It turned out that after those Water Ghosts silently boarded the ship and finished stealing, they even swaggered about and set a fire.
The accompanying troops scrambled to fight the fire, and Ruan Bosong and Chen Hui were also dragged off the ship in their inner garments, covered in ash and soot.
This was no trivial matter: the ship belonged to the court, the accompanying troops were soldiers temporarily transferred from the Ministry of War, and even they were acting under an imperial order… Chen Hui flew into a rage on the spot and immediately sent men to whip their horses to the nearest Taiping to seek aid from Marquis Taiping.
