Chapter 47: Fishing Always Brings Up Strange Things

Chen Xiyi had waited for two days, and he felt increasingly strange inside. He thought it wouldn’t take more than a day to finish the inventory, so why hadn’t he received it after two days?

Although he was anxious, he didn’t show it at all. Instead, he remained very calm.

He didn’t know the exact inventory process, but he was sure about one thing: Wang Li wouldn’t trick him, because there was nothing about that in the Game Log.

However, many corresponding Game Logs appeared regarding the court officials. Chen Xiyi suspected that someone in the court was deliberately holding this up.

This made Chen Xiyi quite annoyed, but after being a homebody for so many years, he understood that he could wait.

If anyone was in a hurry about this matter, it definitely wasn’t him—it was Emperor Li.

Who were these so-called Nourishing Spiritual Foods for?

Of course, they were for Emperor Li. It was fine if he hadn’t finished them yet, but once he did and had to eat the food cooked in his own imperial kitchen, many things would be out of Emperor Li’s control.

To be honest, the food in Li Country was quite plain. Due to low productivity and the high cost of many seasonings, the food was mostly in its natural state.

In other words, it didn’t have much flavor. Not only the food Chen Xiyi provided, but even food from a modern world could surpass it.

Green, pollution-free food might be healthy, but it wasn’t necessarily tasty.

Besides, the food Chen Xiyi gave had special effects—either it slowly recovered Health Points or restored energy and spirit. These were effects that could be physically felt.

‘Maybe Emperor Li had a hand in this too. Was he trying to test me?’

Chen Xiyi pondered secretly. Otherwise, why would the officials contradict themselves when slandering him?

‘It’s a pity that there isn’t a single friend in this world. What a failure.’ Chen Xiyi looked at his friend list and couldn’t help but sigh.

Pulling up the Fishing Rod in his hand, Chen Xiyi felt even more frustrated.

[You used a Fishing Rod to fish and caught 1 unit of wood.]

“After the beginner period, there isn’t even a guaranteed minimum. Now I only catch random things.”

Fishing out wood was still acceptable, but he had once fished out a bellyband. He had no idea how that happened. One thing he was sure of was that there couldn’t be such things in this Landscape Lake.

After all, this was the Landscape Lake in Prince Zhuang’s Mansion, and it was regularly cleaned.

Well, even if fishing a bellyband out of the Landscape Lake was somewhat possible, fishing out a set of pearwood tables and chairs was just absurd.

After fishing for two days, Chen Xiyi had somehow managed to collect a full set of pearwood furniture.

As items he fished up, they could be directly placed into his Inventory for Homesteading. Of course, if he didn’t put them in the Inventory, they wouldn’t be Homesteaded.

Unlike other things in this world, which he had to exploit bugs to take.

“My request isn’t high. Just let me catch something alive. No more of these random things.”

He wasn’t exactly empty-handed, but catching everything except fish made Chen Xiyi very unhappy. Especially recently, the servants in Prince Zhuang’s Mansion had been looking at him strangely.

It made sense, though. No one had ever fished so many strange things out of the Landscape Lake. The things Chen Xiyi caught during this time could fill the Landscape Lake and still have leftovers.

On the other hand, Wang Li found it normal. After all, Chen Xiyi was an immortal.

Every time Wang Li mustered the courage to come over, he wanted to share in Chen Xiyi’s catch.

“Something’s biting. With this weight, it couldn’t be furniture again, could it?” Chen Xiyi pulled hard on the rod. The weight wasn’t too bad. With the help of his Homestead, even someone as weak as him could reel in a giant squid, let alone a piece of furniture.

But after pulling it up, Chen Xiyi was stunned.

[You used a Fishing Rod to fish and caught Lü Xian, a well-bred young lady.]

“???”

Chen Xiyi looked at the person he had fished up. The hook was still caught on the back of her clothes, near her neck.

They stared at each other, and it was clear that she was just as confused, completely unaware of what had happened.

Especially since the person in front of her didn’t seem like a good person. What kind of good person wore a full suit of armor that even covered their face?

“Coming out of the lake” was just too bizarre. He never expected that fishing could actually catch a person.

[Lü Xian, a well-bred young lady, Health Points: 99%, Status: Panicked, Confused]

[Ability 1: Needlework]

[Ability 2: Music, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting]

[Ability 3: Good at Strategy]

[Experiences]

[July: Encountered a faithless man who tried to take her money and sell her to a brothel. Unwilling to endure the humiliation, she attempted to jump into the river and drown.]

[July: Happily eloped with her lover.]

[July: Her parents opposed her marriage to the man, and she felt troubled.]

[July: …]

After reading the description, he figured it was the story of a sheltered young lady deceived by a scoundrel. The scoundrel was probably an expert, not only after her money but also her body, as evidenced by his plan to sell her to a brothel for more money.

And the young lady was tough—she directly jumped into the river to end her life.

Thinking this, Chen Xiyi felt a bit relieved. He hadn’t fished her out of her home but from the river. That made it a bit more reasonable…

‘Reasonable, my foot. How is fishing someone out of a river reasonable? I wanted a lively fish, not a lively person.’ Chen Xiyi couldn’t help but complain inwardly.

The young lady, Lü Xian, stood in the Landscape Lake, panicked as she looked around. One moment she had just entered the water, and the next she was pulled out by a great force. She thought the faithless man had caught her and was nearly scared to death.

But when she came to her senses, she realized the place she was in was completely different.

She had been by the riverbank, but now she was in some large courtyard.

This shattered her worldview, and she couldn’t react for a moment.

“Come out of the lake,” Chen Xiyi shouted again.

Only then did the young lady snap out of it and hurriedly said, “Yes, yes.”

As she spoke, she removed the hook from her clothes. She was so nervous that it took her three tries to get the hook off the back of her collar.

“Someone, take her to Prince Zhuang and have him handle this. Tell him I fished this person out,” Chen Xiyi yelled toward the outside.

A servant quickly came in from outside, his expression growing even stranger, mixed with a deep sense of awe.

Wang Li hadn’t told them Chen Xiyi’s identity, but after all the recent events, they had started to guess. Now that he had fished up a young lady, it didn’t seem too hard to accept.

“Yes, sir. Please follow me, miss,” the servant said respectfully.

Lü Xian glanced at Chen Xiyi with a complicated look in her eyes, then nodded lightly and followed the servant away. She had heard the words “Prince Zhuang,” which meant this was a royal mansion.

From that, she could deduce this was the Capital.

But the place she had been before was far in the south, thousands of miles away from the Capital. In just an instant, she had been fished all the way to the Capital by his Fishing Rod.

It was simply unbelievable.