Chapter 463 — Pretending to Be a Shark a Little Longer?
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"Yes!" Zhong Yongliang said with certainty. "Xiaoshu, I'm going to make grilled shark for you and Yaoyao right now. You can't bring any fire source onto a plane, so I specially brought a solar barbecue grill. In a bit, I'll let you two see what high-tech cuisine is!"
"Oh, that's wonderful! Hurry up and get it going, then!" Hearing that she would soon be eating grilled shark, Shen Yushu was instantly overjoyed.
Gu Mengyao, however, was looking at the shark on the ground with a strange expression. "This shark—why is it missing a fin?"
"Huh?" Zhong Yongliang's eyes went wide. He looked at the shark on the ground and, sure enough, found that one side of it was missing a fin! Moreover, it seemed to have been cut off cleanly by someone... Zhong Yongliang was so furious he wanted to curse. That supermarket owner had actually dared to cheat him? Cut off one of the shark's fins and still sell it to him at such a high price—he would find someone to smash up his shop later! Son of a bitch!
"That shark fin must have been knocked off by Xiaoshu. Right! It was smashed off by a stone!" Zhong Yongliang explained.
"Is that so? Am I really that impressive?" Shen Yushu did not quite believe she could have knocked off a shark's fin either. "This shark of yours couldn't be a frozen shark you bought at the supermarket, could it?" Gu Mengyao kicked the shark twice and found it hard and stiff, clearly frozen solid.
"Yeah, Yaoyao, why does this shark look like one bought from a supermarket? Look, there even seems to be a price tag in its mouth?" Prompted by Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu also looked at the shark on the ground in confusion. "Is this really the one I beat to death? Xiaoliangzi, did you get it wrong?"
"It is, absolutely!" Zhong Yongliang glanced at the shark's mouth and, sure enough, saw a white price tag. He ground his teeth in even greater fury. Was Gao Xiaofu blind too? He had missed the missing fin, and now he could not see the price tag in its mouth either? But Zhong Yongliang could not say so aloud. He could only give a dry laugh and swiftly pull the price tag from the shark's mouth, stuff it into his own, chew it a couple of times, and swallow it. "How is this a price tag? It's scallop meat! Delicious! As the saying goes, people die for wealth and birds die for food. This shark must have swum into the shallows to eat scallops, and then Xiaoshu bravely smashed it to death with a stone!"
Afraid the two of them would spot more flaws, Zhong Yongliang hastily changed the subject.
"Scallop meat? And you ate it raw?" Gu Mengyao found it even more suspicious.
"If it's something a shark would risk its life to eat, how could it not be delicious? Uh—it's all my big mouth. I should have saved something this tasty for you, Yaoyao!" Zhong Yongliang said hurriedly.
"Then you'd better eat it yourself. And don't call me Yaoyao—it sounds awkward to me," Gu Mengyao reminded him.
"But Xiaoshu calls you Yaoyao..." Zhong Yongliang could not help asking.
"Xiaoshu calls me Yaoyao-jie. Or do you want to call me that too?" Gu Mengyao shot Zhong Yongliang a glare and said coldly.
"Uh—then forget it." Zhong Yongliang had no wish to become Gu Mengyao's little brother; that would only make it even harder to court her. He gave a laugh and said, "I'm going to grill the shark. All the boys in our class, come over here! We'll cut up the shark together, and when it's grilled, everyone gets a portion!"
Although some of their classmates, more or less, shared Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's doubts about where the shark in Zhong Yongliang's hands had come from, when they heard there would be grilled shark soon and everyone would get a share, no one went off to do anything disgusted anymore. They all pitched in to help Zhong Yongliang, and their ill feeling toward him lessened a great deal.