Chapter 144
Here is South Lake, like a pearl inlaid in the earth.

It was a cloudy day after the rain, and a gentle breeze was blowing on the lake. Chen Chuanwang stood on the soft field ridge, listening to the sound of drainage under his feet.

"Today there will be a flood."

Grandpa was busy in the field, occasionally talking to Chen Chuanwang.

Chen Chuanwang thought for a while: "Floods happen every year."

In Chen Chuanwang's memory, flooding is a very common thing. It is not a flood, but a flood discharge.

In the past, every time there was a heavy rain, the water level of Nanhu Lake would skyrocket, and then flood the stone slabs where I usually squat while washing clothes, and occasionally flood the ridges of the fields.

Chen Chuanwang clearly remembered that there was a flood one year and almost all the fields near the lake were flooded. At that time, no one cared about what was planted in the field, but caught fish all day long.

No need for hooks, no bait, no need for even a mature man, two boys standing in the field, driving back and forth together, can catch quite a few fish.

At that time, Chen Chuanwang's father knelt down a large herring that weighed tens of kilograms into the mud and took it home.

Grandpa said: "No last year, it was too dry last year, it's been raining today, the temperature can't go up, I'm afraid the corn at home has grown something, it's still watermelon..."

"If you can't grow it, you can't grow it. The sky is not beautiful."

Most of the things grown in the village are not sold, but self-sufficient. At most, they will grow some rapeseed, and then exchange it for rapeseed oil.

Even if the fields are flooded, it will not cause too much damage.

Grandpa finished his work, and his leg was muddy: "It just so happens that you bought a harpoon this year, and when there is a flood, we will go to the sluice gate, insert one for sure, and then freeze a few for a short time, and eat slowly later..."

"Ah."

Chen Chuanwang nodded.

The flood will be discharged to the South Lake outside, and when the South Lake has too much water, it will also discharge to the surrounding small ponds.

At that time, the fish were "flying" around the sluice, and seasoned people could rely on the movement of the water surface to fill their bowls. If they were lucky, they could pick up a few big fat heads on the shore.

But no one will go offline.

Chen Chuanwang didn't know the reason, it was like a convention.

Grandpa went back, and Chen Chuanwang yelled: "You and grandma each have one peach on the table. You can't keep putting it on. If you don't eat it, it will go bad."

"You eat, you eat, we don't like peaches."

"I won't eat it. If you don't eat it, I will throw it to the chicken."

"...the chickens eat everything, why don't you feed them rice!" Grandpa muttered and left.

Most people of the older generation are like this. They have experienced hard times, so they don't want to waste anything, and want to leave all good things to future generations.

Chen Chuanwang took advantage of their weakness. If there was something good and his grandparents refused to eat it, he would yell to feed the dogs, chickens, and ducks.

The effect of every aggressive method is very good.

Along the shore of the lake, Chen Chuanwang came to the "Nanhu Mahjong Hall", which is still lively, but there are fewer common monsters.

Chen Chuanwang saw Ah Qi.

He was talking loudly: "I heard that Archie Toad is dead. She has several children who are still very young. Which of you is willing to take care of them?"

"I can't help. I'm a worm demon. Raising tadpoles is too strange."

"Don't look for me, when they grow up, I can't help but eat them."

Ah Qi took the hand of the frog at the side, and said seriously: "They are all bad, so don't refuse, you are the most suitable to greet Archie's child."

The frog demon tilted his head: "But...but I'm a male frog, and I've never brought up a child. Why don't I find an ordinary toad belt?"

Ah Qi shook her head and hurriedly said, "No."

"Ordinary toads are not intelligent, they are not their own children, maybe they will eat Archie's children, we can't take this risk."

"If it doesn't work, you can just be... Just be your wife and raise her, anyway, your iron skin..."

"Aqi!"

The frog demon hastily covered Ah Qi's mouth: "Don't talk nonsense, can you? What is being a wife? The toad is too ugly, and its skin is not smooth at all."

Ah Qi pulled the frog demon's hand away, and said seriously: "If you don't help, what should they do? Shall we watch them die?"

The frog demon frowned, and nodded helplessly: "Okay, okay, just leave those children to me."

The demons dispersed.

Ah Qi met Chen Chuanwang.

"Awang, you are back."

"Ah Seven." Chen Chuanwang nodded slightly, and he asked, "Why aren't Grandpa Turtle and the others here?"

He searched for a long time just now, but Snake Zaitian, Grandpa Gui, Sister Bailu, and Shuihu were not there, which is really strange, the four of them have always been Nanhu's favorite monsters who like to play mahjong.

"I...can't say a word or two, I'll take you to find them."

Ah Qi took Chen Chuanwang's hand, left the mahjong parlor, and walked straight to Nanhu.

Chen Chuanwang hurriedly stopped, and he said, "I don't have the ability to go into the water, so you should just tell me."

"Yes...uh... I can't tell. Actually, I don't understand what happened."

After Ah Qi finished speaking, Chen Chuanwang was asked to wait on the shore, and he dived into the water by himself.

After a while, Ah Qi came back, holding a blue gemstone in his hand, under the faint luster, it seemed that there was a ball of water surging in the gemstone.

Ah Qi said: "You hold this stone in your mouth, it allows you to breathe underwater."

Chen Chuanwang nodded. Isn't this the water-avoiding stone?

The stone was not big, and Chen Chuanwang put it in his mouth, as if holding a piece of cold jade.

Quiet into the water.

It was only then that Chen Chuanwang discovered that the underwater is different from the underwater.

He used to swim in the South Lake, and all he saw was a gray or green world, but today, it was colorless and transparent.

At the beginning, the world Chen Chuanwang saw was the ordinary underwater world, mud, bottles, cages...

After swimming for a while, when Chen Chuanwang felt that he should be close to the center of the lake, the world in his eyes also changed.

The silt dissipated, aquatic plants grew wildly, shrimps and crabs intertwined, and Chen Chuanwang still accidentally stepped on the mussels sometimes.

In addition, the most shocking thing is the only building at the bottom of the lake.

That is a Dragon King Temple!

The appearance of the temple is similar to the shrines dedicated to land and Bodhisattvas that Chen Chuanwang saw on the road, but much larger.

Chen Chuanwang felt that the Dragon King on the high seat should be about the size of an adult.

The temple looks very new, but it is also very old. The strange perception once made Chen Chuanwang wonder if there was something wrong with his eyes.

"Come!"

Ah Qi pulled Chen Chuanwang to the front of the temple, a censer with an unknown amount of incense ash.

There was no more incense on the censer, only ash that could not be seen to be black or gray.

Ah Qi pressed her hand on the incense burner.

Following his example, Chen Chuanwang also pressed his hand on it.

boom!
Chen Chuanwang's pupils dilated.

That is……

(End of this chapter)

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