LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 47: Fishing Always Catches Strange Things
Chen Xiyi waited for two days, and his heart grew increasingly peculiar. Why hadn’t anything arrived yet when it should only take a day to count everything?
Although he felt anxious inside, he showed no signs of it and remained very calm.
He wasn’t clear about the specific counting process, but he was certain of one thing: Wang Li wouldn’t deceive him, as there was no relevant mention in the game log.
However, there were quite a few corresponding game logs appearing regarding the officials in the imperial court, which made Chen Xiyi suspect that someone was deliberately obstructing him in the court.
This made Chen Xiyi somewhat irritable, but having stayed in his residence for so many years, he understood that time could wait.
If anything, it was the Emperor Li who was anxious.
Who were these so-called nourishing spiritual items for?
Of course, they were for Emperor Li. It was fine while he hadn’t finished them, but once he had finished and moved on to the dishes prepared by his own imperial kitchen, then many things would no longer be at Emperor Li’s discretion.
To be honest, the diet in the Great Li Kingdom was quite ordinary due to low productivity and the high cost of many condiments; basically, the food was all organic.
In other words, there wasn’t much flavor; not to mention the food Chen Xiyi provided, even if compared to dishes from a modern world, it would still lose.
Green, pollution-free food might be healthy, but it wasn’t necessarily tasty.
Besides, the food Chen Xiyi provided had special effects: either slowly restoring health or recovering energy and spirit, which were tangible effects he could personally experience.
‘Perhaps, this is also the Emperor’s doing, testing me through this?’
Chen Xiyi thought secretly; otherwise, his situation would be very contradictory, with the officials denouncing him yet also acknowledging him.
‘Unfortunately, there isn’t a single friend in this world; how failed am I?’ Chen Xiyi looked at his friends list and couldn’t help but sigh.
As he pulled up his fishing rod, Chen Xiyi felt even more frustrated.
[You used the fishing rod and caught 1 unit of wood.]
“The newbie phase is over, and now there’s no minimum guarantee; I’m only catching random junk.”
Catching wood was manageable, but previously he had also caught a belly band out of nowhere. He didn’t know how he had fished that up; he was certain that such things couldn’t possibly exist in this scenic lake.
After all, this was the scenic lake of the prince’s residence, which had been cleaned.
Well, it might be a little possible to fish up a belly band, but catching a set of pear wood furniture was ridiculous.
After fishing for two days, he had somehow managed to collect a full set of pear wood furniture.
As for the items he fished up, they could be directly thrown into the item bar to be integrated into his home; of course, if he didn’t put them into the item bar, they wouldn’t be integrated.
Unlike other things in this world, he had to exploit bugs to take those.
“I don’t ask for much; just catch me something alive, and not these odd things anymore.”
Although there were no air forces, the fact that he could catch everything except fish made Chen Xiyi very upset, especially since the servants in Prince Zhuang’s residence had been looking at him oddly lately.
Thinking about it, no one had ever been able to fish out so much junk from this scenic lake. The amount of junk Chen Xiyi had caught could fill up the lake with leftovers.
On the contrary, Wang Li saw nothing strange about it; after all, he was a celestial being.
Every time he shamelessly approached, he tried to take advantage of Chen Xiyi’s harvest.
“Got a bite; with this weight, it couldn’t be another piece of furniture, could it?” Chen Xiyi pulled hard on the rod; the weight was manageable. With the help of his home system, even he, with no strength to break a chicken’s leg, could pull up a giant king squid, let alone a piece of furniture.
“Alright.” Chen Xiyi pulled the rod with great effort; it was quite heavy, but with the help of his home, even someone as weak as he was could pull up a giant cuttlefish. How much more so for this piece of furniture.
However, after pulling it up, Chen Xiyi was a bit bewildered.
[You used a fishing rod to fish, and caught Lü Xian, the Noble Young Lady.]
“???”
Chen Xiyi looked at the person he had fished up; the fish hook was caught on the back of her collar.
As their eyes met, it was clear she was just as confused, completely oblivious to what had just happened.
Especially since the person in front of him did not seem like a good person at all; who would dress in armor and cover their face?
“Coming out of the lake” was too ridiculous; he never expected that fishing could actually catch a person.
[Lü Xian, the Noble Young Lady, HP: 99%, Status: Panic, Bewildered]
[Ability 1: Needlework]
[Ability 2: Skills in Music, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting]
[Ability 3: Good at Scheming]
[Background]
[July: After being deceived by a faithless lover who intended to rob her, she was sold into a brothel; on the way, unwilling to be humiliated, she attempted to jump into the river to end her life.]
[July: Eloped happily with her lover.]
[July: Her parents opposed her marriage to her suitor, leaving her distressed.]
[July: ]
After glancing at the introduction, it seemed to be a story about a sheltered noble young lady being deceived by a scoundrel. This scoundrel was a seasoned one, wanting not only her wealth but also her body, ultimately selling her into a brothel for a profit.
And this woman was also tough, outright attempting suicide by jumping into the river.
Thinking this way, Chen Xiyi felt much more at ease. He hadn’t pulled someone from their home, but rather fished someone out of the river; that made it seem much more reasonable. ‘Reasonable? Fishing someone out of the river is reasonable? I wanted a lively fish, not a lively person!’ Chen Xiyi couldn’t help but complain in his heart.
Lü Xian stood in the scenic lake, panicking as she looked around. Just a moment ago, she had entered the water, and the next moment, she was yanked up with immense force, thinking that the faithless man had indeed caught her, nearly scaring her to death.
But as she regained her senses, she discovered that her surroundings were completely different.
She was previously by the riverbank, and now she was in a large courtyard.
This shattered her worldview, and for a moment, she was unable to react.
“Coming out of the lake,” Chen Xiyi shouted again.
Only then did she seem to awaken from her daze and hurriedly respond, “Yes, yes.”
As she spoke, she managed to remove the hook from her clothes because she was so nervous that it took her three tries to dislodge the hook caught on the back of her collar.
“Someone, take her away to see Prince Zhuang, and say that I fished her out.” Chen Xiyi called out loudly.
A house servant hurried in from outside, looking increasingly strange, mixed with a strong sense of reverence.
Wang Li hadn’t told them Chen Xiyi’s identity, but the events of recent days had led them to speculate; catching a woman now seemed acceptable.
“Yes, sir, may I ask this young lady to come with me?” the house servant replied respectfully.
Lü Xian looked at Chen Xiyi with a complex expression in her eyes, gently nodding as she followed the servant out. She had heard the name Prince Zhuang, indicating that she was in the Wang residence.
From this, she could deduce that they were in the capital.
Yet she had been far away in the south, a thousand miles from the capital, and in the blink of an eye, she had been pulled to the capital by this person’s fishing rod.
This was simply unfathomable.
(End of chapter)