Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

It was clearly filled with living creatures!

Zhang Ruoxue was stunned. She pointed at Yunping and stood there for a long while before saying in great fear, "Teacher, you... you've become a human trafficker?"

"You human trafficker my foot... How did you learn such idiotic things from your Senior Sister Yu Chan?"

"Who did you just call an idiot?!"

Ye Yuchan's door was pushed open the next moment.

The girl, her cheeks wet with water droplets, glared at Yunping, but when she saw the huge, bouncing burlap sack on Yunping's shoulder, she had a sudden thought.

"Damn it, you're human traffickers!"

"See? I told you two thought processes are similar!"

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue: "..."

62. Ah~ Ah~

When the contents of the sack were actually revealed in front of them, they felt genuine fear.

Because that thing was none other than a lively, wriggling fish...

Imagine it.

A scene depicting a terrifying creature with thick fur on its upper body and shimmering golden scales on its lower body—a round head, an almost triangular body, and a height of at least two meters when standing upright—hopping around on a chopping board.

Moreover, this thing occasionally emits a sharp "squeak" sound.

The sound was like a combination of a goat and a snake, extremely sharp and with a vibrato.

"Teacher, what... what is this?" Zhang Ruoxue, being quite bold, leaned closer and touched it with her hand.

It's very smooth, but extremely cold.

Yunping never hesitated to answer his disciples' questions. "This is a specialty fish of the Northern Ice Palace. The one I caught this time is a rare species, and I don't know what it's called."

Ye Yuchan peeked out from behind, her eyes wide with curiosity as she looked around: "Fish...this fish looks so strange?"

“There are plenty of strange-looking things in this world.” Yun Ping glanced at Ye Yuchan behind him. “With your outfit, the shock you’ll cause on the street is not much different from that of this fish.”

"Are you insulting me...?"

"No, I was just commenting on how unique your outfit was."

Ye Yuchan gets angry whenever she thinks about this maid outfit that she can never take off except when sleeping or taking a bath.

No one knows how much she misses that ethereal, gorgeous dress right now. "Doesn't she even consider who made this dress..."

Yunping chuckled but didn't answer.

Zhang Ruoxue reached out with her only remaining right hand and stroked the fish scales, her expression somewhat strange. "Then, teacher, are you going to take this fish..."

"Slice it up and cook it for you."

"...This is a rare species, is it okay to eat it?" Ye Yuchan knew very well what the word "rare" meant. "Wouldn't this mean we're eating someone's protected animal?"

"There shouldn't be any major problems. We'll just slip away after the Northern Ice Palace finishes its work, so what's there to be afraid of? As long as we don't get caught!"

Zhang Ruoxue stared at him with a dark expression, "This...this is a crime, isn't it?"

Yunping thought about it carefully.

After hesitating for a moment, he tilted his head quite seriously, "Hmm...maybe it is?"

……

Zhang Ruoxue and Ye Yuchan exchanged a glance, simultaneously pondering in their minds—is there really a teacher in the world less reliable than Yunping?

The two exchanged another glance—forget about it, it doesn't exist.

"Speaking of which..." Finally, our classmate Ye Yuchan steered the conversation back to the main topic, "What happened after what happened yesterday?"

"How is it?" Ye Yuchan was clearly referring to the Zuiyanglou incident. Yun Ping rubbed his chin. "I wasn't stopped by the guards when I went out, so it seems there shouldn't be any problems for now?"

"There's really no big problem."

—The one who said this was Hu Xiaolin, who slowly walked in from outside the open door, sipping a little wine, with half of his body wrapped in bandages.

"Although you benefactors have caused a great deal of trouble, those big bosses have all confessed and been taken away by the people from the Inner Palace's Judgment Palace. As for who exactly did it, none of the big bosses have said anything."

"What about the Feng family?" Yunping thought of this extremely powerful family.

"I'm not too sure about that, but I have someone on my side saying that the Feng family has secretly issued a decree, probably aimed at you."

"Okay, thank you for your help."

"No, that's not true. Whatever it is, my benefactor, please... Holy crap?!"

Before he could finish speaking, Hu Xiaolin couldn't help but swear.

It's not surprising that he reacted the same way when Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue saw the huge fish lying on the cutting board.

Yunping looked at Hu Xiaolin with a strange feeling, thinking to himself, "This is an indigenous person, could he be as unsophisticated as the two girls?"

Hu Xiaolin stared at the giant fish jumping around on the chopping board, his mind a jumbled mess: "I'm not saying anything, but my benefactor... you're really going to cause too much trouble, aren't you?"

"What's wrong? What level of protected animal is this salted fish?"

"Salted...salted fish?"

"The name of this fish," Yunping said, twirling the cleaver in mid-air before it landed safely back in his hand. "I just named it. It keeps making a 'qianqian' sound, so let's call it Salted Fish."

Hu Xiaolin was stunned by Yun Ping's wild imagination and stood there dumbfounded for a while.

"Hey Lao Hu, what's wrong with this fish? Can't we eat it?"

It wasn't until Yunping spoke that he came to his senses, and he quickly shook his head with a wry smile, "I can eat it, but I've only ever seen this kind of fish at auctions... It seems to be a fish that can only be caught by hiding under the ice."

Upon hearing about the auction, Ye Yuchan became interested and quickly asked, "Uncle Hu, how much did this fish sell for at the auction?"

"I don't remember very clearly, it was probably..."

He hesitated for a moment, then held up five fingers.

Ye Yuchan's eyes lit up, "Five thousand?"

Hu Xiaolin shook his head.

"Then...five hundred?"

Hu Xiaolin shook his head again.

"It can't be only fifty, can it? Fifty isn't going to go up for auction, is it?"

"You're going back on your word." Hu Xiaolin chuckled bitterly and held up five fingers again. "It's five hundred thousand."

"Five hundred thousand?!"

Zhang Ruoxue was also taken aback.

The next second, Ye Yuchan grabbed the fish on the cutting board and her previous fear vanished instantly.

When Yunping saw this, he thought, "Oh no, this girl's greedy nature has kicked in."

He pressed his hand on Ye Yuchan's forehead, "You silly girl, let go of me right now! This fish is so valuable, and you won't even take it if I make you fish soup?!"

"No! No! If I sold this, I could get so much fish soup! Enough to buy a whole fishpond!"

"Damn, don't you still have a million in your storage ring?! You're really that worried about these 500,000 gold coins?"

At this moment, Ye Yuchan suddenly became serious: "Teacher, you must know that wealth is accumulated over time."

"You took that million from Xiao Hei's cave, didn't you? It wasn't something you accumulated over time!"

"That seems to make sense..."

Just as Ye Yuchan was pondering how to fool Yunping next, a hand lifted her into the air.

It was obviously done by some old rogue who seized the opportunity to separate the man from the fish.

Without saying a word, Yunping raised his knife and, with a sinister smile, chopped down on the huge fish head.

The world... fell silent.

63. I am a student of Chinese literature…

Gazing at the fragrant fish head soup wafting from the dining table, Ye Yuchan fell into deep thought.

Why is this happening? Although the enticing aroma of the soup really stimulated Ye Yuchan's long-starved taste buds, why did she still feel like crying?

Five hundred thousand! That's five hundred thousand gold coins!

"Don't look so sad. It's just a fish. Why are you so upset?"

The young man took off his apron, turned around, and carrying two large white jade platters, walked towards the round dining table.

"What do you mean 'it's just a fish'? This fish is worth 500,000! 500,000 gold coins for a bowl of fish soup, I've never experienced such a luxurious life in my life."

"Just to correct you, this fish head soup isn't worth 500,000, because it only contains one fish head—"

As he spoke, the young man placed the plate on the dining table.

With considerable satisfaction, he put his hands on his hips and said to everyone, "Only with these can it be considered a banquet worth 500,000 gold coins."

Looking around, Ye Yuchan saw that the dining table was full of fish pieces with crispy skin, as if they had just been fried in oil and had a golden color.

The shimmering fish scales, used as decorations, surround the white jade disc, sparkling beautifully in the light.

Moreover, everyone discovered that the tender fish pieces were drizzled with a layer of light brown sauce. The thick sauce seeped into the pure white fish meat, adding an explosive texture to the already incredibly tender meat.

The irresistible aroma, wave after wave, swept over everyone, shattering their preconceived notions about fish.

goo-dong-

Even Ye Yuchan couldn't think of gold coins anymore when she saw these two bowls of fish chunks.

"Hey, hey, you over there, your drool's practically dripping on the floor. Wipe it off, aren't you ashamed?"

"Hehehe..." Ye Yuchan chuckled, her chopsticks already poised to strike. "Um, just wondering, were you perhaps a graduate of New Oriental in your past life?"

"Excuse me." Yun Ping tossed his head and proudly puffed out his chest. "I am none other than the Little Master of Chinese Chef."

Ye Yuchan simply stretched out her right hand and made a "6" gesture, then focused her attention entirely on the dining table, "Can we eat now?"