"Jiulang, why did your father beat you on the board?"

"It's not because I'm not good at it!" Fan Changfeng sighed and said: "Somehow, no matter how hard I try, I just can't make a good calculation!" Daddy said, if we can't make a good calculation in our Fan family, we won't be able to gain a foothold at all! ”

Li Tao glanced at Fan Changfeng's carrot-like fingers, full of sympathy for him: "You are indeed not suitable for planning, if only there was a way to replace abacus and settle accounts...... Wait......"

Li Tao seemed to remember something, and he said with a straight face: "Jiulang, I have a way to replace the abacus, so that you don't have to be beaten in the future......"

Fan Changfeng's eyes widened: "Really? ”

"Don't believe it!" Li Tao pretended to be angry.

"Faith! Letter! ”

……

A big cockfighting platform was set up in a big courtyard, and the spectators on the side of the stage surrounded the three layers inside and three layers outside, and the owner of the cockfighting platform, Bao Daya, who was known as the "chicken head", took a few "chicken guys" dressed in short clothes to shuttle on the stage to take care of them.

Each person who watches the cockfight has to pay 300 yuan, and those who pay more are treated differently. In the closest place to the cockfighting platform, Li Tao and Fan Changfeng were sitting on the Hu chair at the moment, and there were tea soup and snacks on the Hu table in front of them, which was much more comfortable than the private school. Of course, for this treatment, the two of them spent a full sixty yuan, ten times that of others.

There was still a while before the start of the cockfight, Wang Xi saw two teenagers sitting at the front of the cockfighting platform from a distance, and couldn't help but feel curious, so he stepped forward to talk.

"Two little Langjun, I don't know if I can ask for your surname?"

Li Tao and Fan Changfeng already knew that the person in front of them was Wang Xi, one of today's protagonists, so they reported their respective names. Wang Xi is bold, Li Tao is also quite talkative, the three of them chatted, and after a while, they became acquainted.

Li Tao looked at Wang Xi humbly: "We are laymen for cockfighting, just trying to be lively, can Wang Langjun tell us about the skills of cockfighting?" ”

"It's a long time to talk, and you may not be able to finish it for a day and a night. Commonly used methods include 'golden distance', 'flower crown', 'mustard feather', 'raccoon paste' and so on. ”

Li Tao and Fan Changfeng's eyes lit up, staring at Wang Xi and waiting for the following.

Wang Xi saw the two of them like this, smiled slightly, and then talked eloquently: "'Golden distance' is a means of wrapping iron pieces around the feet and claws of chickens to increase the attack power during cockfighting. The flower crown is to wear red silk on the cockscomb of the chicken, not only for the sake of good looks, but also for protection, because in cockfighting, the cockscomb is one of the main parts of the opponent's attack. 'Wasabi feathers' are coated with wasabi powder on the wings of chickens, and the chickens will vibrate their wings when fighting, so that the wasabi powder will charm the eyes of the opposing chicken, thus weakening its combat effectiveness. 'Tanuki Cream' needs to train their fighting cocks in attack skills while also getting them used to the smell of foxes. ”

"Why is that?" Li Tao interjected.

"The fox that chickens are most afraid of, as soon as they smell the fox, they will immediately become distracted and panicked, so the place where the chickens are trained should be placed for a long time with a kind of oil made from fox meat. At first, the chickens will be restless and agitated, but over time they will get used to it. When the game starts, the owner of the chicken will slightly smear a little fox oil on the head of his chicken, although the smell is slight, but the opponent's chicken is not usually trained in this area, so that the two chickens have just come on the field, and their own side has a solid advantage. ”

Li Tao was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't expect that the seemingly simple cockfighting would have so many fame.

"Then do you and Geng Langjun's cockfight also use these methods?" Fan Changfeng asked.

Wang Xi shook his head and said disdainfully: "We don't use these indiscriminate methods, what we compare is the real fighting ability of cockfighting!" ”

Li Tao was about to open his mouth, but saw Bao Daya come over and ask Wang Xi to prepare to start cockfighting.

Wang Xi got up and hugged his fists to Li Tao and Fan Changfeng: "It's an honor to have the honor to meet two Xiaolangjun today, when it's over here, I will invite the two of you to dinner, I hope you don't shirk!" ”

Li Tao also got up and saluted back: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, I wish Wang Langjun a victory!" ”

"Borrow the auspicious words of the two!" Wang Xi nodded and turned to leave.

With the sound of a gong, Wang Xi and Geng Hu began to "fight each other".

Wang Xi this year out of the cockfighting deep eye sockets, bean green eyes, iron gray, feathers shiny like black satin, look stupid but not stupid, ugly but not vulgar, at a glance is not the Central Plains cockfighting breed. Indeed, this is a fighting from Turpan called "Iron Rooster". Since last year's defeat again, Wang Xi and Shi Kaiquan repeatedly discussed, feeling that their original strain of cockfighting cocks may not be the opponent of the Geng family's cockfighting, I heard that the Turpan cockfighting is brave and good at fighting, and it was once a palace offering, so he sent people to buy back this iron rooster at any cost. The iron rooster is worthy of its name, and before the cockfight, it has tried to fight with several local famous chickens, and all of them pecked the opponent to the ground with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves.

Geng Hu also hugged his own fighting. This is a fighting cock with jujube red feathers, with a large green sickle tail dragged behind the buttocks, quite like the flower collar worn by the official master behind the weft hat, the skeleton is not small, the chest is upright, and the tail is upright, an official state, waiting for Geng Hu to report the name of the chicken, the name of the chicken is also full of officialness, called "poinsettia"! Wang Xi has been fighting chickens for a few years, and he can be regarded as an expert, and he can see at a glance that "poinsettia" is a useless flower, so he exchanged knowing glances with Shi Kaiquan on the side, and let go of the iron rooster.

Sure enough, as soon as the iron rooster came on the field, he was full of fighting surnames, pecking in his mouth, sweeping his wings, and kicking his claws, killing poinsettia only had the ability to parry and had no power to fight back, and the battle reached the middle of the game, and poinsettia was pecked a few times by the iron rooster, and blood was gushing on his head, and he went straight around the platform, and he had become an escape chicken. When the water was made after the middle game, Wang Xi breathed a sigh of relief: there is a jargon in the cockfighting circle, called "the chicken can't stand three laps", and the iron rooster will be able to chase after the victory and win back the thousand cards for himself! He glanced at Geng Hu opposite proudly, but found that Geng Hu was even more free and easy than him, shaking the gold-painted folding fan unhurriedly, and the fan pendant flashed in the sun.

At this moment, there was a strange rooster cry on the stage, and then a chicken guy shouted in horror to Bao Daya: "No...... Oh no, Wu Laoqi overdone the water and sprayed the iron down! ”

Bao Daya panicked, ran over in three steps and two steps, pushed away the old man Wu, squatted down and hugged the iron rooster, hugged it in his arms, while warming the chicken, while blowing into the nostrils of the chicken, but it didn't work, only to see the iron rooster bent his back and curled up, shrunk into a ball, except for the occasional blink of an eyeball, it became a wooden chicken!

Wang Xi and Shi Kaiquan in the audience also didn't care about the rule that the chicken owner was not allowed to go on stage, and stepped onto the stage quickly, and couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this scene.

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