Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 54: Snake Demon Setting Up a Stall
I have seen people gambling with money and heard of people gambling with stones, but this is the first time I have seen people gambling with clams.

Liu Qing felt that something was completely off the mark.

Sure enough, no matter what kind of creature it is, whether it is a human or a monster, this bet cannot be given up.

In his previous life, Liu Qing was a human being who had no connection with gambling or drugs, but in this life he became a demon. Naturally, the principles of being a human cannot restrain demons.

Therefore, Liu Qing's eyes flashed with a strange color, and he asked with great interest: "Bearded Catfish, Master, I just got here. I don't know how this clam betting thing works?"

The bearded catfish was just a monster that could speak like a human. It had not yet passed the three levels to become a demon. When Liu Qing called himself "Master", the bearded catfish did not dare to get angry. Instead, it greeted him with a smile and an extremely flattering tone.

"According to this gentleman, the so-called gambling with clams is a game that the monsters imitated the gambling dens of the human world, using unopened river clams as a substitute for Pai Gow.
If you feel like it, you can pick a clam at random, open the shell, and look forward to the surprise."

"I'm not bragging, but since the opening of my gambling stall, at least ten customers have won top-notch beads."

There are many old clams in the water, so there is no shortage of clam pearls. However, even clam pearls have different qualities. The best ones are the size of a thumb, round and without any flaws.
When placed in a porcelain plate, it will roll like a drop of oil, endlessly. This is called a rolling bead. Even in such a vast water palace, it is a rare treasure.

Of course, they are just treasures, most of which are not river treasures, and are used by some female river monsters to decorate their caves.

After listening to the introduction, Liu Qing was amazed. He really broadened his horizons.

Suddenly, an idea came to his mind, and he asked, "Aren't you afraid that a powerful demon will come and use its Yin spirit to penetrate the clam shell to check?"

The catfish smiled innocently, "If the master is so kind, I will waive the gambling money. Not to mention those great demons with Yin spirits. If they come, my stall will surely be prosperous. How dare I ask for gambling money? I will give it all away."

The implicit meaning of the words all indicate that the big monsters are concerned about their status and face, and will not condescend to come here to gamble on clams and take advantage of the small monsters.

Although this bearded catfish has not yet transformed into a demon, it has excellent eloquence and is simply a natural business genius.

Liu Qing paid attention and memorized the appearance of the bearded catfish to see if he could recruit this monster after the market strike and sell salt products exclusively for him in the future.

In my previous life as a human, I could clearly remember strangers after just one encounter, but now as a demon, I don't know why I have prosopagnosia.

Looking around, the bearded catfish species in this lake all look roughly the same.

Liu Qing wiped his mouth, took out a fish bladder salt, half a pound of refined salt, and handed it to the catfish. Then, in the other party's shocked expression, he picked up a few river clams.
Of course, the black-edged river clam must have been mixed in with it.

Liu Qing did not open it now, but just put it into the mouth bag space. He did not care that the clams would suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen in the mouth bag space, and left leisurely.

The bearded catfish was awakened at this moment, and quickly swallowed the fine salt from the fish bladder. He secretly wondered in his heart who this extravagant monster was.

After the clam gambling is over, I will go to the market to look for it and see if I can make a good connection and get close to him.

Liu Qing had made a huge profit on this trip before the stall even opened. He was in a very happy mood and didn't care about the quality of the stall. He just found a corner, spread out the lotus leaves, and arranged the salt goods.

Lotus leaves are produced in Shetan. In the warm spring with abundant rain, the lotus leaves in the pond have already grown lushly. It is most suitable to use some of them as spreading cloth.

On the lotus leaves, there are bundles of dried earthworms, each bundle contains about a hundred earthworms, about two fingers long. The price is one penny of incense silver for ten bundles, and no bargaining is allowed.

The meats include dried meat of deer, sheep, wild boar, pheasant, hare, field mouse, etc., as well as some fresh meat. The customers are river goblins of middle-class wealth.

River goblins of middle class status are also divided into rich and poor. The poor ones buy more dried meat, soak it in water and make it into soup when they get home, while the rich ones buy fresh meat, call their parents, wives and children, sit around a table, eat separately and feast on the delicious beasts on land.

In particular, Liu Qing, after being reminded by the experience of entertaining the eel grandpa, pioneered the practice of pickling dried meat and fresh meat with salt mixed with earthworm powder.
There are four levels of odor: slightly fishy, ​​medium fishy, ​​heavily fishy, ​​and extremely fishy, ​​targeting different groups of river monsters.

For example, silver carp and bighead carp have light tastes and prefer slightly fishy smells, carp prefer medium fishy smells, and catfish, black carp and yellow croaker prefer strong fishy smells.
River monsters such as loaches, eels, crabs and turtles naturally like to eat fishy and smelly food.

In addition to these, the rest of the space is filled with salt. Following local customs, each fish maw is filled with half a pound of salt.
There were a total of one hundred fish bladders, which was equivalent to fifty kilograms of salt.

The fish maw was sponsored by Xia Ke Xing. Its mistress, the female shrimp demon, had been stationed at Wuding River for decades, paying tens of thousands of kilograms of fish and shrimp to the Water Palace every year, some of which were slaughtered and some were kept alive. With the accumulation over the years, there was naturally no shortage of fish maw.

The next day after sending the eel away, the shrimp merchants came here, smelling the food. Liu Qing had already prepared and handed over five pounds of salt wrapped in lotus leaves.

He also said that Liu Qing would be responsible for supplying all the salt for his brother, sister-in-law, and nephew from now on.

Xia Kexing was very happy. After eating and taking some barbecue, he returned home satisfied.

Liu Qing was grateful and appreciative of Xia Kexing, not only because he had explained and taken care of her all the way when she was completely in the dark,
Also, because it didn't forget to pack up the barbecue when it was outside.

After all, a man who can eat and drink to his heart's content outside and still think about his wife, children and elders at home is definitely a responsible and family-oriented male demon, which shows his demon quality.

"Don't miss it if you pass by. The garrison at Dawan Lake Snake Pond ran off with my sister-in-law. They have a lot of good stuff left over. We're selling it off, so come grab it—"

"Although the stall is small, the treasures are tempting. Brothers of the Goblin, sisters of the River Monster, what are you waiting for?"

"High-quality refined salt will help you become a demon without fatigue. High-quality and affordable dried earthworms will comfort you on lonely nights. Four flavors of fresh meat and dried meat give you different choices to enjoy the noble life of a demon—"

Liu Qing gathered a lotus leaf and used it as a loudspeaker, shouting out the advertising slogan he had heard in his previous life at the top of his voice.

This was a dimensionality reduction attack on the other river goblins and monster merchants, causing their brains, which were already small and lacked vocabulary, to completely shut down.

The snail girl, the clam lady, the shrimp sister, the crab strongman, and a group of fish and turtle idlers all gathered around.

Seeing someone coming, Liu Qing wiped his mouth creatively again, took out a stack of smaller lotus leaves, put a little salt, dried meat and earthworms on each lotus leaf, and let them try it first.

Suddenly, the novel slogans to attract customers, the creative tasting session, and the high-quality salt products,

This made all the river goblins and monsters donate generously.

Shrimp claws, crab claws, snake tails and turtle feet were holding incense coins of various sizes, scrambling to pass them over.

Liu Qing took the silver with a smile on his face, then handed over the salt. He was busy for a long time without stopping, and his hands, which had just been transformed, were so tired that they ached.

The catfish standing in front of the stall had just finished his gambling bet when he unexpectedly discovered that the big demon master was actually in the same industry.

I also watched a unique sales open class, which shocked me and amazed me.

(End of this chapter)