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Xiaoxiao bit off the octopus claws on the meatball. The little octopus was still alive and kicking an incense stick ago, but now it has become tender and crispy in Xiaoxiao's mouth.
Of course, the fresher the seafood is, the better it tastes. Octopus tastes delicious when boiled in water, not to mention it is topped with a fragrant sauce.
Unable to wait to completely swallow the octopus claws in his mouth, Xiaoxiao immediately put the small meatball into his mouth. Wow, his mouth was immediately filled with stuffing, and every bite was the essence.
Du Heng uses plenty of ingredients. Each small meatball contains a whole small octopus, which is tender and has the unique sweetness of seafood. In addition, there are fresh and fragrant prawns and crunchy onion cabbage. The flour skin that wraps all the ingredients is fried crispy, but the inside is a bit soft.
The meatballs themselves have no taste, but with the addition of the sauce and the salty and fresh bonito flakes on the outside, the taste suddenly becomes richer. The crisp sweetness of onions and white cabbage mixed with the fresh fragrance of prawns and small octopus, plus the crispy flour coating... Xiaoxiao couldn't stop eating one bite after another.
Du Heng skillfully used a bamboo stick to poke the small meatballs and put them on the plate, while Xuan Yu was responsible for pouring sauce and sprinkling bonito flakes on the plate. The cute and delicious small meatballs quickly conquered the taste buds of the generals, and Chonghua was so happy that he almost cried: "Ah~ This, this is too delicious."
Xuan Yu picked up a small meatball and passed it to Du Heng: "I didn't expect that you could eat small octopus like this. Is this also a snack from my hometown?" Du Heng wrapped the small meatball in his mouth in one bite. He squinted his eyes and chewed: "Hmm!"
As expected, the meatballs I made myself tasted great. Compared to the octopus meatballs bought outside which were filled with flour paste and cabbage, Du Heng felt that these were the best tasting meatballs he had ever eaten.
The octopus meat and the crispy vegetables complement each other, and the sauce is well seasoned. No wonder Xiaoxiao couldn't stop eating. Not to mention Xiaoxiao, even the picky Fenggui praised it highly.
Du Heng stretched out his neck again: "Give me another one."
Xuan Yu smiled and poked a small meatball for Du Heng. Du Heng puffed his cheeks and chewed the small meatball: "Delicious."
After Du Heng swallowed most of the meatballs, he realized that Xuan Yu had been looking at him with a smile, but he hadn't tasted any of them. Du Heng asked curiously, "Xiao Yu... don't you like eating octopus?"
Xuan Yu smiled and said, "You eat first, I'll watch you eat." Xuan Yu thought Du Heng with his chubby cheeks was very cute, and the satisfaction he got from watching him eat was greater than the satisfaction he got from tasting the food himself.
Jing Nan came over with a bamboo stick in his hand. "Eh~ I have goose bumps all over the floor. You eat first and I'm watching you eat. Xiaoyu, I'm telling you, if you keep being so disgusting, we really can't stand it anymore."
Xuan Yu moved the plate in his hand towards Jing Nan, and Jing Nan happily poked the largest octopus meatball: "Hey, this one is good."
Feng Gui also walked to Du Heng's side, holding a bamboo stick in his hand. Xuan Yu was about to move the plate over, but he saw Feng Gui quickly poked the last meatball in Xiao Xiao's bowl away: "This is good."
Xiaoxiao looked at her uncle angrily but could not say anything. Xiaoyu passed her plate to him and said, "Here it is."
The three demon gods stood beside the pot, and the generals did not dare to join in the fun. Feng Gui ate a small meatball and asked Xuan Yu: "Have you decided on the route to take next?"
There are thousands of roads in the sea. If you want to find a safe and fast way to the Dragon Clan, you have to pass through the Mermaid Clan. Xuan Yu said: "I have a good relationship with the leader of the Mermaid Clan. When your cultivation is stable, we will set off to the east."
Du Heng did not express his opinion. He poked up all the meatballs in the pot and put them aside, then started to make the next pot of meatballs.
Suddenly, Xiaoxiao poked him lightly. He turned around and saw Xiaoxiao looking up at him. Du Heng smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiaoxiao asked, "Du Hengheng, I heard that you picked up the three of my uncle when they were very young. I have always had a question. One of them is from the Feather Tribe, one is from the Beast Tribe, and the other is a dragon. How did you pick them up?"
Good question! When this question was asked, the generals pricked up their ears.
Du Heng pondered for a while and said, "Hmm... How can I explain it? It's just that we were too poor at that time."
Back then, they were so poor that he and Wuwang had to explore various ruins and traveled to many places. At that time, Dongji Mountain was not so high. In the forest in the north, Du Heng found the skinny Nan Nan. Under the big tree in the south, he found the not-so-cute and bad-tempered Xi Xi.
Xiaoyu was the last one to be found. Du Heng found her in a ruin in the Chaos Sea. Unlike Nannan and Xixi, he watched Xiaoyu hatch.
Du Heng said: "I don't know how Xiaoyu got into the ruins. When I found the egg in the pond, I thought it was dead. I didn't expect it to have a broken shell."
Jing Nan sighed, "The three of us are demon cultivators whose origins are unknown. The demon world was in turmoil during those years, and many demon cultivator families were harmed by demon beasts. We don't even know who our parents are. If Qing Heng hadn't picked us up, we might have died."
Du Heng felt a little guilty: "At that time, I couldn't even take care of myself. Not only did you three not get better care when you followed me, but you also lived a life of displacement with me."
Xuan Yu looked at Du Heng tenderly: "But you gave us a home." The four homeless people depended on each other in the broken house. From then on, they had someone who cared about each other and a place to return to.
Xiaoxiao sighed, "You three are not as good as me. You were all picked up by Du Hengheng, but I am different. I picked up Du Hengheng!"
Du Heng rubbed Xiao Xiao's head with great joy: "Yes, you are still the best. Here, I will reward you with octopus balls. Eat them over there!"
Xiaoxiao got a big plate of meatballs. He happily ran towards the round table holding the plate: "Little Feather, come and eat some meatballs!"
Seeing the carefree smile, Feng Gui recalled: "Although we were poor back then, we were very happy. Du Heng, we have agreed that when things are settled in the future, we will return to live in the village."
Du Heng nodded: "Okay, as long as we can be together, it doesn't matter where we live."
Yan Huaizhen also tasted the octopus balls made by Du Heng. He was shocked after taking the first bite. Was this the octopus that they usually looked down upon? If he was not still in confinement, he could have eaten a few more. However, Du Heng only brought him two to let him taste: "I will make you more after you are out of confinement."
Yan Huai was very obedient: "Thank you, benefactor."
When night fell, Yun Zheng and his team caught more than a dozen large coconut crabs outside. In the evening, everyone gathered together to have a lively meal of steamed coconut crabs, and they didn't fall asleep until midnight.
The next morning when Du Heng woke up, he found it was pitch black outside, so he opened the window and looked outside. He found that they had already dived underwater and were moving forward without him noticing.
Just as Du Heng was staring out the window in a daze, Xuan Yu gently pushed open the door. He held a bowl of soy milk in his hand and said, "I guessed you're awake. Drink something to fill your stomach first."
Du Heng took the soy milk and said, "When did we go into the water? I have no idea."
Xuan Yu said, "An hour ago, we were swimming towards the territory of the mermaids. We should be able to reach the mermaid tribe in three days." Du Heng took the soy milk and took a sip: "Except Yan Huaizhen and Nuonuo, I haven't seen other mermaids."
Xuan Yu said: "It's okay, you will see it soon."
The rest of the trip was mostly underwater. Zhou Lianhua chose a gentle current and
As it kept heading east, Du Heng and his crew barely felt the bumps. Sometimes when a school of fish passed by, the generals on the car would jump down and catch some. Thanks to them, there was always a dish of sashimi during meals during this period.
But Du Heng didn't like sashimi very much, he just took a few bites and put it down. But Jing Nan and the others loved it, and Jing Nan could eat most of the half-man-length fish of Xuan Yu Slice.
Of course, there are also fish that are not suitable for eating raw. Lao Dao and his friends caught a lot of hairtails. It was the first time Du Heng saw a live hairtail, and he was almost stunned. Are live hairtails so beautiful? Their bodies are silvery, and the fins on their backs sway like gauze.
When they swam in the water, it was really spectacular! Anyway, it was the first time that Du Heng saw fish that could only swim up and down. A large group of hairtails suspended in the water reminded him of the flying swords in the sword formation of the sword cultivators of Shenxu Palace, all of which were shining with the same silver light.
In the past two days, Nuonuo's awake time has gradually increased. The child still doesn't recognize Yan Huaizhen. He would shout to call Du Heng after playing with Yan Huaizhen for a while. Du Heng felt guilty. He was afraid that Yan Huaizhen would feel uncomfortable, so he fed Yan Huaizhen in different ways in the past two days.
When Lao Dao brought back the hairtail, Du Heng had Nuonuo hanging on his chest. He was happily thinking: "For lunch... braised hairtail? Fried hairtail!"
Nuonuo stretched out his little hand in the water ball, he wanted to break through the barrier and grab Du Heng's long hair that fell on the barrier. But no matter how hard he tried, the barrier set up by Xuan Yu was an obstacle that a baby of his level could never break through. Nuonuo simply put his face on the barrier and chewed it with his mouth, and through the barrier, his toothless pink gums could be seen.
At this moment Zhou Lianhua suddenly stopped and said, "Lord Long, someone from the mermaid tribe is coming."
When everyone lifted the curtain and looked, they saw dozens of dark blue figures approaching quickly not far ahead. Gorgeous fish tails broke through the water, bringing out white bubbles.
It took only half a cup of tea from the time Du Heng saw the mermaids until they appeared in front of the car frame. When Du Heng saw the mermaids in front of him, his eyes were as bright as Xiaoxiao's!
There were dozens of mermaids in front of me, each with a long and gorgeous fish tail, their upper bodies were humanoid, they held sharp harpoons in their hands, and their long hair swayed in the water, emitting a faint aura. Each mermaid had a different color, but they were all unique.
Seeing them, Du Heng could only think of one word - darlings. Without exception, they were all darlings of heaven. With such looks and figures, if they were in Du Heng's hometown, each of them would be a supermodel.
The weakest of these mermaids had reached the Golden Core stage, and when they stood in front of Zhou Lianhua, a terrible pressure came from the other side. However, Du Heng and the others were attracted by the graceful figures of the mermaids, and for a moment, only the mermaids had a serious atmosphere.
The leading mermaid said sullenly, "The mermaid tribe is not accepting guests recently. Please go back!"
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Hearing this, Zhou Lianhua said in a deep voice: "I am Zhou Lianhua from the Kunpeng clan. I have come to pay my respects to the leader of the mermaid clan. Please help me, General."
Hearing Zhou Lianhua's name, the leader of the mermen was shocked: "General Zhou?! How could it be you?!"
Zhou Lianhua paddled in the water: "Excuse me, is Chief Yan here?"
The leader of the mermaids sighed awkwardly: "General Zhou, I'm not trying to embarrass you. The tribe leader is not convenient to see guests these days."
Xuan Yu asked, "Why? Is Chief Yan injured?" The leader of the mermen looked at Xuan Yu in confusion. He did not recognize Xuan Yu and asked, "Who are you?"
Xuan Yu didn't say anything. He raised his hand, and a swirling green dragon formed in the water vapor. Seeing this dragon, the people raised their right hands and placed them on their chests. They all bowed down in unison: "Greetings, Lord Dragon!" A few brave mermaids raised their heads and looked at Xuan Yu with burning eyes, their eyes full of admiration.
Xuan Yu nodded: "No need to be polite, what happened to Patriarch Yan?"
The mermaids put down their hands and looked at each other. Finally, the leader said hesitantly: "To be honest... the clan leader's Taoist partner is gone. The child in her belly is also gone. The clan leader has been looking for him for ten days and is heartbroken. Yesterday, the clan leader vomited blood and collapsed."
Hearing this, Du Heng and the others looked at each other in bewilderment. A subtle thought came to everyone's mind: "No... it can't be such a coincidence?"
Xuan Yu asked, "What is the name of Chief Yan's Taoist partner?" The leading merman said, "Huai Zhen, Yan Huai Zhen."
Everyone looked at each other, and Nuo Nuo in Du Heng's arms burst into tears: "Wow——" He was hungry and wanted to eat the silver fish.
Zhou Lianhua turned into a human form, and he and Zhou Xiyue dragged the car to the territory of the mermaids. The mermaids lived in a circular basin with a diameter of five miles underwater. They built many small houses underwater using a kind of seaweed mixed with shells. There were shell houses in the east and west, and on the roof of each house was a fist-sized mermaid pearl.
The mermaid pearl illuminated the underwater world, and from a distance it looked no different from a town built by humans. In the center of the basin stood a palace, which was only two stories higher than an ordinary hut. The palace was made of a transparent shell, and under the illumination of the mermaid pearl, it looked like a crystal palace.
Du Heng was the one who saw Yan Lingyuan, the leader of the mermaid tribe, in the Crystal Palace. Yan Lingyuan's hair color was very similar to Nuonuo's. Hearing that Yan Huaizhen was still alive, he didn't care about his image at all. Without exchanging a few words with Xuan Yu, he ran to Yan Huaizhen's room in two steps.
Yan Lingyuan loved Yan Huaizhen so much that when he saw Yan Huaizhen lying on the bed, his tears started to flow. Yan Huaizhen couldn't say anything when she saw Yan Lingyuan. The two mermaids looked into each other's eyes, and the tears burst out, leaving large lavender and pink pearls all over the floor.
Du Heng wanted to stop the two from crying, but Jing Nan stopped him: "Let them cry!" Look at the pearls on the ground, don't they smell good? !
The two mermaids hugged each other and cried for a long time before they separated. The first thing Yan Lingyuan said was: "You have been wronged. It's my fault that I failed to protect you."
Yan Huaizhen choked up and said, "It's my fault. I knew you said that the sea was dangerous, but I still ran over there."
There is a trench more than 100 miles south of the mermaid tribe. This trench is relatively shallow and there are large scallops in it. Ever since Yan Huaizhen became pregnant, he has been particularly greedy for those scallops. He loves the taste of cracking the shells and eating the raw scallop meat, so he often goes to the trench to look for food.
Across the trench was where sea beasts were found. Yan Lingyuan had told Yan Huaizhen more than once not to act on his own. However, the pregnant fish was willful, and the more Yan Lingyuan told him not to do something, the more he did it. As a result, he was discovered by sea beasts in the trench.
In order to avoid the sea beast, he fled in panic. Just as the sea beast was about to catch up with him, a huge golden net fell from the sky, trapping him and the sea beast in it. The sea beast panicked and fled to the depths of the Chaos Sea with the fishing net, and he was also taken to the depths of the Chaos Sea.
He and the sea beast were trapped in the fishing net for a whole day. Later, he was too tired and dozed off for a while. When he woke up, the sea beast had disappeared. Only he and some fish and shrimp were left in the fishing net. He was shocked and scared when he arrived in an unfamiliar place.
The fish and shrimp in the fishing net attracted the covetousness of sea beasts outside the net. The sea beasts dragged the fishing net to eat the fish and shrimp inside, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not tear the fishing net. Although the fishing net was not broken, Yan Huaizhen was scared to death and had a miscarriage in panic.
The blood attracted more sea beasts. In order to survive, he struggled to float up and lay on the reef.
This is what happened before Du Heng and his friends met Yan Huaizhen. It was something that could be explained in a few words, but everyone imagined it as a bloody drama of abusive love. Du Heng thought Yan Huaizhen had met a scumbag and got cheated by him and got pregnant...
Du Heng stood at the door and sighed helplessly. What was going on? But when he saw the pearls all over the floor, he felt better.
Yan Lingyuan initially thought that Yan Huaizhen was lying in bed because he injured his leg. When he realized that Yan Huaizhen was just recuperating after giving birth, the handsome mermaid leader's face twisted slightly: "Receiving... Receiving birth? Mermaids don't need to recuperate after giving birth? But if you think recuperating after giving birth is good for your recovery, then go ahead and do it!"
Du Heng's mouth twitched. Was this what Chief Yan was focusing on? Didn't he realize that he was already a father? Nuonuo in Du Heng's arms burst into tears again. His parents were true love, and he was just an accident.
Yan Huaizhen excitedly said to Yan Lingyuan: "Brother Yuan, our child is born, Nuonuo is born! He looks like you!"
Yan Lingyuan looked at Du Heng's arms excitedly. Did he pass by his child when he entered the door? ! Yan Lingyuan stood up and walked towards Du Heng. He looked at the water ball in Du Heng's arms lovingly: "Nono, I am your daddy..."
Nuo Nuo showed his pink gums: "Ugh——" The little guy turned his face away without any hesitation, with his butt facing his dad, and his fish tail, the same color as his dad, was shaking.
Du Heng had not expected this development. He stood in the car in a daze: "Ah... did I think too much before?" There was no scumbag, no melodrama, only a harmonious and happy family.
Jing Nan and the others laughed: "The mermaids are very loyal." Jing Nan stuffed a bag of pearls into Du Heng's arms: "Keep them, these are mermaid tears, much more valuable than ordinary sea pearls. Take this as your reward for taking care of the children these few days."
Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Am I the kind of person who is blinded by money?!"
After Yan Huaizhen and his family of three had finished crying, Du Heng and the others were also invited to the Crystal Palace. From the outside, the Crystal Palace looked like it only had three floors and was only four feet high. But once you got inside, it was much taller than it looked from the outside.
There was no water in the palace, but it was filled with fresh air. When they walked into the palace, Du Heng and his friends were dazzled by the bright and sparkling ground. Walking on the ground was like walking in a dream.
The mermaids in the Crystal Palace had their tails turned into long legs, and the mermaids' high looks were best reflected at this time. The male mermaids were wrapped in dragon yarns and were as handsome as gods. Du Heng observed that some of these male mermaids were relatively short, and they were probably the hermaphroditic type of mermaids.
Here, Du Heng also saw the legendary mermaids. The mermaids had hot bodies, with shells on their plump breasts and dragon yarn tied around their waists. When they walked, they were as light as fairies.
The mermaids took Du Heng and his friends to sit in the Crystal Palace. They brewed a kind of seaweed tea that is unique to the seabed. This tea soup has a clear texture, a mellow taste, a fragrant smell, and a mellow taste. Du Heng thought that using this seaweed to make tea rice must taste great.
Yan Lingyuan came out after a while. He settled Yan Huaizhen and Nuonuo down, and after learning that it was Du Heng and his friends who saved the Taoist couple and the child, the majestic clan leader knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Du Heng and his friends.
Just now, Yan Lingyuan kowtowed on his own behalf, and now he was receiving the demon god on behalf of the mermaid clan.
Yan Lingyuan said: "The demon god has not come to the mermaid clan for a thousand years." Xuan Yu nodded: "Yes, the last time I came was to seek help from Chief Yan about the demon beast. I have been away from the sea for too long. I wonder if Chief Yan knows what the dragon clan is like now?"
Yan Lingyuan said: "The mermaids and dragons have fallen out."
Hearing this, Xuan Yu frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"
Yan Lingyuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Dragon. Let me explain. Thousands of years ago, a fire dragon was born in the dragon clan. I wonder if the demon god knows about this?"
Xuan Yu nodded: "I've heard of it a bit."
Yan Lingyuan said: "This boy has great talent. After he transformed, he reached the middle stage of out-of-body cultivation. Because you have not been in the clan for a long time, many people in the dragon clan admire him. About ten years ago, he became the acting clan leader of the dragon clan. Since he took office, he seemed to win over several races in the sea, but in fact he suppressed them. The territory of our mermaid clan was already squeezed by the white water. Now with him, the area under our jurisdiction is less than one-fifth of what it was when the Dragon King was in power."
Xuan Yu looked at Yan Lingyuan calmly: "I only know that he is the acting tribe leader, but I don't know about the suppression of the water tribe."
Yan Lingyuan smiled and said, "You really don't know, because he has blocked the sea area. The intelligence you received on the shore was all sent out with his tacit approval. You should not have taken the usual route to the sea this time, otherwise your actions would have been discovered by them very quickly."
Yan Lingyuan said: “I met the acting clan leader once, and the feeling he gave me was… scary.” Yan Lingyuan’s cultivation was also above the out-of-body state, and he still felt scary. How scary was the current clan leader of the dragon clan?
Xuan Yu said: "How terrible is it?"
Yan Lingyuan said: "I don't think he is from the Dragon Clan. It is true that the mermaids have an instinctive fear of the Dragon Clan, but the Dragon King and I can sit down and talk freely. And that person gives me a very ominous feeling. When I see him, I will be alert and want to escape."
Yan Lingyuan pointed at Feng Gui and said, "It's just like when I saw this fellow Taoist, but the oppression he gave me was dozens of times stronger than that of this fellow Taoist."
Feng Gui is a fire demon cultivator, and his Phoenix Spirit Fire can roast Yan Lingyuan into a dried fish. He is a cultivator in the Mahayana realm, but Yan Lingyuan said that the acting patriarch of the dragon clan is more terrifying than him?
Jing Nan chuckled: "It seems that the Dragon Clan really has a genius. By the way, I don't know the name of the acting clan leader yet."
Yan Lingyuan said: "Call Wen Chi."
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