Chapter Seventy-Four: The Three-Eyed Toad
Facing the wind and snow, Luo Fan finally arrived at his destination.
"Big big!"
"Tiny!"
"Hahaha...... Finally won, hehe......"
"Alas, lost again......"
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There was a tumult in the dilapidated house, and you could hear it from afar, a dilapidated tavern, with the lights on quite conspicuously, and the voices of gamblers came from it, some happy, some angry, some sighing...
The end of autumn heralded the prelude to winter, and another new year was coming, and the nobles in velvet jackets walked the streets with puppies in padded jackets, and even the clothes on the puppies were thicker than the clothes of a family of three in the slums.
The family with no money began to feel worried, wanting to eat a hot plate of dumplings is a luxury, a day of hard work for the foreman can be exchanged for five or six copper coins, how many days will it take to satisfy this luxury wish?
The Buddha said: All beings are equal.
That's right, all beings are equal, and when they die, they all lose everything, and that's where they are most equal.
Life is like a big gamble, and what matters is whether you have the courage to make your bet. Success, you have a glorious life, failure, you are poor, after the results come out, it depends on what experience you have learned from this gamble, and what kind of eyes you use to look at the future.
Prosperous red dust, how many souls have been lost.
Stepping over the threshold and into the tavern, Rovan's arrival went unnoticed.
The lights flickered, because of Luo Fan's arrival, the cold wind blew in from outside, making everyone feel a chill, and some people were slightly dissatisfied, glanced at this side, but didn't say anything, and then just looked seriously at the next bet.
There were a number of copper plates scattered around the table, the most striking of which were a few silver coins, which shimmered in some dim light. At this moment, their eyes did not blink, their faces stared at the dice that were about to be opened, it seemed that even their breathing had become heavy, and their blood was accelerating...
"Three, four, six!
"Alas......"
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These were not enough to get Luo Fan's attention, he looked at everyone, looking for the figure he wanted to find, and what disappointed him was that these people were poorly dressed and had a languid face, and most of them were middle-aged, and there was no one he was looking for.
"Smack..."
A bag of heavy gold coins was dropped on the small table, and the golden coins slid out of the bag.
The initial stunned and then everyone couldn't help swallowing their saliva, their eyes widened, and they looked greedily at the gold coins, which were enough for an ordinary family of three to live without food and clothing for a lifetime.
When turning his gaze to the owner of the money bag, Luo Fan spoke: "Help me find someone, you should know him, his name is Toad Old Demon, it is yours to bring him this money, my patience is not very good, it is better to hurry." ”
After a few seconds of silence...
"Boom......"
Finally, after taking a look at the golden money bag, the gamblers were like electricity, and they all turned into peerless masters, scattered in an instant, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
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After a while, a shout came from outside the door: "What are you guys doing,... Believe it or not, my toad Daxian let the black toad poison you, ouch, me! Dare to hit me, don't fight, if you have something to discuss, don't slap your face... Nima... My handsome and dashing face... Not... I'm rubbing, you want to make Lao Tzu the last one... Damn, ......"
With a series of screams, I saw four or five gamblers who were still strong and strong, pulling an old man in sloppy clothes and walking in, and the old man who was tied up with five flowers was full of obscenities, and was dragged all the way from the snow, and his hair and clothes were messy.
I drank a pot of hot wine and went to bed early, but I didn't expect a few hideous-looking men to suddenly come out without saying a word, picked up the hemp rope and trapped myself, and immediately ushered in a violent beating when he resisted a little, and finally dragged himself here like a pig, all of which made him depressed.
"Boss, someone brought it!"
After successfully completing the task, the gambler immediately flattered Luo Fan for credit, and the latter waved his hand casually, and the golden gold coin bag on the gambling table immediately attracted a few greedy eyes, and several gamblers immediately rushed up, tearing each other, scolding and scolding, for fear that the gold coins would be robbed by others.
"Grass, two dogs, it's too dark for you to start, leave some for me!"
"Damn, do you think I didn't see you stuffed so much in your underwear?"
"Rub, it's worthy of a dog-eyed brother, this Nima has been seen by you!"
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Outside the tavern, the snow was still fluttering, and the cold wind was still blowing.
"Senior, I have offended a lot, please forgive me. ”
Loosening the rope from the toad old demon, Luo Fan said apologetically.
For this old man who had been mixed in the Eastern Continent three hundred years ago, he did not despise it, but he was a little puzzling about the previous scene, an old man who had cultivated for three hundred years, no matter how bad he was, he would not fall to such a point, right?
"You're the one who ordered those bastards to beat me?"
Facing the old man's questioning, Luo Fan was embarrassed, he glanced at the old man, and saw that his hair was scattered, his clothes were in tatters, his face was murderous, and his eyes were looking at him angrily, which made Luo Fan shudder, and he smiled dryly: "Uh... This, actually, is not what you think......"
"Hehe, little bunny, do you know how powerful your Uncle Toad is?"
"Uh... I know..."Luo Fan agreed again and again, his lips moved, and he secretly said in his heart: "What a hairy person! Being beaten like this, I guess if I hadn't told them to stop, even your mother wouldn't have recognized it!"
"Little bunny, what are you muttering?"
"Nope..."
The toad old demon looked at this disturbing young man with unkind eyes, he stood with his hands and tilted his head, like a market hooligan, just when Luo Fan was furious by this vision, he suddenly said: "Actually, I also wanted to come out for a walk, but this tickling made the immortal sober up a lot." ”
Luo Fan was stunned, came to his senses, and complimented: "The seniors are really masters, and a master like you will naturally not be as knowledgeable as the juniors. ”
The toad old demon waved his hand, Luo Fan was suffocated, and just when he was puzzled, the toad old demon smiled and said, "Go on!"
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After a period of telling, Luo Fan felt depressed.
"It's not impossible for you to want a three-eyed toad, it's just that Xiao San has inevitably had feelings with me for so long, I'm afraid that I will be treated unfairly in the hands of your juniors, do you know, I treat Xiao San as my own son, and even I will feed it when I'm hungry on weekdays, alas... Although the conditions you offer are very tempting, but you know that this immortal is affectionate and righteous, and ...... righteousness."
"One hundred thousand gold coins. ”
"Uh... It's all said that I'm not that kind of person. ”
"Two hundred thousand gold coins. ”
"Uh, this... I'm a little reluctant to ......."
"Three hundred thousand gold coins. ”
"Actually..."
"Four hundred thousand gold coins. ”
"I want to say..."
"500,000, no more. ”
The toad old demon smiled and said, "Actually, I want to say that 200,000 is enough." ”
Luo Fan said indifferently: "It's okay, I don't care about this money yet, my predecessors have to keep their promises." ”
"This is naturally no problem, one hand to pay, one hand to deliver!"
"Uh, do you think I might be carrying that much gold?"
"That's right, then you're ready to come again!"
"Don't, don't be like this, uh, senior, what do you think about this, you give me the three-eyed toad first, and I'll send someone to personally deliver the gold coins tomorrow, how about it?" Luo Fan was a little helpless, he wasn't good at bargaining, but this money was insignificant.
"Hmph, no way!"
Luo Fan was anxious and said: "You can give some face, I am also a duke of a country, and I can still take out this money!"
The toad old demon shook his head, looked at Luo Fan again, and said strangely: "You are the one who has been shining recently, the youngest duke in the empire?"
Seeing Luo Fan nodding, the toad old demon smiled and said, "Just say no earlier, you wait first." ”
After speaking, the toad old demon tossed from his arms for a while, and took out an object from it, which is a gray wooden box engraved with strange lines, which is not small than ordinary people's fists, and when the toad old demon opens the box, he sees a gray-brown toad, with a faint vertical mark on his head, at this moment this Moyo's palm-sized toad is sleeping, if you don't look closely, it looks like a gray-brown stone, this gray-brown toad that is not good-looking, is the three-eyed toad that Luo Fan wants.
The toad old demon showed a reluctant expression of flesh pain on his face, and Luo Fan tempted at the right time: "I know that the seniors have a lot of hobbies, especially for this wine, the younger generation just has the best wine king Du Kang in the house, twenty-two years of aging, it is definitely the best in the wine, you will definitely like it, seniors." ”
As soon as these words came out, the toad old demon suddenly happily presented the wooden box containing the three-eyed toad, and Luo Fan took it with a smile.
At the same time, the toad old demon said: "Although this three-eyed toad is not a desolate species, it can be regarded as a rare spiritual creature, but you should tell me, what is the use of this spiritual object?"
Luo Fan thought for a while and said: "Don't hide it from the seniors, the juniors are going to the southern Xinjiang swamps this time to explore something, you know, this southern Xinjiang swamp is inaccessible, poor mountains and bad waters, there are highly toxic miasma in the primeval forest, don't say that it is an ordinary person, even the cultivators who have cultivated to a high level enter, they are also frightened step by step, dare not be careless, this vast forest is easy to enter, but it is difficult to come out, and this southern Xinjiang giant has been named the notoriety of death for thousands of years." ”
The old toad demon had an epiphany in an instant, nodded and said: "You are right, this three-eyed toad was originally a spiritual creature produced by this southern Xinjiang giant ze, and it has long been immune to its poisonous miasma, and even in the depths of the primeval forest, it will not lose its way, and it will naturally be a lot less troublesome to take it, but the southern Xinjiang is far away, you also know that it is dangerous and unpredictable, I think it is better not to go." ”
Looking at the old toad demon with a trace of worry on his face, Luo Fan's heart warmed, and said: "Senior, don't worry, I have made up my mind, I have been looking forward to this southward trip for a long time, even if I set off tomorrow." ”
"Alas, it's ...... so urgent"
The old toad sighed: "Pity my son..."
Luo Fan: "......"