Chapter 81: Fighting Quails
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Because of this matter, someone wrote a poem specifically for this King Wu: "The narrow-hatted general is full of spirits, and he plays with quails with his pawns." After all, the romance loses the hills and ravines, and the quail hall has a beautiful woman in front of the hall. ”
Although the style of this poem is not high, it vividly describes the situation of King Wu with his attendants and pawns, embracing beauties and fighting quails. However, in Chang Jin's opinion, there is a smell of "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and the road has frozen bones".
Previously, Chang Jin only regarded Wang Qinian's description as an exaggeration, and when he really arrived at Quail Street, he knew that he was too late.
On both sides of the street, almost three or five paces away, you can see a stall selling quails. In front of the stalls were several layers of wooden shelves with bamboo quail cages, arranged in a neat row, and there were seventy or eighty of them.
A quail vendor was shouting with all his might, and beside him there were several people who looked like rich men approaching to observe.
"Yunsheng, let's go over and have a look. Wang Qinian folded the fan and stepped forward.
When he walked to the front, Chang Jin realized that although the stall was small, it had all kinds of bird cages, cloth bags, food bowls, and water troughs for raising quails. All things have spirits and qi, and Chang Jin has been entering the realm of ghosts and immortals for a long time, and his understanding of luck is more profound. Not only human beings have luck, but also animals and even plants and trees. It's just that most of the qi luck they carry in their bodies is very weak, with only a trace of white qi, which is almost negligible.
Standing in front of the stall and looking at it, most of the breath on the top of these quails is gray-white, but only one of the top of the head is strong white and thick as sandalwood, obviously this quail is not simple. This can also be seen from the reaction of the quails in the bamboo cage next to them, and the quails on both sides subconsciously dodge in the distance and dare not approach at all.
However, the quail had dull plumage, white pockmarks, and a small body, and suddenly looked malnourished. No wonder no one is in the spot.
When the peddler saw them approaching, he only thought that the business had come, and shouted loudly: "Two sons, come and take a look, the quail that the villain specially purchased from Zhengyang is fifty wen each, and Baitang is two hundred wen each." Pick one at random, get it to the Ten Thousand Bird Pavilion to fight, if you win, it will be a few taels of silver income. The day before yesterday, a Ma Xianggong bought a Baitang from me, won three games in a row, and earned more than a dozen taels of silver......"
Quails are divided into four types according to their age and feathers: virgin, early autumn, tanhua, and hakudo. In this **, only Baitang is good at fighting. The remaining three need to be raised, and the hawker looks at the three people and deliberately deceives them.
Although Chang Jin was interested in fighting quails, he didn't have the idea of joining in, he just glanced at the thin quail, shook his head and smiled: "Fighting quails, I don't understand." ”
"Literati fighting quails can be regarded as elegant things. Fight a game and have a good time! It won't cost a lot of money!" the vendor continued to sell.
Wang Qinian had suffered a loss in fighting quails, so he didn't dare to take it lightly, just shook his head.
Seeing that the two really had no intention, the hawker turned his head to greet the other guests.
"Young master, this quail is too expensive. When I go home after the exam, the young master will allow Komatsu to take a few days off, and I will also carry a cage to catch quails. Catch two in one night, and a dozen taels of silver will come in a month. Leaving the stall, Komatsu sighed in admiration.
"How can it be so easy, it's good to catch one in three or five days, and you can't use it at all in early autumn to catch it, so you can only raise it yourself" Chang Jin shook his head and said. Speaking of catching quails, Chang Jin really knows more than Wang Qinian. From memory, I know that Chang's father has done such a thing before to subsidize the family.
Don't look at a good one worth a few taels of silver, but it's very hard to catch. In spring and summer, the trees and grass are thick, and the quails are mostly hidden in the crops, making it difficult to catch. It is only in autumn and winter, when they wither everywhere and the quail moves into the grass and shrubs, that it is easier to catch.
Every night, the quail catcher places the nets next to the grass early and uses the female quail as bait. The call of the female quail easily lures the male quail to the end of the net. If you're lucky, you can catch two or three quails in one net. Bad luck, not a single one was caught in three or five days.
Even if you catch a quail, it is not a lot of money, and many quails are not suitable for fighting. Quails that are good at fighting are extremely difficult to find, and some people have caught quails for half their lives, and they can't touch a few quails that can bite them.
Newly caught quails do not immediately participate in the fight, and must be patiently adjusted.
When you play with it until it doesn't fly away on the back of your hand, it's ready to compete with other quails. The energy spent on it is unimaginable,
The quails sold in these stores have already been played with and can be bought to participate in battles.
The process of fighting quails is simple, and each side takes the quail they are fighting into out of the cloth bag. Onlookers can place bets with experience.
When everyone around him has made a bet, the owner will take out the fragrant corn and draw out the quail. Tease their feathers with straw sticks and get them closer together. It was a process of flirting, until the two quails could not bear it anymore, and they moved forward angrily, and their mouths and claws were torn and fought.
Generally, three or five rounds, the fight is bloody.
The winning side is rewarded with a gourmet reward from the host. On the losing side, all the effort that the master spent on the quail is wasted.
"The defeated quail fights the defeated chicken", as long as the quail is defeated once, most of them will lose their fighting spirit and dare not fight with other similar people.
In many cases, as soon as the owner sees that his quail is showing signs of defeat, he will immediately separate them and throw in the towel. This will also allow the quail to retain some of its courage and fight again.
When they are not fighting, the owner will put the quail back into the bag so that they can recuperate.
After looking at a few stalls, Wang Qinian couldn't bear it after all, and wanted to take Chang Jin to Wanyu Pavilion to gamble.
Chang Jin refused, saying that they could go with the master and servant, and they would walk around the street casually.
Seeing that he really had no intention, Wang Qinian said that he was bored, and took Xiao Song into the Ten Thousand Birds Pavilion.
Chang Jin walked slowly forward with the flow of people, and soon his eyes were attracted by a big man in front of the stall.
The man was seven feet tall, with a dark complexion, a head like grass, and although he was dressed in tatters, there was a bit of heroism between his eyebrows. Seeing that he has thick bones and strong muscles, he is obviously a martial arts practitioner.
What's more, Chang Jin actually felt a thick natal red qi from the top of his head. However, looking at the chaotic natal red qi, it should belong to a martial artist who has not cultivated the divine soul.
How could such a warrior be so downcast.
Before Chang Jin could see it clearly, he saw the big man come out of the crowd in frustration, run to a stall selling quails next to him to pick up for a while, took out hundreds of dollars to buy quails, and hurriedly returned to the same place.
"Boss Zhu is back, Boss Zhu is back, everyone let me. ”
Seeing the return of the big man, the onlookers gave way one after another and let him enter the field.
"Or fifty wen?" the big man asked.
"Of course, the two of us must have a good time today, and we can't leave until it gets dark, otherwise we will be a bad seed!" said a sharp-beaked monkey cheek with a pungent smile.
Dahan didn't say anything, he directly put the newly purchased quail into the pot, and then teased it with the grass stalks a few times. When the other party released the quail, the two immediately rushed together and fought each other.
Twenty or thirty idlers stretched out their heads in a circle, staring closely at the quails fighting in the basin.
"Chirp, chirp!" two quails with their wings tied and screaming in their mouths, pecking together!
Chang Jin didn't watch the quail fight in the field, but looked sideways and slightly probed a middle-aged man with a clear face next to him, the other party was wearing a long shirt, looking at the dress, he should also be a scholar.
The top of this person's head was also shrouded in red qi, but there were still a few wisps of black in the red, which should be caused by karma.
Seeing two people with red luck on this street in a row, Chang Jin didn't think it was a coincidence.
Just when he was secretly looking at the other party, the winner was determined in the field.
The quail that the man surnamed Zhu had just bought was defeated and was fleeing in the wooden basin to escape.
Seeing this scene, he shouted proudly: "Zhu Yuanhao, I am not as good as you in fighting, you can't fight quails, admit defeat as soon as possible and go back to serve the old lady." You've lost to me four times today, and if you continue like this, you're going to take off your clothes here and go home naked!"
Hearing this, the onlookers burst into laughter.
Zhu Yuanhao's face turned red, clenched his fists and stared at each other.
"Why, you still want to beat me, so many people are watching, you dare to move my finger, and immediately send you to the government to see who takes care of your blind old lady. Splashy was obviously emboldened, still chattering: "Give money, give money!"
"For you" Zhu Yuanhao put his hand into his shirt and groped for a while, and finally found a string of copper coins.
"Do you still bet?"
"Bet, you wait" Zhu Yuanhao replied with a stiff neck, turning his head and squeezing out of the crowd.
"Okay, there's a kind"
"Boss Zhu is a good ......"
"Repeatedly defeated, I admire Boss Zhu"
Seeing this, Chang Jin couldn't help but shake his head. Obviously, those pimples set a trap for the big man to drill, and the middle-aged scribe should also be in the same group as the other party.
Soon, Zhu Yuanhao bought a quail from the stall next to him and threw it into the wooden basin to fight.
Splashy also takes back the quail from the previous game and replaces it with another one to participate in the fight.