Chapter 1157 — Let Me Tell You a Secret
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Over there, An Liwen and Su Taizao were miserably wrestling with the abalone! Hearing the laughter from this side, An Liwen wanted to weep but had no tears: "Why is this abalone so hard to pull off? Has it grown onto the reef?"
"Who knows, An-ge. I've already put every bit of strength I have into it, and this abalone hasn't budged an inch!" Su Taizao smiled bitterly. "You don't suppose there's something wrong with this abalone? That girl Shen Yushu is always setting people up. How about we switch to a different one?"
An Liwen figured that made sense — Shen Yushu did always set people up, so this abalone might well be a trick. So he and Su Taizao went to pull at other abalones, but the instant they pulled, it felt exactly like the one before: stuck fast to the reef, not shifting a hairsbreadth!
"Could all the abalone have something wrong with them?" An Liwen frowned.
"Can't be. These are all wild abalone — they don't look like they've been tampered with either?" Su Taizao was puzzled too.
"Forget it, no more pulling. Doesn't Shen Yushu want to eat abalone? Let's go ashore and call Yang Ganglou, have him buy a few catties of abalone and bring them over. It was her own idea yesterday anyway — you don't have to dive into the sea for seafood!" An Liwen said.
"True enough!" Su Taizao and An Liwen went ashore together, abandoning any thought of pulling more abalone, and went back to the tent to phone Yang Ganglou — not only to have him buy a few catties of abalone, but to pick up some shark meat as well.
"Xiaoshu, An Liwen seems to have given up on the abalone!" Feng Xiaoxiao said, glancing toward the shore.
"How about we mess with him again?" Shen Yushu's eyes flickered, and a scheme came to mind.
"Sure! How?" Feng Xiaoxiao agreed without a second thought.
"All you have to do is this and that..." Shen Yushu and Feng Xiaoxiao began to plot together.
Before long, the two of them went ashore and walked up to An Liwen.
"Brother Jianwen, come here a moment, I'll tell you a secret..." Shen Yushu beckoned to An Liwen.
"Oh? What secret?" An Liwen did not dare treat it lightly. Though he suspected that whatever secret Shen Yushu had to tell was unlikely to be anything good, he still walked over.
"Come, lend me your ear!" Shen Yushu motioned for An Liwen to bend down — she was not as tall as he was, so naturally she could not reach his ear.
"What is it, exactly?" An Liwen bent down.
Shen Yushu pressed her mouth close to An Liwen's ear, and suddenly shrieked: "Waaah—aah!"
An Liwen leapt a foot in the air, startled by Shen Yushu's sudden scream. His ear rang with a buzzing din — she had nearly deafened him! An Liwen's temper flared at once. Wasn't Shen Yushu going too far? A bit of joking around was one thing, but this was trying to frighten him to death!
"Look here, little sister Xiaoshu, you're this old and still playing children's games? This is a kindergarten-level prank — you nearly deafened me!" An Liwen clapped a hand over his ear, his face dark.