Chapter 100: Fresh And Lively
Coming out of the dance hall, Su Yaoguang remembered that she hadn’t tried makeup on the dancers yet.
Never mind, she’ll go tomorrow! By then, she’ll teach them a few emergency makeup styles, as thanks for Chen Buyu’s earlier help.
Su Yaoguang led Zhou Wangshu through the crowd. The two picked out a lantern, carried the lantern, and bought all sorts of food. Just as Su Yaoguang spotted a little doll on a stall, picked it up, and wanted to ask Zhou Wangshu if it looked good, she discovered that Zhou Wangshu was being blocked by a young and beautiful girl, and that girl was even giving him the lantern in her hand.
She didn’t know what Zhou Wangshu said, but the girl looked toward Su Yaoguang.
Su Yaoguang had been watching the show, but when she saw the girl glare at her angrily and turn to walk away, she walked toward Zhou Wangshu: “Why did that young lady glare at me? Do I know her?”
“I didn’t want her to pester me, so I said you were my madam, so…”
“It’s fine, didn’t I also use you as a shield? Helping each other out is nothing.” Su Yaoguang said, “But that young lady is pretty good-looking, you really don’t like her?”
“In Yaoguang’s eyes, am I such a superficial person?” Zhou Wangshu said aggrievedly.
“Liking good-looking people isn’t superficial, it’s human nature. When people meet, the first impression is appearance. Good-looking people are more likely to make a good impression, that’s an indisputable fact. For example, with me, wasn’t my first impression of you that you look good? So, liking good-looking people isn’t strange.”
“If I were ugly, would Yaoguang still buy me?” Zhou Wangshu asked.
“No.” Su Yaoguang smiled and stuffed the bought candy into his mouth, “I’m a very superficial person.”
Zhou Wangshu: “…”
Su Yaoguang continued strolling through the night market.
Zhou Wangshu followed behind her, watching her haggle with the vendors. Vendors selling things for thirty copper coins, she could buy for five or six copper coins. She was truly like a common woman, not elegant at all. But he felt such a person was vibrant.
“Don’t run…” A strong man chased after a little beggar. “You little bastard, you dare steal from me…”
The little beggar was running out of breath, clearly with no strength left. Upon seeing Su Yaoguang, he hid behind her.
“Older sister, save me.”
Seeing the little beggar stop running, the strong man stopped and glared viciously at him: “Hand over the thing.”
“That’s not your thing, why should I give it to you?” The little beggar, that is, Feng Chaoyang, accused loudly.
“Chaoyang, what’s going on?” Su Yaoguang asked.
“Older sister, this man is a rogue. One day he snatched Dogegg’s gold lock and beat Dogegg into serious injury. I couldn’t stand it, so I stole the gold lock back from him. That’s the thing his birth parents left him, the only thing related to his background, his only reason to keep living. I can’t let this rogue take Dogegg’s thing.”
“What kind of gold lock?”
Feng Chaoyang hesitated, then took out a gold lock from his bosom.
The gold lock was quite heavy. For a little beggar, even a little bit could fill his belly, but up to now it was still intact and well-preserved. One could imagine how much its owner cherished it, preferring to go hungry rather than touch it.
“Is what he said true? This thing belongs to another little beggar, not yours?” Su Yaoguang asked the strong man.
“None of your business! Little wench, I advise you not to meddle in trivial matters.” The strong man rolled up his sleeves, revealing his thick arms.
“Looks like it’s true.” Su Yaoguang said faintly, “Since it’s not yours, you have no right to take it.”
“Stinking wench, you’re asking for a beating.” The strong man charged at them.
Feng Chaoyang saw this and pulled Su Yaoguang to run forward. But Su Yaoguang didn’t run; she pushed Feng Chaoyang to Zhou Wangshu and turned to face the strong man.
In Feng Chaoyang’s stunned gaze, the strong man was beaten into a pig head by Su Yaoguang.
“Don’t hit… Don’t hit… Ouch, I won’t take it, I dare not… Spare me… Ahh…”
Su Yaoguang stopped her fists and said fiercely: “You also injured someone, shouldn’t you pay the medical expenses and money for recuperation?”
“I’ll pay, I’ll pay.” The man took out a sachet from his bosom, opened the sachet to get money, but the sachet was snatched away.
Su Yaoguang snatched the sachet, opened it to look, saw silver ingots inside, resealed the sachet, and tossed it to Feng Chaoyang.
She moved her arms and said faintly: “If you dare cause them trouble again, I’ll cripple your hand, so you can’t lift your arm for the rest of your life, and see how you bully people then.”
“I dare not…”
“Scram.”
The strong man scrambled away.
Feng Chaoyang looked at Su Yaoguang worshipfully: “Older sister, you’re so awesome.”
Su Yaoguang straightened her clothes and hair.
It’s over!
Mother and aunts had carefully dressed her up, now she looked more like a madwoman.
Zhou Wangshu walked over, straightened the hairpin on her head, tidied her disheveled clothes, then arranged her hair, and said: “All good, same as before.”
“Older sister…” Feng Chaoyang knelt before Su Yaoguang. “That man is a rogue, he’ll definitely cause us trouble again. Take us in, we don’t want wages, just give us a little food. If there’s no place at home, any corner to nestle in is fine, we can sleep in the wood shed too.”
“There are so many of you, older sister doesn’t have the strength to support you all.” Su Yaoguang said helplessly, “If older sister’s business were bigger, she could help. But now older sister’s business is just starting, she really can’t afford so many people.”
Chen Buyu is short on people, they can go there to do odd jobs, that way they’ll have a place to stay.
This Feng Chaoyang is a martial arts prospect. Earlier he ran away like an eel, very slippery. He’s short on people by his side, this boy could stay and be cultivated.
But he couldn’t say he wanted to keep this Feng Chaoyang, so he used Chen Buyu’s name to keep the people by his side first.
“His place is a dance hall, these children are not very old, it wouldn’t be good for them to work there, right?”
“If they were little girls, it indeed wouldn’t be good to put them in the dance hall, but they are all boys, doing odd jobs there and having a place to stay isn’t bad. I’ll tell Chen Buyu and have him take care of them. You’ve met him, he’s very kind-hearted and won’t make things hard for these children.”
“That young owner is indeed a rare kind-hearted person. When I interact with the dance hall girls, I hear them praise that young owner highly, no one has said anything bad about him.” Su Yaoguang said, “Chaoyang, are you willing?”
“I’m willing.” Feng Chaoyang nodded repeatedly, “Thank you older sister, thank you brother.”
“Go back to the ruined temple now and call your people over, we’ll wait for you at the dance hall doorway. We’re only giving you time for one incense stick, if we don’t see you, we’ll leave.”
