Chapter 24: The Cockfighting Lackey
Seeing that Zhao Zhen was so quick to pay the money, the tooth man mentioned another place to go - the cockfighting ring in order to earn an extra commission! When Zhao Zhen heard this, he immediately became interested.
Why do you think it is?
"Liezi" records that "Ji Zhuzi raised fighting cocks for King Xuan of Zhou". Therefore, from the emperor down to the common people, there are many cockfighting and lackeys. It's not that he doesn't do his job properly and he is good at martial arts.
There is a cockfighting platform behind Wenting Mountain in Chengwu County. The county annals record: In the third year of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty, Duke Huan of Qi used the Beixing Meeting in Song Dynasty to recruit the princes to attack Song Dynasty. Shan Bo gathered it and took it in Song Dynasty. When it comes to the northern border, there are cockfights on it.
The trend of hunting cockfighting and lackeys was prevalent. Zhao Zhen thought to himself: He knew very little about Gao Hu. However, since this man was a direct descendant of the royal family, he could not say that he was enthusiastic about hunting with cockfighting lackeys. To say he was familiar with him would not be an overstatement. This inspired me to buy a fighting cock.
Cockfighting is also known as cockfighting, cockfighting, and military cockfighting. It is famous for its good fighting skills. When two males meet to fight for food or mates, they will risk their lives and fight until the last breath.
The purpose of raising fighting cocks is to watch them fight and admire their bravery.
Praise: The sound of cracking blood and losing the sound, pecking Yin is very hungry and discouraged, why is it so urgent and frightened, and the following is sincere and clever.
Zhao Zhen has been busy becoming a professional. Although he has never participated in cockfighting, he is no stranger to cockfighting. The quality of cockfighting depends on its fighting spirit and fighting skills, and the rules of fighting vary from place to place.
Take the fighting cocks of Gao Kingdom as an example. Gamecocks often say: "The color of the coat on the outside is the quality of the nest on the inside."
The so-called coat color is green, red, purple and soap, and the body needs to be tall and burly, Physically strong. The body should be long, shaped like an ostrich, with a beak like an eagle's beak; the chest should be strong and the feathers should be shallow. It is better to have big eyes, thick neck, and wide spacing between toes.
The so-called nest share refers to the blood relationship of fighting cocks. The choice of fighting cocks is mainly based on strong fighting spirit, especially those who still have fighting spirit until the end of the fight.
One type attaches great importance to the blood purity of gamecocks. Through inbreeding, a high-purity family of fine gamecocks is selected and the offspring are all good gamecocks. There is another type of offspring produced by mating fighting cocks from different families. Such chickens have strong physiques, high fighting skills, and fast fighting skills, but the fighting nature of the offspring is unpredictable.
Besides, there are four types of fighting skills in cockfighting: fighting with a high head and a good-looking fighting style, which is called high head and big bite; fighting style with slightly worse fighting style, called flat head and body fighting; several blows The best is the circle-running style; and the four-way attack style, which has a variety of fighting skills. It doesn’t matter how you fight, as long as you are good at fighting two types and have heavy legs, you will be considered a first-class gamecock.
The key to winning a cockfight is accurate, heavy and fast kicks. The accuracy is whether it can hit the opponent's head; the emphasis is the strength of the kick; the speed is the number of consecutive kicks in a short period of time.
This is similar to the competition between soldiers.
Cockfighting depends on daily training, which is similar to that of the military. If you practice in peacetime, you will not be timid in war. For those who are good at training gamecocks, their training methods can be summarized into fourteen techniques, namely: chasing, sliding, turning, jumping, pushing, pulling, hitting, copying, rubbing, weighing, holding, kneading, twisting, and disturbing.
There is a poem praising: "Things are so deep that they are difficult to understand, and they are not idle when they are angry. Once you spray, you will wake up, and you will keep working hard."
Zhao Zhen followed Yaren into a courtyard. , at this time, the peak season of cockfighting has just passed, it is the time to breed new cockfighting cocks, and the sound of "clucking" can be heard from time to time in the yard.
The Gao Kingdom usually holds cockfighting competitions from April to May and September to October, when the cockfighting cocks are in estrus and are most aggressive. The Yaren said: "Master of the Ji family, there is a customer buying chicken, come out and greet him quickly."
After speaking, he whispered to Zhao Zhen: "This is a descendant of Ji Zhuzi , This store had never sold fighting cocks before. "Zhuangzi Dasheng" said: Ji Zhuzi raised fighting cocks for the king on the tenth day and asked: "Is the chicken ready?" He asked again on the tenth day, "Yu Yingjing." He asked again on the tenth day, "I am still angry." , has not changed, it looks like a wooden chicken, its virtue is complete, and no one dares to respond to the strange chicken, but it will go away. '
But it has not been able to get out of the cage in recent years, which is the knot. There is no cage, and raising chickens costs a lot, and the family is in ruins. Ji Dalang wants to revive the family business and needs to re-select a batch of fighting cocks. "
While talking, A 7-foot-45 man, aged in his mid-thirties, with a black beard that covered his mouth, came out of the room and shouted to the tooth man: "Song Laosan, are you sure you can succeed this time?"
"Ji Dalang, don't complain. Unless I don't welcome guests, you also need to know that in recent years, the top six chickens: the first cage, the second cage, the third cage, the fourth cage, the fifth cage, and the knot cage are all different. It comes from your family. It’s more expensive than others, so of course you have to give me a little more money today. I am Zhao Erlang, my family is a big farmer, and buying some chickens from you would be like pulling out the hair on your head.” br>
After hearing this, Ji Dalang said: "This chicken of mine has been passed down from my ancestors and has been bred for many generations. It has pure blood. However, the descendants are unworthy and have not learned the ancestral skills. The training of this chicken is poor." But they are very good. Because I want to breed a new batch of fighting chickens and lack some money, I have to sell some chickens. Please see here. There are colored fighting chickens such as green, red, purple, and soap, and medium color fighting chickens such as gray, gray, and green. There are four kinds of chickens: reed flower and persimmon yellow, and there is no lower color chicken."
As he spoke, Ji Dalang introduced: "My family's ancestral blue fighting cock is the upper color of the fighting cock, and the sun shines on it. It sparkles and emits a luster like indigo. The tail of the flower is white, and the neck is rarely white. There can be no other colors. The black and white are bright and dazzling, giving people a clear and bright feeling." A fighting cock appeared on display.
“There are four categories of green chickens: the first is the large flower-tailed green chicken, the second is the small flower-tailed green chicken, the third is the white sand-tailed green chicken, and the fourth is the green-red chicken. If the green chicken has any other color, it is all inferior quality. "
Zhao Zhen asked: "Are there any alien species?"
Ji Dalang smiled awkwardly: "We haven't seen each other for many years. The white spots on his head are called "snowflake tops". The whole body is pure black without any stray hairs and are called "black velvet". They are worth hundreds of dollars."
"How much is an adult chicken worth? "How much does the chicken cost?" Zhao Zhen asked.
"1500 Wen for an adult chicken and 50 Wen for a chicken." He said and glanced at Song Sanlang, the tooth man.
Song Sanlang said: "The market price of fighting cocks is consistent, and the green chickens from Dalang's family are considered first-class. The regular five is also a bit more expensive. How about buying an adult chicken and getting four chickens as a gift? ?”
Zhao Zhen nodded, and Ji Dalang hurriedly agreed.
Zhao Zhen selected ten adult chickens, both male and female, and forty chickens, all of which were installed. Zhao Zhen looked at them one by one and selected those with strong strength, agility and firm will. I was about to count the money when I turned around and saw a white fighting cock.
But see: The whole body is as white as jade, crystal clear as snow, and there is not a speck of color on the body. The legs are like jade pillars, like jade pillars holding up a white cloud. White beak, white feathers, white legs, white claws, red crown.
Immediately said: "This chicken looks good, I want it." It was settled in one shot.
(End of this chapter)