Chapter 8 A small test
Cool breeze in early autumn, the tips of the leaves are slightly yellow.
On the banks of the big river on the outskirts of Zhenjiang Mansion, Dong Ce was dressed in the same black on a white background, standing under a simple grass shed, his black gauze coat was slightly rippling by the autumn wind, making his slender figure even more dusty.
"Look what I'm doing." Dong Ce stared at the five children of different ages.
"But uncle, didn't you let us see you?" The girl who was instructed to collect the money from Dong Ce yesterday spoke first.
Dong Ce rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "I asked you to stare at my hands and learn how to do it, why do you keep staring at my face, and don't call me uncle, brother, understand?" ”
"Oh!" The little girl's face turned red when she heard this, and she didn't dare to look at Dong Ce's face anymore.
"Big brother, can you teach us to change money?" The rest of the children asked excitedly.
"If you want to learn, you have to start with the basics." Dong Ce said, took out a chopstick from the chopstick holder, and saw that with a slight force on his fingertips, the chopsticks actually rotated quickly between his five fingers, moving up and down, startling the child's mouth wide, and his dark eyes were full of flashes.
"If you look at it, you will practice it, and whether you can eat this line of food depends on whether you can persevere!" After Dong Ce finished speaking, the children took out the chopsticks from the chopsticks with great interest, and learned Dong Ce's tricks to turn, but as soon as the chopsticks in their hands rotated, they fell off and flew away, which let them know the difficulty, but their interest did not decrease, and they picked up the chopsticks and played again.
Dong Ce carefully observed for a moment, and after carefully teaching a few times, he let the children figure it out for themselves, as soon as he turned around, he saw Zhou Cong standing behind him, and he also twisted a chopstick in his hand, but unfortunately this guy's fat hands were too clumsy, and he couldn't play at all, and the chopsticks suddenly flew out after two clicks, and went straight to Dong Ce's front door.
Dong Ce didn't open his eyes, and reached out to grab the incoming chopsticks like lightning, let them turn quickly in his hand a few times, and suddenly shook his hand and threw it into the chopsticks on his side.
"Shhh Fat Zhou suddenly gasped, stared at Dong Ce in surprise and said, "Oh, Brother Dong's ability to throw pots is really amazing!" ”
"Don't make a fuss." Dong Ce didn't have time to deal with this guy, Bai Xuemo didn't come with her today, and she didn't dare to contact her when she thought about it, but she came to two bad friends, Meng Feng was just sent by him to buy something, and Zhou Fatzi was like a curious baby, tossing around behind his buttocks.
Zhou Cong was bored, and he didn't care, he smiled and followed Dong Ce and said with a smile: "Brother Dong, they don't say that I don't know, you can actually make money, hurry, show your hands to us and see." ”
"Wherever you are cool, where are you going?" After Dong Ce finished speaking, he ignored Zhou Fatzi, walked straight out of the grass shed, came to several men gathered around and asked, "How is it, are you ready?" ”
"Thanks to the money that Engong gave yesterday, otherwise it would be really difficult to raise these things! But the satin and square thin flat copper mirror is a little ....... The sickly-looking man smiled bitterly.
All they got were some tables, chairs, wooden cabinets, and a few pieces of wood and tools.
Don't look at these things as simple, but the price is too great for them now, if it weren't for the fact that this money was originally earned by Dong Ce's tricks yesterday, I'm afraid that they would never take it out if they were killed.
"I'll have someone buy those things for me, you don't have to worry about it." After Dong Ce finished speaking, he looked at the pile of wood, nodded with satisfaction, pulled out a thin rope to tie the wide cuffs, and then beckoned a few men to help make props.
In fact, after selling art yesterday, Dong Ce told Bai Xuemo the truth, he was an abandoned baby in his last life, but he was fortunate to be adopted by a juggler who walked the rivers and lakes, and learned a few tricks, but because of a moment of greed, he relied on tricks to gamble with people, and his adoptive father broke his little thumbs after knowing it.
At that time, Dong Ce confessed, without a word of complaint, but the situation is often out of people's control, when a circus arrived in the town where he lived, Dong Ce saw Western magic for the first time, and he was deeply fascinated by it in an instant, and he was willing to steal a teacher and was willing to work for the circus for free as a handyman.
However, all this was soon learned by the old stubborn adoptive father, and after a quarrel between the two, the angry adoptive father was ruthless, so he expelled Dong Ce from the house, and Dong Ce at that time actually had no memory, but thought that since his adoptive father didn't want him, it didn't just match his mind and could devote himself to Western magic.
But who would have thought that after several storms, he would eventually not be able to become a magician, and chose to engage in business, until he was beaten here by the enemy.
"Sometimes fate should be like this, you can't force it!" Dong Ce came back with his thoughts, looked at the planer knife in his hand and shook his head with a wry smile.
Eyes swept under the grass shed, three old men over sixty years old looked at the innocent children with a smile, the woman washing clothes on the bank of the river in the distance, and a few working men around him, all of them were yellow and thin, and they were in tatters, Dong Ce couldn't help but shake his head for a while, and sighed in his heart: "Is it forced to help them?" Or nosy? ”
Being a good person is actually beneficial, and it is not bad to accumulate yin virtue for himself, besides, Bai Xuemoth is staring at him, if he doesn't want to try to confuse the other party, do you expect this gang of outlaws to let him go?
Although he didn't become a magician, Dong Ce became an amateur, and then learned the production of many magic props from books and the Internet, and after he became rich, he liked to make props by himself whenever he had time, coupled with the art skills he specialized in school, with the rise of Dong Ce's craftsmanship, the props are no longer like props, more like works of art! This is definitely not Dong Ce's boasting, because the props he made are very popular in his circle, many friends shamelessly come to him to Taobao, a little careless, the small props he made were taken away by the group of friends, and what is even more ridiculous is that he is a friend who opened an antique shop, and actually put the traditional antique props he made in the store for sale, and also offered his mother 30,000 yuan, which made Dong Ce very angry, and never gave it away again!
Thinking about it now, Dong Ce couldn't help but sigh secretly, when he came here, what about his treasures?
Although he will make a lot of props, Dong Ce can't make them all, but he just chooses two sets of magic tricks that are simple to operate and have a strong shock for the ancient audience, and greatly divide the living and the human body.
At first, they thought that Dong Ce would invite a carpenter, but they didn't expect him to do it himself, and the craftsmanship was exquisite, far from being comparable to ordinary carpenters, how could this not surprise them, you must know that Dong Ce looks like the clothes are not bright, but the fabric craftsmanship is superior, a set is not a hundred and eighty taels, and no one believes it.
But how can it not be strange or surprising that such a person is such a person who is handy at the work of a carpenter?
As soon as Dong Ce did it, he went from morning to dusk, during which the sick man and others did not dare to say anything to disturb, but just silently worked on the side.
It was getting dark, Dong Ce looked at the two sets of simple props in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and called out to the sick man: "Whoever is that, call the children to come over." ”
"Uh... Engong, my name is Tu Ping, and you can call us Lao Tu in the future. The sick man didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore as soon as he explained, and hurriedly beckoned the children over.
Except for a stupid boy, the other four children have long been tired of playing with chopsticks, if it weren't for their parents coming to supervise from time to time, they would have thrown the chopsticks away, I don't feel that they are playing with chopsticks at all, but by chopsticks to play, now I see chopsticks and I am bored, and when I hear Tu Ping's words, I immediately rush to be excited.
"Stand up, everything is at the disposal of Engong, understand." Tu Ping roared at the five children, so frightened that the children stood up one by one, and they didn't dare to move, Tu Ping took out the only girl from among them, and brought it to Dong Ce to flatter: "Engong, this is our little girl, Engong will call her Xiaoguo." ”
Tu Ping's move suddenly brought many men back to their senses, and they led their children to introduce Dong Ce, for fear that the old Tu family would steal the limelight.
Since they had seen Dong Ce's skills yesterday, they knew that if their children could learn both, what were they worried about? So they rushed to recommend Dong Ce, and Dong Ce was speechless for a while.
"Okay, shut up, I've got my own arrangements." After Dong Ce finished speaking, everyone immediately fell silent and stared at Dong Ce with expectant eyes.
Dong Ce looked at the five children and said calmly, then pointed to two boys who were about eight or nine years old who were about the same height and said, "You two come here, and the rest are waiting here." ”
Hearing that Dong Ce ordered two boys, Tu Ping couldn't help but feel a sense of loss, and secretly sighed that he was really still a boy!
The parents of the two children who were ordered were excited, and they told their sons to study well with Engong, otherwise they would have to be beaten up when they turned around.
Dong Ce didn't care what they were thinking, he led the two children to the eight-legged bed, opened the cabinet door on the bed and explained to the two children in a low voice.
These two children are afraid of their father's obscenity, how dare they be a little sloppy, they are all listening carefully, but they are still young, Dong Ce does not know the meaning of his words, if it is not for Dong Ce to explain and instruct them how to do it, otherwise the two children will really cry.
This ancient advocating filial piety under the stick, provoked Lao Tzu to be unhappy, it was a slap on the head, it was quite light, if you missed this opportunity to learn art because you didn't understand Engong's words, then their father had to kill them!
Behind the crowd gathered more and more, many women who were busy preparing dinner also came over, but because they came late, when they came here, they happened to see a boy lying in a wooden cabinet, because the wooden cabinet is too small, the child will inevitably put his head and feet out of the hole in the head and tail of the cabinet after lying in, before they asked their man what Engong was going to do, suddenly saw that Engong Dong Ce held a saw knife high, and suddenly slashed at the middle of the wooden cabinet, and then quickly sawed up.
This scene stunned everyone, all of them looked at Dong Ce with wide eyes in disbelief, the scene was so terrifying that they didn't come back to their senses, you know, there are children in this cabinet, after you turn over the seesaw, the children in it are ......
They were in a panic, and they didn't notice that Dong Ce was sawing around, nor did he see any sawdust, let alone blood!
As everyone's hearts sank to the bottom in an instant, the scene suddenly turned aside, and a scene that shocked them even more appeared!
I saw Dong Ce suddenly throw down the saw knife, lift half of the small bed and walk a few steps to the side, this time, the bed was separated into two tables, and the children in the wooden cabinet on the bed were also separated together!
"My baby!" There was a scream, and a woman suddenly fainted and fell to the ground.
"Ah, sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
"Noble daughter-in-law, wake up!"
"Xiaogui damn it, don't scare us!"
"Murder!"
"What are you men doing in a daze, the children have been killed!"
The people around were instantly anxious, especially the women, all of them were full of horror and panic, and they were chirping endlessly.
"You bitches shut up." Tu Ping roared angrily and scolded the women, although he was also shocked by Dong Ce's vicious methods, but he could see that there must be something strange in it, after all, the son of the noble family was still looking at them strangely with his head exposed, his expression was painless, and there was no blood in the cabinet, obviously Engong used extraordinary means to separate him, and the child of Zhu Dashan's family also entered the cabinet, but miraculously disappeared, there must be something strange in this!
Sure enough, without waiting for these women to regain their composure, Dong Ce merged the bed cabinets, and then opened the cabinet door, and suddenly Zhang Dagui's children jumped out and looked at the frightened adults with an inexplicable expression.
Seeing that Zhang Dagui's child was actually fine, these women were even more shocked, their big and small eyes looked at each other, and suddenly saw another child crawling out of the wooden cabinet, so these women instantly rose from the abyss into the clouds, completely unaware of what was happening.
"What's wrong, what's wrong? What are you looking at here? Zhou Cong suddenly ran over and looked at him curiously.
Meng Feng and two young men with a lot of wine and food appeared after Zhou Cong, and when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but sigh lightly: "It seems that we have missed a good show!" ”