The two men and the fox on the boat were also amused by the reaction of the big fish. Hu Yun jumped off Yin Qing's back, walked to the stove, sniffed the casserole hard, then stared at Ji Yuan and waited for his share.
Ji Yuan filled a bowl for himself, and estimated that the remaining portion was about the same as a bowl, so he took the casserole off the stove and placed it on the ground, and put the spoon in the pot.
"Hey, you have the most. The rest of the pot is yours. Drink it yourself!"
The red fox didn't care about anything else and just grabbed the spoon and started eating.
Ji Yuan tasted the silver fish soup and found it was indeed delicious. He couldn't help but drink it up in one gulp.
He knew that there were actually more spiritual ways to refine the Silver Orifice, a spiritual creature created from the essence of water, but there was no doubt that this way of stewing it into soup was definitely the best tasting.
Yin Qing also drank up the fish soup in his bowl. Seeing that Hu Yun was still drinking it spoonful by spoonful, he thought there was still a lot in the pot, so he went over to try to share some.
"Hu Yun, give me some more. It's too greedy for a fox like you to drink the whole pot."
Hu Yun ignored him completely. He clenched the spoon with his claws and increased the frequency. Finally, he picked up the casserole as a bowl and drank up the last few drops of soup, which made Yin Qing twitch his lips.
Ji Yuan looked at the big black carp that was still lingering by the boat and pointed at the casserole beside it.
"That's all there was. The boatman drank half a bowl, and the remaining four of us drank one bowl each. That was all."
Listening to Ji Yuan talking to the big fish, Yin Qing and Chihu also lay down beside the old boat at some point, staring at the big black fish in the water.
This was the first time that Hu Yun saw any spirits or monsters other than himself and Lu Shanjun, so he seemed particularly excited and curious.
"Hey, haven't you refined your horizontal bone yet? The water is so cold, how are you going to survive the winter?"
The big bluefish stirred the water and faced the red fox, whose head and two paws were sticking out from the side of the boat.
“Pop…pop…pop…” a string of bubbles came out.
"Mr. Ji said that you have been doing good deeds, so you have saved many people, right? Have you ever seen the water ghost in the water?..."
“Pop…pop…pop…” The big black carp is still a bunch of bubbles.
Obviously, the fox lips should not fit the fish mouth, but this scene gave Yin Qing and Ji Yuan a surprisingly harmonious feeling, as if both parties could understand each other's questions and answers.
This big bluefish has actually been practicing for much longer than Hu Yun, and has a more stable mind than Hu Yun. However, he is still a helpless wild cultivator like duckweed. In addition, after Hu Yun became a chess player, he often consumed Dan Qi and had some other conveniences, which made the big bluefish lag behind Hu Yun in practice.
Of course, this backwardness in cultivation cannot be directly equated with combat effectiveness. At least anyone with a discerning eye can see that at this moment, several Hu Yuns may not be able to beat a big bluefish.
After the fox and the fish asked and answered questions for a while, Ji Yuan spoke.
"How about this? You, the big black fish, just follow this small boat underwater and go with us to the Chunmu River section outside Chunhui Mansion. I can ensure that you will not be driven away by the river gods and the patrols over there."
Ji Yuan said this and turned to Yin Qing again.
"You will study at Huiyuan Academy in Chunhui Prefecture in the future. Whenever you have a day off, you can go to a quiet section of the river outside the city and read to this big black fish."
Yin Qing pointed at his nose in surprise.
"I?"
The big black carp also made a series of "pop...pop...pop..." sounds in the water.
Ji Yuan had a calm expression as he looked at Yin Qing. His spirituality was introverted and flowing through his body, but his mind was a little fuzzy. He spoke in a quite meaningful manner.
"Yes, a person with a delicate mind will do good things, so that the big black fish will not take detours."
Seeing that Mr. Ji was serious, Yin Qing stopped refusing and said "Okay" softly.
Hu Yun and Da Qingyu over there had obviously heard what Ji Yuan and Yin Qing said. Although Da Qingyu had not yet refined his horizontal bone, he had been practicing in this section of the river for quite a long time and should be able to understand a lot of people's words. At least the words just now were not difficult to understand.
So Ji Yuan asked the water surface very seriously.
"What I just said was just our one-sided discussion. If you don't want to, you don't have to care about it."
After Ji Yuan finished speaking, he packed up the bowls and casserole, scooped a small bowl of water from the side of the boat, and used it to put out the remaining charcoal in the stove. He looked at the river in the distance and saw that they were the only boat staying nearby tonight.
"Okay, it's getting late, you guys can do whatever you want, I'm going to go to bed first."
After leaving these words lightly, Ji Yuan walked back to the cabin and lowered the front cover halfway.
Yin Qing chatted with the fox and the fish outside for a while, then felt sleepy, so he went to the other side of the boat to pee and then went back to the cabin to sleep, leaving Hu Yun and the big blue fish alone to continue chatting nonsense.
"Daqing, do you know that there is a very ferocious tiger in Niukui Mountain in my hometown? If it opens its mouth wide, it will swallow you in one bite... And Mr. Ji has a very strange paper bird. Yin Qing said that Mr. Ji folded it when he was bored. I suspect it is a trick. There must be a spirit bird inside..."
"Pop... Pop... Pop..."
. . .
At dawn the next morning, the boatman woke up in the stern cabin.
"Ah~~~~"
I yawned and stretched, feeling full of energy and vitality. The energy in my body flowed more smoothly, and the fatigue accumulated over the past few days disappeared.
"Wow, Mr. Ji's fish soup is indeed a very nourishing medicinal fish soup. I have never tried such a magical tonic. I am afraid that Sanwang ginseng is much worse. How much does this thing cost..."
I got up, rinsed my mouth and washed my face, then walked to the front cabin. The hatches on both sides were still closed, and the two passengers should still be sleeping.
The boatman walked over the side of the boat outside the cabin and went to the front to pick up the stove. When he arrived, he found that the casserole and bowls had been washed. He looked outside the front cabin door and saw that the bowls and chopsticks from last night's meal had also been washed and placed outside.
"This is what a scholar is like!"
With this thought in mind, the man carried the stove and casserole in one hand and placed chopsticks and spoons on them, and with the other hand he held a long stack of bowls of different sizes, and walked back to the stern cabin from the side of the ship outside the cabin.
They changed to a clay stove with stronger fire and cooked a pot of porridge. The boatman took some bamboo strips and a handful of dry straw, walked to the stern, pulled down his pants and squatted down.
With a "plop..." sound, a section of matter entered the water, and a green shadow flew out from under the water for a long distance...
Half an hour later, Ji Yuan and Yin Qing got up one after another, said good morning to the boatman, and ate porridge together with the freshly cut pickles from the pickle jar on the boat.
The boatman, who had already washed up and finished his meal, began rowing again, pushing the boat towards Chunhui Mansion.
In a very good mood, the boatman even hummed "Hey hey~~~Hey hey~~~~". The tune almost made Ji Yuan sing along with "The Beautiful Scenery of West Lake in March" in his heart.
About two and a half days later in the afternoon, the boat arrived at its destination and docked at the large pier outside Chunhui Prefecture, allowing Ji Yuan to once again see the bustling scene on the Chunshui River. Compared with the Tongtian River outside Gyeonggi Prefecture, it was less busy but more lively and full of "spring".
The boatman was unwilling to charge Ji Yuan and Yin Qing for the boat fare. If he could still pretend to be stupid about the Qian Richun that night, then the fish soup he drank afterwards was really a rare treasure, and it was definitely more valuable than the boat fare.
Seeing that he was determined to do so, Ji Yuan did not try to persuade him any further. He thanked him and led Yin Qing into the city of Chunhui Prefecture.
Compared to the last time he came, Ji Yuan was not very familiar with the place this time, but Huiyuan Academy was very famous in Chunhui Prefecture, so it was not difficult to find it.
It was like taking Yin Qing and Hu Yun for a stroll in this colorful city, so that Yin Qing could get familiar with the new environment.
In order to prevent Hu Yun from causing unnecessary trouble in the city, Ji Yuan specially hung the small Yin wood plaque that the City God of Chunhui Prefecture asked Master Yin to bring on the red fox. In this way, even if the Day and Night Wandering God saw through the red fox's magical powers, he would not attack it.
At the same time, Ji Yuan was also conceiving a slightly tricky plan in his mind. He wanted to let Hu Yun see what a hard life is like as a demon cultivator, such as meeting the old turtle, so that he would know what is good and what is bad.