"Old toad?!"

The Taoist threw away the dead branches, stood up, and the dryad, who was pulling the old donkey not far away, trotted over when he heard the movement, looked around, as if he heard the sound of water, and pointed to the waterhole.

Suddenly, there were ripples on the surface of the water, and the splash was splashed, and the toad said, "Woo...... The old man .....", holding the fishing rod, falling back to the surface of the water and swaying left and right quickly, pushing away the ripples and swimming rapidly.

The Taoist stared solemnly at the toad dancing on the surface of the water, remembering the scene when the other party fell off the reservoir a few years ago, squatted back on the fire, and continued to pass firewood for the fire.

"I thought I fell into the water, but I swam in the water. ”

Waved his hand to tell the dryad not to worry: "The old toad can't swim in the water, I'm afraid I'm learning at the moment, don't worry." ”

In the pool, as soon as the rain line tightened, the toad Dao man who was floating forward with a fishing rod slammed into the waves, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Gollum.....

Only a few bubbles remained on the surface.

"That...."The dryad opened his mouth slightly, tapped the waterhole with his fingertips, and turned his head to look at Sun Yingxian, "...... The little toad seemed to sink ...... Going, don't you take a look?"

“！”

The Taoist expression was stunned for a moment, as soon as the firewood was lost, he pulled his legs and ran to the waterhole, the water surface was calm, only more than ten dead leaves floated, gently rippling.

At this moment, Lu Liangsheng thanked the old man, and after inquiring about the name of this place, he took a bundle of firewood in his hand and walked back to the waterhole, and saw that the Taoist was taking off his clothes and sitting on the ground, and his shoes and socks were also thrown away.

"Are you going down to play in the water?"

"Grandma's legs are ....."

The corner of the dryad's eyebrows was raised, and the Taoist waved his hand: "It's not you, grandma." Immediately, his finger went to the waterhole and said to Lu Liangsheng: "Master fell into the water, isn't this way to catch him." ”

Holding a little water and patting his chest, without waiting for the Taoist to jump down, the toad on the water surface was face down, and he floated up on his stomach, Lu Liangsheng pinched out his finger and was about to hold the master to hang on the water, when suddenly, the motionless toad Taoist kept his posture and floated diagonally to the edge of the pool.

When I got closer, I found that the fat and bulging waist of the toad was wrapped around a green shadow, and as soon as it was close to the edge of the pool, the slender green shadow was released, slid into the bottom of the river, and swam away.

A small green snake can be faintly seen, and someone has the thickness of a finger.

"Old toad?" "Wake up!"

The Taoist flicked his toad cheek with his fingers, and here Lu Liangsheng's fingertips gathered mana and pressed lightly on the belly of the master's white flower, and the beach water suddenly spewed out three water arrows from his nose and mouth, and he sat up suddenly, and looked at both sides with his head connected to his stomach.

"Hey, where's the old man's fish?"

Lu Liangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, took a silk handkerchief from the bookshelf and wiped the water stains on his body for the master, "The master wants to eat fish, wait a while." ”

Walking to the edge of the pool, beckoning to suck the fishing rod floating on the water, re-hanging the bait, the toad Taoist ran to the bookshelf compartment, changed his clothes, sat quietly next to it, pointed to the sinking fishing line, and slapped the apprentice's trouser leg vigorously.

"Pull it up!"

As soon as Lu Liangsheng lifted the fishing rod, a grass carp broke out of the water and fell to the ground, beating vigorously and slapping its tail.

"Master, this fish is big enough to eat for lunch. ”

The woods, small pools, and the sun is shining, the cicadas are singing one after another, and the old donkey is leisurely shaking its bald tail, like a group of people who are going out in spring, laughing and playing.

I am used to going out, and the cooking skills are not said to be good, but they are all easy to cook, and the Taoist neatly breaks the belly of the fish to remove the scales, slaughters it into several pieces and pickles it in a large bowl to remove the fishy smell.

The toad leaned over and sniffed into the bowl: "Put more rice wine, ginger, and salted to taste, the old man is an expert in eating, and he just fell into the water, just to drive away the cold." ”

"Okay. ”

Daoist Hexiao put in the marinated condiment, stirred and even, and broke a few shallots in the storage bag: "Put shallots in the herring and kill the old toad."

"Begging for a beating!" The toad jumped up, and the frog webbed knocked on the Taoist's knee, Lu Liangsheng and the dryad couldn't help laughing, and the old donkey who was gnawing grass on the side hissed twice.

After lunch, packed up and prepared to leave this side, Lu Liangsheng walked to the edge of the pond and bowed to the bottom of the pond to thank him.

"I can't repay you for your kindness. ”

took out a pill from his sleeve, "Although this medicine is not an immortal medicine, it can also promote anger, please smile." ”

"Let me be a teacher. ”

The toad Taoist came over from there at some point, pulled the hem of the apprentice's robe, and asked him to hand over the pill in his hand and hold it between the flippers.

"The old man doesn't owe favors, this medicine should be a thank you gift, I hope you will fade and transform people as soon as possible and achieve positive results. ”

With a slight throw, the pill fell into the shallow water by the pool, and for a moment when it sank to the surface of the water, a small cyan snake meandered over, opened its mouth and swallowed the apricot pill into its stomach.

As if he could understand the words of the toad, the little green snake poked out of the water and poked out the snake's head to the shore with two figures, one tall and one short, pecked its head, and its body turned a ripple in the water, and happily swam towards the other side of the pool.

The toad Taoist watched the ripples disappear into the water with his flippers, turned around and sighed.

"The old man also came out of such a small pool back then. ”

"Then why doesn't the master swim in the water?" Lu Liangsheng picked him up, put it off his shoulder, and went over to help clean up the bookshelf and hang it on the back of the old donkey.

The toad was coiled on the apprentice's shoulder and tilted his face, "How does the teacher know that he has been at the bottom of the pond since he had spiritual sense, and then he ran to the edge of the pool." ”

"It's as if the master's stone sculpture was sunk in the water. ”

Lu Liangsheng was a joke, but he remembered that when he entered Nanchen to participate in the palace examination, a eunuch introduced him that there was a statue of the Moon Golden Toad in the palace that was stolen, could it be the master?

But after thinking about it, he quickly put this idea out of his mind, although there are also mountain spirits and stone monsters in the monsters who absorb the essence of the sun and the moon and transform into shapes, but it is almost impossible to do what the master did at the beginning.

Leaving the small pool, leading the old donkey to the high place of the terrain, looking back, on the rocks by the pool, a small shadow coiled towards them to swallow the snake letter, high up itself a little peck, as if to say goodbye.

"When mountains and rivers meet, it is fate, farewell!"

Lu Liangsheng smiled, and went to the little snake to salute, rolled up his robe sleeves, and stepped on the road to Helingzhou in the north.

......

The sunset was shining red in the sky, and the crow was standing on a dead tree nearby, crying 'wow'.

Dozens of miles away from that small pool, Lu Liangsheng and Daoren traveled all the way, it was already dusk, the mountain road was rugged and difficult to walk, sometimes casting spells, sometimes slowly watching the landscape scenery, but also comfortable.

The sky was about to darken, and the two people, two demons and one donkey, who were originally going to sleep in the forest, walked up to the hill in front, and the outline of a small town was bathed in the sunset.

On one side of the dense forest, on the other side is the cliff stretching, from a distance, in the middle of the town a straight road extends to the north, just from this side to Helingzhou.