Chapter 49 Fish Fried Incident (1)

Chenzhou is nearly three thousand miles away from the imperial city, and the exile team has to walk dozens of miles every day. At the beginning, everyone was crying and complaining about the hardship and fatigue, and making trouble from time to time. They only behaved themselves after being severely punished by the escorts. As time passed, they were getting farther and farther away from the imperial city and were about to enter the territory of Binzhou.

Shen Xiangwan was too aggressive. When he got angry, he even dared to hit the escort. Wei Chengyi also knocked Wei Jingluan away with a palm from a distance. After seeing the couple's tyranny and ruthlessness, except for the old lady who found them crying from time to time, no one dared to jump in front of them for the time being, which gave them peace for several days.

"Pa bang bang..."

"Look, there are so many fish!"

During the lunch break, Zhao Shan found a shady place near the river as usual. As soon as the team stopped, someone noticed the school of fish tumbling in the river. Someone exclaimed, and many people rushed over at the first moment.

“That’s a lot of fish.”

"Look, they jumped out by themselves."

"Oh, we have grilled fish to eat today."

"Come and pick up the fish..."

Crowds gathered around and saw the fish jumping in the water. Some even jumped onto the shore. Everyone rushed over to pick them up, with a smile on everyone's face.

More than ten days passed in a flash, and they had suffered enough. As they had been spending a lot of money on food and lodging in the past few days, the money in their hands was rapidly reduced. At the beginning, each direct descendant of each family could have a room each, but later it was changed to two people in a room, three people in a room, and finally the men just squeezed into one room and the women squeezed into another.

As for food, they no longer dared to eat too much meat and fish, but they had to walk so much every day, how could they not eat meat?
That's why, when they saw those fishes, they couldn't help but salivate. They were almost drooling.

Compared to them, Shen Xiangwan in the team frowned slightly. It was impossible for the fish to jump out of the water for no reason. If her guess was correct, a disaster might happen nearby.

"what happened?"

Seeing her frown, Wei Chengyi asked in confusion. He had been riding on a cart since he gave up his wheelchair. In the past few days, when he was resting, he would walk in front of people to a moderate extent, pretending to be gradually recovering. Many people looked at him with different eyes, especially the old lady and those from the second and third rooms. They never dreamed that the person who had been given a death notice by the court doctor and so many imperial doctors would actually slowly get better.

"No, I just feel like something big is going to happen."

Shaking his head to get rid of the messy thoughts in his mind, Shen Xiangwan had no intention of catching any fish. He turned and walked towards their cart, recalling the contents of the original novel over and over again in his mind, trying to find some clues from it. Unfortunately, the original novel was written around the male and female protagonists, and there were not many details about their exile.

The reason why she knew the cause of death of Wei Chengyi and others was because he was Shen Xiangyue's husband in his previous life. The original novel briefly explained how miserable they were.

"Brother, I'm going to catch two fish too."

Just because she didn't go fishing didn't mean others wouldn't go. Wei Chenghe gave a simple instruction and enthusiastically joined the fishing.

"Um···"

Ignoring his overly excited brother, Wei Chengyi looked at Shen Xiangwan's back and groaned for a moment: "It should be these few days."

Shen Xiangwan didn't know what would happen, but Wei Chengyi knew. However, the memories of his previous life were too long ago, so he was not sure exactly when the incident happened.

"Mom, look, I caught two big fish."

During the lunch break, everyone usually ate dry food. Only the escort and Shen Xiangwan, who had a small pot, would occasionally cook. Wei Chenghe came back with two large fish that weighed probably three or four pounds, as if he was presenting a treasure.

"Fish, it's Fish." Upon seeing this, the little cub curled up beside Shen Xiangwan came forward excitedly. Compared to other families' children who were basically much thinner, their little cub was still fair and tender, and if you looked closely, it seemed that he had grown a little meat.

"Oh, what a big fish."

Taking the fish, Zhao Yuping said with a smile on her face.

"Sister-in-law, how are we going to eat?"

Someone was already making a fire and grilling fish. Wei Ling'er turned around and asked. The meals in their family were usually prepared by their second sister-in-law. They would eat whatever she said. So far, she had never let them go hungry.

"Let's make dry pot fish and boil a pot of fish head soup."

As he spoke, Shen Xiangwan took the fish, strode towards the river to clean it, and soon came back with the cut fish meat wrapped in a huge banana leaf.

At the same time, Wei Chengyi also built a simple earthen stove and lit the fire for a while. Shen Xiangwan took out the pot and placed it on the stove, then took out a can of oil and poured it into the pot. Then he began to add seasonings to the fish, marinated it a little, and smuggled out a small can of sweet potato flour from the space, sprinkled it on the fish, so that each piece of fish was evenly coated with flour.

"I'm going to fry fish, stay away!"

“Sizzle…”

After a simple instruction, Shen Xiangwan picked up the fish pieces with chopsticks and put them into the oil pan. Because the oil temperature was high enough, the fish pieces were shaped almost instantly and the tempting aroma wafted out.

As mentioned before, during the lunch break, everyone basically ate dry food, so they didn’t have any seasoning, and the grilled fish was all original flavor. At first I thought it was pretty good, at least it was meat, right?

Gradually, when they smelled the aroma of fried fish, everyone suddenly felt that the grilled fish in their hands was no longer fragrant, including the escorts who were eating grilled fish even though there were seasonings. Almost everyone looked over subconsciously.

"It smells so good, Auntie. I'm so hungry!"

The little cub sucked his saliva vigorously, rubbed his little belly and looked pitifully at his favorite aunt, his eyes full of requests "I want to eat, let me eat it quickly".

"Little foodie, hey, be careful with the heat, watch out for fish bones."

Turning her head to look at him, Shen Xiangwan shook her head, picked up a few pieces of fish belly meat with browned skin, put them in the bowl and handed it to him.

"Okay, thank you, auntie."

The little cub took the bowl and chopsticks with both hands and thanked the owner obediently.

"Wa wah... No, no, I want to eat their fish, Dad, Mom, go get it for me."

"I want to eat too, woo woo..."

The crying sound of a child suddenly rang out. Over at the old lady's side, a boy who looked about seven or eight years old was shouting and yelling at them, and kept pulling Wei Jinghong and his wife. With him taking the lead, other children also started crying. Some people looked at the children and then at Shen Xiangwan and the others in embarrassment, while others directly pulled the children over and slapped them twice. The whole open space was suddenly in chaos and it was very lively.

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