"For King of North Water, add bricks and tiles!"
"Add bricks and tiles!" the fish chorused.
"Build a new Great Marsh for the new Water Lord!"
"Build the new Great Marsh!"
"For our descendants, carve out a beautiful future! For Jiang Huai Great Marsh, carve out prosperity for ten thousand generations!"
"Carve out the future! Prosperity for ten thousand generations!"
"Good, full of spirit! Hardship is temporary, toil is temporary, and having no salary is temporary. Gentlemen, brothers of the same people! The Flood Dragon has gone against the current and overturned all order, oppressing the good and kind. The Dragon King Palace was burned, leaving only pitiable scorched earth.
Remember this well: we have it hard, but the Water Lord has it harder. We are not having an easy time, but the Water Lord has it even less easy. Tighten your belts, eat less and work more. For the Pacifying Huai Army, charge!"
"We have it hard, but the Water Lord has it harder! We are not having an easy time, but the Water Lord has it even less easy! Eat less and work more—for the Pacifying Huai Army, charge!"
Fat Catfish raised his fins and shouted. Long Whiskers folded in half, transforming into two dragon-seeking rulers, stretching taut and pointing north.
The Pufferfish responded loudly, scattering with a roar and rushing into King of North Water's palace, spread out in black ink, to renovate it with blazing enthusiasm.
Clang, clang, clang.
"Big Brother!" A Pufferfish propped up a pillar and fitted it into its groove. "Why was it that after Jiang Huai Great Marsh changed Water Lords, that bastard Black Pig got promoted and made a fortune instead? Wasn't he the Flood Dragon King's trusted confidant? Didn't White Ape settle accounts with him?"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
"Insolence! Insolence!"