When they came out of the village chief Xu Jin's home, Xu Tianbao, the son of the village chief Xu Jin, stopped the two of them and said that he would take Liu Qingyi to the lake to learn fishing. Liu Qingyi had no choice but to follow him through the village with Luo'er. , Shi Shiran walked towards the lake.
Luo'er was not very interested along the way and kept his head down without speaking. However, Xu Tianbao was a very talkative person and kept explaining the essentials of fishing to Liu Qingyi along the way, quite deliberately accepting him.
Not long after the three of them walked, they arrived at the big silver lake. Luo'er pointed to a flat fishing boat and said to Liu Qingyi and Liu Qingyi, "Here, that's my family's boat." After that, he quickly untied the boat rope with his little hands. , turned over like a baby swallow and got into the cabin. When Liu and Xu got on the boat, they gently spread their jade hands to support the oar and slowly rowed towards the center of the lake.
Liu Qingyi was sitting in the cabin, looking at the clear waves on the lake with some regret, and was slightly dazed. He thought that he had landed in this lake when he came to this world, and he couldn't help but have a special affection for this big lake.
Xu Tianbao stood on the bow of the boat, still talking non-stop about the fishery products of the Great Lake. Listening to his introduction, the red-mouthed fish, which is abundant in the Great Lake, seems to be extremely popular and can be regarded as the main source of income for the entire Humiao Village.
Liu Qingyi frowned and asked curiously: "Is there anything special about this fish?"
Xu Tianbao raised his head and said nonchalantly: "Who doesn't know that the red-mouthed fish in our Humiao Village is very famous! If you want to say it is special, it must be extremely special. Otherwise, what will happen to Yinyuan City this time? It will be listed as a tribute, which will save our village a lot of money."
Liu Qingyi speculated: "Could it be that the taste is so delicious that people can't stop eating it?"
Xu Tianbao smiled and said: "Brother Liu, you don't know this. The red-mouthed fish in our Humiao Village is a well-known spiritual food. It has the effect of helping to enlighten the spirit. It is not comparable to ordinary fish." .”
Hearing this, Liu Qingyi felt even more confused and said in surprise: "Spiritual food? Spiritual enlightenment? What do you mean?"
This time it was Xu Tianbao's turn to be surprised. He looked at Liu Qingyi and said as if he didn't believe it: "You don't even know about Qiling?"
Liu Qingyi opened his cracked mouth and said with a laugh: "Look at you, haven't I forgotten all about you?"
After hearing this, Xu Tianbao remembered that this person seemed to remember nothing except his own name, so he patiently explained: "If a mortal wants to become a true immortal, he must first have a spiritual body... ."
Hearing what Xu Tianbao said slowly, Liu Qingyi's heart was filled with huge waves, and she said in a trembling voice: "Immortal, are there really immortals?"
Xu Tianbao glanced sideways at Liu Qingyi, seeming a little amused by his fuss, and said: "The so-called immortals are the monks among us mortals; the so-called immortal family is the sect of cultivating immortals. We in Yinyuan City have There are many mortal families, and because of the emergence of monks who practiced in the Immortal Family, these families have become the Immortal Families of Yinyuan City."
Liu Qingyi asked blankly: "What does those immortals have to do with the fish in this lake?"
Xu Tianbao continued like an experienced scholar: "The first condition for becoming an immortal cultivator is to have a spiritual body. This spiritual body is not the same for everyone, and there are often different levels of qualifications. They are mostly distinguished by thickness or thinness. The so-called thick spiritual bodies are those that can naturally become spiritual bodies without the help of external objects; thin spiritual bodies refer to those who have been unable to become spiritual bodies and must rely on the catalysis of external objects. By eating many rare spiritual foods and growing spiritual energy from the outside to the inside, you can transform into a true spiritual body. Hey, the red-mouthed fish in our Humiao Village is a recognized spiritual food in Yinyuan City."
After Xu Tianbao finished speaking, Liu Qingyi was stunned. These words almost completely refreshed his understanding of the world. Strange words like "immortal, spiritual body, enlightenment, spiritual food" came into his mind. In Liu Qingyi's mind, it was like a rapidly approaching train constantly colliding and impacting his thoughts and perceptions of the original world.
Compared with his original knowledge of the world, these things can be said to be unbelievable. It is like opening a brand new door to the world for him, which makes Liu Qingyi unable to calm down for a long time and feeling dry in his mouth.
After a long silence, Liu Qingyi asked as if waking up from a dream: "Where are those immortals? Have you ever seen them?"
When Liu Qingyi asked, Tianbao said proudly: "What's so strange about that? Of course I've seen it before." He then mysteriously said to Liu Qingyi: "There once was an immortal in our village."
Liu Qingyi was stunned and said: "Really?"
Xu Tianbao chuckled and said: "There are eighteen villages near and far in Yinyuan City, and our Humiao Village is the only one that has produced immortals. It is also because our Humiao Village has produced immortals, so no one has dared to make plans for the red-mouthed fish produced in the village. "
Liu Qingyi asked: "Where is that immortal? Can you take me to see him?"
Xu Tianbao glanced at Liu Qingyi with some dissatisfaction and thought to himself: "This man really takes himself seriously. I want to show you to him. Who do you think he is?" He ignored Liu Qingyi's words and said to himself. "That immortal was my ancestor, but it was a pity that he later died due to sect affairs. If he were still here today, our Xu family would probably be the top family in Yinyuan City." After Xu Tianbao finished speaking, he sighed again, It was as if he wished his ancestors could come back to life again.
After hearing this, Liu Qingyi felt a chill in her heart. The so-called fall of Xu Tianbao's ancestor was probably just dead. I wanted to meet the legendary omnipotent immortal, but I never expected that the immortal would die? I couldn't help being disappointed for a while, thinking that the so-called immortals might not be easy to get along with, otherwise Xu Tianbao's ancestors wouldn't have died so easily. He thought about it this way, and some of the ardent emotions in his heart calmed down.
The small fishing boat swayed leisurely on the lake for a long time. Xu Tianbao took the trouble to introduce to Liu Qingyi the fish swimming on the water, such as hookbill fish, squid, and large white-bellied fish, all of which Liu Qingyi had never heard of.
Liu Qingyi was a little puzzled and asked why he hadn't seen the red-mouthed fish. According to Xu Tianbao's description, it turned out that the red-mouthed fish usually lived in the depths of the lake and was extremely difficult to catch. It rarely came to the lake surface. Yes, only at night do they go to the water in the middle of the lake to play in groups.
Liu Qingyi became interested in the red-mouthed fish. When he heard this, he couldn't help but urge: "Teach me how to fish quickly. I'm going to catch a few of them tonight and take a look."
Xu Tianbao smiled and said, "Of course."
Seeing that Liu Qingyi was so concerned about fishing, Luo'er seemed to have accepted the career of becoming his own man. His face looked much better, and he talked to the two of them from time to time.
When it was getting dark, Xu Tianbao taught Liu Qingyi some of the essentials of fishing and performed several demonstrations with the net. Luoer then docked the boat and went ashore with Xu Tianbao to go home.
Liu Qingyi insisted on staying alone on the boat, saying that he would practice fishing skills overnight, so the two of them had to let him do it.
After the two left, he rowed the boat to the center of the lake alone, raised his hand to shake off the net in a decent manner, and spread it evenly on the lake. He lowered the net several times that night, maybe he had roughly mastered some of the essentials, and by early morning he had gained a full harvest, even catching seven or eight red-mouthed fish.
Liu Qingyi looked at the caught red-mouthed fish with curiosity, and saw that this legendary treasure fish was just like what Xu Tianbao described. The mouth and gills were red, and it was covered in silver scales. Flashing, the appearance looks extremely pleasing.
When Luo'er came to deliver food in the morning, Liu Qingyi asked her to get flint and told her that she planned to eat and live by the lake. If she was hungry, she would bake the fish she caught so that she didn't have to deliver food.
Luo'er thought he was trying to catch more fish, so she happily agreed, and even asked him not to work too hard and pay more attention to rest and drinking water, etc. How did she know that the fish Liu Qingyi planned to grill to satisfy his hunger was exactly The red-mouthed fish is the spiritual food that the whole village depends on for survival.
For several days in a row, Liu Qingyi's biological clock was almost turned upside down. During the day, he stayed on the boat, and at night, he would go to the middle of the lake and stay up all night to catch the red-mouthed fish. When he was hungry, he would grill the red-mouthed fish for a meal. full.
It's just that he ate a lot of this red-mouthed fish, but he didn't notice any big changes in his body. On the contrary, his physical strength increased day by day while rowing and working with the net. Liu Qingyi had to comfort himself. At least it had some effect. .
Except for the red-mouthed fish that he stole, he asked Luo'er to send all the other caught red-mouthed fish to the village so that the village chief Xu Jin could use it to make up for the annual tribute.
Xu Jin was naturally happy from ear to ear. After all, Luo Er and his daughter, two women, couldn't fish as efficiently as a strong man like Liu Qingyi. Although Murakami did not allocate yuan coins to her mother and daughter, her family would bear more of the special tribute red-mouthed fish, and the burden on other people in the village would be much lighter.
More than ten days passed like this, and Liu Qingyi became more and more skilled in fishing, catching more and more red-billed fish, almost surpassing the fishing results of everyone in the village. The village chief Xu Jin was very happy and rewarded dozens of red-mouthed fish for Liu Qingyi to handle on his own, so as to provide Luoer's family with financial support.
Liu Qingyi collected the red-mouthed fish in a fish basket, curled his lips, and said to himself: "Just this thing, I have eaten at least hundreds of them in the past ten days, and now they are not too rare to eat. , I left it to deliver to you, but you used it to return the favor."
