C1 Little Toad

In the potter's pastry shop on the east side of Clear Mountain, a group of burly men with weapons surrounded the counter.

"Third brother Tao, why are you dragging this protection fee out? Are you looking down on us brothers? I tell you to-day, if you don't come out to-day with the money, you won't be able to open this pastry-cook's shop!

Tao Xiaosuan's mouth was slightly open, and her face was full of surprise. She had heard of protection money in her previous life, in modern times.

She was unhappy, and just as she was about to stand up, she was suddenly pushed back by her father, Tao Laosan.

Tao Lao San had been kneading dough all year round and had gained a lot of fat. His broad face and dark face were very similar to Guan Gong from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Besides, you can't beat him even if you rush up now. Let's calm down, calm down. "

After that, he weakly stuck his head out and smiled ingratiatingly at the ruffians outside, "We will gather the money now. We will pay today, we will pay..."

Tao Xiaosui was speechless. She looked over the counter and saw that none of the neighbors standing by the door had the courage to speak up for her. She slapped the counter and came out." Give me a hammer! I will say it here. You'd better leave by yourselves today. Otherwise, if you fight later, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave in one piece! "

She was a top secret agent from the modern National Security Agency, and although it was a little funny that she had choked to death while eating, now that she had a home and a cowardly father, she had to take good care of him.

As soon as she finished speaking, not only did the five or six men burst out laughing, but even the neighbors at the door looked at her as if she were retarded.

The big man in the tiger-skin vest laughed and poked Tao Xiaozui on the shoulder with his mace. He shouted angrily, "Little girl, it seems that your grandfather didn't scare you last time. If your father doesn't take the money today, we brothers will take you to have fun! Hahaha..."

"Bastard!" Tao Laosan, who had always treated his daughter like a treasure, was instantly anxious. He rolled up his sleeves and rushed out from behind the counter. His dark face was like the reincarnation of the King of Hell, "Who dares to touch my daughter? I'll fight it out with him!"

"Tao Laosan, who doesn't know that you are the biggest coward in Clear Mountain Town? Why don't you hide? Why are you showing off?"

"That's right! He looks quite scary, but I didn't expect him to be so timid. I don't even have the interest to scare him!"

"Coward, pretending to be big, trash..."

The ruffians mocked Tao Laosan without restraint, but they did not notice that his eyes were becoming sharper and sharper.

Tao Xiaozui rushed in front of Third Brother Tao and blocked him behind him. He raised his eyebrows arrogantly, "If you want to fight, then fight me. What's the point of bullying an old man? Cut the crap, all of you come at me together, it's a waste of my time!"

Being provoked again and again by a little girl, the big man in the tiger-skin vest was getting impatient. The veins in his hand were showing as he held the mace, and he did not hide his fierce look, "Little girl, you asked for it! All of you go and teach this Tao father and daughter a lesson!"

After he finished speaking, the mace in his hand was the first to come down.

Tao Xiaosui narrowed her eyes and tried to figure out how she was going to take the hit with her twelve or thirteen-year-old height. But before she could do anything, a big hand reached out from behind her.

For a moment, all the big men forgot to move. They looked at the man who had stolen their eldest brother's weapon, the number one coward of Clear Mountain Town, Tao Laosan.

"How dare you hit my daughter? I will beat you to death!" In a moment of desperation, Tao Laosan even cursed. He pushed Tao Xiaozui to the side and swung the wolf-tooth club at the big man in the tiger skin vest. The big man screamed and dodged everywhere, but the wolf-tooth club hit his left arm precisely every time.

Tao Xiaosui, who was suddenly robbed by her father:... "

"Ah! Tao Laosan, you dare hit me? Ah! You still dare to hit me! Ah! Ah - -" The big guy had a sullen face. Seeing that Third Brother Tao was on stimulants, he hurriedly ran out of the door, "I don't want to hit you anymore! I don't want to hit you anymore! My mother called me home for dinner... "

Tao Laosan chased them to the door. He swung his mace through the crowd and it hit the back of the tiger-skinned man. His cold eyes slowly swept over the rest of the people, "You, all together?"

"The official is here!" A clear voice suddenly sounded. Tao Laosan's body trembled and he retreated behind the counter as if he had never appeared.

Tao Xiaotu glanced at her father who had reverted back to his cowardly mode, and coldly looked at the remaining shivering men, "If you dare to come and collect protection fees from the villagers again, I will teach you a lesson in minutes without my father's help! Get lost!"

The men felt as if they were pardoned and ran out of the crowd.

After persuading the neighbors to leave, Tao Xiaosui knocked on the counter and called Tao Laosan out. She looked at him with a smile that was not a smile, "Daddy, you seem to be wearing a vest."

After wearing it for so many days, she had always thought that her father was an honest person, but now it seemed that something was wrong.

Tao Laosan looked at his thin summer shirt in confusion and asked, "A vest? I'm not wearing it."

"Third Brother Tao, tell me the truth... Hiss -" Tao Xiaosui, who had intended to extort a confession, happened to bump into the little toad on the counter, which was made of some unknown material. The tip of her finger was cut by a sharp horn, and two drops of blood fell into the little toad's mouth.

In the next instant, a voice that sounded like Donald Duck's rang out in Tao's head: "Congratulations, Master, on opening the space of the little toad."

Tao Xiaozui waited and waited, and called twice in her head, but the Donald Duck voice never came back to her, as if it had never existed, and yet when she looked at the little bufonid, who was said to have been brought in by her mother as a family heirloom, she felt something different.

"Daughter, daughter?" Tao Laosan waved his hand in front of Tao Xiaozui and looked at her hand with heartache, "How could you be so careless? Quickly go to your room and bandage yourself up."

Tao Xiaosu came back to her senses. The corner of her mouth twitched as she asked faintly, "We can't even afford protection fees, yet we still have the money to buy delicious food to nourish our bodies?"

"Of course there is. Your father, I, am -" Tao Laosan suddenly stopped, realizing that he had almost let it slip. He quickly changed the subject, "Hurry up and go."