Chapter 275

Shi Wuwei, wearing a bowler hat, a three-piece suit, and white gloves on his hands, stood in front of the crew with Dai Yucan in a western dress on one hand, he took out two pieces of identification and said coldly, “Our luggage is in the back.”

The crew member was a Briton, he was obviously a bit puzzled by Shi Wuwei and Dai Yuchan’s appearance, but Shi Wuwei didn’t seem to notice his hesitation at all, and walked straight forward with Dai Yuchan on his arm.

The crew member tried to block them, but Shi Wuwei turned back as if he didn’t realize it, and took out a British pound and gave it to him, “Bring our luggage to our room.”

Pound sterling is the best language in the world. The crewman immediately put his suspicions behind him, he then saw a row of drudges standing behind him carrying luggage, he hurriedly stopped these people, pointed in the direction of the third class cabin and said, “Go in from over there, you can’t go in here.”

For the sake of the tip, he followed the laborers over and sent them to the door of the cabin, then called the crew together to help him run the luggage. But they were stopped by the first-class waiters on the stairs below the first-class cabins.

The first-class waiters were dressed like footmen.

The waiter stood in front of him wearing white gloves and looked behind him, “Is that Mr. Porter’s luggage? He asked me to take a look and ask why it hadn’t been delivered to his room yet.”

Crew members were not allowed to enter first class cabins, they could only go to third and second class cabins.

He leaned over the stair railing and said, “Those two men both look yellow.”

Maitre d’: “I don’t know, all I know is that he’s Mr. Porter and his lady. They had two rooms, but Mr. Potter wasn’t satisfied as soon as he got in; he didn’t want to be separated from his fiancée, and paid me to change his suite, specifying the largest balcony.”

The crew whistled, no longer caring if Mr. Porter had a yellow face, to be honest, pounds and dollars are the most beautiful faces in the world.

Shi Wu-wei stood in his room, directing the attendants to come and go and carry the luggage into the room.

Dai Yuchan sat on the sofa with her hands and feet all stiff. She had been practicing well at home, but now that it was for real, she realized that she had no acting skills at all.

The complete opposite of her was Shi Wuwei, who had a little bit of a problem at home, but now he was completely like his persona.

A young master of a rich family with a bit of a taste for money.

But pounds were the best pass.

Before the waiter left, he reminded them that dinner was at seven.

“The ship won’t be leaving for a while, so guests can get off the ship if they want to, just come up before it starts.” The waiter said.

Shi Wuwei glanced at Dai Yucan and walked over to her and asked her softly, “Do you want to get off the boat and go shopping in the department store? I remember you still have some things you haven’t bought.”

Dai Yucan’s throat tightened, she should have cooperated with Shi Wuwei to say a few words, but she only had the strength to shake her head now.

Shi Wuwei said, “Forget it then. By the way, dinner is brought to our room.”

Waiter: “Yes, sir.”

After the waiter went out, Shi Wuwei breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t nervous, but he didn’t dare to make a mistake. If he made a mistake, he would be harming Little Cicada.

Now, he still did not dare to speak in Chinese, he said to Dai Yu Cicada, “We can go to the deck, do you want to see …… your hometown again?”

His persona with Dai Yuchan is that he’s an English boy who followed his relatives to China to strike gold, and before he left, he abducted a local Chinese noble girl to return home.

Dai Yucan didn’t need to act at all, and tears instantly came down.

Shi Wuwei pulled her up and held her out, “Come on, let’s go take a look.”

They lingered on the deck, and although they couldn’t actually see anything, they still kept looking towards the shore for the car driven by Professor Dai and Mr. Su.

It was not until darkness fell that they returned to their room.

When the waiter delivered the food, the waiter for the tip, and took the initiative to mention “the chef can make Chinese noodles”, and when Shi Wuwei saw the yellow fish noodles and small dumplings, Dai Yuqian simply cried too much to eat.

In the end the waiter got a tip.

After only one night, the story about Mr. Porter and his eloped fiancée had already spread among the waiters in the first class cabin, and even the crew and the vice-captain had heard about it.

Although Mr. Porter’s yellow face did attract some slight remarks, there was not the slightest problem with his identification, and the captain made a point of inviting him to tea and inquiring from him the whole set of stories, including the love story of the miserable English noble lady who had fallen in love with the Chinese Aristocrat in China and left behind a son who did not resemble an English noble lady at all.

Originally, Shi Wuwei had no confidence in his own appearance. He thought that he was not handsome at all, and was afraid that it would be difficult for him to play the role of a boy from an English aristocratic family.

But Prof. Dai reassured him that there was no problem, and that it was rare for a foreigner to have a child who could tell from his appearance whether or not he was of the family’s bloodline.

It’s because everyone doesn’t look alike.

Probably because of mixing too much blood, so they are very arbitrary from hair color to pupil color, it is normal to have changes in skin color, looking ugly is even less of a problem, not to mention Shi Wuwei is not ugly.

Of course, the biggest problem was of course his skin. But it didn’t matter, the history of British bastards was longer than the history of the state religion, no one would find it strange.

Just like what Professor Dai said, no one was surprised by his birth. On the contrary, because of his strange birth, he was surprisingly very popular on this ship, when he and Dai Yuchan went for a walk on the deck there were always people who came to talk to him, and by the time they started going to the dining room to eat in order to give Dai Yuchan some courage, the number of people who came to sit with them increased even more.

Shi Wuwei’s story also had a way of spreading.

He was “very secretive” about his life, only telling plausible stories, never mentioning a single name or place. However, he did not hide the school he was going to, and immediately gained a family of alumni, the father and son are graduates of John’s Public School, when he heard that Shi Wuwei is through his uncle’s letter of recommendation in order to go to school in John’s Public School, but also involved the Acting Professor – Mr. De Hei Lan.

The father immediately showed a smile of “so it’s an acquaintance” and laughed: “So it’s the swan boy.”

The son, too, as if he had heard of an acquaintance, explained to the curious guests around him that the Swan Boy was the first member of a club that made history by shooting down swans with a gun and roasting them for dinner at boarding school.

The ladies and young ladies all looked sadly distressed about the swan, and the men all laughed, as if they remembered the crazy things they had done when they were at school.

Because they were acquaintances, it was obvious that the relationship was even closer.

That father asked, “Your uncle is in China?”

Shi Wuwei: “He’s been in China for many years.”

That father shook his head, “Then he must have made a lot of money.”

Shi Wuwei: “Uncle said he lost more money.”

Everyone laughed again.

After Shi Wuwei and Dai Yuqian left, the men turned to the smoking room, and this father told the swan boy Deheilan’s past again, and the most crucial thing: he was also an illegitimate child.

That father mysteriously said, “His mother was a Chinese princess.”

One man said, “I’ve heard there are Chinese princesses on London Street.”

That father shook his head and he said, “This one is true. Swan Boy is a beautiful boy, and when you see him you can imagine how beautiful his mother is.”

The ship sailed after a ten-day stop; it was supposed to stop for a full month.

Daiyu Cicada stood on the deck, feeling the ship gradually leaving the shore, and she also saw many small boats chasing this big ship, and on the shore of the pier not far away, there were people jumping into the water like dumplings, trying desperately to swim here.

They were trying to get on the boat and smuggle themselves to England.

The boat was an ark.

She was sitting on the ark now, and her family had all stayed ashore.

Was she really not a betrayer, a deserter?

Shi Wuwei stood with her, and the two of them watched until they could no longer see land, only sea water.

He said, “Let’s go back to the cabin and continue learning Latin.”

Latin was a very offbeat language, so it seemed that the men of the British upper class took pride in being good at this offbeat language, as if they were just trying to act like it was effortless to prove that their minds were smarter than most.

While it wasn’t mandatory for everyone to know it, knowing Latin did help to brush up on the fashion value once in a while.

Shi Wuwei was truly a genius in this regard. Zhu Yuyan had borrowed all of Shi Jingyi’s study materials from the priest she was learning Latin from at the time, and Shi Wuwei was able to become a teacher for the contemporary Jade Cicada in just a week. Although he still needed to continue learning, it was enough to teach a student who had never learned before.

As Dai Yu Cicada was once again caught up in the pain of being away from home, the heavy and boring studies could indeed help her temporarily free herself from her pain.

They studied in their rooms, and only once in a while did they go to the dining room to have dinner and socialize.

The ship was not full. The captain said the stay was too short.

“I blame those Japanese monkeys.” The captain complained at the dinner table, “They are just insatiable.”

Hearing about Japan again made both Dai Yuchan and Shi Wuwei’s hearts uncomfortable.

When they returned to their rooms, Dai Yuchan said, “Yan Yan was strongly hostile to the Japanese when she first met them. I should have known that the Japanese are no good!”

She had not experienced the same feelings as Yan Yan until now.

Shi Wuwei: “We’ll be back. When we come back, we will defeat the Japanese together with everyone else and drive them out from the land of China!”