Mo Xiujie reacted much faster than Lin Qiao and immediately blocked the figure.
Don't think that Mo Xiujie is usually neither serious nor gossiping. His fighting ability is beyond doubt.
Blocked by Mo Xiujie and unable to get close to Lin Qiao, the person knelt down directly. "Miss, please, save me—"
Lin Qiao was a bit confused. Why did this person kneel only to her?
Did she look like a leader?
The person kneeling down was a young girl. On closer inspection, she was a pretty girl with delicate features. However, her clothes were in tatters, and her whole body was dirty and messy. She looked extremely down and out.
Since this person was kneeling to her, Lin Qiao naturally couldn't just leave. "What do you do? And what do you want me to do?"
Before her words faded away, several boatmen chased after the girl. They were all strong and looked like martial artists.
"Hey, I advise you not to meddle in other people's business. This girl is the one our boss specifically wants," the leading boatman looked extremely overbearing. "Be sensible and go back to your room quickly."
Zou Lvrui couldn't bear it anymore and jumped out. "Who do you think you are? How dare you tell us to get out?!"
The boatman sneered. "You little girl is so insensible. You need to taste the pain of being beaten up."
Zou Lvrui straightened her back. Regardless of whether she was confident or not, she had to look fierce and put on a fearless look.
The boatman was really bluffed by Zou Lvrui's appearance and stood still on the spot.
The next second, Zou Lvrui roared, "Mo Xiujie, go!"
Mo Xiujie: "......"
Lin Qiao: "......"
The boatman burst into laughter. "Who the hell is Mo Xiujie? I thought you had some great abilities—"
Before his words ended, the four or five burly men all fell to the ground, covering their faces and wailing.
Mo Xiujie walked back with a very steady breath and stood in front of Lin Qiao and the others. "Why don't you get out of here quickly?!"
The boatmen glared at the escaped girl fiercely and then turned around and slipped away.
Lin Qiao said to the girl, "Who are you? Why do you ask me to save you?"
Seeing that Mo Xiujie was so powerful, the girl's eyes immediately filled with tears. "I've found my savior, I've found my savior..."
"However, I can't make the decision," Lin Qiao said. "The person who can really make the decision is not here now. Whether to help you or not is not up to me."
Mo Xiujie covered his mouth with half of his hand and faced Lin Qiao's direction so that the girl couldn't see his lip movements. "If the young master hears you say this, he'll probably be so happy that he'll bang his head against the table."
Lin Qiao: "......"
Why had she never seen such a cute and contrasting side of Luo Nanchen?
The girl quickly knelt down again. "Please, there are no good people on this ship. You can't stay out of it either. They'll search all your money. If you don't give it to them, they'll throw you off the ship..."
Lin Qiao pursed her lips and motioned in Mo Xiujie's direction. "You saw just now. Mo Xiujie can easily defeat these boatmen by himself, and he has the lowest cultivation level among us."
Zou Lvrui couldn't help laughing.
Mo Xiujie: "......"
Lin Qiao helped the girl up. "Tell me your story first."
"My name is Tinghe. I'm the top courtesan in Songli Courtyard in Yangzhou City. A month ago, I was bought by the real boss of this ship at a high price."
Zou Lvrui asked, "Who is the real boss of this ship?"
Tinghe closed her eyes. "The behind - the - scenes person of all the casinos in Yangzhou City, Boss Xie."
Lin Qiao felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out what it was after thinking about it repeatedly.
Tinghe continued, "But Boss Xie didn't buy me for myself. He just wanted my family's blood. I don't know what he wants it for, but my sister is almost tortured to death by him! My sister is not a courtesan. She's just an ordinary person who runs a teahouse, and she was already engaged to Boss Pi."
Wait, she seemed to have noticed what was wrong.
Boss Xie and Boss Pi?
Boss Crab and Plankton?
...SpongeBob?
Wow, this author was really full of childlike fun. Did Boss Xie also have a daughter named Pearl?
...That fish with an extremely big head and a completely different species from Boss Crab?
"Boss Xie sweet - talked my sister into entering his mansion and annulled her engagement with Boss Pi. I once thought my sister was living a happy life. But when I went to Boss Xie's mansion to see her, my sister was so thin that she was unrecognizable. She told me to run away, but Boss Xie had already discovered me..."
"So he captured you. But why are you on the ship? Shouldn't he capture you to draw your blood?" Lin Qiao's IQ was always online. She didn't let go of the slightest loophole. "Your logic doesn't make sense. Moreover, you're a courtesan. It's obviously easier to buy you than to sweet - talk your sister. Why did Boss Xie go to so much trouble?"
"Because of bloodline," Tinghe's eyes darkened. "Because my bloodline is not as good as my sister's, I voluntarily degenerated and went to the brothel."
Lin Qiao nodded. This made sense. In the aristocratic families where cultivation was the main pursuit, bloodline was everything. It determined the cultivation talent and aptitude.
Suddenly, Zou Lvrui tugged at Lin Qiao's sleeve. "Come here for a moment."
"What for?"
"Come here first."
Zou Lvrui dragged Lin Qiao aside. "Actually, what she said is true."
Lin Qiao wondered, "How do you know?"
It seemed that this part was not in the original novel, right? She remembered that she hadn't missed any part.
"...Because I designed this plot."
"???"
Zou Lvrui closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. "I'm the author."
"???" Lin Qiao tried her best to hold back the swear words that were about to blurt out. "You've hidden yourself quite well. Zou Lvrui, I really underestimated you!"
Zou Lvrui forced a laugh. "You're welcome. It's the same for both of us."
"The same my ass!" Lin Qiao knew that Zou Lvrui didn't reveal that she was the author to protect herself. She sighed deeply and didn't plan to pursue it anymore. It was more important to ask about the plot. "But why weren't Boss Plankton and Boss Crab in the original novel?"
Zou Lvrui said embarrassedly, "Because it was too bloody, the editor didn't allow me to write it. I only listed it in the outline. Moreover, I only came up with the idea of Boss Crab and Boss Plankton fighting over a woman, but I haven't thought about how they would fight..."
Since there was only the idea of a fight, it meant that Zou Lvrui only knew that there was a conflict between Boss Xie and Boss Pi, but didn't know how this conflict would unfold.
Moreover, what would happen next was out of control.
Lin Qiao gritted her teeth and almost wanted to beat Zou Lvrui. "So why are you telling me this now?"
"Let's take her with us. She's so pitiful."
"Sure. She can sleep with you."
"Don't. I—"
"Do you want her to sleep with me? You can discuss it with Luo Nanchen yourself."
"......"
"Do you want her to sleep with Qu Yinghan? You can discuss it with Li Gusong yourself."
"......"
"Do you want her to sleep with Dong Peirong? You can discuss it with Mo Xiujie yourself."
"......"
Zou Lvrui pouted, extremely aggrieved. Sure enough, women were all heartless. She became so arrogant just after they got together!
But what the hell was the last one?
Dong Peirong and Mo Xiujie?
She seemed to smell the scent of gossip.