Chapter 7 Laughter and scolding are all fate

1. Eccentric

On this day, he was studying "Taigong Jinkui" in Luoxi Zen Monastery. Suddenly he heard the sound of a cat barking at the door, but at first he didn't pay attention.

But the kitten's barking was incessant, and it was very sad.

He opened the door and went out, and saw a kitten with its hind legs tied to a stone in the corner of the garden wall with a red rope.

The panicked cat was so frightened that it struggled to circle around the rope, tugging at the rope back and forth in the corner of the wall, and screaming for help.

He felt pity and quickly rescued the kitten, held it in his hand and stroked and comforted the frightened kitten, and returned to the house.

Just as he pushed the door back to the room, there was a "bang", and a gourd scoop filled with water fell down the lintel.

Both he and the cat were doused with soup.

"Hahaha, hahaha" A burst of gloating laughter came, and a girl in a red dress was triumphant and laughed wildly.

The mischievous man is none other than Thunderstorm.

"Nerd, it's not cool, it's not cool, so you can read a book in the sky, and you can nest in the house like a girl!"

The girl laughed and mocked him.

The watered kitten looked even thinner and thinner, flashing a pair of big eyes, meowing, and sad and pitiful eyes,

"You're crazy, you want to take people out to play, you can't call people to finish, why do you make it bad. ”

Here came another girl, white with long braids and a slender figure, gentle and delicate, and her jade steps were like weak willows supporting the wind.

She is Zong Ruopu. She was born with a delicate face, a goose egg face, round but quite angular.

Under the willow eyebrows, there are a pair of watery and phoenix eyes, and the lip line of the mouth is clear and beautiful, small and exquisite.

"What's the matter, I'll just toss him, a moldy man doesn't splash some water, and he is not afraid of smelling my elegant Zen courtyard?"

Lei Yu was a little rude, and she pouted and vibrated her words.

Liu Yunqiao didn't resent and complain about the thunderstorm, but just smiled bitterly, and he wiped the soaked kitten with a sheet.

Zong Ruopu hurriedly took a towel to wipe Liu Yunqiao's face, and she moved gently.

When she raised her head, she happened to meet Liu Yunqiao's eyes, she couldn't help but be moved, her face turned crimson, and she quickly lowered her head.

The careless thunderstorm didn't notice this detail, and when he saw that his carving insect skills had succeeded, he couldn't help but look proud.

She jumped out of the house, domineering them at the door.

"Hurry up, change your clothes, and go shopping with Miss Ben. Give you a bag of cigarettes to change your clothes, Yu'er and I will wait for you in the backyard, you have to dare to rub it again, and bring you a bucket of water!"

Liu Yunqiao was helpless, and after settling the kitten, he changed into a green robe.

Half an hour later, the three of them walked on the streets of Luoyang. Thunderstorm jumped in front, and Liu Yunqiao and Zong Ruopu followed side by side.

In the city of Luoyang, there are eight streets and nine mo, and the market is prosperous. Luoyang City is known for its peonies, Ouyang Xiu Shiyun: It was a guest of Luoyang flowers, and Ye Fang did not need to sigh although it was late.

It's just that in early spring at that time, the flowering season was still early.

On the shore of Luoshui, the scenery is charming, the peach and plum are sandwiched between the shore, the wicker spits out new branches, the scenery is picturesque, and the visitors are like weaving.

The three of them enjoyed the beautiful scenery all the way, and Liu Yunqiao habitually stopped in front of a bookstall . grabbed a copy of Tang Hairuo's "Four Dreams of Linchuan", and he was attracted by the book and indulged in it.

When the two girls saw him immersed in reading, they muttered a few words, and were attracted by the bustle in the distance. Leaving him behind, he wandered in front of him.

Seeing that he only looked at him and didn't buy it, the bookstall owner squinted at him a few times and coughed several times in a row. He came back to his senses, raised his head and smiled slightly, and paid for the copy of "Four Dreams of Linchuan".

A few steps away from the bookstall were six or seven people around, squatting on the ground, bowing their heads and gathering together, and the noise was incessant.

After squatting and watching for a long time, I suddenly felt numb in my feet when I stood up. He leaned into the crowd and saw a man sitting on a wooden plank, in front of him a white deep-bottomed saucer with three black melon seeds in the saucer.

A white cloth was spread on the ground next to the plate, and a pile of black melon seeds was piled on the white cloth, and the man grabbed a few melon seeds and put them in the plate, and closed the lid at a fast speed.

The rules of the game are that passers-by guess the odd and even numbers of melon seeds in the dish, and the dealer uncovers the logarithm after the guess is reported.

If you guess correctly, you can win two pennies, and if you guess wrong, you will lose to the banker.

"Come on, come on, guess the two texts correctly, guess the wrong one text, come from the east, go west, try your luck. The man shouted at the top of his voice.

There were a lot of people around who were eager to try it, but strangely enough, no one could guess correctly.

I saw that the man was skillful, quick in his eyes and hands, three fingers pinched melon seeds and threw them into the dish, the thumb of his right hand buckled under the lid of the dish, and the four fingers covered the top.

After the guests had guessed, he covered and lifted the lid at a rapid pace, but his thumb kept moving back and forth under the lid.

The onlookers were dazzled, but the losers were unwilling and continued to gather around to watch and coax.

After a while, a pile of copper coins was piled on the white cloth next to the saucer.

After Liu Yunqiao carefully observed for a long time, he said, "Dealer, I'll try it." ”

"Okay, good, come on, come on. Guess the two texts correctly, guess the wrong one text, come from the east, try your luck with the west. ”

The man repeated the action of putting melon seeds, covering the lid and uncovering the lid, Liu Yunqiao's eyes were firmly fixed on his fingers, and he reported a "double".

"Look at you, up, one, two, three, four, five! Wrong, I'll just accept you. ”

The man's voice was very high, and he took a copper plate thrown by Liuyun Bridge.

At this time, the two girls bought some needles and threads to find them, and saw Liu Yunqiao guessing melon seeds. Immediately disdainfully stopped: "What are you guessing blindly, we have lost more than a dozen dollars!"

Thunderstorm grabbed his arm and was about to take him away.

"Young man, let's do it again! Look, single or double?" The man seemed to see that Liu Yunqiao didn't go, as if he wanted to win him a few more big boys.

"Double!" After Liu Yunqiao guessed the number, he not only watched his hand movements, but also stared at the movement of his thumb under the lid.

"Look at you, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine! It's wrong again, and I'll only charge you an article. ”

Liu Yunqiao could see it clearly: the man obviously put five melon seeds in it, plus the original three in it, it should be eight.

How can one more become a singular number?

He pressed the hand that grabbed the lid and turned it over, and there was actually a melon seed on the lid!

He snatched the lid and looked at it closely. The lid is very heavy, it turns out that it is not a porcelain lid, but iron, and the melon seeds that are sucked on the lid are very heavy, and they are actually fake melon seeds made of iron!

It turns out that the scammer used the principle of magnets, relying on the melon seeds stuck by the magnet to flexibly adjust the number of melon seeds in the plate: if you guess the singular number, and it happens that the plate is singular, he will add the iron melon seeds with a finger to make up a double number.

Similarly, if you guess the double number, and the dish is a double number, he still adds the iron melon seeds to it with a touch of his finger to become a singular number.

In this way, passers-by will never guess correctly!

"Trick to cheat, give me back the money!" The few people who lost the money just now were angry when they understood, and immediately surrounded them and snatched the lost copper plates, and some people even kicked the scammer a few times.

"Boy, don't be nosy, have you eaten enough?, give it to me, clean it up to death!" When the man saw that the deception had been exposed, his face changed greatly in annoyance, and he jumped up, and pulled out a soft whip from his waist to "snap" a few lashes.

Several people around couldn't dodge the beaten nose and swollen face, covered their faces in pain and screamed, hugged their heads and fled.

Liu Yunqiao dodged the whip with a quick turn. The whip in the crook's hand came down on him like a torrential rain.

He couldn't beat the whip in the first place, but at this time two liars besieged him.

Liu Yunqiao was unarmed, and was besieged by three people, with multiple whiplashes on his body, and his condition was very critical. At this time, a flying stone flew in the air and hit the face of the liar led by the liar impartially, and the liar was hit with gold stars in the eyes and bleeding from the head.

The whip in his hand was thrown far away, and he squatted on the ground with his face covered with his hands.

The other two crooks were shocked and frightened when they saw a hidden weapon attack. Stop whipping and look around for the source of the stone and the bottom of the opponent. They looked at the gods: The enemy is dark and I am not in a good momentum, so let's go.

There was no time to pick up the plates and copper plates on the ground, and the crook who was injured on the ground and fled in embarrassment.

It turned out that it was a thunderstorm that hid behind a willow tree not far away and injured the crook with a flying locust stone.

After seeing Liu Yunqiao's embarrassment being relieved by herself, she was a little proud, ran over and pulled his sleeve and said:

"I can't see it, you're quite smart! exposed the tricks of the liars, and also helped me out. However, you are stunned and can't do martial arts, and you can't beat others. If it weren't for this girl's action, you would be the one who ran away in embarrassment today!"

Zong Ruopu gave her a look and signaled her not to be scolded, she leaned over and took a closer look at Liu Yunqiao's body, saw the whip wounds on his body, and hurriedly bandaged him with a handkerchief.

"Thank you, Miss for the rescue! Miss Zong, don't worry, I'm fine. Miss Zong's concern for him was quite warm. Liu Yunqiao tidied up his clothes, quite embarrassed.

For these two girls, one is strong and one is soft, one is like wind and fire, and the other is like water and moon, he feels strongly.

For the first time in a few months, there was such an adventure, and the three of them talked and laughed all the way, and it was dinner time when they came home. Mrs. Ray herself made a table of delicacies.

"Two wild girls, where are you going crazy again?" and running around with the guests," Mrs. Lei's mocking tone was full of happiness.

"Mother, we took the nerds shopping, and we were fighting. Lei Yu copied a piece of the Yellow River carp with chopsticks, and his eyebrows fluttered proudly.

"How do you speak, that's Liu Gongzi, or Brother Liu. Why are you a girl fighting again?" Madame Ray gave her a blank look, and her tone became strange again.

"Fight the bad guy, he's a liar, and I taught her a lesson with the flying stones that my father taught me. You ask Yu'er, right, I didn't lie to my mother, right?" Lei Yu's round face, with a little baby fat, fair skin, frowning and pouting, looks cute.

But every time, it seems that only Zong Ruopu's confirmation can convince her mother.

"Ouch, if you have a long ability, you will still be uneven, the female man of the Lei family. Lei Ming teased from time to time.

"That is, next time you take me, I can save your life when it matters. ”

"Yo he, when you say you're fat, you're panting, and you're kicking your nose and face, your three-legged cat kung fu still saves me, save yourself and let me worry, you see if your father lets you go." "They have been fighting with each other since they were children, and they are used to it, and Thunder will not let him.

"You are a big villain, mother, look at that big buffalo, he is so stubborn, he has bullied me since he was a child, quickly, scold him. Lei Yu felt aggrieved and moved out of his mother as a rescuer. Lei Ming has been stubborn and stubborn since he was a child, and he was nicknamed by Lei Yu.

"Alright, alright, don't grind your teeth. Naru'er, don't make fun of your sister. Mrs. Lei put a big fish head in her son's bowl, and acted in front of the referee with disgust, the most painful of the four children was the eldest one, and the most favored was the only daughter, which was her little padded jacket and pistachio.

At this time, Liu Yunqiao sorted out his clothes and put them on the table, and sat down after saying hello to Lei Dart and Mrs. Lei.

Lei Yu rolled his eyes, deliberately squeezed over, pointed to the bowl of soup in front of him and said, "Nerd, you suffered a loss in today's fight, I didn't expect your martial arts to be so poor." However, your brain is not stupid, this is our Luoyang special snack, called not to turn over the soup, try it, eat the soup or not, others can no longer answer you, and it will make your brain smarter. ”

Lei Yu said matter-of-factly, with a hint of cunning in her eyes.

The people at the table didn't know why she was suddenly so interesting.

Liu Yunqiao saw a large white porcelain bowl full of soup, containing fungus, vermicelli, kelp, shrimp skin, seaweed, and leeks. He knew that what Lei Yu said was a joke, so he still picked up the bowl and drank the soup. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a mouthful of soup, he only felt spicy, sour and salty, the taste was extremely weird, and his mouth, nose and throat were extremely irritating, choking him to cough violently.

He frowned, holding back from squirting.

Super salty, super spicy, super numb, super sour, his whole lips lost his intuition, too much salt almost stuck, he still turned around and went out and spit it out.

"What's wrong?Liu Gongzi, isn't the soup delicious?" asked Mrs. Lei, puzzled.

"Hahaha, hahaha, this is the Ten Spices and Eight Miles Sunny Day Invincible Thunderbolt Soup that this girl specially made for you, how about it? Is it a must in Luoyang?" In one day, she succeeded in two tosses, and she was extremely proud.

"Xiaoyu, don't be presumptuous! There are no rules, quickly apologize to Liu Gongzi." Lei Yinuo looked serious and taught his daughter a lesson.

"Yu'er, quickly pour a cup of tea for Liu Gongzi and change the soup bowl!" Mr. Zong hurriedly rounded the field. Mrs. Lei was also amused, and she held back a smile and picked up the soup bowl in front of Liu Yunqiao.

"Yunqiao, you are not the first, I have tasted this soup without turning over the soup with my eldest brother and Mr. Big, today, you are no exception! Thunder also followed the gag.

"Last time, I drank seven or eight spoons of vinegar and three spoons of peppercorn powder and mustard, which made me lose my appetite for three days. Thunder seemed to have palpitations.

"It's all spoiled for you, you don't look like a girl!" Lei Dart glanced at Mrs. Lei and complained softly.

"Liu Gongzi, this kid is playing with you, she is such a personality, but her heart is not bad, don't go to your heart!" Lei Yinuo comforted Liu Yunqiao.

"It's okay, the taste of this soup is really special, just when I drank a bowl of barricade wine, it's just that the taste is a little heavier and I'm not used to it!" Liu Yunqiao smiled awkwardly and hurriedly teased himself.

A small episode passed, and the dart game was quiet again.

Liu Yunqiao felt a sense of family warmth in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of his mother and two younger brothers.

2. Uninvited guests

"The head of the dart, there is a person at the door, and he sits at the door and does not leave. "The executioner Du Lang entered the door to report. Generally, when a regular customer of the dart bureau visits, Du Lang will bring it directly into the inner hall, and the guest will be sent directly at the door.

But this afternoon this man behaved strangely, and he just wouldn't leave at the door.

"I'm afraid it's a homeless person who wants food, come, bring these steamed buns over." Mrs. Lei has always been kind to others, she stuffed the steamed buns in the small bamboo basket on the table into a small cloth bag and handed it to Du Lang.

After a while, Du Lang turned around and turned back.

replied: "Big shopkeeper, old lady, that person ate steamed buns, but still won't leave." ”

Lei Yinuo frowned, he wondered who this person was sacred.

For more than 20 years, we often encounter unfamiliar martial arts heroes from all walks of life in the name of fighting and fighting, which is really a challenge to kick the field.

The general rule is that until you don't know the details of the visitor, because the victory or defeat is unpredictable, the dart head will be cautious.

Due to the prestige of the game, the main dart master in the dart door generally tries not to shoot.

If you win, there is nothing to blame, but if you lose the dart game, the signboard is damaged, and the reputation is hurt if you slap your face and damage the signboard.

Jianghu's consistent practice is to be harmonious, to treat each other as guests, and to serve each other with good wine and food.

At the same time, he sent someone to inquire about the details of the comer, and he would not act rashly until he had to. Or rather, you can only make a move when you are sure.

A large family of the Oriental Dart Bureau gathered in the middle of the courtyard, and the courtyard was brightly lit at ten o'clock in the evening.

This is a stranger, with a slender face, a green coat and a belt.

Because he didn't report his fame, he had a fresh face! Lei Yinuo has never heard or seen it in his 30 years of walking in the rivers and lakes.

If you don't come for a bite to eat, do you want to kick the hall and smash the field? The other party must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and the person who came is not good.

Lei Yinuo politely said: "Dare to ask the strong man's surname, what advice do you have to give to the contemptible situation?"

The man was arrogant, just glanced at Lei Yinuo, and turned a blind eye to the others.

He didn't speak, he didn't speak, he just shook his fist in front of his chest a few times.

"Mr. Big, arrange the guest room, let this strong man stay first, and talk about it tomorrow if there is something to do. Lei Yinuo judged that this person did not seem to be here to make a living, and nine times out of ten he was here to play on the field.

Dart door rules: judge the other party's intentions, but before the details are not discovered, you still have to give three points.

The reason why the business of the Oriental Dart Bureau is prosperous and stable is all due to Lei Yinuo's excellent kung fu, and secondly, he is heroic and friendly, and he has a generous hand, and people in the rivers and lakes will appreciate his face and take care of him.

However, it is common for heroes from all walks of life, heroes from all walks of life, three religions and nine streams, and peddlers and pawns to visit their homes.