Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 478 Arrival in Jinling Again

Three days later.

Jinling Wharf and Zhongshan Wharf.

With the sound of a horn, a ferry flying the Stars and Stripes slowly docked at the shore.

As the pier lowered, Ye Shaohong, Yu Manli, Li Yunlong, and Chi Tiecheng, each carrying a suitcase, lined up to disembark from the ship.

"Hey."

"What kind of mess is this? Shanghai is only a few hundred miles away from Nanjing. You could have traveled back and forth by train."

"But now...."

Returning to her old haunts of Nanjing, Yu Manli's feelings were quite complicated.

Looking at the crowded flow of people at the dock, Yu Manli sighed sadly again.

A weak nation suffers oppression.

In the long history of China spanning five thousand years, when have we ever been bullied like this? We were attacked on our own doorstep and had to submit to humiliation. It's so frustrating!

"All right."

"Although the journey back was a bit difficult, we still arrived safely."

"Stop sighing and lamenting."

Ye Shaohong walked beside Yu Manli, carrying her suitcase in one hand and protecting her safety with the other. He was also furious about the unexpected changes that had occurred during the trip.

What should have been a one-day trip from Shanghai to Nanjing took them three whole days this time.

Fleeing from war, encountering bandits, and being coerced by refugees, Ye Shaohong was forced to take a detour. It would be impossible for him to say he had no feelings. But that's reality.

It's already a good result that they arrived in Nanjing safely.

Along the way, at the village entrances and along the roadside, there were corpses lying in the wilderness and infants crying for milk. Weren't their situations even more difficult?

As the two chatted, the crowd slowly moved forward.

soon.

They stepped off the ferry pier and continued forward with the crowd. Just as they were about to leave the dock, Li Yunlong, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly raised his eyebrows.

"Humph."

"Kid, you've gone too far."

As his cold words rang out, Li Yunlong reached out and, in the crowded throng, suddenly grabbed a dirty hand. He pulled hard.

A young man in his early twenties, with a face covered in dirt and as thin as a stick, was dragged over by Li Yunlong.

Ye Shaohong paused slightly and glanced behind him.

Then he looked away.

"Hey, hey."

"Sir, I was wrong. Please forgive me this time."

"I haven't eaten for three whole days. If I hadn't been starving, I wouldn't have dared to break the rules."

Caught red-handed, the thief recognized Ye Shaohong and his companions' different identities with just a glance, realizing he had met his match.

This person is quite sensible.

Not daring to argue or try to evade responsibility, he readily admitted his mistake. Li Yunlong, holding the thief's arm, listened to his explanation, his raised eyebrows relaxing slightly, but he didn't act on his own initiative.

Instead, she first looked up at Ye Shaohong and Yu Manli in front of her.

Seeing that neither of his masters made any special gestures, Li Yunlong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're lucky today, my young master doesn't want to talk to you."

"But you still made a mistake after all."

"You may escape the death penalty, but you can't escape punishment. I'll give you a small punishment as a warning, and leave a mark on you."

Say it.

Li Yunlong swept his hand across the table, and in the blink of an eye, he had already grabbed the thief's index finger and pulled it hard before the thief could react.

"Crack!" The sound of bones dislocating rang out, and Li Yunlong had broken the thief's index finger.

The thief let out a piercing wail.

Even so, with sweat streaming down his face, he looked at Li Yunlong with gratitude in his eyes.

"Thank you, thank you so much."

"You're quite sensible. Well then, although you made a mistake, I'll let you off this time because you're so sensible."

"Take the money and get out of here."

Li Yunlong nodded, flicked his wrist, and three silver dollars fell into the thief's arms.

He didn't look at the thief again, picked up his suitcase, quickened his pace, and caught up with Ye Shaohong, Yu Manli, and Chi Tiecheng before leaving Zhongshan Wharf together.

Ye Shaohong saw everything that happened before and after.

He neither spoke out to stop it nor showed leniency or forgiveness. After all, these were the rules of the marketplace, and even in chaotic times, they had to be followed.

Right now, all he wants is to protect Yu Manli and get her out of this chaotic place as soon as possible.

As soon as we stepped out of Zhongshan Wharf, a car horn sounded.

Ye Shaohong looked in the direction of the sound and immediately smiled.

"what?"

"It's Zhao Jianzhi."

"Where did he get the information that we arrived in Nanjing today?"

Seeing the burly man standing at the dock entrance, leaning against a car, casually smoking a cigarette, Ye Shaohong immediately smiled.

Without hesitation, he led Yu Manli, Li Yunlong, and Chi Tiecheng over.

"Zhao Jianzhi".

"What brings you here today? Come pick me up?"

As familiar voices rang out, Ye Shaohong leaped onto the open-top military vehicle and punched Zhao Jianzhi on the shoulder.

"Haha."

"Of course, it was Sixth Brother who sent me. He arrived in Jinling last night and when he saw that you hadn't arrived yet, he guessed that you must have encountered an accident on the way."

"Then they arranged for Xiao'an and me to wait for you at the train station and the ferry terminal, respectively."

"Well, I was a little luckier and ran into you."

Despite being punched hard by Ye Shaohong, Zhao Jianzhi didn't mind at all; instead, he threw his head back and laughed heartily. He and Ye Shaohong had known each other for a long time.

The two also had some internal conflicts.

However, these minor conflicts have long been resolved, and with the passage of time, they have gone from enemies to friends, eventually becoming very close brothers and partners.

To be precise, they hadn't seen each other for several months.

When Ye Shaohong returned to Jinling last time and stayed briefly to become sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian, Wang Tianfeng, and others, Song Xiaoan and Zhao Jianzhi were not at home because they had field missions.

So they never met.

It's certainly more pleasant to meet again now.

"Hey."

"You're not so bad after all; it wasn't for nothing that I brought you a gift on my way back."

"Manli, Yunlong, Tiecheng, get in the car quickly." "We're going home."

Ye Shaohong tossed his suitcase onto the back seat, stretched his hand out the window, and Yu Manli gave him a playful glare, shook her head, and finally, with a hint of helplessness, got into the car and sat directly on Ye Shaohong's lap.

After Li Yunlong and Chi Tiecheng followed closely behind and got into the open-top military vehicle, Ye Shaohong patted Zhao Jianzhi on the shoulder again, and Zhao Jianzhi immediately started the car.

Amidst his excited roars and howls, the car, accompanied by the roar of its engine and billowing dust, drove straight into the city...