Surviving in the chaos of war begins in the wilderness.

Chapter 132 Sending Pearls

When Zhou Ye arrived at Mimi's side, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Then they saw a giant clam clamping Mimi's nose between its fingers. This clam was actually at the early stage of the Ming Jin realm, and it was clamping so tightly that Mimi was screaming and even her tiger eyes turned into cross-eyed eyes.

Even more interestingly, the clam's shell remained almost undamaged under Mimi's sharp tiger claws. This must be some kind of excellent monster material—

More than half an hour later, Zhou Ye was enjoying his barbecued river fish, while Mimi was focused on dealing with the large river clam.

Ordinary Mingjin-stage demonic beasts like these have rather unique strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, they are relatively easy to deal with in the hands of two overpowered hexagonal monsters.

Suddenly, Mimi came running over, wagging its head. "Pfft!" It spat out two large, icy pearls into Zhou Ye's hand. They were about the size of a thumb.

Good heavens! These freshwater mussels can actually produce pearls?

Zhou Ye grinned from ear to ear: "Mimi, let's catch a lot more river clams later. The meat is yours, and the pearls are mine?"

Mimi gave it a disdainful look: "Two-legged beast, are you stupid? These little stones aren't even edible. Tiger even complains that they're hard on his teeth."

"You don't understand, this should be very valuable."

"Whatever. You two-legged creatures are really strange."

Believe it or not, there are quite a few freshwater clams on this island. They bask in the sun on the beach and rocks, in dense, large groups. But these clams are also extremely alert if anything gets close. They will quickly fly into the water and swim away at high speed.

Fortunately, there are natural predators like Mimi. She will silently approach, then pounce, and bite one or two birds each time.

With Mimi's guidance, Zhou Ye would also throw a net into the lake to catch the clams that had just escaped.

In the end, the man and the tiger caught a huge pile of river clams. This was after discarding all the ordinary river clams and keeping only the monster-level ones.

However, during the subsequent opening of the shells, Zhou Ye discovered that the probability of finding pearls was actually not very high. From several bags of freshwater mussels, he only found a dozen or so pearls of varying sizes.

"Awoo!"

Mimi reminded Zhou Ye: "Two-legged beast, don't throw away these meats, take them back for Little One to eat."

Zhou Ye chuckled. This silly big cat was quite considerate of its little brother. But those empty clam shells actually had a use; they could be sold to the Gu family.

Seeing that there were still two large bags of river clams left, Zhou Ye was too lazy to open any more shells. He had had a great time today, but it was time to go back.

After packing everything up, Zhou Ye rubbed Big Tiger's head and said, "Mimi, I'm going home now. I'll come play with you again later."

"Awoo!" Mimi's big tiger head rubbed against Zhou Ye's palm. It made the most affectionate gesture while saying the most ruthless words, "Two-legged beast, when you come here again next time, Tiger Tiger promises to beat the shit out of you."

"hehe."

Looking at the island, Zhou Ye made a decision: from now on, he would call this island Pearl Island.

A few days later, Zhou Ye led a convoy into the outer city, and they soon returned to their home on the city wall.

Although Zhou Ye could lift more than 1000 kilograms at a time, he couldn't show off too much as his family grew larger.

Therefore, during this trip out of the mountains, Zhou Ye made several trips back and forth, carrying over a lot of things.

Furthermore, in the small town near the mountain pass, Zhou Ye hired a convoy to transport all these items back.

"Wow-!"

When they saw a huge bison weighing over a thousand pounds being unloaded from the truck, a burst of excited screams erupted from the crowd.

Zhou Ye smiled and waved to Li Gui: "Uncle Li, there's still that truckload of frozen fish. Have someone make sure they're all salted. Keep those two big sturgeon. After they're butchered, you and Lao Yu can take some home too. Consider it a New Year's treat!"

"Okay! Thank you, boss."

Everyone beamed with joy as they watched baskets of herbs and monsters being unloaded from the truck.

Zhou Ye then beckoned to Li Wenwen's eldest brother, Li Gu, "Xiao Gu, you and Da Zhu and Er Zhu, divide this fire lizard among yourselves! Just the five of you male disciples can share it. We eat salted meat all day long; we need to eat something fresh too."

Li Gu, equally beaming, asked, "Master Tian, ​​really? Isn't that too much? Should we sell it?"

"No need, no need. Can't you see? There are several more over there."

After all, Li Gu was his brother-in-law, so he would at least offer some assistance. Besides, Zhou Ye didn't care about this mid-stage Qi Refining Fire Lizard at all.

At this moment, the girls gathered around the oil-armored crocodile at the early stage of the Ming Jin realm, and they were also marveling at it.

There's no way around it. That's the downside of this silly big cat; it has no idea what holding back means and always goes all out in every battle.

Although Zhou Ye had been extremely careful, his weapons were thankfully undamaged this time. However, his crocodile skin armor was torn to shreds. So, on the return journey, he would have to endure the hardships of the armored crocodiles.

After a long period of excitement, Zhou Ye and the girls finally returned to the inner courtyard.

Zhou Ye placed the two large bags of river clams in front of them: "You two divide them up and open all these clams. I'll tell you, maybe there are pearls inside?"

Wow!

"Whoever gets it first keeps it. Let's see who's lucky!"

"Really?"

The girls were overjoyed. They immediately began enthusiastically opening river clams—

Unexpectedly, the girls had much better luck than him; they actually got pearls one after another! Zhou Ye was almost furious.

In the end, the youngest one was the luckiest. That little girl was only a little over 14 years old. Her name was Xiaoru, and she had produced 6 pearls. So Xiaoru, like a child, hugged Zhou Ye's arm and cheered.

Li Wenwen had the worst luck. She only got one? So, with a pained expression, she clung to Zhou Ye's other arm and pleaded, "Brother Tian, ​​please let me have my cousin!"

"Great!" Zhou Ye laughed heartily. "Then let's give each of them another one as a reward."

"Wow! Young master! You're so kind!"

In the following days, Zhou Ye disposed of everything he had brought back. He sold what needed to be sold and stored what needed to be stored.

Besides that, Zhou Ye had been preparing for the grand opening of his harem.

Okay! No need for further explanation, it's basically about some scumbag building a harem. Although this isn't a formal wedding to marry a wife, he should at least give the girls a satisfactory explanation, right? So, he still needs to buy quite a few things for the house.

Now, judging from the girls' mournful looks, no matter how many reasons Zhou Ye tried to find, he couldn't delay any longer.

That being said, since he was already prepared to take all the girls, Zhou Ye no longer hesitated.

From now on, everything that needs to be prepared is ready. After that, you can relax and enjoy yourself at home!

In any case, including the Lunar New Year and the entire first month of the lunar calendar, Zhou Ye had no intention of leaving this gentle haven.

That day, Zhou Ye first went to the Mountain and Sea Pavilion and bought 5 bottles of high-grade Qi and Blood Pills and 5 bottles of mid-grade Qi and Blood Pills. Before breaking through to the Dark Force stage, he no longer lacked pills.

He then went to the Fenglei Martial Arts School. Zhou Ye planned to buy 20 bottles of low-grade Qi and Blood Pills. This was for his disciples.

Inside the room, Zhou Ye took out two pearls the size of a fingertip and handed them to Xiao Cui: "Miss Xiao Cui, these are for you."

When I first saw Pearl, I felt she was the only one worthy of your beauty.

Xiao Cui happily accepted it. She covered her mouth and laughed, "Senior Brother A-Ye, you're so kind!"

"It's fine, they were just things I found in the mountains anyway. I'm not a big man like myself, and I don't really like jewelry like this."

In fact, Zhou Ye had already inquired about the price of pearls in the past few days. Freshwater pearls of this size generally cost around 10...

The price ranges from two to fifty taels. Therefore, it's not too painful to give it away as a gift, and it can also please the girls.

"Hmph." Du Juan, who was sitting to the side, was already getting restless. She rolled her eyes at her in annoyance.

Xiao Cui understood immediately. Her eyes darted around. "Senior Brother A-Ye, what about Miss's?"

To Zhou Ye's surprise, he feigned astonishment, saying, "Really? Doesn't your young lady have Zhang Hu? She'll be the young mistress of the prefect's mansion soon! What kind of gold and silver treasures wouldn't she have?"

Amidst giggles, Du Juan laughed and scolded, "You're asking for it! Hmph. I didn't do anything!" But Xiao Cui, standing nearby, complained, "Exactly. Why haven't we heard from that young master Zhang yet? He was so persistent with you back then, has he forgotten all about it?"

Unexpectedly, Du Juan weakly explained, "Perhaps not so soon! I heard that the Prefect has already started a war with the rebels, we'll have to wait until the war is over."

Through Du Juan's words, Zhou Ye learned that during the previous war, a large number of miners had joined the ranks of the rioters.

Furthermore, many low-ranking soldiers joined the ranks. Therefore, through such a long period of fighting and training, the rebels had long since been molded into an organized army.

Therefore, they can no longer be simply called rioters, but should be called rebels!

Furthermore, they had previously seized a large number of martial arts techniques and skills from powerful families, and widely disseminated them within the rebel army. Therefore, the rebels now boast a considerable number of beginner-level martial artists, and even a few exceptionally talented individuals who have actually grown into intermediate-level martial artists?

In this way, the rebels have filled the most missing link in terms of high-end military force!

On the contrary, the army of Fufeng County wasted a lot of officers and soldiers due to the successive PUBG competitions.

Now, the army is facing a shortage of troops. Furthermore, it must guard against betrayal by powerful families in the county town, so the actual number of troops deployed is not large.

Although, in terms of overall strength, the army was still a whole level superior, the sheer number of rebels was simply too great.

Therefore, after achieving a few minor victories, the two sides reached a stalemate in this campaign to quell the rebellion. In the end, they remained on a certain front, resulting in a kind of frustrating war of attrition.