I Can See Through Everything - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: Great Tonic

[Golden Loach: A strange fish, golden in color, skilled at burrowing.]

[It possesses spiritual energy, its meat is delicious and nourishing, nourishing Yin and Yang, making it a highly tonic.]

[Rumor has it that golden loaches always appear in pairs, male and female, inseparable, never alone.]

Seeing the loach-like creature, radiating white with a reddish glow, emerging from the bucket, Lu Qing was pleasantly surprised.

Sure enough, this creature was a strange fish.

And one of the same caliber as the Red Moon Carp.

Even more surprising was the message on the third note.

These golden loaches always appear in pairs, never alone.

So, there must be another golden loach beneath the surface!

Though he wasn’t sure if the previous scramble had scared off the other one, Lu Qing still wanted to give it a try.

He placed another blood apricot fruit on the hook and sank it to the bottom.

He expected another long wait, perhaps even a fruitless one.

What Lu Qing hadn’t expected, however, was that just moments after the hook was lowered, he saw the float suddenly sink into the water.

“So fast?!”

Lu Qing was caught off guard, but he reacted quickly and grabbed the rod.

The rest of the story was a piece of cake.

After another battle of nerves and strength, he landed another golden loach.

Looking at the two golden loaches in the bucket, Lu Qing fell silent.

It seemed he had underestimated the blood apricot’s allure to the strange fish.

To be called a strange fruit by the supernatural must be something truly extraordinary.

He wondered what was so special about it that it could draw these strange fish to devour it in such droves.

Lu Qing put away a few blood apricots, intending to ask his master if he knew about this strange fruit.

He hooked another blood apricot and continued fishing.

But this time, his luck wasn’t so good.

He waited for a long time, but no fish took the bait.

Not even ordinary fish, let alone strange fish.

“Strange! Could it be that these strange fish have a sense of territory? Only one species appears at a time?” Lu Qing wondered.

He pondered for a moment, then lifted the hook and replaced it with an earthworm.

He lowered the hook into the water again, and this time, a fish quickly took a bite.

With a beautiful cast, a small white fish floated in the air, its tail swishing.

Looking at the small white fish on the hook, Lu Qing fell silent.

“You really are everywhere.”

Sensing there were no more strange fish, Lu Qing didn’t switch to the blood apricots.

Instead, he continued fishing with the earthworm.

After a while, with continuous reeling, he had caught dozens of small white fish.

With so many small white fish, plus the leftovers at home, it should be enough for the black beast to have a good meal.

After catching enough food for the black beast, Lu Qing prepared to put away his fishing rod.

It was a pity. He had originally hoped to catch one or two large fish to feed the black beast today.

But perhaps because of the golden loach, the big fish had disappeared without a trace.

Even if he changed the corn to hang on the hook halfway, there was no movement.

There was nothing he could do if he couldn’t catch any fish. He could only let the black beast down and continue eating the small fish. After all, the small fish tasted good.

“Xiaoyan, let’s go, let’s go back.”

After packing up his things, Lu Qing picked up the bucket and shouted to Xiaoyan who was lying on the grass not far away, not knowing what to do.

“Come here, brother.”

The little girl ran back happily, holding a small bunch of wild flowers in her hand.

It turned out that she had gone to pick wild flowers just now.

“Brother, look, these are the flowers I just picked, are they beautiful?”

Xiaoyan held up the bouquet in her hand to show off to Lu Qing.

“Beautiful.”

Lu Qing nodded, and saw that the little girl had some grass leaves on her head, so he picked them off casually.

“Hehe, I knew that brother would like it.”

Xiaoyan was immediately happy to receive the praise.

Seeing the little girl’s joy, Lu Qing’s heart suddenly stirred.

“Xiaoyan, don’t you get bored fishing with your brother every day?”

“What do you mean by bored?” the little girl tilted her head, puzzled.

“Uh…do you feel unhappy?” Lu Qing rephrased.

“No, Xiaoyan isn’t unhappy as long as she’s with her brother,” the little girl said seriously. “There are flowers to pick and butterflies here, so much fun!”

“…Okay.”

Lu Qing was speechless.

He had originally thought that if Xiaoyan got bored, he might leave her in the village to play with the other children next time they went fishing. After all,

she often ran out to play with her friends after dinner.

Now that she didn’t feel that way, he’d think about it later.

Back home, he poured out the small fish, leaving only the two golden loaches in the bucket, and fell into deep thought.

He was considering what to do with the two golden loaches.

Should he sell them or keep them for himself?

In reality, Lu Qing was more inclined to eat them.

First, if he sold them, his master hadn’t been able to come to the city lately, and he didn’t know how long the two golden loaches would survive out of the river.

If they died in two days, that would be a huge loss.

Second, he wasn’t as short of money as he had been before.

Rare fish were hard to come by, so selling them felt like a loss.

Finally, the golden loaches’ benefits enticed him.

According to his supernatural powers, they were a powerful tonic.

He had already mastered the Yangshen Fist, and reaching the Qi and Blood realm was a sure thing.

His only shortcoming was his weakened constitution, stemming from his previous illness.

These two golden loaches might help him address that shortcoming.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Qing decided to keep both loaches.

However, despite his decision to eat them, Lu Qing didn’t intend to keep them all to himself. Instead,

he planned to take them to the courtyard halfway up the mountain tomorrow and share them with his master.

Last time, he’d intended to give the Red Moon Carp to his master, but ended up selling it for money.

Since becoming his disciple, Lu Qing hadn’t been able to repay his master, simply accepting his kindness.

This time, he’d caught another rare fish, a perfect opportunity for his master to enjoy it.

Lu Qing’s plan was sound, but that evening, something unexpected happened.

After Xiaoyan fell asleep, the black beast came scratching at the door again.

As usual, Lu Qing brought out a basin of fish and placed it on the ground.

To his surprise, the black beast, which usually ate heartily whenever he set down the fish, didn’t approach.

Instead, it twitched its snout a few times, its eyes lit up, and as if it had discovered something, it circled around Lu Qing.

After a few circles, it sat there, quietly watching him.

“What’s wrong? You don’t want to eat? I even gave you some extra fish today,” Lu Qing asked, somewhat puzzled.

Had the little creature changed its ways? It wasn’t even interested in fish anymore?

“Ouch!”

the black beast suddenly let out a soft cry, startling Lu Qing.

It was the first time he heard this creature barking.

He had heard its voice before, in the first few nights.

But back then, it had made a low growl with a warning tone, which was very different from the current sound.

The current sound was a bit like a cat’s meow, childish and cute, and quite pleasant to the ear.

But Lu Qing couldn’t care less about whether the black beast’s voice was pleasant or not.

Because he noticed that after the little creature barked, it stared straight at the room behind him.

To be precise, it was looking towards the kitchen in the room.

Thinking of the black beast’s reaction when it smelled his scent just now, a thought suddenly came to Lu Qing’s mind.

“Could this little creature…”

(End of this chapter)