The third day of the twelfth lunar month.
The calico cat stood at the head of Song You's bed very early. He squatted still at first and looked at his face for a long time. Seeing that he didn't look like he was about to wake up, he wanted to call him but was afraid of disturbing him, so he didn't call him. That didn't work either, so I chose a compromise and started to lower my voice, shouting very quietly like a Taoist priest. I am afraid that he will hear me, but I am also afraid that he will not hear me.
Highlight a dilemma.
I have no choice but to go to the temple fair today to buy a horse.
And what the Taoist said was not "I", but "we".
Who would have thought that a little big cat could one day buy a big horse?
"Taoist priests, Taoist priests..."
Song You was finally woken up by her.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that the cat's head was almost stuck in his eyes.
"Miss Sanhua, what are you doing?"
"Well!"
The calico cat immediately shrank back and didn't answer for a while. It wasn't until its eyes flashed a few times that it said:
"Let's see how you are doing."
"I just fell asleep."
"Get up quickly, let's go to the temple fair."
"No hurry, no hurry."
"Go early, otherwise all the horses will be bought."
"forget about it."
"!!"
The calico cat turned and stared at him with a serious expression. After a few seconds, he spoke again, urging: "Get up quickly! Hurry up!"
After saying that, he bit the corner of the quilt and dragged him to the side.
"..."
Song You had no choice but to get up.
It only took a quarter of an hour to get dressed and wash up, but the calico cat kept following beside me, not leaving, watching intently, as if supervising, but also urging.
"Shall Sanhua Empress go out in the form of a cat, or in the form of a human?"
"What do you think?"
"There are many people in the temple market, and the cat is too small. I'm afraid it will easily step on Sanhua Empress." Song You paused, "If Sanhua Empress turns into a human form, she can walk with me. If she goes out in the form of a cat, she will have to I will go shopping with Sanhua Empress in my arms."
"Take human form."
"Please go to your house."
"good!"
The calico cat ran back to the house in a flash.
"Taoist priest!"
"..."
Song You was helpless, fearing that he had forgotten his clothes again.
"Find me some clothes!"
That's not wrong at all.
After much tossing, I finally went out.
Yuewang Temple is in Dongcheng. It takes a while to walk, so I happened to go a little further. I found a restaurant I had never eaten before to have breakfast, and then, under the urging of Sanhua Empress, I walked towards Dongcheng.
Song You carried half a coin and two pieces of official silver in his arms, which were heavy and bulging all the way.
The further you go to Yuewang Temple, the more popular it becomes.
Most of the people walking around me were on the way.
In these days, sacrifice is a very important matter, and few things are more important than sacrifice. It coincides with the birthday of the Yue Wang Shenjun, who is widely believed in the local area, and this grand temple fair. The boudoir's daughter all went out at this time and rushed to the Yuewang Temple.
I don’t know how many people came from far away from the rivers and lakes.
Song You accidentally met Yu Zhizhou who was coming to attend the temple fair, but he did not come forward to say hello, but stopped like other people and watched Yu Zhizhou and his people go away.
I could faintly hear people around me discussing:
"Is that Lord Zhizhou?"
"Who else could it be?"
"Lord Zhizhou's guard of honor only has so many people? What happened this year? Last year, it was as long as half a mile!"
"Who knows."
Song You listened and only smiled.
After passing the Zhizhou ceremonial guard and taking a few steps forward, you can see the Yuewang Temple.
I saw people crowding outside the Yuewang Temple, full of moving heads. Green smoke was like clouds on the top of the temple, and a sound of blowing and beating came from that direction. The streets suddenly became very crowded. And every alley centered around the Yuewang Temple is full of vendors, setting up stalls, or people playing tricks. The crowds are so crowded that it's almost impossible to walk.
Before anyone arrived, I heard shouts first.
"Walking through the rivers and lakes, selling for money or not, the stalls are rounded up first, and everyone walks by to show their faces, but they don't take any money.
“I’m passing through a treasure land, I have no money in my arms and my belly is growling, so let’s sell some herbs first.
"Herbs grow tall, if ten people go to pick them, Jiu'er will die..."
Song You, like other people, couldn't help but stop where he was, listening to the jingle-like and humorous shouts, with a smile on his lips.
This is what makes it lively.
"Miss Sanhua, follow me closely."
“Where can I buy a horse?”
"I don't know. Let's look for it first."
"good!"
Two figures, one large and one small, walked towards the place where the crowd was the densest.
This journey has been truly eye-opening.
There are acrobats.
Throwing dishes and bowls, climbing upright poles, walking tightropes, drilling into fire rings, inserting iron guns into throats, and strangling people with iron ropes are all skills that have been practiced hard.
There are monkey tricks.
The monkey charmer and the monkeys cooperate tacitly. One teaches the monkey to do things, and the other pretends to be stupid and funny. The monkey charmer threatens the monkey with a knife, and the monkey immediately gives in. When the monkey charmer is not paying attention, he grabs the knife to counterattack. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it was a drama that had been arranged long ago, but it was performed naturally and made everyone laugh.
There are those who play Shenxiansuo.
When a rope is thrown into the sky, it is immediately covered by smoke and clouds, and the rope becomes straight, and people can actually climb up along the rope. When the people gradually disappeared from sight and climbed into the clouds and mist, the rope fell down again in full view of everyone. The smoke and clouds dispersed. There was no one above them, leaving only a cry of fear.
There are fire-breathing ones.
At first, drinking oil and spitting fire only made everyone feel lively and added a bit of excitement to the temple fair. But soon the onlookers discovered that it was more than that - the oil in the man's mouth had long been sprayed clean, but as long as he joined in Take a big breath in front of the torch, and the flames will be like a dragon again.
In the end, they simply didn’t use torches and just breathed fire out of their mouths.
Only then did everyone realize that it was the real skill.
So the copper coins jingled all over the floor.
There are magic tricks.
An empty basin can turn into birds, fish and snakes in the blink of an eye, and can make them disappear without any reason with a wave of the hand. Similar to the magic of later generations, the master of jugglery also had to use a piece of cloth to cover his face. It was either a cunning deception method or an exquisite and quick technique.
Song You would stop for a moment wherever he went.
At first, Empress Sanhua was still thinking about buying horses, but she was gradually attracted by these tricks. She just followed Song You obediently, staring at the excitement with her eyes wide open.
Whenever someone came to ask for reward money, Song You would never shy away and would give him a few copper coins.
It is common for Jianghu talents to be so generous.
It’s not that the people in the world are rich, it’s that the people in the world know how difficult it is to be in the world and are particular about it, so they either don’t read it, or if they do, no matter how embarrassed they are, they still have to give it a piece of cake.
Just when he was about to leave after reading it, Song You suddenly felt strange and reached into his arms. The half-hearted money was still there, but the two pieces of official silver were missing.
"..."
That's interesting.
Song You turned back and looked at the middle-aged man who was still doing tricks and performing moving skills.
Looking around again, there were cheers.
Even at the inn next door, someone was throwing money down.
He didn't say anything, just waited here for a moment.
After wandering for so long, it was already past noon. These jugglers and jugglers stopped one after another, saying they were ready to eat, and the onlookers gradually dispersed.
Song You then walked towards the Jianghu artist.
This man looked to be in his thirties or forties, with broad shoulders and a round waist, and a fleshy face. At this time, he and several of his subordinates were holding a bowl and eating a lot of rice.
The food was quite good, with large pieces of cooked meat.
“A sumptuous meal at your feet.”
Song You stood still in front of him and said with a smile.
The charlatan artist looked up following the shadow and saw a young man leading a girl. He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment and asked with an innocent look: "What does the official want from us? We won't start until after dinner."
"It's not a big deal." Song You said politely, with a low voice, "It's just that when I was watching Shi Shi's trick here just now, some money fell from my body. I don't know if Shi Shi saw it."
"Um?"
The charlatan was confused: "If you lose your money, you should report it to the official. There are so many people in this temple fair, it is inevitable that some thieves will be among them... The official will not see that I can do some tricks, so he really thinks that I can take things away." Can anything happen out of thin air? Are you trying to frame us?"
After talking about it, he was already a little angry.
He was already physically strong and had a pale complexion, but once he raised his eyebrows and stared, not even half of his stupidity was gone, leaving only a frightening ferocity.
Song You was still gentle and calm:
"I just saw the technique of swiping back and forth with one hand. Although it is not superb, it is still at the pinnacle. It is much more advanced than me, so I come to ask."
The Jianghu artist suddenly looked condensed.
In fact, when he performed the magic, he did not use the method of moving around, but pure skill. However, he did not defend or deny it at this time. He only looked at Song You for a few times and then handed it over:
"May I ask where you are coming from?"
"I'm at Fulong Temple in Yin Yang Mountain, traveling to the Song Dynasty."
"It turns out he's a Taoist priest, disrespectful."
"Don't dare."
"How much property did Master Tao lose?"
"Twenty taels of official silver."
The charlatan immediately turned around and waved to the people around him. He neither openly admitted that his property had been stolen nor denied it. He even said something like, "It is fate that I met you, so we will make up for your lost property. Just treat it as such." He didn't say any polite words like "make a friend" and just let his subordinates get the money.
The two pieces of honeycomb silver girdle were not the two pieces that were lost, but the numbers matched.
Song You weighed it twice and put it away.
It can only be said that people in the Jianghu are hard to tell about good and evil, but they are somewhat particular.
"Thank you."
"How offending."
"But I have another question." Song You asked, "If you have this ability, why do you do this?"
"Master Dao is joking." The middle-aged man smiled, and he actually felt a bit free and easy. "This technique of swinging back and forth is originally a transformation of Jianghu magic. Besides, these days, we are doing the same thing. Apart from this line of work, there are other Is it a business that brings more money? Or does the Taoist think it is more glorious and easier to pretend to be a master and deceive those noble people? "
"..."
Song You couldn't help but think about it:
"rational."
"We also have our own rules." The middle-aged man picked up the rice bowl again and said as he was digging, "We only take official silver, not copper coins and broken silver. If an expert sees through it, or someone has some guesses, as long as we can Anyone who comes to us to tell us where they came from will be returned."
"I see."
Song You couldn't help but think about it.
Dayan official silver was minted from ten taels. Only official silver is taken, and no copper coins or scraps are taken. On the one hand, it is convenient to carry, and on the other hand, it can also exclude poor people based on their face value. This is a mentality of robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
The latter one can prevent others from reporting to officials to a certain extent.
Jianghu people pay attention to each other.
These days, no more than in later generations, ordinary people still don't have high trust in the government. People in the world have their own solutions to problems. If you report to the official, you will be ridiculed by your colleagues. It is difficult for ordinary rich people to realize that their money has been stolen by this man two feet away. Even if they find out, as long as the money comes back, they will be afraid of the revenge of the Jianghu people and will not report it to the official again.
In fact, the risk has been reduced to very low.
If the case is carried out again, the risk will be even lower.
However, Song You stood in front of him and asked: "Aren't you afraid of official investigation?"
Hearing this, the middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and paused in the action of planning rice. He raised his head and stared at Song You: "Could Master Dao be joking with us?"
"I'm just curious." Song You's expression was as usual, "Shimizu does this kind of trick. If you meet an experienced head catcher and something like this happens, I'm afraid he will be the first to suspect Shimizu, right?"
"Master Dao is trapped by what he knows. In the eyes of most people, this is just a trick to hide from others. Even if they know that there is a ghost, how many people can think of retrieving objects from the air? Even if, even if someone can react, Come here, we have already left."
"I see, thank you for your advice."
Song You nodded thoughtfully.
"Master Dao, is there anything else?"
"Then I'll take my leave."
"Master Tao!"
Song You was about to leave when he was stopped by the man again.
But the man was still worried. While looking at him, he asked:
"Don't dare report it to the official!"
Facing his gaze, Song You thought for a while before nodding.
"good."
This man told him vividly not to be trapped by what he knew. This man is also a fastidious person. Although Song You is not a Jianghu person, he is still willing to accompany him for a while.
I won’t report to the official this time.
Just paying attention to what is important cannot turn black into white and confuse right and wrong.
Capt. Luo is experienced and capable in handling cases, so he must have doubts. When the time comes, he will come to ask him for advice, but he still has to say something.
I just don't know if he ran faster or if Luo Captou was chasing him faster.
