She lifted her foot and stepped on Brother Seven’s head, asking word by word, "Where exactly are the three of them? You better tell the truth, or I’ll make sure you don’t see tomorrow’s sun."
Gu Jin’s voice remained as cold as before, with little fluctuation in tone, but the meaning in her words sent a chill down everyone’s spine.
"Hiss... it hurts, hurts!"
"Speak!" Gu Jin exerted pressure underfoot.
Brother Seven shivered and said, "They are on South Island at Shuiwan. They were thrown there a few days ago... not sure if they’re still alive."
Removing her foot, Gu Jin commanded the people huddled together not far away, "Sail the ship to South Island, now, immediately!"
Yet everyone looked at Brother Seven, who was lying on the ground unable to get up.
"What are you staring at? Go!"
The people scattered, splitting into two groups, heading to the bow and outside the ship.
Gu Jin moved a stool to the center of the cabin to sit down, her face easing up a bit as she beckoned An Mingji over with a calm expression.
Once An Mingji, carrying a suitcase, sat down, she held the child’s hand and began questioning Brother Seven about how Gu Jiajie and the other two provoked them and why they were thrown onto the island.
Brother Seven recounted the event in broken Mandarin.
Meanwhile, the ship also set sail.
After clarifying the situation, Gu Jin felt somewhat indescribable inside, thinking her cousin was just unlucky.
The three of them came to Shenzhen, not knowing what they were thinking, and started the seafood business.
It seemed they made quite a bit of money, originally conducting business honestly by trading seafood. But unfortunately, they ran into the local strongman in this area, Brother Seven, who was still lying on the ground.
Brother Seven had monopolized the seafood in this area, forbidding fishermen to sell it elsewhere, whether they agreed or not.
Gu Jiajie, Liu Pingyuan, and Wu Zhiren had no idea the seafood they bought was secretly sold to them by the fishermen, and there was a lot of it, apparently involving renting trucks for trading.
When Brother Seven found out about this, he directly detained the three of them, and naturally took the money they earned.
Initially, it was hard to say who was right or wrong in this matter, but Brother Seven having people dump her cousin and the two on South Island was disregarding human life.
She believed, given her cousin’s character, had Brother Seven explained the situation, these three naive young men wouldn’t have stubbornly opposed him without understanding the situation.
Gu Jin squinted her eyes, staring at Brother Seven, who had slowly recovered and was getting up from the ground: "How much money did you take from them?"
Brother Seven’s eyes darted back and forth as he swallowed and said, "Thir... thirty thousand..."
"Think carefully before you speak!"
The cold tone halted Brother Seven’s lies.
Seeing his eyes darting around and his guilty tone, it was clear his words weren’t trustworthy.
Brother Seven, who intended to lie, was frightened into a full-body shiver by Gu Jin’s icy voice.
Brother Seven, after all, was a local strongman who had emerged from fights and slaughter, so he shouldn’t need to fear a girl like Gu Jin.
But her strange skills, not even getting close to her, he was knocked down by a mysterious power.
Previously, his subordinates told him this, and he didn’t believe it, until he personally experienced it and couldn’t help but believe.
The talk of gods and ghosts still has a certain influence in this backward era, where people’s ignorance leads them to attribute everything to superstitions, though it’s merely a field unknown to ordinary people, something they’re unaware of.
In this world, there’s a group of cultivators who navigate in unknown territories, under the influence of various families and different powers.
Even Gu Jin now, doesn’t know about it.