The entrance to the backyard of Wuchang Temple is built with green stone steps that extend to a trestle.
The trestle is close to the water, so it must have been a place where nuns wash their clothes.
The end of the trestle is surrounded by lotus leaves. Looking around, the lotus leaves crowd the water and there is no end in sight.
There is also a small boat tied to the trestle. It is very small and can only accommodate two people. Because the cable is not wrapped around the wooden stakes, the boat has now floated deep into the lotus pond.
For the rest of their lives, they stood on the steps, looking around, and saw that there was a trail outside the temple wall for people to visit.
There are many willow trees planted by the lake. They are leaning this way and that, and their branches often fall on the water, covering the water near the shore.
"The environment is really nice." Yu Sheng pulled the city owner down the steps and heard a slight crackling sound as the raindrops hit the lotus leaves.
Yu Sheng and the others came here to catch crabs. These crabs were kept in the pond by Shitai and the others, and they were not afraid of people at all.
As soon as he walked onto the slippery trestle, Yu Sheng accidentally stepped on one. If the city lord hadn't held him up, he almost slipped.
Only then did Yu Sheng take a closer look at the trestle, and he couldn't help but be stunned. He saw a lot of crabs crawling on the trestle, and they were all fat.
The crab under his feet was especially big. It stared with a pair of cicada eyes, spit out foam from its mouth, held up its big claws like scissors, and walked rampantly with its splayed legs. It didn't care about the rest of its life.
Seeing Yu Sheng trample his companion to death, he even clamped Yu Sheng's feet with pliers.
"You dare to be arrogant to me, just wait." Yu Sheng took off the bamboo basket and clasped the sides of the crab's back with his index finger and thumb, making its raised claws useless.
At this time, the system prompts Yu Sheng: The host has caught a top-notch hairy crab and will be rewarded with a seal card. Please keep up your efforts and build a demonic inn.
Yu Sheng didn't take it seriously at all. He lifted up the crab and saw that its back was black and green with a shiny surface and its belly button protruded. It must have been thick and strong. No wonder it was so arrogant.
The city lord bent down and helped Yu Sheng catch crabs. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Yu Sheng stopped him.
"Don't grab the legs and claws when catching a crab, otherwise it will cut itself and escape." Yu Sheng said and caught the crab himself.
This crab was not as strong as the one before. I lost Yu Sheng and found another strong crab and threw it into the bamboo basket.
"What are you doing?" The city lord asked curiously when he saw him throwing in the crabs and fidgeting with something in the bamboo basket.
"Nothing," Yu Sheng said without raising his head, "I'll teach that crab that dares to challenge me a lesson."
The city lord curiously walked over and took a look, and saw that Yu Sheng had somehow teased the two crabs together, each holding the other with their big pincers and refusing to let go.
"Beat it to death." Yu Sheng cheered for the newly caught crab, "Beat it to death, and I will pardon you from the death penalty of being steamed alive."
The newly caught crab seemed to have heard what Yu Sheng said and suppressed it forcefully.
Seeing that Yu Sheng was having fun, the city lord ignored her and walked forward along the trestle. The drizzle was like silk, falling on the lotus leaves as if they had been washed, and the green was picturesque.
Yu Sheng followed up quickly, muttering: "That's so despicable, you actually attacked me from behind. Wait, I have to find someone powerful."
However, I couldn't find anyone who could beat the first crab for the rest of my life, so I finally decided to steam it.
Only then did Yu Sheng seriously pick up crabs.
These crabs were not afraid of people and were even provocative, so Yu Sheng quickly caught twenty or thirty of them.
If you pick it up again, you won't be able to eat it. Yu Sheng let these big crabs go. Just when he was about to straighten up, he suddenly saw an inconspicuous little crab.
This crab is different from the hairy crab that I catch and eat for the rest of my life.
This kind of crab is not big. Excluding a few legs, it is only about the size of a newborn baby's hand. Four or five of them combined cannot be as big as that big crab.
I have eaten this kind of crab in my previous life. They often live on river banks, in river ditches, beside ditches, under field ridges, in mountain streams, and even in the cracks of stones where there is water, so they are also called small stone crabs.
He hurriedly took a step forward, preparing to catch the little crab.
But this little crab was very alert. When Yu Sheng came, the two small eyes with its branches could move flexibly in different directions. He took one step across and fell into the small lake.
Yu Sheng didn't take it seriously, he snapped his fingers, and a small crab appeared in front of him wrapped in a ball of water.
"If you want to run away, there's no way." Yu Sheng threw it in the bamboo basket, turned around and led his little aunt back to the steps.
The city lord was on top helping him carry the bamboo basket. He went into the water with his bare feet and lifted up a large stone near the water. Suddenly, a dense mass of small stone crabs appeared.
Normally, these small stone crabs would dig holes to live in, but when there are too many small stone crabs, they simply won't dig holes because of the tight territory.
These little stone crabs suddenly saw the light of day and immediately fled in panic, falling into the water one after another.
What Yu Sheng was least afraid of was that they would fall into the water. With a wave of his hand, some small crabs would rise up wrapped in water and be thrown into the bamboo basket one by one by Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng got so playful that he grabbed a small stone crab, opened the cover under its belly, took a straw stick and poked its navel, causing a string of bubbles to protrude.
The city lord thought it was fun and grabbed one in his hand. For a while, the two of them competed to see who had more bubbles.
Occasionally, I came out of the back door and saw the master who was passing by the trestle. His face froze, thinking that you are so happy, have you ever thought about the feeling of a crab?
After having a great time and spreading a lot of joy by the pond, the two started catching small stone crabs again.
When the bamboo basket was almost half full, the city lord shouted to stop, "That's enough. If you catch me again, you'll run out."
"Okay", he gave up for the rest of his life, but did not go ashore. He tightened his coir raincoat, walked to the lotus leaf in the water, bent down, and took out a piece of lotus root from the mud.
He washed it with water. The lotus roots that had just emerged from the pond were white, tender and watery, like the jade arms of a beautiful woman. They were simply beautiful and fragrant, and it was a pleasure to look at them.
Yu Sheng cut it open with a hand knife and handed it to the city lord. It was crunchy and crispy in the mouth, and the meat was tender and sweet, leaving a refreshing and refreshing aftertaste, which is comparable to the best fresh pears.
The city lord squatted on the trestle and Yu Sheng stood in the water. The two of them gnawed on the lotus root and talked about love.
The drizzle was like silk, and the raindrops fell on the city lord's hair. Yu Sheng helped her brush it away, and just as he was about to kiss her, something terrible happened.
"Okay, I've been looking for you for a long time, and it turned out that we were hiding here to talk..."
Ye Zi said half of his words, but he was keenly aware of the two sharp gazes and quickly changed his words: "So I'm stealing delicious food here. Come on, give me some."
The black girl naturally followed.
"Do you know?" Yu Sheng said when handing over the lotus root: "Of these people, you should eat the lotus root the most."
"Why?" Ye Zigao took it and was puzzled.
"Because it's ugly." Yu Sheng said.
There was a moment of silence in the air. The city lord held a piece of lotus root in his mouth and looked at him blankly, which was a little cute.
"Shopkeeper, your joke is quite cold." Ye Zigao shrank back, not sure whether it was cold or really cold.
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Yangzhou, Jiannang Town, in front of the inn.
That day, it was almost noon, and the sun was already getting hot. The folks and workers who had gone to work early in the morning all retreated to the inn early to drink herbal tea to quench their thirst and avoid the heat.
The lobby couldn't accommodate so many workers building the inn, so many people sat on the steps outside the inn under the shade of the trees.
While everyone was chatting, there was a loud "bang" sound, which startled everyone.
Cao'er, who was sitting lazily on the attic, stood up instantly and looked back to where the sound came from. He saw a column of waves splashing on the lake, as high as the sky, and a black figure jumped out of the waves.
The black shadow was like a snake, with splashes of water it landed on the town's ancestral hall, collapsing the roof and falling onto the street.
The people stood up and looked up, and saw a black dragon's head lying motionless on the street.