Free Web NovelChapter 999: Chapter 996: No Other Skill, Just Rock-Hard Fists
"Uncle... are you doing this to withstand a beating?" Ah Qing looked at Yang Qingfeng with a face full of shock and asked.
Using a large fish plastic toy, creating the marks of a big fish struggling and thrashing ashore at the pond’s edge, and later scattering a few big fish scales from the seafood wholesale market...
If this gets exposed, Uncle Yang’s physique might not be able to withstand a beating, right?
"Why worry? Can they fix a water pump?" Yang Qingfeng showed a disdainful expression and said, "I won’t bother going to the pond to watch the fun. Real skilled fishermen wouldn’t go empty-handed because of some fake information."
Jealousy made the fishermen go mad. They endured nine out of ten unsuccessful outings every day and being mocked for feeding the fish.
But then, the neighbor next door caught a thirty-pound carp from the stinky ditch and hung it at the neighborhood gate.
Even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles couldn’t swallow this.
"Hey... fishing has gotten to military strategy level." Ansheng, with a full face of speechlessness, looked at Ah Qing and sighed with a grumble:
"Did you persuade him to take care of Sister Zhiyu’s business? After all, the fishing grounds there have a guaranteed mechanism..."
In terms of taking care of the fishermen’s mood and self-esteem, Chen Zhiyu’s fishing vacation resort is professional.
Whether you catch fish or not, no matter; as long as you sit there for two hours without catching fish, those enlightened big fishes underwater have all sorts of ways to hog you into becoming their placenta.
"Well then... Uncle Yang, be careful out there!" Ah Qing said to Yang Qingfeng with a strange expression.
"Don’t worry, even though I’m riding a small electric scooter, this ride has been heavily modified."
Yang Qingfeng waved dismissively and, after greeting Ah Qing, prepared to continue with his busy schedule.
Ah Qing already mentioned that their university was giving students an early break.
As college students had just returned home for vacation, there should be plenty to deal with, so Yang Qingfeng didn’t rush to bring Ah Qing fishing but prepared to continue his mischief.
"By the way, I remember you do some live streaming of city tourism features aside from fishing, right?"
"There’s a new cat restaurant near Drum Tower, which seems to be especially popular recently—you can search for it on the notes in the same city to find it."
Before leaving, Yang Qingfeng thought for a moment and told Ah Qing about a particularly trendy and fun pet restaurant near Drum Tower that’s also a new sight in Jiule.
"I’ll get busy first; let’s fish together sometime." Yang Qingfeng waved goodbye to Ah Qing.
"Oh, okay..."
Ah Qing smiled and bid farewell to Uncle Yang, sat back in the bus stop to continue waiting.
About twenty minutes passed, and Old Deng slowly drove his old, worn-out pickup truck over.
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The pickup truck stopped in front of the bus station, and Yu Zhenghong didn’t hurry to open the door. Instead, he sneakily lowered a gap in the window, leaned against it holding a phone, scanning around as if he was a guilty thief.
"Dad... what are you up to?"
Ah Qing, with a face full of confusion, looked at her dad, completely unable to understand what he was doing.
"Nothing, just secretly checking if you’ve got any surprises for your old man..."
Yu Zhenghong sighed in relief, got out to help put Ah Qing’s luggage into the fixed compartment in the back of the pickup.
"The family mouse delayed us a bit, and it just happened to be rush hour..."
"If you want to eat something, mention it to your mom! Your mom is still at the market buying groceries."
Sitting back in the car, Yu Zhenghong tossed the phone that was still on the WeChat video to Ah Qing, and looked at Master Fuli with full sincerity, muttering a sentence.
"There are certainly surprises!"
Ah Qing broke into a smile, instantly realizing the surprise her dad was asking about.
Previously, Xiaolan played two pranks on Dad, making him sleepless for a night.
Afterwards, Xiaolan said he’d give the old man his retired raptor pickup as a gift.
"Those aren’t surprises; your mom already secretly told me about the dishwasher and big TV ages ago..."
Yu Zhenghong waved his hand and smacked his lips, saying, "You wouldn’t know since you’ve been at school, but the daughter of Ah Aozai at the village end got married."
"Of all places, she found someone from Gan Province. The bride price is without blinking an eye at 666,000, plus a three-bedroom apartment in Drum Tower and a BMW."
"Ah Aozai’s face turned pale, just as he was about to negotiate when this Gan Province son-in-law, thinking the father-in-law disagreed, whipped out a leaflet about dowry loans, raising it to 880,000."
"Tsk tsk... that scene was so brutal you dad didn’t dare to return to the village for days, afraid Ah Aozai would come to borrow money." Yu Zhenghong said with lingering fears.
"If you bring someone back wanting 880,000, your mom and I would probably have to live under the bridge."
The marriage customs of Changxi Town, especially for business families, dictate that the bride price is doubled by the daughter’s family or equaled in value with physical goods, showcasing maternal family power and face.
But twice 880,000...
It’s not something ordinary families can afford; even millionaire families would struggle to come up with such an amount in one go.
"8...88... thousand!?"
Ah Qing was dumbfounded upon hearing this.
Excluding Sister Zhiyu’s estate and a few discordant towns, Jiule City’s bride prices usually range from 100,000 to 300,000, beyond which incurs scorn.
Of course.
The customs in Changxi Town are relatively unique; they generally don’t mix in bride price discussions, with mouths tighter than tight.
But an 880,000 bride price is still quite shocking.
Placed within Changxi Town, it could enter village history books and be transmitted for generations to worship day and night.
"Anyhow, remember this and stay away from Gan Province males—we might empty our coffin funds." Yu Zhenghong quipped again, continuing, "Now let’s visit the hospital first, then go home to eat."
"Hmm? Why go to the hospital?"
Ah Qing hadn’t snapped out of the 880,000 shock yet, a bit puzzled, asking Dad.
She was about to tell Dad that Xiaolan had the raptor parked at the logistics city right now.
"I just mentioned that the house rat delayed us, hitting rush hour..." Yu Zhenghong rolled his eyes and said:
"I already told Chen Nian not to touch our flower-branch mouse at home, but he wouldn’t listen, cockily prodding its belly with sticks."
"Well of course, the flower-branch mouse jumped up and beat him and some foreigners up badly."
"Had I not witnessed them getting beaten, I’d think they were blackmailing me for medical fees and rabies vaccines."
Yu Zhenghong sighed deeply.
Kids these days are like paper—talking about machine-gunning in America.
Instead, they were knocked over by a single mouse, all dutifully getting rabies vaccines and tetanus shots.
"Uh..."
Ah Qing looked with a strange expression towards the little fox, with an inquisitive gaze.
"In a sense, our family’s albino big mouse is considered a super purebred Spirit Beast..." Ansheng’s mouth lightly twitched in reply.
Like the Spirit Beasts inspired by the Treasure Tree, the Bao family’s Spirit Beasts each have their own quirks after spiritualization, though their physique hasn’t reached province-dominating levels, but they each have unique traits.
And Ah Qing’s family albino mouse, like the little tea tree, black-chested cockroach, and big-headed ant, all belong to the Physique-type Spirit Beasts personally initiated by Master Fuli.
They don’t possess bizarre traits, just mighty muscles capable of crushing Spirit Beasts, and their fists are particularly hard.
