Chapter 1 Falling Phoenix
But according to the calculation of the old Beiping City, there must be a hundred smaller streets and alleys with the names of birds and beasts!
What Tiger City, Elephant House, Pigeon House, Deer Farm, Leopard House, Camel Fang, are all official or private leisure places or trading institutions set up since the Ming Dynasty.
The emperor Lao'er has three palaces and six courtyards, seventy-two concubines, the beautiful scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the heavens and the earth are tired of watching and playing disgusting, and there are officials who know how to make fun or know how to make fun or make holes for the emperor to touch some rare things, and change the way to make the emperor happy.
Raising lions, tigers, elephants, leopards, fighting beasts for fun, and hunting pleasure with pigeons, flowers and deer, over time, even if the years go by, even if the dynasties change, and even the emperor of the Qing Dynasty has called cannons from the dragon chair to drive to the outside of the palace to close the door to coax himself to play, these street markets named after birds and beasts have survived tenaciously.
And the old Beiping is stained with imperial spirit, although the feathered phoenix is not as good as the pheasant, but the rotten ship still has three catties of nails, isn't it?
There are always a few wealthy families with neat eyes and lively hands, relying on the family foundation saved by fraud and deception in the early years, or simply eating the rent money of a few street shops, and retaining the rich and noble style of lackeys, cockfighting, birds and eagles.
Especially on the street of Laoguanyuan, a crab and a cricket can make a few Beiping gentlemen who are not bad for money to fry out the purchase price of thousands of oceans, and a white-haired thrush that has adjusted its mouth dares to ask for ten big yellow croakers when it opens its mouth......
What is the price of a purebred Tibetan mastiff that is said to have been brought from the border of Tibet?
No one dared to ask, anyway, there was a master who took away the purebred Tibetan mastiff that had not yet been weaned on the spot, and the followers behind the master did not blink, and threw over the three deeds of the eight courtyards inside and outside the bowstring alley!
On weekdays, even if this old official garden is crowded and shoulder to shoulder, there are not a few people who look strange before buying and selling. Seeing that there were bursts of shouting from another crowd, many old Beiping gentlemen who were strolling on the streets of Lao Guanyuan, as well as those outsiders with blankets on their shoulders, suddenly rushed towards the crowd.
The shadow was sufficient, and he could only see an old man sitting on the ground with his face covered in blood, and three or two broken bamboo cages were scattered around him.
Listen carefully, there is an arrogant voice calling relentlessly: "Just today, I don't care about my clothes!" Just say that the master beat this fighting that he bought back from the descendants of the Nine Gates Admiral of the Great Qing Dynasty for real money, and the old nose money was seriously called a golden hook-beaked eagle claw, and a phoenix crown with colorful feathers, but Beiping City walked all over the cockfighting arena, and it was always one word - win! You old coffin, you have a look, and you will be told to listen to half a rooster crow, and your ancestral grave will be smoking! You old Ga Bang'er's coffin, you dare to smoke my baby cockfight with a yellow skin? ”
In the arrogant shouting, the people in the crowd who had already woken up came back to their senses, and they shook their heads vigorously and muttered: "This is a matter of touching porcelain again!" Maybe it's a gangster who has taken a fancy to those yellow skins in someone's hand......"
"Isn't it? Just that chicken, when you go to the soup pot, you don't think there are bones left, and you still fight cocks? Let's fight his grandmother's ......"
"Old, keep the door on your lips! Don't you see who the one with the chicken is? A famous bastard fake monk in Zhushikou! That's the one who can cheat and find trouble, the toad jumps on the instep, and it's disgusting if he doesn't bite! ”
Perhaps because he was really afraid that the fake monk would lie to him, several neighbors in the crowd who had seen the methods of the fake monk turned their heads and squeezed out of the crowd. Through this stall, a sturdy man with a coarse cloth jacket on his back squeezed into the center of the crowd without a trace, but quietly hid behind the onlookers.
As if to confirm that his blackmail today can be fully loaded, the fake monk shook the hem of his Qingyang Zou long coat, the standard costume of a professional gangster, and shouted and scolded with a British cigarette mixed with white face: "Not to mention the big scenes of cockfighting in the leopard room and Hufang Bridge, just counting the cockfighting field in the old official garden, when did the cockfighting in the master's hand not help the master win back two oceans?" also said that the master bullied you an old gangster, today you give the master a crispy, and then let the master take away your yellow skin and slaughter it, and the master will also raise your thigh to let you pass the old gang! ”
Moaning weakly, the old man who had been beaten by the fake monk and a few gangsters who were mixed with him shook his head weakly: "You...... You are a slander! It was you who hit me first with the chicken cage......"
After taking a few puffs of cigarette butts with the strength of milk, the fake monk didn't care that his lips, which had become scorched because of long-term smoking of white noodles, were burned yellow by the cigarette that was about to burn to the end, and rolled up his sleeves and arms and rushed towards the old man with blood on his face: "Hey...... You old stick vegetable coffin coffin, the master gave you a way to go, do you still have to go to the road of death? I will fulfill your ...... today."
Seeing that the old man was about to be beaten by the fake monk again, the sturdy man hiding behind the onlookers suddenly dodged, rubbed the shoulders of the onlookers, and quickly got into the chicken coop thrown by the fake monk aside, and shouted in a bright voice: "Hey, hey, who is this so big-handed?" As soon as you enter Beiping City, you can see a phoenix with a fried neck, it can be seen that this Beiping City is really impressed, he is not an ordinary bird! ”
Twenty Lang's age, eagle eyes and a square face, a thick body like an old city wall, a transparent voice like a bronze bell, and an obvious foreign accent to learn Beiping dialect, these characteristics are improvised, and I can't help but let the fake monk stop rushing towards the old man, and shout at the sturdy man with a hanging voice: "Hey...... What's wrong with you? Lord's baby chicken is worth the old money, can you afford to pay for it? ”
But where money is cheated, there is one of the most taboo things, that is, there is a block in the middle of the road, and the three words and even three fists and two feet have broken the game that has been done well, and the scheming of money fraud is in vain, not to mention, if it is not good, it has to be fully reversed, and the money is taught a lesson by others!
But looking at the sturdy man and the appearance of the countryman who had just entered the capital, the fake monk felt that something was wrong?
In these years, the teahouses and restaurants are plastered with the slogan "Don't talk about state affairs", and ordinary people are afraid of smashing their heads when the leaves fall, who is willing to cause trouble if they have nothing to do?
Not to mention those countrymen who came to Beijing from other places, the aisles are still confused, how dare they ask for lice on their bodies?
Without waiting for a few gangsters to help the fake monk surround him, the sturdy man had already stood up straight with an envious expression, and said with a smile in a somewhat ignorant manner: "I really don't dare to touch your baby!" Not to mention the side, in the boundary of our hometown, in the smallest cockfighting arena, there is such a fried neck phoenix family who fights cocks, then at least there must be a five oceans of income! ”
Looking at the sturdy man in disbelief, the fake monk snorted for a while before he came to the chicken coop suspiciously, pointed to the wilting chicken in the chicken coop and asked, "Are you...... Do you know my baby? ”
Nodding quite surely, the sturdy man firmly pointed to the rooster that was so thin that only bones and chicken feathers were left, "You can't be wrong! In my hometown, the fried neck phoenix and this chicken are the same mold, and there is no such resemblance again! ”
Smacking his lips enviously, the sturdy man looked at the fake monk with some expectation: "Which field are you going to play with two hands today?" Without further aside, I have to thank you today. Follow your fried neck phoenix bet, and the sun will come out in the west! ”
Looking at the sturdy man's eager expression, and then hearing the characteristic shredded sound of the sturdy man's shoulders rubbing against each other, the fake monk blinked slyly and said, "That's it...... This fried neck phoenix, the master bought it with money from the descendants of the Nine Gates Admiral of the Great Qing Dynasty, and it was delicious to eat and drink well on weekdays, but he was really not willing to let it go off the field! Father...... Isn't this soft-hearted, can't you see blood......"
Turning a blind eye to the old man who was beaten by himself and covered in blood, the fake monk obviously felt that he had run into a more worthy blackmail target, or a guy who was not too clever to block the line.
Sucking on the uncontrollable snot from the white noodles, the fake monk motioned to a few thugs who supported him to surround the sturdy man, and smirked at the sturdy man half-coercively and half-tentatively: "This old saying has been said - the goods are sold and the family knows the family!" Since your brother knows the treasure in the cage, then the master will think that Yang Zhi sells knives and stomps his feet fiercely, and this treasure will be sold to you! This brother, the master has rewarded you with such a big face, you shouldn't be ignorant, right? ”
Rolling up his sleeves and rolling his arms, hehehaha sneered, a few gangsters obviously understood the instructions of the fake monk, and even hugged and squeezed the sturdy man in the middle. There were two fast hands, who had begun to touch the black cloth on the shoulders of the sturdy man openly and secretly, trying to predict how much net worth the sturdy man would have.
Slightly frightened, the sturdy man's eyes were full of involuntary fear and irrepressible excitement. Tightly grasping the opening at the front end of the black cloth jacket, the sturdy man's performance was completely like a foreigner who had just stepped into Beiping City: "I...... I can't afford it? This is a pile of bags, that is, ten oceans, and this is still the family asked me to come to Beiping to buy some groceries so that I can open a small grocery store outside the city......"
As soon as I heard that there were ten oceans in the account, the eyes of several gangsters, including the fake monk, all lit up!
The old man who was beaten and covered in blood was carrying three yellow skins, and he didn't have much cash on him. The three yellow skins got rid of the skin and took the bitter gall, which was at most the price of a piece of ocean.
And the sturdy man has ten yuan of cash on his body, and there are enough five or six people to buy enough white flour to eat and drink, and he can be comfortable in the secret door for three or five days!
Almost without saying a word, the fake monk pulled the coarse cloth from the sturdy man's shoulder, and neatly grabbed the ten bright and new oceans from the blanket. Grabbing a piece with his finger and then resting it in his ear, the trembling sterling silver vibrating made the fake monk squint uncontrollably, revealing a mouthful of yellow plate teeth and smiling and signaling the little gangster around him to stuff the chicken coop into the hands of the sturdy man: "The money and goods are clear, and our masters can have two pennies!" In the future, you have to remember when you meet you, but you have sold this gold for the price of brass, and the pearl is used as a glass ball, and you kid can take advantage of your face! ”
Agreeing resignedly, the sturdy man picked up the gold ingots with a handful of dirt buns, and looked around for a moment with both hands tightly holding the dirty chicken coop in his arms, squeezing away the crowd of onlookers and running towards a cockfighting arena not far away.
At this moment, it really made the onlookers completely confused, and even made the fake monk who had just taken the ten oceans in his hand mutter.
Originally, I thought that I was a country boy who didn't know anything, and I took the old cat as a tiger cub according to the gourd, and I stupidly exchanged ten pieces of ocean for a worthless old rooster.
But looking at this country boy holding the chicken cage is like holding the ancestral tablet, and without waiting for the words to speak, he went straight to the cockfighting field......
Could it be that this is really like a man who plays antiques in Panjiayuan to pick up a leak, and there is also a puppy in the old official garden to buy a unicorn?
Involuntarily, the fake monk couldn't care about the little gangsters around him who couldn't wait to find fun, and snorted and threw out a sentence: "Follow and see!" ”
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