"The quality of the crickets here is not good, let's go to the altar of earth tomorrow night to catch them, right?" Hong Tao was not very satisfied, the crickets in the alley were obviously relatively thin, and after catching them for a long time, only one was barely enough for 6 centimeters.

"I'm not going, let people catch it and pull the weeds, don't go yourself, there are pickets inside. The little uncle refused to accompany Hong Tao to the park on an adventure.

"3 cents a night, do you want to go?" Hong Tao sacrificed his big killer again, money!

“…… 5 Mao!" "Uncle will bargain now."

"Deal! Go home!" Although Hong Tao felt that 5 cents was a bit expensive, no one except his uncle was willing to accompany him to catch crickets in Ditan Park in the middle of the night, so he could only grit his teeth and admit his head.

Hong Tao didn't go back to his house to sleep, but first sent the four crickets back to his uncle's house, put them in the cricket jar, and put some rice grains on the rice board, and then slipped back to his house to sleep. Early the next morning, Hong Tao ran back again, and regardless of whether the little uncle got up or not, he moved his four jars with crickets out of the hut, and according to what the second master said, he began to change the water, rice grains, and cages.

"Xiao Tao, your cricket jar is good, let grandpa take a look...... Oops...... This cricket is a little smaller. Hong Tao was tossing his crickets in the yard, and Grandpa Zhang, who was next door to his grandmother, walked in from outside the courtyard. He doesn't play with insects, but he plays with birds, and every morning he carries two large bird cages to the park to walk the birds.

"I've caught it for half a night, and I haven't caught a good one, do you know where there are good crickets?" Hong Tao didn't refute this time, his 4 crickets are really not good, they can only barely be regarded as fighting insects, and they are estimated to be amateurs.

"Hey, you are asking the right person, you have to go to the Ming Tombs of Changping, the Eight Great Divisions of Xishan and Yungang to catch crickets, but unfortunately you are too young to go by yourself, I will talk to the person who bought oil hyacinth in the bird market tomorrow, let him pay attention to you, there are good crickets for me to keep, but people are all asking for money, can your grandfather buy it for you?" Grandpa Zhang hung the birdcage under the eaves, and then lifted the blue cloth covering the outside of the birdcage to let the birds see the sun.

"No problem, I have my own money, how much money are you trying to get?" Hong Tao didn't say a word, and took out a handful of change from his trouser pocket.

"It depends on the color of the crickets, I wonder how the 8 centimeters of crickets can get eight cents, it's not worth the effort of people to go there, they use cages and nets to catch oil hyacinths, and they have to start slowly looking for crickets. "Grandpa Zhang seems to know a little bit about playing insects, in fact, people like him and grandpa in the old capital, how much know a little bit about flowers, birds, fish and insects, even if they don't play, there are a lot of people around them who play this, and they can listen to it and half understand it.

"Why don't I go to the bird market with you tomorrow morning, far away?" Hong Tao heard this price, he could still afford it, and his mind became lively.

"Cheng, tomorrow you get up early, wait for me at the mouth of the alley at half past five, I will take you there, not far, at the north gate of the altar. Grandpa Zhang knew that Hong Tao was no better than other children, and he was the kind who could call the shots at home, so he didn't shy away from taking the children out to run around.

"Well, then I saw my grandfather, I'll take it out and try it first!" Hong Tao had a new source of crickets, and immediately looked down on his four small crickets, stacked a few jars together, hugged them and went out of the yard, went straight to the big locust tree at the mouth of the alley, found a wooden board from the scrap yard behind him, and wrote a line of words on it with chalk: Fighting crickets, 5 cents a game! Then he poked the wooden board to the side of the trunk, and ran to play chess with Grandpa Liu at the acquisition station.

In this era, children get up early, and they can't sleep if they want to, and the adults in the family go to work, and they will definitely get the children up before going to work. Before 9 o'clock, the children in several alleys were out in twos and threes, and then they saw the words of Hong Tao's pestle on the wooden board next to the big tree.

"Hong Tao, this is what you wrote?" Soon a child appeared in the cricket jars beside Hong Tao.

"Yes, I wrote, if there are crickets, go home and take them, whoever wins, I will give 5 cents! If you lose, you don't have to lose money, you will fight for a total of 4 rounds, first come, first served. Hong Tao didn't raise his head, and shouted loudly while arching his pawn on the chessboard.

"Oh...... "After listening to Hong Tao's words, the children immediately screamed and scattered, and the sound ......of a plastic mat slapping the ground immediately came from the alley, and they all ran home to get their own crickets, and the children without crickets could only wait under the big tree to watch the excitement.

"I was the first to come...... I'll fight first! You take out the 5 cents first, I'll take a look, don't lose!" "A child who lives at the mouth of the alley is the fastest, he is in the same grade as his uncle, but he is still very cautious about Hong Tao's notoriety, for fear of being deceived.

"Damn, my reputation is so stinky?!" Hong Tao threw away the chess pieces and admitted defeat, his own chess level really can't play people at this time, they don't have any entertainment, they play chess when they have nothing to do.

"I'll say okay first, don't shout, whoever shouts you ask for money, okay, put the crickets in this basin yourself, you can go anywhere. Hong Tao put his bucket basin on the ground, found a piece of cardboard in the middle to act as a gate, and then instructed the child to pour the crickets in his glass jar into half of it, and then took one from his cricket jar and put it on the other side, and after driving out the crickets in the cage, he put the cage back into the cricket jar.

"Hey, your cricket jar is very good, who got it for you?" Several children around looked at Hong Tao's movements, and they all began to envy, most of the crickets they raised were packed in glass bottles, and there was no such thing as a cage.

"My grandfather bought it for me, don't talk nonsense, shut up, get ready to start! Heavenly spirit, earth spirit, red-headed general will appear soon! Open!" Hong Tao maintained the order of the scene, and then lifted the gate in the middle of the basin.

The two crickets in the basin are about the same size, Hong Tao is still a little stronger, after they enter the basin, they are swaying the two tentacles on their heads to familiarize themselves with the new environment, and suddenly feel a murderous aura coming from the other end, and their instinctive reaction makes them angry: Who dares to invade Lao Tzu's territory?

As the gate was raised, the two crickets immediately felt each other's storage zài, and began to move together, when their tentacles touched each other, they invariably curled up their hind legs, kicked the ground, and made a hard back: Dudu Du...... Doodoo ...... Doodoo ......

The two crickets screamed at each other, and opened their two big teeth at the same time, which was a warning to each other, which probably means: Sun thief! Where are you messing around? Do you know the rules when you come out? You have crossed the line! Malier will go back to the uncle, I will bite off your thigh if I see you here again!

Of course, when the two tempers come together, just scolding will definitely not solve the problem, listening to the second master, crickets fight the same as people, and there are many ways. Some of them bite when they come up, and they don't bark or open their teeth, which belongs to the more ruthless category; some of them must do enough to save face, and if they can surrender without a fight, then they don't do it, and they rush up to fight if they can't do it; there are even more people who don't pay attention to the rules, they come up and pretend to be cowardly, and they don't scream or open their teeth, and they slowly approach the other party first, and when the other party thinks that it is cowardly, it suddenly moves, and it goes up to take a bite, which belongs to those who go astray.

According to the rules of fighting crickets, each cricket needs to be weighed before fighting, generally 6 centimeters and 6 centimeters of fighting, just like the Olympic boxing competition, divided into heavyweights.

Because crickets are aggressive by nature, two males get together, and they will never stop without distinguishing the winner or loser, and generally very few can end up without injury, and they have to be bitten some, either the thigh is lost, or the stomach is bitten. Even if it is not injured, the defeated cricket will lose its self-confidence, and will not dare to fight with other crickets for a long time, even if it opens its teeth again in the future, its combat effectiveness will be affected. But a few children are fighting and playing, so they don't pay so much attention, as long as it is not a non-combative type of cricket like the coffin board and Lao Mi, it is generally not divided into heavyweights.

Soon the two crickets finished scolding each other, and when they saw that the other party had no intention of retreating, they immediately rushed forward with two big teeth open, pinching each other head to head. Originally, I heard the second master say that the crickets have any moves, such as clamping, hooking, dodging, dodging, hugging, hoopping, biting, pinching, rolling, etc., but Hong Tao took a look, and the two crickets in the bucket basin had one move, gritting each other's teeth with their teeth, and their heads were facing the cow above their heads!

In just a few seconds, Hong Tao's cricket skills were superior, his head twisted, and he rolled the cricket on the opposite side with his big teeth, and took the opportunity to pounce on it, and bit off one of the thighs of the cricket in one bite, and then no longer chased and killed, but stood in place, agitated his wings, supported the bottom of the basin with six claws, and chirped loudly, probably saying: Stupid than it! Lao Tzu unloads one of your legs is light, today the uncle is happy, spare you from death, next time hide from the uncle's territory!

"Alas......" The children who besieged the city were very depressed, and it can be seen from these sighs how bad Hong Tao's reputation among these children is, and almost everyone expects him to lose.

"It's my turn, it's my turn!" Seeing that the child had lost, another child squeezed in with his own bottle.

"Don't be busy, don't be busy, wait for me to change to a cricket, you can't play wheel warfare!" Hong Tao first stopped the kid from pouring his own crickets into the basin, then put the cage into the basin, and drove the cricket that was still bragging B into it with the straw stick made of straw sticks, and then put the cage into the original cricket jar. As for the defeated cricket, it fell directly to the ground, and it was already missing a thigh, so it was useless.

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