Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Chapter 382 Mermaid

Jiang Yu nodded, and kept this in mind, deciding to look for inspiration along the way. Perhaps new experiences would allow her to come up with better ideas.

The truck swayed forward. For safety reasons, Fu Biao usually did not travel at night unless the next destination was far away, so as to avoid being hijacked along the way.

Xiong Lijin's body swayed to the rhythm of the car, humming a song, and he was in a good mood.

The carving knife in Jiang Yu's hand also scratched the wood as the car swayed, again and again, and wood chips fell on her legs covered with coarse cloth.

Turning a corner in front, the carving knife drew a winding curve on the wood. Jiang Yude flicked it lightly at the last moment, and sawdust fell. She looked at the wood in her hand. The soft curved lines at the front gathered together, like a head of hair?

Jiang Yu stroked the wood a few times, and a ray of light flashed before his eyes. It was the beautiful afternoon sun refracted through the car window, just like the soap bubbles he had seen in his childhood memories in his previous life.

Soap bubbles? She suddenly remembered the fairy tale her mother had told her, about the little mermaid who turned into bubbles and disappeared in the sun because she couldn't get the love she wanted.

Jiang Yu looked at the wood in his hand again. The curves on it looked like the beautiful curly hair of a mermaid's seaweed. So, he decided to try carving it.

Although portraits were not her specialty and she had no reference, she had to rely entirely on her imagination.

In the following time, she was like an old monk in meditation, concentrating on turning the wood in her hand, changing the carving knife from large to small, and a large pile of sawdust accumulated.

Xiong Lijin whispered to Fu Biao, "These things are good for making a fire."

"Would you like to go to the fishermen's house to buy some seafood in the evening and grill it yourself?" Fu Biao asked him with a smile.

"Then let's not do that. We're tired after a day's work. Let's just eat something ready-made!" Xiong Lijin waved his hand quickly. They were about to arrive at D County. The seafood there was very famous. The chefs in the state-owned restaurants were very good at cooking seafood. It would be too much trouble to grill it by yourself.

Fu Biao rolled his eyes at him and said, "We'll be there soon. Let Jiang Yu take a break. She's been swaying along the way and she's still doing wood carving. Be careful not to hurt her eyes."

"I'll ask Angkor Wu to prescribe some Chinese medicine for her to protect her eyes." Xiong Lijin said as a matter of course.

"You think you, Wu Ge, are an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner who knows everything. Don't make things difficult for him. Let Jiang Yu drink more wolfberry tea!" Fu Biao retorted to him bluntly.

Xiong Lijin chuckled, and took advantage of Jiang Yu's break to pull her arm, "Jiang Yu, take a break, we'll be there soon."

Jiang Yu responded without taking his eyes off the little mermaid who was already taking shape.

Fu Biao next to her glanced at her, then rolled down his window a little, and immediately, the air filled with the smell of sea breeze filled the entire front of the car.

Jiang Yu had a keen sense of smell. She had actually smelled the seafood before, but now the smell was even more obvious. She took a breath subconsciously and said, "I'm a little hungry."

"After we unload the goods, we'll go eat." When Jiang Yu said she was hungry, Fu Biao suddenly felt like eating too. He even started thinking about what dishes he should order for dinner.

They had come to D County last time just for the dry seafood here. Whether it was shellfish or kelp, they could be sold at a high price in inland areas and were a must-buy item for people like them.

However, they were lucky when they came back last time, as it was the season when many shellfish were the fattest. He and Xiong Lijin had several big meals here and enjoyed themselves to their heart's content.

As for what seafood is available now, that depends on what the state-owned restaurants buy.

The truck drove onto a relatively flat road. The four people who had been swaying all the way couldn't help but sigh in unison. They were finally there.

When the car drove into the county town, Fu Biao picked up a person on the roadside. When he set out from the previous purchasing point, he asked the person in charge there to contact the people here. The person he picked up was here to lead the way for them.

The person who led the way said that their business was good recently, so they moved to a new yard. If Fu Biao and his companions went there according to the original address, they would be disappointed.

"You should have called us to tell us that you changed seats." Xiong Lijin said. Because there was one more person, he and Jiang Yu were now sitting together. In order to leave enough space for her, Xiong Lijin lay on the center console and twisted his body to talk to her.

The man quickly said, "We called you two days ago when we just moved there, but you had already come out. Fortunately, you said you needed someone to lead the way..."

"Oh, so that's how it is. We are lucky. I wanted to ask you to arrange someone to come here just to be on the safe side, but I didn't expect it to be so successful." Xiong Lijin nodded and smiled.

Under the man's command, Fu Biao drove the car to the outside of a private house. However, their place was indeed quite good. Although it was on the edge of the county town, there was a main road at the door, which made it convenient for cars to come and go.

Several people got off the car, and the guide hurriedly knocked on the door of the courtyard. An aunt's voice responded from inside. After a while, the door opened and several tall and strong men walked out.

Jiang Yu looked at them suspiciously for a few seconds, thinking that they seemed to be a family? They looked somewhat similar.

Fu Biao opened the door at the back of the truck and said to the strong men, "Those on the left are yours, move them."

"Okay." The strong men agreed and immediately climbed into the car and started working.

The aunt who was talking in the room just now pulled Xiong Lijin into the house.

Jiang Yu leaned against the wall, waiting for them to unload the cargo, wondering how long it would take before she could eat. She was really hungry, and now that she smelled the scent of the sea, the feeling became even stronger.

I feel like I can eat a whole cow! Jiang Yu curled his lips and stared at the vegetable field in front of him. The fresh and tender vegetable seedlings there looked so beautiful.

There were many people working here, so Jiang Yu didn't have to wait long. When Xiong Lijin came out of the house with a happy expression, most of the things in the car had been unloaded.

After Fu Biao checked the goods with one of them, he signed his name on the list and handed it to the other party. "How is the dry goods? Have you purchased the quantity?"

"Almost there, some fishermen will come to deliver the goods tonight, we are in a hurry." The big man said happily, "Now is the time to eat shrimps, we dried a lot of shrimp paste this time, this stuff is rare, I'm sure we can sell it for a lot of money!"

"What are the general prices here?" Fu Biao asked him. He knew about shrimps, but he had never eaten the ones with shrimp paste, so he didn't know how much they cost.

"We have a lot of this stuff here, so it's not valuable. But if you take it inland, you can still sell it for a dollar." The big man didn't really understand.