I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

After being stunned for a moment, the man took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Yuan.

"Well, since we've failed, how about we just go our separate ways?"

Jiang Yuan looked at Shen Long, who nodded slightly, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him.

Sure enough, such a low-level method as the knockout drug has no effect on real masters.

"What if I say no?" Jiang Yuan said lightly.

"Second brother! Why are you wasting time talking to him? Let the brothers come out and fight them!" said the bearded man angrily.

Before the man could speak, Zhao Kai lowered his head, grinned fiercely, and rushed forward with a long knife in hand.

"Shen Long, go help, don't worry about me!"

Jiang Yuan shouted loudly, turned around and ran away. His fighting ability was not that good, but he had mastered Li Hu's Liuguang Movie, so it was easy for him to get rid of a few thieves.

The two of them faced nearly a hundred people and did not feel any pressure at all. These pirates were not masters after all, and they had no power to resist the two of them. In a blink of an eye, more than twenty of them were chopped down.

Zhao Kai looked a little surprised. Most of these twenty people were killed by Shen Long.

Zhao Kai felt a little dry in the mouth when he thought about how he had followed Chen Qing and a few others to plot against Shen Long a few days ago.

Fortunately, Shen Long did not kill them that day, otherwise the fate of these people today would be a living example.

On the other side, there were actually a few people chasing after Jiang Yuan. Everyone knew that to catch a thief, one must first catch the leader.

Jiang Yuan pondered for a while and realized that he was a martial arts master of the second level after all, so it should be more than enough for him to deal with a few thieves.

But the problem is, I can't seem to bring myself to kill anyone.

Giving an order to kill someone and doing the killing yourself are two different things. After hesitating for a while, Jiang Yuan tiptoed and rushed directly to the second floor, barely escaping danger temporarily.

The battle on the deck has reached a white-hot stage. The long sword in Shen Long's hand left afterimages in the air, and heads flew up one after another.

The blood flowed like the Yangtze River and was washed away by the water in an instant.

As long as we throw the body away, no one else will know about it.

After a moment, the remaining pirates either jumped into the river or dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground.

Shen Long looked at the guys kneeling on the ground with murderous intent, and without hesitation stabbed each of the young men.

"Master, spare your life! Master, spare your life!"

"We don't dare anymore, never again!"

The man called "Second Brother" by the bearded man quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Beside him knelt his wife and children, as well as several remaining children among the pirates. This made Shen Long frown slightly.

Jiang Yuan jumped down from the second floor without hesitation and came in front of the few people.

"Sir, when I became his disciple, I promised him that I would not kill anyone, young or old." Shen Long said with a complicated expression.

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly and immediately said to the man, "Did you hear that? He doesn't kill the old or the young."

The man was immediately ecstatic and banged his head loudly.

"Thank you, sir. Thank you for not killing me!"

"I promise I will never do such a thing again! Thank you for not killing me!"

Jiang Yuan curled his lips and said, "Don't thank me yet."

As he spoke, Jiang Yuan came to Shen Long, patted his shoulder and said, "You won't kill the old or the young, right?"

Shen Long nodded with a complicated expression.

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly and pointed at the woman and said, "How old do you think this woman is?"

Shen Long glanced at Jiang Yuan in confusion, then said uncertainly, "Probably around thirty years old."

"That's easy to say." Jiang Yuan paused and continued, "Do you think she's a child?"

"Of course not if I'm in my thirties." Shen Long answered subconsciously.

Before he could figure it out, Jiang Yuan pointed at the man's two children and several other children again and asked, "How old do you think they are?"

"About eleven or twelve years old." Shen Long was even more confused.

"So, do you think they are old?"

“Nature never ages.”

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly: "Very good, you said you would not kill the old or the young."

"But you also said that this woman is not young and these children are not old. What are you hesitating about?"

Shen Long was a little confused, and it took him a long while to react. His eyes lit up: "What the adults said makes sense!"

Jiang Yuan clapped his hands in satisfaction: "That's right, leave no one behind!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Long no longer hesitated and swung his long sword to chop down a man and a woman. In a blink of an eye, only three children who looked about ten years old were left. Two of them were the sons of a pirate couple who drove the ship, and the other was just a little pirate.

"Sir..." Shen Long looked conflicted. Facing a child who was only about ten years old, he really couldn't bring himself to do it.

Jiang Yuan nodded, walked straight to the child, and squatted down with a smile: "Do you miss your parents?"

The boy was stunned, and with tears in his eyes, he shook his head: "No, I don't want to do that at all! Please let me go, I will never seek revenge on you again!"

Jiang Yuan shook his head and walked over to Shen Long. "There's no child in the world who doesn't miss his parents, but this child says he doesn't. This shows that he's very cunning. If he keeps him around, he'll definitely be a disaster in the future!"

"Young Master, you are right!" Shen Long no longer hesitated and sent him directly to heaven.

When facing another child, Shen Long squinted his eyes and asked the same question.

"I, I, I want to!" said the second child with trembling lips.

Shen Long looked at Jiang Yuan in confusion. What should he do?

Jiang Yuan said slowly, "Look at him. He said it directly, without trying to hide it. He will definitely avenge his parents in the future!"

"That's right! As soon as you said that, I suddenly understood!" Shen Long drew his sword again, then came to the third child and asked the question again.

The third child looked at Shen Long with a confused look in his eyes: "I do, but they are not my parents."

Shen Long scratched his head and looked at Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan walked around the child twice and looked into the child's eyes with a hidden look.

Fear, unwillingness, and subconscious avoidance, but hidden deep down is a hint of ambition.

"Young Master, I will never seek revenge on you in the future. I have nothing to do with them. As long as you let me go, I will tell you where their lair is!" The child spoke quickly.

As long as they can survive, everything the bearded man has accumulated is theirs, so why not give them half of it!

Jiang Yuan shook his head. If they kept the child, he would not seek revenge on them. After all, there was no direct hatred between the two sides.

But judging from the child's ambition, he will definitely continue to dominate the Qianlong River in the future.

If we let him go now, who knows how many more will fall victim to his evil hands in the future.

"I don't kill old or young, I don't kill old or young..." Jiang Yuan walked around the child twice, then suddenly grinned.

Jiang Yuan walked to the child, grabbed his back, lifted him above his head, and turned around to show Shen Long a bright smile.

"Since I will not kill the old or the young, then you, the superiors, must be killed!"