Chapter 292: Steamed Crab and Grilled Fish

Shi Du asked Dajiang in a low voice, "Isn't the one from Territory Seven a high-level olfactory evolver?"

Dajiang nodded, not revealing to outsiders that she was the boss of the Yanlong Frogman Special Ops Team, only saying, "Besides olfactory evolution, her swimming ability is also excellent."

Tang Huai, whose hearing was extremely sharp, immediately leaned over, "She's a swimming evolver?"

Dajiang shot Tang Huai a look, "You've ever heard of that kind of evolution?"

After Shi Zhong sent another boatload of fish to shore, someone finally couldn't hold back. Because the one from Territory Seven had been underwater for ten minutes and still hadn't surfaced. She hadn't brought an oxygen tank down, and not coming up after so long—could she have held her breath to death or been killed by aquatic creatures?

Xia Qing was also worried, and ran over to ask Daya quietly, "Brother Ya, should we send someone down to check?"

Send who? Whose swimming ability here could compare to Yanlong's? Daya shook his head cheerfully, "It's fine, her swimming is excellent, we should just keep doing what we're doing."

After another five minutes, Yanlong finally surfaced, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief—then was shocked. What were those two millstone-like things she was carrying?!

Daya rushed over in pleasant surprise, "Evolved old turtle?!"

Yanlong nodded and handed them to Daya.

Daya immediately tested them, then shook his head regretfully, "All red-light."

Yanlong said nothing, turned around, and jumped back into the water. Unlike others who splashed huge sprays when hitting the water, when Yanlong dove it was as if the surface opened a door just for her—she went down without a single splash, and watching it felt downright uncanny.

Tang Huai muttered quietly, "Was she a diver before the Calamity?"

Hu Zi Feng, who was holding a gun nearby, snorted coldly, too lazy to deal with this clueless guy.

Such a large evolved turtle—nobody had ever seen one, and everyone crowded over to watch the excitement.

Looking at the mud on the turtle's shell, Hearing Qi Fu suddenly realized, "This guy must have been hiding in the mud, so even when it got electrocuted it didn't float up. Look at the size—must be over a hundred, nearly two hundred jin."

Workers from Territory Twelve washed the big turtles clean and carried them to the platform scale Kuang Qingwei had brought over.

Good lord, one at 195 and one at 213—even as red-light, they're worth quite a few points.

Tang Huai asked Xia Qing, "You want these two? If you don't, I'll have someone carry them off?"

Xia Qing shook her head. If it were a hard-shelled turtle she'd consider taking the shell off to sell, but a soft-shelled red-light turtle was truly useless to her.

After another busy hour or so, everyone finally finished hauling in all the fish, shrimp, and crabs from the surface and sorting them.

Kuang Qingwei, who was in charge of weighing, handed the notebook to Xia Qing, grinning so wide his mouth couldn't close.

Red-light was the most—4,150 jin!

Yellow-light next, 120 jin, and adding the big yellow-light fish Xia Qing had hauled up earliest, that made 240 jin.

Green-light was the least, but still 49 jin.

The green-light went to Daya first to pick; whatever he didn't pick, whoever wanted something could take it, with points calculated at eighty percent of the safe zone's public price: yellow-light 40 points per jin, green-light 120 points per jin.

Although this price was really very generous, every lord had rivers in their territory and had all dug fish ponds to raise fish, so aside from Territory Seven, this big customer, the rest only bought one or two fish each, all yellow-light.

Why not take green-light?

Because Territory Seven took over thirty jin, leaving Xia Qing with only two fish and two big river crabs—how could they have the nerve to reach for more?

After the red-light was all carried off by people from Territory Twelve, the others also took the few-jin yellow-light fish Xia Qing gave each territory and happily returned to their own territories. Only Hu Zi Feng, Tang Huai, and Daya from Territory Seven remained standing by the water with Xia Qing.

Because Yanlong, who had already hauled up four red-light old turtles and two red-light evolved leeches, was still in the water.

If the others weren't truly exhausted and sleepy, they'd also want to wait and see what else Yanlong could bring up.

Standing around waiting was boring, so Tang Huai discussed with Xia Qing, "The river crabs can't be kept long. Why don't you go get the pot and seasonings, and I'll clean them up and steam them for you?"

Xia Qing would rather kick Tang Huai away and steam him, but he had just transferred nearly a hundred thousand points to her, and his family ran a restaurant, and his fried cicadas were also delicious—Xia Qing wanted to taste his cooking, so she got up, went back, and brought the pot, seasonings, filtered water, and dry firewood.

"Xia Qing, bring a clean pair of scissors and a bottle of baijiu!" Tang Huai called out again.

Daya added, "No need for baijiu, there's some in the fridge."

Xia Qing raised a hand to show she'd heard. Going home wasn't just to get things—she also needed to comfort her companion who had gone back to watch the house.

But once home, Xia Qing felt something was off.

After standing for a moment she realized—her dining table was empty! Xia Qing narrowed her eyes at Sheep Boss lying on the tatami and asked fiercely, "Boss, where's my pine-nut corn?"

Sheep Boss lay on the tatami with narrowed eyes—at first glance seeming very relaxed, but Xia Qing could tell the thing was nervous and guilty, because it couldn't even be bothered to keep chewing its cud!

Xia Qing went to the kitchen for seasonings and found Sheep Boss had put her bowls and choppers into the dishwashing basin on the floor; Sheep Boss's food basin was placed next to the filtered water bucket, with half a basin of water inside.

Very good, truly guilty—already taking the initiative to do housework.

Xia Qing turned and glared at the creature still putting on an act, quickly packed up the things and stuffed them into her back basket, and after coming out instructed, "I'm going to the reservoir for something, Boss, watch the house well, don't go eating random stuff again, if your stomach hurts come find me at the reservoir."

Sheep Boss lay still with narrowed eyes, only relaxing every muscle after Xia Qing left, and resumed chewing its cud.

When Xia Qing brought the things to the reservoir, Tang Huai had already cleaned the river crabs, removed the mud and impurities, and was starting the fire.

Tang Huai mixed the seasonings, sprinkled them on the river crabs, then put them in the pot to steam, "These crabs are big, and they only went in the pot after dying, so they need to steam longer. Xia Qing, take out two fish, let's grill them?"

Before Xia Qing could say anything, Daya had already dug out three from the pile of fish belonging to Territory Seven in the fridge, "This kind grills well, I'll clean the fish, you mix the grill seasoning."

"Done!" Tang Huai agreed readily, then grinned cheekily and discussed with Xia Qing, "You got chili peppers, onions, and cilantro in your shed?"

Xia Qing asked, "No cilantro, for the onion do you want the leaves or the bulb?"

Tang Huai was afraid that if he asked for the bulb directly he'd be kicked out by Xia Qing, "Leaves are fine."

Seeing Xia Qing head to the vegetable greenhouse by the reservoir, Hu Zi Feng confirmed once again that the crops in the terraced fields were definitely better quality than those in the cultivated-land greenhouse. Because every time he came to get vegetables for Brother Luo, Xia Qing always picked them from the terraced fields.

As for why the terraced fields were better than the cultivated-land greenhouse, Hu Zi Feng didn't understand, and didn't ask.

To speak honestly, Hu Zi Feng today truly admired Xia Qing. If his territory had spinach that could make top-grade nutrient solution, he definitely wouldn't dare let this many people in, walking back and forth by the greenhouse.

"Eggplants and green beans can both be grilled—wash them clean, slice them, spread on the seasoning and grill, the taste is awesome!" Seeing Xia Qing come back with quite a lot of vegetables to wash, Tang Huai, while mixing the grilled fish seasoning, enthusiastically explained how his family's restaurant secret grill seasoning was blended.