Chapter 365: Guests from the Great Marsh

Wangjiang Port in the Jianghuai Great Marsh, a crab-farming bay famous far and near.

On a clear, cloudless night, two scattered sampans were quietly moored on the river, the river water reflecting the silver radiance of the stars and moon.

The stems of the cogon grass hung obliquely, the reed flowers touching the river, and the majority of the fluffy catkins were submerged in the water, floating and scattering a layer of frost-white pollen, flowing along with the surging Great Marsh toward the distance.

Splash!

A long tail broke the full moon, and the water waves submerged the pollen.

A huge shadow swam under the water, surging up layers of waves.

The fat catfish had a thin braided rope hanging around its fat neck, and its side fins tightly hugged a bamboo-woven fish basket, leaning against the bank of the Great Marsh to search for crabs.

The water flow stirred lightly, fish and shrimp fled, clams closed their shells, and stone-climbing fish jumped and hid in rock crevices.

The crab that was pinching a small fish to tear and eat sensed danger, its eye stalks wobbling, and it dropped its prey, fleeing sideways into a mud hole with its eight legs.

The fat catfish was unhurried, shook its tail and went forward, flicking its long whiskers into the hole, probing slightly, and when it picked out, a large crab with bared fangs and brandished claws hung on the tip of the whisker.

The crab waved its hairy pincers, firmly clamping the long whisker, not knowing that it had already been fooled and a great disaster was imminent.

The fat catfish picked up the crab and brought it to its front, pushed open the lid of the fish basket in its arms to compare it with the big crab inside, shook its head in disappointment, flicked its long whiskers, and the crab, which was less than six taels, flew out of the water and smashed into the grass.

The crab that had luckily escaped a disaster struggled to turn over, its sharp feet touching the ground, and fled into the bushes.

The fat catfish closed the bamboo lid, flicked its tail, and continued forward, and in the blink of an eye, it found another big crab at the corner.

The big crab lived in a hole, half-hidden and half-revealed, spitting bubbles, clamping the twitching long whiskers, and in a flash, the whole crab was hoisted up by the long whiskers.

After a comparison.

The fat catfish happily collected the crab into the basket.

There were many professional big crab farmers near Wangjiang Port, enclosing large areas of crab ponds along the shore.

From time to time, crabs would move their eight legs and crawl out of the fences, slip into the Great Marsh, and breed with wild crabs.

Over time, the quality and quantity of crabs near Wangjiang Port were several heads higher than other ports!

Round Head searched everywhere for a crab-catching treasure land and was the first to perceive that this place was extraordinary, with many big crabs and fat crabs.

However, just as it informed the river porpoises under its command and went to look for a crab-catching place elsewhere, the fat catfish heard the news from somewhere, hugged its fish basket and rushed over, forcibly intimidating and driving away the other river porpoises, occupying the entire marsh mouth, and searching for big crabs alone.

The river porpoises had no leader and were not organized, and they were completely no match for the fat catfish. They dared not speak out of anger and could only let the fat catfish do as it pleased, silently running elsewhere to catch crabs.

Monopolizing the treasure land, the crevices of the fish basket were already crowded with crab legs, and the full basket had at least a hundred of them.

The fat catfish couldn't help but let its imagination run wild, fantasizing about the encouragement and praise from the Heavenly God.

Little did it know that the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

"A fish that can catch crabs? That's rare..."

The riverbed was full of reefs, and the water grass was lush.

Two "robust" figures, no shorter than Liang Qu's river elder Kou Zhuang, were hiding behind them, pointing at the fat catfish.

They were clearly without any difficulty breathing underwater.

"Big Brother, the crabs in that fish basket are all big, and those under seven taels don't even enter the basket. We've been out for a long time and haven't eaten crabs. Now that autumn is high and the air is crisp, and the yellow is full and the fat is thick, it's just the right time. Why don't we snatch that basket of crabs?"

The "robust" man, who was slightly smaller but still about two meters three, gestured and compared what he had seen earlier.

"Don't delay the business. We came south to find the reincarnated Dragon Lord. That fish looks strange and I've never seen it before. I don't know what breed it is, and it's so clever. It might be a rare species with an owner.

Don't forget the Black-Clad Commandant of that year, who rode a mysterious turtle across the Great Marsh alone. Have you forgotten the series of events that followed?"

The second brother didn't care: "Big Brother, I don't know if it has an owner for now. Even if it does, that mysterious turtle of the Black-Clad Commandant was a big spirit monster at best. That strange fish is only a spirit monster, a grade lower.

We move fast, knock it out with a muffled stick, leave no traces, and snatch it without anyone knowing. It's a headless account!"

After pondering for a long while.

Gurgle~~~

A muffled sound rang out in the water.

Big Brother coughed twice.

The two had been drifting from place to place for several days and hadn't eaten...

Suddenly recalling the delicious taste of crab meat and crab roe, it was hard to forget, and their mouths were watering.

"Second Brother, what you said is not unreasonable..."

Bang!

Bang!

Two muffled sounds rang out in the water one after another, like a wooden stick hitting a rubber product.

"Strange, this fish is quite tough! It actually took two hits to faint. It made my tiger's mouth numb!"

"Hmm, Second Brother, did it see our faces?"

"I don't think so, I acted quite fast..."

"Hey! You, you, I advised you not to listen, and now you've caused such a disaster. What should we do?"

"Ah? Then Big Brother, are you going to eat it?"

"Things have come to this, eat!"

The sky was dawning.

Sunlight spread over the Great Marsh.

A group of river porpoises flowed in a group, leaving trails of water, startling the fish to flee in all directions and jump out of the water.

The fisherman returning to the boat stood on the sampan, swaying under his feet, seeing the big fish jumping on the marsh surface, not knowing why.

Under the Great Marsh.

Round Head led its younger brothers, rushing back to Wangjiang Port aggressively to settle the score.

After searching around, the river porpoises below gave a response.

Unexpectedly, when Round Head arrived, the fat catfish was lying on the ground sleeping soundly, the fish basket beside it overturned, empty.

After a whole night, it hadn't caught any crabs?

Round Head was furious.

Monopolizing the venue was fine; it was all for the Heavenly God.

Never expected the fat catfish to be so incompetent.

Wasting a good place to catch crabs, and in the end, it was empty-handed!

Round Head flicked its fin, and a river porpoise on the left understood.

It put down the fish basket, retreated a hundred zhang away, aimed at the fat catfish sleeping with its head down, and suddenly started a diving acceleration!

The streamlined body left a large trail of water, and the hundred-zhang distance was covered in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the solid head slammed into the fat catfish's fat belly!

Boom!

The flat belly bounced like a wave.

A black shadow flashed and disappeared in the water, smashing into the riverbed, splashing up a large amount of mud and sand, covering all directions.

Who, who, who!

The fat catfish got up in a rage. It swam out of the dust, looked around, and found that at some point, the vicinity had been surrounded by river porpoises carrying fish baskets.

Round Head swam forward slowly, the sun penetrating the water layer, plating it with a layer of dazzling golden radiance, looking down at the fat catfish that was stunned.

Facing Round Head, which cast a large shadow and was looking at it ruthlessly, the fat catfish scratched its forehead with its whiskers, just wanting to quibble, when Round Head threw down a fish basket.

The fish basket bounced twice, dropped the bamboo lid, and there was nothing inside; it was clearly an empty basket.

The fat catfish didn't understand. It observed for a long while, feeling more and more that the fish basket looked familiar, until it saw the broken braided rope, and its whole body trembled.???!!!

The wind blew across the pond, bringing out large folds.

Duckweed drifted from east to west.

"You said, two people ambushed you, and the purpose was to snatch the crabs?"

Liang Qu rubbed his chin, falling into deep thought.

In the pond, the fat catfish nodded repeatedly, its side fins hugging the fish basket, then patted the back of its head, rolled its eyes, and floated on the water surface with its belly up. **CHAPTER 366: WHO? ME? **

"The ones who snatched my crabs were you two, right?"