Chapter 49: The Puppet
Seeing that Yang Yi agreed to pass on his own cultivation method, this parrot was very happy. "Childe is here for a while, I'll come when I go. ”
"What are you doing?" Yang Yi was puzzled.
"Apprenticeship!"
The parrot said, turning back.
It originally wanted to be called Master Yang Yi, but Yang Yi refused, so he was called a son.
Yang Yi didn't go far, and after a while, the parrot brought a wood carving from the forest.
I don't know what kind of wood this wooden stick is carved, it is more than a foot long, it is covered with runes, it has an oval head on it, there are no eyebrows on the head, I don't know what it is carved.
At first glance, it looks like a ......
"What is this?"
Yang Yi asked the parrot with a frown.
"I don't know, it's like a carved turtle head!" said the parrot.
Bah.
Send such a thing to yourself for Mao.
"It was something pecked out by a woodpecker in an old tree, and I had a night of dew marriage with it, and it gave it to me as a gift. The parrot said.
"I saw that this thing has a strange pattern, and it shouldn't be a mortal thing, so I gave it to Childe.
Yang Yi looked at this thing, there was no aura on the wood carving, it looked like a dead thing. But the rune was very strange, not innate, and clearly carved by man.
Yang Yi used the analysis of Jin Ren to conclude that this is not a magic weapon, it should be some kind of "key", or some kind of "token" or something.
Although it was of little use to Yang Yi, Yang Yi couldn't bear to brush the parrot's intentions and accepted it.
Perhaps its function is to be an ornament, pinned to the waist, tucked into the crotch of the pants, showing majesty......
Yang Yi thought about this and threw it into the storage bag.
At this time, Yang Yi had his first "pet baby" just like playing a game.
This parrot has a broken beak, which is just right to chat with Yang Yi to relieve fatigue.
"I'm going to a long way, and I'm going to encounter a lot of danger, and if I can't handle it, you'll have to run for your life. Yang Yi explained to the parrot.
"Childe, don't worry, according to my experience in the rivers and lakes, if you encounter an opponent who is arrogant and invincible, we will die if we can't fight. The parrot said.
Yang Yi was shocked, is this parrot so decisive and so open-minded?
"Not true. The parrot hurriedly explained, "If you can't beat it, you can run, and I was excited for a moment, and said scoop." ”
This is about the same, Yang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, do you have a name?" Yang Yi asked the parrot.
"Not yet. The parrot said, "Please give me a name." ”
Yang Yi looked at the colorful parrot and thought for a while, "I see that you are brightly colored, light and small, so I will call you ......."
"Hachi!"
This parrot thought that Yang Yi would give himself some elegant and beautiful name. I didn't expect it to be so earthy and so ugly.
It's just that it just begged to follow Yang Yi, and it didn't dare to be disobedient for a while, so it had to respond silently, just thinking that it could find an opportunity in the future and let Yang Yi change its name.
But from today on, it will be called "Little Eight".
At this time, it was already dark, and Yang Yi took Xiaoba to a market town.
It's a bustling market town with a night market lit up and vendors selling their wares.
Parrot Hachi likes to be lively, and when he comes to the market town, he is overjoyed.
"The Qinglou where I used to stay, that flower street, is even more lively than here. The parrot looked at the people coming and going, and said loudly to Yang Yi.
"Be quiet. ”
Although the street was noisy and noisy, the parrot squatted in Yang Yi's ear and shouted loudly, which also made Yang Yi feel very harsh.
"What about the Qinglou where you have been?" Yang Yi asked, "Are there any familiar girls in it?"
"It's long gone, how many years. The parrot said, "When the girls are old, they will find an honest man to marry." What I know ...... Now I'm afraid it's already a pile of bones. ”
Yang Yi secretly thought that this parrot seemed to have been in the mountains for many years.
Yang Yi walked through the market town and walked to the end, but saw an old man with a cold face who set up a stall.
Then the old man took out some palm-sized puppets from the baggage behind him and put them on the ground, the puppets were male and female, and they were made lifelike, like a miniature version of a real person.
After taking out more than a dozen puppets in a row, the old man took out more than a dozen copper bells the size of his thumb from his baggage, put them on his hand and shook them three times, and then shouted softly: "Dance." ”
Suddenly, the puppets that were originally not moving danced their arms on the ground, twisted their waists, and began to dance, only to see a line of puppets with light steps and consistent movements, without dullness at all, giving people a sense of elegance and ease.
"Good!"
I don't know when, the old man was already surrounded by people, and people stopped to watch and applaud. Everyone was amazed, it was the first time they had seen such a strange puppet, and they could sing and dance like a human.
"It's amazing. ”
Parrot Hachi also praised.
Yang Yi was silent, he looked at these puppets and only felt a little uncomfortable.
After the puppet dance was over, the old man shook the brass bell in his hand again and gave the order: "Kneel down and thank everyone." ”
As soon as the old man's voice fell, more than a dozen puppets knelt down in unison and kowtowed to the onlookers.
When everyone saw that the puppets could still understand human speech, they couldn't help but be even more surprised, and for a while they asked the old man if he was willing to sell these puppets.
The old man nodded and said he was willing to sell.
It's just that this puppet is difficult to source, and it is extremely difficult to manufacture, so a puppet needs a hundred taels of silver.
The people were all speechless, and some even exclaimed.
Most of these people earn only a few dozen taels of silver a year, and there is hardly much silver left after shaving food and clothing.
A puppet a hundred taels?
Although these people find puppets interesting, no one wants to spend such a large price.
A group of people watched for a while, and then dispersed.
"Childe, do you have any money, you can buy two to play with me. The parrot said.
"If you have money, don't buy it. Yang Yi looked at the puppets and said.
The parrot is not good at forcing it anymore, only watching with its eyes.
Yang Yi sat down in a teahouse on the side of the street, asked for a pot of tea, and looked at the old man and the group of puppets from a distance.
After a while, a few people who looked like family members came to the old man's stall and shouted, "My Wu Yuan has taken a fancy to your puppets and wants to buy them all." ”
"One thousand taels!" the old man said lightly.
"It's ready. One of the boys said, handing over a wad of silver tickets.
The old man didn't count, but put it in his arms.
Then he handed the ten brass bells to the family and said, "Tell your family members, if you want the puppet to do something, just shake the bell three times and give instructions." ”
"Understood. ”
There is a family member who responds.
One of the servants took the bell, shook it three times, and said to the puppets, "Go!"
Sure enough, the puppets got up and ran towards him.
It's magical.
The family put the puppet and bell into a cloth bag and went home.
The family left, and the old man cleaned up his stall and left.