After fighting for about an hour, with the sound of "bang", the prey was dragged out of the water and landed on the cliff, and Chen Mu, who was already panting and exhausted, saw the true face of this beast clearly.

A half-meter-long koi: the body of the carp is fiery red, the scales the size of winter dates have red clouds on them, you can even see through the scales under the blood vessels, flowing golden blood; the head of the fish is round, the lips are vermilion, because they are pierced by an iron hook, the blood flows out of fresh gold; on both sides of the lips of the fish has two whiskers, one long and one short, all of which are golden; the size of a lychee in the eyes of the fish, purple-red, garnet-like, fluttering; the gills, fins, and tail of the fish are all golden, translucent, and tender.

"What kind of koi is this?

Chen Mu looked at the beast like a treasure, if it weren't for the limited conditions, he really wanted to keep this koi in captivity, just as an ornamental fish.

However, the saliva on Chen Mu's lips still revealed his true nature.

"Forget it, I'm tired all night, it's time to make up for myself! By the way, Old Man Li should also come back, I can remember his spirit fruit wine!"

Tie a straw rope through the sides of the gills and carry it on your back. Chen Mu was like a fisherman who had returned with a full load, smiling, and strode towards the Li sledgehammer blacksmith shop in Yangji City.

"Knock knock!"

"Old man Li, are you back?"

Chen Mu asked loudly while clasping the door.

After a while, Li Dazhui opened the door of the blacksmith shop, and when he saw Chen Mu carrying something in his hand, he immediately dragged him in.

"I said, can you be careful, kid, carrying a beast so openly, you're really not afraid that you will lose your head one day!"

"Old man Li, life is short, be happy in time! Even if you really become a full ghost, it is beautiful!"

"Don't be poor!" Li Dazhui glanced at Chen Mu, "This is the last time, don't come to me next time!"

Chen Mu heard the strangeness in Li Dazhu's voice, and he said with concern: "What's the matter, there is something troublesome?"

"You don't care. Li Dazhui turned around and walked towards the backyard, "You cook, I'll go get the wine." ”

Seeing Li Dazhui's appearance, Chen Mu didn't say much, and went to the kitchen to eat fish.

"Koi to scale, disemboweling to take out the internal organs, digging off the gills and washing, every ten centimeters, first straight cut and then obliquely cut into a knife flower, lift the tail of the fish to make the knife edge open, sprinkle the refined salt into the knife edge to marinate slightly, koi around the body and the knife edge evenly smeared with wet flour. ”

"Put the oil in the wok, boil it over medium heat until it is hot, put the tail of the fish into the pot, open the knife edge; fry it in oil for 2 minutes, push the fish to the side of the pot, and the fish body will be square; fry the fish back down for 2 minutes, put the fish body flat, press the head into the oil with a spatula and fry it for 2 minutes, and when the fish is all fried until it is golden brown, take it out and put it on the plate. ”

"Leave a small amount of oil in the wok, burn it over medium heat until it is hot, put in green onions, ginger, minced garlic, refined salt, sugar, boil over high heat, put wet flour and stir well, cook in vinegar to become sweet and sour sauce, and quickly pour it on the fish. ”

When Chen Mu brought out the sweet and sour golden cloud carp held on a white plate, Li Dazhui was already drinking alone on the table.

"Don't be bored, try the sweet and sour golden cloud carp I made. ”

Chen Mu put the fragrant sweet and sour carp on the table, and Li Dazhui took out a brand-new white bowl and poured a large bowl of spirit fruit wine for Chen Mu.

Chen Mu rolled his eyes: "It's so much, aren't you really afraid that I'll put you to sleep at night?"

Li Dazhu's swarthy face was already drunk: "Boy, you didn't pay back last night, and today is too much? Tonight, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

"Okay!

After three rounds of drinking, a large plate of koi fish was also eaten, and Li Dazhui held his stomach and looked at Chen Mu drunkenly: "I said that you kid is strange enough, so many beasts have a belly, and they are not swollen and panicked!"

Chen Mu's drunken eyes were hazy, he patted his chest, and swore an oath: "What is this! When I was in my hometown, don't talk about this, I can eat a table!"

"Bragging!"

"Hey, don't believe it, I learned cooking with my mother at the age of three, and I started cooking by myself at the age of ten.

"Your mother is amazing!"

"My dad is even more powerful, that's a big river, a big lake and a big sea, but he is a famous big guy in the fishing world!"

"So ruthless!?"

At this point, Li Dazhui's drunkenness also disappeared a little, this kid's father traveled all over the mainland to fish, and his mother cooked and opened a restaurant, what kind of ruthless people are they? Look at Chen Mu again, that is a monk who can fish and cook, and he can be a monk in the initial realm who eats so much beast meat and is fine, isn't this kid has a special physique, and his life experience is really big? When Li Dazhui began to seriously examine Chen Mu again, he didn't know that the conversation between the two was not on the same channel at all.

Chen Mu took another sip of spirit fruit wine, looked at Li Dazhui with a pair of drunken eyes and said, "Old man Li, if I talk about myself, I should also talk about you, right?"

"Fart!" Li Dazhui shouted angrily, "Lao Tzu, I am so attractive, those ladies are too late to stammer, dare to dump me?"

"Then why are you sullen?"

Li Dazhui drank all the fruit wine in the bowl and sighed: "Alas, don't I have a few good friends, but the children in the family have disappeared in recent days." ”

"At the beginning, I said that it was normal for dolls to be playful and forgetful, but who would have thought that for three days in a row, three ladies told me that their children were gone. ”

"Why do you say their lives are so miserable? The men who were already dead, and now that the children are gone, how should they live!"

Chen Mu wanted to say that this was not exactly what you wanted, but he still comforted him seriously: "Just such a big Yangji, the child can always find it." ”

Who knew that after Li Dazhui listened to Chen Mu's comfort, his face was even more sad: "I thought so too, but who knew that last night, Su Niangzi's sweetness also disappeared, you also know that Tian'er is a lovely girl, I like it in my heart, but why is it gone?"

"Sweet?"

Chen Mu frowned bitterly, he vaguely remembered that he had joked with Sister Su yesterday, saying that he had let Tian'er grow up and marry him, but now it's good, people are gone. It can't be that Xiao Nizi took my words seriously and scared them away, right?

This also made Chen Mu's mind open up after drinking, and he was cranky, but several children disappeared in a row, which also made Chen Mu feel strange.

"I know that Old Man Li, you can't ask for an apprentice with a face, don't worry, I'll ask Uncle Mu to help find it when I go back, I don't believe that there are still people in Yangji City who the city lord can't find!"

"If I can find a few children, I thank you for the girls!"

"What's polite with me?"

......

Chen Mu didn't know how he went back to the Mu Mansion, anyway, after returning to the house, he caught a room and fell asleep.

"Brother Chen!"

The voice of a girl with a pierced eardrum.

Mu Tianzhen's face was stunned, and she glared at the uninvited guest lying on the sofa: "How can you really sleep on the sofa in my room!

Chen Mu scratched his head and woke up from his sleep, and when he figured out what was going on, he secretly said badly: What a drinking mistake! Why did I run to Sister Tianzhen's boudoir? Damn!

Chen Mu lowered his head in shame and apologized: "I'm really sorry Sister Tianzhen, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have drunk so much that the room went wrong." ”

"Hmph!" Mu Tianzhen moved his little head to the side, pretending to ignore Chen Mu.

"Tianzhen, I was really wrong, I ...... last night" Chen Mu raised his head and looked at Mu Tianzhen with some embarrassment, "I didn't bully you last night, did I?"

"You dare!"

Mu Tianzhen's face blushed, she pushed Chen Mu away and ran outside the house to breathe.

"I'm really ...... Alas!"

Chen Mu gave himself a mouthful.

After sleeping in the wrong house, and because Chen Shi was going to make peace with Zhou Laosan outside the city, Chen Mu forgot to report the loss of the child to Mu Yushu.

When Chen Mu hurriedly came to the place agreed with Zhou Laosan outside the city, Zhou Laosan had already made an appointment to wait there.

When he saw Mu Tianzhen beside Zhou Laosan, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that his drunkenness this time would make the girl hate him.

"Zhou Laosan, it's here!"

Chen Mu walked over, said hello, then looked at Mu Tianzhen, and said with a smile: "Hehe, Sister Tianzhen, you have also arrived." ”

Mu Tianzhen tilted his head to the side and ignored Chen Mu.

In the carriage, Chen Mu and Mu Tianzhen sat opposite each other, and Zhou Laosan sat next to Chen Mu. Mu Tianzhen looked out of the car window, Zhou Laosan noticed the subtle atmosphere in the field, and it was difficult to say anything, but Chen Mu asked first: "Zhou Laosan, can you tell me about the situation in Heiba Village?"

"Childe, in fact, I don't know much about Heiba Village, if I hadn't listened to Ruan Xiaosi's rhetoric, maybe I wouldn't have come into contact with the place where the thieves gathered for the rest of my life. Speaking of this, Zhou Laosan showed a distressed expression, "Childe, if you give me another chance, I will never dare to deceive you with fakes!"

"Alright, alright. Chen Mu glanced at Zhou Laosan with disgust, this guy almost wiped his nose and tears on himself!

The carriage traveled for about an hour and stopped at the col of the two mountains.

As soon as Chen Mu and the three of them got out of the car, a strong man with five big and three thick men walked towards them.

"What are you three doing here?" the big man spoke, his voice was rough, he was dressed in coarse linen, his exposed shoulders were tattooed with wild snakes and evil tigers, and a big scar on his face, he was really a wicked person!

Zhou Laosan immediately greeted him: "This big brother, a few of us are here to find Sun San to make a deal." ”

"Deal?" the big man glanced at the three of them, and then said, ", we don't trade with outsiders!"

"Hey, big brother, we were introduced by Ruan Xiaosi to buy fairy grass!" Zhou Laosan explained as he secretly stuffed a jade coin into the big man's hand.

Touching the texture of the jade coin in his hand, Dahan smiled understandingly: "Since it was introduced by Ruan Xiaosi, please everyone!"

Although Zhou Laosan's movements were very secretive, he was still seen by Chen Mu, he lowered his head and whispered in Mu Tianzhen's ear.

"Sister Tianzhen, let's be careful about the next road. ”