preparation, they requested a team of ancient martial arts warriors from their homeland for support. Once they arrived, they notified their comrades and began arranging for the experts who were preparing to return home to gather on a famous island under the guise of tourism.
The comrades assisting them shook their heads when they heard about such a bold plan, thinking it was impossible. But Li Chengsong ordered them to only be responsible for getting the people safely to their destination and waiting for them to board the ship; they didn't need to worry about anything else.
Before this, when they sent a message home asking them to send ancient martial arts warriors to help, they were only using their own code names to convey the message, and the people there did not know their true identities.
The family sent the Xuanwu Squad to assist them, surprisingly led by the somewhat chauvinistic Xiao Mengyu. Their main task was to ensure the safety of the experts along the way, and once Qingluan acquired the ship, to supervise the pirates in navigating it properly.
"Qingluan" is Tong Yuheng's code name. Even her fellow "junior brothers and sisters" do not know Qingluan's true identity.
"These pirates are so useless. They've lost so many men and women just because they robbed a merchant ship. Should we help them?" Tong Yuheng expressed his contempt for the pirates' incompetence.
Their target was this merchant ship, because it was a legal arms smuggling vessel, operating under the guise of legality while engaging in high-stakes activities. The pirates, having received intelligence and wanting to replenish their ammunition without spending money, devised a plan to rob it.
Tong Yuheng wanted to play the "mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind" game after they started fighting. There was no better plan than doing his own thing and shifting the blame to others!
"Even a little help would be appreciated, so that we're all saved from being wiped out and left with no one to do the hard labor!"
Li Chengsong is now disguised as a man with fair skin and black curly hair, wearing a new material-based plastic mask created by Tong Yuheng, making him look like a mixed-race person.
Tong Yuheng disguised herself as a blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman, only enhancing her brow bone and nose bridge. She applied a layer of whitening cream and heavy makeup; unless you looked very closely, the disguise was undetectable.
"action!"
The two men appeared and disappeared mysteriously, quickly taking care of the arms dealers. The pirates thought they had divine help! They excitedly went to take control of the cockpit to check their spoils, but their joy lasted only a few minutes before they were slapped unconscious by one of them.
"Send the signal to them to prepare to bring people over to board the ship," Tong Yuheng ordered.
"Okay, I'll go and meet them!" Li Chengsong nodded, connected the radio, and signaled to his comrades on the shore to prepare to board the ship.
Upon receiving the message, the comrades hiding on the island suppressed their shock and immediately signaled to those on standby to protect the experts and valuable data, board the motorboat, and prepare to take them to the designated coordinates.
Those people were very excited; they had been waiting for this good news, and now they could finally go home!
Li Chengsong didn't know how much stuff Tong Yuheng had brought out, but she had arranged for two of her fellow apprentices to deliver it by motorboat. To prevent any unforeseen circumstances and to avoid them encountering danger en route, he wouldn't feel comfortable not going to pick them up.
Those people were in an area patrolled by coast guard vessels, which would have been troublesome if they had been discovered, unlike the merchant ship they had robbed, which was now sailing on the high seas.
After seeing him leave, Tong Yuheng checked the ship inside and out, front and back, and only felt relieved after finding no pirates had escaped. The pirates were tightly bound and piled together, so there was no need to worry about them resisting now.
She went down to the cabin to check and found that the ship was well-supplied with enough food and fresh water to last for two or three months. She also put down some vegetables, fruits, rice, noodles, and seasonings from her storage space. Chinese people have very diverse tastes, and it wouldn't be comfortable to eat only bread for a month or two.
The armory contained many advanced firearms and ammunition. She collected a few boxes of the ones she was comfortable using, and took the rest back with her.
The container contained goods destined for the port city, but it's definitely not going to be delivered this time. Since this company dared to collude with arms dealers, it's no saint; they deserve some losses!
Tong Yuheng found an empty warehouse, put down everything he had collected in his space, including all the equipment and machinery, and handed the list to the comrades who had come to take it back with them.