Pei Yue stood in the corner of the courtyard, squinting at Li Tao Zheng'er's eight hundred gestures.

"Uncle Yue! Do you think these moves I practiced worked? Li Tao stopped and wiped the sweat from his face.

"Little master, I don't understand, it should be okay!" Pei Yue pretended to be confused.

"I just don't know if it's going to work?" Li Tao didn't know the bottom in his heart, and muttered in a low voice.

"The little master has practiced so hard, it must work!" Pei Yuele comforted Li Tao.

"That's right!" Pei Yue's words gave Li Tao a little confidence, and he began to walk again.

After Pei Yue entered the house, he was stopped by the Yuan clan in front of the window: "Uncle Yue! Who did Tao Er learn these tricks from? How do you look at it, how do you feel awkward! ”

"Oh, I learned it from Fan Jiulang's nursery!"

"This kid, there is a ready-made master like you at home, but he just went to find an outsider to learn this three-legged cat kung fu!" Yuan smiled bitterly.

"The little master is just having fun, if he really lets him practice hard, I'm afraid he won't do it! However, master, have you noticed that the little master's body seems to be stronger than before! ”

"Ugh! It's stronger! Yuan nodded.

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"Jiulang, let's not go to the private school today!" Li Tao, who was walking on the road, suddenly stopped and said to Fan Changfeng beside him.

"What?" Fan Changfeng was taken aback when he heard Li Tao's words, and looked at him like a monster.

"We're not going to the private school today!" Li Tao repeated it again.

"How's that going to work? The Master is going to play the board! Fan Changfeng's head shook like a rattle.

"Did you review all your homework yesterday?" Li Tao asked.

"Nope!" Fan Changfeng cried with a sad face.

"Kuro! Think about it, if we don't go to the private school, we won't be beaten until the Master finds out. But if you go to a private school now, if you can't pass your homework, you will be beaten first. If you go, you will be beaten, and if you don't go, you will be beaten, so it's better not to go! Li Tao followed the good path.

Fan Changfeng listened to what Li Tao said reasonably, but he was still a little hesitant, after all, he had never done such a bold thing.

Seeing that Fan Changfeng was a little shaken, Li Tao smiled secretly and continued to ask, "Jiulang, have you ever been to the county seat?" ”

"Naturally, I've been there!"

"Is the county town fun?"

"It's fun!"

"Jiulang, let's not go to the private school to play in the county seat! Anyway, we have to be beaten, do you think it's cost-effective for us to be beaten for a day of beautiful play, or is it cost-effective to be beaten in a private school and then honestly listen to the master's lectures? ”

"Alright then!" Fan Changfeng couldn't resist Li Tao's temptation, and finally agreed to his proposal.

said that they would go, Li Tao and Fan Changfeng carried the "schoolbag" and headed towards the county seat. Although the county seat is much farther away than the private school, the mood is different, and the two of them don't seem to be so tired when they walk. At noon, they rushed to Shucheng County.

"Ah Tao, this is the county office!" Fan Changfeng pointed to a gate with a wall and said to Li Tao.

The county government sits in the north and faces south, and the whole building is scattered and unified.

The county government used to be a silver shop, and Li Tao was curious, so he took a closer look. I saw that in the hall of the silver shop, a short and fat silversmith was burning, on the shop platform, a lamp was burning, the silversmith used a small tube to put it in his mouth, and forced the flame of the fire with gas, and it was always not extinguished, and the flame of the fire turned and shot on a piece of firewood, Li Tao was the first time to see this strange method of melting silver.

When passing by the iron shop, the iron had just been taken out of the furnace and sighed, and the man who beat the pig iron with a hammer was shirtless, and he danced a hammer weighing more than ten catties as if he were drunk, and beat the iron on the anvil rhythmically. As soon as he was hammered, he scattered in all directions.

In fact, what the two of them really want to go to is the cockfighting ring.

Li Tao listened to Fan Changfeng's introduction, and was immediately attracted by the cockfighting he said. In later generations, Li Tao had some understanding of cockfighting in the Tang Dynasty.

Cockfighting has a long history as a form of entertainment. The Tang Dynasty was especially prosperous, from the emperor and the prince to the ordinary people, all of them took cockfighting as a fashion in their ordinary life, and the people who never tired of it were almost obsessed. During the period of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a person named Du Yan who wrote a poem called "Yonghan Food Fighting Should Be Taught by King Qin". Li Shimin liked this poem about cockfighting very much, so he immediately reused Du Yan. Later, Du Yanguan went to the Ministry of Officials, participated in political affairs, and selected many capable people and wise men for Taizong. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, many of the princes loved cockfighting, and King Pei Li Xian and King Li Xian were also cockfighting enthusiasts. One day, the two met for cockfighting, and King Pei's rooster lost, and King Pei felt very uncomfortable in his heart, so he asked his writer Wang Bo to write an essay on King Ying's rooster and let out a sigh of relief. This was originally just a game between brothers, and it was only because Wang Bo's article was written too beautifully, and it spread in the palace for a while, and finally passed to Gaozong, who was furious after Gaozong saw it, and expelled Wang Bo from King Pei's mansion. In the Tang Dynasty, many princes' families, relatives' families, and Hou families were bankrupt because of buying chickens. Later, cockfighting spread from the court to the people, and it was also popular among the common people. As the saying goes, if something is good, it will be effective, and men, women and children are also doing things to make chickens.

When Li Tao and Fan Changfeng were about to arrive at the cockfighting ring, they heard cheers from a distance.

Outside the chicken farm, there are various chicken coops of various heights woven from bamboo, covered with green cloth. In the cockfighting ring, a dense crowd of people surrounds a cockfighting platform about three feet high, watching the chickens in the circle struggling for their lives. There were no seams between the people, and even the nearby stone lions were full of people.

The sound of shouting and raising in the circle stimulated Li Tao and Fan Changfeng, who were too concerned about the war in the circle. Fan Changfeng handed over the "schoolbag" to Li Tao to take care of, circled around himself, and finally tried to squeeze in through the legs of a big man. Who knew that he was too fat, so he grabbed a handful of the big man on his head and pulled it out raw.

Obviously, he couldn't see the cockfight, and Fan Changfeng was quite frustrated.

Li Tao was unwilling, handed over the "schoolbag" to Fan Changfeng, and gave full play to the advantages of his thin body, and in Fan Changfeng's envious gaze, he actually squeezed into the circle.

There are fighting cocks on the cockfighting platform to catch and fight, all of them have their feathers standing upright, their wings beating sharply, or pecking, or grabbing, or patting, or fluttering...... The spectators on the side of the stage surrounded the three floors inside and three floors outside.

The cockfight was so exciting, but after watching two games, Li Tao had to quit, and if he watched it any more, he would be as dizzy as the iron rooster. Of course, I was about to be squeezed out.

It's hard to squeeze into the circle, and it's also hard to squeeze out of the circle. Finally came out, Li Tao stroked the ribs that were almost squeezed, and snorted and panted.

"Ah Tao, tell me quickly, what's the situation inside?" Fan Changfeng staggered over with two "school bags".

Li Tao recounted the scenes of the two cockfights, and Fan Changfeng's eyes lit up when he heard it.

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