Chapter 6

“Pfft!” Song Zhi could not hold it in and laughed out loud.

“Who is it? Who’s laughing?” The senior sister turned her head sharply, or rather, she was pretending to be sharp. Song Zhi could already tell that the three of them were all idiots. She was no longer afraid and walked quietly to the middle of the three of them. Then, while the three of them were highly focused, she suddenly kicked the junior brother.

The junior Brother cried out in shock. The senior sister immediately turned around and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Senior Sister, someone kicked me,” the junior brother quickly said.

Just as the senior sister was about to ask about the situation, a stone suddenly hit her foot, and her face was twisted in pain. The senior and junior brothers were getting more and more nervous. Song Zhi saw that they could not find her and got addicted to it. She pulled their legs and hit their shoulders. The three of them were on the verge of collapse.

Suddenly, the senior sister was forced into a corner. She pulled out her long sword and started slashing randomly! Song Zhi did not expect her to suddenly attack and could not dodge in time. She could only watch as the sword with a cold glint came towards her.

Song Zhi’s face turned pale from fear. She thought that she was dead for sure. Who knew that her senior sister’s wrist would suddenly shake and the long sword fell to the ground with a clang.

“Ugh…” Senior Sister clutched her wrist, her expression pained, as if she had been injured. The senior and junior brothers were shocked and quickly went to help her. The three of them were nervous and scared. They stumbled away, not daring to be as arrogant as they were when they first came.

Song Zhi was confused. She thought about how the senior sister looked just now. It was as if she was hit by something on the wrist or had a cramp.

Hmm, it should be a cramp. Song Zhi saw it clearly. There was no one beside her and no one touched her.

Song Zhi heaved a sigh of relief. She stood still and waited for a while. After making sure that no one was coming back, she took off her cloak again and picked up the fish on the ground. Fortunately, she had picked them up in time. Most of the fish were still alive, but not as lively as before. She did not dare to waste any more time and squatted down by the stream to deal with the stone-spotted fish.

The scales of this kind of small fish were not hard. One only needed to use one’s finger to scrape against the scales, and a large piece of fish scale could be scraped off. Then, one could use a dagger to cut open the fish’s abdomen and wash the internal organs. The fish was then cleaned up.

She cleaned up all 20 fish in less than half an hour. Song Zhi took out the pot she bought from the market from her Cosmos Bag. She then took out flour, rapeseed oil, and various seasonings. She marinated the fish with salt and wine before boiling the oil.

Mo Xiuyao leaned against a tree trunk in the dark and looked at Song Zhi lazily. He roughly understood what Song Zhi was doing.

After marinating the fish for a while, Song Zhi washed it clean with the stream water. She added some salt and flour, mixed it well, and then fried it. When the first pot of fish was about to be cooked, Mo Xiuyao suddenly appeared.

“This kind of small fish doesn’t have any meat on its body. What’s there to eat?” Mo Xiuyao asked unhurriedly.

“Demon Lord?!” Song Zhi’s face was filled with surprise.

Mo Xiuyao glanced at her and said with a faint smile, “Why are you acting surprised? Didn’t you spend so much effort just to lure me out?” One of his few well-known characteristics was his love for good food.

Song Zhi laughed dryly. “It was indeed to lure you out. However, I’m still surprised to see you here.”

As the two of them were talking, the fish in the pot was already 70 percent done and was giving off a fragrant smell. Mo Xiuyao reluctantly took a look.

Song Zhi fished the fish out and fried it again with more firewood. She then passed it to Mo Xiuyao. “Demon Lord, why don’t you try it?”

“I won’t.” Mo Xiuyao rejected her without hesitation.

In the original text, it was said that the Demon Lord Mo Xiuyao had two hobbies, cultivation and good food. As long as the food tasted good, there was nothing that he would not eat, even if it was the roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes that others had eaten. So, when Song Zhi handed the fried fish to Mo Xiuyao, she did not think that he would reject it. Now that he said he did not want to try it, she was stunned for a moment and quickly explained, “This fish is called the stone-spotted fish. Don’t be fooled by its small size, its meat is very delicious.”

“Do you think I don’t know what a stone-spotted fish is?” Mo Xiuyao interrupted Song Zhi’s words with an ambiguous expression. Song Zhi paused for a moment and reacted. That’s right, the Demon Lord had eaten all the delicacies in the world, how could he not know about the stone-spotted fish? … Of course, if those messy things in this world could be called delicacies.

“So, why don’t you want to try this fish?” Song Zhi was very curious. She was very confident in her fried fish, so she wanted to know why Mo Xiuyao did not want to eat it.