Even so, Sambo told him that the seven-star fish was not a rare thing, and he had thought of a way to catch the seven-star fish, and the key to this success was the big black dog crab he raised.

On the way home, the crab led the way all the way ahead, but the black dog had always been playful, and at some point it ran to other places to play, and Shan Bo and Yi chatted without noticing it.

"Crab ——!"

Samber stood at the door of the house, shouting into the distance. The crab is a good dog who cares for the house, but this mountain uncle's family is so poor that even thieves don't want to patronize it, so he spends a lot of time playing in the mountains. This hill is close to people, and there are no fierce beasts, so naturally the crab has become the "overlord" of this place.

"My dog, like me, was born lonely, but fortunately, when I picked it up, we both had something to rely on, and each other's lives were less lonely. Although I can't afford to feed him with big fish and meat, he still doesn't give up on me, and sometimes he will come back with some hares and pheasants to add some meat to the two of us. I haven't seen it for a long time, and I guess it also wants to repay you for saving your life and catch wild goods for you, so I will call it back. ”

Sure enough, when the crab heard its owner call its name, it immediately ran back with a dead pheasant in its mouth.

The big black dog put the prey at the master's feet, and the hind feet stood upright and the front paws pounced on the master's legs, and wagged its big tail vigorously with its big tongue, as if to ask the master for credit.

"Ha, crab, I have an important task for you now. ”

Sambo touched the crab's head with one hand, and gestured with the other hand to swim in the water, and the crab seemed to understand, and was circling around his master, signaling that he could leave immediately.

"Brother, wait a moment. ”

Shanbo returned to the house and found a bamboo fish basket, carrying the pheasant that had just been caught by the crab, and the two of them and the dog set off like this.

"There is a lotus pond nearby, and I know the owner there, so that we can catch a few seven-star fish. ”

Seeing that Shanbo was confident, he was a lot more relieved.

The road was not far away, and the two came to the lotus pond that Shanbo said. This lotus pond seems to be a little deserted, it looks lifeless like no one has taken care of it for a long time, there are few lotus flowers left in the pond, and the lotus leaves are also withered against the scenery, so the pond surface is open to see the muddy water at the bottom of the pond.

In this place, there will be fish?!

Shan Bo led a day full of doubts, first went to the lotus pond master's house to say hello, briefly informed them of their intentions, and also sent out the things in his hand, the lotus pond master very briskly agreed to the request of the two, and told them that the fish in the pond mud were for them to catch. Only then did he understand the purpose of Shanbo carrying pheasants, it turned out that he couldn't come empty-handed, let alone ask for people, and he began to admire Shanbo's behavior.

When the two returned to the lotus pond, Shanbo leaned over and touched the crab's head, and pointed to the bottom of the pond as if giving instructions. The crab understood, turned around and plunged into the lotus pond.

"Wait, Brother Shanbo, it's not that I don't believe you, but rather, will there be fish in this little broken pond?"

Shanbo patted Yichao's shoulder, and he said, "There are definitely no other fish, but this seven-star fish that likes to eat mud is here!"

Once still half-convinced, he frowned and looked at Shanbo, Shanbo said that the seven-star fish survived by eating silt, and the older the silt, the fatter the fish became.

In a few words, the crab had already won the first "victory", it got out of the mud, shook its body, and sent the bite to the feet of Shanbo. Shanbo picked it up, wiped the sludge from the slap-sized thing, and handed it to Yichao, "Look!"

You can catch fish here!

"One, two, three...... Seven, seven black spots, this is exactly the seven-star fish I wanted!"

Seeing that he had not lost hope, Shanbo ordered the crabs to continue to go down to the pond and catch more seven-star fish.

The fish that was caught was not large, the largest was no more than the size of a human palm, the body of the fish was relatively slender, there was no fish scale on the whole body, it was slippery, if it were not for the seven small black spots on each abdomen, it would really be the same as the loaches in the field. On top of that, it kept spitting out endless sludge, like some kind of defense mechanism against predators, and it once got its hands full of mud, and almost let a few of them slip away.

The crab moves freely in the muddy water, and the whole body writhes like a fish in the river, and people who don't look carefully will think that some big black catfish is diving around, and its hair is similar to this muddy water, and sometimes it is difficult to find its trace.

Although the pond is not deep, just over people's knees, but the underwater silt is a hidden problem, if you change people into the pond, it must be difficult to extricate yourself, it is difficult to move an inch, let alone to catch fish, fortunately, there is a familiar water, good at drilling mud big black dog help, this is not half a day's effort, once harvested a basket full of seven-star fish.

Succeed with flying colors!

Looking at the crab covered in mud, I once remembered that I had almost killed it before, and I felt a little sorry in my heart, and I wanted to stop talking, how to repay it for its kindness this time?

"Brother, this fish still has to be fresh to be delicious, you better go back quickly and report to your master." ”

"I have you and the crab this time, I really don't know how to thank you......"

"You don't have to worry about it, you can get out of this mountain quickly by walking along that path, and say hello to your master on my behalf." ”

"Well, let's leave it at that, take care!"

Once he followed the shortcut pointed out by Shanbo out of the mountain, and Shanbo led the crab along the same road and returned home, so far the two were separated for a short time.

On the way back, the complacent one didn't realize a problem, humming a little song along the way, stepping on a small bird's step, and couldn't think of his juniors and disciples who had no news.

"Master, I'm back, I caught the seven-star fish you wanted for you and came back......"

Zhang Tianshi was lying on the rocking chair in the courtyard, the fan in his hand fell at the foot of the chair at some point, probably because he was too sleepy, his neck was crooked to one side, and his lips were not closed to let saliva flow out.

He picked up the fan on the ground and handed it back to the master, and opened the fish basket he brought back and showed it to the master, "Master, how do you think this fish is going to be cooked? Is it steamed or made into sauerkraut fish?"

The fish in the basket were still alive, but they emitted a thick fishy smell that only dead fish had, and the sludge spit out also dripped a few drops on the ground along the eyes of the basket. Zhang Tianshi covered his mouth and nose with a fan, and didn't care to look at it, "Take it away, take it away! Who said I was going to eat this fish?"

"You don't eat this fish, so why did you let me catch it?"

"For the teacher's own use, you can keep this fish in a tank, first beat half the water in the well, and then change the water every half an hour, until the fish no longer spit mud and the water is no longer muddy. With that, he went into the house and went to sleep as usual.

After a thankless sale, although he was a little unhappy, the master's order was difficult to do, so he had to do what the master said. He came to the well with a bucket, hung up the rope and threw the bucket down the well, but strangely, why didn't he see the sound of the water coming up?

Is the well water dry? Or is there something at the bottom of the well?

As soon as he stretched his neck down the well, the sun was already in the west and the light could not shine, so he had to stretch his neck to see the situation below.

Suddenly, a green light suddenly flashed at the bottom of the well, and the green light turned into two small balls, like a pair of eyes, staring straight at it.

"Wow-!" once reacted too much, his head was lifted up before he got out of the well, and he knocked on the wall hard, and he didn't have time to care about the pain in fright, so he took a few steps back and shouted towards the well: "Where is the demon, dare to sprinkle salt here... Wild?"

At the bottom of the well, a sentence was gently passed down, "Senior ~ brother, it's ~ me ~"

Brother?!

Why does this sound so familiar?

"Who's who, whatever, come up and report for duty!"

The owner of the voice heard the call, and slowly rushed up from the bottom of the well, and when he reached the mouth of the well, only half of his head came out.

"Green pepper?!Why are you?!Why are you here?"

I remembered that I had been separated from the river and Di Sanxian last night, and I had never seen them, but why did the green peppers hide in their own wells, and where did the potatoes and eggplants go?

Zhang Tianshi also heard the movement just now, and asked in the room what was going on outside. I just wanted to open my mouth to explain, but I was stopped by Qingjiao's hurried signal.

"Oh... Oh, no, nothing, there's just a rat passing by. ”

Seeing that the master didn't ask again, he quickly asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Qingjiao told Yichao that last night they took a nap while they were fishing, and secretly went to get the box of gold, but there was an accident on the way, and they met a Taoist priest who hunted ghosts, and he took away the potatoes and eggplants, and he escaped because he was lucky. Because the matter was a bit big, he was worried that he would be punished by the master, so after he came back, he hid at the bottom of the well to avoid the daylight, and did not dare to show up until the senior brother came back.

"Daoist, where did you come from?"

"This, I don't know, that Taoist priest has two hits, presumably potatoes and eggplants are more than lucky, senior brother, now only you can help us......"

Last night, by the river, the Taoist priest who hunted ghosts?!

In the memory of one day, I can think of such a person, who is related to the person described in the mouth of this green pepper, the person I met in the grass house that night!

Once he found a lard umbrella and handed it to Qingjiao, so that he could come out of the well, and instructed him to raise this basket of seven-star fish according to the fish farming method that the master had just explained, and once he took advantage of the master's sleep to go out to find the man and rescue the master and his brother.

Time waits for no one, if you can save the potatoes and eggplants before Old Man Zhang finds out, then this matter can still be hidden. I once searched along the road I had taken to the river yesterday, and when I saw a passerby, I came up to inquire about it.

It is difficult for ordinary people to find, but this Taoist priest who can catch ghosts is conspicuous and easy to find, and fortunately, God helps, and I really asked all the way to find out that someone who has indeed seen a person who looks like a priest and went to the city.