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Chapter 212 Boarding the Boat

Several hydrangeas suddenly flew over to the corner where Ye Changyan and his group were.

For a moment, the crowd was in an uproar.

"Brother, grab it!"

Wu Lang shouted excitedly at Ye Changyan.

Ye Changyan felt the fingers of his right hand twitching constantly. He looked up and saw several hydrangeas flying towards him and his group.

Ye Changyan subconsciously reached out to catch it, and one of the hydrangeas seemed to be aimed at him. Ye Changyan grabbed the red and blue hydrangea.

Just as Ye Changyan was about to turn around with excitement to show off, he saw Liang Jingcheng next to him holding a blue and white hydrangea in his hand.

The two looked at each other and smiled with some excitement.

The two were tall, so they easily caught the flying hydrangea with their hands.

But just now Ye Changyan seemed to have seen three hydrangeas flying towards this corner. He and Liang Jingcheng each grabbed one. So who got the remaining one?

Just when Ye Changyan raised his eyes to see who had grabbed the remaining hydrangea, he heard Wu Lang and Lian Xiaolong cheering.

"Amazing! My brother, Brother Liang, and Brother Zhong all got the hydrangea!"

Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng then turned around and saw Zhong Yunfeng, who looked confused, holding a red and yellow hydrangea in his hand.

Zhong Yunfeng and his elder brother Zhong Yunhai had participated in so many peach blossom parties, but had never won a hydrangea. Just now, when he was standing behind Ye Changyan, Liang Jingcheng and others, he saw several hydrangeas flying towards them.

Zhong Yunfeng saw with his own eyes that Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng reached out and grabbed the hydrangea, while the other hydrangea flew towards Mr. Cai. At this moment, Lu Tingfeng waved his hand lightly, and the hydrangea flying towards Mr. Cai made a big turn and flew directly into Zhong Yunfeng's arms.

This scene was also seen clearly by Erniu, Fang Xiaomei and others who were standing behind Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng.

Only Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng, as well as Wu Lang and Lian Xiaolong who were standing between them, did not see how strangely Zhong Yunfeng snatched the hydrangea.

Hearing the cheers of Wu Lang and Lian Xiaolong, Zhong Yunfeng was a little amused and helpless. He slightly turned his face and glanced at Erniu out of the corner of his eye. He saw that Erniu was also looking at him excitedly.

Zhong Yunfeng felt relieved at this. It seemed that Erniu saw it, and he did not go forward to grab the hydrangea, but the hydrangea inexplicably ran into his arms.

Zhong Yunfeng took two quick steps and stuffed the hydrangea into Lu Tingfeng's hands as if throwing a hot potato.

"Brother Lu, I'm seasick. You should go."

However, the excuse Zhong Yunfeng found was quite good.

When everyone saw it, they all burst into laughter.

Then I heard Mr. Cai speaking to Lu Tingfeng.

"Then Tingfeng, you can accompany my two disciples to the pleasure boat to take a look. It just so happens that you can go and take a look too. Maybe your destiny is on that pleasure boat."

Lu Tingfeng's expression remained unchanged and he nodded to Mr. Cai. Zhong Yunfeng and Lu Tingfeng agreed, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The crowd watching also laughed continuously.

"In that case, let's go to the dock and take a look. We don't know when we can come back, so let's just meet up at Yunfeng Tower."

Ye Changyan made a suggestion and everyone nodded. Then Ye Changyan, Liang Jingcheng and Lu Tingfeng were seen pushing their way out of the crowd, while Wu Lang's loud shout was heard from behind.

"Brother, you have to find me a better-looking sister-in-law!"

Everyone burst into laughter again.

As soon as Ye Changyan and his companions arrived at the dock, they saw a long line of young men forming on the side of the dock.

Although there were not so many young girls, there were nearly ten of them.

In the queue, Ye Changyan, Liang Jingcheng and Lu Tingfeng were all very tall, especially Lu Tingfeng. Ye Changyan estimated that he was over 1.9 meters tall. Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng were both fair and handsome, and both of them wore wreaths on their heads, which immediately attracted the attention of the people around them.

"Brother, look over here!"

Among the girls queuing on the side, someone shouted loudly to Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng.

I didn't expect these girls to be so brave. However, any girl who can grab the hydrangea in such a huge crowd is really brave.

The girls shouted at Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng like this, which made them feel a little embarrassed. They both turned their heads away with blushes, which caused the girls to laugh.

The young men in the queue also laughed and turned to look at Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng.

Just as everyone was laughing and joking, they heard a long horn sound from the city wall. Ye Changyan and others saw a pleasure boat coming downstream from the upper reaches of the Yu Shui River and appearing on the surface of the Yu Shui River.

The river at the Nanmen Wharf was wide and the water flow was gentle. Soon a pleasure boat tied with colorful silk came to the shore.

I saw that the windows of the houseboat were all open and the girls were looking towards the shore through the windows.

Ye Changyan and others also looked towards the pleasure boat and saw that all the girls on the boat had beautiful smiles.

Ye Changyan was reminded of Du Fu's poem "The Beautiful Lady", in which there is a line: "On the third day of March, the weather is fresh, and there are many beautiful women by the water in Chang'an."

Was the scene Du Fu saw in his time just like the one before his eyes, young girls and boys going out to enjoy the spring during the Shangsi Festival and meeting up on a pleasure boat?

Seeing the pleasure boat docking, the young men at the front of the team boarded the pleasure boat under the guidance of the boatman.

When the tenth young man got on the boat, the boatman gently pushed the oar, and the pleasure boat rowed towards the center of the river.

Soon after, two more pleasure boats arrived, and Ye Changyan, Liang Jingcheng and Lu Tingfeng boarded the third pleasure boat together.

The girls on the pleasure boat couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw three tall and handsome young men getting on the boat, especially the two young men wearing garlands, who had fair faces, handsome features, and were dressed like scholars.

The other seven young men who boarded the boat saw that the girls' eyes were all on Ye Changyan and the other two, and they all showed envious looks.

"Gentlemen, come and have some tea."

There were two round tables in the middle of the houseboat. The gorgeously dressed girl sitting in the middle stood up and greeted Ye Changyan and others, and the other girls also stood up.

Ye Changyan saw that the girls on the pleasure boat seemed to know each other, and they all seemed to be led by the girl in the middle who invited them to have tea.

At a quick glance, he found that the girl was very pretty. But after a closer look, he felt that her prettyness was a little different from that of the other girls nearby. A word suddenly emerged in Ye Changyan's mind - heroic and imposing.

That’s right, the feeling this girl gave Ye Changyan was that she was not only beautiful, but also exuded a heroic spirit that went straight to people’s hearts.

Ye Changyan was a little surprised as to why he had such a feeling. Then he saw a well-dressed young man standing in front of Ye Changyan and his companions, who took the lead in introducing himself.

"I am Meng Qingliang, a student from Baiheliang Academy."