Chapter 47
To catch a tiger, you have to enter the tiger’s den.
My sister-in-law reminded me of my former teacher.
I thought it was a trap and fell in.
But my teacher asked me if it was right to go in blindly.
I thought long and hard about the answer to that question and came to a conclusion.
If you don’t have teeth, you’re going to get hit with your gums.
This is my conclusion.
By this time, my teacher, the monkfish master Huang Tianhao, was in the midst of a campaign against the Red Turban enemy. I knew where he was inside and out.
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The fall.
The man who had been reading the scroll smirked.
“Who sent this?”
“The …… of the Southern Palace of the Middle Kingdom, the Grand Duke.”
“Namgung…… Namgung.”
“He is currently in charge of one of the fronts against the Green Forest.”
“How are they doing?”
The monkfish troupe leader Huang Tianhao scanned through the list of achievements of the Namgung family in Shandong, and his expression was one of disbelief.
“Their achievements have risen significantly since exactly five years ago.”
“That was the day the Grand Duke stepped onto the scene.”
The adjutant standing beside Huang Tianhou flicked the documents he had organized onto the desk.
“There were two mountains in Shandong, Shandong and Taishan, and it seems that the bandits who were gradually expanding their territory were cleaned up. We’ve cleared out twenty-two mountain houses, and most of the troublemakers have been eliminated, which has eliminated the complaints from herbalists, simmani, and civilians, and we’ve been able to retain a good portion of the monk troops we’ve always sent in.”
