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Chapter 96 Eating fish is such a beautiful thing (ask for first order)

The fish and jade tree are quite peculiar.

"Thank you for telling me, Village Chief. I understand now."

"It's still early now, Your Highness and I will go investigate first."

The two men stood up and prepared to leave. The village chief immediately stood up and wanted to go with them, but Nangong Longwen hurriedly stopped him.

"It is raining heavily. The village chief has difficulty walking, so you don't have to come with us. Your Highness and I will be careful."

The village chief hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not follow.

"The two messengers, please be careful. I am waiting for you here."

Soon, Nangong Longwen and Xuanyuan Wenyi left the stone house and disappeared into the heavy rain.

The two walked in the rain, and only after making sure that there was no one around did Xuanyuan Wenyi speak.

"It's a pity that you don't have such a mouth in front of Father."

They thought that this trip would be very troublesome, but Nangong Longwen's words made the villagers mistakenly believe that they came specifically to solve the matter, and they cooperated very well. The village chief was even more willing to tell them everything he knew.

It was easy to tell that this place was unique.

"Although I didn't come here specially, I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"

"No matter what the reason is, our coming here must have a result, and the result must be good for the villagers here."

".perhaps."

perhaps?

Xuanyuan Wenyi blinked, as if she felt that he was hinting at something, but she did not ask any more questions.

"You are actually quite smart, aren't you? Although you don't have the big picture perspective of the eldest son, you are more perceptive on some issues. Father also knew about this and asked you to come here."

"If you can use the right method, I'm afraid you will have a bright future."

Nangong Longwen laughed immediately.

"Ha, am I not using it for the right purpose now?"

"Wen Yi, please don't talk nonsense."

"But I didn't know Wen Yi missed me so much. Oh, I suddenly felt so happy. Even the rain seemed so beautiful."

"Brother is almost fascinated by you."

Xuanyuan Wenyi chuckled.

"Why don't you say this in front of Father?"

Nangong Longwen: “.”

He immediately laughed and said, "Then don't do that. I'm afraid the king will be unable to resist and chop me off. If he really does, you'll lose a brother."

"Oh, you have the desire but not the courage."

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, Wen Yi. I have always regarded you as my sister. Don't let the king misunderstand."

Xuanyuan Wenyi was speechless, and suddenly had the urge to beat this guy up.

The two of them quarreled all the way to Yushu.

"Is this the jade tree the village chief was talking about?"

They looked at the jade tree, which was a thousand meters tall, towering into the sky, with numerous branches that blocked out the sun, and even the rain was blocked by the trunk.

It is crystal clear and has excellent texture. When you touch it with your hands, it feels as soft as jade.

"Fine jade."

"I have been playing with jade pendants for more than ten years, but I have never seen jade with such quality. This jade tree is completely natural and intact. If I take it out, I am afraid it will attract countless people to fight for it."

Xuanyuan Wenyi replied casually: "No, such treasures will only go into my father's inner treasury and will not be fought over by others."

He wouldn't even put it in the national treasury.

It's so funny. All the money from the national treasury is used by all the people in the world, and the king's treasury is his own private treasury. How could her father let go of such a treasure?

Nangong Longhua: ".What you said makes a lot of sense."

"But this tree doesn't seem strange. No matter how I sense it, I can't see anything wrong."

Xuanyuan Wenyi frowned.

This is the ordinary jade tree.

Is there nothing wrong with this jade tree?
"Long Wen, what do you think?"

"Yeah, that's true. Haha, let's put the issue of this tree aside for now and go to the river to take a look."

He smiled and walked towards the river.

Xuanyuan Wenyi was puzzled, but she followed anyway.

There is a river to the south of the village with many fresh fish in the river. Due to heavy rain, it is difficult for villagers to farm, so the villagers have had to make a living by fishing for generations.

Villagers come here every day to fish and hunt.

When the two arrived here, they really saw some villagers fishing.

They used fishing nets to catch the fish. The river was not very wide, only about three meters wide, and the water was not deep. Even in such a heavy rain, the river flowed slowly and there was no sign of the river mouth bursting.

Some villagers can even stand in the river and count with their hands and throw them up one by one.

The fish was alive and kicking, and even after it reached the shore it struggled back and forth, refusing to accept its fate.

Nangong Longwen and Xuanyuan Wenyi did not step forward, but hid in the woods nearby and watched quietly.

"Why are you hiding? Didn't you say there was no need to hide?"

"Just think of it as me being shy right now and not wanting to be seen."

Xuanyuan Wenyi: “?”

The two hid here for a long time, and only walked out of the woods after the fishermen had left.

As soon as he walked out, Nangong Longwen asked, "Wen Yi, do you know how many fish they caught just now?"

"Why do you ask this suddenly?"

She was puzzled, but she still thought about it and answered seriously: "Including the fish that have been caught, there are about 234 fish. Each person carries at least ten fish."

At least ten per person
"Yes, at least ten per person."

"I have roughly estimated the number of people in the village before. There are more than a hundred people, including children and the elderly. If there are three people in each household, we can catch three fish a day. Adults and children can catch one fish each. The village needs more than a hundred fish a day."

"These fish are only enough to feed the village for two days."

"But Wen Yi, do you think this river can support so many fish?"

As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. But no matter how people rely on the water, if there is no farming and no wild animals, even a lake will be destroyed, let alone this small river.

Xuanyuan Wenyi was stunned for a moment, then understood.

"You mean there's something wrong with this fish?"

"There's something wrong with the fish, and there's something wrong with the river that feeds the fish."

Nangong Longwen smiled.

"Come on, let's go back."

go back?

They just go back like this?
I just went over to take a look at the fish in the jade tree, why don’t I go back here?

No more further look?
"No need"

Nangong Longwen turned around and went back.

"There are no clues forward or backward. If you go beyond a hundred miles, the river will dry up and the fish will die."

“The fish and rivers here only appear here.”

Just like this downpour.

Xuanyuan Wenyi felt that she seemed a little too stupid. She was clearly acting together with Nangong Longwen, and what she saw and observed were exactly the same. Why did he seem to understand everything and be confident, while she seemed to have discovered nothing?

Could it be that she is really not capable of this?

Shaking his head, Xuanyuan Wenyi hurried to catch up.

Soon after the two left, fish appeared in the quietly flowing river, and they opened their mouths and made sounds. However, the sounds they made were not the sounds that fish should make, but the sounds like birds and mandarin ducks.

The sound of mandarin ducks was transmitted quietly in the rain.

What's even more bizarre is that the fish has a human face.
Nangong Longwen and Xuanyuan Wenyi returned to the village chief's house, and the village chief immediately stood up to greet them.

"Two messengers, you are back, what have you gained?"

"We went to see the jade tree. Just as the village chief said, it is impervious to water and fire, swords and knives. But from a distance, the white bones are terrifying."

Nangong Longwen sat down and said, "Your Highness and I have used some tricks, but we couldn't hurt the tree at all. We just wanted more, but we couldn't do anything."

"It will take some time to find out the truth. I don't know where this tree came from."

The village chief immediately comforted him: "Don't worry, messenger. We have been waiting here for a lifetime. It will only take a few days. Don't worry, don't worry. I will look for the origin of the jade tree again and I will definitely find the real one."

"The messenger can live here without worries."

"The two messengers have worked hard all day and must be hungry. Old woman, is the fish ready? Bring it up quickly."

The old woman's voice came from the kitchen.

"All right, all right, it's already healed, but the messenger hasn't come back yet, so I'm keeping it warm."

"Fish soup is here."

The old woman served the fish soup and took out the bowls and chopsticks.

"My two envoys, this is all we have here. Please don't dislike it. Try it. It tastes great and is extremely delicious. You must try it."

The fish soup is thick and the fish meat is pure white. Even just by looking at it, you can tell how delicious the fish soup is.

"Well, then Your Highness and I will refuse the offer."

Nangong Longwen and Xuanyuan Wenyi looked at each other, then they filled their bowls and chopsticks with fish soup and fish meat, and ate the fish soup earnestly under the gaze of the village chief and the old woman.

As the fish soup entered their stomachs, a burst of deliciousness burst out instantly, and the unprecedented deliciousness made their eyes light up.

Although both of them had high identities and status and had tasted all kinds of delicacies from land and sea, they could even get the meat of the monster.

But this delicious taste almost made them indulge in it.

“This fish soup is really delicious!”

Seeing this, the two old men smiled.

"As long as the two messengers are satisfied, that's good."

"Drinking more soup is a wonderful thing."

"Messenger, there is more here"

The old woman even tried to get up and take out the remaining fish soup in the kitchen.

But Nangong Longwen and Xuanyuan Wenyi only took a bite and stopped eating, just looking at them with a smile.

There was an inexplicable meaning in those eyes.

The village chief and the old woman suddenly felt uneasy and became nervous.

"Two, two messengers, what do you think we are doing?"

"Why don't you want to eat? Do you have a poor appetite? Or is it just not to your liking?"

The two of them didn't say anything, but continued to smile and never looked away.

They seemed to be unable to bear being stared at, as if all their secrets had been revealed, and their emotions could not help but change.

"Why are you looking at me? Messengers, drink, drink, drink it while it's hot."

The speech was intermittent and she couldn't go on. The old woman got angry and slammed the table and stood up.

"Drink, why don't you drink! Give it all to me, an old woman!"

"You don't want to drink, don't want to drink, right?"

"Do you think you can leave here without drinking?"

"You have to stay too, and you have to stay for me too!!!"

The old woman's face suddenly became hideous, fish scales appeared on her body, and her hunched back became straight. Although her limbs did not change, she was already lying on the ground, walking on all fours.

The fish's tail is long and slender, sweeping around, making sounds like a baby.

This is no longer the human race.
"Demon?"

Xuanyuan Wenyi was shocked, but then she was stunned.

"No, is this a monster? There is no monster aura on it. And what about this fish? Will it become like this after eating the meat?"

“Is it the existence behind this fish that makes it rain every day in this village?”

"Long Wen, you knew this a long time ago?"

Nangong Longwen calmly faced the village chief, thought for a moment, and said, "I just have some guesses."

"So where should I start?"

"Wen Yi, I sorted out the information you gave me, and then I confirmed one thing. There must be something there, either a sealed demon or an abnormal force. You once said that if someone drinks water here, they will explode and die, and the water they bring out will return here."

"So I thought, if drinking the water here can kill people, why don't the people living here die?"

"After all, village chief, the people here have been isolated from the outside world for thousands of years. If they were truly mortals, who would know about the dynasty? Who would not want to leave? Even if they were far away from their ancestral land, I'm afraid they wouldn't want to live here."

"——Without sunshine all year round and continuous heavy rain, no matter how strong a person is, he will die quickly."

“Mortals are actually very fragile.”

"When the village chief mentioned fish, I thought this might be the answer."

"The endless supply of fish, the heavy rain, and the residents who have always been here."

“This may be the answer.”

"The water is the water here, and the fish are the fish here."

"——If you drink the water here, you can only live here."

"——If you eat the fish here, you will become a monster like this."

"Village chief, there is actually no such thing as a long history here. You have actually lived here since then and have been guarding here all the time. From the beginning, there have only been you."

"How long have you lived?"

Xuanyuan Wenyi could have anticipated some of the previous words, but the last words really caught her off guard.

The people here never change?

When did this village appear? When did the rain fall here?
Not sure. No one ever knows.

If they really haven't changed, then how long would their lives be?
Two hundred thousand years?
The village chief was silent for a while, then he couldn't help but sigh.

"You are very smart, young man. You have doubted us from the beginning, even doubting whether we have lived for long."

"When you first asked me how long I had lived, I think you were just testing me."

"How long? I have forgotten even myself."

"One thousand years? Two thousand years? Three thousand, four thousand?"

"I am just an ordinary person. I have never experienced the grace of an immortal. I don't know what it means to not count the years. If you ask how many years it is, I really can't answer."

"But it doesn't matter, does it?"

"Old woman, put away that expression. There is no need to be like this. No matter how many there are, they have eaten the water and fish here, and they are the same as us."

"You can't get out, you can't get out young people, why don't you stay and be with us, hehehe"

The village chief laughed and laughed, the wrinkles on his face turned into scales, and the fish soup on the table gradually changed.

The fish head, which was originally placed in the middle of the casserole, began to change gradually.

The image of the fish faded, and a human face slowly emerged.

"Haha, look, look, what a beautiful fish! Eat it and live forever with us!"

Xuanyuan Wenyi: “!!!”

Xuanyuan Wenyi's scalp tingled and her hair stood on end. What she had just touched and felt so delicious was this thing! ???

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