Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 59 Traveling Together
"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Zhuang!"

Huang Sixi saw the woman in yellow had sweat on her forehead, so he picked up a handkerchief on the table and handed it to her.

She took it, smiled lightly at Huang Sixi, thanked him, and without being too shy, she unfolded her handkerchief and wiped her pale face.

When Huang Sixi first met her, he thought she was a young girl because of her petite figure. In fact, that was not true. She was probably about twenty-two or twenty-three years old.

During these few days on the boat, she always had a smile on her face and was very gentle to others.

But her behavior was not awkward at all; instead, she showed the straightforwardness of a woman of the world. Huang Sixi guessed that she must have been in the world of martial arts before.

"I asked Guinan to decorate the sightseeing pavilion!"

Huang Sixi pointed upstairs and said, "Even if everything goes smoothly, it will take more than a month to get to Jiangnan. From now on, you and Xiaozhuang will live in the pavilion. If you need anything in your daily life, just let me know."

The cabin of this pleasure boat was an imitation of an attic, with the lower level for storage and entertaining guests, and the upper level for viewing the scenery. Huang Sixi lived separately from the Zhuang sisters out of consideration for the inconvenience of being a man and a woman.

Miss Zhuang was not polite and made a request on the spot.

"Yesterday, Xiaozhuang was having fun and ran into your beehive, Mr. Huang, and got stung. You gave her honey to detoxify her, but she became addicted."

Miss Zhuang was caring for the little girl: "If Mr. Huang has extra honey that he doesn't use, why not give her another bottle to satisfy her craving."

"no problem."

Huang Sixi agreed, "We'll live on the boat in the future. She can come to me anytime she wants to drink."

"Then thank you Mr. Huang first!"

Miss Zhuang covered her mouth with her long sleeves, smiled for a moment, and then asked, "Mr. Huang, you fought against the bandits that day and released a swarm of bees to sting people. This skill is really amazing. Mr. Huang, have you been raising bees since you were a child? That's why they obey you so well?"

“There are tricks to beekeeping, and practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect.”

Huang Sixi did not discuss this topic in depth.

He noticed that Miss Zhuang wore leather gloves on her hands but never took them off.

He casually asked, "Your left hand doesn't look very flexible, has it been injured before?"

Just now, when Miss Zhuang was helping Taoist Huang Mu to remove the iron hook, she mainly used her right hand. Her left hand was very stiff, as if she had no strength, and she didn't know what was going on.

When Miss Zhuang saw him asking this, she immediately raised her left palm to show him: "My hand has been disabled since I was a child. I have seen countless doctors, but they could never cure it. That's why I want to learn medicine myself. Unfortunately, it's hard to heal yourself. I'm afraid I will never be a normal person again in this life."

After Miss Zhuang finished expressing her feelings, she asked Huang Sixi, "Will Mr. Huang look down on me because of my disability?"

"If I have an opinion of you because of this, then I am disabled!"

Huang Sixi realized that his question was a bit rash, so he stopped asking about Miss Zhuang's privacy.

He moved to the side, patted the wooden box in the corner, and said, "The weather will soon get hot. This box contains silk. You can use it as you like. Make a few more pairs of cool gloves."

This box is Shu brocade given by Mr. Lu.

Miss Zhuang couldn't help but smile: "If I make a few more new clothes, is that okay?"

"of course can!"

Huang Sixi agreed immediately.

When she saw Huang Sixi agreed, she seemed very happy. She walked to the wooden box, opened the lid, and began to caress the Shu brocade inside the box with caress.

Huang Sixi did not disturb her interest. He turned around, walked out of the cabin, and went to the deck to check the beehives.

In order to deal with the rebel soldiers that day, Huang Sixi released all the bee colonies. The poisonous bees were smoked by the rebel soldiers and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, less than one in ten returned to the nest.

At present, the beehives are no longer useful, so Huang Sixi brought them on board to slowly raise them and collect honey.

Miss Zhuang picked up a piece of brocade and looked at it carefully, and from time to time she looked through the cabin door at Huang Sixi's back.

She felt that Huang Sixi was not only a martial arts expert, but also a person who could see through people's details. If she said one thing and thought another and was not honest, it would definitely cause Huang Sixi's disgust, and then this trip to Jiangnan would not be a pleasant one.

Thinking of this, she shouted to Huang Sixi, "Mr. Huang, when we go to Jiangnan, do we have to stay on the boat every day and not stop at the towns along the coast?" "If it's not necessary, then don't stop! What, do you think it's inappropriate?"

"I think sailing is too slow. If we travel by horse, we can reach Jiangnan in less than a month."

"You're right, but Master Huang can't stand the bumps. I took the water route for him!"

"You are very kind to Master Huang!"

Miss Zhuang was startled after she finished speaking: "Mr. Huang, your surname is Huang, are you a relative of Sect Leader Huang?"

Huang Sixi smiled and said, "I have no relationship with him, not even a friend."

Miss Zhuang was puzzled: "If he is neither a relative nor a friend, why would you risk your life to escort him thousands of miles away?"

Huang Sixi asked back: "I am neither a relative nor a friend to you, did I refuse to escort you?"

"I am a woman, so I am a little different!"

Miss Zhuang laughed to herself.

She thought, "You, the great hero Huang, sent an orphan girl a thousand miles away, and it was a good story if it spread to the world. But you sent a Taoist priest a thousand miles away, and it was a good story if it spread to the world. If someone didn't know, they would think that you, the great hero Huang, were going to become a Taoist priest.

Huang Sixi did not argue.

He only told Miss Zhuang: "These days, please take care of Master Huang. If he can recover soon, he can ride a horse and continue on his journey. We don't have to live on the boat."

"Mr. Huang, since you have spoken, I will definitely do my best."

Miss Zhuang does take good care of him, but she does so for Huang Sixi's sake.

If it weren't for Huang Sixi, she wouldn't even look at Taoist Huang Mu.

She was chatting with Huang Sixi when Hu Guinan and Xiaozhuang came down from the second-floor attic.

Xiaozhuang happily ran to her and told her about the situation in the cabinet.

When the county town experienced war, Xiaozhuang was frightened and always looked terrified. Now she has regained the liveliness of a girl.

Several people gradually adapted to the life on the boat.

In the following days, they rode on a boat together and sailed down the river. They encountered no setbacks along the way and the river was relatively calm.

Until this morning.

The pleasure boat was docked at a gorge, and several people were still asleep when the boat suddenly made a muffled "clang clang" sound and then began to shake violently.

Miss Zhuang woke up instantly and immediately opened the window to check the situation.

She saw a large sailing ship anchored several feet away.

More than a dozen ferocious-looking sailors were standing by the boat, each holding a flying hook and throwing it into the air at the pleasure boat. After the hook caught the cleat, they dragged together, causing the pleasure boat to bump and slowly approach the sailboat.

One of the sailors had sharp eyes. He saw Miss Zhuang sticking her head out of the window and immediately shouted frantically, "There's a woman on the boat! A woman!"

"Scream your mother! If you scare the beauty into jumping into the river, I will kill you with a cannon!"

"Second Master, the ship is very close to the shore, don't let the beauty escape, let's get on board now!"

"Okay, brothers, climb the rope and jump over! Kill all the men, and don't hurt a hair on the women, or I'll kick your balls!"

"Then you have to kiss the beauty first before you can let the second in command kick you!"

"Ha ha!"

Unbridled laughter broke out on the sailboat.

They quietly sailed nearby and could have approached the pleasure boat directly, but the location where the pleasure boat was docked was rather special. There was a raised reef several feet away that prevented the sailboat from getting close, so they could only use a flying hook to drag it.

(End of this chapter)