Chapter - 384 Veiled Woman In the Black Marshes (8) (1/2)

The fisherman turned around with eyes bulging, glaring angrily, shouted loudly, ”Stinky kid, your old man has waited painstakingly for half a day, and then you little thief came and scared them away.” His hands stretched out with palms open wide, moved forward two steps ready to pounce. But for an unknown reason he managed to control his temper and held his big hands; his finger joints made cracking sounds; his face was full of anger.

Guo Jing realized he had inadvertently caused trouble therefore he did not dare to talk back. ”Uncle is angry, that was my fault. But what kind of strange fish are they?” he humbly asked.

That fisherman scolded him, ”Are you blind? Those are not fish, those are 'jin wawa' [golden baby or baby doll].”

Guo Jing was not angry even though scolded; he smiled and asked further, ”Please forgive my ignorance, but what is a 'jin wawa'?”

That fisherman flew into a rage, he shouted, ”'Jin wawa' is 'jin wawa', why do you stinky little thief want to know anyway?”

Because Guo Jing earnestly wanted to ask him to show the way to see Emperor Duan, he did not dare to say anything, he simply raised his cupped fists to apologize.

Huang Rong could not hold her patience much longer, she interrupted, ”'Jin wawa' is a golden colored giant salamander. We raise several pairs of them in my home. What's so strange about it?”

Listening to Huang Rong correctly explained what a 'jin wawa' really was, the fisherman was slightly confounded, he scolded, ”Humph, you are blowing your horn very loud! Raising several pairs of them! Let me ask you, what's the purpose of a 'jin wawa'?”

”What's the purpose?” Huang Rong asked, ”They are attractive, can make a 'ya ya ya' noise like a little baby, so we raise them to play with them.”

Hearing her saying the right thing, that fisherman's face softened, he said, ”Little baby girl, if you raise several pairs in your house, then you must give me a pair to compensate my loss.”

”Why must I compensate you?” Huang Rong asked.

The fisherman pointed to Guo Jing and said, ”I happened to catch one with my fishing pole, but he came and rudely shouted, so the other one appeared and pull apart my fishing pole. This 'jin wawa' is very smart; once it escaped danger, don't ever think of catching it for the second time. If I don't ask you to compensate me, whom should I ask?”

Huang Rong smiled, ”Even if you did catch it, you only caught one. Try as you might, but how could the second one be willing to take your bait?”

The fisherman could not find any word to answer this; he scratched his head and said, ”All right then, just give me one.”

”If you separate a pair of 'jin wawa', within three days both of them, the male and the female, will die,” Huang Rong said.

That fisherman did not have any doubt anymore; he cupped his fists and bowed respectfully to Guo Jing and Huang Rong, ”All right, just consider it my fault,” he said, ”Would you share a pair with me?”

Huang Rong smiled. ”Tell me first, what are you going to do with 'jin wawa'?” she asked.

The fisherman hesitated a little bit, then explained, ”All right, I'll tell you. My martial uncle is an Indian. He had come to visit my master these past few days. On the way here he managed to catch a pair of 'jin wawa'; he was very happy. He said there was an extremely poisonous insect harming a lot of people in India. There was no way of exterminating this insect. This 'jin wawa' is actually the insect's adversary. He asked me to take care of them for a few days, and then hand them back to him by the time he is done talking to my master and is ready to go down the mountain. He is going to take them back to India and breed them. Who would have thought …”

”Who would have thought you were not careful and let the 'jin wawa's run away into this waterfall,” Huang Rong cut him off.