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Chapter 21 Birds die for food

The 50 yuan ocean that I had agreed to be, but now I have added 200 yuan. Erzhuzi has never seen so much money in his life. He was born to love money as his life, and he thought that life was important and he must not agree. But he still nodded involuntarily and said, "Okay... But let's agree first. Two hundred and fifty is ocean that doesn't need to be ticketed for Beiyang or not... If you have it, I will give my life to accompany you. I agreed that when you reach the toad mouth, I will leave, and I have never been in the haunted place..."

In this way, for the sake of money, Erzhuzi gritted the bullet and continued to lead the three foreigners to the position of Toad Mouth. Because of John's incident just now, several foreigners showed sad expressions on their faces. They were not in the mood to speak, and followed Erzhuzi in silence. After walking for several hours of the mountain road, they finally arrived at Toad Mouth.

After seeing the toad mouth, Erzhuzi breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed to the entrance of the cave not far away and said to Old Jones: "At that... it's the toad mouth you are going to. Okay, give me the money. There are 250 yuan in total. After taking the money, I'll go back to find someone to help."

After listening to Erzhuzi's words, Old Jones stretched his neck and looked in the direction of the toad's mouth. Then he said a few words to the two people around him in language that Shen Erzhu couldn't understand, and the words were endless. One of them took out a strange machine from his backpack and fiddled with it in the direction of the toad's mouth.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Erzhuzi stopped doing it. He pulled Old Jones over and said, "Master, I agreed that as long as I get here, you will give me 250 yuan. There is a toad mouth in front of me. Where is the money? You are very busy. I will leave after taking the money and not cause trouble for you..."

"Shen, I promised to give you 250 silver dollars. But I didn't say I would give you it on the spot." Old Jones patted Erzhuzi's shoulder and signaled him to let go of his arm. Then he took out a piece of ocean from his pocket and continued to say to Shen Erzhu: "A silver dollar is twenty-seven grams, two hundred and fifty grams is... Well, 6,750 grams, using the new weight unit of your Beiyang government, that is thirteen and a half pounds. We are going to the mountain to explore, how could we carry such a cumbersome thing?"

Seeing Erzhuzi's anxious face turned red, Old Jones smiled slightly, and then continued, "Although I don't carry cash, I can still write a check for you..." While speaking, the old foreign man took out a check book and wrote a check of 250 silver dollars on it. Then he handed it to Shen Erzhu: "This is a check from Fengtian Bank. As long as you take it to Fengtian, you can exchange it for 250 silver dollars."

Erzhuzi didn't read, and he didn't believe that such a note could get two hundred and fifty dollars. Now the country people are stubborn, no matter what the old foreigner says, he just grabbed the corner of Old Jones' clothes. The car was talking back and forth: "You can't bully me... You can't refuse to give it to you... You can't bully honest people..."

"Shen, I don't have that much cash on you as you see." Old Jones pulled over to scare Erzhuzi's companion, and then continued to say to Erzhuzi: "If you don't accept the check, you can only go in with us. After we complete the detection inside, you go with me to the county town. I can raise 250 oceans there..."

Originally, Erzhuzi didn't do it, but I thought that I had already walked here, and if I left now, I might not get a penny. Instead of doing this, it would be better to fight, maybe there is no danger after entering. Besides, although I grew up listening to the ghost stories of Toad Mouth, I have been collecting herbs on my mouth for so many years and have never seen any ghosts. If I don't do it well, there is nothing at all. They are all legends from generation to generation.

As for the foreigner who was unknown to life and death, he might have encountered some wild beast. Zhao Lao Nianba, who was hunting, said that he had picked up a blind bear on the mountain, and maybe he was harmed by the blind bear...

Finally, driven by 250 oceans, Chen Erzhu agreed to follow Old Jones into the toad's mouth.

After coming in, I saw the pile of firewood at the entrance of the cave. The Shenjiabao had spread the story of me being still here by Lu Wannian. Erzhuzi knew the origin of the firewood and was not panicked because of this. At that moment, one of the foreigners even lit the pile of firewood. He was preparing to rest at the entrance of the cave and wait until dawn to explore the interior of the toad mouth.

After eating some biscuits to satisfy his hunger, Old Jones took out a small notebook. With the light of the bonfire, he looked at the contents of the notes and said something to the two people beside him. Erzhuzi was only thinking about the two hundred and fifty dollars in his heart, and he didn't care what these foreigners were saying.

Seeing that there was another hour about to dawn, a heavy fog suddenly appeared outside. Erzhuzi remembered the ghost stories about toad mouth, which were mostly related to heavy fog. After seeing the heavy fog, he began to feel uneasy. Looking at the heavy fog outside, it was too late to regret it. He could only worship Buddha in his heart and make a wish for the Buddha in his heart. If he could go down the mountain safely, he would definitely find a temple nearby and donate a large ocean...

Before the second pillar could fall, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside the cave. The shadow of John's accident had not yet dissipated, and the legend of the toad mouth was terrifying. After hearing the sound, the two foreigners guarding Old Jones took out their guns at the same time. The two of them squatted at the entrance of the cave, staring at the depths of the fog, where the sound sounded.

Listening to the sound of footsteps getting closer, the two foreigners looked at each other, and then one of them shouted a few times in the fog. Judging from this posture, he probably suspected that something was wrong with the sound outside. Perhaps he had escaped and followed. After all, he just heard the gunshot just now, and no one saw with his own eyes that John had died.

While he was shouting, his footsteps suddenly stopped. Then after a while, the sound was not heard again. The people in the cave were relieved. The foreign devil who had just called out continued to shout a few words to the fog. He almost determined that the one who made the sound was John who was alone.

Just as this man was about to go out to pick up John, the footsteps outside the cave sounded again. This time, in addition to the footsteps, there was also the sound of iron chains colliding together. It seemed that a man with shackles was walking towards the toad's mouth in the mist...
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