Chapter 21: The Struggle for Life and Death
"Master Li, you are amazing! We've lost all of our money to you. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info "As soon as Zhu Mingyang walked to the wooden shed, he saw a group of people shouting around a person who looked like a civil official, this person was about forty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, full of energy, and his body exuded a heroic spirit beyond mortals. And in the crowd was a table with a wooden bowl-like utensil on the table, and two crickets were placed in it, separated by a baffle.
"Excuse me, who is Master Li?" Zhu Mingyang walked into the crowd, and it seemed that everyone was focused on the crickets, and they didn't care about Zhu Mingyang who was approaching.
"Who's Lord Li?" Zhu Mingyang raised his voice, and finally the crowd quieted down, and stared at Zhu Mingyang one by one, his eyes were like mosquitoes in summer, which made him very uncomfortable.
"Who are you? Shouting here, do you know what this place is? How did you get in? A fat craftsman walked over to Zhu Mingyang and asked three questions in a row.
"I'm looking for Master Li." Zhu Mingyang did not answer the fat man's question.
"You ......" Zhu Mingyang's ignorance seemed to anger the fat man, and he approached Zhu Mingyang step by step.
"Wait! I'm Master Li, what are you looking for me? Just when the fat man was about to have a seizure, the man who looked like a civil official stopped the fat man.
"Grass people Zhu Mingyang has seen Lord Li, I am the person recommended by Lord Zhang Shuo of Yuezhou Thorn History to come to repair Ganye Temple." Zhu Mingyang saw that it was Master Li, and hurriedly took out a letter of recommendation.
"Since it was recommended by Lord Li, why don't you go to the Ministry of Industry? Don't you know that you can only come to Ganye Temple after registering with the Ministry of Industry first, and then you can come to Ganye Temple after passing the Ministry of Works? Master Li took the letter of introduction and glanced at it, seemingly disapproving.
"It's not that I don't want to go to the Ministry of Industry, but I have gone to the Ministry of Industry many times, and I can't even enter the gate of the Imperial City." Zhu Mingyang told Master Li what happened to him.
"Well, I see. Since it was recommended by Yuezhou, there should be some ability! Master Li arrogantly threw the letter of recommendation to Zhu Mingyang.
"It's just a fluke in the next!" Zhu Mingyang secretly thought, it turns out that those who are officials in any era are all officials, and sure enough, the world is as black as a crow, except for Zhang Shuo, there is also a bit of human touch.
"Then let's have a discussion, get the worm!" As soon as Master Li finished speaking, the fat man obediently walked towards the wooden shed.
Soon there were six small wooden cages on the table, which were full of crickets, probably because there were many people around, and the crickets were frightened and kept jumping in the cages.
"I'll tell you the rules, we have three types of crickets here, these two are first-class crickets, these two are second-class crickets, and these two are Crickets of the third class. After a while, the adults will choose one from each cage first, and the rest will be yours, three games, two wins in three games, if you lose...... Hey. Before Zhu Mingyang could agree, the fat man had already shown a sinister expression.
"Can I refuse?" Zhu Mingyang is a little dissatisfied with whether others disrespect him.
"You can say no, but you have to get out right away." Before Master Li could speak, the fat man had already grabbed the conversation.
"Okay, if you don't want to compare, you can go now, don't bother us." Master Li didn't seem to mean to embarrass Zhu Mingyang.
"Good! I'm better than! But it doesn't seem fair that you choose first. Zhu Mingyang looked at the crickets in the cage and did it around the case.
"Is there such a thing as fairness in this world?" Master Lee began to pick out three sturdy crickets from the cage.
"Can we get started?" Zhu Mingyang seemed speechless for Lord Li's answer, so he could only pick up the cow tendon grass on the table.
"Bite it, bite it!" As soon as the baffle of the wooden bowl was removed, the crowd began to shout.
I saw that Zhu Mingyang and Master Li were engrossed in poking the tail of the cricket with the cow tendon grass, Lord Li first released the first-class cricket, but Zhu Mingyang released the Cricket, originally Lord Li chose the cricket first, plus it was a first-class cricket, I saw that this sturdy cricket bit off the leg of Zhu Mingyang's little cricket as soon as it came up, and after a while, Zhu Mingyang's little cricket was overturned by Zhu Mingyang.
"As I said earlier, Master Li will win!" In the first scene, everyone present surrounded Lord Li and cast flattering glances, but Zhu Mingyang shook his head with a light smile.
In the next second scene, Master Li released a second-class cricket waiting for revenge, but Zhu Mingyang took out his most powerful first-class cricket. As soon as the baffle was removed, I saw two crickets fighting fiercely, and the two crickets seemed to be two knights in a duel, and no one let anyone go. Although Zhu Mingyang had never played such a game, he had learned a lot through practice in the first game just now, and he poked his cricket's buttocks with cow tendon grass, and Master Li was already sweating, but he saw that the beads of sweat on his forehead slowly flowed down his cheeks.
"Eh!" In a shout, I saw Zhu Mingyang's cricket take advantage of Lord Li's cricket not paying attention, and bit down, and suddenly Lord Li's cricket fell to the side, as if seriously injured, and after a while, he lost his fighting spirit, crawling slowly along the edge of the wooden bowl, as if he wanted to escape, taking advantage of this time Zhu Mingyang's cricket jumped violently, and bit down, Lord Li's cricket actually couldn't move.
"Good boy, I throw in the towel." Master Li wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.
"My lord, there is one more sentence! We've got your back! When everyone saw Lord Li admit defeat, they all gathered around to cheer them up.
"Hugh has to be persuaded again. You and other idlers don't understand the mastery of this son. Master Li stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.
"My lord, I agreed!" Zhu Mingyang put down the cow tendon grass and made a move.
"It turns out that the son is deeply hidden, please follow me to the shed for a gathering." After speaking, he pointed to the shed behind him, and Zhu Mingyang hurriedly followed.