Chapter 823: Too Big an Appetite

"A-Fei, stop picking!"

White mist surged beside the cold spring. The Fat Catfish carried a large basket on its head, its two long whiskers whipping up afterimages, rapidly stuffing Abyss Clams into the basket. Hearing Liang Qu's call, it reluctantly flicked its tail and floated up.

"If General Fierce Tooth likes the taste of Abyss Clams, every once in a while, I will send Dragon Sturgeon to deliver them. You don't have to bring so many," a White Sturgeon beside Liang Qu flicked its tail and advised. "Abyss Clams grow extremely fast. If you dig up a patch, they will grow back in three to five days. You can't finish eating them."

The Fat Catfish was overjoyed and opened its fins.

"Three days!"

Liang Qu shook his head.

"From the West Water Domain to Pingyang Prefecture, the round trip takes quite a while. Let's make it every ten days."

"I'll go arrange it!"

Ao Cangyuan knew who was in charge and flicked its tail away.

The Fat Catfish dropped its two whiskers.

Liang Qu was happy and patted its big head: "Alright, eating once every three days is no different from eating every day. Wouldn't it be boring if you didn't feel the sweetness after eating it once in a while? Abyss Clams are things that taste sweet only when eaten rarely."

The Fat Catfish thought for a moment and felt it made sense, flicking its two whiskers upward, tiger-like and flowing.

Liang Qu turned his head and looked at the other Dragon Sturgeon.

"So according to Elder Ao Qing's meaning, from now on, you and Cangyuan will follow me?"

Ao Miyun lowered its head: "From now on, Miyun and Cangyuan will follow Liang's lead."

"No need for that. In the future, we should be colleagues."

Not careful.

Liang Qu gained two more subordinates who didn't need a salary.

After a long talk.

He and the Dragon-men acknowledged the extraordinary nature of the White Ape.

However.

The rhetoric was still that of sworn brothers, without revealing the whole truth.

He couldn't trust the old sturgeon.

Elder Ao Qing also knew clearly that both sides lacked a foundation of trust, so he didn't make any excessive demands, only sending the two young Dragon Sturgeon with the highest bloodline level and most talent in the clan to follow Liang Qu, hoping that one day they could complete their bloodlines from the White Ape.

The logic was the same as Long Eying and Long Binglin before, but the Dragon Sturgeon came a bit late and didn't catch the ride.

Adding flowers to brocade is far less effective than sending charcoal in snowy weather.

Pingjiang and Pinghe had thrown themselves under his door when he was still a Galloping Horse.

Looking at it this way, perhaps the Dragon-man clan not having their own reserved land wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"Take it slow."

Liang Qu stretched.

Coming out for a day, burying the third divine seed, the Ying Dragon pattern rose to the fourth layer, essence income was one hundred thousand, Eying's bloodline was completed, and he gained two water monster subordinates for nothing. It was truly a full harvest.

Moreover, monster beasts don't need heaven and earth long *qi*. Ao Cangyuan and Ao Miyun were just a step away. Perhaps, like Pingjiang and Pinghe, after completion, they could break through on their own, harvesting two wisps of dragon aura?

After Ao Cangyuan arranged the matters, they returned.

The group "rode the fish" back to the prefecture.

*Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. *

The torrent surged, water algae lay flat, and along the way, Spirit Monsters all shrank their heads into caves.

Long Eying and Long Binglin both restrained their Grandmaster momentum, yet just a few water monsters were already a massive force that no fish dared to provoke.

"What's wrong with the number one beauty of the Dragon-man clan? Thinking of your sweetheart, absent-minded?"

On the Fat Catfish's broad, soft big head.

Liang Qu lay half-reclined, supporting his face with his fist, looking from bottom to top. Behind the green silk, Long Eying's cheeks changed from jade-white to peach-red.

Long Eying wiped her face, her gaze shifting and then returning to meet his.

"The sweetheart is talking to himself, what's wrong?"

"Have you said a word to me on the way?"

Long Eying was stunned, her gaze quietly shifting away.

Having her personality "exposed" by Elder Ao Qing, especially in front of everyone, was no different from being "naked." The embarrassment was extreme. Just now, her thoughts didn't know where they had drifted, so how could she have the leisure to talk?

Liang Qu pulled the green silk, winding it around his fingertips and rubbing it open.

"Are you shy because of Elder Ao Qing's words?"

Long Eying opened her mouth slightly, wanting to speak but stopping, stopping but wanting to speak.

After a long while.

The peach-red turned into rosy-red.

She gritted her teeth, grabbed Liang Qu's lapels, buried herself in his arms, and rubbed hard, as if to rub all the embarrassment and awkwardness onto Liang Qu.

Her cheeks were burning, scorching his chest through her clothes.

Liang Qu sat half-up and half-reclined, giving support.

Long Binglin on Round Head's head closed his hearing, his gaze slanted to one side.

A long time passed.

"It's not true what he said!"

"What's not true?"

"None of it is true!"

"Good, none of it is true, none of it is true. Elder Ao Qing is relying on his age to sell his age, talking nonsense, harboring evil intentions!" Liang Qu stroked her back and said a long string, finally, "I'll make ice cream for you when we get back, to make you happy?"

Long Eying suddenly looked up, the rosy-red fading back to peach-red: "Coaxing a child?"

"Do you want to eat it?"

His wrist sank.

The long whiskers didn't know when they had touched him, curling around Eying's sleeve and pulling gently.

Liang Qu chopped with his hand, the long whiskers felt pain and retracted violently.

A pair of living treasures.

Long Eying laughed.

"Make more, I have a big appetite!"

"You don't have a big appetite; A-Fei has a big appetite."

*Purr, purr! *

Long whiskers fluttered.

The Fat Catfish hugged the fish basket on its chest, in a great mood.

There's ice cream to eat!

When they saw the Turtle King, they took a zigzag path, but returning in a straight line was faster than coming.

The sky was already bright.

At the pier, fishing boats were returning fully loaded one after another, taking advantage of the end of the curfew on the *Binghuo* day, trying to catch the tail of the night.

After settling the two Dragon Sturgeon into the lotus root field, Liang Qu didn't go back to sleep. 【Water Travels a Thousand *Li*】, three flashes, and he returned to the Dragon Abyss Path.

Before the abyss, currents flew horizontally.

Wearing the 【Vortex Armor】, he sneaked all the way to the top of the Sturgeon clan's territory.

The blue bracelet on his wrist detached, grew larger in the current, and landed on the rock.

Liang Qu exhorted: "Stay for a few days. If Elder Ao Qing has any unusual movements, tell me immediately."

Awei opened its mouthparts to indicate it understood, turned, and drilled into a rock crevice.

Confirming there were no fish around.

Liang Qu flashed back to Pingyang Prefecture.

Awei's aura-concealing skills after its sixth evolution were extremely profound; even Great Demons couldn't see through them, just right for being a scout.

Knowing fish and knowing faces but not hearts.

One moment of truth doesn't mean truth all the time.

Elder Ao Qing's thoughts were too "flexible," and every move needed more thought to pay attention to.

Monitor for half a month first!

The sun was scorching.

Strong men carried sacks, sweat pouring down like rain, stepping onto the gangplank, loading them into the hold, looking up to count the numbers.

"Master Li, three thousand six hundred and fifty sacks, all loaded."

"Hard work, go drink a bowl of mung bean soup to quench your thirst."

"Alright."

*Slap, slap, slap! *

Li Shoufu's eyes were bloodshot, scanning the grain sacks in the hold, his fingers flicking the abacus.

Since being entrusted with a heavy responsibility two days ago.

Contacting major grain merchants, medicine merchants, shipping, chambers of commerce, purchasing, negotiating prices, calculating accounts—Li Shoufu did everything himself, almost without closing his eyes. Just last night, he was really too sleepy and accidentally dozed off for more than half an hour.

"Master Li! How have you been?"

"Zhang Wenbao? What are you doing here?"

Li Shoufu rubbed his sore eyes.

He had an impression of the person in front of him—the Zhang family of Xiangyi County, who started with blood stone mines and had a not-so-small fleet under his command. In April, when the sea merchants arrived, they were one of the very few small families that drank the soup.

Doing business also pays attention to first come, first served.

One step ahead, every step ahead.

For the same price, or even a bit more expensive, people or monsters are more willing to choose a path they are familiar with.

"Naturally, I came to help Master Li. I heard Master Li had a need, so my big brother specially dispatched a batch of good ships and good hands, plus thirty stones of blood stone powder, all at Master Li's disposal! No charge. It's just that the incident happened suddenly, and we could only clear out twelve large ships."

Blood stone powder!

Li Shoufu was overjoyed.

The twelve large ships were secondary, not many, but blood stone powder is a blood-strengthening item, just a scarce "medicinal material."

"Good, good, good, I'll record a merit for you, record a merit for you!"

The surrounding merchants were a bit confused by the Zhang family's actions.

For no reason, why send so many good things?

Crazy?

But there were also those with keen senses.

A small registrar, is there something else going on?

"Add another hundred stones of grain as a tip? Master, why is this?"

Xue Chengquan shook his head: "Don't ask too much, just do as I say."

Before the words fell.

"Master Liang!"

"Master Liang is here!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 824 =====