In front of the desk, the two sat down, Li Xiaochun said the reason, and Tang Mu still stared at the black cat intently.

That's the thing, that's the situation, and I have to go back to the ancient town-

Liulidi was originally a place for temple fairs, business was booming, ten miles were prosperous, and all eight villages in ten miles came here, bringing together a group of traditional street performers, who did not have to pay taxes and did not need to open shops. What is sold is art, and what is received is reward.

"Those who have money touch a money field, and those who don't have money hold a personal field!" In this sense, Li Xiaochun and Tang Mu are both such people.

A month ago, it was February 19, rushing to Guanyin Cave, coinciding with the temple fair, the ancient town of Liulidi was crowded, and there was a blind old couple among them.

In the past, the blind generally had two occupations: quyi or fortune telling, and occasionally performed a few times for the blind to touch the elephant, and learned a massage technique would also come to a "blind man touch", but the effect was not very good.

Quyi includes temporal songs, famous singing passages, long commentaries, etc., and the performers carry the sanxian or erhu to collect some reward money in crowded markets; Fortune tellers, fortune tellers include the approval of eight characters, reading the appearance of the hexagram, marriage, the passage of the year, the elimination of disasters and the extension of life, etc. For fortune telling, the blind man is the main force, carrying a signature tree, wearing a bowler hat, and a bullshit medicine on his temples, which is the dress of the average warlock.

They walked the streets and alleys, striking small gongs, and the name of the gong was "Reporting to the King". People believe in the blind, because everyone thinks that the blind can't see, just by a birthday eight characters, you can judge the good luck, determine life and death, it is really magical, such a person is a master at a glance, a few people in the family, a few chickens are clear to you.

These old blind men sat on the ground: "Father, old folks, when I first arrived in Guibao Land today, not to make money, but to make friends, to spread the master's Taoism and ......" often comes to the critical moment to say "The master wants to collect incense......

These blind people have their own rhetoric, all of them practice mantras according to the routines in the secret books of the rivers and lakes "Yingyao Chapter", "Military Horse Chapter", "Zha Fei Chapter", and "A Bao Chapter", memorize them well, speak one by one, can blow up and deceive, and their eloquence is no worse than Tang Mu.

The batch of eight characters will sing: "People rely on the roots of the tree with the great luck, the flowers and so on the grass in the coming year and so on, first talk about the year and then talk about the month, the sun is good to subdivide, the year looks at the ancestors on the poor and cheap, the brothers on the moon are estranged, the sun is dedicated to the husband and wife bureau, and the time is high and low to determine the children and grandchildren......" This way is called "wicker scarf" in the rivers and lakes.

Fortune tellers also pursue progress, some are not blind to draw their own cards, what dragons, phoenixes, tigers and snakes, pots and pans to draw casually, said that the sky is falling, as long as there is a mouth, can speak a mouth, immediately become a deceitful ghost.

The one who looks at the appearance is like this: "Look at the appearance of a gentleman, go with the flow of the year, the left and the right of the man are divided, the man talks about gossip, the woman looks at the five elements, the man and the woman look at the different looks, the facial features are upright and rich, and the facial features are biased out of poverty......"

If it is changed to a hexagram teller, it will be different: "The small hexagram box is three inches and three, shake three to shake three times, you shake the hexagram like me to turn it over, turn it out bad, don't ......worry about it, don't like it if it is good."

However, the blind old couple who came to Liulidi did not do this business, they were artists.

The old couple had a scarlet face, a shriveled face, like an old lady with a cat face, and a gloomy face, as if they had just crawled out of a coffin, and it made people frightened.

The blind old man has a melon seed face, his face is like willow wood, his skin is thin and tight, his chin has a three-inch white beard, he is wearing a black old-fashioned cloth coat, with a cyan patch on his trouser legs, and he is holding an erhu. The blind old woman has a disc face, a white face facing the sky, silver hair and a high plate, with black earrings, a blue hairpin, and a Qin Qin in her arms, dressed no different from a man.

From the dress of the two, it can be denied that they are fortune tellers, who dares to invite such a fortune teller? What are the two of them doing in Six Miles? The whole body is black, the flush is straight, and it's cool on the road!

He walked down the street, and scared half of the children so much that they cried wolf, crying dad and calling mother, and Erie was endless.

The blind couple went straight to the intersection of the two bluestone streets in Liulidi, found a vacant place to sit down in the south, took the erhu and Qin Qin into their arms, played it lightly three times, and was about to start the performance.

At this time, the street corner was full of people, curious, there are new things in the ancient town, don't you have to see it? The two of them sat against the wall, the wind could not blow in, and the whistles, shouts, and chatters exploded into a pot of porridge.

The blind old man coughed a few times and signaled quiet, which is called "fixing".

Squeak, squeak, erhu Qinqin plucked up, the two sang Jiangnan Yiyang dialect, the male played the erhu, the female played the Qinqin, and sang at the same time: "Love is melancholy, the meaning is desolate, the mandarin duck pillow is cold and merciful brocade tent, and Wuyun locks the jade and the cold ......"

I heard the woman's words again: "My heart is happy, my heart is panicked, how fortunate I am ...... tonight" sang to the onlookers. The people of Liulidi love to join in the fun, and when they hear a sound, if they don't go to find out, how can they stop? It turned out that this pair of fierce gods and evil spirits were artists, and everyone was relieved, and the children who cried before stopped crying, sitting on top of the adults' heads and watching, smiling from ear to ear.

After a while, the bluestone street was overcrowded, bustling, and noisy, leaving only a small open space in front of the blind man's heels.

The blind man sang "The Wandering Song", which was very emotional, causing many sighs from the onlookers. I only heard him sing: "Bian is kind, save me this Nian Zhao'er, the blessing is more kind, all rely on this to eat, save the suffering and the poor...... He sang while weeping bitterly, and rolled his eyelids from time to time, so that everyone could see that the husband and wife were originally "Nian Zhao'er" (blind people without eyeballs).

Among the crowd of onlookers, there was Li Xiaochun, who was tall and tall, crowded in the first row, facing the blind couple. When the blind man sang like this, he trembled and was full of energy.

Seeing the blind old man's two eyes empty, like skeletons, he secretly said in his heart: Mom, it's so pitiful, it's really a sin.

"Okay, good, melancholy, desolate, pillow cold mandarin duck pity brocade tent, Wu Yun locks off the jade and cold ......" The blind man sang, his voice was hoarse, with a little crying, from time to time he stopped the instrument in his hand and wiped his closed eyes with the back of his hand.

If Tang Mu is here: "Oh, look at this acting skills, it's not comparable to me!" ”

The onlookers donated one after another, Li Xiaochun couldn't bear it, took out the money bag, took the bottom upside down, and wanted to come forward to reward, at this moment, the blind old man's arms were cold, and the black cat that had been shiny jumped out.

"Leopard!"

Li Xiaochun screamed strangely, and retreated again and again, who would have thought that there was a full crowd behind him, surrounded by wind and rain, and he couldn't retreat at all. Seeing the black cat scurrying to his feet, Li Xiaochun's face turned pale and trembled in public.

Seeing the lively residents, they laughed: "Hahahaha, Li Xiaochun, were you kicked by a donkey, and you can't tell the difference between a leopard and a domestic cat?" Or lost the shadow, people are stupid! ”

The black cat seemed to know Li Xiaochun, hugging his feet and neck, just like seeing his master, his eyes were rolling and he made a "meow" from time to time...... Meow ......", sticking out his tongue, selling cute pretending to be cute in front of Li Xiaochun, swaying his little head from side to side, and rubbing Li Xiaochun with his head, which is cute.

He let out a long breath, his face turned red, and he said in his heart: "Black leopard, you have scared me terribly.?

In ancient times, there was a legend of the white snake repaying the favor and shocking love. The black cat's sudden intimacy, really called Li Xiaochun, a wild man in the countryside, frowned knotted, at a loss, seeing that the black cat was not scratching, meowing and meowing, and the cat's paws were waving towards him. The previous fright disappeared, and he instantly felt that this black cat had some aura, and he couldn't move his feet anymore, so he had to make a price for the blind man.

It seems that this man is going to get a pet.

Raising cats is a noble interest, and most of them are given to each other by relatives and friends as gifts. Selling cats and dogs has been regarded as a symbol of bankruptcy since ancient times, and most people will never do it. The blind man said: "This little brother, the old man is blind and blind, he can't see the slightest light, and he has been traveling south and north for half his life, all relying on this old cat, its old life is more valuable than the old one, sell it!" Are you kidding? ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Xiaochun's heart was half cold, he took out his money bag, and begged: "This cat is related to me, can the old gentleman consider it, what you want, as long as I can get it, I can mention it!" ”

The blind man put down the erhu, smashed his mouth, and lowered his voice: "Tsk, it's not okay to sell, you hurry up and get out of the way, don't delay the old man to do business!" ”

Unwillingly, Li Xiaochun glanced at the black cat, still holding his feet, and knelt down in front of the blind man with a puff: "Old man, you can make a selling price, I like to raise cats since I was a child, this black cat is related to me, you can make a price, pity and pity me, a shadowless person!" ”

Hearing the "Shadowless Man", the surrounding crowd coaxed one after another: "Sell to him, sell to him!" ”

The blind man leaned his head close to his teeth and whispered: "Little brother, get out of here, otherwise you will die!" Half-dead you! I can't see a shadow or a shadow, it's useless to me! ”

Li Xiaochun admits death, a tendon, can't give up, and asks for mercy, the blind man showed Li Xiaochun's wrist in the sleeve, the sleeve is Bai Sensen's bones, and the palm of the erhu is like a human skin glove.

Where are these people, they are clearly white bones crawling out of the cemetery.

Li Xiaochun saw that his back was cold, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he immediately retreated into the crowd, and the blind couple started a new round of performances, singing so that their calves trembled and their snot drenched out.

The sky is about to get dark, the wind is blowing, the temple fair in Liulidi has dispersed early, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the bluestone streets, and the people who watch the blind man's performance have also dispersed.

The blind couple put on their musical instruments and were about to get up and retreat, when they suddenly heard a whisper in their ears: "Hey, old man, sell me your black cat!" ”

"It's you again! I haven't left yet! The blind old man's snow-white face suddenly wrinkled, and he looked very unhappy.