Chapter 9: Cockfighting
In the bathhouse, Chen Pi picked up Chun Shen, brushed it with a board brush like a fish, and the blood bumps on his head were brushed off, and Chun Shen stared at Chen Pi's crotch, very curious.
There is still a need to pay attention to food, children should not be too dirty, there can be no pus, otherwise they will not be able to enter other people's stores, now the country is in chaos, it is already very difficult to ask for food on the road, one person gives money, all the beggars come around, and fight together. The common people have not dared to give alms on the road, and it is best to go to the back hall of the house if they want food, this child is suitable, but if the child is too dirty, he will be beaten out when he enters the temple of other people's shops, so it can't be too dirty, and it can't seem to have an infectious disease.
Chen Pi helped him clean up, and then he slipped into the bamboo basket with all kinds of broken towels, and the bathhouse was warm, and Chunshen soon fell asleep. Chen Pi found a place to lie down by himself, thinking about it, this little ghost is so miserable, he will always ask for a penny tomorrow, and tomorrow, he will become famous.
Thinking about it, he couldn't sleep a little. On the contrary, it was Chunshen, shrunk in the bamboo basket, and snoring and fighting.
The next day, Chen Pi still got up late, Chen Pi moved his body, he has been active in the tibia since he was a child, so the joints are different from ordinary people, Chun Shen learned from his appearance, and also moved his body. Chen Pi carried him out of the bathhouse, grabbed a handful of ash on the ground, patted his cheek and hair, and looked like he had just returned from the front line. And they kicked him out into the street.
Chunsi went to the street with a broken bowl, Chen Pi weighed a bag of old money, and did not go to the wharf, came to the east gate, there are Kaifeng people here to do cockfighting pits, it is said that twice a year, once for two months.
Kaifeng cockfighting tradition is long, more than ten years there are Kaifeng people here to open the chicken pit, just at the beginning, there is a cockfighting pit here, now there are three or four big chicken pits in the square outside the east gate, there are also people in Hankou who raise fighting cocks, there are also fighting gambling everywhere, but every year when Kaifeng people come, here is the most lively, all kinds of "chicken kings" in Tiannan and Haibei, "fighting chickens" have gathered over, fighting for three months in a row, tens of thousands of oceans in and out every day, there will also be a lot of "chicken head home" here, buying and selling breeders.
However, there are many rules for cockfighting in Kaifeng, and it is finally civilized, but over the chicken pit at the east gate, there is a mountain col behind, hidden in the middle of a forest, there is a special chicken pit in that place, and the cockfighting cock claws and chickens here wear iron hooks and sharp needles of various designs on their mouths, and they are wearing armor, which is very good-looking. The gambling person is a local one called Cai Dongnan, it is said that he is the descendant of the famous cockfighting master of Kaifeng, in order to please the dignitaries and sons of Hankou, the cockfighting is dressed up, and the killing is full of blood, and the gambling is more exciting.
There is a famous chicken on the field today called: "Kill Qin Huai", with a red neck and a red crown, the first eight strands of steel needles on the mouth are open like trumpets, and the neck is as thick as a human arm, even if it is a person, it can't withstand its pecking on the vital point, less than half a day, it has pecked four opponents to death.
Chen Pi bought three hands in the crowd, he was greedy and wanted to lose more, but the chickens he bought were killed Qin Huai pecked to death a few times, and the copper coins in his hand were less than half, he weighed it, left in a daze, and when he returned to the bathhouse, he saw Chun Shen holding a bowl of tofu and sitting on the steps.
Chen Pi stepped forward and squatted down, pushed aside the tofu, and looked for a penny in it, and after fiddling with it for a long time, there was no penny in it, only tofu.
Chen Pi grabbed a handful of tofu and hit Chunshen in the face, and Chunshen wiped it into his mouth. Wipe the ashes from your face along with them.
Chen Pi lay down at night, feeling annoyed in his heart, not that Chunshen's money didn't come, but that he lost money during the day, why did he lose so much at once. His mind was full of the "killing Qin Huai" look, and he was screaming and scolding in his sleep. The next day, before dawn, he wore the rest of the money and continued to rush to the chicken pit.