Chapter 167 The Su Brothers
Suga waved his hand lazily: "Hehe, it's not difficult to see him, but you're being kept out by your rule of one person per ship. If a beauty like Prince Jin Fang wants to see him, please be lenient."
Mu Xi turned her head and asked Bai Su with a look.
Bai Su pondered for a moment: "If one of their ships comes over, then one of ours must follow. I am not good at naval warfare, but I can order General Shi Meng to escort the ship. Don't worry, Your Highness, this is coastal waters, and we will not let you suffer any losses here."
The term "escorting the ship" means sending one's own ships to follow behind enemy ships, so that if the enemy ships make any unusual moves, one's own ships can immediately rush up to provide support.
Mu Xi nodded.
So Bai Su arranged for the sailors to use flag signals to send two large ships from each side closer.
While waiting, Mu Xi hid in the shade of the sails at the back of the ship, mainly because she did not want to face Guan Xiong directly.
Instead of being tactful, Suga summoned several entertainers to the deck to play music and sing.
After half a day, the singing and playing stopped, and Suga shouted, "Why are you leaning against the ship's side? Just pull Zhu Mingjun up!"
Mu Xi waited until several figures appeared on the opposite deck before standing up and returning to the ship's railing.
The first thing that catches the eye is a plump, white figure with unsteady steps.
Zhu Mingjun Mu Cong had a pale and puffy face with two large dark circles under his eyes. Although his clothes were still gorgeous and shiny, they were wrinkled from head to toe and did not look like his own.
This is the standard face of someone who's overindulged in sex.
No, it was her whole being that exuded an air of listlessness and decadence.
Based on the intelligence obtained from the spies, Mu Xi could confirm at a glance that this person was undoubtedly Zhu Mingjun.
Zhu Mingjun and Mu Cong had a pair of auspicious phoenix eyes amidst their large dark circles. Upon seeing Mu Xi, their cloudy eyes lit up instantly, as if they had seen a novel toy. Especially when their gaze fell on Mu Xun's face, they could not hide their amazement and covetousness.
Mu Xi deeply resented the perverted habit of all the pirates having "that kind of taste," but this was not the time to dwell on it. To be on the safe side, she turned back and asked Bai Su, "It's Zhu Mingjun, isn't it?"
Bai Su nodded.
"Oh my, so this is the young master and second young master of Jin Fang. I've heard so much about you. Come to think of it, I should be the young master and second young master of Jin Fang..." Zhu Mingjun had no sense of being kidnapped, nor did he even realize that he was a "hostage." He even started counting his relatives on his fingers.
Pooh!
If we count, the Zhu Mingjun in front of us, if he is called Mu Cong, is Mu Xi's cousin; if he is called Xi Cong, he is Mu Xun's uncle.
From any perspective, he is indeed related to someone, but unfortunately, no one wants to acknowledge him.
Before Zhu Mingjun could figure it out, a delicate figure exuding a strange, seductive fragrance silently floated out from behind him: "What's the point of calculating this? Nothing is more practical than becoming our intimate guest."
With the sound, a boy who looked to be around twenty years old, with strikingly beautiful features, and whose gender was ambiguous and whose skin was almost transparent, appeared before them.
"Why did they let him up here too?" Suga muttered in dissatisfaction as he glanced at him.
The boy had a pair of captivating phoenix eyes, which possessed a sickly beauty as they moved.
He was dressed in a sea-blue silk gauze robe that accentuated his slender waist. Despite hearing Guan Xiong's words, he giggled and stepped forward, bowing gracefully: "Oh, Young Master Xiong, my Xiong brother, it's been so long, don't you want to be brothers anymore?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Xi guessed that the young man must be the so-called "Fourteenth Young Master" Guan Lan.
Suga's appearance is really...
To be honest, she's really beautiful. Whether you're a man or a woman, as long as you're not blind, you'll have to say she's gorgeous—it's just that alluring charm...
Mu Xi glanced at Bai Su out of the corner of her eye.
Bai Su wore a bitter and resentful expression throughout.
Bai Su's deep-seated hatred is understandable, but Guan Xiong is also a person who "doesn't discriminate between meat and vegetables," so why does he not even look at Guan Lan and look at her with disgust?
Suga not only wore his disgust on his face, but also showed it in his actions: "Heh, Fourteenth, you can stay Fourteenth forever. Don't even think about messing with Tenth or Thirteenth. Before I make a move, hurry up and take your men off my ship."
Unperturbed, Guan Lan smiled alluringly and leaned against the ship's side, her gaze shifting between Mu Xi and Mu Xun before finally settling on Mu Xun's face. She exclaimed, as if she'd discovered something unusual, "Oh my, these two are brothers too! What a beautiful pair! It's true what they say, 'different environments nurture different people.' That's the good thing about Yan Sheng. If you ever get Xiong-gege, you can't keep him to yourself; you have to think of Lan'er too!"
His voice was as soft as a feather, with a hint of eerie sweetness, and his gaze lingered on Mu Xun's cool and jade-like face.
These pirates are really... every single one of them with the surname Suga is more perverted than the last...
Mu Xi endured it again and again, but finally couldn't hold back any longer. She turned around, grabbed a guard's steel knife, and threw it at him.
Unfortunately, his strength was limited, and the steel knife fell into the sea mid-air without even touching the other ship's side.
"Hahaha...that's why I like guys who are more masculine..." This made Guan Lan giggle, and she even winked at Mu Xun, "Second Young Master? What's your name, Second Young Master? Really...it makes me want to..."
Before he could finish speaking, a cold glint flashed before everyone's eyes.
Mu Xun made his move, a dagger aimed directly at Guan Lan's face.
Startled, Suga Ran instinctively went limp and fell backward onto the deck.
Zhu Mingjun quickly went to help him up, saying, "Don't fight, don't fight... Let's talk this out. Fighting will only hurt our relationship. It's not worth it..."
Not worth it?
Mu Xi had no reason to come and save Zhu Mingjun, but she never expected that this guy would be so shameless.
After being helped up, Su Lan clung to Zhu Mingjun, looking weak and boneless, but refused to leave.
At least Sugao knew to talk about serious matters, ignoring Sugaran and getting straight to the point: "Alright, Zhu Mingjun, you've all seen it, where are the 100,000 shi of grain?"
"100,000 shi of grain..." Mu Xi pretended to be troubled. "You, Guan Xiong, probably know the situation in the Southern Territory better than I, the Prince of Jin Fang. You've already robbed everything you could, so we really can't come up with 100,000 shi of grain."
"Hmph, those 100,000 shi of grain were demanded from your King Yu." Guan Xiong's eagle eyes narrowed, a cold glint flashing within them. "But it doesn't matter if you can't produce the grain; you can exchange it for weapons and ships. One hundred newly built tortoise-shell warships of your Yu Kingdom's naval forces, plus five thousand sets of fine bows and crossbows."
One hundred thousand shi of grain is neither a lot nor a little.
If Mu Xi were willing to swindle money from the local gentry and wealthy merchants in the southern region, he could probably still manage to scrape together the funds.
But if they really found food on those people, why not use it to help the poor instead of giving it to the pirates?
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