CHAPTER XVII
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Today's market in Longquan Town is much more lively than in the past, and a large group of people on the street seem to be watching something, which is particularly conspicuous among the people. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Curious people who want to see the excitement also slowly gather over, making this circle bigger, and there is not even a gap between people. The successor can only stand outside the circle. In the open space of the circle, there was a man who seemed to be about to perform and was saying polite words to the audience, and this person had a small wooden cart next to him, with a large box on it, and a table in front of him, on which were placed some strange props, and I don't know what they were used for. Looking at this man carefully, he was about thirty years old, and he was very thin in average height, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, two mustaches on his mouth, and his small eyes that kept rolling around looked very obscene.
This person saw that more and more people were attracted, and he knew that the time was almost up, so he said: "Fellow villagers, brothers, I have been traveling south and north for many years, and today I passed by Guibao Land to show everyone some new things, but it is just a mixed meal, you have to look at it, and enjoy a three-melon and two dates, even if it is a personal field, thank you." As soon as he finished speaking, he took a plate from the table and held it in his left hand, and with his right hand took a handkerchief from his pocket and put it on the plate. He smiled and said, "Everyone, please see." ”
As soon as he lifted the handkerchief, something was crawling around on the plate. Everyone looked closely, and it turned out to be five white mice. Someone laughed and said: "Who has never seen a trick, it is common to change a pigeon, and it is even worse for you to change a few mice to fool us, don't you say?" Hahaha. Then everyone laughed at this man's ability. The man was not annoyed or embarrassed, and explained with a smile: "Don't be busy, I didn't say that I was a trickster, please be patient first." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and signaled everyone to quiet down. Then he picked up another chopstick and tapped the plate rhythmically, and saw that the five white mice immediately stopped moving as if they had been ordered. When everyone saw it, they became interested and watched the next performance intently. The man continued to tap on the edge of the plate, and the rats lined up in a very orderly line, like soldiers waiting for the next order. After a few more knocks, it formed a "ten" figure. Then, with the sound of percussion, they were arranged into the shape of "two" and "people" one after another, and everyone saw this burst of cheers and applause. Everyone thought that they had seen a lot of tricks like monkeys, and today this "playing with rats" was the first time. It is often said that monkeys are monkeys, and monkeys are indeed smart. However, it also takes a lot of effort to train a monkey, and it is not something that can be trained in a few days, not to mention that things like mice are much more stupid than monkeys, and it is of course more difficult to train mice. This man must have been truly capable.
The man then raised the plate to the level of his head, and whistled twice, only to see the rats jump on top of his head one by one and stack them steadily. The five little mice became a small tower without shaking. Seeing this interesting scene, everyone cheered again, and the applause continued.
When he saw that the time was near, he put the plate above his head, and the rats obediently returned to the plate. With his right hand, he put the handkerchief on the plate again, and said casually: "Everyone, this rat can listen to my brother, mainly because my family has a secret method of repelling rats." Of course, I can't tell everyone about this method, I still have to eat, haha. But I've got something to sell to everyone. After saying that, he took the handkerchief away, and the rats on the plate were gone, and they were replaced by a large pile of paper bags, presumably medicine or something. There was a lot of talk. The man continued: "This medicine of mine is an elixir made according to the ancient method of my family's ancestors, and it can be used to protect the rats and insects in the house, although it is not a miracle medicine, but it is also quite useful. It is fate to meet you in your precious land today, and I sell this medicine to you cheaply. ”
After hearing this, the audience realized that this person was not only playing with rats, but also selling rat poison, most of them were bored when they heard that rat poison was boring and left, and occasionally a few of them left when they left as a reward for the performance just now, and the remaining small group of people seemed to be a little interested, all because he had a good way of taming rats just now, and he must have real skills, and it was speculated that this rat poison should also be really useful, so they asked the price and usage of this performer to buy rat poison.
Seeing that those who didn't buy rat poison were going farther and farther, his little eyes were rolling like his little mice, he suddenly sneered and said to himself, "Let's see, there will be a time when you come to me." As he spoke, there seemed to be a cold light in his eyes, and his face was quite proud, and the man then packed up his things and went to the stall.
That night, there was a constant noise from every household in Longquan Town, mixed with the sound of some tables and chairs falling, and some bottles and cans smashing. The lights of the rows of houses gradually turned on, and it was obvious that the owner's family was also awakened from his sleep by this sound. Then came a riot, and for the residents of Longquan Town, the night was not smooth, and many people did not close their eyes all night.
The next morning, the neighbors were talking about the previous night, and it turned out that last night there were rats in every house, which made a mess of the house, and no one slept well all night, making everyone tired and breathing. Someone said: "It's useless to have rat poison at home, how can rats make such a fierce fuss." This rat is also weird, there has been no such trouble before, this time it seems to have been discussed, a large group of rats came, and everyone suffered. Everyone was talking, and suddenly someone else said, "I heard from a few people who didn't make trouble with rats that they met an acrobatic seller of rat poison in the market yesterday, and that person seemed to be quite capable, and they bought this rat poison and scattered it at home on the same day, and they didn't make trouble with rats yesterday, and they slept peacefully." It seems that this medicine does work, let's find the medicine seller to buy some. And they said yes, and went to find the rat tricker.
This day and night there were rats again, but the few families who used the secret rat poison did not suffer from the rat plague, and the miracle of this medicine was verified, and the next day the news spread, and everyone said that this medicine had a miraculous effect, and they rushed to buy rat poison first. The rat charmer took the opportunity to raise the price again, and he naturally made a lot of money and gained a lot of ill-gotten gains.
This man was sitting cross-legged in his guest room, counting the money he had gotten, he couldn't help laughing, the face that laughed was even more weird, he touched his two mustaches, and laughed in a low voice: "The show is still to come, what is this little money, hahahaha." ”
After that, he stood up, picked up a whole roast chicken on the table, turned around and walked towards his big wooden box, opened the lid of the wooden box a little, and it was pitch black and nothing could be seen, and suddenly two lightning eyes shot out, and the eyes were green, and they looked very cautious.
The man was quite unimpressed, threw the roast chicken into the box, and said casually: "Hehe, you make money for me, and I naturally can't forget you when I get benefits." All I could hear was the sound of chicken eating in the box, mixed with the clattering of teeth.
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