Chapter 28 Blue Scale Carp
Chapter 28 Blue Scale Carp
The long beach has frozen into a white silk thread, with only the cold pond still having running water. Now is undoubtedly the best time to catch blue-scaled carp.
"A blue scale is worth a thousand gold coins."
One thousand taels of gold could buy six hundred acres of paddy fields or two thousand acres of dry land in Pingding Prefecture, which could turn a poor boy into a middle-class landlord and save up a fortune for three generations overnight.
This is enough to change the fate of ordinary people, but things that change fate are often fatal.
In the past few years, the best fisherman in Pingding Prefecture would come here every winter to look for this opportunity to change his destiny.
Only after paying a heavy price did they remember the last two lines of the folk song: "A fish sinks into the cold abyss, and a hundred bodies cannot be replaced."
A bonfire was built on the shore.
Steam was rising from the cauldron, and the aroma of wine was everywhere.
Two jars of Zuixianlou's "burned throat" weighed a total of twenty kilograms.
This strong liquor feels like being burned by fire once you drink it.
Only the most hopeless drunkards would dare to take a sip, sip it slowly, and enjoy the mixed pleasure of pain and pleasure.
Zhang Yu took off his coat and gulped down five or six mouthfuls of "Fire Throat".
Heimu Cliff issued a new decree from the leader, and the Saint Lady left the headquarters and went to Luoyang to take charge. All power in the sect fell completely into the hands of Yang Lianting.
Soon after, Wu Lianjiang was labeled as "blind and foolish, resulting in a disastrous defeat". Although he was no longer a traitor, his property was confiscated and his family members were sentenced to three years of hard labor.
Then, another group of old officials and old friends who had old ties with the former headmaster were eliminated.
There was an endless stream of prison vans traveling back and forth on the official road every day.
These days, Zhang Yu has not been staying at the Taiping Inn. Instead, he has been living in a thatched hut at Xingxing Beach, for fear that if anything unexpected happens, he will be caught in a trap.
The orders issued by Heimuya have a contradictory quality.
Because of the 'Mourning Order', the unity and solidarity that the believers had finally gathered together was once again dissipated in a ridiculous fight.
"Yang Lianting is a mad dog. He bites whoever he catches. Tong Baixiong has a deep foundation. He can't bite him for the time being. Who knows, he might come after me at any time."
Zhang Yu became more and more determined to be transferred to a remote area and develop gradually.
Therefore, for his 60th birthday, he needed a presentable birthday gift so that he could ask Tong Baixiong for something afterwards.
It’s quite funny when you think about it.
"Gifts are required for seat changes in high school, gifts are required for awards in college, red envelopes are given to matchmakers during blind dates, and two bags of lotus flowers are bought for the neighborhood security guard when delivering takeout. Even after traveling through time and joining the Sun Moon Sect, gifts still need to be given."
"Where there are people, there is the underworld. Where there is the underworld, gifts are likely to be given."
Zhang Yu circulated his internal energy, stimulated the effects of the alcohol, and then dived into the cold pond.
With the green jade ring, holding your breath underwater is not a problem. The main thing is to resist the cold, and with the help of strong liquor, with the current internal strength, you can only hold on for eight minutes in the cold water.
The water was freezing cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave that had been there for thousands of years. The water was dark and turbid, and he could only see things within a few feet. From time to time, dark shadows swam by, and when he wanted to get closer to identify them, those things swam away as fast as galloping horses underwater.
The first time, I picked up a hibernating turtle, but failed.
Restore internal strength, drink, go into the water...
The second time, I came back empty-handed and failed.
Restore your inner strength, drink some wine, and then go into the water...
The third time, I caught a water snake, but failed again. This time, I almost didn't make it to the shore.
Restore your internal strength, drink plenty of wine, and then go into the water.
…………
Just when it was almost dark, Zhang Yu jumped out of the water. His eyebrows and hair were covered with ice. He was holding a fish in his hand. His whole body was shaking, but his face was filled with uncontrollable joy.
"Finally it worked!"
The carp weighed about seven or eight pounds, with a slender body, blue scales all over its body without a trace of other colors, emitting a bright blue light, and had sharp teeth. After it came out of the water, it was still struggling, trying to bite the evil hand that was holding its cheek.
This is the blue-scaled carp that is 'worth a fortune and cannot be replaced by a hundred'.
Zhang Yu walked to the fire and was stunned.
The half pot of strong liquor that he urgently needed to warm himself up was nowhere to be found, and only a few ounces of residual liquor were left at the bottom of the pot.
He threw the blue carp into the barrel, drew his sword with trembling hands, and shouted at the reeds, "Wine thief, get out here if you dare!"
The words trailed off.
"I'm out, what can you do?" The man walked out slowly from the reed marsh, wearing a blue robe, with a beautiful appearance, holding a white jade wine gourd in his hand, and his temperament was like an immortal. His thick eyebrows were like a painting, and his phoenix eyes were sharp. Even though he was a wine thief, he still had a domineering attitude that looked down on the world.
Zhang Yu was stunned for a moment. He had never seen such a handsome man in his past life or this life. His momentum weakened for a moment.
"You stole my wine?"
The blue robed man laughed and said, "Steal? Then I'll return it to you."
He casually threw out the white jade wine gourd, which spun rapidly in the air and crashed towards him with the wind and snow.
Seeing the gourd approaching, Zhang Yu was shocked. This huge force was like the movement of a mountain. It was so powerful that he could definitely not handle it.
He immediately used the 'Flowing Clouds and Water' technique and leaped sideways twice before the white jade wine gourd hit his chest.
The wine gourd unexpectedly turned a corner and continued to come towards him. Zhang Yu did not dare to stop at all, and used "Flowing Clouds and Flowing Water" to the extreme.
A figure kept leaping and walking on the rocky beach.
It seemed like he was in a very dangerous and embarrassing situation, but he always managed to dodge the moment the white jade gourd approached, and his grasp of timing was amazingly accurate.
With each successful evasion, the momentum of the white jade wine gourd gradually diminished.
The blue-robed man's eyes flickered as he chuckled, "Interesting. For Feiyun Magic Skill to have such a successor, Wu Lianjiang must have used up all his luck in his next life."
After dodging for more than ten times, he finally grabbed the wine gourd, but the remaining force still pushed him to sit down in the water.
When he opened it, he saw golden liquid inside, just like nectar, not the "burning throat" from Zuixianlou.
When I first smelled it, the aroma of the wine was even deeper and richer, which was extremely tempting, especially at this time when the weather was freezing cold and I needed strong liquor to warm my body.
Zhang Yu picked up the gourd and took a sip.
Two mouthfuls.
Three mouthfuls.
Zhang Yu stopped.
He only felt the wine entering his mouth and transforming into a powerful internal force that broke through his tendons and veins and poured into his dantian, instantly transforming the mist that had not yet liquefied into pool water, which gradually filled the pool.
However, the internal force had only been half dissipated and was still running wild in his tendons and veins.
The blue-robed man said with a smile, "Keep drinking. This is the Hundred-Year-Old Golden Monkey Wine that is hard to come by in the martial arts world. With your realm, even if you have a golden dantian, you will burst into death if you drink another sip."
Zhang Yu was shocked and suspicious, wondering how he could know his background. This person's cultivation should be far higher than his, but he didn't seem to have any ill intentions.
He quickly practiced Qigong and regulated his breathing, continuing to sort out and digest.
The man in blue robe came over, took the white jade wine gourd, wiped the mouth of the gourd, looked at him and said, "Fool! If you continue like this, your Dantian will be broken, don't put water in it. Can't you just lock that internal force in the Shaoyin Heart Sutra?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu immediately understood that Dantian was equivalent to the cold pond downstream, and the tendons and veins were the Orangutan Creek.
The opened left Shaoyin Heart Meridian is connected to the Dantian, and can store internal force. However, the internal force will always circulate between the tendons and the Dantian, and one needs to endure the pain of rapid expansion of the tendons.
The blue robed man smiled and said, "It's just a little pain, just bear with it."
……
It is dark, the moon and stars are in the sky, and tomorrow should be a sunny day.
Zhang Yu opened his eyes and broke out in a sweat, and the coldness dissipated a little.
After drinking three sips of monkey wine, he successfully opened up the right Shaoyin Heart Meridian and entered the late stage of Dan Jin.
He divided that internal force into two parts, and circulated it in the Shaoyin Heart Meridians and Dantian on both sides. This greatly reduced the swelling and pain in the tendons and veins caused by this.
Zhang Yu secretly looked at the man, who looked to be no more than twenty years old, but he didn't know how he had cultivated such powerful internal strength. It was obvious that there were many extraordinary people in the world.
He was sitting by the fire, drinking slowly, one sip after another.
"Thank you for the... Hundred Years Golden Monkey Wine."
"You're welcome, I drank your 'Fire Throat', and that's what I should do."
“The word ‘wine’ has different meanings: time, place, person, and mood.”
"But I don't care about the price, no matter how high or low it is."
Zhang Yu heard him say this and agreed with him. It seems that this person is not only good-looking, but also has a clear mind and is natural and unrestrained. Such a person is definitely not an unknown person in the world.
"My name is Zhang Yu. May I ask your name?"
"Lan Hao!"
(End of this chapter)