At that time, the dog often went to the bird market to fight crickets, this bird market is not a street and road place name, but refers to the flower and bird market behind the Hou family, in the Yiyi Street, Guodian Street in a few alleys, most of them sell birds and crickets, and now they no longer exist.

The bird market is dominated by lower-class people, so there are many open-air stalls selling food. Water belly, pig's head meat, lamb intestines, fried buns, noodles, fried stews, fried cakes, tea soup, etc., and all kinds of seasonal snacks, delicious and inexpensive.

You are full of food and drink here, you can not only go to the bookstore to listen to books, but also to the opera garden for recreation, you can also go to the villain bookstore to rent a few villain books to read, or go to the treasure game to push pai gow, gamble and turn over the stall, and some people like to fight crickets in the field of fighting insects.

Crickets are also called crickets, and they are called weaving earlier. Tianjin Weisan teaches ninth-rate old and young masters, and there are not a few people who are aggressive and have the joy of insects. From the old and young of the princes and grandsons, to the ruffians and gangsters who are pawns and pawns, it is not uncommon for them to lose their families and lose their fortunes in heavy gambling.

Once the dog was fighting insects with Liu Siye in the insect fighting field, and the "black-headed general" he raised faced Liu Siye's "golden-headed overlord". This Liu Siye fights insects and raises insects, which has No. 1 in Tianjin Wei, which can be said to be the lantern on the drum tower - "Gao Ming". I don't know how many opponents I have defeated over the years, but I bought a house and bought a land just by relying on the fighting insects.

On that day, Gou Shao and Lu Zhuangzi's "Ridge" in Nanshi choked on fire. This ridge is the one who was gnawed into white bones under the mouth of the rat that we said in the previous document. We're talking about many years ago, when the prism was still pulling the rubber.

Lingzi was stunned, the cricket lost to the dog, and in a fit of anger, the cricket with less dogs was not but Liu Siye's newly raised gold-headed tyrant, in front of Liu Siye, the dog was less than "fart mud", and the fart mud was the most useless meaning in Tianjin Weitu dialect. He was usually used to being praised, but when he heard this, he made a bet with Lingzi at that time, and the bet was three tables of the first-class banquet in the "Dengyinglou" restaurant.

At this time, the game of fighting crickets was about to disperse, Liu Siye knew that Lingzi loved to choke on fire and raise the bar, and he didn't take it seriously if he didn't mean to tie them up, he was about to leave but was stopped by Gou Shao.

He is a bowl of curium, wearing glasses, "no ballast, looking for ballast", these words are all out of the cheeks.

"What? Fourth master! Pee? Do you want to wilt the cold pot stickers?

Liu Siye is also a person on the face, although he gambles a lot of money, he is very modest, and he smiled with a smile:

"You're kidding! I still have something to do, so I'm not going to accompany you! ”

The dog Shao put his hand sideways and said with a disdainful face:

"Today, if you leave, then Tianjin Wei will not have you in the future!"

Although Liu Siye has self-cultivation, if he says less to the dog, if he leaves, it will be planted. In the old days, Tianjin people loved face the most, and they must not plant face when they were mixed on the street. At that time, without saying a word, he took out the cricket jar from his arms and said the word "please" to the audience.

The dog was not ambiguous, and when he got on the board, he took out the cricket jar, and the two of them were about to start fighting insects.

In the early years, there were rules for this cricket, with twenty-four cans as a bucket, and the size of the insect must be compared before the fight, and the same level can be put in a basin to fight. The male must have been teased by the female (called Sanwei Qiangzi in Tianjin, and Sanyinger in Beijing, named after its three tail needles) who had been teased earlier. After the basin, the two male insects look for their rivals, and when they meet, they begin to fight, and the final winner can take the word "general" as the name. But the dog is less this time because he is choking, and he doesn't care about the big and small rules, so he has to go down to the pot to practice.

This cricket fights and fights with its head first, so the cricket must first look at the head, and the male insect head must be big, so that it can appear strong, strong and powerful. Therefore, connoisseurs always have to look at the head first. The head is large and the top center is shiny and shiny, the head shape is high and the forehead is round, and the higher ones born in the two eyes are of the upper grade, and the connoisseurs call them "persimmon head" and "Bodhi head".

There is also a kind of cricket that eats the flesh of dead people in the coffin, with a large head and a wide horizontal shape like a coffin, called "coffin head", this insect body is large and strong, and it is also extremely fierce.

Secondly, it is necessary to distinguish the color, the head is blue-gold, purple cherry, and bronze are all of the highest grade, followed by pure black and white. There is also a kind of hemp head worm, and a white stripe on the forehead is also a good worm. In addition, the whiskers of good insects are thick and long, and the whiskers are bent and curled, such as old insects or diseased insects.

The last is to look at the teeth, the tooth pliers of the cricket must be dry and bright and not soft, so that the tooth pliers will be hard and sharp and good at fighting, especially the serrations of the tooth pliers must be sharp and sharp.

The dog has a large head and a high forehead, a black forehead, shiny oil, and slightly white legs, which is indeed a rare breed.

That's exactly:

"Aconitum green wings are golden, and the legs are like hooks like taut springs"

"The double pincers are painted like ink, and the insects die first when they see it"

But Liu Siye's insect is even more extraordinary, as soon as it comes out of the can, everyone looks at it, only to see that the insect's forehead is wide and thick like a coffin like a hammer, and the color is bronze with a slight red gold. The tooth forceps are red and grown, and the hind feet are abnormally strong.

There are poems to praise:

"The gold-crowned white-winged teeth are long, and the neck is wide and the forehead is wide, and the momentum is strong"

"The wings shook the sky, the bronze armor red pincer true insect king"

This dog is about to start a fight when he opens the pot and puts it down, but Liu Siye raised his hand and smiled slightly:

"Slow!"

Gou Shao tilted his head and squinted his eyes, glanced at Liu Siye, and said angrily with seven dissatisfaction and eight dissatisfaction:

"What? Cowardly? ”

Liu Siye was not annoyed, his index finger twisted the white jade wrench on his thumb, and said coldly:

"We can't do it! What's next? ”

Liu Siye is going to make a bet, he pointed to the house where the fighting insect was made, and he easily did not make a move, and he had to make a heavy bet.

The dog was not ambiguous, pouting and saying:

"Listen to you! You've made your debut, I'll pick you up! ”

"Just have your words, the previous one, the Meng family and Zhu Sanye fought insects, and went down to the ocean for three hundred yuan. We won't have many of them today," Liu Siye paused slightly, and continued:

"How about two thousand pieces of the ocean?"

When everyone around heard the two thousand oceans, they were all shocked!

"Two thousand is enough for what, two thousand is enough for what! If you want to come, let's make a whole, 10,000 yuan is now the ocean! Gou Shao didn't care how his friends pulled his sleeves, and he raised the bet to 10,000 yuan.

This was really sky-high at that time, at that time, a piece of ocean could be exchanged for more than two hundred or three hundred sons, and a table of first-class banquets in Dengyinglou was only two or three oceans. There are few dogs, which is choking on fire and fighting for wealth. Within three days of this gambling fight, the news spread throughout Tianjin.

Liu Siye didn't want to gamble with the dog less, but he couldn't stand his words. Besides, the people on the scene must not be face-saving in front of the old and young masters of Tianjin Wei, gritted their teeth and made a bet, found a guarantor to write a note, and the two signed and drew a bet on the spot, gambling for 10,000 yuan.

Before starting the fight, it is necessary to go down to the scout to pluck the crickets, and the scientific name is Zhangjiao (芡), or under the cricket. It is to use spies or weeds to pluck crickets to increase the fighting nature of crickets.

First of all, the herb is not the kind of raw material used to make the powder, but a plant called cricket grass or cow tendon grass, the stem of which can be split into filaments to tease the crickets.

Fighting crickets have a long history, so the lower root is also ancient, according to legend, in ancient times, dozens of roots of grass will be split from the beginning and glued on a small stick, some like a broom, some like a big knife. Then he stained the head of the dragon with the blood from the head of the fly. The easiest way for this kind of grass to make crickets "open their teeth" is to open the palate.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Artemisia annua began to be used as a spinner, and the thin Artemisia stalk was glued to the head of the rod with mouse whiskers or weasel tail feathers to tease the crickets, but the effect was not as good as the effect of the weed.

This good grass scout should choose a long straight straw a few days before the white dew, and then steam it in a rice pot first, and then take it to the sun to dry, so that it is three steaming and three drying, and then pick out the grass with many hairs and soft, bright and tough color. Finally, the fur is stained with blood from the fly's head. This is the best way to come out of spies.

Then there is the technique of thickening, the thumb, middle finger and index finger three fingers pinch the spy rod, twist the spy rod to tease the crickets, so that the crickets are like facing the enemy, and the wings and open teeth are the great victory of sex. In addition to daily training crickets, opening teasing, inter-bureau guidance, and sub-bureau teasing can all be used.

Don't underestimate the kung fu of this gourd, the master of the gourd is a clear division of yin and yang, soft and soft, with rigidity, crickets generally if the fight is lost, it will lose its courage and fighting spirit will be wasted, but if it is in the hands of such a master, even if the defeated crickets are defeated, they can also rely on the crickets to make the defeated crickets fight again, flutter their wings and hiss, and fight again.

Liu Siye's palm is a must, that is the housekeeping skill of the top door, and he has worked hard underground. Over the years, winning houses and land has all depended on this effort.

Just now the bureau was dispersed, the old and young masters walked out in twos and threes, many people still danced with their eyebrows and commented, which game is so exciting today, some people talk about fighting insects and talking about insect products, and some people talk about insects from insects to cricket jars, and from cricket jars to literary play, from literary play to eating and drinking, talking about which water bursts belly authentic which sheep soup tastes right, in short, Tianjin Wei's gentlemen, most of them can talk about being able to talk about being poor and funny, and they can run trains under their tongues.

At this time, suddenly Gou Shao and Liu Siye wanted to choke on fire and gamble, and after a while, everyone gathered around the arena, and even the people who had already left turned back.

The crickets on both sides passed the spies, and all of them opened their teeth and "chirped" and hissed with their wings. The old and young masters of the bucket basin stared at the bucket with wide eyes, hoping that the two insects would start to fight for a while, but as soon as the gate was opened, everyone began to wonder.

In the basin, the two insects leaned over to confront each other, the "black-headed general" with few dogs only hissed but did not step forward, and Liu Siye's golden-headed overlord was even more strange, not only motionless but also not even barking.

Looking at the basin, there was a fake expert in the crowd who pretended to know how to do it, and whispered:

"High! Tall! This black-headed general is really a treasure worm, this is called, this is called knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, first use the scream to stop the other party, and then take down the opponent in one go......"

"Come on, come on! That's what scared Liu Siye's worm! Liu Siye, the golden-headed overlord, is amazing."

Here, the more "expert" master, while watching and discussing, also broke up the art of war:

"The insect Liu Siye is called to watch its changes, respond to all changes with the same, and wait for the opportunity to move, this is the art of war, and the soldier is treacherous, which is the so-called ......"

Some people are impatient and choke up:

"Don't be foolish, take a look! The black-headed general is going to pinch it! ”

In the basin, the black-headed general flapped his wings and hissed and opened his palate, and began to stride in the basin, swimming in front of the golden-headed overlord.

The crowd around began to sigh again, and there was an elder in the crowd, and everyone instantly fell silent as soon as he raised his hand. This elder is famous in Tianjin Wei, an old gangster who took the mountain, he loved fighting insects when he was young, and when he was old, he collected the mountain and specialized in being a guarantor in the insect fighting field. When the big guy fights insects and gambles to make money, he acts as a guarantor, and usually maintains the rules and order in the factory, and then draws some money from each game every day.

The old gangster's surname is Li, and he fought fiercely with the stinky toad Wang San'er of the Nanchengjiao pot gang in the old city, broke a leg, and got a bandit called "Tie Guan Li". Although Tie Guan Li took over the mountain, he is still an old-timer in the gangster world, and Tie Guan Li and Nanshi gangster Li Jingang worshiped in the early years, and they have the same surname, I don't know that they are really brothers of the same clan, and no one dares not to give Li Jingang face, so Tie Guan Li is still the master that no one dares to provoke. As long as Tie Guan Li raised his hand to suppress the words in the field, no one dared to squeak anymore.

At this time, everyone was silent, and their eyes were all attracted by the situation in the basin. I saw that the black-headed general in the basin suddenly stopped hissing, his feet were like bows violently, his body suddenly popped forward, and the top of his head slammed into the golden-headed overlord opposite. The golden-headed overlord was still silent, and his feet suddenly exerted force and jumped backwards, and the black-headed general missed a blow and hit the air.

Although everyone has seen Liu Siye fighting insects, few people have seen Liu Siye's new golden-headed overlord under the bucket, let alone a cricket that can act like this. When people were about to marvel, they saw the golden-headed overlord in the basin suddenly leaping forward, as if he was going to wrestle with the black-headed general in front of him, but the golden-headed overlord seemed to be insufficient, and this was still half a finger away from the black-headed general, and he didn't even touch the opponent's oily skin.

At this time, the black-headed general also rushed forward for the second time, but this time the attack was stronger and more powerful. At the moment when the top of the two insects was about to collide, the golden-headed overlord stepped out of the left step back and forcefully, and his body flew out horizontally to the right, followed by the power of the missile and pounced on the side of the black-headed general, opening his upper jaw and biting the black-headed general's hind legs......