Chapter 171: The Ground Branch of the Rat
"Alright, pack up and get ready to go." Zuo Dengfeng grabbed the back hair of the "boss" and lifted it up.
"What are you going to do?" Iron shoes do not let go.
"Let it follow you honestly." Zuo Dengfeng said out loud, this rat's ridiculous expression and two plate teeth could not hide its deceitful heart, such an animal must be coerced, because it has no loyal qualities.
"What can you do?" Iron Shoes asked.
"The secret of heaven must not be revealed, let go quickly." Zuo Dengfeng raised his eyebrows and said, he naturally wouldn't tell Iron Shoes that he was going to force out the Nedan of the rat.
"Amitabha, the boss is mine, you can't castrate it." Iron Shoes shouted.
"Where do you want to go, I'll go and talk to it, it won't hurt it." Zuo Dengfeng smiled bitterly and shook his head, rural people have the habit of castrating livestock and poultry, and the castrated livestock and poultry are equivalent to human eunuchs.
Iron Shoes let go of his hand when he heard this, Zuo Dengfeng carried the sub-rat to the left woods, while walking, Zuo Dengfeng has been observing the movement of the monitor lizard on the north side, the monitor lizard saw that he carried the sub-rat and immediately stood up nervously and moved westward, keeping an equal distance from Zuo Dengfeng, its intention is obvious, in case Zuo Dengfeng is going to be unfavorable to the sub-rat, it will desperately come to the rescue.
"I know you can understand my words, spit out Nedan, follow him with peace of mind, he will be old for a hundred years, I will return your Nedan and give you freedom." Zuo Dengfeng went west for more than ten zhang, stopped his steps, turned his head and pointed to the iron shoes, and said to the mouse.
"Goo...... ......"The rat was originally smiling at him, but when he heard this, his face immediately showed fear, the smile on his face froze, and his cry trembled.
"The three of us are all cultivators who have survived the Heavenly Tribulation, your partner is not our opponent, you spit out the Inner Dan, and accompany the old man with peace of mind, I will not break my word." Zuo Dengfeng spoke again, although he had been teasing the iron shoes, but he was still full of sympathy for him in his bones, because the surname of the iron shoes was very upright, and the surname of the heart was also very simple, the most important thing was that he was old, he had been away from the temple for many years, he did not steal or rob the food and drink irregularly, his face was full of deep wrinkles, and a few teeth had fallen out.
The rat grunted again, and instead of spitting out Neidan, he raised his head and pretended to be stunned.
"If I hadn't saved you from confinement, you would still be hard to see the sky at this moment, if you dare to hesitate again, I will do it myself." Zuo Dengfeng was holding it with his right hand, and at this time, the Xuanyin True Qi was invisibly emitted, and the rat felt the sudden coldness, and immediately became extremely nervous, and the cooing sound continued, but it did not spit out the Inner Dan, it was not a fool, and knew that losing the Inner Dan would cause serious losses to itself.
Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng did not stop, Xuanyin true qi aggravated a few points again, the rat suddenly had frost on his eyebrows and eyes, and quickly raised his head to secretly peek at Zuo Dengfeng's expression, after seeing Zuo Dengfeng's cold expression, he finally bowed his back and spit out a water inner dan the size of a golden bean, the inner dan is light blue in color, and there are blood streaks attached to it.
After the sub-rat lost Neidan, the fur immediately changed, the blue color faded rapidly, replaced by a light gray fur, Zuo Dengfeng had long known that the animal would have this reaction when it lost Neidan, and he was not surprised, after picking up Neidan, he shifted his attention to the monitor lizard in the jungle on the north side, after the sub-rat Neidan was missing, the monitor lizard immediately turned around and fled, and walked quite simply, without any hesitation, Zuo Dengfeng determined that Neidan was indeed the key to the connection between the earthly branch and the poison, and this connection was mainly based on command and control, and there is no emotional component, once the inner dan of the earthly branch is missing, it will immediately lose control of the poison, and the poison will no longer be nostalgic for it.
"After a hundred years of him, I will definitely return your Neidan to you, I swear to the sky." Zuo Dengfeng said to the rat that this rat was the companion he had found for the iron shoes, and Zuo Dengfeng didn't want it to be resentful of the iron shoes, so he swore that he would definitely return Nedan to it.
Hearing this, the rat cooed and laughed again, although the smile was very reluctant, but it also carried a trace of trust, although it was not big, it was one of the earthly branches of spiritual energy condensation, and it naturally understood what Zuo Dengfeng was saying, and it also knew that Zuo Dengfeng had no need to lie to it.
"Hey, what did you do, why did the boss change color." At this moment, the iron shoes, who had been watching from a distance, noticed the change in the fur of the sub-rat, shouted and rushed to Zuo Dengfeng, and after rushing closer, he lifted the sub-rat and looked under the crotch.
"I didn't do anything." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"Then how did it become this color?" Iron Shoes questioned loudly.
"Master, you are really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, its blue fur contains highly poisonous, if you don't disperse the poisonous surname, you will be poisoned to death in just three days." Hearing this, Jade Whisk swept over from a distance and spoke helpfully.
"Amitabha, the old man blames him." Iron Shoes didn't blame Jade Whisk for scolding him, but walked away with a smile and a mouse.
"How can you lie without changing your face and heartbeat." Zuo Dengfeng said to Yufu that Yufu never teased the iron shoes, but teasing him at a critical time really relieved him.
"There's no way, otherwise he'll keep chattering." Jade Fu smiled.
"This is the Nedan of the sub-rat, you keep it properly, and return it when it is obedient." Zuo Dengfeng smiled and handed the Neidan to the Jade Whisk, his words were carefully considered, he originally wanted to say, 'Wait for the iron shoes to be a hundred years later, you will return them', but then the Jade Whisk will naturally ask him why he didn't do it himself.
"It's fine." The Jade Whisk took the inner pill in his hand, and then took out a bamboo tube and stored it in his arms.
"Get out of here and find a sheltered place to rest." Zuo Dengfeng said.
Jade Whisk nodded in agreement.
Jade Whisk was carrying a futon, Zuo Dengfeng was carrying a wooden box and thirteen, iron shoes were carrying equipment, and the sub-rat was held in his arms, in fact, he wanted to carry the mouse like carrying thirteen, but the sub-rat had never experienced a similar situation before, and he was so frightened after the volley that he couldn't stand at all.
The three of them traveled twenty miles west and came to a clear stream, the right side of the stream was a grass shelter from the wind, and the hay was very clean.
At this time, it was already more than three o'clock in the second half of the night, the temperature was very low, and after lighting the bonfire, the mouse tried to enter the stream next to it, and the iron shoes had the courage to let go of it, and found that it did not escape, but took a lot of fat carp and crucian carp from the stream, it was webbed on all fours, and was very good at diving, and the iron shoes liked it even more when he saw it, and what he didn't know was that the reason why the rat did not escape was because it was reluctant to give up his own Nedan.
The rat frequently took back the big fish, and after a while, there were more than a dozen, and its purpose in doing so was simple, it was to please everyone, but it seemed to have some kind of hostility towards Thirteen, and the fish it took back did not put in front of it.
Since ancient times, cats and mice have been incompatible, and Thirteen also has a strong hostility towards this sub-mouse, but it did not show it, lying on its stomach next to the blanket on Zuo Dengfeng, closing its eyes and pretending to sleep.
Iron Shoes got this rat, excited and not sleepy, ran to the stream to watch it fish, Zuo Dengfeng took out the dry food and handed it to Yufu and then frowned and pondered.
"What are you thinking?" Jade Fu asked.
"I'm wondering who Thirteen's master is." Zuo Dengfeng responded casually.
"How do you think of this?" Yufu raised his wrist to wipe the cookie crumbs from the corner of his mouth, Zuo Dengfeng didn't eat a bite of the exquisite dim sum he brought out in Shanghai, and left it all to her, which made Yufu very moved, heroic men are generally careless, careful men usually twist, and there are not many men who have manhood and know how to take care of women.
"Among the twelve earthly branches, the rat is the biggest, and the owner of the thirteenth has found a cat that catches a mouse to restrain the twelve earthly branches, and his action naturally has a joke element, but it can be seen that this person's thinking is extremely meticulous, and I wonder how a person can be so smart." Zuo Dengfeng felt it.
"There is a big gap between people's thoughts, and most of the people who are confused but think they are smart occupy the majority, but there are also real wise people who are at the top of the hundreds, and this kind of people look down on them, and they are friends and friends, and they are beyond the world." The jade whisk also felt it.
"Are you talking about me?" Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile.
"Don't be stinky and beautiful, although you have the wisdom of a wise man, but you don't have the heart of a wise man, I'm afraid that you will drive yourself to a dead end." Jade Fu put down the paper bag and sighed and shook her head.
"Hey, you two come and see, what's going on." At this moment, the iron shoes by the stream greeted the two of them loudly.
Zuo Dengfeng stood up and walked over when she heard this, the jade whisk didn't move, and her curiosity was not heavy.
The three of them are currently located in the area between the Jinsha River and the Lancang River, the east side is the Jinsha River, the west side is the Lancang River, this area is long from north to south, narrow from east to west, the so-called narrow is also relative, the width of most of the area can reach hundreds of miles, only a small number of land between the two rivers is less than 100 miles, there are many streams in this area, most of them are streams separated from the two rivers, and they will flow back to the river again after a distance around the land.
The stream where the rat fishes belongs to this kind of stream, although it is called a stream, it is much wider than the murmuring stream that is commonly seen, and the depth is about five feet, there are a large number of swimming fish in the stream, at this moment the rat is fishing in the water, and when he comes to the creek to climb the peak, he finds a strange phenomenon, once the rat enters the stream, all the swimming fish in the stream stop swimming, even if the rat comes forward to catch it, it will not escape.
"How so?" Iron Shoes looked at Zuo Dengfeng in amazement.
"It's a branch of the water, so it's not surprising that it can deter fish." Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a moment and said.
"Oh, the boss is more capable than Cui Jinyu's nine and your thirteen." Iron Shoes grinned when he heard this, he liked this mouse very much, and any animal that laughed at the sight of a person would not be annoying.
Zuo Dengfeng didn't say anything when he heard this, just at this time the rat returned to the shore with a fish, Zuo Dengfeng grabbed the collar on its neck, and pinched the collar with his thumb and index finger with condensation, the gold was soft, and it was easy for the cultivators who had survived the catastrophe to pinch off the gold and silver.
"Putting this thing around its neck will reveal its identity, and someone will snatch it when the time comes." Zuo Dengfeng explained before the iron shoes shouted, and the iron shoes nodded again and again when they heard the words, and watched Zuo Dengfeng throw the collar aside.
The water temperature in this area is very low, and the fish grown up in this environment are very delicious, Zuo Dengfeng grabbed a few upstream and roasted them on the bonfire, and he did not move when he caught the fish on the shore.
After eating, it was already five o'clock in the morning, the eastern sky began to brighten, the three of them did not rush to leave, but lay down next to the bonfire to rest, not long after, the three of them were awakened by an eager cooing sound, and after opening their eyes, the scene in front of them made Zuo Dengfeng frown.
"Thirteen, let go."