Stories are always made up by people, and all the storyteller has to do is to choose a story worth singing and tell to a group of listeners at a certain day and place, so as to ask for a small amount of money to make a living.

Every industry has its own difficulties, and the days of storytelling, which is "asking for food", are particularly difficult, and fast-mouthed fish is no exception. If you mix well, you won't come all the way to the capital to make a living.

Compared with the countless artists who are adrift from north to south, the life of a fastmouth fish with a daughter by his side is not only difficult, but also dangerous.

In this world of the jungle, where his danger comes from is obvious, he is ready to swallow his anger, and he is also ready to run away at any time. But in the end, these thoughts were crushed under the box.

Speaking of which, he still doesn't know that it was the ancestral graves of his ancestors who emitted green smoke, and since he came to the foot of the Son of Heaven in Nanjing City, his days suddenly brightened. The reward money you get every day is always not too much, and the card is around one or two silver.

A tael of silver is not even a dime a dozen for high-ranking officials and nobles, but for a poor person like him, it means that there is no worry about food and clothing for more than ten days.

The gradual abundance of money makes the fastmouth fish happy, but nothing is more pleasant than the umbrella that has been inexplicably obtained. On the way to make a living, artists inevitably have to give some protective silver to the docks in various places, which is a rule hidden in the dark and can only be obeyed. But the fast mouth fish is different, he has never paid a penny of protection money, not that he is unwilling to pay, but no one is willing to accept it, or rather, no one dares to collect it.

More than a year ago, when he was still telling stories in the previous tea house, he encountered two newly debuted ruffians making trouble, but he was dragged out before he finished the three sentences, and after that, he never saw these two people in Nanjing again.

At first, he suspected that it was the shopkeeper's face, but later through some small talk, he learned that the root cause still fell on himself.

"Eh, Uncle Yu, you are laughing, how can the little old man have such ability, or it is all thanks to your old foil. ”

"Shopkeeper, I'm just a storyteller, and I have to borrow your guarantee to make a living, what can I help?"

"Don't you know? You have fallen into the eyes of the second master of the Divine Cow Gang! He has put down his words, he can't control other places, as long as he is in this Nanjing City, whoever dares to get along with you can't get along with him, Niu Er... ”

The second master of the Divine Cow Gang?

This name is unfamiliar to the fast mouthfish, he is barely an honest man, and rarely comes into contact with black and white. It took more than ten days of hard work to find out, it turned out that this Sacred Cow Gang was the largest gang in Nanjing City, and Niu Er, who turned out to be just a little bastard who was not a fart, only took a year to defeat a Divine Cow Gang with his bare hands, and the existence of the four major banks in Beijing on an equal footing.

Niu Er is a big shot.

The fast mouth fish quickly came to this conclusion, but the problems caused by this conclusion stumped him a little, why did Niu Er cover him?

Mouthfish is sure that he counts up to eight generations of relatives, including those in the village, and has never dealt with anyone surnamed Niu (his hometown is called Liyu Village, and there are only two surnames in the whole village: Li and Yu, and the village is gone after a great drought). ）

After thinking about it, I finally vaguely remembered that when I first came to the capital, I seemed to have seen a very well-behaved bastard with a reckless brother to ask for peace and silver, and the name of this bastard seems to be Niu Er?

With a sense of self-confidence that "I am a poor man in my life, and good things cannot fall on my head", one night, the fast mouth fish put a small bag of the money he had saved, cleaned up the guy's affairs, and pulled his daughter to prepare to run away.

In the end, of course, it was a failure, and he was stopped by more than a dozen strong men after running for less than three streets, and he didn't say anything, but just brought the two of his women to the former Niu Er, and now Niu Erye.

"Niu, Niu Erye, the small body has no long things, and he has barely saved more than two hundred taels of silver over the years, if you want it, just, just... ”

"Don't be ashamed. My brother rewarded you with your two sons, otherwise you would be able to save this large sum of money as a storyteller?

"Hammer, don't be rude. Niu Er was dressed in a brocade coat, sitting on a big chair with a golden knife, and two copper balls were spun in his hands: "Fast-mouthed fish, right?"

"Cow, Niu. ”

"The money given to you is yours, I won't come back, I can't afford to lose this person, and there is no such rule in the world. Niu Er looked at the fast-mouthed fish, and then turned his gaze to the daughter beside him, so frightened that the little girl hugged her father's hand in her arms tighter, and trembled.

"Your daughter is honest, she still has a bit of a look. ”

"Master Niu!"

"Don't worry, listen to me. Niu Er raised his hand and said: "But it's just a little bit of beauty, if I want a woman, I don't have to have your daughter." To tell the truth, I listen to you, and it saves you from pondering. ”

After a pause, Niu Er stood up, arched his hand in a certain direction, and then said: "You have fallen into the eyes of several big people, my Niu Er is just a dog who runs errands for others, so you don't have to worry about me, I will not be unfavorable to you, but will always cover you."

I used to give you a tael of silver every day because I didn't want to surprise you. Now that the words are all said and done, let's give you a little raise, five taels. You don't have to worry too much, you take the money you are given every day, and you deserve it. You can live your life how you want, you can spend your money how you want, you know how to advance and retreat, and it shouldn't make me too embarrassed to think about it.

I have only one request for you, or the big man above for you, stay in the teahouse and honestly talk about your books, but you can't leave this Nanjing City. To put it bluntly, this Nanjing City is your cage. It doesn't sound good, but Nanjing City is so big, it should be enough for you to live. ”

"Just, just stay in this Nanjing City?" The fast mouth fish looked at Niu Er cautiously, and his head was buzzing.

"Yes, it's not difficult, right?" Niu Er smiled: "Although I can't guess what that big man means, I think it will always be useful to you one day, and you will naturally understand it when that day comes." ”

This is the end of the meeting between the two.

Who the big man is, Niu Er has never told the fast mouthfish. It's just that after this conversation, the fast mouth fish is officially living a life of eating and waiting for death. It wasn't until half a month ago that Niu Er met him again, handed him a thin book, and asked him to prepare for it, and went to the teahouse not far from Dongzhi Gate to sit down, and put forward the first request: "On the day of opening, tell this story, and the big people will be there." ”