Chapter 117: Chapter 114: Hilsa Fish Transformation Experiment
After hanging up the phone, Huo Sining went inside, where Huang Chengyi was playing with a small dog in the courtyard.
It was a Jingba, which Su Qingqing had found a few days ago near a pile of garbage. She had intended to take it back to the Su Residence, but was strongly opposed by Huang Hongying because Su Zhenhua was allergic to dogs. Left with no choice, Su Qingqing could only leave the little dog at Huo Sining’s place, where it unexpectedly became a good companion for Huang Chengyi to relieve his boredom.
“You’re back? Come in quickly, Auntie Li has been waiting for your fish for quite a while.”
Huang Chengyi was in high spirits. Recently, after being treated with Qigong massage by Huo Sining, his back injury had gradually improved. Previously, when he lived in the south, he would suffer unbearable back pain whenever the weather was damp and rainy, but now he had been in S City for nearly half a month, during which it had rained several times, yet his back had not relapsed at all.
Moreover, he felt a trace of sensation returning to his lower limbs in his legs; sometimes, when he pinched his thigh, he could even vaguely feel a bit of pain, which gave Huang Chengyi hope. He believed that maybe it wouldn’t be long before he could really stand up again.
Upon entering the house, Huo Sining handed over the live wild fish and crabs she had brought back from the Xianyu Shop to the cooking auntie, Auntie Li, who accepted them with a smile. Suddenly remembering something, she reminded her:
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“Miss Huo, didn’t you give away some crabs for the neighbors to try the day before yesterday? Today, those old ladies and ladies visited again, asking if there were any left of those crabs from last time; it seems they would like to buy some more.”
Huo Sining smiled, “Understood, I’ll bring back more crabs from the shop tomorrow.”
While cooking, Auntie Li didn’t forget to add with a laugh, “Another lady saw the few fish in the living room and liked them very much; she also wants to buy a few to try raising them. I don’t know what kind of fish those are, so I told her you run an ornamental fish store, and the lady left a phone number, asking you to contact her. I wrote it down in the notebook in the living room.”
“Okay.” Huo Sining paused for a moment, then turned around and indeed saw a notebook on the living room coffee table with a string of phone numbers written on it.
The fish that Huo Sining kept in the living room were angelfish, but not the German Reds; they were variants of angelfish, including the Red Eye, Golden Head, and Mandarin. These varieties, not too big or small, were very suitable as home ornamental fish. Thus, not long after she moved into the villa, Huo Sining brought back a few to enhance the vivacity of her house.
With the grooming of Spiritual Energy, the pedigree of these fish had become much purer, their colors more vibrant, and their health was in excellent condition; they looked so lively that it was no surprise someone would be interested in these fish.
Unexpecting business to come this way, Huo Sining couldn’t help but laugh silently to herself; she entered the phone number into her mobile phone, prepared to call the person but paused when her gaze fell upon those few fish. A thought flashed through her mind.
If her Spiritual Energy could turn crossbred ornamental fish into purebreds, then could artificially bred hilsa fish also be turned into wild hilsa fish?
With a leap of thought, Huo Sining felt more and more that this idea was likely possible. Without a second word, she picked up her car keys and headed for the door.
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“Miss Huo, are you going out? It’s about time for dinner!” Seeing Huo Sining at the entrance putting on shoes to leave, Auntie Li quickly followed her to ask.
But Huo Sining couldn’t care less about that now; she was in a rush to buy hilsa to start her experiments, and without looking back, she tossed back a sentence and walked out.
“I have something urgent to attend to. If I don’t make it back in time, you guys go ahead and eat.”
She hurried all the way to the nearest farmers’ market. It was now the bustling evening time, and the market was lively. After asking around at the fish vendors’ stalls, Huo Sining got lucky and finally found the locally farmed hilsa she wanted in a stall at the corner of the market.
She spent six hundred yuan to buy four hilsa, each weighing about three pounds, and rushed back to the villa with them in a large water-filled bucket.
After returning home, Huo Sining hastily wolfed down a few bites of dinner and then hurried back to her room to begin the experiments.
In the tank with four fishes, she randomly selected three live reeves shads and placed them into another bucket, then used the spiritual energy from the Azure Pearl to work on these three shads.
Soon, after being cleansed by the spiritual energy, both the pattern and color of the three shads changed markedly. Especially when compared with the unchanged shad, the difference between the two was very apparent.
However, Huo Sining hadn’t completely let her guard down. Although the German red pine variety had indeed become purified after being groomed with spiritual energy, whether or not spiritual energy could change the texture and taste of the fish was unknown, and Huo Sining couldn’t be certain it would work.
So after one night, the next morning, having groomed the fish with spiritual energy once more, Huo Sining scooped up a mutated shad and the other ordinary shad and busied herself in the kitchen, preparing two identical dishes of steamed reeves shad.
“Uncle, please help me taste these two fishes and see which one tastes better.”
Huo Sining eagerly sought the connoisseur, carrying two plates of fish.
“This is reeves shad?”
Seeing the fish Huo Sining brought over, Huang Chengyi was taken aback.
Huo Sining smiled mysteriously, “Please taste and see.”
Following her suggestion, Huang Chengyi picked up his chopsticks and tucked a piece of fish from one plate into his mouth. After a bite, he frowned.
“This must be farmed reeves shad, right? The flesh is loose and fibrous, slightly astringent, probably just common fish found in the market.”
Huang Chengyi looked at Huo Sining, puzzled, not understanding her intent.
With a smile, Huo Sining pushed the other plate of fish toward him, “Try this one!”
Huang Chengyi took another piece of fish and sent it to his mouth.
The fish was rich and delicate, smooth and sweet. After one bite, Huang Chengyi’s eyes lit up with both surprise and delight as he looked at Huo Sining.
“This taste is absolutely fantastic! Miss Huo, your fish shop is really something, to be able to lay hands on wild reeves shad!”
Huang Chengyi was well aware that wild reeves shad were treasures of the Yellow River, especially in recent years. Pure wild reeves shad were increasingly rare, and obtaining one was very difficult.
Huang Chengyi knew that Huo Sining’s shop sold wild aquatic produce and had seen her acquire a lot of high-quality wild hairy crabs lately. The taste of those crabs was exquisite, impressive enough in its own right, and now the young lady had managed to secure a wild reeves shad without any fanfare.
“Are you sure this is wild reeves shad? The taste is spot on?” Huo Sining asked excitedly, with great anticipation.
Raising an eyebrow, Huang Chengyi feigned displeasure and said, “Could this be wrong? Don’t look down on your uncle just because my legs aren’t great, my tongue is still quite capable. I could never mistake a wild reeves shad!”