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 peck my eyes out immediately.
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 normal consciousness. Sister Hong told me that she still had memories of what happened before, and 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 was forced to swallow a small package of something before, and that package was the so-called Zinger Gold.
My arms ached, I was cold and hungry, so I forced myself to ask: "That owl is white, and what is wrapped in gold? 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 identities are 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 met just now in Yunfeng is the real Partridge Woman. I never thought that there would be such a young Partridge Woman now."
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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.
The more familiar skin tricks that people are exposed to nowadays include three immortals returning to the cave, swallowing a sword, swallowing an iron ball, and holding the point of a spear in the throat. These methods could only be considered inferior in the previous skin tricks.
The Partridge Whistle and the Partridge Woman can both learn to imitate birds and the other can 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 circus 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 and perform abroad. The most famous among them were a man and a woman named 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, restoration of shredded paper, 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, there was 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 the big bowl of flying water shocked the entire foreign magic world. Since then, all Zhu Liankui's performances have always been full, and all foreigners have watched it like this.
Crazy like drunk.
At that time, several major foreign theaters were fighting for Zhu Liankui. Each major theater 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.
The price of goods, you can marry 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 issued a challenge to Zhu Liankui.
In the winter of that year, this shocking magic showdown from the mysterious East made headlines in foreign tabloids.
It snowed 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 was "shooting people alive". What everyone didn't expect was that an accident happened not long after the praise began.
It is said that a black bird flew in from nowhere in the venue at that time. Some witnesses said it was a crow, while others 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 trick of flying water from a large bowl has become an unsolvable mystery.
"Killed by a bird shot?" After understanding this historical background, I asked in surprise: "Sister Hong, do you think 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 dark, 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 secrets 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 concubine of Partridge Woman 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.
A descendant 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.
, Divorce this partridge woman named 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, so she secretly used her bird-repelling skills to kill Cheng Liansu.
After the death of his only rival, Zhu Liankui was disheartened and could not overcome this obstacle, and finally divorced Partridge Po. It is difficult to judge the right and wrong between Zhu Liankui and Partridge Po. There may be sympathy between the two masters of leather skills, Ye Quan
The woman did this to protect her husband. But one thing is certain, Cheng Liansu was not wrong and this man 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 Granny Partridge wants to control me, there must be a gap between the last time and the last time. The stuff in the 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 can’t wield swords and guns all day long. My father said that life is getting better now, and the heresy in the old society is useless. I should find a good family, a husband and a child."
At this point, Sister Hong suddenly became excited.
His teeth clenched 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 skills, 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 the year I've known her, I've never seen her cry.
In the darkness, Sister Hong buried her head in tears and cried, 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 have no ability. I entered the industry at a young age, and I have never been exposed to what she calls the world.
In the darkness, I hugged Sister Hong gently, hoping to give her some comfort.
Sister Hong’s grandfather is Mei Ma glasses Chen, I was thinking 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 Tutou. Xiao Tutou said personally that Chen, a man with glasses of Mei Ma, broke into the turret alone and killed all the commanders of an entire Japanese regiment.
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If this master is still alive.
I think that I would not let my juniors be imprisoned and suffer such injustice.