Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 78: Shrimp Brings Incense, but the Jing River Has No Dragons Anymore (First Order Request)
Last time, Liu Qing borrowed the Wuding River territory and invited the various branches of the Water Palace to form a salt alliance. The hidden thoughts and methods in it made the Wuding River garrison grandmother Xia Qianqian secretly admire her.

She was sure that Liu Qing would achieve great things in the future, so she urged the owner of Xia Ke Xing to hang out with Liu Qing more often.
It would be a good idea to wait until Liu Qing becomes successful in the future so that I can help him and seek a future.

Xia Kexing was very puzzled. Although his wife always gave him face in front of outsiders, she was very strict with him in private. Whenever he went out to find excuses to drink, she would always complain that he only made friends with drinking buddies.
But what happened these days? Why did he keep urging me to come and find Liu Qing?
Xia Kexing looked at his wife suspiciously, wondering if...
Xia Qianqian immediately became furious and slapped the brainless guy away with one claw. I spent all my efforts just for you, a useless thing.

He spent the whole day drinking and eating meat with a bunch of turtle monsters and fish monsters, with incense and silver flowers flowing like water, but he hardly took a single pound of food home in the whole year.
If you refine your spirit and return to emptiness, and give birth to a Yin spirit, and you still can't collect enough incense money to beg for a divine position, and you can't become a god and your life span is exhausted, then you can die and it will all be over.
Do you want me to be a widow?

Women are very scary when they are angry, and female demons are especially hard to coax when they are angry. Shrimp Guest tried his best and almost became a weakling before he coaxed Shrimp Qianqian into submission.
Just after he had coaxed Xia Qianqian, he hurried to Shetan under the pretext of delivering the payment for the salt to Liu Qing.

When Liu Qing heard that it was Xia Kexing, he didn't care about dozing off anymore, and meandered down the crooked mulberry tree to meet him.

Xia Kexing emerged from the waterway east of Snake Pond. Liu Qing conjured up his hands, clasped them together, and said with a smile, "When I heard the magpie's call this morning, I guessed something good was going to happen. I never thought it was my brother who came—"

Xia Kexing was stunned. It was the first time he had heard such an unusual greeting. He couldn't help but admire it: "Brother, I haven't seen you for a few days. Your words are even more heartwarming."

The shrimp and the snake walked hand in hand, and came ashore. In the old forest east of the snake pond, they found a shallow beach with lush water plants.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and spit out a chain of water. He moved a piece of bluestone slab and used it as a table for guests. The two monsters immediately sat down as host and guest.

Huh?
Only then did Liu Qing realize why Bai Sheer was so quiet today. She didn't serve tea and water or prepare wine and meat as usual.
Liu Qing turned his head to look at the crooked mulberry tree, but did not see the white snake.

Looking around, I saw that the white snake had actually run onto the dead old locust tree.

Seeing Liu Qing looking over here, Bai Sheer's head, which was originally looking this way, suddenly turned around, leaving the back of its head facing Liu Qing.

Liu Qing just reacted and felt a little embarrassed.

This little female snake must be angry about what happened yesterday. She even slept in a separate bed from me. No wonder I felt like something was missing when I went to bed this morning.

Even though the white snake was angry when a guest came to visit, it knew its limits. It immediately crawled down the dead locust tree, took some dried meat and fruits, as well as bait mixed with earthworm powder, put them all on a lotus leaf, and brought it over with its snake head.

Liu Qing was about to help serve the dishes, but the white snake shook its head and dodged Liu Qing's outstretched hand. It raised its snake tail and placed the lotus leaves on its head one by one on the bluestone table.

Then, the white snake paused and said as a greeting: "Master Demon, please enjoy your meal. I will take my leave for now. If you have any instructions, please call me."

He didn't look at Liu Qing the whole time. After he finished speaking, he shook his head and walked away with his snake body twisted proudly.

Liu Qing rolled his eyes, feeling extremely helpless. He was afraid that he would have to spend some effort in the next few days to coax this female snake.

Seeing Liu Qing's embarrassing look, Xia Kexing laughed mischievously.

Liu Qing smiled awkwardly, wiped his mouth, took out the jar of old wine he picked up from the buffalo monster's stomach, and took two river clam shells as wine bowls, and offered a bowl to Xia Kexing.

Xia Kexing downed the meal in one gulp, exclaiming in delight. He then used his claws to pick up a chopstickful of earthworm bait and tossed it into his mouth. The fish and shrimp in this water all love fishy, ​​smelly food, especially the earthworms from the shore, which suited their palate best. Liu Qing ground the dried earthworms into a powder, soaked it in grass seeds and grains found in vole burrows during the winter, and let it ferment for a few days. It was the perfect side dish for the fish and shrimp he was serving.

The wine and food are good, and the guests are having a great time.

Xia Kexing wiped his mouth, took out the incense silver he earned from delivering salt a few days ago from the air bag space, and handed it to Liu Qing.

"Brother, friendship is friendship, and business is business. You asked the catfish to deliver a hundred catties of salt, and they sold for four hundred taels of incense silver. You and I will split it in half. This is your two hundred taels."

Liu Qing only took eighty taels and pushed the rest over: "Brother, have you forgotten that I said before that I would only take 20% of the incense money earned by Wuding River?"

"Brother, you have been kind to me, and sister-in-law has also been very caring towards me. How can you two be treated the same as the other water vein garrisons?"

Xia Kexing refused it, and Liu Qing pretended to be angry, and then Xia Kexing happily accepted it.

This generation sells the salt produced in the Snake Pond, although it is only once a month, but in a year, there is still a generous income of three to four thousand taels of incense silver.

It was much higher than the combined income of himself as an inspector and his wife as the garrison commander of Wuding River.

Big monsters like them work hard every year to guard the water palace and patrol the river, but their annual salary is only a thousand taels of incense silver.

As for those who sell the salt from the Snake Pond, they don't need to work hard. They just need to tell their shrimp monsters to sell it, and they can easily get twice the incense silver.
There's a world of difference between the two.

Xia Kexing was extremely excited. If this was the case, when he and Xia Qianqian improved their cultivation to the point of refining the spirit and returning to the void, and nurturing the Yin Spirit, they would be able to collect enough incense and silver for the position of the Water God.

Shinto has a bright future, thanks to Brother Liu Qing. Xia Kexing was filled with emotion. He never thought that he had just made a casual investment and now would have such a huge return. Liu Qing knew that he had made the right choice.

At the same time, he was also shocked by Liu Qing's growth. At present, his Taoist level is not inferior to his own, and he can earn money from incense offerings. In the future, his path to the gods will be much smoother than his own, and he will go further.

At this time, Xia Kexing just realized that the woman asked him to interact more with Liu Qing with the intention of following behind and using Feng Qingyun.

The snake demon was concerned about their relationship, and the shrimp demon wanted to get close to them. The atmosphere between the two became more and more heated. After another round of drinking,
Seeing the time was right, Liu Qing asked, "Brother, the Qingming River Festival we mentioned last time wasn't the one we were going to grab incense from. Which river was it?"

“It’s the Jing River!”

Liu Qing frowned. "Jing River? Although I've just transformed into a demon, I know that the Jing River is the upper branch of my Dawan Lake Water Palace. We're actually going to the upper branch to steal the incense. Aren't you afraid that the Jing River Dragon King will be angry?"

Xia Kexing looked at him curiously: "Brother, don't you know that the Jing River has been without a Dragon King for decades?"

(End of this chapter)