Chapter 255: I'll Just Bamboozle You with the Works of the Marquis

"Sir, you have been fishing here every day with a plain hook and no bait," Jiang Lu observed as he looked at the extraordinary individual in front of him, who had been continuously fishing for over a month.

Gu Shanhai replied slowly, "Why do you think I am fishing?"

"This…" Jiang Lu was puzzled. With your situation, if not fishing, then what?

"Jiang, have I heard correctly that you are a relative of the Royal Family?" Gu Shanhai asked further.

Before Jiang Lu could respond, a neighboring vendor chimed in jestingly, "In Cansang Village, who isn't a relative of the Royal Family?"

The villagers living in Cansang Village all shared the surname Jiang, descendants of Prince Dong Xian of the Long Dynasty. As the population increased, they became collateral relatives, unable to inherit titles or claim distinguished ancestry, and gradually, they became indistinguishable from ordinary folks.

They merely bore the title of a relative of the Royal Family, which was somewhat intimidating.