"Ah! Little girl!"
Aunt Xu screamed in panic, her grip on the net loosened, and she almost fell in herself. When she saw the man's face slowly emerging from the water, she was terrified.
"Who...who are you? Let go of my little girl!"
Uncle Qingshan grabbed a harpoon and rushed over, looking warily at the man who was about to drag Su Xiaoning into the water: "Little...little girl is still young, she doesn't know any better, don't bully her! Otherwise, I...I won't be polite!"
"You're welcome?" Su Qingcai smiled wickedly, increasing the pressure in his hand as he looked at the fish-shaped mark on Su Xiaoning's arm, his cold eyes filled with murderous intent.
He was reborn, and even reborn in the place where he had suffered humiliation in his previous life, and met the people who had tormented him to the point of wishing he were dead. Very good, the feeling of being reborn is not bad.
"Cough cough cough..." Su Xiaoning was choked by him and could not breathe. Half of her body was hanging on the ship's side. She grabbed something at hand and smashed it on Su Qingcai's head.
A conch shell the size of a fist brazenly extended its large suction cup and stuck to Su Qingcai's head.
A blue crab with its claws outstretched flailing its front pincers clamped onto Su Qingcai's hair and ear.
An... octopus?
Suppressing her reluctance, Su Xiaoning slammed the octopus in her hand hard onto Su Qingcai's handsome face.
"ah--"
Su Qingcai suddenly let go, frantically pulling at the eight-legged mollusk that was waving its face in panic. Meanwhile, Su Xiaoning had already hidden in Aunt Xu's arms, watching the amazing scene unfold with the surrounding fishermen.
How does this man manage to catch octopuses so enthusiastically without sinking?
Half an hour later, Su Qingcai, with a face covered in red marks, sat at the Xu family's dining table, silently eating the steamed crabs, conch soup, and a large plate of braised octopus legs on the table, his eyes, sharp with cold light, fixed on the woman opposite him who was eating heartily.
Su Xiaoning secretly glanced at him. The man was quite handsome. Although his face was covered in red from the octopus's suckers, it didn't detract from his good looks. However, his eyes were probably red from being soaked in seawater, which made him look a little scary.
She turned to look at Uncle Qingshan and Aunt Xu, who were huddled in the corner, shivering and holding their rice bowls. She sighed softly and asked cautiously, "This... Lord Fish God, is there some unfulfilled wish that you suddenly came ashore?"
"wish?"
Su Qingcai's voice was a little hoarse as he chewed the octopus leg in his mouth, his scarlet eyes staring unblinkingly at her: "Does torturing you to death count?"
Su Xiaoning suddenly found the seafood feast on the table unappetizing. She puffed out her cheeks, slammed her chopsticks on the empty bowl, and shouted, "You really think you're something special! I was just struggling a little too hard. I'd fight anyone if someone was being choked by me. I've already made you food, why are you still holding a grudge?"
She really didn't feel that she had any grudge against this person.
If he really is the fish god the fishermen talk about, then at most he grilled another fish!
Su Qingcai's eyes flickered, filled with deep mockery and hatred.
In his past life, he was betrayed by his enemies and drifted to this village. A woman took him in. At the time, he was injured and had a high fever. The woman blinded him and imprisoned him as her male concubine. Even though his men later rescued him, he was left crippled and struggling in the turmoil of the capital until he died tragically!
Although he had never seen what she looked like, he had heard from others that she had a very special fish-shaped mark on her hand.
Because of this mark, he is worshipped in the village. In his previous life, all the undeserved misfortunes he suffered were caused by this woman. Now, reborn, he is determined to...
An octopus tentacle, coated in bright red sauce, fell into his bowl. He looked up and saw the woman across from him roll her eyes with pity: "Don't hold grudges until you're full. You're already in such a sorry state, and you still have the mind to think about other things? Think about how you're going to fill your stomach next time!"
"Bang bang bang—"
The Xu family's courtyard gate was pounded loudly. Aunt Xu hurriedly opened the gate, and a group of villagers from Carp Village suddenly rushed in, each carrying various gifts. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they placed the gifts under the eaves and knelt down respectfully before Su Qingcai.
"Lord Fish God, please forgive us, we were so hungry that we went out to sea to fish. Please, in your great mercy, do not kill us..."
"Yes, Lord Fish God, please forgive us this time, considering that we have been offering sacrifices to your offspring for a whole month!"
"Look how hungry the little girl is, otherwise she wouldn't be eating fish and wouldn't be so disrespectful to you..."
Su Qingcai frowned deeply. He knew from his previous life that there was a strange belief in this village. They were very afraid of the woman with the fish-shaped mark in his previous life. But now that the woman was here, they did not seem to have the same attitude as in his previous life. Why was that?
As he was pondering with his eyes down, he suddenly felt a push from behind. Su Xiaoning, speechless, pushed him aside and stepped forward to help Uncle Qingshan and Aunt Xu, who were about to kneel down as well, up: "You've all misunderstood. He's my long-lost brother! Hey, what's your name again?"
"Su Qingcai..." Su Qingcai hadn't yet recovered from the shock of discovering that he had inexplicably become the fish god of Carp Village, and subconsciously uttered his name.
As soon as he finished speaking, his face became even more gloomy.
Upon hearing that he also shared the surname Su, Su Xiaoning was taken aback, then broke into a smile. Shamelessly, she took Su Qingcai's arm and brought her thin face close to his, gesturing for everyone to see.
"Look, his surname is Su, and so is mine. Although you all call me Little Girl, my full name is Su Xiaoning. We even look a bit alike. He is indeed my brother, but he had a little accident when he came to Carp Village..."
For the next half hour, to Su Qingcai's astonishment, Su Xiaoning vividly recounted... a fabricated story about a family member who was forced to separate in childhood and is now reunited.
She also cleverly covered up why he had emerged from the water and why he had choked her.
Su Qingcai sneered. Long-lost brother and sister, huh? Fine, if one day the brother says he wants to take his sister away, wouldn't that be perfectly reasonable?
We'll first send her to the number one dungeon and subject her to all sorts of torture, then turn her into a human pig and throw her into a salt water vat...
“She’s right, I’m here to see Su Xiaoning.”
Being fishermen who make their living from the sea, most of their minds were occupied with catching a couple more fish. The little brainpower they had left was already predisposed to a deep sympathy for the little girl's past tragic experiences, to the point that they even saw a resemblance between the two unrelated people as siblings...
"They do look somewhat alike; they both have eyes and noses, and when they stand together, they actually look quite similar."
"Are you stupid! Everyone has a nose and eyes. If you ask me, they're siblings, and they're both quite good-looking. It's just that the little girl's skinny face makes her looks less obvious..."
"What if one looks like the father and the other like the mother? But the important question is, is he really the Fish God?"
"Who dares say he isn't? This Holy Maiden says he is the Fish God!" Qin Yunyun burst into the Xu family's courtyard, glancing shyly at Su Qingcai, feeling her heart pounding in her chest.
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