Chapter 1748 - 1743: Saving Mrs. Lin (Second Update)

Early the next morning, Mu Shuangshuang disguised herself and turned into Lu Daniu’s appearance.

She went to the dock together with Lu Yuanfeng.

Chief Song was already married. Back then, Mu Shuangshuang had worried that she might not be in the county, so she had asked Zhao Erbiao to go deliver a share of the wedding money for her when Chief Song got married.

Now, if it was about dock matters, going to Chief Song, she probably wouldn’t be turned away.

The two of them each had a bowl of noodles on the main street for breakfast, then headed straight to the county dock without stopping.

Ever since Mu Dade had been kicked out of his steward position at the dock, Mu Shuangshuang hadn’t been back there.

Now that she came again, she immediately noticed obvious changes at the dock.

In the past, although the dock had also been developing well, it always felt like it had been built up by throwing money at it.

There were some places that were very good for business, yet there were very few vendors.

To get in, they had to pay a heavy stall fee, and this money wasn’t supposed to be within the steward’s authority to manage.

But Mu Dade, in order to generate more income, had counted it in anyway.

Now it seemed things had been opened up, or the rent wasn’t expensive.

In any case, there were plenty of people doing business.

The dock was bustling with lively activity.

Mu Shuangshuang found the place where Chief Song lived and knocked on the door.

A moment later, someone came to open it. It was Wan Fu, Chief Song’s most formidable right-hand man.

Back when Mu Shuangshuang had been searching for evidence at the dock, Wan Fu had trailed after her all day, teaching and advising her.

He really was a warm-hearted person.

As soon as he saw Mu Shuangshuang, his face lit up with delight.

"Brother Da Niu, you finally came! Chief Zhao and Chief Song have both been talking about you, saying you’ve disappeared!" Wan Fu said.

Mu Shuangshuang chuckled a few times.

"And this is?" Wan Fu glanced at Lu Yuanfeng and asked.

"My cousin!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"This brother looks so sturdy—don’t tell me he’s an escort master too?" Wan Fu asked curiously.

"Not exactly! But I’m planning to bring him into the trade! We’ll make money together in the future!"

Mu Shuangshuang spoke nonsense with a completely serious face.

Wan Fu gave her a thumbs up.

"Good brother! Right, this time you’re here, are you planning to send goods to the county? When are you leaving? I can arrange a boat anytime! Since the steward at this dock was replaced, everything’s become easy to handle!

They charge less, and the inspections are quick. For common folks like us, our goods get checked in no time and then we’re let through!"

Talking about this, Wan Fu couldn’t stop praising it.

Mu Shuangshuang said, "I heard the current dock steward is the County Magistrate himself! With him personally taking charge, of course everything’s easier to talk about!"

"So that’s it. I was wondering how things got so good, so fast!" Wan Fu laughed a few times.

"So when are you sending out your goods?" Wan Fu asked.

"Not yet. This time I’m here to investigate the previous stewards’ embezzlement!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"Previous stewards? Do you mean Mu Dazhong and Mu Danian, or the very first one, Mu Dade?" Wan Fu asked.

"Mu Dade, and Mu Danian and Mu Dazhong, all of them!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"And... what are you going to do with it?" Wan Fu asked.

"I’m going to hand it over to the County Magistrate!" Mu Shuangshuang answered honestly.

"Huh? Since when did you get in with the County Magistrate? You’re actually doing something this secretive!" Wan Fu asked.

"I’m doing it on someone’s behalf! Anyway, there’s only one goal: to collect evidence!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"Wait here a bit, I’ll go talk to Brother Song about this. If he agrees, you can take our account book!" Wan Fu said.

"Account book?"

"Yeah, the management fees we hand over are kept in a separate account book, one for every boat that goes out! It’s detailed down to every day, every hour, and it can be matched against the government’s logs! It’s the same for everyone!" Wan Fu said.

This reminded Mu Shuangshuang of something.

If she got the account books from a few more households, wouldn’t she be able to prove just how much Silver the dock had actually collected back then?

And the timing—Mu Danian and Mu Dazhong definitely started going to the dock later than Mu Dade.

Lay all this out, and even if the County Magistrate still had doubts in his heart, he couldn’t just ignore this kind of evidence.

On the work front, it would be a fatal blow to Mu Dade.

In his personal life, with that whole Ruan Xiao Jiao matter, even if Mu Dade wanted to get back up, it would be hard!

"Brother Wan Fu, thank you! My cousin and I will go take a look around the dock first!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"Alright, come back at noon for the meal! I’ve changed to a new cook, no need for you to make food anymore!" Wan Fu said.

Mu Shuangshuang smiled and waved at Wan Fu.

After the two of them left, Lu Yuanfeng suddenly spoke up, "Shuangshuang, that Wan Fu fellow treats you very well?"

The way he asked sounded exactly like a little resentful woman in the inner chambers nursing a grievance.

Mu Shuangshuang knew what he wanted to say, but still decided to tease him a little.

"Yeah, Brother Wan Fu treats me really well! He even wants me to join them!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"You’re not allowed to go!" Lu Yuanfeng blurted out.

He even reached out and put his hand on Mu Shuangshuang’s shoulder.

"No, I want to go!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"I won’t allow it! You can’t go!" Lu Yuanfeng grew anxious.

Right then, he wished he could pull her into his arms, hold her tightly, and not let anyone else get close.

Looking at Fengzi, flustered to the point his face and ears turned red, Mu Shuangshuang could only shake her head with a wry smile.

"Fengzi, you’re jealous of the wrong thing! I’m dressed like a man right now! Ugly as sin; no man would look twice at me!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

Lu Yuanfeng froze for a moment, then remembered that Shuangshuang was in disguise today.

Right now, she clearly looked like a man, and in other people’s eyes, a very ugly one!

Once he thought this through, Lu Yuanfeng’s face instantly turned red.

"I forgot..." he said.

"Haha, you—" Mu Shuangshuang had just started to tease him when, from far away, she heard a woman shouting.

"Help! Somebody, help, there are human traffickers selling people!"

"Help, some kind-hearted brother, please save me!"

"Help..."

The voice came closer and closer, and sounded more and more familiar.

Mu Shuangshuang followed the voice over and saw someone stuffed into a bamboo basket, being carried like a pig for sale.

The person’s face was blocked by the basket, so she couldn’t see clearly.

But the voice sounded exactly like Mrs. Lin’s.

"Fengzi, this person... is that my second aunt?"

Lu Yuanfeng nodded. "The voice sounds like her!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let’s move!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

With that, she and Lu Yuanfeng struck at the same time, each landing a kick.

With just one kick each, they knocked down the two human traffickers carrying Mrs. Lin.

"Who are you? Selling women in broad daylight?" Mu Shuangshuang demanded sharply.

"What do we do?" The two traffickers looked at each other.

"Forget it, we’ll just dump her. This useless one can’t be sold anyway!"

"Fine!"

With that, the two traffickers fled like a gust of wind.

(ps: Because of all sorts of reasons before, updates have always been two Chapters a day. Starting tomorrow, we’ll move to three Chapters; in special cases it’ll still be two. Thank you for your continued support! Sorry~)