Chapter 801 The Taste Is Wrong
Old Master Lü was already furious at the two people's reactions, and when he realized that he had almost hit his own fan while slapping someone, he was even angrier and glared at Feng Tianyu.
"..." Boss Feng, who was beaten and disliked, felt very innocent.
"I knew it was you two. You ran away as soon as you saw me. Are you afraid I'll eat you up or something?"
Ye Wanxi chuckled to herself, thinking, "You certainly won't eat us, but you'll definitely try to take us as your disciples."
Normally it would be fine, but today they really don't have time to waste with him.
Before Ye Wanxi started running, Captain Nie had just finished negotiating with the water plant. As soon as he turned around, Ye Wanxi and the other person ran away.
He followed a little behind with his men, and when they got closer, he said with some surprise, "Old man, what are you doing here?"
These words really hit a nerve. Old Master Lü's face darkened, and he coldly snorted, "Why can't I be here?"
Knowing the old man's temperament well, Captain Nie's lips twitched slightly, and he quickly said, "That's not what I meant. I was just surprised. Hasn't your business been particularly good these past few days? I heard that there are long lines of people every day wanting to buy your umbrellas. Your experienced craftsmen are working overtime every day and still can't keep up with the demand. Why aren't you helping out in the shop? Why are you out here?"
Grandpa Lü fanned himself with a palm leaf fan, looking displeased: "I only came out because there were too many people in the shop. They were chattering away, it was so noisy."
Captain Nie choked for a moment, then sighed deeply. Just as he was about to persuade the old man to go home, he heard a sudden bark from a dog.
"Woof woof!"
Charcoal Head, who was fortunate enough to come out with Ye Wanxi this time, seemed to have discovered something and was moving around in Ye Wanxi's bag.
It finally managed to tear open the bag and crawl out on its own, shouting loudly at Grandpa Lü.
Ye Wanxi paused for a moment, then quickly reached out and patted the little black dog's head.
Grandpa Lü was a little stunned when the puppy suddenly barked at him in the face, and he became even more unhappy after he realized what was happening.
"What's wrong? Even this little puppy has a problem with me? It barks at me so fiercely, am I such an unpopular old man?"
Seeing that he was so angry that his nose was almost spitting fire, Ye Wanxi hurriedly said, "No, our dog definitely didn't mean that. There must be another reason."
As soon as Ye Wanxi finished speaking, the little black dog started barking again, and this time it was barking even more fiercely than before.
This undermining move made the atmosphere among them even more delicate, until finally Feng Tianyu spoke up to break the deadlock.
“It tastes wrong.”
"What?"
Feng Tianyu looked at Old Master Lü and frowned, saying, "There's something wrong with the smell on you."
Grandpa Lü hurriedly lowered his head and sniffed his clothes, annoyed, "I'm perfectly clean, what kind of smell is this?"
Feng Tianyu wasn't referring to the original flavor of Old Master Lü, but rather the flavor he had inadvertently picked up.
Reminded by him, Ye Wanxi's eyes brightened slightly, and she quickly asked, "Grandpa Lü, have you encountered any strange people or strange things before?"
"Strange people? Strange things?" Old Master Lü frowned and waved his hand, saying, "What strange people or strange things could I have seen?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the little black dog started barking again, as if to say that he was being disobedient.
Old Master Lü raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "Why is this little brat yelling at me again? If I haven't seen it before, I haven't seen it before. Do you think I, an old man, would lie to you?"
Ye Wanxi said with a mix of amusement and helplessness, "It didn't say you were lying, it just hopes you can think about it again. Maybe you've just seen it but forgotten. This matter is very important to us."
Captain Nie quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, sir, please think about it again. This matter is really important to us, and also to the residents of the entire town."
At first, Grandpa Lü thought these young people were deliberately making fun of him, an old man, by forcing him to think of strange people and strange things. Wasn't that just making things difficult for him?
But when faced with the serious and earnest gazes of the group, he finally gave in to his stubbornness and remorse, and thought about it carefully.
"Let me think about it, let me think about it. Ah..." Old Master Lü paced back and forth, frowning in thought. After a long while, he suddenly exclaimed, "You know what, there really is something strange. A couple of nights ago, I was crossing the bridge late at night when I suddenly heard something making a noise. I initially thought it was someone's ducks that had escaped, so I peeked out. Guess what I saw?"
"A fish with wings?"
Grandpa Lü was stunned, and looked at Ye Wanxi with a complicated expression: "How did you know?"
Grandpa Lü's rhetorical question was tantamount to indirectly admitting Ye Wanxi's guess. Captain Nie and the others' eyes lit up slightly. They never expected that things would take such a turn for the better!
Ye Wanxi was also somewhat surprised, but as for how she knew, it was naturally because of the description of the Yingyu in the literature.
It has the body of a fish and the wings of a bird, and its cry sounds like that of a mandarin duck.
The calls of mandarin ducks are, to put it bluntly, similar to those of ducks. So, when Grandpa Lu mentioned ducks, Ye Wanxi immediately thought of that smelt.
Where did you see this fish?
When Grandpa Lu heard her ask this, his expression immediately became complicated: "This is the fish you're looking for? So there really is such a fish?"
Everyone was speechless upon hearing this. Did you think you were seeing things because of your presbyopia and mistook an ordinary fish for a fish with long wings?
“It really exists, so we’re looking for it now. We hope you can tell us where you first saw it?”
As soon as Ye Wanxi said this, Grandpa Lü couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "These days even fish have wings, it's really rare. I knew it, people these days are getting worse and worse. They've read a lot of books, but their manners are still so low. When they go on a trip, they litter everywhere."
"Our water used to be so clear and beautiful, but now you can see trash cans thrown in it all the time. The pollution is so bad that even the fish have mutated. Who knows what kind of weird monsters will appear in the future?"
Ye Wanxi: "..." It is a strange beast that gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If it knew that it was being treated as a monster fish that mutated due to water pollution, it would probably be furious!
Despite his complaints, Grandpa Lü was also worried that the "mutated" monster fish might pose a threat to the town's residents, so he quickly told the truth: "It's on the arched bridge behind the street ahead."
The bridge that Grandpa Lü mentioned is on the south side, while the commercial street of the water town is on the north side. The area on the south side is neither a commercial street nor a tourist attraction, but a residential area.
The reason for this division is that a large number of tourists would come to the town and cause a mix of people and things, which would make public security a problem. So, the commercial area was simply separated from the local residential area to facilitate management.
(End of this chapter)
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