Then I made a cut at the tail of the fish.

It didn't go in.

It was blocked by fish scales.

Then I remembered that I still needed to scrape the fish scales.

So he twisted his wrist and began scraping off the fish scales.

The fish struggled violently, and his hand slipped. The fish jumped up with a "bang" and slapped his face hard with its tail.

Ji Yunhua laughed loudly: "Brother Ouyang, you should kill the fish by smashing it first before you deal with it, otherwise you won't be able to hold it down."

Ouyang Xiuqi: "..."

He grabbed the fish in a disheveled state and slammed it to the ground; the fish stopped moving.

Only then did he begin to scrape off the scales and cut open the abdomen.

Unexpectedly, the fish was only stunned by the fall and did not die. After he cut open the fish's belly, the fish jumped up again.

This time, although she didn't hit his face, she pounced on his chest and smeared his carefully chosen clothes with blood.

When Ouyang Xiuqi looked down and saw it, he froze.

Aaaaaah!

He wanted to tear this fish to pieces!

When he finally finished cleaning the fish, he turned around and saw that Zhao Ziqian had cleaned all the other dozen or so fish thoroughly, leaving them spotless.

He was silent for a moment, then went to the stream to wash his hands.

After washing my hands, I sat down under the tree roots, hugged my knees, and silently pretended to be a mushroom.

I neither participated in pickling the fish nor in grilling it.

He didn't even glance at the fire.

The aroma of grilled fish wafted over, and footsteps sounded.

A fish, roasted to a golden brown and with a fragrant aroma, came into view.

Ouyang Xiuqi looked up and saw that it was Ji Yunhua. He immediately regained his energy and eagerly accepted the food like a puppy being fed by its master.

After taking just one bite, he exclaimed happily, "Yunhua, thank you, your grilled fish is delicious!"

“I didn’t grill this,” Ji Yunhua said with a smile. “It was Zhao Xiaopang who grilled it. He’s especially good at grilling fish. When we were kids, he was always the one who cooked for us when we went out to play.”