Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 223

Chapter 223 The First Appearance of the Hu Merchants

Cheng Xiaoxiao had her best chance now. Moreover, she was sitting in a super VIP seat with someone cradling her.

Therefore, she had already made up her mind to enjoy Xiaowu’s and the others’ performance wholeheartedly.

The Persian cat looked at Tingzhu with her big, sparkly eyes. Her soft little ears were pointed and stood tall on her face as if she was listening to Tingzhu seriously.

“Folks, come and take a look! We are the Moonlight Circus! We have a variety of wonderful performances such as crushing boulder on the chest, sword swallowing, throwing darts blindfolded, and so on! We also have a mysterious performer who will appear on stage at the end of the show. I can guarantee you that it’s a show you’ve never seen before!”

Tingzhu shouted to attract the people’s attention without taking a breath in between.

He spoke quickly and was in a refreshing state. When Cheng Xiaoxiao heard this, her eyes became wider and brighter.

Tingzhu was as eloquent as the modern-day talk show host, and the performances that he had mentioned sounded very interesting.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was intrigued when she thought about these young men who were about to perform shows that only the strong men would perform on TV. Furthermore, Cheng Xiaoxiao knew the performers. Although she only met some of them for the first time today, she was very familiar with a few of them.

She had never seen Xiaowu and the others do such tricks before, so she was very curious and wanted to see their performance right away.

The Persian cat, who was popping her head out, was completely focused on Tingzhu. Chu Yunshen was too busy to mind the cat now, or he would have stopped her from joining in on the fun. After all, there were too many people around, and Chu Yunshen did not want the people to notice the cat.

At this moment, Chu Yunshen was observing the situation around him so that he could take full control of the situation at any time.

As more and more people surrounded Chu Yunshen and the others, the crowd gathered under the big banyan tree. Mu Bai came to Chu Yunshen, pretending to show the darts to Chu Yunshen and taking the chance to report the situation to him.

“The one with a big mole on his face and in the gray jacket was the one who opened the door for me.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao was still waiting for Tingzhu to say something new, but she was distracted by Mu Bai’s words.

Mu Bai lowered his head and pointed the dart in his hand to Chu Yunshen, but he quickly finished his report.

In order to make it easier for Chu Yunshen to inspect the person he was talking about, Mu Bai deliberately raised the dart in front of Chu Yunshen and motioned for him to look at the dart again. Mu Bai’s hand holding the dart inadvertently pointed to the man with the mole in the crowd.

In the direction where Mu Bai pointed, there were several burly men in the crowd who were discussing something in Hu language with their heads bowed.

If Chu Yunshen, who was proficient in various languages, had heard their conversation, he would have definitely killed them immediately. It was because those people were staring at the cat with ill intentions, and they were talking about the cat.

Cheng Xiaoxiao followed Chu Yunshen’s line of sight and looked over. Chu Yunshen scanned the crowd without focusing on anyone, but Cheng Xiaoxiao looked over confidently while donning an innocent and ignorant look.

Just as Mu Bai had said, there was indeed a grey-clothed man in the third row of the crowd.

The man’s appearance was ordinary, and his facial features were not as prominent as the other Hu people, but from his hooked nose with a high nose bridge, Cheng Xiaoxiao could distinguish him from the Chu people.

The most eye-catching element on the grey-clothed man’s face was the huge black mole on his chin. That black mole was big and round, protruding on the chin of the grey-clothed man.

As the grey-clothed man and the man next to him continued to chat, his chin swayed up and down, and the black mole also swayed along with his chin.

However, what attracted Cheng Xiaoxiao’s attention the most was not the grey-clothed man. Instead, it was the masculine man next to the grey-clothed man.

The masculine man that Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at had a tall ponytail. His ponytail was made up of many fine long braids. Those braids were tied from the forehead of the man to the end of his hair. It was probably because of his braids and ponytail that his facial features looked particularly obtrusive, and his temple was high and bright.

His eagle-like eyes were bright, and there was a thick beard on his face. The color of the beard was slightly brown, unlike the black-colored beard that other people had. Under the sunlight that slowly dimmed, his beard emitted a little golden light.

The masculine man was none other than the leader of the Hu merchants, He Lulu.

He Lulu was the first to notice the Persian cat, who was in Chu Yunshen’s embrace. The cat’s fur was shiny and smooth, and its figure was also very beautiful and elegant.

The rarest thing about the cat was its odd eyes, which had the rare red and brown pupils.

Because of this, He Lulu locked his gaze on the cat for a while.

But this was only the beginning.

Soon, He Lulu discovered something strange about the cat. The cat seemed to be able to understand human language. Not only did it stare at the man who was shouting for the crowds to come, but it also revealed an anticipated expression like humans after the shouting ended.

He Lulu was certain that it was definitely not a gaze that ordinary cats should have.

After all, He Lulu and his companions were smuggling high-end pets. To be precise, they would do whatever job that could earn a bucket of money. A few years ago, they did a street performance too just like what the group was doing now.

However, they barely earned any money from the performance, so much so that they were broke and had no way out. Then, they changed a few jobs until they landed a job smuggling pets.

Not only that, but they also had another business that was being carried out at the same time. However, this job was shadier than smuggling animals, so it was better not to mention it.

He Lulu almost did not hesitate to talk to the grey-clothed De Ertai. The former had just felt the fluctuations of the inner force of Chu Yunshen and his men. Although they deliberately concealed their inner force, he could tell through their eyes and actions that they were expert martial artists.

“De Ertai, did you see the cat in the arms of the leader?”

Under his broad and thick eyebrows, He Lulu donned a smile as he looked at the Persian cat, and a shrewd light flashed across his eyes.

“Yes, I saw it. What’s wrong?”

De Ertai’s Chu language was not as fluent as He Lulu’s, so every syllable sounded particularly stiff when he talked. The tone of the sentence was even stranger and sounded very funny.

The few people closest to De Ertai and He Lulu did not dare to laugh at all. Instead, they stared at the circus troupe in front of them, afraid that He Lulu would find out that they were not watching the performance but eavesdropping on their conversation.

De Ertai spoke in the Chu official language with difficulty. After De Ertai finished his last syllable, he finally closed his mouth. He Lulu looked back and forth between De Ertai and the cat.

He Lulu wanted to continue their discussion, but looking at Delta’s strenuous appearance, and in order to prevent Chu Yunshen and the others from noticing their abnormality, he spoke in their native dialect.

Although the people surrounding them were all Hu people, they absolutely did not dare to meddle in his affairs, unless they didn’t want to live anymore…

Thinking of his power and influence in this area, He Lulu curled his lips into a smug smile. A murderous light flashed across his sharp eagle-like eyes.

After changing back to their native dialect, De Ertai spoke fluently and quickly like a machine gun. In addition, he spoke in a low voice, so, except He Lulu, the other people around them couldn’t tell what De Ertai said.

On the other hand, due to their many years of experience as partners, He Lulu was able to digest and express his opinions immediately after De Ertai finished speaking.

They hit it off. De Ertai immediately came up with a better plan after listening to He Lulu. They wanted to see if the Persian cat was really intelligent. If she could really understand human language, they would… De Ertai quickly informed their plan to their companions who were scattered in the crowd.

The more He Lulu looked at the Persian cat in Chu Yunshen’s arms, the more satisfied he was. His eyes that were filled with wildness were tainted with a sense of satisfaction as if the cat had become his.

The performance had already begun, and the first one to perform was Mu Bai, who had been silent all this time.

Cheng Xiaoxiao curiously looked at Xiaowu who covered Mu Bai’s eyes with a black cloth. She quickly realized what Mu Bai was going to perform.

Throwing darts blindfolded!

He was going to throw darts blindfolded!

Cheng Xiaoxiao almost screamed out loud like a little fangirl screaming excitedly at her idol on the stage.

She watched Mu Bai’s performance so attentively that she missed the beast-like eyes of He Lulu.

Chu Yunshen, on the other hand, noticed it. It was the kind of aggressive gaze of a hunter chasing after prey during the hunt. When he turned his head to look at the crowd, there were only faces who were watching the performance with relish.

Probably because Chu Yunshen had turned his head to look at the crowd too many times, Xiaowu thought that he was looking for the leader of the Hu merchants, so he used his inner force and whispered to Chu Yunshen, “The most masculine man with a thick beard. That’s him.”

Xiaowu spoke with an extremely low voice. Besides, due to the copper gong that Tingzhu deliberately knocked and the noisy crowd, even Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn’t hear anything Xiaowu said.

Of course, Cheng Xiaoxiao did not have the mood to listen to them at all because her only interest now was the performance. She did not care about the investigation or sorts.

There was nothing Cheng Xiaoxiao should be afraid of since Chu Yunshen would be there to protect her.

Chu Yunshen’s original intention was not what Xiaowu thought, but when he heard Xiaowu’s description, his eyes turned cold, and he glanced at the person who matched Xiaowu’s description.

And that person was none other than He Lulu, who was also pretending to watch the performance.

Chu Yunshen inadvertently met He Lulu’s eyes, but he donned a faint diplomatic smile as the leader of the performing group.

Mu Bai had been blindfolded with the black cloth at this moment, and now, he was waiting for Tingzhu’s order to start throwing darts. His target was the apple hanging on the branch of the big banyan tree.

When he saw the small basket of apples, Mu Bai finally knew where Xiaowu had gotten the apples from earlier. At that time, he had even glared at Xiaowu in disdain. Why was he pretending to be mysterious anyway?

Mu Bai casually juggled the darts in his hand with his eyes blindfolded. He was juggling the darts so quickly that they became shadows, but he still stood indifferently while waiting for Tingzhu’s command.

Tingzhu wanted to give his order, but he didn’t dare to make decisions on his own as he didn’t get any signal from Chu Yunshen.

Chu Yunshen quietly withdrew his gaze from the crowd. Only then did He Lulu relax a little and casually stand in the crowd.