Chapter 1157 — Let Me Tell You a Secret
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"This is just too easy. Watch me!" An Liwen thought. This was a fine chance to show off his courage, so he mustered every ounce of strength and said to the abalone: "Little abalone, here I come!"
Only, An Liwen's thinking was far too simple. The abalone clung to the reef as though it had been glued there — the suction was enough to give even an ox trouble prying it loose! An Liwen, however, had no idea. He simply took the abalone for something like a clam, and assumed he could just pick it up.
So the moment An Liwen gave it a pull, he felt something was off. Why was this abalone so tight, as if it had grown onto the reef?
"Taizao, come and give me a hand! Let's both pull it off together!" An Liwen ordered Su Taizao.
"Sure, let's pull together!" Su Taizao was afraid of ghosts and afraid of sharks, but a mere little abalone was nothing at all to him. The two of them, one on each side, began to tug at the abalone with all their might.
"Go, Brother Jianwen! Go, Brother Taizao! Sister Yaoyao's watching you!" Shen Yushu cheered them on while she and Feng Xiaoxiao slipped away, leaving just the two fools straining away at the abalone for all they were worth.
Shen Yushu and Feng Xiaoxiao ran over to Gu Mengyao and Tang Zhi, and at once doubled over with laughter.
"What's gotten into you two?" Gu Mengyao asked, eyeing them in puzzlement.
"An Liwen and Su Taizao are over there pulling abalone off with their hands!" Shen Yushu said.
"Pulling abalone off with their hands?" Gu Mengyao was stunned. "Can you even pull those off by hand? Don't you need special tools to get them off? Weren't we watching that episode of Animal World once — the one about abalone?"
"That's right, those two idiots must never have seen it, thinking you can just pull abalone off with your hands!" Shen Yushu said. "Let them pull. At least we don't have to worry about them bothering us."
Gu Mengyao shook her head. This Shen Yushu really was wicked enough.
Wei Zhao had not gone into the sea. He sat quietly on the beach, watching the crowd frolicking in the water. He had to keep them safe.
"Hubby Wei Zhao, can you come into the water and play this time? You lied to me before, saying you couldn't swim, but Xiaoshu says you even rescued her!" Feng Xiaoxiao looked at Wei Zhao on the shore with a touch of grievance. On that seaside outing Zhong Yongliang had organized, Feng Xiaoxiao had wanted Wei Zhao to come into the water and play with her, but Wei Zhao had refused on the excuse that he couldn't swim. Yet as her acquaintance with Shen Yushu deepened, Feng Xiaoxiao learned more and more about Wei Zhao.
"I'm not going. You all play first," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.
Naturally, Feng Xiaoxiao was not about to let Wei Zhao off so easily. With Feng Xiaoxiao leading the charge, they began splashing water at Wei Zhao on the shore; Shen Yushu quickly joined the fray, and Tang Zhi, after a moment's hesitation, joined in the mischief as well.
The young miss was a little conflicted now. With her old temperament, she would never have joined Shen Yushu in such foolishness, but now even Tang Zhi had thrown herself in, and if she did not join, she would look rather like an outsider.
So the young miss began splashing water at Wei Zhao too. Wei Zhao did not mind; he smiled slightly. "I've been sitting on the beach getting a bit hot anyway — your splashing cools me down, like a cold rinse."
"Sisters, how about we push Arrow-Brand Bro into the sea?" Shen Yushu was not pleased, and began rallying the troops.
"Yes!" Feng Xiaoxiao was the first to agree.
Tang Zhi had actually loosened up as well; it was her first time out to play, and she ought to enjoy it to the fullest, so she answered Shen Yushu's call, and together they ran ashore to drag Wei Zhao toward the water.
Wei Zhao had not expected Tang Zhi to hit it off with Shen Yushu too; he was rather surprised, but he gave her face and went along into the sea.