When I came home panting, I found that Zhang Sanye and the village chief Liu Gengmin were there, sitting in the yard drinking tea and talking to my mother.

Seeing Shen Jiming carrying a big bag on his back, a big guillotine on his shoulder, and his pale face and unkempt hair, Liu Gengmin asked in surprise: "Hey, where have you been, why are you so embarrassed?"

"Third master, uncle~"

Shen Jiming said hello and put everything on the ground, wiped the sweat on his forehead and told him about the wild boar seen on the stone ladder temple.

"You dead baby, didn't your father tell you not to go to the broken temple last night? It's unlucky!" Liu Yuqin hurriedly walked up in fright, complaining while helping her son pick the blades of grass from his clothes and hair.

Shen Jiming poured a cup of tea and poured it down and asked Liu Gengmin: "Uncle, is it true that my father said that the stone ladder temple is haunted?"

Liu Gengmin nodded: "The year before last, there were two people in the city who went up to play, but they fainted on it, and we only found out when the sun went down, and then I found a few people to go up and carry them down, and they woke up and said that they seemed to see a black shadow, the temple has been abandoned for decades, don't go if you have nothing to do, now there are more wild boars in the mountains than people, and we are not allowed to fight, so that we are more than wild boars to become protected animals!"

"Hmph, it's all your fault for the village chief!" Zhang Sanye hummed and put down the teacup.

Liu Gengmin couldn't cry or laugh, so he could only shake his head and not speak.

"Our stone ladder village was originally famous because of the ancient temple, no temple is still called what stone ladder village, the incense in the temple was very good before, the people in the nearby ten miles and eight villages, and even the county have to come to the incense to pray for blessings and birthday celebrations during the New Year's holidays, and then the four old revolutions were broken, the temple was gone, the incense was also broken, without the blessing of the Buddha, it would naturally be haunted, I wanted to say, we have to scrape together the money to rebuild the temple......

Liu Gengmin directly stopped talking and pretended not to hear.

Even Shen Jiming was a little cold sweating, and said with a dry laugh: "Third grandfather, it will cost a lot of money to repair that temple, and it is estimated that there are not tens of hundreds of thousands of repairs, so don't worry about it!"

"Third uncle, what Ming Wazi said is right, our village is already poor and only we old guys who are shaving mud, where can we find hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair the temple!" Liu Yuqin also hurriedly followed.

The main reason is that she is afraid that this Zhang Sanye has fallen in love with Shen Jiming's hundreds of thousands of yuan, and if he wants to donate it to repair the temple, whether he agrees or not, he will be gray, and it will be embarrassing for everyone to meet in a village in the future.

"I know!" Zhang Sanye clicked the cigarette pouch and lowered his head, sighed and said, "Alas, I'm just talking, when we old guys are dead, no one will remember that there is a temple on the mountain, and some of the things handed down from ancient times are probably going to disappear slowly, and the children and grandchildren are not filial and no wonder others, all blame us for not being angry, and defeating the things of our ancestors...... What a bullshit ghost, this is someone who is going against the sky......"

Shen Jiming directly rolled down the beads of sweat the size of soybeans.

I don't know how much resentment Zhang Sanye has, and even said such terrifying words as going against the grain and going against the sky!

The so-called words are not speculative for more than half a sentence, and after Zhang Sanye finished speaking, the yard was cold, so Liu Gengmin stood up and wanted to leave.

Shen Jiming took out two gourds weighing three or four catties from his backpack and said: "Uncle, third grandfather, this is a big gourd seedling I saw in the stone ladder temple yesterday, there are a lot of tender gourds hanging on it, all of them are troubled by wild boars, I picked up a few and came back, you can take them back to make a dish to eat, we ate one last night, it tastes very good!"

Liu Gengmin and Zhang Sanye took the gourd and watched it repeatedly, and both of them showed incredible looks on their faces.

"Ming Wazi, is this really picked up in the Stone Ladder Temple?" asked Zhang Sanye in surprise.

"Well, there was a lot, but two wild boars ripped off the gourd vines, otherwise you can eat for a long time. ”

"It's almost winter, and there are still tender gourds to eat, who said that the stone ladder temple is haunted, this is obviously auspicious!" Zhang Sanye's beard and eyebrows were shaking excitedly.

I'll go! Shen Jiming's sweat beads came down again, and the mighty Zhang Sanye even came out with auspiciousness.

Sending away Zhang Sanye and Village Chief Liu, Shen Jiming took the remaining three gourds to his mother, and then took the backpack and the big bag containing the magic flower pot into the room, but when he put down the big bag, he seemed to hear the sound of Suo Suo crawling inside, so he quickly opened the pocket to take a look.

Shen Jiming was so frightened that he sat on the ground.

I saw that there was a big red shiny centipede and a golden toad with red, green and blue colored lines on its back, but at this time, the big centipede, which was almost a foot long, was bitten in the mouth by the toad, and the dense legs kept crawling under the struggle, and the scratched flower pot kept making sounds.

Shen Jiming remembered that when he came back from the Stone Ladder Temple just now, he seemed to have heard sounds intermittently along the way, but first, he was still frightened by the two big wild boars in his heart, and second, the sound of walking also covered the sound of centipedes crawling.

At this time, the pocket was opened, but the toad inside did not mean to be frightened and want to escape, but held down the big centipede with its claws, and slowly swallowed it into its mouth little by little.

Shen Jiming took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera mode, took a video of the flower pot, and then took a few photos left and right, and then quickly tied his pocket again.

Forget about centipedes, this thing is everywhere, every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, you can catch hundreds of flashlights a night, and every year the farmers in the village can also make a lot of extra money, although such a big centipede has never been seen, but Shen Jiming, who is more than 20 centimeters smaller, has seen a lot, and this thing is usually not uncommon on the construction site.

But this golden toad is different, not only is it colorful and weird, but the most bizarre thing is that it only has three legs.

Women often say that three-legged toads are not easy to find, but three-legged men are everywhere, and Shen Jiming used to listen to it as a joke, but he didn't expect it to be really a three-legged toad.

So he checked it on the Internet, and found that the folk really have the introduction of this three-legged golden toad, called the three-legged golden toad, the legend is that there is a three-legged golden toad living on the moon, and therefore the moon palace is also called the toad palace, which means an elegant and rare place, so in ancient times, the toad palace was used to represent that the candidate won the first place in the exam, which is a metaphor for the meaning of being promoted.

And there is another legend about the three-legged golden toad, where is the story of bangs playing the golden toad, fishing for money step by step.

Lu Dongbin's disciple Liu Hai is known as the God of Wealth, he used money to subdue a golden demon toad that plagued the world, and broke one of its legs, and then this golden toad followed him to benefit the world, so the common people regarded the three-legged golden toad as a mascot, carved into the shape of a three-legged golden toad with gold, wood, jade and other materials, and expressed the meaning of wealth with money.

Shen Jiming searched carefully on the Internet for a long time, but he never found any news or even a statement about the living three-legged golden toad.

That is to say, although there are three-legged golden toads in China, they are actually just legends, just like dragons and phoenixes, these species are all fabricated, even about the four-legged golden toad There is very little news, I heard that there were some in the past but it has long been extinct.