"What happened that day, we could not know."
"It was only after that day that the water bandits no longer dared launch large-scale attacks on Cloud Ripple Island. Every so often, they merely sent one of their leaders with a few underlings to harass the patrol boats!"
So that was how it was...
Shen Xiuhan suddenly understood, and his heart eased somewhat.
Two Transformation Force experts had personally intervened, one of them even the elder cousin of the General Who Pacified the East.
The lake had remained peaceful for the past two years entirely because of the deterrence these two great powers provided.
If not for that, this juicy morsel called Cloud Ripple Island would have been gnawed down to splinters of bone long ago.
At that thought, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, and he figured something out.
No wonder that at the appointment meeting, when Luo Family steward Luo Zhan had spoken so arrogantly, Ji Zhong had swallowed his anger and held back.
At the root of it all, the county magistrate had once stood up for the Ji Family.
The county magistrate, Luo Changming, was the head of the Luo Family.
When Ji Guannan, the pride of Longcloud County, had been besieged and killed by a mob of bandits, failing to do something would have been no different from slapping the county magistrate in the face.
Luo Changming's brazen intervention had been intended not only to preserve his authority, but also as a warning.
If Sunken Sword Dock dared kill a Ji Family genius today, would they not dare lay hands on Luo Family descendants tomorrow?
Tea fragrance curled through the room as several people chatted idly around the brazier. Before they knew it, it was already the fourth quarter of the hour of the Pig.