I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With

Although Tiger Head and Little Lion were bratty, having stayed by their father’s side all along, they had always been able to see the big picture of the relationship between countries. Their horizons were naturally much more expanded than Lieutenant Lin and the others. Therefore, the two of them did not agree to Lieutenant Lin’s suggestion to kill the captives. They said, "Since there are just eight of them, it’s not troublesome to bring them along. If they can survive until we return to Great Qi, it’ll be more beneficial to us."

Recalling the widely circulated story of King Rong capturing prisoners for ransom, Lieutenant Lin thought that the two young masters were going to imitate their father. He recalled the ransom that King Rong had set back then and realized that they could earn quite a significant sum from these eight people.

The two young masters would definitely not covet these ransoms, so in the end, the soldiers would still split the money.

Lieutenant Lin, who had been transferred from Jiangzhe Province, thought so too. The soldiers who had been soldiers under King Rong had thought of this before him. Hence, the news that captives could be exchanged for money immediately spread throughout the entire camp. The soldiers looked at the eight of them with covetous gazes.

The six captives who refused to speak up could not help but shiver as they looked at the soldiers warily.

However, the Qi soldiers suddenly became polite to them. Although they were still locked in the dark cabin on the lowest floor, they were no longer beaten up for no reason and now had some basic foods to eat.

It wasn’t that no one had ever thought of escaping, but the Qi soldiers watched them even more closely now. There were four people guarding outside the cabin 24 hours a day, and they always seemed to be chatting merrily, sometimes even laughing out loud. Unfortunately, the captives didn’t understand Mandarin.

The soldiers were discussing the next time they attacked the pirates, they would capture more captives and exchange them for ransom. The ransom for capturing captives would not be distributed by the entire army, but split equally between their vanguard battalion. This way, they would be able to obtain a lot of extra money.

Therefore, the soldiers were in high spirits.

The happy soldiers quickly welcomed their second mission—that is, to go to the sea to lie in ambush and wait for the Second Vanguard Battalion to arrive. They also waited for the escorting merchant ship to arrive in this sea region. If they discovered any traces of pirates, they would immediately attack the enemy with the Second Vanguard Battalion.

After staying on this island for eight days, they had already disguised the ship again. They had painted a huge skeleton on the hull and installed on their warship a skeleton flag retrieved from the pirate ship. Although it still did not look like a canvas ship from the west, what did it matter?

Who said that pirates were not allowed to use a merchant ship seized from Great Qi as a pirate ship?