Chapter 373: Fishing for people
Pan Jun turned around and saw Hongyan and Xiaohong standing on tiptoe to watch the fun, so he said unhappily, "Why are you still standing there? People are dying. Follow me to go into the water and find someone."

Hongyan pointed at her nose and said, "Me? That's not good. The consequences of saving a life are too great..."

Pan Yun grabbed her hand and threw her into the river, saying, "You are here to gain experience and to be exposed to the law of cause and effect. What are you afraid of?"

Hongyan was thrown into the river and sank into the river with a grunt. Although she was mumbling, she still went to the bottom of the river to look for someone.

After throwing away Hongyan, Pan Jun looked at Xiaohong.

Xiao Hong twisted her handkerchief and said, "This is not good. If I go into the water too, will they misunderstand that I am a water ghost looking for a substitute? How can I continue to hang out on the pleasure boat in the future?"

"Why are you messing around? If we don't run away tomorrow, we will be arrested by the people from the Tianshi Mansion." Pan Jun kicked her into the river. "After tonight, Changzhou Mansion's pleasure boat has nothing to do with you anymore."

Xiaohong was kicked into the river, and Pan Jun also jumped in with a splash.

When Miaohe saw this, he jumped up and was about to jump in, but Wang Cong, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbed him and pulled him back from mid-air.

Wang Cong gave her a slap on the head and said, "With your mediocre kung fu and swimming ability, stay on the boat."

After saying that, he jumped into the river.

The boat foreman saw this and gritted his teeth and said, "Brothers, those who are good at swimming come out, let's go to the river to fish too. We have been paid by the people, so we can't just let the girls and guests do the work."

"We are risking our lives for just a few hundred wen of wages."

Aunt Xue heard this and immediately said, "Raise the price! Raise the price! As long as you go down to the river to look for someone, I'll give you one tael of silver per person. If you can rescue someone, I'll give you five taels for the girl and twenty taels for the guest!"

When the boatmen heard this, they were happy and came forward one after another. A total of seven boatmen jumped into the river to rescue the man.

Miao Zhen was dissatisfied, "You old procuress treat me differently. Why do you only give five taels of silver to save the girl?"

"Oh my dear, our lives are cheap. Let alone them, even if I die, it's fine, but these guests must not be in any danger."

"Humph, do you think it's reasonable to bring yourself along?" Miao Zhen said, "You look down on yourself and think your life is not valuable, but that doesn't mean others also look down on themselves and think their lives are not more valuable than theirs."

Miaozhen turned around to help Tao Yanbai save the unconscious person.

Miaohe ignored Aunt Xue and took out her sewing kit to give someone an acupuncture injection.

E Huang slumped down on the deck and muttered, "They are all doctors..."

Pan Yun's swimming ability is average, but she has a high level of cultivation. Once she enters the water, she stops breathing and forms an internal cycle, so she can hold her breath for a longer time.

She dived in the river for a long time but didn't see anyone. She became anxious and simply floated in the water, pinching her fingers to induce the spiritual energy in the water to vibrate...

The vibration of spiritual energy brought back different reactions. She turned around and dived to the right rear and soon found a person at the bottom of the river.

Pan Jun reached out and grabbed him to float up. While floating up, she heard the echo of spiritual energy not far away. She turned around in the water without hesitation, held her last breath, saw the floating women, reached out and grabbed them, one in each hand, and floated up quickly.

As soon as they came out of the water, Pan Jun couldn't help but take two breaths, then he took a deep breath and flew up, bringing the two of them out of the water and back to the boat.

Hongyan and Xiaohong also came out, a fox and a ghost, each holding a person.

The three men put the man down, and Tao Yanbai and the other two who were free immediately stepped forward, touched his chest and said, "He's not breathing."

Aunt Xue fell to Pan Yun's side and cried loudly, "Master Zhao, oh, this is Master Zhao, master, please save Master Zhao!"

Pan Yun's ears hurt from the shock. After throwing Master Zhao to Tao Yanbai, he laid the woman flat, opened her mouth to remove the dirt in it, and began to press on her heart. At the same time, Yuanli entered her body to stimulate her heart, and then combined it with transitional breathing...

After pressing for a long time, the Yuanli continued to nourish and stimulate her heart. After giving her another breath, her heart finally moved slightly...

It was as if her body was suddenly activated, her heart and lungs opened instantly, and then she coughed, and water kept gushing out of her mouth.

Pan Jun immediately helped her press out the remaining water in her body, then laid her down and pressed her heart a few times. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw her open her eyes hazily.

Tao Yanbai, who was standing by, also rescued Mr. Zhao.

Miaozhen and Miaohe are still trying their best to save the people rescued by Xiaohong and Hongyan.

Pan Jun stepped forward to help. It was unknown how long he pressed and how much energy he gave them before the two of them slowly woke up.

But the three people who were rescued by Wang Cong and the boatmen were not so lucky.

Pan Yun and the others pressed and sent air to the three people. Pan Yun had even used up all his energy, and the three people didn't move at all.

Pan Xiaohei meowed and warned, "Don't press it. You've been pressing it for a quarter of an hour and the person hasn't been saved. He must be dead."

Pan Yun gradually became exhausted and stopped.

Wang Cong opened the eyelids of the three people, shook his head at Pan Yun and said, "It's already scattered, there's no hope."

As soon as these words came out, Aunt Xue immediately sat down on the ground, slapping the board and crying: "Mr. He, Mr. Su, how am I going to explain this to the He and Su families——"

The girls beside them also burst into tears, but they were crying for the girls under Pan Yun, "Sister Lanqin——"

There was a sudden burst of crying on the pleasure boat.

The large ship nearby also rushed over, but did not dare to get too close, and could only shout from a distance: "Boss Xue, what happened on your ship?"

Aunt Xue came back to her senses instantly, pushed everyone aside and ran into the boat, knelt down in front of Master Chen, covered her face and cried, "Master Chen, you have to help me. My good pleasure boat was burned down, and three lives were lost. You must ask the prefect to help me." Chen Han's face turned pale, and he kicked Aunt Xue away, angrily saying, "Your pleasure boat is poorly managed and almost killed everyone on the boat. It's fine if I don't settle the score with you, but you dare to ask me to help you?"

Chen Han glanced at Master Lu and said in a deep voice, "It was Lu Jiannan who knocked down the lantern. You all saw it, right?"

Master Lu's face turned pale, and he pointed at him and shouted, "Chen Han, stop spitting blood at me. It was obviously you who knocked over the lamp, don't even think of blaming me for it!"

The person who fell into the water gradually regained consciousness and heard the quarrel inside. The girls were fine, but they could only swallow their anger.

The guests were different.

They almost died, and they were angry even though the other party was the son of the prefect and a wealthy man in Changzhou.

Aren’t their lives lives?

Besides, not all the guests were from Changzhou Prefecture, and they were not afraid of the Changzhou prefect.

So the guests stumbled into the cabin and questioned Chen Han and Lu Jiannan, "Mr. Chen, Mr. Lu, the pleasure boat caught fire because of your quarrel and fight, and we fell into the water and almost died on the spot. Now you want to put the blame on the madam. Isn't it too simple?"

What does this old procuress have?
At most they have some money, but are they the ones who need that little money?

Aunt Xue looked conflicted. She wanted them to fight, but was also afraid that they would fight.

Pan Yun saw them making a lot of noise, while a group of girls who were burned, drowned, or trampled were still shivering in the cold wind;
The boatman who had just gone into the water to rescue people was also shivering in his wet and cold clothes;
In addition, she was also feeling wet and uncomfortable, so she knocked on the cabin door unhappily, "Hey, hey, hey——"

The people who were arguing turned around and fell silent when they saw that it was the people who had just rescued them onto the boat.

Chen Han and Mr. Lu also calmed down because they were witnesses of Pan Yun using water to put out the fire.

So even though she looks young, no one dares to challenge her.

"If you want to have a fight, go ashore. Pay the bill first. I'm going home." Pan Jun pointed at the back of the boat unhappily and said, "Didn't you notice there's so much water in the pleasure boat? Are you planning to solve the case here?"

Aunt Xue swallowed her saliva and asked in a low voice: "Master, what is the money and what do you want to settle?"

Pan Yun pointed at the boatmen outside and said, "I heard their money in the water just now. One tael per person. They fished out two people, so they got forty taels."

Aunt Xue said with a pained look: "They are both dead..."

"You didn't specify that it had to be alive?" Pan Yun asked the boat foreman, "How much does it cost to retrieve corpses on the river?"

The boat foreman considered and said, "The minimum is five taels, there is no upper limit."

Pan Yun asked Aunt Xue, "Look, aren't the distinguished guests on the pleasure boat worth twenty taels of corpse recovery money? Besides, when they were recovering people, they were not trying to recover the corpse, but to save people."

The guests all looked at Aunt Xue, a group of middle-aged and young people, and their gazes were still quite oppressive.

Aunt Xue swallowed her saliva and nodded quickly, "Give it to me, give it to me, I'll give it to you."

After saying this, he called the turtle man and immediately counted out forty-seven taels of silver and gave them to the boat foreman, who was to settle the bill.

Pan Yun reached out to her and said, "We saved people, too."

Aunt Xue’s hands began to tremble.

The five of them saved a lot of people. If they really followed the market price just now, then she...

Aunt Xue said in a trembling voice, "Master, please wait for me to count the heads."

Pan Jun said irritably, "Just give them as you see fit. There's no need to count them one by one."

Aunt Xue heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this, hesitated for a moment, went to get a box, counted out five silver bills from it, and stuffed them into their pockets with a stiff face, "Please accept them, benefactors."

The five of them looked down and saw that Pan Yun's was worth one hundred taels, while Wang Cong and the other four had fifty taels.

The five of them thought Aunt Xue was stingy, but they didn't say anything. They just put the money in their pockets and left.

Pan Yun kindly reminded Aunt Xue, "You'd better stop the boat immediately and go ashore. This boat will get into trouble again."

Aunt Xue's face turned pale. The guests were no longer in the mood to argue and hurriedly urged Aunt Xue to get the boat to the shore quickly.

No one doubted Pan Yun's reminder.

Pan Yun turned around and looked for Hongyan and Xiaohong, "Would you two like to leave?"

Hongyan: "I haven't played yet... I need to practice enough. The Lantern Festival is a lively time."

Pan Yun: "People from the Tianshi Mansion may be here soon."

Hongyan: "Are you afraid of the people from Tianshi Mansion?"

Pan Yun: "I'm not afraid, but when you're in the martial world, you can't decide for yourself. The Tianshi Mansion has rules. Except for rituals held by the Tianshi Mansion and the court, Taoist priests are not allowed to use magic that may arouse suspicion from ordinary people. It just so happens that the Water Dragon Technique is one of them, so we have to run away quickly."

　good night

　　(End of this chapter)