nycdaug Chapter 68 The Sudden Appearance of a Pretty Boy
Chapter 68 The Sudden Appearance of a Pretty Boy
"Boatman, please row forward quickly!"
As Su Mowan spoke, she picked up the pole and started paddling.
Seeing that Consort Su's expression was somewhat unsettled, Yinshuang immediately took a pole to help.
Even when they were still about ten feet away, they could clearly hear the arguing, followed by a woman's scream.
After that scream, the two sides started fighting.
Several figures darted and leaped across the river, locked in a fierce battle.
On a painted boat stood a girl in a blue dress, looking anxious, and she shouted something urgently at the figures entangled in mid-air.
The style of that blue shirt looked very familiar; Su Mowan recognized it immediately as a product from her own shop.
After seeing the girl's face clearly, she couldn't wait any longer, threw the pole in her hand into the water, and leaped out.
"Yinshuang, I'll go first! You follow slowly!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already covered a distance of two or three zhang.
Yinshuang recognized the people on both sides of the fight and dared not listen to Consort Su's advice to "keep up slowly." She immediately urged the boatman again.
She did want to use her lightness skill to catch up.
However, the distance was too far for her, and she could only watch helplessly as Consort Su swept past like an arrow.
The two in the very center fought the hardest, exchanging blows with their palms and then falling backward.
Just as she was about to fall into the water, the woman in blue shouted, "Ruofeng—!"
Meanwhile, a beautiful woman on the other side shouted, "Changge—!"
Almost simultaneously, two figures swept across the water.
Both of them were pulled out of the water.
With one arm around Su Ruofeng's waist, Su Mowan darted toward the painted boat where the woman in blue was.
She couldn't resist a sarcastic remark: "No wonder you were all so busy, turns out you were all meeting up with beauties! You said you didn't like the daughter of the Minister of Rites, so why is she on your ship?"
As soon as they finished speaking, they spun around and landed gently on the painted boat.
The woman in the blue shirt quickly stepped forward.
She was about to speak when she saw Su Mowan's face and immediately froze.
The girl in blue stared blankly for a moment before hesitatingly asking, "Is it...it's you?! The owner of Caiyun Pavilion?"
The clothing shop was renamed Caiyunjian.
Su Mowan let go of Su Ruofeng's hand and gave him a push.
She smiled and said, "Miss Fu, it's me."
The woman in the blue shirt was Fu Yingli, who had come to her shop to buy clothes a few days ago.
Fu Yingli stared wide-eyed.
She looked Su Mowan up and down, then glanced at Su Ruofeng, and gently bit her lip before asking, "Miss, you and Young Master Su—"
Su Ruofeng knew that Fu Yingli's gaze had been a little off when she saw Su Mowan put her arm around his waist, so he took the opportunity to explain in a low voice, "Miss Fu, this is my younger sister, Su Mowan."
Fu Yingli's expression relaxed instantly.
She smiled sweetly at Su Mowan and whispered, "So you are Consort Su of the Prince of Qin's mansion."
She realized something was amiss as soon as she finished speaking, and was about to explain when she heard a low shout from the opposite painted boat.
"Yingli, come here right now!"
Fu Yingli's face stiffened.
Su Mowan looked across and saw the young man she had just seen arguing and fighting with her second brother.
Su Ruofeng scoffed and was about to speak.
Su Mowan reached out to stop him, took a step forward, and stared at the person.
"Young master, let's talk this out."
The man sized her up and down, then sneered, "And where did you come from, you pretty boy? I have nothing nice to say to you!"
Su Mowan glanced at him, but not at the person who spoke; instead, she looked at the person who had just caught him.
The man, dressed in a bright red brocade robe, was leaning against the window of the painted boat, smiling as he looked this way.
He was clearly looking at her.
Su Mowan smiled faintly and said to the person who had just spoken, "Young Master Fu, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, I recognize you. I don't know why you insist on having Miss Fu come over? Do you think our pleasure boat is more dilapidated than yours?"
Just then, Yinshuang and the boatman arrived at the outer perimeter.
Before Fu Changge could glare at her, Su Mowan said to Fu Yingli, "Miss Fu, why don't you go over there and rest for a while? We might have to take action again later, and then we won't be able to take care of you."
After saying that, she turned to Yinshuang and said, "Yinshuang, invite Miss Fu over."
Fu Yingli's expression turned anxious.
She whispered, "Consort Su, my brother is unreasonable, please don't stoop to his level!"
"Don't worry, it won't hurt anyone."
Su Mowan winked at her, "You and my second brother stay away, I'll handle things here."
Fu Yingli blushed and secretly glanced at Su Ruofeng.
Su Ruofeng asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
“Su… your sister said we should go over there and take shelter for a while,” Fu Yingli said in a low voice.
Su Ruofeng glared: "How can that be! I'll pay my own bills—"
"Alright, Second Brother."
Su Mowan rolled her eyes and then said to Yinshuang, "Come over here and take Miss Fu over there."
Upon hearing this, Yinshuang darted in from three zhang away and gently landed beside Fu Yingli.
"Miss Fu, please forgive me."
With that, in a graceful leap, the two landed steadily on the outermost painted boat.
Su Ruofeng frowned, wanting to say something, but Su Mowan glared at him and drove him away.
Fu Changge, sitting opposite him, was furious.
"Hey! You pretty boy, you've got some nerve! Do you know you're going to mess with me?"
"I know."
Su Mowan took the folding fan hanging from her waist, opened it with a 'whoosh', and began to wave it in a rather dashing manner.
With a roguish air still lingering on his face, he said, "Doesn't Young Master Fu mean another fight? I'll gladly oblige."
"you--"
Fu Changge was so angry that he lost his composure as a young master and rolled up his sleeves. "If I don't teach you a lesson, you won't know how powerful I am!"
Su Mowan waved her fan happily, completely ignoring him.
She smirked and said in a gruff voice, "I'll give you a handicap; whoever falls into the water is a coward!"
Several young men who were on good terms with Fu Changge were having a fierce fight with Su Ruofeng's group when they heard this, and immediately stopped fighting and returned to their respective ships.
Someone said to Fu Changge, "Changge, accept the challenge! This pretty boy dares to talk big! Beat him to a pulp! The brothers will back you up!"
Fu Changge suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
Turning around, she saw her friend staring at the pretty boy across from her and smiling. She was immediately displeased. "Shangguan, what do you mean by this? Are you going to betray us?"
The man called Shangguan was dressed in a red brocade robe, which made his eyebrows and eyes look alluring, and his already handsome face was even more eye-catching.
The woman who had just let out a mournful cry of "Changge" was pouring him tea.
The man in red said, "I have great confidence in you."
"..."
Fu Changge gave up hope and turned away with a frown.
Su Mowan squinted.
She recognized the man in red.
This man was the one who had just sailed out of the city wall and then rode a small boat to the front of her.
Although she only saw his profile, Su Mowan felt that she hadn't misjudged him.
However, the man was wearing a moon-white brocade robe at the time, not this flamboyant red one.
Su Mowan suddenly smiled, finding it interesting.
She snapped her folding fan shut, pointed at the man, and said to Fu Changge, "Young Master Fu, I think it would be better to let that young master take your place in the fight."