There are more and more gravels ahead.
Many small puddles are not peaceful.
If Sanhua Empress was usually elsewhere, she would not let go of any fish or shrimp in the puddle, no matter how small. Even if it was as big as a little finger, she would have to catch it. Even if the Taoist priest doesn't eat it, she will cut it open, wash it, dry it, dry it and store it. Anyway, she is small, so such a big fish is just right for her.
But the Sanhua Empress here today is different.
It’s not that I don’t like it.
Sanhua Empress is very economical.
Instead, she planned to ask Xiao Shuiwa to help her raise them temporarily. After she finished picking up the big fish and shrimps, she would come back and take them back to become small dried fish.
Along the way, Sanhua Empress made full use of the experience she had stolen from the locals, and also made full use of her own skills. As if she was deliberately showing off her new skills to the Taoist priests, she kept bending down to find fish and shrimps hidden in the stone crevices. Crab, or move away the stone slab to see, no matter how well hidden, flexible or ferocious the animal is, it cannot escape her cat's claws.
Sometimes she catches them and doesn't put them in the bag. After washing them in clean water, she stuffs them into her mouth.
When it was almost noon, she was already standing behind an old woman wearing a bamboo hat, watching her digging shellfish and oysters on the stone wall. At the same time, she took out her knife from her arms and looked down at it carefully.
"That's enough." Song You quickly said to Sanhua Empress, "Sanhua Empress has already harvested a lot. If this continues, Sanhua Empress will catch so many in one day, and the next few days will be very boring."
"Continue to catch in the next few days!"
"Can't finish it."
"You can take it and sell it!" The little girl pointed to the direction she came from yesterday. "After passing that village, you can sell fish in the village over there!"
"You remember clearly..."
"Miss Sanhua has an extraordinary memory!"
"But the sun is already very bright."
"Yes!" Sanhua Empress said with deep concern, "Then you go back and hide from the sun! Sanhua Empress is not afraid of the sun!"
"..."
Song You could only look at her helplessly, feeling that she seemed to be addicted to some kind of addiction.
This is actually a joyful feeling of gain.
Fortunately, he has a solution.
Song You looked up at the sky and said, "But it's noon now, and I'm already hungry. Empress Sanhua has harvested so much seafood from the sea, so it's time to go back and taste them. And I have to go there alone. I have to light the fire, cook, collect firewood, and put away the seafood, it’s so busy.”
"oh!?"
Empress Sanhua seemed to be surprised. After hearing this, she quickly raised her head and looked at the sky. She seemed to be shocked and realized that it was already noon before she knew it.
"What do you think, Sanhua Empress?"
"Miss Sanhua, I think you are right!"
"Come back tomorrow."
"Come back in the afternoon!"
"good……"
Song You then led her back.
The little girl's trousers were already stuffed and bulging, and her hands were not empty. However, she was not tired at all and refused to let Song You help her. Instead, her steps became more brisk and she felt full of accomplishment.
"Is it fun here?"
"Fun!"
"I told you a long time ago that it was in Changsheng County under Yunding Mountain a few years ago, right?" Song You said, "I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"It's more fun than what the Taoist said!"
"Then let's stay here for a while." Song You said to her, "Sanhua Empress can take her time and play, don't be in a hurry."
"Looking for something to eat!"
"Okay, look for it slowly."
"Then when will we go to sea?"
"Let's go to the sea in a few days." Song You thought for a while and then said to her, "Actually, it's fun to go to the seaside and the harvest is rich, but the real number of sea creatures are in the sea. These are all from Washed up by the waves in the sea. When we go out to sea, Sanhua Niang can also fish or go into the sea to catch fish. There may be shrimps and crabs bigger than Sanhua Niang, and these are also delicious. "
"real?"
"I dare not deceive Empress Sanhua." Song You paused, "When we come back from the sea, we can stay here for a few days."
"Do you like Taoist food?"
"like."
"OK!"
The little girl followed him closely, but she still couldn't help but chase the small crabs on the beach as she walked, pretending to step on them with her feet, and at the same time, she picked up some fish and crabs from along the road or caught some fish and crabs and stuffed them into her rug.
Approaching the place where she slept last night, Sanhua Empress quickly quickened her pace and ran to the small pool she built to see if her hard-earned harvest was still there. Then he counted carefully and counted again. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there were no missing prey. He took out the new prey and put them in one by one, counting them as he put them.
Then he was not idle and went to collect firewood to make a fire.
The Taoist was packing the seafood.
Before coming here, Song You had already foreseen such a situation, so he made enough supplies and preparations. There were a lot of spices such as ginger, onion, and garlic. He only needed to set up a pot to have a delicious meal.
It was rare to have a few free days, so Song You didn't mind the trouble, so he steamed the black snapper and sea crab according to his own taste, made the razor clams into hot and sour dishes, and stir-fried the sea shrimps. Small fish and shrimps are the most convenient. After frying it in the pan and adding your own secret dipping sauce, it can be eaten as a snack.
Sanhua Empress still looked at it seriously.
To be honest, this was one of the few times when Song You wasn't nervous when she secretly learned cooking skills - at least she wouldn't use these skills on mice in the short term.
If you can't finish it, you can use the hot sun on the beach to dry the fish and take it to the sea to eat later.
In the afternoon, Song You originally wanted to go out to sea and practice rowing, but the scorching sun was too hot, but he was not in a hurry, so he simply found a shady place to take a nap first, and then go out to sea later.
Sanhua Empress didn't want to rest at all, so she put on her robe and went out to do some work.
These days are undoubtedly her fairy life.
Song You was also happy to relax and have a change of taste.
In these days, it is really not easy to eat delicacies far from the mountains or to eat seafood far from the sea. The local natives were tired of eating, but he was far from tired of eating.
In the evening, I ate Xiaoqinglong and fried cat's eye snails.
I eat in different ways almost every day.
In addition, you only need to walk around with Sanhua Empress, one for walking in the morning or evening, and the other for boating on the sea. When you have free time, you can sit and feel the aura of this world, lie down and have a big dream. Time is at this time A completely different meaning from being busy and fulfilling.
…
About ten days later.
The sky in the morning is blue and cloudless, and the calm sea reflected in the morning is also boundless blue.
The Taoist stepped barefoot on the beach, and the waves gently kissed his feet. He had already untied the rope that fixed the wooden boat and pulled the boat into the sea.
"brush……"
The wooden boat left a mark on the beach.
Song You stopped for a moment and turned to look into the distance.
A little girl wearing three-color clothes and a bun was standing under the coconut tree, looking up.
A swallow flapped its wings and landed on a coconut branch.
"Miss Sanhua, get out of the way!"
Following the swallow’s voice——
"puff!"
A coconut falls.
The coconut fell almost close to the little girl's face and hit her just in front of her feet, but she didn't avoid it at all, and she wasn't afraid at all. She didn't even blink, as if she knew it wouldn't hit her - she just lowered her head. After taking one look at the coconut, he pushed it with his feet and walked to the other side step by step.
There was already a pile of coconuts there.
One cat and one swallow were actually picking coconuts.
The strange thing is that the swallow is obviously very small, but a coconut is many times bigger than him. His beak does not look very powerful, but he only pecks it lightly and the coconut falls down.
One peck, one carry.
The two little monsters cooperated very efficiently.
Song You withdrew his gaze and continued to drag the boat to the edge of the waves, then turned around and looked at his horse.
"The sea is very rough, and it's really not suitable for you to go, so we have to ask you to wait for us here." Song You said to the horse, while lifting up the quilt, "If it's short, it might be a few days or ten days, if it's long, it might be just a few days." It will take a few months, no one can tell, but if everything goes well, we will ask the swallows to fly back and tell you about our situation at sea."
"puff……"
The horse snorted.
"Sanhua Empress has prepared a lot of semi-hay for you, but it was all exchanged for the fish and shrimp she picked up from the sea these days. If you have finished eating and don't like the grass on the seaside, you can also go to the distant mountains. Anyway, wait I'll call you when we get back, just come here and find us."
"puff……"
"Thanks a lot."
Song You patted its neck and put the quilt bag on the boat.
Boys and girls also came one after another holding coconuts, and they all piled on the boat and ran many times in succession.
"Let's go."
Song You said to them.
"Canopy..."
The boy suddenly turned into a swallow, flapped his wings and flew into the sky.
The little girl also turned into a cat. She looked up at the sky and then at the horses in the distance. Then she jumped onto the bow of the boat, shook the sand off her four little feet, and then jumped in. In the cabin.
Song You put on a bamboo hat to block the sun, and with a little force with his hands, he pushed the boat completely into the sea.
With one stroke of the oar, the boat sails towards the sea.
The calico cat lay on the edge of the boat, resting its chin on the edge of the boat, staring intently at the beach and the horses on the beach.
The beach and the coast are farther and farther away in sight.
Sanhua Empress finally withdrew her gaze.
"Taoist priest……"
"Um?"
"Why don't you do that?"
"Which one?"
"Just tell the boat to run faster!" The calico cat raised its head and stared at the Taoist priest rowing the boat, "Then it will run very fast!"
“Boating is also fun.”
"But you can run very fast and far that way."
"The Lady Sanhua is right." The Taoist wearing a bamboo hat and rowing the boat looked like a fisherman on the sea. He smiled at the cat while rowing, "I also know that the Lady Sanhua wants the boat to run faster. In order to come back quickly, I continue to pick up fish and shrimps at the beach, but how does Sanhua Empress know that there is no more fun in the depths of the ocean than on the coast?"
"Well?"
"Have you ever seen countless fish swarming in the sea, like a flock of migrating birds in the sky or the raging locusts in Yan County, swimming densely in the sea, forming a tornado or a fish tide?"
"Well??"
"Ms. Sanhua, have you ever seen colorful, flashy, and different-looking fish that are not afraid of Sanhua Niang at all and just swim past Sanhua Niang?"
"Well???"
"Ms. Sanhua, have you ever seen a huge fish jump out of the water, bigger than our boat, with its belly exposed, and then crash into the sea?"
"..."
"Let's slow down a little bit just to see these unseen scenery." Song You's tone was patient and gentle, "Of course, most of what I just said are what Empress Sanhua wants to see, and there are more things I want to see. There are more people than Sanhua Empress, so I have to walk slower."
“It’s like climbing a mountain and looking at the stars!!”
"That's great."
Song You smiled and said to Empress Sanhua: "Empress Sanhua is really getting smarter and smarter, she can tell with just one click."
The cat was thoughtful and seemed to have gained something.
In a blink of an eye, the coast and beach were completely invisible. Before, you could still see the tops of coconut trees, but now you can only see the mountain peaks on land.
Sanhua Empress finally stopped clinging to the edge of the boat, but slowly slid down and simply lay down in the cabin. When she opened her eyes, she saw a whole blue sky, but she didn't see even a seabird, only that The swallow is alone and flying here and there, enjoying it all to itself, as if it never gets tired.
(End of chapter)
