Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 1716: Chapter 1696:

”Such a heavy watery feeling...” Luo Qianqian suddenly jumped up, opened the door quickly, and then slammed it shut again, leaning against the door with fear on her face, mouth open but unable to make a sound, when outside, sounds of splashing had already risen, as if something was hitting the ground...

He Wenyu, puzzled, looked at Luo Qianqian’s expression: ”What happened? Did you step on a dog’s tail?”

”Get lost.” Luo Qianqian said, looking speechless: ”I advise you not to open the door. Otherwise, you might break down.”

He Wenyu observed Luo Qianqian’s innocent expression, already having some suspicion but still swallowing hard, pulled Luo Qianqian aside, saying: ”No way?”

Saying so, she opened the door, only to be greeted by a courtyard full of all sorts of lively, jumping fish, making her feel like she was at a release ceremony...

”That one... is a Koi, right?” Luo Qianqian leaned against the door, crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at He Wenyu, her gaze falling on a very prominent golden red fish in the courtyard.

He Wenyu looked over as well, her face full of disbelief...

Making boiled fish, it seems like it would be enough to feed the whole academy, right? And not just fish, but also eels, loaches, and a whole series of long, unfamiliar fish, even shellfish... What is this about? What about the fish we were talking about?

”Don’t these look fresh? Shiliu, which one do you want?” The old man squatting on the eaves seemed peculiarly proud of everything he saw.

He Wenyu’s mouth twitched.

”Shiqi, go fetch the fish.” Not wanting to pay attention to the old man who had made a mess of the courtyard.

In the corner of the courtyard, Fu Qing was also utterly confused, what kind of situation was this? Did they really need to go so overboard just to catch a fish? He finally understood why even making a bit of food could result in capturing things from the Inner Forest...

With this scale, it won’t take long before the whole academy is out of fish to eat, right?

Seems like... The plan to artificially raise Spiritual Beasts has to be set in motion now, otherwise, it won’t withstand Laoqi’s reckless troublemaking...

”I just want these; the rest, send them back.” He Wenyu couldn’t help but say to the person on the wall: ”Catching such small fish, aren’t you worried there’ll be nothing left to eat in the future?”

Listening to He Wenyu, the old man didn’t seem guilty at all: ”Their existence is meant for my consumption!”

”Seems like your existence is mostly meant for scolding...” Luo Qianqian muttered softly beside him.

Not thinking about the future at all, isn’t this just asking for criticism?

Although she spoke softly, how could anyone in this courtyard suffer from hearing loss? Everyone heard her muttering clearly.

The old man was fuming, while Fu Qing in the corner also found it a bit amusing, agreeing that Laoqi indeed deserved scolding.

As for He Wenyu? What Luo Qianqian said, he fully supported!

With so many caught, they can’t possibly finish them all, and with time, they’d all dehydrate, resulting in wasted food, wouldn’t that indeed deserve some scolding?

Bad for ecological balance.

The old man looked at Xiao Yu, which He Wenyu placed in a large water jar, golden red, shaking his head in disbelief, ”These young girls just like pretty things!”

He quickly swept away the remaining fish, leaving the courtyard clean again.

Perhaps due to the Koi being a Spiritual Beast, even without water, it was still surviving well.

Luo Qianqian, seeing He Wenyu’s eyes, silently gathered a sphere of water and threw it into the jar, the white porcelain jar held only this little Koi.

”It’s quite beautiful, isn’t it?” He Wenyu smiled proudly: ”Putting it here adds a bit of vitality.”

Luo Qianqian silently glanced at Fu Qing, alive yet brilliantly ignored, rubbed her nose silently, indeed, compared to fish, Fu Qing was even less noticeable.

Moreover, fish are symbols of vitality, yet this big living person was overlooked? How weak is his presence?

”Normally, isn’t there a lotus or something inside?” Luo Qianqian pursed her lips: ”And what do you plan on feeding it?”

”What he eats isn’t important, what’s important is what I let him eat.” He Wenyu smirked: ”Why don’t we try cannibalism today?”

”Cruel woman...” Luo Qianqian said, speechless, then glanced at the lively fish squirming in a basin, pursing her lips.

The two sat on the kitchen floor dealing with fish, while He Wenyu boiled some water in the pot, cooked some dried meat, pursed her lips, placed it in a dish aside to dry: ”Do you think my little Snow Beast, when will it come back?”

”How long has it been? You see how long I’ve been apart from Tang Guo?” Luo Qianqian pursed her lips, not that she was saying anything, basically, the difficulty of meeting Tang Guo was already comparable to Luo Shufan meeting Luo Xinyue.

She was hardly ever at the Nine Heavens Pavilion, while Tang Guo had to guard the Nine Heavens Pavilion...

”Can you compare my arm? You are just cruel.” He Wenyu said bluntly: ”By the way, that person outside... why do I feel he’s so gloomy?”

Luo Qianqian rolled her eyes, you don’t expect him to greet you with joy when he failed, do you?

After handling the fish, Luo Qianqian walked out of the kitchen, planning not to mess with things, more importantly, she wanted to find some flora, to see if it could be added to the white porcelain jar, one fish seemed so lonely...

As she was about to study the size, she suddenly noticed two lotus leaves in the jar and was stunned: ”Hey, what’s going on?”

She turned to look at Fu Qing, only to find him reverted to the state she first saw him in, looking despondent, sitting in the corner mumbling...

She was immediately curious if this was Fu Qing’s handiwork or...

”Yo, Shiqi, look what I brought back...” The old man entered his courtyard not through the door but jumped over the wall, resembling some people.

Luo Qianqian couldn’t help but thinking of those people, wondering how Wang Mazi and the others were doing...

”What is this?” Luo Qianqian snapped out of her daze and looked towards the old man’s hand, the next second, a sharp scream resounded through the courtyard...

”Ah!!!!!!!”

He Wenyu dropped the spatula and ran out, only to see a familiar patterned thing lying in the old man’s hand, trembling all over.

”W-What’s going on?!” He Wenyu said, face full of panic, if she wasn’t mistaken about that familiar color pattern... shouldn’t it be the ingredient for yesterday’s snake stew? Except it seemed to have shrunk by dozens or hundreds of times, only about a foot long...

”Uh... you all misunderstood, this isn’t yesterday’s one, yesterday’s wasn’t this fierce, this one is...”

”It’s a snake, isn’t it!!!” Luo Qianqian’s face was full of despair.

”That sounds about right.”

”Take it away!!!!!!!”