At first, Sheng Weiqiao only interpreted those fools that he mentioned as some people that offended him on the ship, and she didn't realize what happened until being drawn to the downstairs and seeing the crew equip themselves with leather armor and weapons like harpoons and arrows. She blurted out, "Did we bump into the pirates?"
Li Shengxu, who was asking why everyone got armed, suddenly paled at her words, "What?! The pirates?! But people say that the pirates have been eliminated since General Zhou carried out a purge on the sea!"
His entourage was also scared and urged, "What are we waiting for? We shall steer the ship back and manage to flee before they catch up!"
"My Lord, don't get flustered. They are merely tactless brats!" The man who once taught Li Shengxu to swim gave him a sprightly smile as he weighed the bow in his hand, "We'll take much pleasure from the coming fight, for the peaceful life on the sea has rusted our bodies!
They heard the arrows going through the air, the bodies being chopped by the weapons, and the blood gushing upon the yank at the weapons. People yelled, dashed, entreated their attackers to spare them, and cursed, with the hooks flying coming and going in the air. The ones staying in the cabin couldn't see what was exactly going on outside with the windows and doors being closed, but that sound accompanied by the wind and the waves rendered them even more daunted.The clamor was quelled after some time and Rong Shuihe's peaceful nonchalant voice was heard, "Clean it up!"The people in the cabin all heaved a sigh of relief.The door was opened after a moment, and Rong Shuihe was the first to show up. The squad still had a murderous aura around them. The stains on their dark rumpled clothing weren't quite visible, but the smell of blood that was brought in by the wind was also indicative of their hairy experience just now."It
Rong Shuihe laughed, "Well, it must be my father, Gaomi King."Hearing that, Sheng Weiqiao was greatly astonished. She said, "Gaomi King? How is that possible?"Considering Rong Shuihe's previous behavior, Sheng Weiqiao asked him suspiciously, "Did you do anything bad that you found it hard to tell me? Therefore, you try to gain my sympathy by bringing shame on the Gaomi King Family so that you can muddle through, right?"Rong Shuihe, "..."He spat a mouthful of blood in his heart and then said bitterly, "I'm not fooling you! When I asked to passingly offer amnesty and enlistment to rebels on the Daimao Island, Gaomi King had proposed letting Young Lord take my place to do this. I know his intention. He must think that the people of the Gongsun Family are strong and enjoy good courage and insight. So, he wanted them to pay allegiance to Young Lord. However, finally, he gave up that idea since Princess Gaomi and I disagreed."
Hearing Rong Shuihe's words, Sheng Weiqiao stood up immediately and grabbed his sleeve, dragging him to the secret hole. Then, she said in a deep voice, pointing at the hole on the ground, "You'd better obediently go back to your own room! If you dare to have some bad intentions, don’t you believe I'll kick you down?"Hearing that, Rong Shuihe straightened his face and said, "Sweetie, it's so unkind of you! You can peep at me condescendingly, but I am not allowed to kiss and hug you? It is similar to the old saying that one man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge! It's alright for me to do this sort of thing. After all, it's normal for a pirate like me to have no sense of shame. But for you, a decent girl from a noble family and a princess conferred by the Emperor, don't you feel ashamed for doing this?"Sheng Weiqiao looked sullen and said, "I didn't peep at you! If there had been nothing important, I could not have been bother
All was quiet and still here. Unconsciously, Sheng Weiqiao fell asleep in the arms of Rong Shuihe.When she woke up in the morning, she found that she was in her own bed. Besides, the windows that she opened last night were now closed.Then, she sat up lazily and called a maid to serve her.A moment later, she just sat in front of the dresser and thoughtfully stared at the basin that Juli had brought here, "Water in the basin moves more quickly from side to side than before, doesn't it?"In the past two days, the sun had been high in the sky, and the conditions at sea had been favorable for traveling, making it easier for the big ship to run smoothly across the sea.To be precise, it just made a relatively smooth movement. After all, traveling across the sea was not like walking upon the flat ground.But... Today, water in the basin just shook more violently than before.Juli replied hu
Well, Rong Shuihe was determined to marry Sheng Weiqiao. Indeed, he had got himself all psyched up for badgering Sheng Lanci to let him agree to their marriage, and Sheng Weiqiao had promised to help persuade Sheng Lanci. But now, he was still in an unsettled state of mind. Hearing that, he just said absentmindedly, "At least he did not shut the door on us... Let us get into Sheng’s mansion first, shall we?"In contrast, Rong Shuihe's so-called love rival Li Shengxu just looked relaxed. He had lived in Chang'an since birth and never traveled such a long distance to the south. His only journey was to the north, where the imperial doctor of the last dynasty lived.For him, the customs, the flowers and the trees of Nanfeng County were irresistibly attractive.Disregarding the rain falling outside, he lifted a curtain of the carriage and then looked at these things with lively interest. Then, the carriage just stopped in front of Sheng’s man
Like Madam Feng, Sheng Weiqiao's aunt smiled when she saw her niece coming in. After hearing the words, she was a little angry, and she said, "What's the matter? I cannot be here now?""I thought that I could only see you until I visit the Xuanyu Mansion!" Sheng Weiqiao came to hold her and said, "I didn't expect that I could see you here right now!""That's nice to hear!" Sheng Weiqiao's aunt looked at her sister proudly as if she had told her that Sheng Weiqiao showed her preference for her aunt to her mother as she greeted the former right after she came in. Madam Feng rolled her eyes to her sister, which indicated that it was no big deal if her daughter showed intimacy to her aunt since she was Sheng Weiqiao's mother.Sheng Weiqiao ignored the sisters' facial expressions. Instead, she thought her aunt became jealous after she heard that Rong Shuihe had come over there, like what had happened to Sheng Lanci. In the past, her aunt was
When Madam Xiao described Li Shengxu to Madam Feng and her sister, Sheng Weiqiao had already returned to Zhuying Mini Villa.Looking at her old room, she said, "It's so good to come back home again!" Her gloomy mood from her aunt's trick vanished.The Sheng Mansion she stayed in Chang'an was so narrow. Although Ningwei Marquis Family was much more spacious, it was still not as good as Sheng's mansion in Nanfeng County. Moreover, she could not enjoy the freedom she had when she was at home.Later on, her grandfather bought a mansion in Chang'an after arriving in the city, where the land was pretty expensive. Although the mansion was larger than the one she had lived before, it could not be compared with Sheng’s mansion.Sheng Weiqiao had stayed in the "small house" in Chang'an for a long time, and then she boarded the ship with very limited space. Now she finally saw her room which had been empty for over half a year. She fou
Madam Feng ordered immediately, "Lead him in quickly! How can you keep him waiting outside the door in such hot weather?"Then, she checked her appearance and said to Sheng Weiqiao in a low voice, "He probably came here for Sheng Weirao."At that time, Senior Master Sheng persisted in letting the second branch move out of Sheng Family while Madam Bai died. The children of the second branch had to reduce social communication when they were in mourning for Madam Bai. So they had rarely visited Sheng’s mansion since then.Especially, Sheng Weirao and Sheng Weixing, Madam Bai's biological children, had rarely come to pay a visit after finishing the mourning. It was not because that they hated the eldest branch, the third branch, or Senior Master Sheng. The only reason was that Sheng Weirao violently quarreled with Old Madam Ming because of her mother's death.Luckily, Old Madam Ming was magnanimous. She didn't be angry about her