Chapter 1159 — You Are a Brave Man

"When you strike a man, spare his face; when you shame a man, spare his weak spot." An Jianwen's expression froze on the instant, but so that Gu Mengyao would not think less of him, he forced himself to look calm and unruffled, and said, "It was only a little crab. What could it possibly do to me?"

"Wow, Jianwen-gege, so you're that amazing? Your balls are fine?" Shen Yushu's eyes were brimming with adoration.

"Of course they're fine. I've trained, you know. After a crab pinched me once when I was little, I started practicing whenever I had a spare moment. As things stand, a single crab has no effect on me!" An Jianwen said smugly. "The same trick twice? To me it's nothing but a passing cloud!"

"Oh, so Jianwen-gege has iron balls! Then any girl who marries you is sure to be very satisfied!" Shen Yushu said enviously.

"Haha, I wouldn't go that far, but I'll certainly be more of a man than most!" An Jianwen thought to himself that Shen Yushu was rather adorable just now, praising him in front of Gu Mengyao. Looked at this way, getting his balls pinched had actually been a good thing!

"Jianwen-gege really is a brave and sturdy man!" Shen Yushu said sincerely.

"Naturally. Yaoyao-meimei likes brave men, and I'm working on becoming one!" An Jianwen said with a nod.

"Oh, then since you're fine, hurry up and go catch a shark. We're waiting to eat!" Shen Yushu said.

"Ga?" An Jianwen was stunned, and only then realized he had fallen into Shen Yushu's trap! She had just been praising him endlessly for how strong and brave he was, and now she was telling him to go catch a shark, so he could hardly refuse!

"Wrestling a shark is a very dangerous business, and you're all playing in the sea right now. I say we forget it. It's not good to set off a bloody incident!" Fortunately An Jianwen had already prepared a countermeasure. "I've had Yang Ganglou buy some abalone and shark meat from the supermarket. It'll be here in a moment, so we don't need to go catching abalone and sharks at all!"

"Oh, but that's not the same. The shark in the supermarket is dead, frozen, not fresh at all. Yaoyao-jie wants to eat fresh shark!" Shen Yushu said. "Besides, what Yaoyao-jie likes is the process of a warrior fighting a shark, not the result. Eating the shark is secondary, just savoring the fruits of your victory. If someone else killed the shark, Yaoyao-jie wouldn't even eat it!"

"Is that so!" Shen Yushu's words set An Jianwen's blood racing. But racing blood or not, he was not brainless; he knew exactly how much he was worth. With his build he was not even enough to fill the gap between a shark's teeth, let alone fight one!

But to avoid losing face in front of Gu Mengyao, An Jianwen hesitated, then said, "Naturally I want to as well. It's been a long time since I fought a shark, and I'm starting to feel restless. You know how it is. A brave man like me, if he doesn't do something brave for a while, feels uncomfortable all over. But sharks aren't something you can just summon. This is shallow water; sharks generally don't come here. So it's all a matter of luck!"

An Jianwen had made himself very clear. I want to catch a shark too, but there are no sharks here, so you can't blame me, can you?

An Jianwen's reasoning was not actually wrong. There generally were no sharks in the shallow water, so even if one wanted to catch one, there was no way.

"Then let's give it a try. Quick, cut your finger and attract the sharks!" Shen Yushu said with a nod.

Sharks did indeed prowl these waters. Earlier, when Wei Zhao had fallen into the water, and later when Zhong Yongliang organized the outing, they had both encountered sharks. So Shen Yushu believed that this time too, An Jianwen would "luckily" run into one.

"Fine..." An Jianwen thought that a tiny bit of blood entering the seawater would quickly be diluted and washed away, and by then no shark would come. So he said to Su Taizao, "Taizao, cut your finger and go lure the shark!"

"Huh? Why me?" Su Taizao pointed at himself and asked, somewhat aggrieved.

"If not you, then me?" An Jianwen glared at him. "Hurry up, don't hold up my shark fight!"

"All right..." Su Taizao gritted his teeth and went off to cut his finger.

But this time An Jianwen had miscalculated, because he understood nothing about the nature of sharks. Otherwise he could never have said such a foolish thing at the dinner table as smashing a shark's teeth with one punch!

If you drip a single drop of blood into the ocean, a shark can smell it from a quarter of a mile away.

Sharks are extraordinarily sensitive to scent in seawater, especially the smell of blood. The low-frequency vibrations of a sick or injured fish swimming erratically, or a small amount of bleeding, can summon them from far off. Their sense of smell even surpasses that of a land dog.

It can smell blood and flesh at a concentration of one part per million in the water. That is to say, a shark's olfactory organs can detect a single drop of blood in a million drops of seawater!

In a shark one meter long, the area of the nasal cavity packed with olfactory nerve endings can reach 4,842 square centimeters. A man-eating shark five to seven meters long can smell the blood of a wounded person or marine animal from several kilometers away.

And Su Taizao had shed far more than one drop, several drops in fact. If there were any sharks nearby, it would have been a wonder if they were not drawn over!

"Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, Yunyun, Xiaoxiao, let's go ashore. What if a shark comes in a moment?" Wei Zhao knew this much, and knew that what Su Taizao was doing would very likely attract sharks, so he made preparations in advance to have them go ashore and take shelter.

Otherwise, if the sharks really came, how could Wei Zhao alone protect four people at once? They must not be caught off guard!

Seeing how serious Wei Zhao was, the young lady said nothing more. She nodded and said, "All right, Xiaoshu, let's go up and rest a while. Good chance to soak up some sun!"

As for Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao, they naturally obeyed Wei Zhao. If Wei Zhao told them to go ashore, he had his reasons.

"Fine by me. A terrifying creature like a shark can only be fought by a brave man!" An Jianwen was rather surprised by Wei Zhao's cowardice, but the more cowardly Wei Zhao was, the happier An Jianwen became. Only Wei Zhao's cowardice could set off his own heroism!

Wei Zhao smiled faintly and said nothing more. If An Jianwen wanted to play the fool, let him. Once the shark really was lured over, he would learn what fear meant.

"Yes, yes, none of us are a match for a shark!" Shen Yushu did not know what Wei Zhao meant either, but she too felt that Wei Zhao had his reasons, so she cooperated with him to the utmost.

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