To get to the south of the clouds, I had to pass through a metropolis.

Chengdu Province is a very old and prosperous city, and it took me six days to get to this city.

I walked into the city with great curiosity and excitement.

Looking at the hustle and bustle of people, I thought, it's time to show my talents, to see if I can find the first dollar in my life, the first bite of food in this city.

I walked down the street, looking for an open area where I could perform my talents.

Before I knew it, I came to the mouth of the salt market, and my eyes jumped, and finally I saw a clearing with a willow tree in the clearing. This is a very ideal site, with willow trees as the target, and the site is wide; The only flaw is that there are not many idlers passing by.

Without idlers, who am I performing for?

The bright gaze dimmed again after I glanced around.

I came across the street from the entrance of a vegetable market, there were no stalls or shops, and behind it was the wall of a house, and there were no willow trees or anything, and I could use the wall as a target.

There are a lot of people walking here and there.

I picked up a stone from the side of the street and drew a circle on the blue brick wall. Draw a dot in the middle of the circle, in the gap between the bricks, and I'm going to shoot my throwing knife into it.

Once that's done, I start warming up. "Hmph, heh, ha, hey!" I created my own comical animal combo punches – a combination of chicken, duck, pig, cow, sheep, dog, monkey, snake and praying mantis standard moves.

This is the first time I have walked the rivers and lakes to solicit visitors.

I deliberately kept my voice long and weird, and made every movement very funny, just to get the attention of people passing by.

I saw people passing by stop and smile at me in amazement. I was so happy that they were hooked on my antics and movements. I did a very hard job to attract more people to watch.

Indeed, as I wished, more and more people stayed to watch my performances. So, I put my fists away, and it was time for me to show my real skills.

I retreated to a distance of a foot from the target, made a golden rooster move, and then slowly changed my moves—I folded my hands, one foot supported my body, and the other foot was coiled around the knee of this foot, and I squatted there like this.

I suddenly said the first sentence I said when I walked the rivers and lakes: "Everyone look at it! ”

Then I let out a strange cry: "Babble, hey! ”

With a wave of my hand, I sent out the first knife I walked in the rivers and lakes. With the sound of Bang, my jet-black knife was nailed to the spot in the middle of the circle on the wall.

The reaction of the people was not as I had hoped, they did not let out a round of applause, and they did not let out the exclamation of seeing the stunt.

So, I followed the example of the little yellow duck - the right hand bent to make the duck beak, the left hand turned behind the butt to make the duck tail, and walked around in front of everyone little by little.

Seeing my funny look, people burst out laughing. I got up and clenched my fists at the people around me. As I walked in front of people, I said, "Did you see that?" See me draw my knife, take out my knife, and hit the target? ”

Then, I stood in front of the crowd and looked at the people.

"See?" When I saw that people were silent, I spoke out loud.

There was a burst of laughter. I find that people look at me as if they are looking at a fool, a madman. I was wondered and surprised, what was not done right?

At this time, I saw a bald man shouting, "You didn't tell us what you were going to do beforehand, and you suddenly threw out a throwing knife, so how can we see?" ”

His words won a chorus of echoes.

I understand. I didn't go over and pull out the flying knife, I walked up in front of people, patted the flying knife on my waist as I walked, and said loudly: "Everyone, look at it, my flying knife is on my waist, I don't have a flying knife in my hand, I want to send it out and nail it to the target, if you can see me draw the knife, send the knife, and hit the target with the flying knife, even if my art is not practiced, if I don't see it, please reward me with a copper plate and give me a bite to eat." ”

I stood a foot in front of the target and shouted, "Everybody, look at it." ”

Then, I moved my hand.

With a "bang" sound, the second knife flew over and stuck to the first knife and nailed it to the dot.

Still not as much applause and applause as I expected.

I turned around and glanced at everyone, then walked up to the bald head and said loudly, "Uncle, please come and have a look." ”

The bald head turned his head to look at the people around him, and then smiled and walked with me to the target.

I pointed to the two throwing knives and said, "Uncle, please look." ”

After looking at it in amazement for a while, he turned around and pointed at my two flying knives and said, "It's not strange that you can hit the bull's-eye, the strange thing is that the two flying knives are tightly attached to each other, without a single gap." Speaking of this, the bald head suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Okay! ”

And so the applause rang out. The cheers I had hoped for rang out.

The bald head winked at me triumphantly, I didn't understand what the bald man meant. However, I was glad that there was applause and applause.

So I hugged my fists and walked around in front of everyone, and at the same time said: "Grandparents and mothers-in-law, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters, today Xiaosheng came to Guibaodi to offer you a ugly, I hope you will see my hard performance, reward me with a copper plate, give me a bite to eat, I am here to thank you." ”

The applause was gone, the applause stopped, and people left laughing "hehe".

"Hi, hi!" I stretched out my hand and cried out like this, and no one stayed to give me a copper plate. In a hurry, I grabbed the sleeve of an aunt who was leaving. Without waiting for me to speak, she shook me off and ran away in a hurry.

I stood there blankly, looking at the people leaving.

"The first time you came out to run the rivers and lakes?"

A voice suddenly rang out behind me.

I hurriedly turned around and saw that the bald head had not walked away, and he was standing behind me. I nodded to him, and then I bowed my head.

He said: "It's too naïve for you to think that others will give you money willingly." ”

I said, "I'll just throw knives." ”

He said: "It's about methods and strategies. ”

I knew a lot about him, and he said, "I don't understand that." ”

"You've learned a lot," he said. ”

I looked up at him and said, "You teach me." ”

"Yes," he said, "but you have to pay tuition." ”

I said, "Forget it." ”

I'm going to go over and pull my knife off.

"Slow," he said, "look at me." ”