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Sumo didn’t answer, but simply glanced at the rough porcelain bowl: there was only a bit of murky water in there, as well as some unwashed water plants and smelly shellfish, where was the edible food?

Obviously seeing the disgust on the child’s face, Chu Chu sighed, then with a soft noise something was shoved over.

“Here, eat this!” Chu Chu whispered, “This tastes quite good.”

The child subconsciously raised his hand to catch what was being shoved at him and found out that it was actually a small piece of dried fish that had been roasted to perfection, and was stunned to look up at the young girl in the next cage. He didn’t understand why, but that glance took the child by surprise: this maiden shark, appeared to resemble a certain person to some extent…

Yes, she looked like Auntie Ruyi… who later moved to the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion.

Fifty years ago, when he was brought up in captivity, she took care of him in the same way.

In that moment, the child’s eyes softened silently.

“It’s a special treat I’ve been secretly saving up, I don’t usually get to eat that every day!” Seeing the child obediently bite into the roasted fish and eat it, the maiden shark spat out her tongue, and her eyes shone brightly, “Eat it quickly, or it will be bad if the master finds out. He’s a fierce one! You must remember to never contradict him.”

The child ignored her well-intentioned admonition and just cupped the roasted fish in his hands, burying his face and gnawing desperately, quickly turning the food into a fish bone and leaving crumbs smeared all over his face.

“Heh heh… splashing your face like a little glutton.” Chu Chu couldn’t help but laugh.

There was something soft and cold that suddenly climbed up the child’s face and gently wiped it. Sumo was taken aback and subconsciously leaned back a little, staring straight ahead – it turned out to be the girl’s fish tail, reaching through the gap across the cage like flexible fingers, gently stroking his face and wiping away the crumbs from the corners of his mouth.

“Never seen a shark with a fish tail?” The shark girl caught the look in the child’s eyes and couldn’t help but laugh; she was laughing a bit too much considering she was a shark in a cage.

Sumo didn’t reply and turned his head away from her.

“I grew up in the Blue Sea… and I have just been caught in the Yunhuang,” Chu Chu sighed, “You haven’t seen the Blue Sea, have you? It’s beautiful, with seven-colored sea grass, castles made out of corals, and at night, countless large clams will float out to the surface, opening and closing against the stars and spitting out glowing luminous pearls… that people on land can only dream of.”

The maiden’s voice was ethereal and evocative, almost painting a picture of the faraway homeland in front of the child’s eyes. As Sumo was listening, the gloomy dustiness in his eyes faded away, revealing a hint of yearning, as if someone had planted a vaguely visible spark in his tiny heart.

Yes, the Blue Sea. The home of the sharks.

Will he ever have a chance to return to the sea in this lifetime?

“I hate these Kongsang people.” Chu Chu murmured, and her voice sounded desperate and sad, “Destroying our Sea Kingdom, and taking the sharks as slaves! It’s been thousands of years, when will these days ever end…”

When is this going to end? Sumo was stunned for a moment, and his heart vaguely ached.

Such words, he thought to have already heard them from Auntie Ru’s mouth as well!

However, just as the two of them were talking across the cage, there was a loud harrumph coming across the air, and someone pushed open the door and said, “Master, you’re so lucky, this time a new batch of freshly caught sharks have arrived in the market – look, they’re all top quality goods, enough to be rivaled with the ones in the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion! They are as beautiful!”

There was a flurry of footsteps outside and someone walked in, glancing from cage to cage.

“Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion?” The guest sneered, “The rags you have here can still be compared to the ones from that place?” As he spoke, he glanced at the various sharks held in the cage and grunted from his nose, “They haven’t even had their bodies broken, and you’re flinging their fish tails out for sale? Jia Laoliu, you probably have lost another bet and don’t even have the money to find a dragon slayer, do you?”

“Hey, these are authentic sharks! They’ve just been caught from the sea.” The shopkeeper was a short, fat, middle-aged man with an obscene smile, nodding his head and grinning, “If you like one, I’ll send it to you right away with his legs broken, and it will be standing straight, strong and delicate!”

The customer, a yellow-brown-faced Kongsang merchant, surveyed the goods displayed in front of him with expert eyes, obviously having been in the slave trade for a long time, reached out his hand into the cages and pulling up each of the slumped sharks to look at them, saying, “Jia Laoliu, you’re not fooling me, are you? How come this batch is all crooked?”

“Master, you are an old customer,” the shopkeeper hastened to smile, “the price is negotiable.”

“Jia Laoliu, it seems that you really have gambled enough to lose your chaps.” The customer said coldly while carefully picking and sizing them up one by one, his mouth saying, “It’s useless even if the price is cheap, this time it’s for the Lord of Yecheng to select a few shark slaves for his own use… Heh, what kind of taste do you think they have?

The price is cheap, but it’s useless.”

The shopkeeper froze for a moment: “Lord of the city? Lord Bai Fenglin? Isn’t he… about to get married?”

“They are for an outside residence,” the guest grunted, “the Lord of the City used to like to go to the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, but after his marriage, due to the reputation of the Red King, it is not very convenient to go there anymore, so he can only breed a few more slaves outside – the nobles of Kongsang, who doesn’t keep a few sharks for fun?”

“Yes, that’s right.” The shopkeeper nodded, “Then choose carefully!”

The guest looked around, but didn’t seem to be particularly impressed, and finally cast his eye over the cage in the corner, and suddenly his eyes lit up: “Oh, there is a child in here?”

The child tried desperately to move backwards, but was so weak that he couldn’t even move, so he could only drag the heavy shackles around and curl up in one corner of the cage as best he could.

However, a fat hand reached in quickly and grabbed him by the hair.

“Hey, what a stunning beauty is this one!” The shopkeeper grabbed Sumo by the hair hard, pulling the child’s face upwards and turning towards his customer, “Master, do you see? What a beautiful child! Have you ever seen such a beautiful face?”

The customer’s eyes were fixed on the child’s face, and an expression of astonishment passed through his face as well, yet his expression returned to normal in an instant, and he simply said indifferently, “He is too young, and his body is all covered with scars.”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said, “Not too young! Don’t look at the physical appearance as being a little child, if you look at his bones age, he should be seventy or eighty years old!”

“Even if it’s seventy or eighty, it will take fifty or sixty years to reach adulthood.” The customer was unmoved, “Why would I buy him? To keep him for the next generation? I’m a businessman, I’ll get rid of him sooner rather than later, I don’t want to save it as an heirloom.”

“This…” the shopkeeper grimaced, unable to think of anything else to say for the moment.

“Besides, what’s the use of just having a good-looking face?” The customer surveyed Sumo in the cage and continued to nitpick, his mouth relentless, “The body is so skinny, the belly is scarred, and the back is full of black birthmarks, whoever is buying it will lose money – what’s wrong with you, Jia Laoliu, you’ve been cheated by someone for picking this up as a bargain, have you?”

The shopkeeper received such an overhanded remark with a cold heart and grumbled as he let go of his grasp. As soon as he was released, Sumo retreated back into the corner of the cage, staring deadly at the two Kongsang men in front of him, his eyes full of hatred.

The guest, who was a very calculating person, let go of Sumo for the moment, his eyes darting to the next cage, and remarked casually, “This female child is not bad.”

“Hey, you have a great eye!” The shopkeeper nodded hastily, seized Chu Chu in the cage and dragged her to the customer, “This is a shark freshly caught from the depths of the Blue Sea, the finest in origin and the purest in blood! The age is also suitable, just one hundred and fifty years old, with a delicate face and perfect body!”

With a swish, Chu Chu’s clothes were ripped off her body, making her tremble with fear but not daring to resist. The young girl’s body was as beautiful as jade, so delicate that not a single flaw could be seen, she was shivering slightly, and her beautiful body was curved from the waist down, hurling a fish tail covered in thin blue scales.

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