Into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 20: Rare Treasures

"Boss Ye, this leopard has something to ask us!"

Yuan Bao quietly explained to the young man, his tone was a little proud, looking at the latter's playful eyes, and hurriedly changed his words:

"It's not us, it's you, it's asking you!"

The young man nodded in satisfaction, paused, put away the joke, looked at the leopard opposite with a solemn expression, and asked the ingots on his shoulders sideways:

"What's the matter with it?"

The latter blinked and spoke:

"There is also a tigress in this mountain, who is the spouse of this fierce leopard, and this tiger is pregnant and is about to give birth. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Bao glanced at Ye Feng very embarrassedly, licked the frog's face and continued to explain:

"But... But this tigress had a difficult birth, it had been four or five days, and it still hadn't been born, and then the leopard wanted to find someone to help, but those ordinary people couldn't hear the leopard's meaning at all, and they were so frightened that they turned their heads and ran... After that, it ran into the two of us, and the leopard also saw the relationship between the two of us, so he thought that I would discuss it with you and help the tigress give birth, and I already agreed..."

"What??"

Ye Feng glared at the toad on his shoulder, eager to strangle it to death.

The toad ingots glanced at the leopard not far away, and smiled at Ye Feng awkwardly, not daring to say anything.

The young man smacked his lips and pondered, and spread his hands helplessly, "But, but I haven't done midwifery... Neither will I!"

Yuan Bao looked very open, with a strategizing tall frog demeanor, "It's okay Boss Ye, I just talked to the leopard, you just need to do your best to help, no matter what the result is, it won't embarrass us!"

Ye Feng put his hands around his chest, tapped the two fingers of his right hand between his elbows, frowned at the anxiety in the eyes of the fierce leopard, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, weighed it repeatedly, and turned his head to Yuan Bao again and asked, "Are you sure it won't embarrass us?"

"No, don't worry! The fierce beasts and spirit pets in this world are very honest, and they are much stronger than you!"

The frog claws of the ingots patted the snow-white belly, and the tone was very proud.

The young man nodded thoughtfully, took a deep breath of cool air in the mountains, and said loudly to the leopard: "Leopard, I promise you, lead the way!"

The leopard was stunned when he heard this, as if he didn't expect the young man to really promise him, and when he reacted, he turned around and walked towards the snowy woods, and from time to time he would look back at Ye Feng, as if he was afraid that the young man would change his mind temporarily.

Following the leopard all the way to the mouth of a cave on high ground, the young man hesitated for a moment and walked in.

The stone wall in the cave is neat and smooth, the terrain is open, it should be artificially excavated, and there are a few pieces of broken bones scattered on the ground under the feet that do not know whether it is a man or a beast, adding a bit of gloomy and murderous atmosphere.

Along the stone wall all the way in, I encountered a big turn, turned around, and what came into my eyes was a huge square space with a height of nearly ten zhang and a length and width of dozens of zhang.

At the four corners of the cave wall are four fist-sized night pearls, exuding a soft light that illuminates the entire space transparently.

In the center of the space, there is a natural hot spring steaming five steps square, bubbling with bubbles, and the warmth brought by the gurgling spring water raises the surrounding temperature by a few points.

Walking through the hot spring, Ye Feng saw a large nest made of withered grass and cotton wool on the side of the stone wall, on which was lying on a colorful tiger similar to the size of a fierce leopard, with black and yellow fur and a slightly bulging abdomen, which was sleeping soundly with its eyes closed at this time.

As if sensing that someone was intruding, the tigress suddenly opened her eyes and looked up at Ye Feng, her momentum was terrifying, but there was a tiredness in her eyes that could not be concealed.

Seeing this, Ye Feng and Yuan Bao immediately froze in place, not daring to make any moves, for fear that the tigress would misunderstand.

The fierce leopard on the side nodded at Ye Feng, and walked towards the tigress with heavy paws.

When the latter saw the fierce leopard coming, a trace of tenderness flashed in his eyes, stretched out his tongue and gently licked off the ice ballast on the fierce leopard's whiskers, and swept his eyes at Ye Feng and Yuanbao, looking back at the tired lying in the nest and closing his eyes slightly.

The fierce leopard leaned into the tigress's ear, whispered "hiccup" to communicate with her for a while, turned around and came to Ye Feng, and talked with Yuan Bao again.

"Boss Ye, this leopard said that the tigress has agreed to let you help deliver the baby, and it tells you to do your best to help, and the benefits are great. ”

The toad ingots turned their heads to Ye Feng to translate.

Ye Feng's heart was hot, and he hugged his fist at the fierce leopard, his brows furrowed slightly, and his expression was serious, "I don't know if I can succeed, but I will definitely do my best." ”

The latter bowed slightly, raised his head and motioned for Ye Feng to hurry over to help deliver the baby.

Not daring to slack off, Ye Feng walked quickly to the tigress's side.

Squatting down and looking at the tigress's slightly bulging belly, the boy was really a little troubled.

"I'm a thirteen-year-old child, and I don't have a daughter-in-law, how can I deliver a baby?"

Ye Feng cried helplessly in his heart, sighed, turned his head to the ingots on his shoulders and asked, "Listen attentively for a while, and help me translate and communicate with the tigress at any time." ”

The toad ingots nodded the frog's head, but turned his back to the tigress, and muttered to himself: "Amitabha, Amitabha, don't look at incivility, don't look at incivility." ”

From sunrise to sunset, for six full hours, Ye Feng still didn't help the tigress give birth to the little one she was carrying in her belly.

The reason why the tigress had a difficult birth was because the little one in her belly was so naughty and active that she made her head rush in and her tail when she was in her mother's womb, and all of them fell off.

Originally, with Ye Feng's help and the tigress's efforts, the little guy had already come out with nearly half of his body, but it seemed to be suddenly entangled in its claws by the umbilical cord, and it twisted a few times in a panic.

For a while, Ye Feng and the tigress both looked at the little guy who slowly retracted into his mother's belly, and no one dared to move, so they had to start again...

"Whew~"

After a few more hours, Ye Feng, who was squatting on the ground, held his hands full of blood, grinned at the small family that had leaned out of most of his body, and turned his head to Yuan Bao and ordered: "Yuan Bao, you say to the tigress, it may hurt later, let her endure it." ”

Yuan Bao didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned his back to the tigress to convey Ye Feng's meaning.

Seeing that the tigress nodded after listening to the translation of the ingots, Ye Feng took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and stretched out one hand to the inside of the tigress's belly....

I don't know how long later, in the quiet and terrible cave, the voice of the toad ingot, full of excitement, sounded:

"Great, come out!

Ye Feng on the side sat on the ground with his legs straight, holding the little guy who was half an arm length in both hands, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Sensing Ye Feng's existence, the little guy with his eyes closed and stuck out his tongue with his eyes covered in blood, as if to express his gratitude.

The tigress lay on her side on the hay and looked at her child in the boy's arms, her eyes full of tenderness.

The fierce leopard, who had not dared to make a move, or even dare to exhale, stopped in place for a long time before reacting, got up and walked towards the tigress.

After comforting the tigress for a moment, the fierce leopard turned his head and bit off the umbilical cord of the little guy connected to his mother's body, licked the blood on the little guy's fetal hair, and raised his head and burped at Ye Feng a few times.

"The leopard said it was very grateful to you for saving its child, and in return it was willing to give you the hot spring. Soak in it for a day, and top up your cultivation for seven days!"

The toad ingots passed the words of the fierce leopard to Ye Feng word for word, and the words were full of heat.

The young man glanced sideways at the hot spring, silently put the little guy back into the tigress's arms, took out a burlap from the back basket to dry his hands, and raised the corners of his mouth at the leopard:

"Leopard, thank you for your kindness, but that hot spring should belong to you, to the millions of creatures in this mountain, and I can't take it for myself. ”

After that, the young man bowed slightly to the fierce leopard to show his gratitude.

There was a hint of doubt in the eyes of the fierce leopard, and he screamed a few times, the sound was a little loud and very urgent.

"This old leopard asks you if you don't trust it, it can swear by its own heavenly calamity, so that you can rest assured that you can cultivate here, and it and the tigress will help you protect the Dharma. ”

Yuan Bao translated the words of the fierce leopard, and then complained anxiously: "I said that your kid let the donkey kick his head? This big pie smashed on his head and not only did not eat it, but also pushed it out? I have convinced you!"

After speaking, he continued to mumble in pieces.

Ignoring the noisy ingots, Ye Feng took a deep breath to adjust his mentality, organized his language, and explained to the fierce leopard:

"Leopard, it's not that I don't trust you, on the contrary, I trust you very much. Actually, you don't have to do this at all, my original purpose of helping you was to help myself, I was afraid that if I didn't come, you would kill me, so I came hard. However, after I came, your behavior changed my understanding and cognition of fierce beasts since I was a child, and it was you who made me understand that fierce beasts, like humans, have flesh and blood, and have seven emotions and six desires. I'm ashamed to say that just now, the moment I took the little guy in my hands, I thought you might kill me at any time. ”

Speaking of this, the young man turned around and walked to the hot spring, raised his hand and pointed to the creation of heaven and earth, and said in a sonorous and powerful tone: "But not only did you not go back on your word, but you are also willing to give me this rare treasure." In this regard, I am inferior to you, and you are more qualified than I am to own this hot spring. ”

Lowering his hand, Ye Feng looked at the fierce leopard with a calm expression, and his eyes were clear.

There was silence in the cave for a long time, and the pupils of the fierce leopard, who had been looking at the boy, suddenly had something more in his pupils, including appreciation, anticipation, and relief.

"Hiccup!"

The fierce leopard barked at Ye Feng a few times, and raised his plate-sized front paws at the young man.

"The leopard said, you are a different person, it is willing to be friends with you forever, Yeyun Mountain will always welcome you back!"

Toad ingots translated on the side.

Ye Feng smiled faintly, took a few steps forward, raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist and touched it with the fierce leopard.