In the face of dozens of fishermen catching seafood, Chen Xu did not refuse to come, whether it was big fish or small fish or shrimp, crabs, turtles and shellfish, all arranged for the servants of the Hou Mansion to spend money to buy it, and the price was also sufficient, so these fishermen who had to carefully row to the opposite county to sell the fish on weekdays could get a large sum of money at their own doorstep today, and they all cheered happily, thank you and thank you Hou Ye Thank you one after another.

And just when Chen Xu and others were playing and collecting shellfish on the beach before, the people living in several small fishing villages nearby had already been publicized by a few returning islanders, and many men, women and children had dragged their children to the vicinity of the bay to watch the excitement.

The Qinghe Marquis is famous all over the world, although they live on the island, but the news is not very closed, almost everyone has heard of the reputation of the Qinghe Marquis, so they learned that the Qinghe Marquis came to the island with a huge fleet, and heard that the Qinghe Marquis is approachable and promised to solve the household registration problem for all the residents of the island, so many people want to see if it is true.

In the face of the increasing prosperity on the other side of the strait and the closer contacts with each other, the household registration has become the biggest heart disease of the islanders.

With the passage of time and the spread of the news more and more widely, so in the evening, when Chen Xu and the fishermen were busy buying seafood transactions, not only the islanders who had been hiding in the surrounding reef forests and woods and thorns for a long time also began to have the courage to come out to join the unprecedented excitement on the island, and some monks wearing Taoist robes and dresses and wearing Taoist buns also came to see Chen Xu one after another.

This is an era of freedom of thought and personality.

The reason why it began to be unfree was because Great Qin had unified China and implemented a strict strategy of governing the country by magic, and a large number of topics that did not conform to the concept of Legalism were blocked on the charge of falsehood.

As a result, the disciples of the hundred schools began to divide themselves, some of them decided to change their minds and follow the needs of Daqin to develop in Xianyang, and some of them lived in seclusion in the countryside and either didn't care about the world, or secretly did some things that blocked Daqin.

After being kicked out of the palace by the First Emperor a few years ago, most of them left Xianyang and came to the southeast coast, gathering near Langya and Zhoushan to continue to pursue their immortal paths, trying to one day be able to explore the avenues and find the opportunity to become immortals.

And today, the real immortal disciple Qinghe Hou came, and many monks who sincerely sought the Tao were still very excited, almost all of them who could come to this small island came, and those who couldn't catch up will definitely come tomorrow.

In the midst of the chaos and chaos, Chen Xu met with these monks, and after inquiring about the general news on the Zhoushan Islands, there were more and more people, and the sun was about to fall below the horizon.

"Everyone, don't leave in a hurry, Ben Hou came to play with his family this time, ready to make some seafood delicacies, and taste and drink together later!"

A circle of people sat around the grass by the beach and chatted, seeing that it was getting late, Chen Xu decided to finish dinner first and then chat slowly, it was better than talking hungry like this.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, we have admired Hou Ye's food for a long time, and it is a blessing for three lives to be able to get what I wish today!" The eyebrows and beards of a group of alchemists were shaking with excitement, and they shook their hands again and again.

"Catch him, this person intends to poison Hou Ye~"

Just as Chen Xu got up, a sudden roar sounded on the lively beach, followed by a frightened shout and the sound of swords unsheathed and rifles loaded, and the entire beach was instantly chaotic.

"Protect the Hou Ye~" The leader of the guards shouted, and more than a dozen personal guards who were standing or sitting around in twos and threes instantly surrounded Chen Xu in the middle.

"Uh, what's going on?"

Yu Wuya, who was sitting cross-legged on a reef, roared and jumped off the reef, and the long sword in his hand in the air was already unsheathed, and when he landed, there was an extra pistol in his hand.

"Choking~" was playing with Chen Xi and Yu Ji on the beach next to them, and the water was gentle, and almost at the same time, he drew his short sword, protected the two of them, and retreated to Chen Xu's side.

"Hula~" A group of people saw a flower in front of them, only to see a cyan figure coming like the wind, and when they saw it clearly, Xia Zijin also had a long sword in his hand, and Yu Wuya and Yu Wuya were protected in front of Chen Xu on the left and right.

"Bang~" A gunshot rang out in the chaos, and the commander Chen Xia pulled the trigger of the rifle into the sky.

"If there is a runner, kill it!"

At the same time as Chen Xia shouted, more than 200 musketeers who were on guard on the beach instantly surrounded the entire beach. 、

Looking at such a fast and terrifying defensive formation, a group of Fang Shi who were still laughing and chatting with Chen Xu instantly felt that they couldn't hold back their urine.

The conversation was relaxed and pleasant, but he didn't expect that in an instant, it was a solemn scene of the enemy, and this gunshot shocked everyone, and the panicked beach quickly became quiet.

"Spare your life...... Spare ...... I didn't mean to catch it and sell it to you......"

In the panic of begging for mercy, two guards soon dragged a thin black fisherman in shorts out of the crowd and threw him on the beach not far from Chen Xu.

"Why did you arrest him? What happened? Chen Xu frowned slightly.

The lively scene was harmonious and beautiful, but it was completely destroyed by this roar in an instant.

The black and thin fisherman in front of him was in his twenties, with short hair and tattoos, no different from other fishermen, and at this time he was lying on the ground covered in mud and sand and desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Back to the Hou Ye, this person mixed two highly poisonous fish into a pile of yellow croaker and sold it to us, if it is accidentally cooked and eaten, it will definitely be poisoned and die!" A boatman who found out about it hastened to answer.

"What is this fish, take it and take a look!" Chen Xu was puzzled.

At present, except for himself and a group of wives and concubines, almost all the fishermen and all the shipwrights and sailors who stayed with the two big ships are fishermen who grew up by the sea, and even Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin have been mixed in the East China Sea for three or four years, and they should be relatively clear about all kinds of poisonous and non-toxic seafood in the sea.

What's more, it stands to reason that these people know their identities, and it is impossible for them to blatantly bring poisonous things to their own group of people to eat, on the basis of knowing that they basically can't get away with it and basically have no possibility of poisoning, this fisherman will not be brainless to this extent.

By this time the beach had been placed under martial law, the guards and musketeers were all unsheathed with their swords and rifles loaded, and even the servants and shipwrights were all armed with sticks and stone kitchen knives and glared at all the fishermen.

A group of thin black fishermen, young and old, were surrounded in the middle, trembling like quails, burying their heads and shivering.

When the word "fish" was spoken, many people's faces began to distort.

"Master Hou, the fish has been fetched!" A domestic servant came over with a fish basket and picked out two sea fish with black spots and white bellies that were more than a foot long, and threw them on the beach next to the fisherman.

"Fugu!" Chen Xu recognized these two strange-looking ghost things at a glance.

"Poison pufferfish~" Someone in the crowd also exclaimed.

Yu Wuya's face twitched slightly, turned his head to look at Chen Xu and said, "Engong is so dangerous, this thing is really poisonous, you can't eat it!" ”

"You dare to poison Lord Hou and die!" One of the guards raised his steel knife and was about to slash down.

"Spare ......"

"Wait~"

While several fishermen knelt down to help beg for mercy, Chen Xu also spoke, stopped the guards' movements, and then separated the guards and walked towards the fishermen.

"Master Hou be careful~" the head of the guard reminded anxiously.

"It's okay!" Chen Xu waved his hand and squatted down next to the fisherman, pinched the dorsal fin of a puffer fish with his hand and lifted it up to watch, only to see that the spotted black and white patterns were all small bulges, especially the belly bulging like a balloon was the most eye-catching and familiar.

"Isn't there a lot of this kind of fish near the island?" Chen Xu looked up at a circle of fishermen and asked.

"Yes, this kind of fish likes to gather in the Qiantang River and the estuary of the Great River, this area is particularly numerous, especially in spring and summer, densely packed everywhere, and now there are a lot fewer after autumn, but we can still catch fish often......" An old fisherman replied nervously.

"You know that this fish is poisonous, why do you still salvage it and sell it to us?" Chen Xu turned his head to look at the young fisherman who was trembling on his knees.

"Back to ...... Back to Hou Ye, the villain heard that Hou Ye is good at making all kinds of food, which is particularly near the fish, so when the net is closed, he will catch two and bring them up, I wanted to ask Hou Ye if he can make it to eat, but he was caught as soon as he took it out, Hou Ye spared his life, I definitely didn't want to poison you......" The fisherman kowtowed and begged for mercy while answering.

"Well, I believe you didn't intend to harm me, get up, this poisonous puffer fish is not inedible, in fact, it is the world's first-class delicacy when it is done, take these two fish and clean them, don't kill them, wait for me to ......do it myself" Chen Xu waved his hand and stood up, and instructed a kitchen worker to take the two puffer fish to clean them.

"Master Hou, this pufferfish is highly poisonous, you can't eat it!" Countless people around couldn't help but dissuade together, and after Yu Wuya withdrew the sword, he also grabbed Chen Xu's arm nervously and said, "Engong, this fish really can't be eaten, the people of Yingzhou are all used to poison the enemy, and it will be over after one bite......"

"Who said that, this puffer fish is the world's best delicacy, you will know when I make it later!"

Yu Wuya couldn't help but make a huge swing, let go of Chen Xu's arm in a few steps and walked out of the crowd in an instant, and at the same time a sentence floated with the wind, "Engong, don't call me for dinner at night, I'll just go to a nearby fisherman's house to have some light meals......"

Chen Xu: ......

"Alas, how can I taste the true and most beautiful taste of the world if I am so timid, and I will eat it alone later!" Chen Xu shook his head and ordered the guards and the members of the musket team to put away their weapons, and the panicked atmosphere on the beach slowly eased.

"Let's go, Ben Hou will personally go and see the seafood you harvested!" Chen Xu took the lead and walked towards the fishing boat docked on the shore, a large group of fishermen, old and young, breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind Chen Xu this time, and the pounding hearts of a group of onlookers who had just been frightened were also relaxed, and the bay under the sunset slowly began to be lively again.