Chapter Thirty-Four: The Golden Toad, the Eating Gold
After enjoying a delicious meal of fish soup, Li Jing asked the over-energetic fellow of the Black Flame Pony to go away and have fun, as long as he remembered to rush back at sunrise - anyway, he had the fire cloud charm and the natural ability to resist fire, and he was not afraid of any danger it would encounter in the mountains - and then stretched comfortably and lay down on the clean and dust-free bluestone.
At this time, night has come, and it is the middle of the moon to look at the sun, and a round of bright full moon climbs the top of the mountain, lingering in the middle of the sky, eclipsing the stars. Closing his eyes, his ears are flowing with water, the smell of tender grass in his nose, and his mind feels the bell of the natural creation and spiritual show, and gradually returns to the wonderful realm between intentional and unintentional.
"Goo-quack-" An extraordinarily loud frog sound woke Li Jing up. He rolled over and sat up from the bluestone, listened intently for a while, and soon a frog chirped in his ears. Hearing the sound of gold and iron in the sound of this frog's song, Li Jing knew something was wrong, and thought that his fate should be here, so he quietly got up, took out the meridian shuangyue with both hands, and looked for the direction where the frog song came.
He walked some distance downstream along the mountain stream, and turned a few rock corners, only to see that the water had gathered together in a relatively open area into a small lake, and in the middle of the lake protruded a columnar rock about five feet high. Under the light of the moon, a three-legged toad about the size of a fist with a dark golden body surface sat on the top of the stone pillar, opening its mouth to face the full moon hanging high in the sky. As its round belly swelled and shrunk its breath, the bright moonlight that flowed down like mercury magically condensed in the air, turning into silver-white points of light the size of soybean grains, which were swallowed into its stomach one by one.
"It turns out that this little thing is devouring the flower of Taiyin. Li Jing shook his head and smiled and withdrew his shuangyue, but he was a little disappointed in his heart. Although this three-legged golden toad is of a different species, its cultivation is very shallow, and it still stays in the realm of attracting spirits into the body, quenching pulses and practicing qi, but it is useless for his own cultivation.
Li Jing didn't want to disturb the cultivation of this little thing, so he turned around and was about to leave quietly. He is not a good man and a woman, and if this golden toad can help him improve his cultivation, he will not be merciful. Since it is useless, it is not guilty of killing a living being.
He had just turned around and walked a few steps, but he heard the golden toad screaming again, jumped on the stone pillar, turned into a dark golden light and flew in front of Li Jing.
Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and looked at the golden toad closely, but saw that its body surface was clean, round and chubby, and it did not have the disgusting appearance of an ordinary toad. At this moment, it was staring at the leather sac on its waist with two small eyes the size of beans, and there was a salivating look in its eyes that was extremely humane.
"What is this little thing going to do?" Li Jing was quite puzzled, his leather bag was just an ordinary thing, and it only contained some sundries for daily use, but for some reason it was so attractive to the golden toad. Curious in his heart, he simply untied the leather bag, loosened the leather rope at the mouth of the bag, half-squatted and poured the contents of the bag to the ground, and then took a few steps back, but wanted to see how the golden toad would react.
Suddenly, he heard the golden toad let out a cry of heartfelt joy and excitement, and propped up his only thick hind leg on the ground, and pounced on one of the things.
When Li Jing looked at it, he saw that it was a small pile of gold bills, with a hundred or ten taels. This is what his future mother-in-law, Xian Shi, forced into his bag before leaving home, but everywhere Li Jing has been in the deep mountains and Daze in the past two years, and these golds are naturally useless, so they have been pressed to the bottom of the bag, and Li Jing has almost forgotten about their storage.
The next scene surprised Li Jingyue, but he saw that the golden toad opened his mouth, and actually put a piece of gold in his mouth and swallowed it with a grunt. When Li Jing was dumbfounded, Jin Toad seemed to regard a bunch of gold bills as the most delicious pastries in the world, and he was happy to eat one piece on the left and one on the right. In an instant, a hundred taels of gold were all packed into its belly, and not only did it not show the slightest discomfort, but squatted on the ground and kept looking left and right, looking like it was still unsatisfied.
"What a greedy little thing!" Li Jing looked interesting, squatted down and stretched out his fingers to touch the golden toad, but he didn't know that this little thing was extremely alert, and suddenly jumped backwards, and opened his mouth to "goo-quack-" and shouted, which seemed to be quite warning.
Li Jing scolded angrily: "You little thing is so ungrateful, you just swallowed so much gold from me, how can you still treat it as a wicked person?" After scolding, he smiled dumbly, shook his head slightly, put back the other golden toads on the ground who disdained them, and waved his hand to the golden toad who was staring at him from a distance on the ground and said: "Meeting is fate, although this meal is a little expensive, but I will treat you well, goodbye!" After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the accommodation.
When Li Jing walked out of a distance, the golden toad was still squatting in place, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he suddenly let out a low "grunt", jumped a few feet with three legs, and chased down in the direction where Li Jing left.
Over there, Li Jing had just returned to his lodging, and he had just sat down on the big bluestone and wanted to sleep for a while, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a dark golden light shooting out and landing less than three feet away from him.
"Why did you chase me here, don't you want to treat me as a long-term meal ticket!" Li Jing looked at Jin Toad, who wanted to come to his side, but was a little cowering, and smiled, "Although I, Li Jing, have some family background, it is also very difficult to feed you little thing that feeds on gold!"
Jin Toad seemed to understand Li Jing's words, jumped three times in a row on the spot, and whispered twice "cooing", which was actually quite flattering.
Li Jing was amused and laughed, remembering that the buttons of a piece of clothing in the package were also made of gold, so he turned around and rummaged through it, tore off the buttons and threw them one by one like teasing pets.
The golden toad jumped left and right excitedly, accurately catching each golden button with its big mouth and swallowing it.
After a while, Li Jing's hands were empty, and he spread his hands and said, "I really can't find anything on me to eat now." Come with me if you want. When I leave Wuyi Mountain, I'll find a way to get you something to eat. With that, he stretched out his right hand and stretched it out.
Jin Toad seems to have decided that Li Jing, who is "generous", is credible, but this time he neither flinched nor hesitated, and fell into his palm.
Li Jing raised his palm and gently stroked the top of the golden toad's head with the tip of his left index finger. Jin Toad honestly lay in his palm, motionless.
Early the next morning, the Black Flame Horse, which had been wild all night nowhere, fell from the sky and landed not far from Li Jing's side.
Li Jing showed it the golden toad in his hand, and said with a smile: "Xiao Hei came back just in time, I found you a playmate last night." If your name is Xiao Hei, it will be called Xiao Jin. ”
The Black Flame Horse snorted and turned his head with a light hiss, looking down on the little thing in Li Jing's hand. Jin Toad seemed to like the behemoth in front of him, jumped out of Li Jing's palm, and gently landed on the saddle on the back of the Black Flame Pony. Although the Black Flame Horse was a little dissatisfied, for the sake of Li Jing's face, he never objected.
Li Jing cleaned up slightly, rode the Black Flame Horse and took off, and continued to look for his opportunity aimlessly among the other peaks and valleys of Wuyi Mountain.
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