Chapter 298: Happy for Nothing

Night.

The downpour hadn't stopped.

Sewage flowed into the mud along the grooves.

The servant helped Liang Qu put on the rain cape, put on the bamboo hat, and pulled open the horse stall.

Liang Qu hung Fubo beside Chishan, got the response that it wasn't much heavier, and flipped onto the horse.

Fubo forging ended in the afternoon, but Yang Dongxiong and Lu Zao hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Lu Zao invited them to chat about old times, so Yang Dongxiong had to stay for dinner.

The master wanted to stay, Liang Qu and Xu Zishuai, as juniors, couldn't take the things and run away, so they had to accompany them for dinner, chatting happily until dark.

"Owed another debt, fortunately not in a hurry, pay it back slowly in the future."

For Fubo's addition and molding, several people were busy, rubbing the portrait and "sending a banner" was the intended meaning; sending qualifications doesn't mean letting senior brother work for nothing.

Fortunately, everyone was an acquaintance; wait until finding some treasure material in the future to pay it back slowly, no rush.

The earth was dim, the iron hooves were fierce, bringing up mud.

Chishan ran on the muddy road, its figure stable, without the slightest tremor, turning into a ball of fire in the rain.

"Coming, coming."

Fan Xinglai hurried over to open the door when the iron ring was knocked.

Liang Qu took off the bamboo hat.

"Did anyone come to look for me today?"

Fan Xinglai took the rain cape smoothly, and shook his head upon hearing this.

"No."

Liang Qu nodded.

"Burn some water, I'll take a bath."

"Alright."

After taking a bath and changing clothes, Liang Qu put on a single shirt and went to the garden, just in time to see the big otter standing on the fake stone by the pond, screaming in the rain.

In front of the otter, Round Head, Scar Head, Mirage Insect, A-Wei, and Fist were all gathered.

The water beasts lined up, their expressions serious.

The big otter stood on the stone, dancing, one claw stretched forward, tightly gripping the air, the other claw waving back and forth above the air, seemingly demonstrating how it beat people, heroic and fearless.

The fat catfish in the pond rolled with laughter.

It pointed at the big otter with its whiskers, used its fins to choke its own throat, and then rolled its eyes, floating out of the water surface with its belly up.

Round Head and Fist were in an uproar, their gazes toward the otter full of doubt.

Not finished.

The fat catfish immediately turned over, pointed at itself with its whiskers, raised half its body in the water, curled its fins into a fist shape, swung left and right, indicating that it was the one who truly showed great power.

The big otter waved its claws into afterimages.

Without its crucial physical consumption of the one-eyed otter, the fat catfish couldn't have defeated the other side, and would only have ended up as the other side's defeated general!

The fat catfish snorted, took water into its mouth, and shot a water arrow at the big otter's face.

The big otter was so angry it jumped up and down, jumped into the pond with a splash, and fought with the fat catfish again.

"What's going on?"

Liang Qu ran to the old giant clam, the raindrops and splashed water naturally separated from both sides, not touching a bit.

"Going out to fight at dawn and dusk, fighting with the enemy."

The old giant clam's voice was suppressing laughter, telling the cause and effect intermittently.

Liang Qu let a group of water beasts rush to the Great Marsh this morning to vacate the pond, and the old giant clam followed beside, seeing with its own eyes the otter using roasted fish to exchange for the combat help of the fat catfish and Cannot-Move.

Although it didn't follow to watch, seeing the otter family covered in injuries but high in fighting spirit, it knew the battle situation; it must have won.

"Eh? They won, why did they come back again?"

Liang Qu was surprised; the otter family lived in the pond because their home was taken, unlike the beaver family.

Since they took back their home, why return to the pond?

The old giant clam laughed loudly: "Naturally, they couldn't defend their home; this victory was entirely due to external force; although they won for a moment, when the enemy otters find an opportunity in the future, they will become homeless dogs again."

Liang Qu was dumbfounded.

An otter saw the situation clearly.

It's just that the temper is too big.

Is it that all honey badgers are good at fighting?

After watching the excitement, Liang Qu prepared to go back to sleep, when a small otter ran over and pulled his clothes corner.

Saying it's small is relative to other otters; in reality, it was over a meter tall when squatting, and compared to others that were only the size of an arm, it was a giant.

"What's the matter?"

The small otter pulled the clothes repeatedly, Liang Qu saw this and followed it to the grass nest of the otter family.

In the grass nest, several otters moved aside, revealing two metal ores emitting gray light.

"Eh?" Liang Qu squatted down, held up the stones and shook them, "For me?"

A group of otters nodded.

On the other side of the wooden house, several beavers stood straight, looking forward.

The small otter opened its palm and spoke a lot of "zhi wa zhi wa."

The old giant clam acted as a translator.

The otter family and the beaver family knew each other long ago; they collected ores very early, preparing to let the beaver family help them build small houses.

Pity heaven didn't fulfill the otter's wish; halfway through collecting, other otters came to fight; they were not only driven away and lost their home, but the ores they worked hard to collect were also gone.

Coming to rely on old friends, even the rent had to be owed temporarily.

The big otter asked Iron Tie Tie Mu Shan and Fierce Tooth General to take action; on one hand, to take revenge, on the other hand, to take back their own property and pay Liang Qu as future rent.

As for the home, they couldn't go back.

The other side had many otters, and Fierce Tooth General and Iron Tie Tie Mu Shan couldn't look after them all the time, so they had to give up.

Furthermore, the pond environment was much better than in the Great Marsh, clean and lively, and most importantly, safe; no spirit monsters would break in, much better than the original home.

Originally, the ores brought back weren't just the two in front of them; the extra ones had already been paid and repaid to the beaver family, and the second wooden house in the pond was about to be born!

Liang Qu rubbed the ores, not quite recognizing them.

A person's energy is limited; he is not a weapon forger, and his cognition of ores is not profound; he could recognize Ink Dragon Gold entirely because its color was exactly the same

I'll just ask Cao Shixiong Lu tomorrow.

"Done, I'll take it."

The next day.

The torrential rain did not cease.

Liang Qu simply didn't go out; while resting and recuperating, he practiced the spear at home, and amidst the crisscrossing gale, there were sounds of dragons roaring and tigers whistling.

It seemed that with the help of the Wave-Subduing Spear, the Azure Dragon Spear Art had improved once again.

However, it could also be the effect of the River Lord's second favor.

Among the many weapons, Liang Qu had the best feel for the long spear and the bow, which coincided with what the River Lord excelled at.

Come to think of it, the River Lord Emperor also used quite a few swords.

It was just that learning more would make things too cluttered, so he had never touched them.

The third day.

It was still torrential rain.

The rain columns from the eaves were like bead curtains, and a layer of rainwater accumulated in the tree pit, which had not seeped away for a long time.

Liang Qu frowned slightly, fearing it might be the rebound of the Bing-Fire Day; come to think of it, there hadn't been many rains during the Bing-Fire Day.

That afternoon, the rain did not stop.

Liang Qu knew he wouldn't find a better time, so he simply braved the rain to find Lu Gang.

Inside the hall of the Lu residence, one side of the wall had been completely cleared, revealing a white wall, with only a long scroll hanging on the upper level.

In the center of the scroll, a long ink-colored spear was lifelike, its sharp edge fully exposed, causing mental strain if stared at for too long.

Liang Qu shifted his gaze to the left and saw the "Wave-Subduing" characters written in a vigorous, cursive style in the lower right corner of the scroll, with Lu Gang's seal stamped underneath.

"Liang Shidi, you came in the rain; is there a problem with the Wave-Subduing?"

"Not at all, Liang Shidi found two pieces of ore and wanted to ask Cao Shixiong to take a look."

Liang Qu untied the cloth bundle, revealing the two gray ores given by the otter.

Lu Gang lowered his head and glanced at them: "Gray steel, the two pieces should weigh about three hundred and sixty jin."

Three hundred and sixty jin—not bad, not great.

Liang Qu had expected this in his heart.

It was impossible for everything to go as wished.

The finless porpoise tribe had many treasures because they lived in deep water areas and had a hoarding habit, which was the accumulation of decades.

As an amphibious creature, the otter needed to go ashore to rest, and human activities near the coast were frequent, so the remaining treasures were not many.

"I'll give them to Cao Shixiong; they are of no use to me."

"Good." Lu Gang did not refuse, "Gray steel has good toughness; if folded a few more times, it will also be a good weapon."

"I will bring good things to Cao Shixiong when I find them in the future." Liang Qu kept a finger-sized piece of Ink Dragon Gold, which was useless, and he also had to keep it in case the Wave-Subduing was damaged in the future, so there was basically no material left for Lu Gang.

Lu Gang originally wanted to politely decline, but thinking of Liang Qu's terrifying luck in the Great Marsh, he swallowed his words halfway.

He really wanted them.

……

In the courtyard, Liang Qu dismounted.

"Has anyone looked for me?"

"Yes!"

"Oh, who?"

"Lord Li from the River-Dredging Office; you said that if Lord Li came to find you, let him in, so I let him in."

Registrar Li Shoufu?

He hadn't forgotten the Jiaoren tribe near Xiangyi County, and had even told Li Shoufu to come find him as soon as there were tasks in Xiangyi County and other places.

Could it be…

Liang Qu walked quickly along the covered walkway to the courtyard.

Li Shoufu was sitting at the table drinking tea, and seeing Liang Qu, he hurriedly stood up and bowed: "Lord Liang!"

"No need for formalities." Liang Qu raised his hand to stop him, lowered his head to look at the register on the table, and his expression shifted, "Is there trouble in Xiangyi?"

Unexpectedly, Li Shoufu gave a bitter smile.

"I disappoint Lord Liang; it is not that there is trouble in Xiangyi County, but Lord Ran asked me to come and issue you the roster of River-Dredging Office chiefs."

"Oh, the roster, huh."

Liang Qu only then remembered that he was now a Seventh-Rank Water-Dredging Lang, and Ran Zhongshi had previously said he would allocate people to him.

A wasted joy.