Chapter 67 The Invincible General Zhou

Sheng Weiqiao had thought that Gongsun Yingjiang would be at a loss, if not in a panic, when she was reminded of that. Then, she could rectify the niece’s distorted ideas and change her into a model girl when she was in a hurry and confusion!

While Gongsun Yingjiang was not stunned, she smiled, “Auntie has known that?”

“….” Sheng Weiqiao took a deep breath and suppressed her anger. She said in a cold voice, “Judged by your behavior of praising your Little Uncle, everybody could see that!”

“But I’m telling the truth.” Gongsun Yingjiang’s hands were on the green skirt that was embroidered with hydrangea patterns. Playing the silk ribbon lying down from her waist, Gongsun Yingjiang looked at her with innocence, “I don’t want aunt to be deceived by Young Lord Xu, who has neither knowledge nor skills!”

Sheng Weiqiao smiled because of fury, “Brother Xu is a distinguished guest of our family. If it weren’t for him, I might not be here alive. Why would he lie to me? If so, for what?!”

Before Gongsun Yingjiang replied, she continued the original topic with an alert, “Now, I am in no mood to criticize you for your rudeness in the garden! I have one question: do you know it is immoral to love your uncle in our society?!”

Sheng Weiqiao said the last sentence near her ear in a mosquito-like voice!

“Auntie, don’t worry! If there’s no accident, nothing will happen between Little Uncle and me.” Gongsun Yingjiang said with a sad expression, rubbing the corner of his clothes. She said in a low voice, “So, you don’t need to worry about that!”

Sheng Weiqiao thought she implied to give up the idea of liking him. Sheng Weiqiao thought, “No wonder she was peaceful after I pointed out that. She was about to give up the idea and planned to regret it. Maybe, she has been waiting for me to point out so that she could confess.”

Thinking like that, when Sheng Weiqiao saw her sad expressions, Sheng Weiqiao couldn’t help but feel her pitiful: nobody wanted to commit incest. The nephew grew up in Daimao Island, which was full of rude sailors and pirates. Although Sheng Shuihe may not be a good person, he was a rare one among them who was handsome and knowledgeable with good Kungfu. Actually, he was only four years older than Gongsun Yingjiang.

Without a proper guide, it was reasonable for Gongsun Yingjiang to like her uncle. After all, people on Daimao Island knew that Sheng Shuihe was only a foster son of Gongsun Family, without biological relations. The girl was affected by her family backgrounds, after all.

Sheng Weiqiao thought quickly and decided to console and encourage her instead of criticizing her because Gongsun Yingjiang had known her mistake.

After thinking about words to console her, she was going to say something like, “you are young, and you will definitely meet a man better than your Little Uncle in the future.” However, Gongsun Yingjiang said unexpectedly, “After all, Little Uncle was a man out of various fights. Unless he is willing himself, it is my delusion to spend a night with him despite my poor Kungfu. Especially after he knew my intention, he would take strict precautions. Even if I use some medicine such as knockout drops, I have no chance!”

She sighed with infinite sadness and regretted, “Why Little Uncle was so stubborn! He would not agree no matter how I begged!!!”

Sheng Weiqiao looked at her in a dumbfounded state. She could not believe what she had heard just now!

“You told me to be relaxed, not because you knew you were wrong, and then decided to give up the thought completely, but because you couldn’t achieve that?!” Sheng Weiqiao stared at her for a moment. She said with astonishment, “Are… are you a shameless girl?!”

Blinking her eyes with feather-like eyelashes, Gongsun Yingjiang looked at her with bright eyes. She seemed to be innocent, “Auntie, do you know anything about rascaldom? I was born into a family with various menial and illegitimate behaviors!”

The so-called “rascaldom” included nine things: acting, gambling, charring, hooliganism, hairdressing, helping people wash their bodies, prostitution, stealing, and crackheads.

According to the order, the robbers were humbler than prostitutes. It seemed that the family of Gongsun, who had been pirates for four generations, really did not need to consider the issue of shamelessness.

Because they had lost their faces a long time ago.

“As the saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to low places!” Sheng Weiqiao shuddered and shivered with anger, “How old are you? As a young girl, you yielded to your fate! Did you plan to be a pirate for your whole life?! What about your children and grandchildren? Even if you don’t care about yourself, have you ever thought about your offspring?!”

“I think my life on the island was not bad….” Gongsun Yingjiang said with aggrievance, “My father told me that there were so many knowledgeable people on the shore who lived a worse life than us!”

Sheng Weiqiao wanted to slap her to make her have a clear mind, “They are people with high morality, so how on earth can they make money as quickly as your family who committed crimes?! But they are dignified and models of both elders and descendants. When they die, they will go to heaven. How about you? You seem to walk on swords every day and will die if any accident happens. Then, your dead body will be thrown on the port, and many people will criticize and curse you! Your descendants will be classified as humbler than prostitutes!!!”

She glared at Gongsun Yingjiang with anger and said, “You tell me what kind of good life you have lived?!”

Gongsun Yingjiang looked at her cautiously, and it seemed that she wanted to say something. Sheng Weiqiao noticed that and became angrier, “Why are you staring at me?! If you want to say something, just speak it out clearly! If you cannot make it clear, and we handle this smoothly today, I will send you back to Daimao Island with no more words!”

It was the first that Second Miss showed awe-inspiring expressions. She stared at her niece, who was the same age as her, slowly stressing each syllable, “In any case, I can’t let you ruin my brother, let alone Sheng Family!!!”

“Auntie, do you like eating clams?” Gongsun Yingjiang pursed her lips and asked in a low voice.

Sheng Weiqiao was furious, “What time is it now, and you still talk nonsense?! Do you think it’s fun to trick me?!”

“I’m serious!” Gongsun Yingjiang tilted her head and said with her mouth twitching, “I like eating clams! When I was on the island, I asked Yushan to send you a large pot of clams as soon as the cook made it. However, it seemed that aunt tasted a few and put off the chopsticks?”

Sheng Weiqiao tried hard to hold back her anger and sat back. She said in a low voice, “Sorry to disappoint you, but I really don’t like to eat clams….”

Suddenly, she was in silence, thinking in mind: Gongsun Yingjiang was not accusing her of not finishing the pot of clams!

“Just as you think!” Gongsun Yingjiang shrugged with palms up, “I like clams, so I sent some to aunt, but you didn’t like them. That was fine for me. Now, aunt like people who are honest with high morality. But I don’t want to be one of them, so why does aunt force me to force accept moral standards ashore?”

Sheng Weiqiao couldn’t reply at the moment. Gongsun Yingjiang continued, “What’s more, the reason why Sheng Family became one of the three major families in this county was more or less related to us on Daimao Island! Of course, I don’t mean that you were born in a family like us and told us to be moral. After all, compelled by the royal court, grandfather had no choice but to make a compromise with us. Since they could do that, why shouldn’t aunt follow him?”

“Don’t you dare try to turn this around!” Sheng Weiqiao almost didn’t control her urge to slap her. She said with fury, “I understand that one should stand aloof from worldly success. However, even if I have told you to learn something moral, do you think I expect you to be gentle and virtuous with traditional moralities from now on?! Just think about what you want to do, if it gets out, you cannot live ashore, and your dad will also punish you when you go back to Daimao Island! Even pirates often see themselves as ‘righteous robbers’. If you continue to do so, you will be mocked by those who are humble!”

Looking at Gongsun Yingjiang, who fiddled with the corner of her clothing with her head lowered. Sheng Weiqiao took a deep breath and said seriously in a slow voice, “Although you are my niece, you are the same age as me, only thirteen years old! There are also people of our age who don’t behave properly! When my brother came back a few days ago, I planned all day to drive him away, which was not kind.”

“But, there must be a boundary!”

“You shouldn’t ruin your whole life because of impulse!”

Speaking of this, seeing Gongsun Yingjiang is still indifferent, Sheng Weiqiao was angry and annoyed. She couldn’t help but think of something that her grandfather Senior Master Sheng used to say, “Girls are troublesome, and it’s good to have sons and grandsons.” She had thought it the contempt for girls and didn’t feel happy every time hearing that.

But now, Sheng Weiqiao thought her grandfather was wise and correct. If Gongsun Yingjiang were a male, even if one liked Gongsun Yingdun, who was younger, if he continued to be stubborn, she would roll up her sleeves and beat him to change his mind!

While Gongsun Yingjiang, the troublesome girl, was a girl with delicate skin. People could feel her innocence through her eyes. Even if Sheng Weiqiao knew that she pretended to be like that, Sheng Weiqiao hesitated and couldn’t beat her.

When she thought that was beyond her ability and wanted to seek help from her parents with disappointment, Gongsun Yingjiang already had a plan and said sweetly, “Auntie, auntie must be worried that the exposure of my love for Little Uncle will cause much trouble to Little Uncle and Sheng Family, right?”

Seeing Sheng Weiqiao sneer without an answer, she did not feel embarrassed and continued, “In fact, it is easy! I promised not to seduce him again and saw him as my senior, OK?”

Sheng Weiqiao looked at her suspiciously, “What are you planning?”

“There are other fish in the sea!” Gongsun Yingjiang said frankly despite her wary eyes, “There are countless handsome men in the world. Little Uncle was better than me in the aspect of tricks and Kungfu. If he does not agree, it will be hopeless for me to do that. Now, since aunt resolutely opposes… it will be foolish of me to continue! After all, my father said that when ancestors hanged around the world, they robbed depending on situations. They didn’t stop all boats at sea. If so, the family of Gongsun would have been the first group of people to suffer when General Zhou fixed pirate problems at sea!”

General Zhou she mentioned was a famous general born in the previous dynasty in a general family. When he was first taken to the battlefield by his father and brother, he was only twelve years old. He showed his talent at that time. After he grew up, he marched everywhere, spending his whole life on the battlefield. “For thousands of miles one marched, he could stop one million soldiers with one sword.” The saying was a vivid description of his whole life.

Senior Master Sheng, an original subordinate of General Zhou, had said, “Pirates in the south and Ruru in the north seemed to be evil. However, when the general was still in charge, they would be terrified to flee here and there when general arrived!”

It was a pity that the milestone character in Country Mu was killed because of higher reputations than the emperor. Twenty years ago, that is, the tenth year of Xuanjing, he was awarded for committing suicide, and all his family members were killed because he was accused of “plotting a rebellion with Ruru”.

This was also the direct reason why Senior Master Sheng and others had left the army and returned home.

However, Sheng Weiqiao was not Senior Master Sheng. She had never seen the invincible General Zhou, nor had she been a subordinate of General Zhou to feel his charisma. Therefore, she was not as hostile as Senior Master Sheng for the ending of the general.

Although Gongsun Yingjiang talked about General Zhou at the moment, Sheng Weiqiao cared more about what she said before, “You mean, the reason why you are obsessed with your Little Uncle is that he is handsome? It’s not because you love him deeply?”

Seeing Gongsun Yingjiang nod affirmatively, Sheng Weiqiao felt relieved: why not say earlier!

She had thought that Gongsun Yingjiang loved Sheng Shuihe deeply, who would never let go of him!

However, before Sheng Weiqiao was totally relieved, one thing suddenly occurred to her, which made her nervous. She sat upright alertly and shouted sharply, “Then you just tried to talk to Brother Xu in the garden. Do you want to seduce him?!”

She almost forgot!

Xu Baomo was as handsome as Sheng Shuihe in terms of appearance!