Chapter 99: Don't be afraid of stealing food, just blame it on the cat

【Do you know where there is authentic Buddha Jumps Over the Wall?】

The business car is driving toward the pier. An Sheng thinks for a moment and types a line on his phone to ask.

"Lord Fuli wants to eat Buddha Jumps Over the Wall?" Lin Ying's expression is stunned, and she shakes her head: "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall requires a lot of time to prepare. The ones ordered on the spot are basically not good; you need to book one or two days in advance."

"Lord Fuli, please bear with it! I will place an urgent order with the shop right now."

Authentic Buddha Jumps Over the Wall requires a reservation. Only after a reservation is made will the shop start making it. Two days is just the time for charcoal-simmering the soup, not counting other preparation time.

【It's not that I want to eat it, it's my friend who asked where we can eat it.】 An Sheng thinks for a moment and adds.

"There are a few white houses by Longhai Reservoir, and there is a private kitchen there with no signboard or logo." Lin Ying opens the map and points the way for An Sheng.

"Ying."

An Sheng nods gently, then asks Lin Ying for a bottle of iced cola and a few grilled sausages, sitting comfortably in the aviation seat to scam food and drink.

The business car arrives at the seafood market. The shops along the street here are still brightly lit, with various raw marinated and sashimi dishes. Inside the market, except for a few lighting lamps, all the boutique seafood wholesale shops have closed for rest.

"Ying!"

An Sheng gets out of the car in an alley entrance, looks left and right to see no cameras, walks toward the market, and then lets out a whimper to call Tu Song Abai's name.

"Where are the dogs?"

After one call, An Sheng hears no response in the seafood market.

"Could I have... guessed wrong and gone to the wrong place?"

"Woo woo, woo—"

However, just as the little fox is stunned, a dog's whimpering sound comes from a seafood shop next to him.

"Shh, shh, shh! There are people in the market. White Boss still can't come out at home; we have to wait until twelve o'clock."

On the side, the dog in the seafood shop makes a low whimpering sound, quickly explaining to the little fox.

Of course, what the dog said wasn't that detailed; the dog just told An Sheng to be quiet and not disturb the people living in the seafood shop sleeping; they couldn't come out until later.

"... Can you guys be a bit more unrestrained? Seeing you so loyal, I'm a bit unaccustomed to it."

The little fox complains with black lines on his forehead.

Having been used to seeing Alaskan Malamutes, Huskies, or sheepdogs with their own ideas, all of them were happy-go-lucky.

Now that he suddenly sees such obedient dogs, An Sheng is a bit unaccustomed to it...

Gathering at 12:00 midnight actually didn't take as long as An Sheng waited; he left the house after 11:00.

Counting the time it took to drive here, it was already around 11:40.

An Sheng waits for a while, and some noises come from the second floor of Qiu Lingling's seafood shop.

Tu Song Abai opens the sliding window, sticks his head out on the windowsill to look around, and after confirming there is indeed no one, he climbs onto the billboard at lightning speed and jumps to the ground.

Tu Song Abai doesn't make any noise during the whole process of going out, including jumping down from the second floor.

"Woo—"

Tu Song Abai lands, rolls outward, and then tilts his head at An Sheng, signaling him to follow quickly.

When Tu Song Abai goes out, he seems to be deliberately avoiding something, walking in the center the whole time and never getting close to the edge of the seafood shop.

Walking out of the seafood market, they walk all the way back to the originally abandoned pier.

The originally open and flat pier has now been transformed into seafood processing plants adjacent to each other.

Between 12:00 and 3:00, there is basically no one in the factories.

Tu Song Abai leads An Sheng to a seafood processing plant, and then jumps onto the fish pond where rare fish and discarded fish are placed.

Half of the seafood in Jule City is caught at sea and then directly loaded onto trucks to be sent to processing plants for sorting.

During this period, some protected animals and some substandard fish are occasionally mixed in. For those big guys and fish fry, they are usually released back into the wild; anyway, it's just a matter of the delivery truck giving them a ride on the way.

"Wang—"

With no one around, Tu Song Abai's little hand isn't very clean as he scoops into the fish pond, pulls out a golden fish, and pushes it in front of the little fox.

Abai seems to be saying: Brothers are all here, little brother, don't be polite, grab a piece of sashimi to eat first.

"Isn't this a national first-class protected yellow croaker?"

An Sheng sees that the fish Abai is treating him to is a yellow croaker less than 20 centimeters long. The whole fox is stunned, and then looks at Tu Song Abai with a strange expression:

"Not to mention that this yellow croaker is indeed precious; it once sold for a sky-high price of several million."

Yellow croaker meat is delicious and is known as "sea gold," but wild yellow croaker is now a national first-class protected animal.

Not to mention taking a bite of it, if it drops a scale, the onlookers around will all have to spend 15 days in detention for provoking trouble.

Of course.

The reason An Sheng knows it is not because yellow croaker meat is delicious—An Sheng has actually never eaten it, whether wild or farmed—but he saw an auction about fish maw here in his past life.

At the auction, the most expensive fish maw came from a yellow croaker weighing 68 jin.

That yellow croaker's fish maw sold for 4.7 million.

Ingredients worth over 4 million.

An Sheng was stunned at the time and complained to his colleagues that if you recharged 4 million into a club, you wouldn't be able to eat any collagen, let alone eat that bite of fish maw.

If you give the technician 4.7 million, even if you bite through her silicone breast pads, she would have to praise you for the loud pop.

An Sheng remembered the yellow croaker because of this.

"Ying ying..."

An Sheng shakes his head, raises his hand, and slaps the yellow croaker by the fish pond back into the pond.

Maybe yellow croaker is delicious?

However, An Sheng lived in the forest before and was already afraid of gnawing on raw meat. He has no interest in these raw foods without any seasoning; no matter how good the ingredients are, they must be cooked or prepared to be delicious.

"Wang—"

Tu Song Abai comforts An Sheng, saying: Don't have any psychological burden when stealing food; the things here are what people don't want. Even if you steal some, people will only think it was stolen by a cat.

An Sheng looks at Tu Song Abai with black lines on his forehead, never expecting that Abai, who is extremely honest and simple in front of Qiu Lingling, is such a dog.

As long as it doesn't involve my home or my owner, then everything is permitted as long as it's not prohibited by law.

"Wang wang—"

As time passes, more and more dogs gather in front of the seafood processing plant.

This seafood processing plant might be the gathering place for Tu Song Abai and other dogs.

And as the dogs gather, Tu Song Abai, who looks like a Samoyed squatting by the fish pond, undergoes a quiet change; his originally sturdy figure gradually grows and develops, and his thick muzzle becomes slender.

The soft long hair on his body gradually layers, and his curled tail quietly becomes longer and straighter.

"Awoo—"

An Sheng, who witnessed Abai's change throughout, can't help but show a look of surprise on his little fox face. Until Abai lets out a wolf howl, An Sheng the fox is shocked:

"Holy crap... we are both spirit beasts, why do you have such a cool second stage?"

"Amazing!"

"The dog turns into a white wolf! No wonder I didn't see anything unusual about you before! So you were just acting like a dog in front of Qiu Lingling, and acting like a domineering CEO among dogs outside, right? Hurry up and say, 'Woman, you are playing with fire'!"

The gathering of dogs causes changes in Tu Song Abai, the head dog, and his body size grows.

Updating one chapter first, and two more at midnight to catch my breath.

It's been a long time since I tried writing ten thousand words a day, and my brain is a bit numb.

It's on the shelves now, working hard for six thousand words every day.

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