My grandfather had been lying at home for more than 20 days, and seeing that the time of a month was approaching, and he had not yet scraped together enough three hundred taels of silver, when he was desperate, he suddenly remembered the words of the old lady who was crying and mourning! So he quickly jumped up from the bed and shouted, "There's a way!" ”。

My grandfather didn't have time to get dressed, so he jumped out of the house and ran outside the village, and while running, he also muttered: "Xiaohua, you wait for me, I will definitely marry your ......!" ”。 My grandfather ran to Toad Mountain in one breath, this Toad Mountain is the place where he caught toads back then, so many years have passed, there are no longer so many toads on Toad Mountain, the mountain is barren and desolate, the trees are vertical and horizontal, a desolate, only the huge toad stone on the top of the mountain, still standing as at the beginning!

This toad stone is pitch black, shining in the sun, and when you look at it from a distance, it looks like a huge toad lying on the top of the mountain! My grandfather once heard from the villagers that this toad stone was transformed by a toad essence that escaped from the Tianhe River, and it crouched on the toad mountain, looking down on this place for hundreds of miles, bless the people here! Anyone who has a headache and brain fever will go up the mountain to worship this toad stone, and it is said that there is no failure!

My grandfather was also convinced of this, although he had long known that there were probably good things buried under this toad stone, but he was afraid of retribution due to the magic of the toad stone, so he never dared to act rashly!

This time my grandfather was really desperate, and he couldn't care so much at the moment, he walked to the toad stone, circled around the toad stone, and saw that the toad stone had four legs standing on the ground, and only the belly could bury things, so my grandfather didn't say a word, he rolled up his arm, and got under the toad stone, and dug down with his hands!

But the soil under the toad stone was as hard as a stone, my grandfather dug twice and then retreated, he broke a branch nearby, and climbed back again, just by virtue of this branch, he was stunned before dark, and finally dug a pit more than half a meter deep under the toad stone!

At this time, my grandfather was already tired and panting, sweating like rain, and when the cool breeze in the mountains blew, he couldn't help but shiver! But he can't rest now, because Xiaohua is still waiting for him at home! If he couldn't find the three hundred taels of silver, Xiaohua would have been bought by his father in the kiln...... Although my grandfather has begun to shake, he still gritted his teeth and desperately dug underneath, and the sky above the toad stone was surging, lightning and thunder, as if the sky was about to change!

As the pit got deeper and deeper, my grandfather's heart sank with it, and he began to doubt the old lady's words, could it be that there was nothing under the toad stone? My grandfather sat on the ground in a daze, at a loss! The moon in the sky was completely obscured by dark clouds, and there was a dark, sassy wind around him, blowing on my grandfather's face and drying the tears on his face!

The rain fell in a trickling stream, wetting my grandfather's clothes, and suddenly a bolt of lightning pierced the night sky, suddenly illuminating the entire Toad Stone! The toad stone was flashed by this electric light, as if it was alive, and suddenly squirmed! My grandfather was shocked, opened his mouth and screamed, rolled over and got up, and looked carefully, but it turned out to be his own hallucination!

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, filling the whole pit of dirt, and my grandfather was standing waist-deep in the muddy water, struggling to move his steps, and suddenly he felt something hard under his feet! My grandfather couldn't help but feel shocked, and quickly bent down to fish the thing out of the water!

The thing was very heavy, my grandfather fumbled with his hands for a while, thinking that it should be a crockpot, because it was too dark on the mountain, and it was raining heavily, he couldn't see anything, so my grandfather held that thing and stumbled down the toad mountain!

As soon as my grandfather descended to the bottom of the mountain, the rain in the sky immediately stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and a golden moon hung on the horizon, like a golden lantern! My grandfather finally saw clearly, and what he was holding in his hand was indeed a crockpot! He was overjoyed, and when he saw that there was a seal on the crockpot, he thought, "What is in this crockpot?" ”。 He didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly ran all the way with the crockpot, and finally returned home in the middle of the night!

My grandfather kicked open the door, touched the sickle, lit the fire, lit the oil lamp, and shone the oil lamp on the crockpot, and finally saw the words on the seal! Although the words on the seal are indistinct, they can still be barely legible! My grandfather was holding an oil lamp and muttering the small words on the seal, the words on the seal, which had no specific meaning, and every word seemed to be a description of a strange sound!

My grandfather was trying to figure out what was written on it, but the words on it were so obscure that my grandfather couldn't read them! So he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he tore open the seal, smashed the mud seal, and poured out dozens of mud lumps from the crockpot!

When my grandfather saw that the clay pot was filled with mud lumps, he couldn't help but be disappointed, and he couldn't help crying loudly! When he had enough of crying, he curled up and lay on the ground, and fell asleep!

I don't know how long it took, when the first rays of sunlight came in from the window, my grandfather finally opened his eyes, he staggered to his feet, and staggered to his bed. He knew that the little girl who had shed tears for him was going to lose her forever! My grandfather's liver and intestines were broken, and his eyes were full of tears...... Suddenly, his foot accidentally kicked the mud lump on the ground, and my grandfather screamed "oops" and wondered, "Why is this mud lump so heavy?" ”。

My grandfather quickly picked up a lump of mud, and the lump was heavy in his hand, as if it was breaded with something! So he hurriedly broke the lump of mud and found that it was wrapped in a silver ingot!

My grandfather's eyes were straight at that time, and his mouth was so strong that he said, Xiaohua is saved now, Xiaohua is saved now! At that moment, my grandfather quickly broke the lumps of mud on the ground one by one, and got more than five hundred taels of silver, and he counted out three hundred taels of silver, wrapped them in his clothes, and hid the rest of the silver! Then he locked the door and walked to Xiaohua's house with the three hundred taels of silver on his back!

Before I walked to her door, my grandfather saw a lot of people outside her yard. Hurriedly took two steps, pushed open the human wall, and walked into the courtyard of Xiaohua's house!

When everyone saw my grandfather coming, they stopped talking! The crowd silently made way for my grandfather, and at the end of the road, there was a door panel, and a thin little girl was lying on the door!

My grandfather recognized at a glance that the person lying on the door panel was the little flower he had been thinking about for a long time! Xiaohua lay there peacefully, as if asleep, his face and exposed hands became unusually sallow, as if they were transparent! My grandfather was so stunned that his brain was "buzzing" and he couldn't say a word!

The crowd stirred again, people pushed each other, trampled and cursed, and those standing outside the courtyard tried to squeeze in, but those who occupied the advantageous position, while trying their best to resist, shouted angrily at those behind: "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!" If you squeeze it any more, you will squeeze out your life! ”。

But the people in the back also shouted: "Let the front let go, and let a few of you watch the excitement, what should we do?" ”。

The man in front cried out again, "What is there to see about a dead man?" Have you not seen a dead man? ”。

The people behind stopped talking, but the crowd still rushed straight to the front! My grandfather, pushed into the corner by these people, squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, and silently left two lines of tears! An aunt, holding a crying child in her arms, was pushed around by the crowd, she protected the child with her body, and sang softly: "Whoa, good baby, good baby, don't cry......!" ”。

A toothless old lady holding her mouth shut, pursed the corners of her mouth and waved to the aunt and shouted: "I said her aunt, don't squeeze with their young people, be careful of hurting the child!" ”。

The aunt then withdrew from the crowd in a sneer, walked to the old lady's side, coaxed the child, and asked the old lady, "Grandma Dong, what do you say is wrong with that girl in Hua'er?" Why did she hang herself? ”。

Grandma Dong bent her waist and pursed her lips and said, "Her aunt, don't you know anything about it?" ”。

The eldest aunt patted the child in her arms and said, "What can I know?" I've been at home with my kids all the time! This morning I heard someone shouting on the street, and then I heard that it was the girl who had an accident! ”。

Grandma Dong paused and said, "This is really evil!" What a good girl you say, it's hard to find with a lantern! stunned to let his unobtrusive father die to death! ”。

The eldest aunt asked "ah", "Grandma Dong, what the hell is going on?" ”。

Grandma Dong coughed twice, and then said: "I don't know exactly what's going on, I heard them say that a descendant in our village fell in love with Hua'er's girl, and it seems that the girl is also willing, but Hua'er's father doesn't agree, so he has to ask for a bride price of three hundred taels of silver with that descendant!" ”。

The eldest aunt exclaimed in amazement, "Yo! Grandma Dong, you heard me right, right? How could this girl ask for so much silver? He wouldn't disagree with such a family affair! ”。

Grandma Dong nodded and said, "I thought about it at first, but guess what Xiaohua's father said?" ”。

The eldest aunt asked with interest: "What did her father say?" ”。

Grandma Dong paused and said, "You said how poisonous the flowers are, I heard others say that he wants to sell the flowers to the kiln!" ”。

The eldest aunt covered her mouth and shouted, "Is that what his father really said? ”。

Grandma Dong said affirmatively: "It's true, I heard several people say so!" ”。

The eldest aunt said hatefully: "Hua'er's father, who has been cut by a thousand knives, people say that tigers are poisonous and don't eat children, how can he be more poisonous than tigers?" ”。

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