Zhang Ran said curiously: "How did you find out that this is for the poor festival?"
Zhang Chu said: "Some people in Dongwang Village have already put on rags, and it is already dark now. The red lanterns hung on every house illuminate the entire Dongwang Village so brightly that it can be seen that ”
While the two were talking, they arrived at the only inn in Dongwang Village, Tongfu Inn.
Tongfu Inn has three types of guest rooms: upper, middle and lower. The lower-class guest room is a large tavern with more than 20 people living in it. The middle-class room is a small room of its own. The upper-class room is a well-furnished room.
Zhang Chu asked for a medium-sized room, and Zhang Ran and Zhang Chu lived together.
The two of them were a little tired from the journey, so they ate their food in a hurry and then lay down to sleep.
When the two of them got up again, it was noon the next day. When they went downstairs, Zhang Chu said: "Don't have lunch. Today is the Poor Day. You can only eat porridge. Porridge is not very delicious. Go outside." When you go shopping, have some snacks, they’re not expensive and you can still eat something good.”
Zhang Ran nodded happily.
After walking out of the inn, it was very lively outside. People on the street were not very well-dressed. Everyone was dressed like a beggar.
Zhang Ran said: "Shall we change our clothes too?"
Zhang Chu said: "No, we are not from this village and don't need to wear them. You can see that there are people on the street who are not wearing any clothes. They are all from outside."
Zhang Ran said: "Dongwang Village is very particular."
Zhang Chu said: "How can you attract so many people to Dongwang Village if you don't pay attention to it?" Now that Zhang Chu is talking to Zhang Ran, he treats Zhang Ran more and more like an equal, because every time he talks to Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran's His behavior was not like a child at all, but like an adult. Gradually, Zhang Chu ignored Zhang Ran's identity as a child, and only occasionally remembered that Zhang Ran was a child.
Zhang Ran and Zhang Chu went shopping on the street. There were vendors everywhere on the street, selling all kinds of things, including candy cakes, apples, osmanthus wine, food, and kites for fun. Made furniture, made ceramics, etc.
Whenever Zhang Chu encounters something to eat, he buys it. Wang Dafu sponsored fifty taels of silver when he came out, so Zhang Chu is not short of money. The most important thing is that the things sold by the vendors are not expensive and can be bought with just a few copper coins. arrive.
He even saw a stall selling roasted chicken. Zhang Chu bought two roasted chickens and gnawed one each.
Their hands were full of oil when they were chewed, and people on the street avoided them because they were greasy, for fear of rubbing them on their bodies.
"Look what's in front of you, someone is breathing fire." Zhang Ran saw someone breathing fire for the first time.
There were many people watching. Zhang Ran squeezed into the crowd and watched the fire-breathing man. This fire-breathing man, wearing a grimace mask, held a trumpet-like thing in his left hand and breathed fire into the trumpet. The fire sprayed out of the trumpet. come out.
After the fire was erupted, there was a sound of applause.
Zhang Ran also screamed and got better. After breathing fire a few times, the little girl followed the fire-breathing man. There were two people performing the fire-breathing man. One was the fire-breathing man performing the fire-breathing performance, and the other was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl. little girl.
The little girl held the tray and said: "Brothers and gentlemen, if you think well of it, please give me some money. Those who are rich can give me a small gift, and those who have no money can only give a copper plate." As she spoke, she held the tray towards the onlookers. The crowd went up, held out the trays, and asked for money.
The sound of jingling came, and the crowd gave money one after another, some with a copper coin, some with several coins. The little girl smiled when she saw the money.
There was a bang.
Many people were attracted by the loud noise. Zhang Ran also looked over and saw a stall not far away from the fire-breathing man.
There were three people who beat a man into the vendor's stall and made a banging sound, which was the sound of smashing the vendor's stall.
Then the man got up and started fighting with the three men.
Zhang Chu said: "These three people are all warriors at the first level of refining strength. Why did they openly fight on the street?"
After five rounds of fighting, the three men knocked the man to the ground, and then the three men escorted the man away.
Zhang Chu said: "There is nothing good to see, let's continue going to other places."
The reason why Zhang Chu stayed in Dongwang Village was because on the night of the third day, there would be an event where willows would be tied into carts and grasses would be tied into boats.
It is also the last activity of the poor festival.
This activity is a competition. The strongest person is determined. The strongest person drives the carriage and puts down the boat to drift away. This means that the strongest person in Dongwang Village has driven away the poor god.
Dongwang Village wants many people to participate in this event, firstly to increase popularity, and secondly to select truly powerful people.
So it is beneficial to participate in this competition.
There are two, one is to give silver, thirty taels of silver will be given in each competition, this will not change every year, the second is to give the strongest a weapon, which is different every year. Today, according to Zhang Chu After asking, it was a knife. He planned to let Zhang Ran participate and win the knife. After all, Zhang Ran did not have a good weapon now. Winning the knife would give him a good weapon. After all, Dongwang Village would not Find a random weapon as a reward.
Zhang Chu also told Zhang Ran what he wanted. Zhang Ran had never had a serious fight in this world, so he naturally agreed, except of course the killing at Hutoushan.
The crowd gradually dispersed. Zhang Ran squinted his eyes and saw a silver light. He was particularly sensitive to silver, because silver is silver. He walked to the hawker stall that was smashed and took out the pieces of wood. A silver pillar the size of a middle finger, with a pattern of a general fighting on it carved on it.
Zhang Ran saw the extraordinaryness of the silver pillar and immediately put it away. Even the vendor who was packing it didn't see it, thinking that Zhang Ran was here to buy something: "Guest, the things are broken. You can buy it elsewhere." This vendor was selling tofu, and all the fruit was smashed. If those three people hadn't compensated him, he might have gone directly to the escort to argue with him.
Zhang Ran said: "I don't want to go shopping anymore. I want to go back to rest and prepare for the competition on the third day. I will definitely get first place by then."
Zhang Chu cracked the melon seeds and said, "If you want to go back, just go back. I'll go shopping again."
Zhang Chu didn't see Zhang Ran get the silver pillar. He just saw the four people fighting, and Zhang Chu went to buy melon seeds. He planned to crack the melon seeds while watching, but he didn't expect that the four people ended the fight so quickly. He bought the melon seeds. , but the fight was over and he left.
Zhang Ran said, "Then I'll go back." After that, he took the small bag of melon seeds that Zhang Chu bought and turned around to leave.
Zhang Chu looked at his empty hands, was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "This kid." Then he went shopping. Staying in Hulu Village was boring. This time he encountered this kind of guy in Dongwang Village. How could he be worthy of himself if he didn't take a nice stroll during the festival?
Zhang Ran did not go to the inn, but changed his clothes and took off his Confucian robe while walking. He saw a pawn shop casually and pawned two copper coins, and redeemed them when he came back later.
Zhang Ran walked in the direction of the four people. Soon Zhang Ran caught up with them and followed the four people to a private house in the west of Dongwang Village.
Zhang Ran used sprint to get to the roof, lifted the thatch on the roof, and looked inside. There is no difference between the inside and other houses. The only difference is that there are seven people inside, including the four people who just entered.
"Boss, please spare me, I won't dare to do it again." The man who was captured said.
He knew that Wang Ren was cruel and could be fatal, so the moment he saw Wang Ren, he directly begged for mercy.
Wang Ren said: "I don't dare anymore, then take out the silver key."
Wang Ren was wearing the clothes of a school captain. The clothes of a school captain were not the style of Ming Dynasty clothes, but a more ancient style. The clothes gave people an alternative feeling, but they looked good, or so Zhang Ran thought.
"I'll take it now." Then he took out the money bag from his waist, but when he opened the money bag, there was nothing inside. He looked at it and found that there was a small hole under the bag. The inside was exposed.
Suddenly he panicked and said, "I put it in the money bag. The money bag broke and the silver key fell out."
He knew the importance of the silver key to Wang Ren. He lost the silver key, and he shuddered thinking about the result.
It was also because the silver key was so important that he stole it and planned to sell it for a good price, but this also meant his betrayal.
Zhang Ren asked with a calm expression: "Do you know where it fell?"
"It should have fallen from the place where Brother Li and I fought."
Zhang Ren said to the three people: "Go and find it." The three people left after hearing it. Then he looked at the man and said, "Pull him out and chop him up." One person pulled him out. He kept begging for mercy, but he was still pulled out. Then he screamed and there was no sound.
Wang Ren said: "You don't have to come in, stay guard outside."
This man stole the silver key, caught it and lost it. Who else would die if he didn't die. Originally, if he found the silver key, he would just punish him, but he lost it, which made Wang Ren furious.
Wang Ping said: "Yes, uncle."
Now there are only two people left in the room, one is Wang Ren, and the other is a woman, wearing a green skirt, with a burn on the left side of her face, which is very ugly.
Lan Niang said: "Why don't we use Lei Huotang's thunder bomb to blow open the tomb door." The ugly woman in the green dress is Lan Niang.
Wang Ren said: "No, the sound is too loud, it will alarm the people in Dongwang Village."
Lan Niang said: "There are no experts in Dongwang Village."
Wang Ren said: "Don't forget, it is the festival of poverty. In order to get rewards for the competition, there will be some warriors coming. I am afraid that famous and upright warriors will come and attract their attention. It will not be good then. ”
"Will those noble and upright people come here? You think too highly of them." Lan Niang said: "You should use thunderbolt bombing. I will stop any warriors who come."
"Since you said so, then do as you say." It was as if Wang Ren was waiting for Lan Niang to say this, and immediately agreed after Lan Niang finished speaking.
Lan Niang also realized it, stared at Wang Ren with dangerous eyes and said, "Trick me."
