He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 210 The Efficacy of Millet Pearls

Wen Yuxia turned to Zhang Zhuangtou and said, "Zhang Zhuangtou, you should go back first." She had taken out quite a lot of food from her spatial storage, and needed to send Zhang Zhuangtou and the others away.

Zhang Zhuangtou said in a simple and honest manner, "I'll take them away right away."

After Zhang Zhuangtou and the other two left, Wen Yuxia took out a plate from her spatial storage and threw it onto the river. The enormous head opened its blood-red maw and swallowed the food, plate and all.

Then, smacking his lips, his two vertical pupils stared straight at Wen Yuxia, who said with a faint smile, "Senior, can you understand what I'm saying? If you can, nod three times."

The enormous head slowly nodded three times, and Wen Yuxia spoke again: "Do you like to eat human delicacies? Nod if you like, shake your head if you don't."

The enormous head slowly nodded, and Wen Yuxia smiled, "Senior, I have a request: please do not harm or harass the people who come here to fish, and please protect them from other powerful aquatic creatures. If you can do this, nod; if you cannot, shake your head..."

The enormous head slowly nodded in agreement. Wen Yuxia smiled and said, "Every morning, I will send someone here to feed it. Senior, please remember to wait here." After speaking, Wen Yuxia took out plates of food from her spatial storage and threw them into the water.

After the enormous head finished its meal, it slowly sank into the water. Wen Yuxia thought it had left, so she ordered Nan Yi and the others to carry the fishing nets and climb up the ladder.

After walking a few steps, she heard the sound of rippling water. Wen Yuxia turned around and saw two giant claws extending from the water, each claw clutching a dark, indistinct object.

The giant claw swung back, and one after another, the dark objects landed precisely at Wen Yuxia's feet. The giant claw twitched slightly, as if bidding Wen Yuxia farewell.

Wen Yuxia called out, "Thank you, senior. Goodbye, senior." Watching the giant claw sink into the water, Wen Yuxia then began to examine the pile of shellfish of varying sizes at her feet.

Wen Yuxia bent down and picked up a seashell. She noticed that the seashell had a unique texture and a subtle luster. She was secretly delighted; perhaps these seashells given to her by the water monster contained rare pearls.

After storing all the seashells in her spatial storage, Wen Yuxia and the others left the Yin River and returned to the main courtyard. Wen Yuxia eagerly took out the seashells and had Nan Yi and the others open them to search for the pearls.

"Master, look, a little pearl," Nan Yi said excitedly, opening his palm to reveal a pearl the size of a grain of rice.

The tiny beads shimmered with dazzling light, and Wen Yuxia was immediately captivated by them at first glance.

At this moment, Nan Er and the others also produced beads of the same size and as vibrant colors as the one in Nan Yi's hand. They simultaneously handed the small beads to Wen Yuxia.

Eleven seashells hatched into eleven small pearls. Wen Yuxia looked at the pearls in her hand and laughed, "Eleven pearls aren't even as big as a single pearl from the East."

Bei Yi said softly, "Eastern pearls aren't as pretty as small pearls." Wen Yuxia nodded in agreement, then instructed Nan Yi and the others to remove the shell meat and clean the shells thoroughly.

Bei Yi used scented soap to clean the seashells. After cleaning them, she exclaimed in surprise, "What beautiful female portraits!"

After being washed clean, the dark seashells turned into a mixture of mostly white and a little red. Upon closer inspection, the white patterns resembled a background wall, while the red patterns were like a beautiful woman's portrait painted on the wall.

After the other people's seashells were cleaned, they, like the one in Bei Yi's hand, all had two-colored patterns, all depicting beautiful women's faces.

Wen Yuxia smiled, her eyes crinkling. Such beautiful seashells didn't need carving; they could be sold for money just like that. Putting away the seashell meat and shell, Wen Yuxia calmly said, "Take the fish and go home."

Knowing they had harvested a considerable number of small-scaled fish, which were inconvenient to store in their spatial storage, Wen Yuxia had Nan Yi and the others load the fish onto the carriage.

Back at the Princess's residence, Wen Yuxia instructed Nan Yi to take the fish to the kitchen and tell the chef that they would be having a whole fish feast that evening, with everyone in the residence to have a share.

The news spread that they would be having a feast of fine-scaled fish that cost ten taels of silver per catty that evening. As soon as the news spread, all the servants in the mansion were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they worked hard. The servants who had nothing to do swept the streets in front of the mansion.

Nangong Wenrui has been working long hours lately, not only supervising the blacksmiths at the Nangong family mansion to forge the distiller, but also using the small world teleportation system to various countries to find suitable locations to build workshops and plant fruit trees.

When he returned to the princess's residence, Wen Yuxia had already washed up and gone to bed to rest. Seeing Nangong Wenrui return, Wen Yuxia took out a seashell and said smugly, "Brother Rui, look!"

Nangong Wenrui's face showed a shocked expression, "Mu Hua, who gave you the Beauty Shell?"

Wen Yuxia briefly recounted what had happened at the Jingyuan Underground River that day, and told the story of the "water monkey." She concluded by saying she suspected the monster in the underground river was a "water monkey."

Nangong Wenrui nodded slightly and said, "You guessed right, it's a water monkey. The beauty clam is cultivated by water monkeys..."

Nangong Wenrui told Wen Yuxia that the water monkey was originally a creature from the small world. When the river in the small world was about to dry up, his ancestors moved the water monkey out of the small world.

The water monkey swallows the small seashell and nurtures it with its essence and blood. It takes a hundred years for two beautiful seashells to emerge, and each beautiful seashell contains only one colorful, tiny pearl.

"Mu Hua, don't underestimate that millet bead. Taking one millet bead can add thirty years to your life," Nangong Wenrui said earnestly.

"To add thirty years to one's lifespan, how many pills can one take?" Thinking of the eleven millet pearls in her hand, Wen Yuxia asked impatiently.

“A person can only take one pill in their lifetime; taking more will be ineffective,” Nangong Wenrui paused slightly, organized his thoughts, and continued:

"Judging by the time, the water monkey has been away from the small world for over a thousand years. The Beauty Clams should have cultivated about twenty of them. Sigh, I just wonder where those Beauty Clams ended up."

Seeing the regretful look on Nangong Wenrui's face, Wen Yuxia suddenly sang, "Ding ding ding ding," and ten millet beads appeared out of thin air in her hand.

Nangong Wenrui was overjoyed. With these eleven millet beads, he, Wen Yuxia, and their children could all increase their lifespan by thirty years.

"Mu Hua, you must not tell anyone about the effects of the millet pearl. This thing is too miraculous. If people find out, there will be endless trouble. What do you plan to do with the millet pearl?"

Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile, "It takes a water monkey a hundred years to cultivate a single beauty clam. The speed is too slow. These millet pearls are all for our own family to consume!"

The "family" she referred to included her own family of six, Nangong Wenrui's grandfather, father, and mother, as well as her own grandfather, Wen Dashan.