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Chapter 625 Divine Shrimp

Zhou Chang took Shouhou to the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village to confirm that the body of the black-clad bandit had been sent away long ago, but he never received a reply from above and no one came to investigate.

Then the two of them strolled to the beach. The sea breeze was strong today, but the weather was warm. The sun seemed to be hidden in a thin layer of clouds and mist, and was not dazzling.

When you are tired of walking, just sit on the beach and bask in the sun. When you are tired of sitting, just lie down.

"It would be great if beef pies could fall from the sky right now." The skinny monkey looked up at the sky and daydreamed.

These days, it’s not that the Tao family took the money but didn’t prepare delicious food for them.

But Taojia Village is too remote and you can’t buy any good food anywhere.

In addition, the village was poor and every family could not store any food for the New Year. Except for a chicken that Aunt Tao bought from the village chief's house and some sugar from a rich family at the beginning, there was really no other food to buy.

"Beef pies, donkey meat pies, pork pies..., we will have them when we go back, so you can eat as much as you want." Zhou Chang is now in a mood to grant Skinny Monkey's every request, but unfortunately the actual conditions cannot meet any of them.

Now they were alone on the beach, with no one around, so the skinny monkey changed his address back to "Prince, when are we going back?"

"Wait a few more days, until your bodies are completely healed." In fact, Zhou Chang didn't know either, and he had been thinking about this question these days.

The skinny monkey followed all the instructions and didn't care. He started to talk about food again. After a while, he suddenly remembered to ask, "My lord, you won't mind my fatness this time, right?"

"When have I ever been disgusted?" Zhou Chang refused to admit it.

The skinny monkey smiled and patted his belly: "Thanks to my big belly, the small knife can't penetrate it at all."

Zhou Chang was speechless, and thought to himself: "Isn't it because of the high level of 'surgery'?"

The skinny monkey himself did not forget: "Of course, it was also thanks to the prince's courage and carefulness that he dared to do something that ordinary people could not do. It was like... yes, eight-treasure duck. It's a pity that he didn't take the opportunity to stuff ham and shrimp directly into my stomach..."

"You are brave. If it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to make it." Zhou Chang was speaking the truth and admired the skinny monkey from the bottom of his heart.

If it were her, she might not have made it. There was no way she could hold on for that long without anesthesia. She would rather have fainted.

"Alas..." The skinny monkey suddenly sighed, "Thinking back to the beginning... the pain was so great... I will never forget it. But it was a blessing in disguise. I was able to eat a lot of good food and didn't have to starve."

Having said that, when Prince Yi was still a minor and before he left the palace, when he was in Huilan Garden, if there hadn't been palace servants secretly plotting against him and withholding his food, clothing and other expenses, Hou San wouldn't have been nicknamed "skinny monkey" because he was as thin as a bamboo pole.

Zhou Chang's mind flashed back to that memory, and he felt bad. He sat up all of a sudden and patted the skinny guy's arm: "It's all in the past. Every day from now on is earned. You will continue to eat well and drink whatever you want."

The skinny monkey also sat up, but pouted: "Ah, it's easy for your Highness to say that. You can eat whatever you want. Where can you find delicious food and drinks?"

"Uh..." Zhou Chang has been living a dull life these days.

Just as he was about to find an excuse, two small fishing boats appeared on the surface of the East China Sea in front of him.

Zhou Chang guessed that they must be from the families of Mr. Tao and Mr. Tao. They were probably the two most diligent families in Tao Village. Even though it was not the end of the first lunar month and the fishing was still suspended, they went out to sea almost every day.

When the two small fishing boats slowly came back and towed the boats ashore, Zhou Chang and Shouhou went to meet them.

It was also the first time for the skinny monkey to see a fishing boat in the sea, so he was quite curious: "Mr. Tao, why did you come back so early today?"

Mr. Tao was so tired that he couldn't even straighten his back. He sighed as he got off the boat: "Alas, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the sea. I only used one net to catch almost nothing. The wind and waves were strong. I was afraid of danger, so I came back early."

"Did we really not catch anything?" The skinny monkey stretched his neck curiously to look into the boat.

Tao Lao made sure his son and his apprentice had tied the fishing boat to the reef, then he turned around and said, "There's nothing here, but there are a few magical shrimps that have come up, and we'll have to put them back later."

"Magic shrimp? What is a magical shrimp?" Zhou Chang also came over and asked.

Tao pointed at the fishing net in the boat and said, "They are small shrimps like the ones that damage rice fields. They have two large claws in front, but the ones in the sea are much bigger. The largest one I caught was as big as a two or three-year-old child."

"Hmm? Isn't this a deep-sea lobster?" Zhou Chang rushed to the fishing boat and tried hard to search inside.

Tao Lao's son and apprentice had already opened the fishing net, sorted out the small fish inside and were about to throw the rest of the useless ones back into the sea.

There were several large dark blue lobsters in the net, their bodies as long as an adult's forearm, and their two big claws were entangled with the fishing net, making it difficult to separate them for a while.

"Sell this to me." Zhou Chang swallowed and tried hard to control his expression.

“What does Master Zhou want these magic shrimps for? The magic shrimps are in charge of the sea breeze and are divine creatures. Fishermen must release them when they see them, otherwise there will be disasters.” As Tao Lao’s son Dazhu said this, he pretended to throw a lobster back into the sea.

“Ah…” Zhou Chang tried to stop them, tears of pity almost flowing from his mouth. He had to make up an excuse, “Yes, yes… I bought them to release them. We just had a boat capsize, and it’s bad luck. I should release more to ward off disaster.”

"This..." Dazhu looked at his father, Mr. Tao.

Tao thought that Zhou Chang, a businessman, had never seen such a big divine shrimp, so he didn't care. "If you want to release it, just release it. Since it is a divine shrimp, we fishermen cannot buy and sell it casually. However, they are usually in deep water. It is estimated that they were caught in the fishing net by the strong wind today. Therefore, when releasing them, it is best to go to the high reef over there, where the water is deeper, so that the divine shrimp can swim back smoothly."

"Okay, okay...I will, I will..." Zhou Chang agreed hastily. He swallowed his saliva again and looked towards Tao Da's boat. "Brother Tao, did you also catch dragon...ah...magic shrimp on your boat?"

Tao Da was also untying the fishing net with his son, and he held up a two-foot-long shrimp: "Oh, yes, the ones that were swept in by the wave just now were probably these magical shrimps. We made a wasted trip today."

"It's not a wasted trip, it's not a wasted trip... let me taste them all... no, let me release them all to ward off disasters. This is a good deed." Zhou Chang drooled as he spoke.

Tao Da didn't care and continued to smile innocently: "Master Zhou, this is probably the first time you've seen this kind of giant shrimp, right? Be careful, this thing not only looks majestic, but it's also very powerful if you get caught in its claws."

In order to prevent his saliva from flowing, Zhou Chang had no choice but to nod his head desperately.