Upon hearing this, the sea turtle thought to itself that even though the old monster was very evil, it was still better than those terrible people, so with a heart full of bitter tears, it sank to the bottom of the river.
"Brother An, does this mean it agrees or disagrees?"
Ye Ziāan said, "I guess itās more like it has no choice but to agree."
Hearing this, Yang Chuxia couldnāt help but giggle. Itās true, isnāt it? No matter if itās human or animal, everyone has weaknesses. But if someone knows these weaknesses, itās not a good thing.
The next day, Yang Chuxia brought some meat as usual, and also took a duck from her home, roasted it at Ye Ziāanās house, and then took it to the Evil River.
When she arrived at the Evil River, she shouted, "Old monster, old monster, hurry up and come out!"
Then a certain old monster leisurely emerged from the river, with a large river mussel clinging to its broad sea turtle shell.
The sight of this made Yang Chuxia very excited.
"Not bad, old monster, youāve really kept your word!" As soon as the old monster climbed ashore, Yang Chuxia couldnāt wait to take out the food from her wooden bucket and put it in front of the old monster, and then she went to take the river mussel from its back.
The old monster glanced at her sideways, thinking, sheās really lacking sophistication, to get so excited about a mere grinding stick.
Then it glanced at Yang Chuxia again, as if to say it wanted her to open the river mussel.
But Yang Chuxia looked at the gigantic river mussel in her hand, wondering how she could open it without some sort of tool. She canāt smash it with a rock, can she?
Perhaps the old monster had sensed her hesitation as it then slowly approached her, stepped on one of her outstretched feet, causing Yang Chuxia to almost cry out in pain. Before she could do so, it stepped on the river mussel, crushing it instantly.
Thatās right ā it was shattered. The old monster then triumphantly glanced at Yang Chuxia before heading back to its bucket to eat.
As for Yang Chuxia, she was now staring at the shattered remnants of a large river mussel.
Holy crap, is this a pearl nest? Is this a pearl nest?! Among the smashed river mussel shell were some small pearls embedded along with the flesh. Yang Chuxia removed the broken shell to reveal a dense layer of pearls below ā pink, white, purple, and even a black one.
Though the pearls werenāt very large, there were many of them. She roughly counted about a hundred in total.
"Brother An? This is such a quick way to make money!" With the old monster and having it under control, obtaining one or two silver pearls wouldnāt be a problem. But what if someone were to find out about the existence of this old monster? She suddenly realized, for all this time, sheās been visiting it only during the day and summoning it during daylight hours. Amazingly, they never encountered anyone, thanks to Evil Riverās notorious reputation that spanned many years.
Ye Ziāan looked at her stunned expression and chuckled.
Having finished its meal, the old monster sank back into the riverbed.
Yang Chuxia looked at the sea turtle sinking to the bottom of the river and thought for a moment before saying, "From now on, we wonāt meet during the day. We have been lucky not encountering anyone these past few days, but we canāt continue like this. Old monster, next time go to the east side of the mountain hollow which is close to the sea. Iāll bring you food at night. Coming out in the daytime is too dangerous; if someone discovers your existence, itās game over."
After she finished speaking, a stream of bubbles emerged from the riverbed. Yang Chuxia guessed that the old monster probably understood the message.
So, Yang Chuxia packed up, took the pearls out of the river mussel, put them in her purse, and prepared to leave.
"Xiaxia, wait a moment, could you give me some of those pearls?" Brother An asked on the way.