Surprise in Daming Lake

This year's Daming Lake was unlike previous years.

For generations, Daming Lake had upheld the custom of releasing animals.

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These jianghu folk either met and killed, or stole other people's wives and husbands. All year round, there were always times when their hearts softened and guilt arose, so releasing animals became the best remedy.

As long as they tossed turtles, soft-shelled turtles, live fish, and loaches into Daming Lake, they felt utterly relieved, as if all the meeting and killing had vanished like smoke and clouds and had nothing to do with them.

They became good people again.

It could be said that nine out of every ten people releasing animals there were villains who met and killed, while good, honest people were exceedingly rare.

Because in this jianghu, good and honest people generally lived miserable lives. They might not even get a bite of meat for ten days or half a month, so where would they find spare money or spare leisure to release animals?

But this year's animal releases at Daming Lake had met with an accident.

Some damned person had released crocodiles and venomous snakes instead of anything else.

For a time, venomous snakes and crocodiles plagued the Daming Lake area, posing no small challenge to the "lotus-picking girls" who came to fish for turtles and the turtles willing to be caught.

Yet even such life-threatening challenges could not stop the lotus-picking girls and Turtle Men from rushing toward each other in both directions.

There was no helping it. Daming Lake's traditions had been passed down for many years.

His Majesty the current Emperor had visited Daming Lake six times, and each time, he had successfully been hooked by a lotus-picking girl. Five