This cave is like a dungeon. Once the lid is closed, the light below instantly dims.
I had a strong feeling just now that as long as I dared to move even a little bit, the white owl would immediately peck my eyes out.
After Xiao Tuantou and his group left, only Sister Hong and I were left here, and we were locked up here.
It took more than two hours for Sister Hong to regain her consciousness. Sister Hong told me that she still had memories of what happened before. She also thought about resisting, but her body refused to obey her orders.
Sister Hong and I sat on the ground, back to back, and she told me something about the owl woman.
She said that she had been forced to swallow a small package of something, and that package was the so-called Zhierjin.
My arms ached, I was cold and hungry, so I forced myself to ask: "That owl is white, and what is wrapped in gold on its finger? How can it control a person so well? Is it better than that old sea dog's fascination?" Is the soul fragrance still powerful?"
In the darkness, Sister Hong said weakly: "Yunfeng, have you ever heard of a man named Partridge Whistle?"
"Partridge Whistle? Is that the tomb robber who can learn the calls of all the birds in the world?"
"Yes, that's the person."
"This kind of profession is a kind of skin trade in the past. Their identity is not just tomb robbers. The men are called partridge whistles and the women are called partridge women. There are only a few people in this industry, and there are even fewer female partridge women. There are only a handful of people. The person we just met in Yunfeng is the real Partridge Woman. I never thought that there would be such a young Partridge Woman now."
Pi Xing refers to those who used to do magic tricks. According to Sister Hong, there were many people in Pi Xing who had real skills in the past.
Nowadays, people are familiar with some familiar behaviors, such as three immortals returning to the cave, swallowing a sword and an iron ball, and holding the tip of a spear in the throat. These methods could only be considered inferior in previous leather shops.
The Partridge Whistle and the Partridge Woman know how to imitate birds and the other knows how to drive them away. There are many undisclosed secrets in this that ordinary people cannot understand at all.
In the old society of the last century, the leather industry fell apart. Some people chose to continue living on the streets as performers, while others were influenced by foreign art troupes and eventually chose to join the circus to perform abroad. The most famous ones are the Red Lady and Zhu Liankui.
Zhu Liankui once performed in the palace for the Empress Dowager Cixi when he was traveling. Cixi was very happy after seeing it and specially ordered Sun Dianying to reward Sun Liankui with a small yellow croaker.
Sun Liankui had a total of four unique skills, namely spitting hundreds of feet, fishing with an empty pole, shredded paper restoration, and flying water from a large bowl. This last skill, flying water from a large bowl, was Zhu Liankui's special skill. At that time, no one else in the leather industry A big bowl of water will fly.
In 1898, Zhu Liankui performed on stage in the United States for the first time with the circus. The Oriental magic of a large bowl of flying water shocked the entire foreign magic world as soon as it came out. From then on, Zhu Liankui's performances were always packed to capacity, and all the foreigners watched mesmerized.
At that time, several major foreign theaters were fighting for Zhu Liankui. All major theaters wanted to have this mysterious magician from the East.
Major theaters offered Zhu Liankui a sky-high weekly salary, and finally he chose the Boston Opera House. The Boston Theater offered Zhu Liankui a weekly salary of US$1,013. You know, this was the weekly salary 130 years ago... ...With the price of goods at that time, you could have a concubine for five yuan!
In the circus at the same time, there was another master of jugglery named Cheng Liansu. This person claimed to have completely cracked the secret of the big bowl of flying water, and he even made a challenge to Zhu Liankui.
In the winter of that year, this shocking magic showdown from the mysterious East made headlines in foreign tabloids.
Snow fell that same year, and the theater was packed with foreigners who came to watch the showdown.
The time came as promised. After meeting, Zhu Liankui and Cheng Liansu bowed to each other, clasped their fists and said "Brother Zhu and Brother Cheng".
At the beginning of the duel, in order to ignite the atmosphere, both sides showed off their unique skills first, which is called debut.
Cheng Liansu's unique skill is "shooting people alive". What everyone didn't expect was that an accident happened not long after the performance started.
It is said that a black bird flew in from nowhere in the venue at that time. Some witnesses said it was a crow, and some said it was another bird. At first, everyone did not pay attention to this bird. Who would have thought that this bird Suddenly he flew onto the barrel of the gun used by Cheng Liansu for his performance, and pulled the trigger with his bird's talon!
A gunshot!
Cheng Liansu fell to the ground and died!
Due to a failure in performance, Zhu Liankui naturally won the duel without a fight. His big bowl of flying water trick has become a mystery.
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"He was shot to death by a bird?" After understanding this historical background, I asked in surprise: "Sister Hong, do you think that the man named Zhu Liankui who lived more than a hundred years ago was a partridge whistle?"
I couldn't see Sister Hong's expression clearly in the darkness, so I heard her say: "Although Zhu Liankui was also born in the leather industry, he himself does not know how to play with birds, nor is he a partridge whistle. However, I heard my father Chen Xiaohei talk about it However, my father said that Zhu Liankui had a concubine, whose surname was Ye. She was a partridge woman before marrying Zhu Liankui, but she gave up her career after marrying."
After thinking about all the reasons here, I frowned and said: "Sister Hong, is it true that Cheng Liansu from the circus can crack the secret of the big bowl of flying water? In other words, Zhu Liankui was afraid that his secret would be exposed, so he sent him this The partridge woman's concubine killed Cheng Liansu with a bird and caused an accident in which the gun went off? According to this, is the woman raising an owl next to Xiao Tuantou just now named Zhu? She is Zhu Liankui and Ye. Descendants of a concubine?"
Sister Hong said: "It's not that simple. My father said during his lifetime that Zhu Liankui was a very moral person and he would never do such a dirty thing. However, my father said that after Cheng Liansu's gun went off, Zhu Liankui issued a letter of divorce. , Divorced this partridge woman surnamed Ye, although these things happened abroad at that time, few people in the country knew about it, Yunfeng, you have a quick mind, if you think about it carefully, you should be able to guess the truth. "
I carefully went through the whole story of what happened back then, and I had the answer in my mind.
Perhaps, back then, Zhu Liankui also wanted to have a real competition with Cheng Liansu to see who was the best in leather skills!
But his concubine, the partridge woman, might be afraid that her husband would lose the competition, or for some other reason, and finally secretly used her bird-repelling skills to kill Cheng Liansu.
After the death of his only rival, Zhu Liankui was disheartened and unable to overcome this obstacle, and finally divorced Partridge Po. It is difficult to judge the right and wrong of Zhu Liankui and Partridge Po. There may be sympathy between the two masters of leather goods, and Ye Partridge Po also did this to protect her husband. But one thing that is certain is that Cheng Liansu was not wrong and this person became a victim.
I asked again: "Sister Hong, if you ate Partridge Woman's secret recipe, Zhierjin, will you still be controlled by that woman in the future?"
Sister Hong patted me on the shoulder, sighed and said: "It will happen, but not now. If Partridge Woman wants to control me, there must be a gap between the last time and the last time. The stuff in Zinger's gold is not real gold, but gold." A kind of medicine. I know a few black Miao people from southern Miao territory on the road outside. They can help me deal with the finger gold in my stomach, but only if we can still go out."
"I can get out!"
"Sister Hong, we will definitely be able to go out, you have to have confidence in yourself!"
Maybe she was too tired, and Sister Hong was in a low mood. She sighed and said: "Over the years, I have been involved in different tomb robbing gangs. Although I don't want to admit it, I actually know it myself. My father did not pass on my grandfather's skills. Me, he said that girls shouldn’t be wielding swords and guns all day long, and my father said that life is getting better now, and the heresy in the old society is useless, so I should find a good family to be my husband and raise my children.”
At this point, Sister Hong suddenly became excited.
His teeth chattered loudly.
"If my father had passed down Grandpa's coal saber to me! He wouldn't have died so miserably! That's right! I'm just a woman! But if I had Grandpa's ability, if I knew how to use a coal saber. I would carry the knife and go north, Kill the Northeast! Kill the Changchun Society! Kill all those old immortals! Kill all those people who harmed my Chen family back then!"
After the excitement, Sister Hong burst into tears.
In all the years I've known her, I've never seen her cry.
In the darkness, Sister Hong buried her head in tears, her upper body trembling slightly and rising and falling.
At this moment, she was no longer Chen Hong, a notorious romantic mole on the road, she was just a wounded woman.
And I am just a young man who is more than ten years younger than her. I don’t have much ability, I started in the industry at a young age, and I have never been exposed to what she calls the world of martial arts.
In the darkness, I hugged Sister Hong gently, hoping to give her some comfort.
Sister Hong’s grandfather is Mei Ma glasses Chen, I thought in my mind. What does this person look like?
Is he an anti-Japanese scholar wearing round-rimmed glasses and carrying a sword?
Calculating time, if this person is still alive, he should be much older than Xiao Tuantou. Xiao Tuantou said it himself, saying that Mei Ma and glasses Chen broke into the artillery tower alone and killed the commander of an entire Japanese regiment.
If this master is still alive.
I think that I would not let my juniors be imprisoned and suffer such injustice.
