Chapter 61 - Salivating (2/2)
“Ni`er!” Qing Shui shouted.
The little girl turned her head back, as an adorable smile broke out as she ran over.
“Big brother, why are you here?” Ni`er stared at Qing Shui as she blinked her eyelashes curiously.
“Big brother, do you need more fishes and turtles? Is that why you are here today?” Ni’er excitedly pulled on Qing Shui’s hand as she led him towards the two other kids.
“Let me ask more of my friends to help fulfil big brother’s request! This way, the speed would be faster.”
Qing Shui was moved after hearing how enthusiastic Ni’er was in helping him.
“Okay little sister, just ask all your friends to help, I will pay 10 copper coins per bucket of water is that okay?” Qing Shui offered a price that was about 5x time higher than the normal cost.
“Big Brother, the price is too high, just a copper coin or two would do.” Ni’er frantically refused Qing Shui’s offer.
“Be obedient, listen to big brother, even though big brother is not rich, I won’t ill treat you guys.”
After hearing Qing Shui’s assurance, Ni’er smiled happily as she ran off, gathering her friends.
After a short while, Ni’er brought along 10 others, and spent about half a day catching countless little fishes,prawns and turtles.
Qing Shui felt his heart soften looking at how hard these poor kids are working. In the end, he gave them a tael of silver for each water bucket that was filled with sea creatures
Now that Qing Shui was more accustomed the concept of money in this world, he knew that a tael of silver was roughly equivalent to $100 in his previous world!
After half a day more, over 20 buckets of water were filled with sea creatures that the children caught. Entering into his spatial realm, Qing Shui poured in the contents of more than half of the 20 buckets into the crystal pond.
The children should really be rewarded for their efforts. Qing Shui was extremely pleased with the results of the catch. For the species of fishes, there were many varieties. Blackfish, grass carp and catfish were the majority while other fish species constituted a minority. For the turtle species, there were only a single variety – black turtles.
Qing Shui took a long wooden shaft, and balanced the remaining eight buckets of water on it, before rapidly exiting his spatial realm, hurrying back to the Qing Clan’s Medical Store. Balancing four buckets on each side, Qing Shui hurried to the pond located inside the Hundred Medicinal Garden. Contained within each bucket, was water from the crystal pond. To increase their rate of growth, Qing Shui had replaced the sea water with water from the crystal pond before slipping the sea creatures back into it.
On the way there, Qing Shui met Qing Shi, who giggled uncontrollably after witnessing how anxious Qing Shui looked. His laughter drew the attention of Yuan Ying and Qing Yi, who looked over smiling kindly at Qing Shui.
Qing Shui, ignoring Qing Shi, hurriedly made his way to the pond before awkwardly releasing all the sea creatures from the eight buckets into it. He hope that his guess was right, the spiritual qi-imbued water would be able to somehow stimulate the growth.
Only after he completed that, did he feel secure in his heart. The next step, was to look for a business partner to sell them the live ingredients. Involuntarily, memories of Yu He Inn floated up in his mind. That turtle soup and that cheeky young woman. Especially that cheeky young woman, Qing Shui found himself wanting to interact with her.
As he lost himself in his fantasies, he could almost see Yu He. That look on her elegant looking face, that lithe and graceful body, decked out in the bikinis of his previous world, and that smile, filled with tantalizing promises, inching closer and closer to him. His heartbeat increased as he gulped, when suddenly…
“What are you thinking of you smelly brat, why are you salivating?!”
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