Chapter 69: Mutual Rogue

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  Just as he was thinking about how to deal with Dorton later, Luike vaguely heard someone on the shore calling his name.

  Lei Ga was astonished in his heart and immediately floated to the surface, poking his head out of the broken ice, and saw that there was indeed a slender figure standing on the shore.

  "Get out! You stinky rascal! I know you're here, hurry up and get out for the lady!"

  Lei Ga was taken aback, "Dulan enemy? How...?"

  He had intended to crawl up from under the ice, but suddenly realized he was wearing nothing and hastily retreated back into his body. "How did you know I was here?"

  Dulan's enemy wore thick winter clothing, with a brown leather belt around his waist that made his already slender waist look even more charming. His legs were still wearing trousers, but they had changed to black tight-fitting leather pants, and he was wearing a pair of black cowhide riding boots on his feet, paired with a white bear fur coat, which was so beautiful that it took people's breath away even from afar.

  "You scoundrels, your boss demanded thirty silver coins from me before he would tell me!"

  She seemed to want to rush up and kick Legolas in the face, but didn't dare tread on the flowing ice surface, so she could only stand on the shore and stamp her feet.

  Lei Ga had just broken through the eighth rank and was in a good mood, so he smiled at Du Lan Di and said: "You were cheated by the boss, gathering intelligence only costs ten silver coins."

  "I knew it!"

  Dulan's enemy gritted his teeth and said: "You and your boss are the same kind of people! Both big cheaters, big scoundrels!"

  Lei Ga's face immediately turned cold, although he knew that Du Lan Di was not intentionally insulting Xie Pu, but his heart still couldn't control the raging fire. "Hey, our grudges against each other, you can scold me all you want, but don't involve the boss."

  Duran paused for a moment, seemingly sensing the malice in Rega's tone. He bit his lip and changed his response: "Fine, I won't mention your boss. At least when my boss took my money, he gave me accurate information. Unlike you, you're just a big scammer, a total swindler!"

  She still felt unsatisfied and continued scolding with her hands on her hips: "Big cheater! Big rascal!"

  After hearing that Dulan's words didn't involve Xie Pu, Lei Ga felt a lot more at ease, and a faint smile spread across his lips as he lazily said: "That's right, I deceived you. Although it was unavoidable, I don't want to make excuses for it either。 But I helped you resolve the village council's dispute, can't that make up for it? However, regarding being called a rascal... I admit I've been a rascal with several women who are more beautiful than you, but didn't you also take advantage of me when I was unconscious and look at my entire body? If we're talking about being a rascal, then we're both rascals。

  "You! You're talking nonsense!"

  Dulan's face turned bright red, "I, I when did I ever bully you?"

  "What's with your red face, you're not even a rascal?"

  Lei Ga Xing raised one eyebrow, "I have a witness - oh no, a bird witness."

  The village head, Du Lan, again put on a righteous tone: "You, you're the hooligan! I only lifted the quilt to get revenge on you, how did I know you wouldn't wear anything?! Only a hooligan would run around naked!"

  "Who isn't born naked? According to your logic, everyone who comes into this world naked is a hooligan. I'm a hooligan and you're also a hooligan, it's just that you don't admit it."

  Lei Ga always mentions "Dulan" together with "liumang" whenever he talks about the latter.

  "You!"

  Du Lan's enemy knew he couldn't out-argue Lei Ga, so with a flick of his beautiful eyes, he abruptly changed the subject: "Hmph, didn't you say that if someone lies to you, their head should be chopped off? Then who will chop off your own head for lying?"

  "There is no one."

  "Only I can chop off other people's heads, no one else can chop off mine."

  "Shameless!" Dulan's enemy stamped his foot and scolded.

  "Hey, can't you just be a good village chief and instead of running all the way here just to argue with me?"

  Lei Ga helplessly shook his head, "Had enough scolding? If you've had enough, I'll continue to cultivate at the bottom of the water. The sooner I master the 8th stage of Dou Qi, the sooner I can break through to the 9th stage."

  "Wait a minute—"

  "Come up first," Dulan Enemy hurriedly shouted. "There's something I need your help with, it's about the joint council of the three villages in Crow Ridge..."

  "How could this happen again?"

  Lei furrowed his brow, "You already know I'm not a noble, so don't bother me with this kind of thing about judging village disputes. I'm a big scammer and a big rogue."

  Having said that, he turned and dove into the water.

  "You——"

  Dulan's enemy was furious and anxious, "Leiga, listen to me, this time it's not just our village's affair, I've contacted two other villages in the past month, we all agree that you should take over as the new Crow Lord, did you hear that? Hey, stinky vagrant!"

  Lei Ga emerged from the water again, "You this muddled and confused woman, one moment saying you want to recommend me as the leader, in the blink of an eye scolding me as a stinky rascal, what do you really want?"

  "I want you to be the leader of the crows, rebuild the glory of Crow Ridge's former border pearl, stinky vagrant!"

  "No time for nonsense, you hooligan woman!"

  "Alright, you won't agree, right?"

  Dulan's cold, beautiful lips curved into a sinister arc as she bent down to pick up Leiga's scattered clothes on the shore, hugged them in her arms, and turned to leave. "Goodbye!"

  "Hey! Female hooligan, return my clothes!"

  Although in this cold weather, Leiga wouldn't feel chilly even if he wasn't wearing clothes, walking naked on the street isn't a good idea. Even if there's no one on the street, when he returns to the Crow's Nest Tavern, he'll definitely be ridiculed by Xiē and Wū.

  "Go ahead and dream!"

  Dulan's enemy pretended to leave, but in fact did not go far. She turned around and shouted loudly at Leiga: "Since you don't want to be the master of the crows, I also don't need to be polite to a rogue like you."

  Leiga hated to use his eighth-level Dou Qi to blast Dulanemy to the ground, to teach this "ignorant" woman a lesson. But after all, Dulanemy was not a bandit or a mercenary, and there was no deep hatred between them, and she was still a village chief, so Leiga couldn't use force against her directly.

  "Isn't it just the Crow Lord?"

  "He gritted his teeth and said in a stifled tone: 'Miss Du, if you want to talk nicely, put down your clothes first.'"

  Dulan's pretty face revealed a hint of complacency, "You agree with me first, or else you'll regret it after you put on your pants."

  Lei Ga said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "You're not a stripper, and I'm not your sugar daddy..."

  "What did you say?!"

  Du Lan's face turned red with rage, "How dare you call me a dancing girl!"

  "No, no, no, I'm just saying I won't bring up the pants again."

  Lei Ga helplessly sighed, "But I never wanted to be a lord in the first place, why do you have to make things difficult for me? Can't we discuss this after putting on some clothes?"

  "Hmph, I knew you were just humoring me." Dulan's enemy turned and walked away.

  "Wait! Let me be the raven leader, you have to give me a reason, don't you? How do I know this isn't some kind of farce?" Rega said with an air of matter-of-factness.

  Dulan's enemy stopped again, with a serious face and said: "You should know the history of Wuya Ridge? Wuya Ridge was originally a trade hub on the border between the two countries, and there were many travelers coming and going. Although the previous lord was greedy and lawless, under the protection of the lord and the law, Wuya Ridge still maintained its prosperity. Now the number of bandits and mercenaries in Wuya Ridge is decreasing, and some bandits and mercenaries have started to do legitimate escort tasks. We village heads think that there is hope to restore the original prosperous scene."

  Lei Ga said with a bitter expression: "Why don't you village heads take turns being the leader of the crows, why do you have to find me?"

  "Because the villagers of Fenglin Village fear you, the villagers of Dusk Village are grateful to you, and my Dusty Mud Village villagers admire you, even more because you can intimidate bandits and mercenaries with your seven-tiered Dou Qi's strength—"

  "Eight Trigrams."

  "Eight-stage Dou Qi."

  Dulan's face was full of astonishment, "Eighth rank?! You damn rogue can actually achieve this in just one short month... This is even better, let you be the leader of the crows, and the mercenary bandits will no longer be a problem."

  She paused, then continued: "To get back to the point, if I could do it myself, I wouldn't have come to ask you, this stinky rascal. The key problem is that none of us village heads can convince the others, and we all feel that we can't control those bandit mercenaries. What if we start building and those bandits see a profit and go back to their old ways? Our efforts will be wasted, and once we fail, Wuyaling Village won't have any chance to rise again in our generation of village heads."

  "This has nothing to do with me."

  Lei Ga shrugged indifferently and said calmly: "The state of Wuya Ridge today is not caused by me, nor is it caused by you."

  Duran's enemy said with a serious face: "Leiga, you have your pursuit, and I have my wish. This is my hometown, and I am willing to pay everything for the villagers to live a stable and prosperous life. If Wuya Ridge continues to decline like this, the bandits and mercenaries here will gather more and more, and then our three villages' living space will become smaller and smaller. My descendants, my descendants' descendants, will suffer greatly because of my inaction now."

  Lei Ga hesitated for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully, "Alright, I'll help you drive away all the bandits and mercenaries, so you can rebuild in peace, how's that?"

  "Treating the symptoms but not the root cause."

  Dulan shook his head, "Even if you drive away this batch of bandits and mercenaries, new ones will flood in. Our demands are not high, we only need to borrow your prestige in the three villages, pretend to be a lord, and the rest of the planning, taxation, and reconstruction will all be done by us - that's the United Council plan."