Chapter 19: The Painting Boat(1/2)
Changfeng was driven to the shelves. He was a big man and could not stay in Cao Ruifeng's room all the time. Cheng Xiuyun was different. She was also a woman, so it was most suitable to stay and take care of Cao Ruifeng. He had to agree to Cheng Xiuyun's request and temporarily take care of her more than 20 pleasure boats for her.
Cao Ruifeng knew Cheng Xiuyun best. She was not a mother and daughter but better than a mother and daughter. Although Cheng Xiuyun did not admit that she used that method to make Changfeng promised her to help her watch her pleasure boat, Cao Ruifeng could also guess how much she was telling lies and cheating her, and forgot about the confrontation between Xiaohe and Lian Jiao for the time being.
Cheng Xiuyun parked the pleasure boat at the port of Wangyue City, the second largest city in Jiangnan, west of Xindao, which is closest to Xindao. Since the death of the old village leader, Cheng Xiuyun has not driven his pleasure boat to other cities. Usually, business like her will not be fixed in a certain city, but will often change places, so that she will not be old. Most of the people who patronize her business are those who are fond of the new and tired of the old. They often change places, but they will earn more. Moreover, the information is collected the fastest and will not be limited to a certain city or a certain place.
No one in the martial arts world lives by licking blood on the edge of the knife, and very few people start a family and a career, so brothels and restaurants have become the best place for them to vent their inner wishes. If a more advanced one is a pleasure boat run by Cheng Xiuyun, it is usually a daily profit of money, and it is difficult not to make money.
During the day, the pleasure boats are usually in a state of rest. Because Changfeng didn't understand the situation, Cheng Xiuyun asked her two maids Cuihong and Cuilu to take him and leave Xindao early. Although Cheng Xiuyun's pleasure boats are no more than her in the Dugu Dynasty, there are still other people who are operating them. So Changfeng must first know which one belongs to Cheng Xiuyun, so as not to go to the wrong place of others. Wouldn't it be a joke?
"Aunt Xiu, you really asked him to help you manage the business of the pleasure boat. You are not afraid that he will mess up your business." Changfeng people had already left, and Cao Ruifeng still asked Cheng Xiuyun uncertainly.
"With the two sisters Cuihong and Cuilu, he shouldn't have any trouble." Cheng Xiuyun said confidently.
"Aunt Xiu will chat with you in the village these two days. After a while, Aunt Xiu will drive the pleasure boat to Qianqiu City. By then, we will not be able to meet each other for more than half a year." Cheng Xiuyun continued.
"Can Aunt Xiu help Ruifeng bring some to Qianqiu City..." Before Cao Ruifeng finished speaking, Cheng Xiuyun said, "Do you like the Qianlao you like the most? OK, Aunt Xiu won't bring some to you when she went there."
"Thank you, Aunt Xiu." Cao Ruifeng hurriedly thanked.
"Don't be so polite to Aunt Xiu. I've long regarded you as my biological daughter." Cheng Xiuyun gently stroked Cao Ruifeng's beautiful hair and said gently.
"Yes, if my father is still there, Ruifeng will definitely advise him not to escape from his feelings and marry Aunt Xiu back to be Ruifeng's mother." Cao Ruifeng also snuggled beside her mother like a well-behaved daughter. She expressed her attitude towards Cheng Xiuyun's feelings for Cao Gongfang.
After hearing this, Cheng Xiuyun's eyes turned red. Although he liked Cao Gongfang, which was known to all the martial arts people, they still did not walk together in the end. First, Cao Gongfang was too affectionate and had been loving for his wife who had died for more than ten years. Second, Cao Ruifeng had grown up. Even if the two could be together, if Cao Gongfang and Cao Ruifeng were in trouble, even if they were barely together, Cheng Xiuyun still had a thorn in his heart. Now when he heard Cao Ruifeng say that he didn't mind her walking with her father, although there was no final result, Cheng Xiuyun was quite happy.
Cheng Xiuyun choked and sniffed his nose, holding back the tears that were about to fall and said, "Don't talk about the past, think about your own future."
Thinking of the future, the first thing placed in front of Cao Ruifeng was to find a maid Xiaohe and confront the Lian Jiao three days later.
Both of them fell into deep thought, and it seemed that they could not think of any good solution for a while.
Changfeng, Cuihong and Cuilu got on the boat together to Wangyue City. The waterway of one hour was enough to let Changfeng know the basic situation of the pleasure boat management from Cuihong and Cuilu, so that he would not ask for advice when encountering any problems, making people feel that he was too ignorant.
"Oh, that Miss Cuihong, how many pleasure boats does Cheng Dangjia have?" Changfeng first asked Cuihong, who was easier to talk to.
"Sir, our wife has a total of twenty-eight pleasure boats." Cuihong didn't understand why Cheng Xiuyun asked a big man to take care of his business. So many sisters were women. Fortunately, he was just an ugly middle-aged man. If he was a handsome man, he would not have been stripped naked by those wolves and tigers, and swallowed into his stomach, and would not have left any scattered foam.
"How can we know that the pleasure boat belongs to Cheng's house?" Changfeng continued to ask.
"As long as you light the lights at night, you will see the word "cloud" on the lantern on the pleasure boat, it is our wife's boat." Cuihong replied Yanran.
"How can we know during the day, which one is our pleasure boat?" You told me how to recognize it at night. We are now going during the day, so why did he know each other?
Cuilu, who had been silent, said, "Sir, as long as you listen to our sisters on the way, you will understand everything by then. As long as you follow our sisters, you will not go anywhere."
Changfeng was suddenly shut up by Cuilu and could not ask anything. He had to sit at the bow of the boat and appreciate the lake and mountains of Xinhu Lake. He also found a way to relieve his depressed feelings. Now Cao Ruifeng's affairs are not over yet, and Cheng Xiuyun has taken him to look after the pleasure boat. It's really a clue and can't even figure it out.
Lunch was eaten on the boat. The boat just finished eating on the shore. Because it arrived early, Changfeng and others still had time to visit Wangyue City. They said that they were also the second largest city in Jiangnan, the capital of Wangyue County. Almost the richest and most powerful people in Wangyue County lived here. Do you think that the port where the pleasure boat stayed here will have no business?
Changfeng, Cuihong and Cuilu, went ashore together, immediately attracted the attention of everyone on the dock because they were riding on Cheng Xiuyun's special ship, and there was never a man who could get on this ship. Even if Cheng Xiuyun invited someone to discuss business or banquets, he would choose to be on any of her pleasure boats, and would not be on his own. Today, a middle-aged man emerged from the boat. Can the people on the dock be surprised?
In an instant, rumors spread on the dock. Cheng Xiuyun had a sweetheart. The old village leader Cao had a new love as soon as he died and was about to get married. In an instant, rumors were flying all over the sky. Now he still gave the business to the man. The man was now in Wangyue City. On one of the streets, Changfeng walked there and had a group of good people following him, closely following him. Changfeng tried to get rid of them several times, but he failed. Who did not know the sisters around Cheng Xiuyun didn't know this Wangyue City?
Changfeng finally arrived at his destination. It was the gathering place for all the pleasure boats to operate during the day. It was also a tributary of the Crescent River. The river surface was very wide and could accommodate such a long pleasure boat to be parked horizontally without affecting the entry and exit of other ships. Changfeng then noticed why such beautiful pleasure boats could come and go freely in the Crescent River where the river was very fast. It turned out that the cabin of the pleasure boat was made of steel, and it was a wooden cabin on it. If you decorate it with various decorations, you would not be able to see its true internal structure. It seems that building such a ship embodies Cheng Xiuyun's efforts.
Looking at other pleasure boats, they do not have the same spirit as those of Cheng Xiuyun. They only look like they are flower stands, all of which are made of wooden land and cannot travel far away. They can only stay in place and operate in place without that much attraction. No wonder Cuilu knew it at a glance.
"Miss Cuihong, should we go up to see a boat first?" Changfeng of course chose Cuihong to ask. Their two sisters have the same personality as each other. One is warm and generous to others, and the other is cold and cold to others. Although they look exactly the same, they can identify them from the expression on their faces. I wonder if they deliberately cultivated themselves to such a personality so that others could recognize them at a glance.
"It's not possible yet. The people on the boat are still resting. We can't disturb them." The answer was cold and green.
"Then when can we go up?" Changfeng went down the mountain for too short. Even if he had seen the same thing eight years ago, his master would not have told him what these were. He still stayed on the night he was crazy about men and women with Cao Ruifeng.
"When the sun sets, the lights of thousands of families are on fire." Cuihong answered this sentence. She vaguely felt that such a big man didn't even know when the time was the time when men liked to come to the pleasure boat. There must be something strange in the middle.
"Why, isn't it better during the day? After getting things done, we can go back early." Changfeng was very surprised. There was no time in the world to not do anything during the day, and he had to do it until night.
Puchi, Cuihong almost burst into laughter, and even Cuilu, who was serious, pursed her lips and laughed secretly, with her expression very funny.
Changfeng didn't understand what he said wrong, which made them laugh like this, and stood there without moving.
Cuihong secretly said a few words in Changfeng's ear, and Changfeng finally understood it completely. It turned out that the pleasure boats were like brothels and brothels, and they were for men to have fun. Of course, they had to open at night. Who dared to come out during the day?
Changfeng immediately took his head away in embarrassment, ignoring the two sisters, and thought to himself: Just laugh, this is not a shameful thing.
Wangyue City is famous for Wangyue City, and you can see the moon every day, but that's not the case. A long time ago, you couldn't see the moon in Wangyue City, because there was a very cruel monarch here. He wanted to take the moonlight for himself, so he hired a Taoist priest with powerful magic to move the moonlight to his palace. So the people couldn't see the moon. Every night they were hoping that the moon could come out, but the moon wouldn't come out. The last brave warrior led everyone to kill the cruel monarch, killed the Taoist priest, and finally the moon returned to the sky. This is the origin of Wangyue City.
Of course, this is just a legend. Whether it is true or false is difficult to verify now. Moonlight is not something that people can enjoy on their own, so it is just to explain the origin of the place name.
Changfeng saw that too many people were not feeling well with him, so he suggested that he return to the boat with Cuihong and Cuilu and ignore the people outside. If he went back now and came back to the evening, it would be too tiring. It would be better to wait on the boat until dark before going out.
Changfeng was bored and wanted to find something to do in the cabin. After searching for books such as erotic lyrics and songs, there was nothing that Changfeng wanted to find, and there was nothing to read, so he had to close his eyes and rest. The two sisters ignored him. They ran aside and said their whispers.
Although Changfeng is not a gentleman, he is not a person who steals rats and dogs. Of course, he will not eavesdrop on the conversation between the two little girls.
"Why did Madam ask him to take care of our business?" Cuilu asked in confusion.
"I don't know, my wife is mysterious these days, and I don't even know what her wife is doing." Cuihong said worriedly.
"He is the military advisor of Duanqing Village. I heard from my wife that his martial arts are unfathomable. Even the leader of Tengkong Village is not his three moves." Cuilu said exaggeratedly.
"Is it that exaggerated? I think it's because the rumors are exaggerated?" Cui Hong said in disbelief.
"If you don't believe it, you can go and ask your wife." Cuilu retorted.
"How dare I ask?"
"Okay, you have to be careful to serve this. Anyway, after hearing from the wife, he was just taking care of him for two days. He didn't know the way, so he wanted to listen to our sisters." Cui Hong said.
"Yes, as long as he can listen to us safely, everything will be fine." Cuilu nodded and said disapprovingly.
"Before the lady left, she specially told us not to let him spend the night on the pleasure boat, do you know?" Cuihong reminded Cuilu Road.
"Do you believe the rumors outside?" Cuilu immediately pulled down her face. Even her sister was doubting the relationship between Changfeng and her wife, so there was no need to say anything else.
"No, don't you think there is something in it that we don't know?" Cui Hong said.
"Mrs. raised us since childhood and treated us as much as a mountain of kindness. So what if you hide something from us?" Cuilu still values affection the most.
"Yes, I won't say it anymore. I'll have to prepare supper later. I'll go to patrol after I finish eating." Cuihong also felt that she was too suspicious and had her own opinions on her wife's affairs.
After dinner, Changfeng began his first trip to the pleasure boat in his life. The man always felt a little embarrassed and excited when he went to the fireworks for the first time. Changfeng was a little better. Not only did he not need to contact those women, but he also had two stunning girls around him. He appeared in front of the singing girls as a similar boss, and the expression under the mask naturally increased.
"Do you have to go to each of the twenty-eight pleasure boats?" Changfeng asked Cuihong beside him softly.
"Mrs. I don't know if she has such rules," Cuihong replied.
"Why didn't Cheng Dang's family rule that all the pleasure boats must be inspected?" Chang Feng said.
"No, our wife just acts according to her habits, so there will be no rules inside." Cuilu pushed back coldly and said.
"Oh, that's why I don't want to go all of them." Changfeng said with a clue.
"But the lady told me that I must understand everything and not miss one. We can only go back tonight." Cuilu suddenly revealed Changfeng's scheming of going back early.
"Oh, keep going." Every time I go, I get a lot of whispers. Cuihong and Cuilu just follow behind and don't come out to explain. The more I explain, the more I think he has a relationship with Cheng Xiuyun. I want to leave but can't. I'm so stubborn, why did I agree to her?
The last pleasure boat was here, and the wind finally came to an end. After this inspection, you can leave.
"Sir, you can only go up this one by yourself. We sisters are waiting for you on the shore." Cuihong and Cuilu said in unison.
"Why? Don't you accompany me?" Changfeng didn't understand. They all accompanied him in the twenty-seven points in front of them, so why didn't they go up the last one?
"We sisters cannot enter this pleasure boat." Cuihong said.
"Why, isn't this the pleasure boat of Cheng Dangjia? Why can't you enter?" Changfeng asked.
"This pleasure boat was rented by the wife to a lady named "Lin'er". No one except her wife and her guests are allowed to step on her pleasure boat." Cuihong explained to Changfeng.
"Even you can't, I can't do it. Forget this one, let's go back." Changfeng couldn't hope to leave, this one was the most sufficient reason, so he turned around and walked back.
"Sir, you can't leave." Cuilu shouted at Changfengdao.
"Since everyone can't go up, why don't you leave and stay here?" Changfeng Qi said.
"That "Miss Lin'er" wants to see you." Cuihong replied.
"She wants to see me, but I don't know her. What's the matter with me?" Changfeng said even more strangely.
"I don't know this Cuihong. Since Mr. got ashore, the entire Wangyue City has known Mr. Wangyue City. Maybe Miss Lin'er is the name of you who admires you." Cuihong said with an unconscious smile in her eyes.
"Then he wants to see me, why did I know until now?" Changfeng said a little unhappy.
"It's Cuihong, it's damn. Cuihong originally wanted to let her husband know, but the husband promised to go to every pleasure boat. Cuihong felt that there was no need to tell her, so Cuihong didn't tell her." Cuihong was so scared that she apologized quickly. She was not afraid that Changfeng would blame her, but that Cheng Xiuyun would punish her heavily after she knew it.
"Oh, since that's the case, you guys wait for me on the shore, I'll go and come back." Changfeng thought to himself, it won't take too much time to go. People ask for a name to see him, but it would be bad if they don't go.
Changfeng walked to the pier in front of the pleasure boat and saw that there was no springboard. The pleasure boat was ten feet away. How could it be up?
"I heard that Mr. Wu is very good at martial arts. I believe that this distance of ten feet should not be too difficult for Mr. Wu!" A crisp and beautiful voice came from the ship.
It turned out that I wanted to try my martial arts skills, Changfeng couldn't help but be alert to the "Lin'er" Miss on the boat. How could an ordinary singing girl become interested in martial arts skills? There must be another mystery in it.
When Changfeng was excited, he was filled with heroic spirit. He picked up a branch from the ground and held it in his hand. Suddenly, he shot out like lightning. He was standing on the bow of the boat in the air with the power of the branches, standing in front of the wind, and how could he pretend to be that old-fashioned?
Cuihong and Cuilu sisters behind him were shocked and didn't believe in the reality in front of him. In the blink of an eye, Changfeng had already reached the pleasure boat ten feet away. It seemed that they had believed all the rumors of Changfeng's unfathomable martial arts. It was better to see it at first sight than to hear it!
"Sir, you are so good at light skills. No wonder you were able to save the eldest lady of the Lin family twice from the assassin." The lady named "Lin'er" played the piano at the bow of the boat.
Changfeng was even more surprised. This matter had not been spread in the world. Ouyang Zhen followed them and found out any news, nor did he reveal the news. Otherwise, the city would have been full of storms. A small singing girl actually knew about this matter. This pleasure boat was hidden and lying. Changfeng's face suddenly became serious. Since she knew why she didn't reveal the news, she raised it in front of her, was it a purpose?
"Sir, don't be nervous. The reason why Lin'er knows this is because my pleasure boat is also one of the sources of information for you Cheng's boss." Lin'er's explanation was very reasonable.
Changfeng raised his heart and fell down again. Cheng Dangjia mentioned that she was the intelligence leader of the Thirteen-way water hero. Her intelligence was also found by his subordinates. It was possible for this "Lin'er" to know, so he relieved his nervous heart.
To be continued...