“I’ll handle it.”

Xu Qinglang rolled up his sleeves and walked over. He didn't want Yingying to be too embarrassed, so he said to her, “Help me out. Actually, cooking is easy to learn. In the end, it's just a matter of practice makes perfect. If you practice for a while longer, you'll get the hang of it.”

Yingying looked at Xu Qinglang.

What appeared in her mind

was from the palace harem drama,

after she had made a misstep and lost, a “good sister” on the surface came over and said:

“Your Majesty, Elder Sister has already had it hard enough, really, you must not blame her.”

Yingying shook her head, throwing away all these strange thoughts in her head, and nodded, "Okay!"

Zhou Ze was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper.

Basically, the employees took care of everything regarding his food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Most of the time, he just needed to sit,

sit and wait to eat, sit and wait to sleep, sit and have his coffee and sugar prepared and placed in front of him.

It was a pity that the fish head was gone, but the fish body was still so big. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that even if Lao Zhang and the others came back, it would be enough for several fish feasts.

Xu Qinglang found another knife, signaled Yingying to hold the fish, and then began to cut a slit along the fish's belly.

Next,

it was time to clean the fish's belly and scrape off the scales.

While cleaning, Xu Qinglang said,

“Speaking of eating fish, let’s buy some Yangtze River knife fish one of these days. This season is perfect for eating it.”

“Yangtze River knife fish? How much does that fish cost?”

Boss Zhou picked up the wine glass next to him and took a small sip.

“A few thousand yuan per *jin* (approximately 500 grams).”

“Forget it, it's probably not that tasty anyway.”

Zhou Ze silently put down the wine glass and refused casually.

“It’s just to try something new. Yangtze River knife fish are forbidden to be caught now, and most of them on the market are raised in farms. In a few days, after we finish this fish, I’ll ask a friend to find some wild ones to see if we can get some.

Oh, what is this?

Lao Zhou, come take a look, there's something in the fish's belly.”

“If the thing says ‘Chen Sheng Wang’ on it, leave it to me, I want to hand it over to the country.”

“Tsk, it’s not some cloth, it seems to be… gold.”

Boss Zhou stood up,

walked over,

and thoughtfully said:

“It seems that this fish carries a big secret.”

“Yeah, really big…” Xu Qinglang took his hand out of the fish's belly, holding a large handful of blood and goo mixture, shook it, and said, “These big handfuls, they’re all gold dust.”

“No wonder it’s so heavy.” Yingying said from the side.

She had just carried this big fish alone from the bookstore to the wax museum. It turned out she was carrying a bucket of gold.

“Yingying, find another big basin, preferably one with a sieve.”

Boss Zhou decided not to be a hands-off shopkeeper. As the boss, he felt that he still needed to take the lead in some matters,

such as,

gold mining!

Xu Qinglang put his hand into the fish's belly again, and soon, he took out another thing, which was a small ball wrapped in a leather paper bag.

“Little girl, your hands are clean, help me open it and see.”

Xu Qinglang said to the black girl next to him.

The black girl nodded, first using a large banana leaf to wrap the thing, rinsing it, then wiping it dry, and finally opening the leather paper bag with her hands.

“It’s a bamboo slip, a small bamboo slip.” the black girl shouted.

Xu Qinglang shook his hands, got up, walked over, observed it, and said somewhat unexpectedly, “This bamboo slip records several array formations of the pre-Qin Qi Refiners.”

“Heh, it's like opening a treasure chest.”

Boss Zhou also rolled up his sleeves and reached in to feel for treasure.

It seemed that this fish had a unique appetite, liking to eat special things. Gold and bamboo slips were already here, so why not swallow some diamonds and the like?

Feeling around, Zhou Ze’s finger sensed something sharp. He tried to grope around for a while longer and took out two nails, big nails the length of his palm.

Just holding these nails in his hand gave Zhou Ze an uncomfortable feeling, as if they had an innate restraint on him.

“Zombie nails.”

Xu Qinglang smiled,

“This thing wanted to see you, but it even brought a weapon.”

Throwing the nails on the ground, Zhou Ze tried to feel around again, and found that other than things like fish bladders, he couldn’t feel anything else.

“I’ll cut it open and take a look.”

Xu Qinglang grabbed the cut-open parts with both hands, signaling Zhou Ze to cut a bit more on both sides with his fingernails.

Things had come to this point,

and some strange things had already been felt out of the fish's belly,

so this fish,

probably couldn’t be cooked anymore,

not to mention eating heavy metal poisoning, but eating some other trouble wouldn’t be good either.

Boss Zhou cut a circle with the fingernail on his index finger, and Xu Qinglang exerted force again, completely splitting the big fish into two halves.

“Water gun.”

Zhou Ze beckoned.

A very thick vine stretched over, was grabbed by Zhou Ze, and then aimed at the big fish that had been split in two.

“Pfft!”

Water began to spray,

washing away the blood and filth on the ground,

and then,

the situation inside the fish was finally clear. There was really nothing else in there, but on the inner wall of the fish, there were special symbols drawn with something like a carbon pen. They didn't look like runes, nor were they words.

“Actually, I still think we killed this fish a little hastily.” Xu Qinglang said.

“What’s meant to come will always come, and what can’t be avoided will eventually not be avoided. It’s like playing an online game, don’t run around and touch things, otherwise those miscellaneous side quests won’t be triggered.”

As Zhou Ze spoke, he looked at Yingying, and said:

“Yingying, it's hard work to pan out the gold dust.”

“Okay, Boss!”

Zhou Ze smelled the scent on his hands, showing a disgusted expression, and tapped the zombie nails on the ground with his toe, “Bury this thing, it’s useless.”

There wasn’t much else in the bookstore, but there were a lot of zombies. Keeping this thing would only irritate his own people.

“I’ll take care of it.”

“Okay, I’m going to take a shower.”

Zhou Ze returned to the bookstore, came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, and happened to see the little boy sitting behind the bar. He must have just come back.

The little boy took the initiative to walk over and said to Zhou Ze:

“Everything has been arranged.”

“Okay.”

In the morning, Zhou Ze had arranged for the little boy to go with Hou Liangliang and Hou Dandan to arrange the silkworm mother and the things needed at the original internet cafe across from the bookstore.

Before Qu Mingming left, she gave the internet cafe to Zhou Ze, along with the property rights. The old Taoist had long ago transformed it to make it easier for other listeners to have a place to stay when they came over.

This time, it was most appropriate to place the silkworm mother there, at least it had to be under his own eyes.

“The two monkeys helped with the processing and have already put the eggs in. They said that if they aren't forced to mature, they will be born in about three months, but their *qi* (life force) and blood will be relatively weak, and it will be difficult to raise them.”

Actually, this was easy to understand. Seeing how much resources they invested, the second generation Xu Le they raised was just like a malformed child. The effect of this silkworm mother was indeed inferior to the original body.

However, Boss Zhou felt uncomfortable about using people as livestock to pay for mating and helping to give birth, but the old woman’s genes should be strong enough, right? They should be able to survive the premature birth crisis.

If they also become idiots,

to put it bluntly,

from Boss Zhou’s point of view, it would be more convenient instead.

“Did they leave?”

“They left. They came with me and wanted to say goodbye to you, but they all left when they saw you weren’t here.”

Zhou Ze nodded, “These days, take some time to go and see the silkworm mother every day. I only have one request, just let it safely give birth to the child.”

“I understand.”

The little boy was quite happy to have something to do, so he wouldn't have to be bored and homesick every day.

Zhou Ze walked behind the bar, poured himself a glass of water, added a few ice cubes, took a sip, and suddenly thought of something, and asked the little boy:

“Did the white fox come back?”

“Not yet.”

Why hasn’t it come back yet?

It’s been almost two days.

Zhou Ze took out his phone, then thought for a while, and said:

“Did the white fox take its phone?”

“Probably not, it hasn’t transformed into human form during this time.”

A fox, wearing a bell around your neck and selling cuteness is the most you can do, do you expect it to wear an iPhone X?

Boss Zhou thought for a while, and found Doctor Lin’s phone number in his address book, thought about it, but still didn’t call.

“Oh, Boss, when will Lin Ke and the others come back?”

The little boy couldn’t help but ask.

“I don’t know either, but it should be soon. How about this, I’ll ask the leader over there again tomorrow.”

“Okay, thank you, Boss.”

The little boy walked out of the bookstore and went to the internet cafe across the street. He wanted to keep watching there.

Zhou Ze sat in the chair behind the bar,

casually picking up a steel pen and spinning it in his hand,

spinning and spinning,

a drop of water fell from the ceiling,

"Plop."

The drop of water fell on the bar in front of Zhou Ze, and a faint fishy smell began to spread.

Boss Zhou was a very clean person. He had washed himself several times when he took a shower just now, making sure that there was no fishy smell on his body before coming out.

But now…

Zhou Ze leaned back slightly,

looked up,

on the ceiling of the bookstore,

actually grew dense fish scales,

these fish scales were still opening and closing from time to time,

like eyes growing on it,

and from time to time, mucus dripped from the fish scales,

at first it was just a drop or two,

and then it was drizzling,

in the bookstore,

it was as if it had started to rain.

Boss Zhou silently took out an umbrella from under the bar,

opened it,

didn’t block himself,

but blocked the computer on the bar.

…………

In the wax museum,

Yingying was busy panning for gold dust, Xu Qinglang had just washed his hands, and was studying the things on the bamboo slips.

The black girl was sitting on a small stool, eating a vegetable salad that had a whitening effect.

Deadpool still only had a head left on the ground,

originally closing his eyes as if he was resting,

suddenly showed a look of pain,

pieces of fish scales began to grow from his face,

in his throat,

a painful roar came out:

“Aaaaaaaahhhhhh…”

………………

This chapter is to make up for yesterday’s one chapter, there will be two more chapters tonight, don’t panic!