Chapter 48: Turning people into fish(1/2)
There is a fish seller in the east of the city. Everyone likes to call him Xiaoma. The fish he sold before were not big because it was difficult to catch larger fish in the river. But recently, Xiaoma doesn't know.
I am so lucky that I can catch dozens of big and fat fish every day. Such fish are the best to sell in the market. Almost every day when people come over, they are all sold in less than half an hour.
This made his colleagues in the market envious of him, so someone asked him where he caught the fish, and promised Xiao Ma some benefits and asked Xiao Ma to tell him where the fish was caught, but Xiao Ma
The horse smiled and said nothing.
Fortunately, the number of fish caught by Xiao Ma every day was very stable. After selling out, he left. It did not have a big impact on everyone's business, but everyone was envious that he could catch such a big fish and sell it.
It's just a good price. Since Xiao Ma doesn't want to tell where the fish was caught, they can't keep asking. After all, if more people go to catch it, those big fish will soon be caught.
It’s over, and this is Xiao Ma’s fortune. We are all in the same industry, so there is no need to snatch other people’s fortune.
Of course, everyone thinks that the fish in the place where Xiao Ma is looking for will soon be caught by him. It is estimated that in a few days he will join everyone in selling such small fish.
But who would have known that this has been going on for a month. Xiaoma has been bringing so many big fish every day, and the number has almost always been around 30, because if there are more fish, it will be difficult for Xiaoma to bring them to the market to sell.
Fish must be kept in water, and the prices of dead fish and live fish are different.
Today was the same as usual. The pony pulled the cart to the market. Not long after he arrived, all the fish were sold. After selling the fish, the pony naturally went back.
But today, a fishmonger named Liu Laoliu set his sights on Xiao Ma. Liu Laoliu looked at Xiao Ma's back with a hint of cunning in his eyes.
"Xiao Zhang, do you want to know where the pony caught the fish? How about we follow him and have a look." Liu Laoliu is a fat man. He has been coveting the fish pony caught for a long time, but he has never found it.
Chance, he was too embarrassed to follow the pony before, but the pony could catch so many big fish every day, so he thought that since there are so many fish, why not let everyone catch such a big fish? This
Fish that are big and fat are very easy to sell. They are sold out as soon as they are brought to the market. If everyone sells fish like this, they can go back very early every day, and there is no need to guard them.
The fish stall can be visited all day long.
"I'm not interested. That's Xiao Ma's own fortune. It's normal for him not to tell us when he encounters this place. Let's ask ourselves. If we also find such a place, we are willing to tell everyone about this place and let everyone join us.
Going to catch fish?”
Liu Laoliu snorted coldly, turned around and left angrily.
"You are just a timid person and don't want to go with me. Anyway, I have decided to follow Xiao Ma to see where he caught the fish. Who wouldn't want to sell such a big fish?"
The reason why Liu Laoliu is so greedy for the big fish caught by Xiao Ma is because the price of each big fish caught by Xiao Ma is worth as much as a dozen of his fish. Even though they catch a lot of fish, this
The price sold throughout the day was less than half of what the pony was sold for.
Moreover, they had a hard time catching fish. They had to cast a net in the river and catch so many fish that it almost took them most of the night.
If Xiao Ma only catches 30 fish, how much time will it take? I guess it will be enough to just cast the net down and catch them.
When everyone heard that Liu Laoliu was going to follow Xiaoma, they all ridiculed Liu Laoliu, saying that he was an unreasonable person. Why are you greedy when Xiaoma found such a fortune? Besides, Xiaoma can find it today.
If someone else can find such a good place tomorrow, and you, Liu Laoliu, can covet the place where Xiao Ma catches fish today, and even secretly follow Xiao Ma, hoping to take away other people's wealth, then you, Liu Laoliu, will find it tomorrow
Is it also possible to take away other people’s wealth?
Liu Laoliu didn't care what others thought of him. What he cared about was how to find the place where Xiao Ma caught fish.
In this way, Liu Laoliu closed the stall early today, took the unsold fish home, put them in the fishing net in the pond and raised them, and then went straight to where Xiao Ma lived.
Xiao Ma lives a bit remote, outside the city. Although there has been some unrest outside the city recently, and incidents of monsters eating people often occur, Liu Laoliu doesn't care about this at all. He just wants to find out where Xiao Ma's fish are as soon as possible.
Caught.
He came to the area around Xiaoma's house and hid quietly in the grass and trees nearby. He lay on the ground and didn't dare to move. Xiaoma stayed in the house at the moment and didn't come out. It was getting dark.
, Liu Laoliu was really worried.
"Why don't you come out and catch fish quickly? If you haven't caught such a big fish earlier, you deserve to be unable to keep your fortune. Do you really want to wait until dark to catch fish?
Don’t catch the fish before dark.”
Liu Laoliu felt that this pony was simply too lazy. How could you catch 30 fish every day in such a good place? You should catch more. You have a lot of time after selling the fish every day.
You can catch 30 more fish and continue to sell them in the market. In this way, you can sell at least three cars of fish every day.
This is all money. The more fish you sell, the more money you make, right? Besides, there is not much capital to catch fish.
Just when Liu Laoliu was complaining about the pony's laziness, he suddenly heard movement in the grass behind him.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
There seemed to be something crawling in the grass, and Liu Laoliu was frightened. There were snakes in the grass at this season. If a poisonous snake crawled over and bit him, wouldn't he be in trouble?
So Liu Laoliu didn't care about anything else, and immediately stood up in the grass, wanting to stay away from this place.
But at the moment when Liu Laoliu raised his feet to leave, he suddenly noticed that something seemed to be rolling next to him, and the rustling sound was caused by the thing rolling in the grass.
Liu Laoliu didn't know where the courage came from at this time. He just wanted to check what could make such a big noise in the grass. Liu Laoliu didn't think it was a snake, but probably a rabbit or a hedgehog.
Or something, or something else, it's easy to catch anyway, Liu Laoliu also went there with the mentality of making a windfall at this time.
So Liu Laoliu quickly rushed towards the rolling place. Strangely enough, when Liu Laoliu rushed up, the thing stopped rolling. Seeing this, Liu Laoliu was very happy.
"Haha, look where you're going."
Liu Laoliu couldn't care less about what it was. Anyway, he just thought it was not poisonous. He untied the fishing net tied to his body, spread it aside, and pounced on it.
Liu Laoliu was still quite accurate, and with this pounce, he was really trapped.
"Hahaha, I caught you."
Liu Laoliu was very excited. This thing looked quite big and could be sold for a lot of money at the market.
But when Liu Laoliu brought up the fishing net to see what it was, he saw a human head inside the net.
The man's head was staring at Liu Laoliu with big eyes at this moment.
The moment he saw the head, Liu Laoliu was frightened.
"Little, pony..."
Liu Laoliu screamed and threw away the fishing net in his hand in panic.
I didn't care about anything else at the moment and ran away.
After the pony's head was thrown out by Liu Laoliu, it quickly rolled out of the fishing net. He looked at Liu Laoliu, showed a sinister smile, and then rolled directly over, and the rolling speed became faster and faster.
Quickly, he caught up with Liu Laoliu in a short time.
"You can't run away, I'm catching up with you."
Xiao Ma opened his mouth and smiled sinisterly. Liu Laoliu felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar at this moment. He suddenly stepped on something and tripped over it. He fell to the ground. But when Liu Laoliu struggled to climb up
When he got up, he suddenly saw that the pony's head had rolled in front of his eyes.
"Liu Laoliu, don't you want to know where I catch my fish from? Now I will tell you where my fish come from."
"Come with me and go take a look."
The pony's head grinned, and then rolled forward. Liu Laoliu didn't know what happened at this moment, but he followed the pony's head forward, and soon came to the place where the pony lived.
Next to the wooden house.
There is a small pond next to this wooden house, which was obviously dug not long ago.
The water in this pool is not deep and is very clear. You can directly see the bottom of the pool.
"Liu Laoliu, did you see that my fish were caught from here?"
After saying this, Pony's head actually burst into laughter.
"Liu Laoliu, are you confused as to why there are no fish in this pond? Then I will tell you why now, because as long as you jump out of this pond, you will turn into a fish."
"Aren't you curious why I catch 30 fish every day, neither more nor less?"
"That's because it is most suitable for each person to conjure 30 fish. More or less will affect the size and appearance of the fish."
Liu Laoliu was so frightened that he lost his soul. At this moment, he just wanted to escape from here, but his legs didn't obey him at all, and he could only stand here, unable to move.
"Liu Laoliu, why are you still standing here? Jump down quickly. Look, it's getting dark today. After it gets dark, I still have important things to do, but I don't have time to stay here all the time.
I’ll stay with you.”
After the pony's head said this, it actually flew up. He flew behind Old Liu Laoliu and slammed into Liu Laoliu's waist. With such a collision, Liu Laoliu screamed.
Then he fell into the pool. When Liu Laoliu fell into the pool, he turned into 30 big and fat fish.
Seeing these 30 big and fat fish, Xiao Ma's head showed a smile of satisfaction.
But just when the pony's head was about to look back, its expression suddenly changed, and without any hesitation, it rushed directly into the grass next to the pond.
Little Ma's head was hiding in the grass and shivering, not daring to make the slightest move.
His eyes were also fixed on the direction of the wooden house, and a scholar also appeared in his sight. Next to the scholar, there was a little girl.
"Brother, are you sure this is where it is? Why is it so quiet here, and there is no light in the wooden house at all." The little girl asked in confusion.
Shusheng nodded: "There should be no mistake. This is a demon king who likes to eat human heads. He will often take off his own head and roll it around on the ground. He also scares people everywhere at night. Moreover, he
He also likes to turn people into fish and sell them in the market, which is one of his hobbies."
The scholar looked around, searching carefully, and suddenly looked in the direction of the pond.
There were 30 big and fat fish swimming around in the pond, but these fish looked very strange no matter how they looked at them. After the scholar saw those fish, he also frowned slightly.
"Are you turning people into fish? Haha, I thought it was done by magic, but it turns out it's just some deception."
To be continued...