Chapter 15: Selling Art (Subscription Requested!) )
Gao Zhen took the small wooden sign in his hand and took it for a while, feeling quite weighty. Then he reached out and touched the carp carved on the wooden plaque, which was carved in a yang technique, protruding from the circular groove, and looking lifelike. Gently rubbing the body of the fish with your fingers, you can also clearly feel each piece of scale.
There is no engraving machine in the fairy world, let alone industrial production, these small wooden plaques must be carved by craftsmen one by one. If each piece can be carved so well, it is actually quite a small amount to receive 10 copper coins.
"Hey, what's the fuss!" Someone patted him from behind.
Looking back, he saw the young man holding a removed task card in his hand.
"That's it, fortunately, I moved quickly, and several people wanted to grab it. Just now, there were even people who wanted to cooperate with me, and the reward was only 200 copper coins, and if you added more people, you would lose money. The young man said, handing the sign to Gao Zhen's hand.
Gao Zhen took the task card and looked at both sides carefully.
The front of the sign reads: "Mission: Perform talents, solicit guests, difficulty: 1 star, Publisher: Boss Ouyang of the Drunken Weng Pavilion Tavern, reward: 200 copper coins, increase as appropriate according to the situation of soliciting guests." ”
The reverse of the sign reads: "Anyone with unique talents can take on this task, with a minimum of 1 to 4 people." After receiving the task, you can go to the drunken man's pavilion to find Boss Ouyang, and the working hours are generally half a day, morning shift or afternoon shift. Additional compensation, based on the number of guests attracted on the day. All the money rewarded by passers-by can go to the person who took the task. ”
After reading this task card, the first word that flashed through Gao Zhen's mind was: showmanship.
"You want me to go busking with you?" Gao Zhen looked at the young man in front of him with a serious expression in a daze.
"What's the problem? You can earn more than 200 copper coins in one afternoon, not counting additional rewards and rewards. You play chess so well, isn't it nice to set up a chessboard at the door of the tavern with me and perform chess? The young man said like a fool.
"This ...... It still seems to be the same truth...... However, what kind of performance method is used to play chess in this performance? "Gao was confused for a moment.
"Oh, you'll understand! Let's go through the procedures for picking up the task, and then hurry up to the drunkard pavilion, it's two o'clock soon, and the morning shift and the afternoon shift will be changed! The young man pulled on a high pillow and walked towards the check-in place.
"Oh, by the way, the more quests you complete, and the higher the star rating from the person who posted the quest afterwards, the faster you can level up your carp card. When you get to Ercarp, you can go to the middle and third floors and receive about four-star tasks, and the rewards for those tasks can be rich, and some publishers will directly give promotion materials. The young man added.
After the two of them finished checking their identification numbers at the place where they went through the formalities, they hurriedly came out of the Chihiro Tower and ran towards the Drunken Man Pavilion.
At this time, Gao Zhen remembered that he passed by the drunkard pavilion at noon, and saw a performer dancing swords, drinking, and reciting poems there. It turned out that he also took over Boss Ouyang's task in the Qianxun Tower, and made money by performing arts.
It seems like a good idea to send a quest to an immortal cultivator to pick it up, unlike a long-term employment relationship, where you have to worry about him breaking the contract from time to time. Tasks can be done at any time, and there are many benefits for both the publisher and the immortal cultivator.
Two o'clock is almost the time when the guests who have finished lunch have walked about the same, and the boss just changes the wave of people who sell their arts to attract customers, prepare for the evening, and attract more users.
They soon arrived at the Drunken Man Pavilion and met Boss Ouyang. He was a pot-bellied middle-aged man, rich and noble, covered in copper stench, and not at all as poetic as the name of his tavern sounded.
"You two took on a mission to entertain customers?" Boss Ouyang asked with his big belly.
"Yes." The young man shook the task card in his hand in front of the boss's eyes.
"What are your talents? Show it off. The little brother who came in the morning was very level, not only did he dance well with swords, he drank well, but he also did very beautiful poetry. I've got a lot of customers! Don't lose to him, since it's two people, you should put on something more special. Boss Ouyang was in a good mood and twisted his mustache.
"Let's play chess!" The young man said.
"Playing chess? Interesting, never heard of it. Can this thing still perform? Boss Ouyang asked curiously.
"Hehe, I created my own to let you see." The young man winked at the high pillow.
Feed! What the hell, I don't even know what to do, don't fool me! Thinking that this was the first task he had taken on in the fairy world, Gao Zhen's heart couldn't help but be a little nervous.
"Heaven is a chessboard and stars, who dares to play?" The young man suddenly said loudly, glaring at the high pillow.
"Uh...... The ground is made of pipa and the road is made of strings, which one can be played? Gao Zhen replied according to the lower link on the elementary school language book.
"It's so neat! That's right! Wonderful! "Boss Ouyang obviously didn't go to elementary school, and he was amazed by the lower link.
"Huh! If I dare to play today, I will play! The young man raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand in front of him, and with a swing of his aqua blue long sleeves, he actually condensed blue and shiny silk threads out of thin air.
These threads stretched through the air, intertwining with each other, and finally forming a huge chessboard between the young man and the high pillow. With a total of 19 horizontal lines, 19 vertical lines, 361 intersections, and 9 stars slightly larger than the others, it is a standard Go board.
The chessboard is made of bright blue silk and shines faintly, which is very dazzling. Two pale yellow bags with chess pieces at the young man's waist flew up, one hovering beside him and the other hovering over his hand.
"You play black, you play first!" The young man smiled at the high pillow and said.
"Playing chess?" Still a little blindfolded, he tried to reach into the pale yellow cloth bag containing the black chess pieces beside him. Gently pick one up with the index and middle fingers of your right hand. Suddenly, the starlight appeared, and the chess piece he was holding bloomed with blue starlight, spreading and rippling.
It's amazing! Gao Zhen thought to himself, and a cold came from his fingertips, straight to his heart, making him feel extremely awake and comfortable. He remembered the "golden horn and silver-edged grass belly" that he had often heard others talk about, so he put the sunspot in his hand on the star position in one corner of the chessboard.
The moment the chess piece came into contact with the bright blue threads intertwined on the chessboard, it shone again, and with a crisp sound, Gao Zhen found that the chess piece actually sucked on its own, and like the glowing chessboard, it hovered quietly in the air.
"Hey, play some tricks! Look at mine. The young man said, and also took a piece from the "chess jar", but instead of immediately placing the piece on the board, he threw it into the air. Then, he stretched out his arms and put them together into a long slide. The piece fell, landed on the back of his right hand, and rolled down his arm, past his neck, and onto his left arm.
"Good! Good! It's amazing! The clerks who were cleaning the room were all attracted to it, and they exclaimed, applauded, and applauded.
"As soon as the coercion goes outside Kyushu, the Spring and Autumn Wolf Smoke will enter the game!" The young man said aloud, snapped, and lowered the white piece on the star position in the other corner with his backhand.
"Good poetry! What a poem! Boss Ouyang smiled and applauded the performance of the two.
"Let's go! Let's go out and down! With another wave of the young man's long aqua blue sleeves, the hanging chessboard flew out of the door with his movements, and then quietly stopped on the side of the street outside the drunken man's pavilion. The two pieces that had already been played were motionless, as if they had been carved into the chessboard.
Seeing that everyone applauded, Gao Zhen secretly sighed in his heart that the performance program that this young man came up with was indeed extraordinary. So he cooperated with the young man and walked out.
"It's your turn!" The young man hooked the corners of his mouth and raised his chin to the high pillow.
Gao Zhen understood what he meant, he wanted to let himself get some unique skills, not just play chess.
However, after a lot of stomach scraping, I really couldn't come up with any verses about playing chess. He looked up in distress and happened to see the signboard that read "Drunken Man's Pavilion". He had an idea, but he was slightly embarrassed, and finally he had to read:
"If the sun rises and the forest opens, the clouds return and the caves are twilight, the obscure change, the morning and twilight in the mountains are also ......"
While reading, he pulled out his Qingmo sword, gently picked it in the chess jar with the tip of the sword, picked out a sunspot, and then stabbed forward in a dashing manner, relying on his sword qi, and put the chess piece on the chessboard.
"What a poem! Good poetry! There is a kind of drunkard who does not care about wine, but cares about the artistic conception between mountains and rivers! ”
"This swordsmanship is also so good, you can actually play chess with sword energy, wonderful! Wonderful! ”
Sitting high and young man, you say a word, and I read it one by one; You take one step, I go down one step, and there are more and more people coming to watch the chess, and there are more and more copper coins in the bowls they put on the side.