Chapter 236

"Beavers?"

Liang Qu was puzzled.

Are there such things in the Jianghuai marshes?

"Look!"

As the old giant clam finished speaking, three figures, one large and two small, swam out from the cracks of the underground river and floated to the water surface.

Four claws paddled the water in unison, and a flat, large tail hung behind their plump, round bodies, swaying like a boat paddle.

The leader was extremely large, only half a head shorter than a person, and the small ones were half the length, but excluding the tail, they were at least one meter long.

They really were beavers!

And this aura...

Spirit monsters!?

Facing the huge size gap, Wulong was not afraid at all. It lowered its body and barked at the leading big beaver, trying to scare the other party away.

However, the big beaver ignored it completely and dragged the wood onto the shore on its own.

Wulong, being ignored, couldn't bear it any longer. It lowered its body, leaped up to bite the beaver's thigh, shook its dog head violently, and let out a low growl in its throat.

The big beaver felt itchy from the bite. It stretched out its claws to scratch its butt, shook its left foot to shake off the black coal ball, picked up the wood on the ground to stack it, and then turned its head, just in time to meet Liang Qu, who was staring at it.

Man and beaver stared at each other with wide eyes.

After a while, the beaver straightened its body, parted its thick fur, dug inside, grabbed a golden stone, placed it on the ground, and continued to swim toward the pond.

Wulong rolled on the ground several times, climbed up, and bit the big beaver's tail again, but no matter how hard it pulled, it couldn't move a beaver spirit monster that was nearly as tall as a person.

The big beaver flicked its tail, sent Wulong flying, and jumped into the pond. The two small beavers behind it followed closely, leaving only Wulong sitting on the ground with its head drooping.

When the three beasts disappeared into the water, Liang Qu picked up the golden stone from the ground and was surprised to find that the stone was very heavy.

It was only the size of half an egg but weighed nearly ten taels; its density was clearly higher than silver!

"Gold?"

A beaver gave him ten taels of gold?

Gold to silver exchange, just like silver to copper, has fluctuations. A small piece of gold like this, if taken out for exchange, could probably be exchanged for 120 taels of silver!

Liang Qu felt incredible. He turned his head to look at the old giant clam and shook the gold in his hand.

"Old Shell, what's going on?"

"Capital for settling down." The old giant clam crawled back to the shore from the bottom of the pond. "Bing Fire is coming, all things are restless, and they want to stay here for a period of time."

Liang Qu was stunned: "A group of beavers wants to settle down at my place?"

"Indeed."

"How do they know I will agree?"

"Are you not willing?"

Liang Qu looked at the ten taels of gold in his hand.

It's not that he isn't.

If they want to stay, they can stay. In the whole Yixing Town, who doesn't know that Liang Qu is a friend of animals?

It's just that he didn't expect that big beaver to be so smart, actually knowing the human way of trading.

He picked up Wulong and touched its head to comfort it slightly.

After standing for a moment, the figures of the three beavers, one big and two small, appeared again, and they dragged three more pieces of wood.

Wulong didn't bark again.

Man and dog stood by the pond like this, watching the three beavers go in and out, hoarding wood blocks.

Liang Qu watched with tireless interest for half an hour.

When the trees were stacked in a "pin" shape and the overall height exceeded the courtyard wall, what crawled out of the pond was no longer one big and two small, but four beavers, one big, one medium, and two small.

It turned out to be a family of four.

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Is this wood collection finished, and are they starting to build?

Liang Qu expressed his anticipation.

He had heard that beavers are natural engineers who use branches to repair dams. He wondered what was different about spirit monsters?

Until he saw the beaver take a chisel and a plane out of its arms, he realized something was wrong.

The two slightly larger beavers stood the wood up, opened their mouths to reveal brown-yellow incisors, and with a poke of their heads, the thick bark was neatly cut away.

Like peeling a banana, in a moment, they planed the entire bark clean, revealing the white wood layer. The entire cut surface was very smooth, with almost no wood splinters.

The big ones planed the wood, and the small ones took the planed wood and started gnawing, cutting the entire piece of wood into nearly proportional wooden strips.

After the preliminary processing, the two big beavers picked up the planes on the ground, started to level them, used chisels to open interfaces, and used the riverbank as a foundation to build a house in the pond, with skillful techniques.

Liang Qu: "..."

He immediately contacted the fat catfish and the other water beasts to come and watch.

Several water beasts flew all the way along the underground river passage.

The fat catfish was the fastest. When it swam out from the cracks of the underground river, half a fish tail was still showing in its mouth, struggling for life and swinging wildly.

It took a fierce gulp, swallowed the big fish, and poked its head out of the water to look around.

Bu Neng Dong, Quan Tou, Yuan Tou, and Shen Chong appeared one after another, and the whole pond suddenly became lively.

The big beaver, who was building the house, was startled by the sudden appearance of several large water beasts. It stretched out its claws to gesture at the old giant clam at the bottom of the water, pointing continuously at the fat catfish looking around on the water surface.

The old giant clam calmly opened its lid, indicating that they were all their own people and they could settle down with peace of mind.

The two big beavers were skeptical. Seeing that the fat catfish and the others seemed to be just watching and had no other thoughts, they carefully continued to plane the wood.

The fat catfish spat out half a fish head and swam to Liang Qu's side, flicking its whiskers.

Liang Qu pressed A-Fei's big head to turn toward the beavers.

They are all spirit monsters, why is the gap so big?

Learn well!

Letting the fat catfish observe carefully, Liang Qu looked at the old giant clam.

"Old Shell, is their craftsmanship natural or what? So powerful?"

"Half natural, half learned." The old giant clam spat out a string of bubbles. "In the past, there was no beaver clan in the Jianghuai River. What you see today is that the True Dragon migrated from the Northern Territory to preside over the construction of the Long Gong.

Since then, the beaver clan has settled in the Jianghuai River, multiplied and grown, and there are often master craftsmen who are no less than humans."

It actually migrated from the Northern Territory...

Having a social system and not having one are two completely different levels of intelligence. The beavers in front of him are clearly more advanced.

Not only do they have their own social system, but they can also exchange skills within the clan.

Liang Qu had heard the fat catfish describe the appearance of the toad's residence, which was essentially a large cave with everything in it, piled up in a mess.

He had thought that all the great demons in the water were like this, and that the so-called Long Gong was just a beautiful fantasy in the mouths of the world. In fact, it was very different, nothing more than a matter of how big the cave was.

Now it seems that perhaps only the toad likes to live in a cave?

Liang Qu's Long Gong fantasy, which had been ruthlessly broken by the toad, was rebuilt bit by bit with the help of the beavers in front of him, just like that small wooden house from nothing.

The fat catfish yawned, just feeling bored.

It didn't know why the Heavenly God wanted it to watch a group of fat guys gnawing on wood; it didn't have such long incisors.

And wood doesn't taste good; it's not as delicious as the sharp-mouthed fish.

For the next few days, Liang Qu took time to go to the pond every day.

He witnessed with his own eyes a unique small wooden house extending from the shore to underwater, gradually appearing from nothing.

This couldn't help but give him an idea: could he get the beavers to help build a boat?

Liang Qu fell into deep thought.

Spirit monsters are much stronger than ordinary people. It takes Liu Quanfu a long time to plane a wooden board, but it only takes a little while for the beavers.

The overall efficiency is several times higher!

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