After entering the outer courtyard, along the road paved with blue bricks all the way to the north, it is the main entrance of the main courtyard.

This is the regulation in the early years, whether it is the residence of an official marquis or even a prince, the main gate must be opened to the north, and the side door can only be listed east and west, this is because the Holy Son of Heaven sits in the north and faces the south, and enters from the north, which is the time to face the king.

The face of the main entrance of the ancient courtyard is very wide, and there are twenty storefronts lined up, and in front of the gate of three or four meters in the middle, Yingying Yanyan stood a number of girls;

Zhou Yi and the others looked from a distance, only to see that the guests who came to participate in the 'Winter Insect Meeting' arrived here, no matter how arrogant and domineering they were on weekdays, they all behaved in a proper manner, one by one took out the cricket gourds from their bodies, took out their own insects, and put them into the scoop carried by the beautiful woman to weigh them. The scoop is also very particular, it is woven with warm winter grass, and then wrapped in layers of red satin on the outside, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the crickets can't jump out when they go in, and the outside is connected with three thin steel wires, bolted to the scale rod, this kind of scale is said to be extremely sensitive, can be accurate to one or two hundredths.

After the crickets weighed, those beauties either took out a piece and handed it to the guests, or shook their heads with a smile; when they shook their heads, the guests didn't say much, just smiled and turned away, and none of them dared to make trouble.

Zhou Yi looked at it for a while, guessing that this second master Bao must have set a standard for crickets, and any crickets who come to meet the standards will lose their qualifications to participate in the 'Winter Insect Society'.

"This second master Bao is fair, he doesn't look at people when he looks at insects, but it's much better than those draft judges"

Zhou Yi was really a little surprised at the moment. It is said that autumn insects fight, that is because ordinary insects can't survive the day of the beginning of winter, but this master has found another way, and he has to engage in any 'winter insect meeting', which means that those who can bring insects are all winter insects that can talk about ice, and they are all treasures! But even so, there are still many people's insects that do not meet the rules, which shows that this selection standard is strict, and it is not easy to mix in to eat and drink.

"I don't know if my bucket line Jin Hong can meet the standard of this master?" Zhou Yi glanced at Liu Ke, and saw that he looked confident, but it was a little strange, I don't know what kind of worm he has in his hand.

At this time, the weather has completely cooled down, and the crickets are all in the gourd with personal collections, relying on people's body temperature to survive the winter, so Liu Ke has never shown his insects along the way, let alone Zhou Yi, even Zhang Zhao has never seen it.

"The three gentlemen are together, huh?"

The leading flag-clad beauty took the film in Liu Ke's hand and put it away at a glance, and said with a smile: "May I ask if the three of you are on the same level, or are you counting them separately?"

Liu Ke was stunned: "I just took the second master's film, and I haven't heard that there are rules for the ranks?"

"Giggles, the class is different, and the rooms you stay in are also different, and even the quality of the seats after the insect meeting starts is related to the rank."

The beauty smiled and explained: "If it is separated, you only need to show your own insects, the top grade lives in the upper room, the middle grade lives in the middle room, the lower grade lives in the lower class, and the no grade can not enter;

It is estimated that her set of rules is also cumbersome, so she didn't elaborate.

"Of course, it's all together. We want to go in, we want to go. ”

Liu Ke still has this righteousness.

"Okay, who will come first?" the beautiful woman shook the scoop in her hand.

"I'll go first, Zhang Zhao, you pick it up"

Liu Ke took out a cricket gourd from his arms, although it is not the best of 'Shahe Liu', but it is also a boutique from Baoding Mansion, and there is a hot painting of twelve golden hairpins on it, which is a good thing at a glance.

I saw him open the mouth of the gourd, patted it lightly on the bottom of the gourd with his hand, and suddenly a cricket with a big head and a big tail crawled out, Zhou Yi took a look, and immediately praised secretly: "It's also a good worm."

The color of crickets is divided into six types: blue, black, purple, white, yellow, and red. Generally, the purer the color, the better, such as authentic green, carbon black, pearl white or something, just like a thoroughbred horse on the racetrack, the purer the breed, the better, trustworthy.

But there are exceptions, although some are not pure, they have strange shapes and colors, such as Zhou Yi's 'Dou Line Golden Red', which is a rare baby. And Liu Ke's color is more mixed, red and blue, and there are purple and yellow miscellaneous lines on the body, this kind of is a mixed race, with the advantage of hybrid~, and also belongs to the handsome talent among the crickets.

The beautiful woman who was in charge of weighing the insects had seen a lot of good insects, but when she saw Liu Ke's insect, she didn't move much, she weighed the cricket with a very calm face, and said with a smile: "Please put it away, this heterogeneous red sand green of yours weighs seven centimeters and eight, and it is barely a medium grade, and it has passed." ”

"This is just a mid-grade?"

Zhou Yi suddenly gasped, a cricket weighing seven centimeters is a treasure, but here it is only a medium grade, this standard is too high, right? Liu Ke's face also changed slightly, but he didn't say anything, and took the red sand green back to the cricket gourd.

"I'm coming!" Zhang Zhao gritted his teeth, took out a gourd from his body, and poured out the worms he had carefully prepared.

"Slightly variegated crab shell green, weighing seven centimeters and one"

The beauty said a little coldly: "Inferior! If the three of you can only take out a medium-grade and a low-grade worm, then according to the rules, you can only ask you to go back, because the class is not enough." ”

This is the cruelty of the three of them discussing the rank at the same time, it has become that everyone goes in, and once they fail, they all have to go home; if they are each talking about each other, Liu Ke and Zhang Zhao can live in the middle and lower grade rooms respectively, so that Zhou Yi has become a drag on them.

"Hey, forget it, I blame me for being too careless, thinking that my worms are enough for the three of us to pass the test, but I forgot to tell Brother Zhou, and I didn't let you prepare worms in advance. ”

Liu Ke sighed, it doesn't matter if you can't get in, but he brought Zhou Yi all the way, but he couldn't even get into the main gate, which is really embarrassing.

In fact, it's no wonder that he didn't make it clear to Zhou Yi, if he wasn't a real player or someone with a heart, who would have nothing to do with the insects?

"Slow"

Zhou Yi smiled and took out the 'cricket gourd of Jia Nidao' from his arms and said, "I also have a worm here, why don't you bother the sisters to weigh me?"

He's not for the sake of vindictiveness, but as an idler, it would be a pity if he missed this event.

(To be continued)