"Delicious."
"It's just that there's really too little meat."
Yunshou glanced at the fish bones piled on the side. There are too many bones in the body of spiny-finned fish, and this fish king has evolved this feature to the extreme: in its body, some fish bones even formed into plates, just like crabs, and some meat was hidden between the extremely small and hard bone joints.
In other words, as a martial artist, he can crush even a fish bone like this into powder with just two fingers, while an ordinary person would have to smash it with a hammer.
"There's still some fish meat and bones left. Take some to Uncle Ji, Old Man Wang, and Little Tiger."
It was already afternoon. Yunshou disassembled the grilled fish king, put it in clean pots and pans, and returned to Qinghe Village.
The first target was seen at the entrance of the village: four or five children gathered together, listening to instructions from the leader.
The eight or nine-year-old boy in the lead held his head high and pointed at a girl and said, "Er Ya, I've already told you that you're the Empress. You need to be more magnanimous and listen to the Emperor. Don't refuse just because I eat a piece of your dried meat!"
Then he pointed at a silly-looking boy and said, "Tiger Head, you are the general. When I am in danger, you must be the first to rush over and save me, not Erya!"
"And you, Santu, you are a great master traitor. Your first goal should be to kidnap the emperor, not the empress."
"Look at Shuizi, he's acting really well. He's definitely going to be a powerful and treacherous minister in the future! He's my biggest rival!"
Yun Shou: "…"
To be honest, as a time traveler, he stopped playing the upgraded version of "play house" with these kids when he was eight years old and started playing "play country".
He interrupted the children's pretend play and waved his hand: "Little Tiger!"
"Ah? Brother Yunshou?"
The dazed boy turned around and looked at Yunshou waving at him. He hesitated and said, "I am a general now. I have to protect the emperor. I can't cross the line."
"Come here, I'll give you some meat."
In an instant, the little tiger forgot his duties as the "general" and ran over hurriedly. Then he led Yunshou home and left some of the meat and bones in the bowl.
His relative heard the noise and came out from the inner room. Seeing that Yunshou came to deliver food, he looked at her with a complicated look, snorted coldly, and said nothing.
Two years ago, Yunshou fell into the water and lay in bed for more than half a month. Song Xiaohu was worried about his "Brother Yunshou" and stole some food from home every day to nourish him.
Although it wasn't much, Yunshou had enough to eat under Uncle Ji's care, but the thought couldn't be ignored.
Song Xiaohu was even hung up and beaten by his parents because they stole two eggs from home and gave them to him. His cries echoed throughout Qinghe Village...
Song Xiaohu's parents certainly had no good impression of Yun Shou, a man who "cheated his stupid son and stole his family's money." When they saw that the gift he brought was just the most common fish by the lake, they didn't look at him in a good mood.
She didn't know it was the king of fish.
After Song Xiaohu came Old Man Wang, the old man who rescued him.
Little Tiger probably didn't know what the Fish King was, and his parents didn't like Yunshou, so Yunshou didn't explain it in detail. But he could tell Old Man Wang.
"Mr. Wang, you must make a thick soup out of these fish bones."
Yunshou put down the fish meat and fish bones.
"What's the big deal about this?" Old Man Wang asked with a smile.
"I came across the Fish Dragon Dance, and inside it was this three-foot-three-inch spiny-finned fish!"
As soon as he said this, Old Man Wang was stunned. He quickly looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw no one around. He said in a serious tone with anger, "Are you trying to kill yourself?! Fish King, you dared to roast and eat it privately? If the Qinghe Gang finds out, you'll be drowned in the lake!"
Ordinary fish, no matter how delicious the edible fish or how beautiful the ornamental fish, can be handled casually by ordinary fishermen after being caught. As long as they don't sell them outside the gang, you can even play with them yourself.
Only the Fish King is the one who has absolute control over the fish and is the property of the gang!
If you fail to catch the criminal, that's fine. But if you do, you must hand him over to the Qinghe Gang (the Qinghe Gang will also give you a large reward). Otherwise, not only will you be driven out of this area, but you may also be beaten to death!
If outsiders use the "Qinghe Gang's grounds" to fish, they may not be killed after the fight if they are tough. But for someone like Yunshou who has a body contract... he will be killed by being directly sunk into the lake!
Old man Wang was terrified. The Qinghe Gang was like a huge mountain weighing down the heads of ordinary fishermen. In some small cities, the gang leader Xu Ruohai was a top master and a local celebrity!
㱗Under such pressure, who would dare to disobey orders?
Facing Old Man Wang's frightened gaze, Yun Shou smiled mysteriously: "Old Man Wang, do you remember what I said yesterday?"
He stretched out two fingers and pinched a fish bone as thick as his thumb. He did not release the energy outwards, but instead amplified his strength like the internal energy of a second-rate warrior.
With a rub of two fingers, the fish bone broke with a snap.
Old Man Wang was stunned.
"I met my master yesterday. He said my bones were incredibly strong and he took me to practice martial arts..."
Yun Shou tiptoed and a piece of gravel on the ground flew up and was grabbed by him.
Shao Ge clenched his fists and rolled over with the energy in his palms.
He loosened his fist, and stone powder scattered all over the ground from the gap under his fist.
Old Man Wang: "…"
He opened his mouth but nothing came out.
The joke that day turned out to be true?
"This is true." Yun Shou chuckled and said, "The rules of the Qinghe Gang no longer affect me."
…
The last one was sent to Uncle Ji's home.
Yun Shou hesitated on the way.
It was still afternoon, and Uncle Ji probably hadn't come back yet. The couple always went out on the boat together.
The Qinghe Gang's "shipping organization" is just an idea and has not yet been formally established, so Uncle Ji and his team are still focusing on fishing as their main business.
Yunshou was worried that he would get to someone's door, but it turned out to be locked and he couldn't get in. Fortunately, the door was not far from his home, only a few dozen meters away.
When Yunshou was dozens of meters away from Uncle Ji's house, he saw that the door was closed. He was about to leave, but he keenly heard some movement coming from inside the house, so he strode forward.
But when he got closer, he saw that the door was locked tightly, and the noise inside the house became louder and louder as he got closer.
"Is there a thief?!"
Yunshou reacted, but how could a thief steal from a poor fisherman... Last night when Uncle Ji wanted to help him pay off his debt of selling himself, the sound of copper coins falling startled everyone!
It was a fisherman from the same village. He was tempted by the money and sneaked into the house while no one was around to rummage through the drawers!
He put down the pots and pans, took a few steps forward, and saw that the window was wide open. There was not just one person in the room, but two people rummaging around.
"It's really hidden deep." One person looked up while complaining, and happened to meet Yunshou's eyes. Both of them were stunned.
Shao Erdan is the most famous scoundrel in the village because he is the only one of the two people in the village who does not work and spends all day stealing.
Many people couldn't figure out how this guy could hang out with so many people in the Qinghe Gang's territory, but Yun Shou learned one thing through simulation: he knew at least one official member of the Qinghe Gang (Chapter 5).
One of them is Shao Erdan, and the identity of the other one is obvious.
Of course it was Shao Erdan's biological brother from the same mother, another gangster in Qinghe Village: Shao Yiqi!