Chapter 452: Fishing for Crayfish
“But it should be difficult!”
She smiled at Chu Sihan.
Her master had such a high cultivation level, but he had to pay the price of a body to forcefully travel through space and time.
Needless to say for a mortal with a low cultivation level like her.
Perhaps, she might have to even pay the price of her soul dissipating.
The price was too high. She could not afford it, and did not dare to try it easily.
“Let’s wait for an opportunity.”
Chu Sihan smiled faintly.
He kept feeling that one day, he would return with Lu Sheng to her original world.
Lu Sheng smiled and sighed softly. “I hope that there will be an opportunity for me to return to my original world.”
Although this place was good, she still preferred her previous life.
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Half a month later.
Huang Yang Town, Lu Mansion.
“Master, didn’t Grandmaster and Aunt-Master come back together with you?”
In front of the coffee table, Lu Sheng asked Lu Zhou curiously.
“Your grandmaster has returned to the Five Peaks. Your Aunt-Master followed Chunyu Dong to Yang Cheng Mansion.”
“What about Lan Yi?”
When Lu Zhou returned, Lu Sheng did not see Lan Yi.
“The new county magistrate of Yong Fu Town hasn’t arrived yet. He and Qing Yi are still in Yong Fu Town. They probably won’t be here soon.”
Lu Zhou quickly asked about the crayfish.
“The weather has been good recently. How’s the crayfish in the river?”
“How would I know?”
Lu Sheng shrugged. She had just arrived the day before yesterday and had not returned to the village to take a look.
“What’s blind and deaf?”
Shangguan Dian interrupted curiously.
Even Netherworld looked over curiously.
Lu Zhou smiled mysteriously. “It’s delicious.”
At the mention of food, Shangguan Dian’s interest was piqued. “Is it the delicacy you promised to treat me to?”
Lu Zhou nodded.
Shangguan Dian swallowed his saliva and asked Lu Sheng, “Little niece, when can the delicacy be made?”
Why did he not discover so many delicacies in the human world in the past?
He had lived for nothing for the past ten thousand years!
“I’ll go back to the village tomorrow and bring some back for you to eat tonight.”
After hearing Lu Sheng’s words, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows. “I heard from Lu Ran that you bought a hundred mu of land. What are you going to plant?”
Lu Sheng said proudly, “There are a lot of things that can be planted.”
“Oh.”
Lu Zhou reached out and a bag of items appeared in his palm.
“Do you want to plant this too?”
“What’s this?”
“You’ll know when you see it.”
Lu Sheng reached out to take it curiously. After opening it, she suddenly smelled a fragrance…
After being speechless for a while, she said to Lu Zhou, “Master, even if you have amazing skills, you can’t grow this, right?”
Could these watermelon seeds be planted?
“Huh?”
When Lu Zhou heard that, he suspiciously looked over and realized what was going on.
“Oh, I took the wrong one.”
He took out another small bag and passed it to Lu Sheng. “This is the one.”
Lu Sheng pouted and returned the watermelon seeds to him.
“What’s this?”
Shangguan Dian sniffed and stared at the bag curiously.
“Watermelon seeds. Here, for you.”
As Lu Zhou spoke, he threw the bag at him.
Shangguan Dian caught it in a flurry and opened it impatiently.
When he saw the items in the bag, she frowned.
“Can this be eaten?”
With his doubts, he casually grabbed a handful and placed them into his mouth.
After biting for a few times, he spat them out.
After making some spitting sounds, he returned the items to Lu Zhou.
“This tastes bad. I’m not eating it.”
Lu Sheng chuckled. Lu Zhou glanced at him disdainfully and picked one up.
When Shangguan Dian saw this, he only thought that he had used the wrong method to eat it.
He reached out to take it, but Lu Zhou dodged it. He was so angry that he howled.
“Master, Uncle Demon King, I’ll go back and sleep first. I have to wake up early tomorrow morning.”
Lu Sheng stood up and yawned. She spoke to the two of them before leaving.
The next morning.
After Lu Sheng finished her breakfast, she rode the carriage and prepared to leave.
Unexpectedly, when she stepped out of the Lu Mansion, she saw Chu Sihan and Chu Yun standing guard outside the door.
“Lord, Guard Chu, why are you here?”
Chu Sihan smiled. “I’m here to wait for you.”
“Lord’s guess was right!”
Chu Yun smiled and said, “I wanted to ride here, but the Lord said that Miss Lu has a carriage.”
Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow. “You want to return to the village with me?”
She would not be back until late at night.
That was because she wanted to find someone to help plow the land today and also find someone to plant the seeds.
She could not handle so many chores alone.
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to return to town until dusk.”
“It’s alright.”
Chu Sihan said carelessly, “Anyway, we don’t have anything important to do.”
Lu Sheng nodded. “Okay, let’s go together.”
If they wanted to go, she could not stop them, right?
She initially thought that there were only these two people. In the end, she bumped into Yun Ting and Shi Yi, who had come to find Chu Sihan as soon as she left the alley.
In the end, there were five people.
“Miss Lu, why isn’t the restaurant open today?”
It turned out that Shi Yi and Yun Ting had agreed to go to the Lu family’s restaurant to eat. Unexpectedly, the restaurant was closed when they reached.
They wanted to find Chu Sihan and have a drink with him at Tian Xiang Restaurant.
However, they did not expect to meet the three people who were about to return to the village. When they heard that they were going to Liu Yue Village,they followed them.
“It’s my uncle’s big day in a few days, so he won’t open the restaurant for the next few days.”
Lu Sheng pondered and said, “I remember there was a notice pasted outside the door. Didn’t you see it?”
With such a big piece of red paper pasted at the door, were these two people selectively blind?
Shi Yi said, “I see! We did see the red paper, but didn’t pay attention to the words on it.”
Lu Sheng was speechless.
Instead of reading the red paper and black words, he came over to ask her personally. Could this be the legendary ‘lazy cancer?’
“Oh right, Young Master Shi. How has your… interaction with Miss Yu been recently?”
As they chatted, Lu Sheng became interested again.
“That’s all.”
Shi Yi smiled and said happily, “Not long ago, I had a meal with Mdm Yu.”
“Oh!”
Lu Sheng clicked her tongue. “Not bad, Young Master Shi. You have a brighter future than Young Master Yun.”
Yun Ting, who was shot even though he was lying down, was speechless.
Chu Sihan and Shi Yi looked at him at the same time and scoffed in unison.
“He didn’t know wha was good for him. Otherwise, the beauty would have already been in his arms now.”
Shi Yi glanced at Yun Ting disdainfully.
Yun Ting sighed helplessly.
He knew that he did not know what was good for him in the past, but he was changing now!
“I went for a walk with Sisi yesterday. I also had a meal with the Prime Minister.”
“Tsk—”
Shi Yi smiled coldly. “How can that be the same? Moreover, from what I know, you were only sending Miss Fu and Mdm Fu over.”
“As for the meal with the Prime Minister, it was all thanks to Brother Chu.”
Yun Ting was speechless.
The new year had passed. Couldn’t he not stab his heart?
“When we return to the capital, I’ll mention it to my mother and let her go to the Prime Minister’s Mansion to ask for Sisi’s hand in marriage.”
Fu Sisi was still hesitating, so he decided to take action.
“Oh?”
Shi Yi blinked. “Are you really enlightened?”
“Isn’t that so?”
Chu Sihan said coldly, “If he didn’t, my cousin will fall in love with someone else.”
Ever since Fu Sisi came to Huang Yang Town, she had been quite popular. There were many young masters chasing after her.
Yun Ting’s face darkened and he snorted coldly.
“How are those people worthy of Sisi?”
They only knew how to chase after Fu Sisi, recite poems, and flaunt their literary talent.
They thought that they could win Fu Sisi’s heart with just a few poems.
However, they did not know that Fu Sisi had never liked studying. If not for Chu Sihan’s and Fu Xianyun’s influence, she would not even have attended class.
That was why if they were in such a hurry to perform, they would just be causing her to be troubled.
“They’re not worthy, but they still work hard to show themselves. Brother Yun, you’re worthy. I didn’t see you express anything before.”
Shi Yi pouted and said, “Thankfully, Miss Fu is stubborn. If it were me, I would have long forgotten about you.”
Yun Ting laughed coldly. “Thankfully, you’re not her. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even look at you.”
Shi Yi was speechless.
Seeing Shi Yi deflated, Lu Sheng could not help but chuckle.
Along the way, she and Chu Sihan found it very interesting when they heard the duo’s occasional bickering.
Unfortunately, there was a limit to how much fun they could have. After a while, they reached Liu Yue Village.
Along the way, everyone except Lu Sheng was having an empty stomach.
Hence, the moment they returned to the Lu family, Shi Yi ignored Chu Sihan’s cold gaze and started crying and fooling around with Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng had no choice but to borrow some rice from the Liang family to cook. Aunt Yu even plucked a bunch of vegetables for her.
There were pots, bowls, oil, and salt at home.
As Lu Ran would come back frequently, there were still these necessities.
After steaming the rice, Lu Sheng carried the basket and prepared to leave.
“Miss Lu, where are you going?”
Shi Yi ran over eagerly.
“Where are you going?”
Chu Sihan asked.
“Oh, I’m going to the village to buy some ingredients. Take a seat first. I’ll be back soon.”
Lu Sheng did not wait for their reply and left.
“Lu Sheng, when did you come back?”
Mdm Fang, who was going out to buy some vegetables, asked Lu Sheng with a smile when she saw her.
“I just came back and have a few friends with me, so I wanted to go to the village entrance to buy some vegetables.”
Lu Sheng glanced at the Tao family’s courtyard and asked with a dry smile, “Has Brother Tao gone to Yu Xi Town?”
“Yes.”
Mdm Fang pulled her along and said, “He went back long ago.”
Lu Sheng said awkwardly, “Last time, I even said that I wanted to entertain Brother Tao. In the end, I left Huang Yang Town for some matters. I left in a hurry and did not have the time to tell Brother Tao.”
“Don’t worry about such a small matter.”
Mdm Fang patted the back of her hand and smiled. “Your uncle and I went over with your Brother Tao that day. Your uncle and brother hosted them. After your Brother Tao ate the food in your restaurant, he kept praising them non-stop even when he came back.”
“Really?”
Lu Sheng smiled and said, “If Aunt and Uncle like it, you can go there often. It’ll be free for you.”
“How can that do?”
Mdm Fang glared at her. “It’s not easy to do business. How can we eat for free?”
“Isn’t that because I still have a lot of things to ask Aunt and Uncle for help in the future?”
After He Qin got married, she might have to come back and stay for a long time.
“You can’t eat anything for free. If you need any help, tell me. If I can’t help, you still have your uncle.”
“Actually, I came back to ask someone to plow some land for me. I obtained some new food some time ago, so I wanted to plant the seeds early.”
It was spring plowing season now, and everyone was busy with their own fields. She did not know if anyone had the time to help her plow.
“Really?”
Mdm Fang nodded. “Have you found someone to help?”
Lu Sheng shook her head. “I don’t have a cow or a plow now.”
Mdm Fang pondered for a while before saying, “You can ask the villagers for help, but you have to spend some money.”
“As long as someone is willing to help, it’s alright to spend some money. I wonder how I should pay them.”
Lu Sheng had done a lot of plowing in her previous life. She was quite tired after a day.
“It’s not about spending money.”
Mdm Fang smiled and said, “You only need to provide some food and water. Everyone is willing to help.”
“Oh!”
So she was referring to the money for the ingredients.
Lu Sheng smiled. “It’s alright. As long as everyone is willing to help.”
Mdm Fang nodded. “Okay. Prepare some dishes and wine tonight. I’ll get your uncle to inform everyone.”
“Okay!”
It seemed like she had to make a trip to town again.
After buying the ingredients, Lu Sheng parted ways with Mdm Fang when she reached the Tao family.
When she reached home, she made a simple breakfast for them before telling them that she was returning to town.
Shi Yi said, “If I had known earlier, I would have prepared those items when I came over.”
Lu Sheng shrugged. “I didn’t expect that either.”
If she had known this earlier, she would have prepared the items long ago.
“Planning to come back and stay?” Chu Sihan asked softly.
Lu Sheng nodded. “If nothing goes wrong, I should be back for some time.”
Chu Sihan nodded slightly.
“You guys eat first. I’ll get some food.”
She promised Lu Zhou and Shangguan Dian that she would bring some crayfish back for them.
Seeing her holding meat, a wooden bucket, and a fishing pole, the three of them thought that she was going out to fish. Unexpectedly, after taking the items, she went straight to the backyard.
Shi Yi thought that Lu Sheng was raising fish in the backyard. After picking up a few dishes with his chopsticks, he followed her to the backyard.
Holding the bowl, he squatted by the shore and waited for Lu Sheng to catch the fish.
Who knew that when Lu Sheng pulled it up, it was not a fish, but a bunch of strange insects.
Some even fell back into the pond after they were fished.
Lu Sheng caught three at once and hurriedly placed them into the wooden bucket.
“What’s this?”
Shi Yi did not eat either. He leaned in front of the wooden bucket and stared suspiciously at the three little things in the wooden bucket.
He felt like he had seen them somewhere before.
“Crayfish.”
When Shi Yi heard that, he was suddenly enlightened. “So, the blind and deaf you mentioned previously was this thing!”
No wonder he found it familiar.
He remembered seeing this thing’s shell in the dustpan when he first arrived at the Lu family.
He even asked Lu Sheng what this was.
Lu Sheng nodded. “Yes.”
“But this thing looks a bit strange. Can it really be eaten? Is it poisonous?”
He had lived for twenty years, but he had not even seen this before, much less eaten it.