The sudden ear-piercing shriek startled Luo Zhang, who was holding onto the loach, and he immediately let it go.
"What are you thinking about?"
Shi Song, who was holding a dagger, had sharp eyes and quick hands. He caught the loach and prevented it from escaping.
"Killing a fish requires so much effort. Don't tell me you're a student of Minglan Academy. I can't afford to lose my face."
Lin Mao complained.
"Why don't you try if you can?"
Luo Zhang was unhappy. The three of them had been sent to the stream to catch fish and prepare the ingredients. However, Lin Mao came from a wealthy family and had never done such chores before. He found it dirty, so not only did he watch from the side, he even gave out random orders. It was really displeasing.
"You can't do it well, yet you don't want others to talk about it?"
Lin Mao immediately scolded.
"Did that cry just now come from here?"
Lu Zhiruo asked curiously, but her gaze landed on the loach that Shi Song was holding.
This loach was about a foot and a half long and was as thick as a wrist. At this moment, its entire body was drenched in blood. Its mouth opened and closed, and it looked like it was about to die.
"Let's go. We're just killing fish."
Li Ziqi glanced at it from afar and lost interest.
The three guys lifted their heads. When they saw Lu Zhiruo, their eyes immediately brightened. This girl looked so pure. This was especially so for Lin Mao. He immediately stared at the papaya girl's chest.
"F * ck, isn't this a little too big? It can definitely suffocate a man to death inside! "
Lin Mao was exhilarated as he watched. As Lu Zhiruo had fallen into the water earlier, a lot of her clothes were drenched and stuck to her body. Although she wasn't exposed, her curves were revealed.
"Oh!"
After Lu Zhiruo left, she inadvertently turned her head and saw that loach squeaking and struggling non-stop.
"Stop shouting!"
Shi Song was impatient. He grabbed the loach and slammed it on the ground.
Smack!
The loach was dying.
Luo Zhang's finger hurt a little. He looked down and saw that the loach had bitten him, leaving a bite mark.
"F * ck!"
Luo Zhang's face was gloomy as he stomped on the loach.
"Quick, let's go catch some fish."
Li Ziqi urged.
"Hey, which school are you from?"
Lin Mao struck up a conversation.
"If you want to kill a fish, then kill it. Don't torture it!"
Lu Zhiruo frowned.
"Aren't you being a busybody?"
Luo Zhang had already been suppressing a bellyful of anger because of Lin Mao. Now that he was being lectured by a girl and bitten by a loach, he was even more displeased. Hence, he lifted his foot and stomped on the loach.
Creak!
The loach screamed.
Lu Zhiruo pouted. She felt that this fellow was bad.
"Luo Zhang, how can you speak to him like that?"
Lin Mao questioned.
"Why do you care?"
As Luo Zhang spoke, he stepped on the loach again and then looked toward Lu Zhiruo. "Why? If you feel bad, why don't you buy it back? "
Lu Zhiruo wasn't a fool. Why would she buy a loach that was about to die? She didn't want to deal with this person, but Luo Zhang couldn't deal with Lin Mao, so she vented all her anger on that loach.
"I'll let you shout!"
"I'll let you shout!"
Luo Zhang cursed as he lifted his foot to stomp on the loach. Anyway, he had enough ingredients. It didn't matter if it was one more or one less.
"Hey, you're venting your anger on a loach. You're really lowly!"
Li Ziqi spoke in disdain.
"This is a loach I caught. How I deal with it is none of your business." Luo Zhang coldly snorted and stomped on it even more fiercely. "If you have the capabilities, buy it!"
"Stop stomping on it, I'll buy it!"
Lu Zhiruo couldn't bear to watch the loach being trampled on. She took out a small piece of silver and passed it to Luo Zhang.
"Please move aside!"
Lu Zhiruo's tone was cold and she wanted to pick up the loach.
Looking at the silver in the hands of this big-breasted girl and hearing her hateful voice, Luo Zhang felt even more depressed.
Ever since he entered the Darkness Continent, nothing had gone his way. And now, he was hated by a beautiful girl.
(Alright, I'll let you guys hate me to your heart's content!)
"I don't have enough money!"
Luo Zhang started to take revenge on society out of a rebellious mentality. As he spoke, he stepped on the loach and stomped on it with force.
"You're cheating!"
Lu Zhiruo was very angry. That piece of silver weighed over one tael. If it was placed in the market, it could be used to buy 50 catties of loaches.
"My loach is expensive. If you can't afford it, scram!"
Just when Luo Zhang finished speaking, a piece of golden leaf spun and slapped his face.
"Is it enough?"
Li Ziqi's eyes were ice-cold as she looked at Luo Zhang.
"F * ck your mom, you're a rich person!"
Lin Mao let out a strange cry and immediately turned his focus to the little sunny egg. "May I ask how I should address this beautiful lady?"
Those who could use golden leaves were all young misses of wealthy families. If he managed to get close to them, he would be able to live off a woman for the rest of his life.
Lin Mao's family was rich, but his father wouldn't give him such a lavish amount of golden leaves. Moreover, he saw that the oval-faced girl casually took out a piece of golden leaf from a bulging money pouch and tossed it over. This meant that her money pouch was filled with golden leaves.
She was truly incomparably wealthy!
"So what if you're rich? My loach is a mysterious species of darkness. It's worth one spirit stone! "
Luo Zhang touched his face, feeling even angrier. (She actually used money to slap my face? Damn, I can't tolerate this. However, Luo Zhang's gaze couldn't help but drift toward that golden leaf.
If it wasn't for his pride, he would have bent down to pick it up. Selling a half-dead loach for a piece of golden leaf, no matter how he looked at it, it was a huge profit.
"Oi, are you looking for a fight?"
Ying Baiwu came over and stared at Luo Zhang with an unfriendly expression. She was used to fighting on the streets and wasn't afraid of such a scene.
"If you want this loach, then take out one spirit stone. Otherwise, scram!"
Luo Zhang roared. Earlier, he didn't agree to sell the loach. Right now, he was extremely regretful. However, as a man, he couldn't lower his pride in front of three beautiful girls. He could only brace himself and go up.
Ying Baiwu didn't waste time speaking. Her right hand grabbed the hilt of her sword and was prepared to fight.
"Don't find trouble for Teacher!"
Li Ziqi stopped the iron-headed girl. She took out a spirit stone and wanted to toss it toward that loathsome monkey-faced guy. This conflict no longer had anything to do with how much that loach was worth. It was a matter of face.
(I, Li Ziqi, said that I'll buy your loach. I'll buy it no matter how much it costs!)
"Eldest Martial Sister!"
Lu Zhiruo pulled Li Ziqi's hand. "I'm the one who caused the conflict, so let me pay!"
The papaya girl took out a spirit stone from her money pouch. However, she didn't give it to Luo Zhang but held it in her hand.
"Why? You can't bear to part with it? "
Luo Zhang sneered. That was the case. Who would be a fool to use a spirit stone to buy a dying loach?
It wasn't that Lu Zhiruo couldn't bear to spend money, but she couldn't bear to use this spirit stone because this was given to her by her teacher. She had wanted to save it as a memento.
"Don't buy it anymore!"
Ying Baiwu persuaded.
Jiji!
The loach that had rolled around in the mud was squeaking and looking at Lu Zhiruo with its watery eyes.
"It's begging me to save it!"
Lu Zhiruo shook her head.
"You can understand the language of animals?"
Ying Baiwu was curious. She turned and surveyed the loach.
"I don't understand."
Lu Zhiruo continued to shake her head and said honestly, "It's just a feeling!"
"..."
Ying Baiwu didn't know what to say. She recalled a time when they were slaughtering pigs during the new year, the old sow had used this gaze to look at the surrounding children.
This was merely the survival instinct of animals. However, the iron-headed girl's lips moved, but she didn't say anything in the end.
The papaya girl was a kind and innocent girl who didn't know the darkness and cruelty of the world. Ying Baiwu felt that she should protect her innocence.
"This is a spirit stone. Give it to me!"
Lu Zhiruo's temper was very good. Although she hated Luo Zhang a lot, she didn't throw the spirit stone at his feet and passed it to him instead.
Li Ziqi didn't stand on ceremony. She directly took the spirit stone from the papaya girl's hand and threw it to Luo Zhang.
Luo Zhang didn't want to receive it because he would lose face if he did. However, when the spirit stone hit his chest, he subconsciously stretched out his hand.
There was no solution to it. That was a spirit stone, a hard currency on the Darkness Continent. As a child from a poor family, he could endure not wanting that golden leaf. However, this spirit stone had pierced through his pride.
The spirit stone emitted a cool temperature like spring water in summer. Luo Zhang instinctively grabbed it tightly. (How good, I also have a spirit stone now. I don't need to be envious of others anymore.)
"He really gave it to him?"
Shi Song was surprised. However, what made him even more surprised was that Luo Zhang, who had always been striving to become stronger, had actually admitted defeat.
"Tsk tsk, how rich!"
Lin Mao sighed ruefully.
"Che!"
Li Ziqi felt disdain. A problem that could be solved with money wasn't a problem at all.
Lu Zhiruo ran over, squatted down, and picked up the loach.
"Move aside!"
Ying Baiwu came over and stared at Luo Zhang.
Luo Zhang took two steps back. He wanted to scold, but he didn't dare to because he was worried that the other party would go back on her words and take the spirit stone back.
Upon seeing this scene, Lin Mao shook his head. He felt that quarreling with Luo Zhang was really lowering his status.
Shi Song, who had been watching from the side, had felt that Luo Zhang wasn't a bad person. However, after seeing Luo Zhang accepting the spirit stone and not saying anything, he suddenly felt very disappointed.
How could a person have no pride?
Was this a matter of a loach? This was a matter of face!
Today, Luo Zhang could endure this for the sake of a spirit stone. In that case, in the future, he would be able to do things that would damage his pride for greater benefits.
Such a person had no moral integrity and shouldn't be befriended.
The three girls left.
"Oi, which school are you guys from?"
Looking at Li Ziqi's steel-like figure, Lin Mao couldn't help but ask.
Ying Baiwu turned her head and directly flashed a middle finger.
Shi Song had wanted to say something, but when he saw Luo Zhang looking at him and Lin Mao with a wary gaze, Luo Zhang couldn't possibly think that Shi Song was coveting the spirit stone, right?
"That loach was caught by me. As for how to deal with it, it's up to me!"
Luo Zhang took the initiative to speak, wanting to sever the thoughts of the two of them.
"Hehe!"
Shi Song laughed. When Luo Zhang and Lin Mao quarreled, although he was the mediator, he was biased towards Luo Zhang. But now, they could do whatever they wanted!
Luo Zhang immersed himself in his work. A few minutes later, he involuntarily lifted his head and glanced in the direction that Li Ziqi and the other two had left in.
"To think that someone would really spend a spirit stone to buy a dying loach. Do you guys think that loach is some mysterious species of darkness?"
Luo Zhang speculated.
Lin Mao and Shi Song didn't say anything. They looked at him with a 'are you an idiot?' gaze.
"You guys have forgotten that the sound of that loach is a little strange. Back then when I was in the countryside, I had also caught many loaches, but their cries weren't like that."
Luo Zhang explained.
"Please, this is the Darkness Continent. Even if they are the same species, there would be differences if they lived on two different continents."
Lin Mao rolled his eyes, his tone filled with disdain. "Moreover, to you, a spirit stone might be a wealth that you wouldn't be able to earn in a year. But to that rich girl, it might not even be enough for half a meal."
Lin Mao patted Luo Zhang's shoulder and said in a mocking tone, "You won't understand the world of the rich!"
Shi Song nodded. "If that thing is a mysterious species of darkness, let me drown in a cesspool."
Shi Song carried the processed ingredients and spoke. In a moment of carelessness, he stepped on air and slid into the stream.
Plop!
Water splashed in all directions and dead fish splattered all over the ground.
"Hehe!"
Luo Zhang laughed, feeling at ease. That was right. Given his terrible luck, how could he possibly find a mysterious species of darkness by randomly touching a mud hole?
If that was the case, the entire Darkness Continent would surely be filled with mysterious species of darkness.
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