"I'll buy one...two too. Wild crucian carp are hard to find these days," Fang Xia said, picking them out as well.
"How about it? Once you start talking to a woman, your business seems to improve a lot, doesn't it? Don't you want to solve this problem?" Wang Yao said to Mo Luopo with a smile.
“You…you should stop making things worse,” Molupo complained to Wang Yao as he deftly gutted and cleaned the fish for the two women. “I’m not counting on selling these few crucian carp, I’m just bored and have nothing better to do. It’s not like I won’t have food to eat if I stop selling fish.”
“That’s not right of you. Your relatives are just concerned about you. Look at you, you’re not getting any younger. You’re not married. What’s it like for a man to live alone? When you’re old, you won’t have any children to take care of you. That would be very pitiful,” the proprietress said as she watched Mo Luopo clean the crucian carp.
"By the way, where is that Three-Eyed Pond you mentioned? I'm a native of Ziqiang County, how come I've never heard of this pond?"
“Relatives? Who’s related to him?” Mo Luopo glanced at Wang Yao after hearing what the landlady said. He was busy with his work and didn’t want to fall out with Wang Yao. When the landlady asked about Sanyantang, he could only make up a vague excuse.
“Sanyantang is just in the mountains behind my house. Not many people know about it. Some people who like wild fishing regularly fish there, but they all pay me. It’s fifteen yuan a jin, the same price as what you bought. I would normally sell it for a little more at the market,” Molupo said.
"Really? Where do you live? I'd like to visit sometime." Fang Xia asked curiously.
“My home is not far south of the city, at the foot of Laobie Mountain,” Mo Luopo said.
"Old Turtle Mountain? We go there all the time!" Fang Xia and the proprietress exclaimed in surprise. "How come we've never seen any Three-Eyed Pond before?"
“When I was in school, I went on several spring outings. I climbed both the front and back of the mountain. There weren’t even any big puddles on the mountain, so how could there be a pond?” Fang Xia was also very surprised.
Molopo chuckled mysteriously, but didn't continue.
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