Catching swallows is a hard job, and it is much more tiring than catching chickens. In desperation, I had no choice but to decide to deceive my master for the first and only time, and I felt really uncomfortable for a while. The swallow that the master tied the red cloth strip should not be the swallow from Xiangyangzhuang, because I looked for it under the eaves of everyone's house, but there was no swallow. Many years later, I suddenly realized that the swallow was still in Xiangyangzhuang, but the red cloth strip on its feet had fallen off, and I didn't recognize it.

If I couldn't find a swallow, I couldn't catch it, so I had to catch another swallow, tie it with a strip of red cloth, and panic that I had caught it. When the master saw the swallow, he stared at me, saying that I had lied to him, and that I was not scheming at a young age, and that I would be looked down upon in the future. I was amazed at why the master knew that the swallow was not the original swallow. The master later told me that he had tied a live button on the swallow's foot with a strip of red cloth, but the swallow's foot I had caught was a dead button, so the master knew that I must have lied to him. Since that time, I have never deceived the master again, and I also have a habit of deceiving a person after being seen through it, I will never lie to him a second time.

The master said that swallows are not easy to catch, they fly too high and too fast. So, at the suggestion of my master, I switched to catching butterflies and dragonflies. They fly slowly and low, and the fly in the ointment is that they are hard to find in winter, and they hardly ever see one. So in the winter, I don't practice martial arts, but just listen to my master and mother tell stories at home.

I heard that there will be a bridge meeting after the beginning of spring, and when the time comes, martial artists and boxers come here to perform, and the children of each family go to see them practice boxing together, and you can sign up for apprenticeship on the spot. The bridge meeting within a radius of 100 miles, our Xiangyangzhuang is the most famous and largest, and many people with the ability will come here to catch the bridge meeting.

I don't know if there is such a thing as a bridge meeting, but we have it here every year. When a platform is set up in the river, sometimes two big boats are simply used together, and wooden planks are laid out as a platform, and the people who sing operas, perform tricks, and tricks are performed on the stage, while the people in the village stand on the bridge and watch, and the rich people can also hire a boat to watch in the river. In short, the bridge will be very lively. Last year, there was a Mongolian wrestling master who defeated three of our boxing masters in the village in a row, and no one could beat him. Although my master will definitely be able to beat him, the master said that he will not compete with him because he is not worthy. However, the three losing boxing masters will not be able to receive apprentices in the second year.

This year, I don't know if anyone will be in the limelight at the bridge meeting, I heard that Master Long is a master that everyone is optimistic about, and many people in the casino bet that he will win in the end. I know that the master secretly went to bet on Master Long to win. It's really strange, isn't it more convenient for the master to participate in the bridge meeting by himself and bet on himself to win? Why go to such trouble to detain others? I don't understand.

An uncle died in the village this year, so a widow and a widow's son were added. In the past, I was the only one who was called a widow's son, but now there is another one, and his name is Sun Dianying. However, the people of the village called him the son of the widow Jin Nan, but I didn't call him that, and still called him Xiaoyingzi. Although he used to call me the son of the widow Cuihua, but since he beat him and became the son of the widow, he stopped calling me like that, and became friends with me, the kind of good friends who are together all day! I really didn't think of it, and I don't think he would have thought of it before.

He also wanted to learn kung fu from my master, but the master refused to teach him. I heard that Xiaoyingzi's mother didn't give the master eggs, so the master didn't teach him. However, my mother didn't give the master eggs, but the master taught me. Although the master taught me very strange and very little, I still told Xiaoyingzi everything without missing anything, so that he could also learn to catch chickens, butterflies and bees. Xiaoyingzi said that he also learned kung fu, but after his father died, the family had no money for him to continue learning, so he had to give up. Xiao Yingzi's master is the dragon master, he taught Xiao Yingzi to turn his heels upside down, and also taught him to practice a set of Luohan boxing. Xiaoyingzi also taught me everything, and now I can also learn Luohan boxing. However, Xiaoyingzi said that what my master taught was interesting, more interesting than Luohan boxing. I think it's just the opposite, I like Luohan Boxing very much, but I believe that the master will teach me more powerful kung fu than Luohan Boxing in the future, and that must be the master's housekeeping skills!

Xiaoyingzi and I made an appointment to go to the bridge meeting together in seven days, but before that, I had to help my mother plow the ground first. We don't have oxen, and we have to use people to pull the plough, so it's very slow. However, we also have very little land, much less than the land of Landlord Liu's family, only his field is less than one-twentieth the size. So, instead of oxen pulling the plow, we ploughed our own land before them, and we could help them plow and earn some wages.

Xiaoyingzi is younger than me, so his mother won't let him work in the fields, and he will have a new father, and he won't have to work in the future. However, Xiaoyingzi didn't like the person who would be his new father, because he stayed at Xiaoyingzi's house all day, and at night he and Xiaoyingzi's mother shouted loudly in the house, so noisy that Xiaoyingzi couldn't sleep.

I persuaded Xiaoyingzi not to be angry, and when he married his daughter-in-law in the future, he would also call in the room, and he would not be able to sleep. Xiao Yingzi said that in the future, she would leave home and go outside, and she heard that the outside world was full of money, and the rich people in the village were all wandering outside, picking up money and coming back to buy land, buy houses, and buy livestock. I nodded and said, "Xiaoyingzi, you will definitely be able to pick up a lot of money and treasures in the future!" Xiao Yingzi nodded very seriously, and then his wish really came true. That's an afterword.