At that time, in the upper study, Master Zhu was giving a lecture to several princes and children of the clan. Before the first volume of Zuo Biography was finished, Master Zhu suddenly felt abdominal pain, and ordered everyone to read the book by themselves first, and he left in a hurry, looking for a convenient place.

As soon as Master Zhu left, the originally quiet study suddenly became noisy, the age of the class here is about ten years old, it is the best time to move, no one is taking care of it at the moment, where not to take the opportunity to make a noise, many people gathered together to talk about the interesting story of walking chickens and fighting crickets, and among these people, Fupei is respected.

The best season for fighting crickets is autumn, especially the three solar terms of white dew, autumn equinox, and cold dew, during this time, crickets are mature, strong and powerful, and fighting each other is also very exciting.

"Third elder brother, I heard that you got a good first-line flying spider, the most important thing is that you can't let a few of us have a good look?" One of the clan disciples said this, faintly with a hint of flattery.

The blue flying spider is one of the crickets, extremely aggressive, Fu Pei heard his words, his chin raised, showing a bit of smugness, "It's okay, let a few of you see and understand." ”

"Tang Qi, bring up Brother Ben's cricket jar." With Fu Pei's words, the little eunuch who was guarding outside immediately walked in quickly, and handed Fu Pei a jar of crickets fired with clear mud, and the jar moved slightly, and there was a loud sound of crickets inside.

As soon as the children of the clan heard the sound of crickets, they immediately felt itchy in their hearts, and it happened that some of them also brought crickets with them, and coaxed them to say that they would fight while Master Zhu did not come.

Fu Pei himself also likes to tease crickets, in order to catch this favored first-line flying spider, he did not bother less, after grabbing, and the original raised several crickets took turns to fight, all of which were undoubtedly victories, which made him even more happy, just like a baby, wherever he went.

Hearing that they were going to fight crickets over there, a few people who had not gone over to join in the fun were also moved, and they ran over one after another, and even sat next to Hongli, who had just turned nine years old this year, and couldn't help but say: "Fourth brother, let's go over and take a look?" ”

Hongli raised his head from the book, shook his head and said, "I still don't want it, Master Zhu may come back soon, if he sees us fighting crickets in class, it won't be good." ”

Fu Pei has been paying attention to Hongli, and when he heard his words, he showed a look of disdain, "Cowardly as a mouse, there is no interest when you look at it." As he spoke, he beckoned to Hongyang and said, "The fifth brother came over to take a look at the third brother's favored first-line flying spider, that is the first fierce general among the crickets!" ”

Hongday was moved by what he said, looked at the cockroach jar that kept coming from the sound and then looked at Hongli, hesitated, and after a while, he shook his head with difficulty, "It's still not good, I'll just follow the fourth brother to read." ”

Fu Pei didn't expect Hongli to follow Hongli to stand in a line, snorted coldly, and no longer paid attention to him. In the crowd of onlookers, he poured the crickets out of the jar, and first fed him water, which was very finely done, not to mention the glaze, but also to depict the flowers.

After drinking water, the crickets were put into the basin brought up by the little eunuch Tang Qi, and the other cricket was also ready, it was a variety of big black and green teeth, the two crickets just paired, immediately flapped their wings and chirped, hostile to each other, and then began to entangle and bite the duel, crickets and people are the same, there are brave and cunning, you come and go, you advance and I retreat, it is extremely intense.

Although Hongtian endured it and didn't pass, his ears have been firmly pricked up to listen to the movement over there, and occasionally when he can't help it, he stretches his neck to take a look, and as for the book, he has no intention of reading it at all. Seeing him like this, Hongshi smiled and said in a low voice: "Does the fifth brother also like crickets?" ”

Hongtian nodded like pounding garlic when he heard this, and then said a little frustratedly: "But Eniang doesn't allow me to play, and I don't allow the palace people to catch crickets for me." I used to catch one myself, and I threw it away after being found by Eniang. ”

"Concubine Yu is for your good, I'm afraid that you will lose your mind." Hongli smiled and comforted him.

"I know it." Hongyang replied like this, but there was still a sense of loss between his eyebrows, after all, he was only nine years old, and he was able to keep his playful heart just now, but it was already rare to go to Fupei's side.

"If you like it, after class, the fourth brother will take you to catch one, but you have to make sure that you have to study hard, otherwise you won't be allowed to play."

"Hmm!" When Hongli heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and grabbed Hongli's arm and said, "Fourth brother, you are so good." But don't tell me about this, or she will have to scold me. Speaking of this, he said enviously: "It's better to be the fourth brother, Xi Niangniang won't take care of everything and won't let you do it." ”

Hongli smiled and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw Master Zhu walking in, and a large group of people on Fupei's side were blushing and thick-necked, and no one noticed at all. Although he didn't like Fu Pei, he still reminded him, "Master Zhu is back." ”

Hearing this, Fu Pei and the others hurriedly looked at the door, and saw that Master Zhu had approached, and they hurriedly wanted to put their things away for fear of being discovered. However, the more nervous he is, the easier it is to make mistakes, when Fu Pei put the crickets back into the jar, his hand shook, and he actually made the crickets jump out of the jar, so panicked that he hurriedly squatted down to catch them, the crickets did not catch, but there was a pair of black boots in front of him, and when he looked up, it was Master Zhu's wrinkled old face, "What are you doing?" ”

Master Zhu is usually quite prestigious, his face fell, those clan disciples were a little cold, lowered their heads and did not dare to answer, Fu Pei stood up in disdain, but his eyes were still firmly fixed on the cricket that kept jumping around on the ground. Master Zhu's eyes were not good, and he didn't notice an extra cricket on the ground for a while.

Tang Qi, who was hiding behind those people, shrank his head and wanted to take back the porcelain basin on the table with the picture of koi playing in the water, but as soon as he moved, he was discovered by Master Zhu, who vigorously pushed away the children of the clan who deliberately blocked him.

"Are you playing with crickets in the upper study?" Master Zhu's vision is so old and spicy, and besides, fighting crickets are extremely popular in Beijing, from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns, all of them are playing this and this. As soon as he saw the basin, he immediately understood what was going on, and when he saw that the books that should have been neatly placed on the table were thrown aside, he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and looked at the silent crowd and shouted and asked, "Say, who is playing here?" ”

He knew Tang Qi, and he also knew whose follower this little eunuch was, but Fu Pei's status was noble, although he was the prince's teacher, it was not easy to question him directly, not to mention that the cricket could fight alone, and there must be accomplices, so he simply pretended not to know.

[Author's digression]: There are two more chapters, which were written late today, and they were sent about one o'clock ago, sorry