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Huh, this fish has roe inside.
He tossed it on the fire to roast, and it turned crisp and fragrant with a satisfying crack when he bit down.
Seeing how clear He Lingchuan was making it look that he was still disgusted at his face, Dong Rui was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it. After the meal, he tore some broad grass blades and braided himself a makeshift face covering. Once he put it on, at least the lower half of his face was hidden.
They had only just finished eating when Zhu Erniang arrived.
He Lingchuan lifted the leftover fish meat and offered casually, “Want to try my cooking?”
Zhu Erniang refused at once. She liked sucking down chilled jelly and could eat raw flesh, but she hated anything cooked. “Finish up and come with me. I’ll find you a place to run your experiments.”
Dong Rui pointed at the abandoned houses behind the long sandy shoal. “Wouldn’t here work?”
“If the swamp floods again, this place will be submerged,” Zhu Erniang said. “You’ve both already taken a trip underwater. That city used to sit above the water.”
With them having no rebuttal, the two men simply followed.
Dong Rui could not help but ask, “Where are we, exactly?”
“This is the Demon Nest Swamp, unclaimed land on the border between the states of Beijia and Fu, belonging to neither...
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