GBP Chapter 305 Running in both directions
Chapter 305 Running in both directions
"You are really favored by the monster. It actually gave you pearls!" Bai Mizhu's words were full of jealousy.
This was not his first time to come to the Taoist temple. He had been here before, even when he was a child. The big monster at the bottom of the lake was already polite by not teasing him and splashing water on him. How could he give him any gifts?
"Hmph! I'm loved by everyone, are you jealous of me?" Zhou Ran said, took out a small knife, and started opening the pearl clams by the pool.
By the way, when live streaming was all the rage in her previous life, she liked to watch people opening clams and blind boxes, and even spent money to open them. However, she spent 399 or 499 yuan and couldn't get any good pearls, so she gave up later.
Opening clams live and opening them yourself are definitely two different feelings. Zhou Ran is looking forward to it.
How should I put it, she would be happier if the monster at the bottom of the lake gave her clams than if he gave her pearls directly.
The thrill of opening a blind box!
"Do you know how pearls are formed?" Han Jun stood by and also contributed. These river clams weighed seven or eight kilograms each.
"Ah? Isn't it that the sand enters the body of the river clam and is wrapped by the substance it secretes, and becomes pearls year after year? We have a lot of artificially cultivated pearls here!" Zhou Ran did not give Han Jun a chance to popularize science.
"...Since you know that, this river clam doesn't necessarily contain pearls." Han Jun began counting the growth rings on the river clam and said, "This one has been alive for over thirty years. The meat is old and not tasty."
"Hey, blanch them in water and make them into a lemony and spicy flavor. It will definitely be delicious, especially suitable for drinking." While Zhou Ran was opening the river clams, he had already figured out how to deal with the clam meat.
"You can cook too?" Although he said he didn't believe it, Han Jun's hands were obviously more skillful.
Typical speaking and body integrity.
"Jingle bell!"
"Jingle bell!"
The old clams sent by the aunt from the bottom of the lake seemed to have been carefully selected. Each clam produced more than a dozen pearls, which were large and round, and the diameter of the pearls was more than 11mm.
Zhou Ran was really surprised. She had also watched the live broadcast. Even though freshwater pearls are not as valuable as saltwater pearls, they are one of the "seven treasures, eight treasures and nine collections", and freshwater pearls with a diameter of more than 11 are also extremely precious.
"Pearls are a specialty of the lake?" Zhou Ran looked at Han Jun. She always felt that Old Han should know something.
"Well... do you know what the monster at the bottom of the lake is?" Han Jun was a little jealous of Zhou Ran. Did that old monster really like her that much?
"I don't know!" Zhou Ran asked with a questioning face. What should she know? No one told her.
"Clam spirit." Han Jun didn't keep the secret any longer. He looked at the slow-witted Zhou Ran and said, "It gave its offspring to you."
Zhou Ran: ...
"Then let's not eat it." Zhou Ran dropped the clam meat he was processing and went on strike.
"No, the ethics of monsters are different from ours. When a clam gives birth, it's just like you girls' menstrual period... You know? It's to expel the impurities in the body."
Well, in order to get a bite to eat, Han Jun even gave Zhou Ran a lesson on physiology and hygiene.
"It's even more disgusting when you say that. You guys take care of it, I'll go prepare the sauce." After Zhou Ran said that, he washed his hands and left with the pearls.
Han Jun and Bai Mizhu thought she was just being lazy and didn't want to work.
Zhou Ran counted them and found that there were about a hundred pearls, enough to string together two pearl necklaces. He could give one to his mother, and the extra beads could be made into pendants, rings, etc., suitable for giving as gifts or for personal use.
The so-called sauce is the universal sauce used to make spicy and sour lemon chicken feet.
Minced garlic, chili pepper, chili powder, cooked sesame seeds... Pour hot oil on it, then add a certain proportion of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, aged vinegar, oyster sauce, sugar, chicken essence, mineral water... Stir it, then add lemon, coriander and chopped green onion. This all-purpose sauce is delicious even for dipping shoe soles in.
Lao Zhou is a person who goes to bed early and gets up early. When he got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, he followed the smell to the living room in a daze and joined the midnight snack team.
The big monster at the bottom of the lake was looking at the Soul-Feeding Pill that Zhou Ran gave it. The Soul-Feeding Pill refined by a first-level spirit beast had a great attraction to it.
"How did that child get this thing?" As a thousand-year-old clam spirit, giving away a few pearl clams is really nothing.
But if he had known that the other party was sending such a precious elixir, he would definitely have doubled the price.
"Oh, I actually took advantage of the youngster." The clam spirit stuffed a soul-feeding pill into its mouth. The taste was better than any pill it had ever eaten in its life.
It has to go through its collection. When the child comes again tomorrow, it has to fill the gap in gifts!
"Well, which is better, these boxes of gold fished out of the river, or these jewels? Will she like these beautiful clothes..."
The lake is not calm at all tonight. Although there is no wind, the water is still surging.
"What is the big demon doing? Why is he so excited so late at night?" The abbot of the Taoist temple muttered, turned over and continued to sleep.
He is not young, but he feels young.
Because she had a midnight snack the night before, Zhou Ran got up late and went for a walk by the lake after having brunch. She also had to thank Aunt Clam Spirit.
"Girl, come quickly, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" The clam spirit spent the entire night picking out the return gift, and waited for a long time again after dawn. When he sensed Zhou Ran coming for a walk from afar, he greeted her.
"Auntie, thank you for your pearls!" Zhou Ran was quite sweet-mouthed. Thinking of the first time they met, the clam spirit kept calling herself "Auntie", so he just went along with it.
"Hey, that's nothing. It's something produced by our own family, so it's not worth it. Why don't you come down here? I have some other things here, you can pick them yourself." The clam spirit was still struggling. It was not that she was reluctant to part with it, but she didn't know what Zhou Ran liked.
It had caught a lot of things from other water systems in the past, and they were all hidden at the bottom of the lake.
"No need, auntie, the pearl is enough." The Soul-Feeding Pill was worthless to Zhou Ran. It was the simplest pill she made in her small world, bar none.
In the space with the small voice, there were quite a few Spirit-Feeding Pills made from fifth-level spirit beasts. This was because she hadn't been able to ascend to the Immortal Realm. Otherwise, her brother would have been able to capture a spirit beast for her...
Oh, forget it. Her realm is too low and she can’t go to the fairyland. I don’t know if my brothers will be sad?
There will definitely be sadness, but the male protagonist will probably shift the focus of his life before long, alas!
"What's wrong? What's wrong? You were fine just now, why are you so depressed?" The clam spirit sensed Zhou Ran's mood swings and hurriedly spoke to comfort her. Since she refused to come down to choose, an exquisite ebony box appeared at Zhou Ran's feet.
Because it was daytime now, Zhou Ran could see clearly that he was pushed ashore by the lake water!
"Girls need to keep their moods happy, otherwise they'll be in pain. Look at this box of jewels, do you like them?"
"Well, Auntie, you are so nice!" This time her emotions lasted a little longer and it was a little difficult to calm down.