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Boss Lu hauled himself out of the water. Then, with water still streaming down his body, he grinned at He Chunhua and said, “Truce, then?”
He Chunhua slowly inclined his head. “Truce.”
Since the masks had already been torn off, there was no need for further pretense. The two sides agreed on a central boundary drawn along the line from the dock to the village chief’s house. The eastern half was given to the soldiers, the western half to the brigands. Even the drying yards and grain stores were split down the middle.
Within a quarter-hour, everyone was to withdraw to their own side of the boundary.
From that moment until dawn, as long as neither side crossed the boundary, the fragile truce would hold.
The brigands waded back into the lake to hoist the massive fish. Boss Lu ordered them to carry it into the eastern zone and turned to He Chunhua with a broad smile. “This beast is fresh...
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