BBW (Side Story) Chapter 245 : Tearing Down Fu Chengfeng's Stage

"Where are we going next?" Rong Yi asked Fu Chengfeng.

"Back to the Moon Manor." Fu Chengfeng answered.

Rong Yi exclaimed in astonishment, "Why do you want to go back?" Then, an understanding came to her mind, and without waiting for Fu Chengfeng to answer, she continued, "You want to find out if Yun Ni is still alive?"

"M-hm." Fu Chengfeng nodded. "Instead of passively waiting for the enemy to stab us in the back, we should take the initiative to meet them head-on."

Rong Yi nodded. "Are you so sure this has something to do with you?"

"I can't think of a single reason why I don't have something to do with it. Can you think of one?" Fu Chengfeng said.

Rong Yi shook her head and sighed. "I didn't expect Yun Hendong to be such a hypocritical person, outwardly letting us go and not pursuing responsibility anymore but secretly sending us out of the city and setting up an ambush to kill us halfway. That was too vicious!"

Fu Chengfeng's face was also full of helplessness. "I didn't expect that either."

"That kind of guy who only posed as a person of high morals was even elected as the Martial Arts Alliance Master. You jianghu¹ people don't have foresight." Rong Yi complained with a look of contempt.

Fu Chengfeng was speechless and reminded, "You're scolding me too."

"I know."

"Then you're still scolding me for it?"

"I can't think of a reason not to scold you."

"......you, girl, are getting cocky."

"Heh, heh."

Fu Chengfeng flicked her forehead and said, "No inns in the city are willing to accept us. That's left us with the brothel or the broken temple. You choose one."

"Of course, I'll choose the brothel. It's too bad to stay in that broken temple. It's dirty, messy and unsafe. Living in a brothel may be bad for your reputation, but at least you can eat and sleep."

"......" True to form, Murong Yunshu's daughter was outrageously realistic.

"But I have a third option." Rong Yi said with a smirk.

Fu Chengfeng raised his eyebrows. "You want to live in your family's private money bank?"

"Of course not. It's too flashy to live in a money bank, and it's easy for people to see through my identity."

"Your original sanity is still alive and well."

"......" Rong Yi gave him a blank look and said, "The third option I mentioned was Liu Yidao's wooden hut. That hut is in the dense forest at the back of the Moon Manor. It's close to the Moon Manor for easy spying. It's hidden and not easy to discover."

Fu Chengfeng instantly lit up and exclaimed, "Good idea."

"But there is another problem. Liu Yidao now thinks that it was you who killed Yun Ni and refused to live under the same sky² as you. He will not want us to stay in his wooden hut."

Fu Chengfeng raised his dashing eyebrows and said tersely, "Did I ever say I had to consult him?"

"It's against the law to unlawfully occupy a private house."

"I've done many things against the law, not just this one."

"......"

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When Rong Yi and Fu Chengfeng arrived at the wooden hut, Liu Yidao was not inside. Two teacups were on the table, one still containing half of the tea. Fu Chengfeng touched the teacup and uttered, "It's still warm."

Rong Yi picked the teacup up and put it to the tip of her nose. She sniffed it and commented, "This is a first-class Mingqian³ Longjing Tea. I remember the last time Liu Yidao captured me; there was only the most common tea on the market here."

"You know how to taste tea? When I first asked you to make tea for me, you made it for a full shichen⁴, and it still wasn't ready." Fu Chengfeng was surprised by Rong Yi's sudden improvement in taste.

"Tea tasting and tea making are two different things. Who says you have to be able to brew tea just because you can taste it? I've always been given tea to drink by others, so I don't know how to make tea." Rong Yi was unimpressed with his statement.

"So that was your first time making tea?" Fu Chengfeng asked.

"Mm-hmm."

"If I had known that, I would have tasted it anyway." Fu Chengfeng said with great regret.

"You don't have to regret it. I'd tasted it, and it was horrible."

"No matter how bad it was, it was still your first cup of tea. I missed the first time you spoke and walked, and now I've missed the first cup of tea you made. I'm going to end this life with regret." Fu Chengfeng sighed.

"......"

First time talking, first time walking? Did he think he was her father?

Rong Yi gave him a blank look and returned the conversation to the main topic, saying, "Liu Yidao is an unrefined person. It's impossible that he suddenly wants to exchange tea leaves that are twenty times more expensive than the ones he had before. There must be someone else living here besides him."

"You think the same as I do. Moreover, I can conclude that the other occupant is a woman." Fu Chengfeng said.

"How can you conclude that the other person is a woman?"

Fu Chengfeng laughed extremely frivolously. "Have you forgotten I lived in a brothel for nearly half a year?"

"So you have developed the ability to judge the other party without seeing the real person?" Rong Yi smiled slightly.

"You could say that. If you sift through the room, it is filled with the smell of women." As he spoke, Fu Chengfeng closed his eyes and stretched out his nose as if enjoying himself.

Rong Yi kicked him and said, "No sense of decency! The smell of rouge is the smell of rouge. How dare you say it is the smell of a woman."

Fu Chengfeng jumped away. "Yi-er, you are getting fiercer. If you keep this up, you'll turn into a shrew."

Yi...... er......

Rong Yi shook away her goosebumps and countered, "There's nothing wrong with being a shrew."

"A shrew can't find the best husband in the world."

"Then I'll just kidnap him. I'm a shrew anyway." Rong Yi had an 'I'm a shrew, and I'm afraid of no one' look on her face.

Fu Chengfeng was speechless. He found that a certain girl's cheek was getting thicker and thicker. He feared that even his Duantian⁵ Sword could not cut through it.

At this time, the sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside the door. Fu Chengfeng immediately picked up Rong Yi and went up to the beam.

Soon, a maid carrying a lunch box entered the wooden hut, followed by a young scholar. The scholar sat at the table with ease, and the maid immediately placed the lunch box on the table and filled his tea.

"You can go back." The young scholar said as he waved his hand.

"Yes, this handmaiden bids farewell."

After the maid left, the young scholar drank his tea quietly, glancing up towards the door now and then as if waiting for someone.

After a while, a man in black approached in the distance, carrying a large sword.

It was Liu Yidao! Rong Yi hurriedly winked at Fu Chengfeng. He nodded gently and motioned her not to get excited. Liu Yidao was as famous as him in the jianghu¹. Therefore, they should never underestimate his martial arts skills.

Seeing Liu Yidao appear, the young scholar's face showed excitement as he asked, "What have you found out?"

"They're out of town." Liu Yidao said. His expression was icy, as if he did not want to continue talking with the scholar.

Seeing this look, the young scholar also turned cold and asked, "Are you going back on your words?"

Liu Yidao gripped his sword tightly and did not say a word.

"If you regret it, I will leave now." After saying that, the young scholar got up and was about to leave.

"Don't go." Liu Yidao grabbed him.

At this moment, Rong Yi, hiding on the room's beam and peeping at the two people, unexpectedly noticed that the young scholar's hand was unusually white and tender, unlike a man's. Could it be that the scholar was a woman disguised as a man? But he clearly had Adam's apple, and his hands were long and slender, much larger than a woman's.

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Fu Chengfeng also noticed this detail and slightly frowned as he continued to observe the man's appearance below.

The young scholar fiercely shook off Liu Yidao's hand and said, "Why are you grabbing me if you don't want to help me?"

"I didn't say I wouldn't help."

"But you will regret it sooner or later."

"I...... I won't."

"Swear it."

Liu Yidao hesitated at his words but finally gave his promise. "I swear that I will never regret it."

"I am relieved to hear this promise from you." The young scholar was pleased with Liu Yidao's action, and a few smiles appeared on his face as he sat back in his chair and said, "Continue. What happened after they left the city."

Liu Yidao: "Yun Hendong sent his men to stop and kill them halfway out of town, but they were unsuccessful. All the men he sent died under Fu Chengfeng's Duantian⁵ Sword."

"Wonderful! That's wonderful!" The young scholar laughed loudly and inquired, "Did you see with your own eyes that Fu Chengfeng's Duantian⁵ Sword killed those people?"

Liu Yidao: "I saw it with my own eyes."

Rong Yi was greatly alarmed. If Liu Yidao had witnessed the bloody battle last night, he must have known Qinglong was with her. But why didn't he tell the young scholar that?

At this point, the young scholar asked again, "What about the woman following him? What is her origin?"

Liu Yidao: "A nobody with no history."

The young scholar's face changed, and he stated, "It is impossible for a nobody to follow Fu Chengfeng. The more mysterious the background, the more you need to be wary. You should check on her again. I believe they will soon reenter the city."

Liu Yidao nodded his head and turned to walk away.

"Wait." The young scholar laughed. "I didn't ask you to check immediately. Eat first. I've asked the kitchen to make your favourite braised food. Come and try it."

Liu Yidao's cold and resolute face suddenly revealed a few moments of delight, the kind of delight that humbled him to the dust⁶.

The more Rong Yi looked at Liu Yidao, the more confused she became. Who was this person Liu Yidao currently facing?

After the young scholar finished his meal with Liu Yidao, he hurriedly took off. Liu Yidao stood in front of the door and watched him leave for a long time before he coldly said, "Come out."

Rong Yi looked at Fu Chengfeng. Has he found out about us?

"He discovered us long ago." Fu Chengfeng smiled faintly and fluttered to the ground with Rong Yi in his arms.

Rong Yi sighed breathlessly. "You jianghu¹ people don't have human ears, do you?"

"You, girl, why do you always like to curse and scold a group of people at once?" Fu Chengfeng tried to tap her twice on the forehead.

Rong Yi shrank her neck to avoid it and said justifiably, "Because it's not an isolated case." After saying that, Rong Yi turned her head and asked Liu Yidao, "If you found out about us long ago, why didn't you expose us?"

Liu Yidao ignored Rong Yi and said directly to Fu Chengfeng, "The person who killed Yun Ni was not you."

"I'm glad you're not as confused as Yun Hendong." Fu Chengfeng said with infinite relief. But Liu Yidao's following words gave him no comfort.

"I don't want to see you." Liu Yidao said coolly.

Fu Chengfeng couldn't hold back his laughter. "You think I want to see you?" This guy feels too good about himself.

"This wooden hut is mine." Liu Yidao reminded someone not to lie through his teeth.

"Yes, the wooden hut is yours, so I have to see you first. I'm here to borrow the hut." Fu Chengfeng stated.

Rong Yi blinked and said weakly, "Didn't we agree to fight over it? When did it change to borrowing?"

Fu Chengfeng sweated profusely. Since when did this girl devote herself to tearing down his stage⁷?

Footnotes Full List

1. lit. rivers and lakes—people wandering from place to place and living by their wits, e.g. fortune-tellers, quack doctors, itinerant entertainers, etc., considered as a social group
2. Chinese idiom: absolutely irreconcilable
3. green tea picked before the Festival of Pure Brightness (清明, around April 5)
4. 2 hours
5. duan=breaking, tian=heaven. Heaven Breaking
6. Describing the humble stance one takes in love. When one likes someone, one will appear humble in front of them, thinking that everything is good and perfect about the other person, and then just silently liking the other person in one's heart without saying anything. Despite this, one's heart is still delighted, and flowers of joy will silently blossom. This sentence is extracted from Eileen Chang/Zhang Ai Ling's written words at the back of Hu Lancheng's photo.  - Baidu
7. (fig.) to pull the rug out from under sb's feet; to undermine sb's plans

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