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As it turned out, Ye Zifen's judgment was correct.

At this moment, she secretly congratulated herself on her wit.

It seems that after returning home, she will have to go to the capital again.

Some pressure must be put on those officials to make them feel a sense of urgency, so as to motivate them to work seriously.

After all, several months have passed since the last trip to Beijing, but there has been no progress in the investigation.

If someone said there was no foul play and no officials protecting each other, she would never believe it even if she was beaten to death.

Obviously, after years of prosperity, the Great Xia Kingdom and the current emperor have been committed to economic development, causing some officials to gradually forget the emperor's majesty.

But they overlooked an important fact—the emperor is always the dragon who is high above and in control of everything!

The enemies could no longer be seen on the light boats in the distance, and the enemies on the deck were knocked down one after another.

Mu Hongzhou walked over and said, "We have almost finished cleaning up. We have tied up the people to ensure that they can neither escape nor die. But, isn't the boat taking on water? How can we tow it? If it sinks, won't it affect our boat?"

Ye Zifen replied, "Don't worry. I blew up the ship on the left side. There's not much underwater. As long as we get the water out and move some of the things on the ship to ours, it shouldn't take in any more water."

After hearing this, Mu Hongzhou agreed and said, "Okay, let's do it! I'll go find someone to move the things on this ship to our ship." After that, she turned around and prepared to leave.

However, Mu Hongzhou had just walked a few steps away when he suddenly shouted loudly: "Zifen..."

When Ye Zifen heard Mu Hongzhou's shout, she was startled and quickly turned to look at Mu Hongzhou.

Mu Hongzhou was seen pointing towards the bottom of the boat with a look of horror on her face, and Ye Zifen looked in the direction of her finger.

When Ye Zifen lay on the left side of the deck and looked down, she was surprised to find a man trying with all his might to climb out through the hole they had just blew.

Ye Zifen had never expected that there would be someone who slipped through the net.

However, this person was really unlucky and was discovered by Mu Hongzhou.

Ye Zifen showed a hint of sneer on her face and said sarcastically: "You are quite smart! You actually want to escape from here, but this is a vast ocean, how can you escape? However, I can give you a chance."

After saying that, she quickly ran into the cabin, endured the pungent irritation brought by the thick smoke, and groped to find the location where the water was coming in.

Then, without hesitation, she raised her foot and kicked the person hiding there out of the boat.

Because this place is very close to the sea level, the man fell directly into the cold sea water after being kicked out.

Ye Zifen ignored him and turned back to the deck, directing others to quickly enter the cabin, move the cargo away, and scoop out the seawater that was pouring into the cabin.

As there was still a lot of smoke inside, Ye Zifen was worried that everyone would be hurt, so she asked everyone to cover their mouths and noses with cloth before going down to the cabin.

Then, she divided the personnel into two groups, one group was responsible for scooping out the seawater in the cabin, and the other group was responsible for carrying the food in the cabin to their own ship.

At first, progress was slow, but when half of the food was moved, the team responsible for scooping water reported that the water level was beginning to drop gradually.

At this time, except for the layer where food was stored, the sea water in other places in the cabin had already reached the height of people's knees.

As the ship became lighter, the effect became more and more obvious, and the amount of water in the cabin continued to decrease.

The boat slowly floated up, and the place where the water was entering gradually emerged and appeared before everyone.

Those who were thrown on the deck with their hands and feet tied felt a sense of fear after seeing this scene.

However, they had no idea what was waiting for them next.

After two hours of hard work, the ship finally stopped taking in water and the cabin was cleaned up.

Then their big ship came closer, pulled the ship tightly with an iron chain, and started sailing back.

They had spent so much time that the fishing boat had already gone far away, and their two ships could only try their best to catch up.

The old captain looked at the tied people with anger in his eyes.

He knew that these people were Japanese pirates, who had often attacked fishermen and merchant ships, robbed property, killed people and burned houses, and committed all kinds of evil.

The old captain wanted to execute them immediately, but he also knew that he couldn't do it rashly, otherwise it would cause more trouble for Miss Ye.

During this time, Ye Zifen began to interrogate the Japanese pirates.

Her method was simple and crude. She first watched those people and then gave one of them, who looked the toughest, a pill of poison she had specially made.

Then he just watched coldly as the man rolled around on the deck, groaning in pain.

After taking the medicine, my whole body started to itch and my muscles ached.

Then the skin starts to feel hot, as if it were being roasted on fire.

Seeing that the man was about to jump into the sea, Ye Zifen pulled him back, gave him the antidote, and threw him on the deck like a rag.

Then he slowly walked up to a person and asked, "Do you want to experience the treatment your companion just received? If you want, I can help you."

After hearing the translation, the man hurriedly shook his head and said, "I can commit seppuku directly, please don't feed me that thing."

Ye Zifen laughed and said, "Seppuku? It's not like I didn't give you the chance to do it, but you didn't want to! Now you want to do it again, are you kidding me? I just rescued you from that wrecked boat, and you want to die? Aren't you afraid of death?"

The man said with a bitter face: "Although we are not afraid of death, we don't want to suffer that kind of torture! Please have mercy on us!"

Ye Zifen snorted and said, "Okay, if that's the case, then answer my questions honestly. When did you start coming to our Daxia? Who gave you the food on the ship? Do you have any other plans?"

The man hesitated and looked at someone.

Ye Zifen saw the look in his eyes and said with a smile: "Don't worry, everyone has a share."

The man then said, "We have come to Daxia several times... We have been in contact for several years... I don't know who provided the food on the ship. I am just an assistant... Why don't you ask others..."

Ye Zifen already knew who this "others" was referring to, but she still wanted to ask, "How many times have you transported food?"

The man immediately said, "I have come here twice before, but the previous times I didn't do this. It was just that there was a drought in our country, so we needed food."