Buddhist Cultivation: Starting from Divination

Chapter 52
After leaving the wine alley, Zhao Huai planned to go to Qinglongmen downtown for the next stop.

Qinglongmen downtown is the largest downtown in Jinzhou. It is located in the inner city. You want to buy furniture such as beds, tables, and chairs, or luxury goods such as jade, ivory, and spices, as well as livestock such as famous horses, cats and dogs, birds, fish, and insects. Can be found in downtown.

On the corners and alleys, dogs of various breeds, cats, and birds of various shapes and colors, who are performing arts and crafts, are clamoring and screaming happily on this lively street.

Every time Zhao Huai passed by a house, he would stop and have a look.

Although the wife said that she wanted to buy some small animals, she didn't say whether to buy cats or dogs, or to buy birds, but let him watch and buy.

Casual is really casual, this is not the attitude of really wanting to keep pets, it seems that he just wants to add some vitality to the shop.

He stared at a wooden cage for a long time, because he found that the dog had been staring at him.

Zhao Huai also looked at Shiba Gou in front of him unceremoniously.

People stare at dogs, and the scene is very friendly.

What are you looking at?

Zhao Huai couldn't help thinking bitterly.

"Guest officer, do you want to buy a dog? The dogs here are all high-quality dogs bred by fighting dogs, and they are guaranteed to be alive and well." Seeing that Zhao Huai had been staring at the dog, the owner of the dog shop stepped forward with a smile on his face. .

"If you don't buy it, I'll take a look."

When Zhao Huai heard that it was a dog fighting shop, he immediately shook his head.

Now the rich and powerful gentry in this city like to fight this one and that one if they have nothing to do.

These days, cricket fighting has become too popular, and many ordinary people follow suit. In order to distinguish their hobbies and elegance, rich and powerful gentry have started to set foot on other tracks.

There is a saying that if it is too popular, it will be a bad street. Presumably the gentry think the same way.

The new trend now is dog fighting and horse racing. Neither dogs nor horses can be played by ordinary people. As a matter of course, they have become new toys for the rich.

But in any entertainment place, it is inevitable that someone will open the market to do business, and you will pay ten for one, and one for ten.

But occasionally there are people who make a lot of money and become very rich.

But let alone, it has really driven the economic development of Jinzhou.

The reason why Zhao Huai didn't buy it was because the dogs from the dogfighting arena were surly and very dangerous. It was hard to keep them at home and keep them in their hands, and they often had injuries left over from the dogfights. .

He felt that Madam would not like this.

After strolling around, Zhao Huai came to the bird shop, which is much more lively than the dog shop.

But there are also many deceptions in Niaopu.

Today you bought a new thrush, maybe the bird dealer has applied something to make the feathers of the thrush look like a new bird, but in fact it is an old bird.

In addition, there are birds with an extremely beautiful appearance, which may be dyed. This kind of bird can't survive for a long time, and it's usually used to deceive newbies. If you raise it to death, you can't say anything, and you think it's your own. What about the problem.

There are indeed thousands of routines in buying birds, but Zhao Huai is not in a hurry.

He didn't think anyone could trick him.

He has always cheated others, and it is impossible for others to cheat him.

And he also found a surprise.

That is, his fate of "Appreciating Treasure Master" came in handy.

【Appreciation expert】In addition to appreciating antiques, we can also appraise other things.

The so-called appraising treasures naturally includes identifying objects.

Whether it is dead or alive, it can be distinguished.

Zhao Huai watched it beside a group of bird cages.

There are quite a lot of birds here, except for the common thrushes and larks, the birds have excellent voices, and there are also birds of prey such as goshawks and sparrow hawks. The guard house also has cards.

Zhao Huai looked into the store and found some parrots with bright feathers.

As we all know, parrots can imitate human speech, which undoubtedly aroused Zhao Huai's interest.

"Tell me something."

Zhao Huai smiled at the yellow-green parrot in the cage.

"Fool, fool."

The yellow-green parrot tilted its head, bouncing away, without looking at him, and made a childish sound.

Zhao Huai suddenly became unhappy, pouted and said, "Hey, you stupid bird, you still curse?"

But I couldn't bother with one bird, so I turned to other birds.

Soon, he saw that among the many bird cages, there was a very special cage, which was placed in a separate place and covered with a black cloth.

Zhao Huai felt curious, so he asked the bird dealer: "Boss, what's the situation with your cage, are you selling it or not?"

Seeing a visitor ask, the bird dealer smiled and said: "That's right, this bird is too wild to keep close, and it hits the cage when it sees light. In desperation, we had to cover it."

Zhao Huai nodded in understanding.

Raising birds often encounters situations where they cannot be raised, and then the bird will keep hitting the cage until it kills itself or is dying.

"Can I see it?"

Zhao Huai asked a question.

"It doesn't matter, the guest officer just has to look at it."

Zhao Huai lifted a corner of the black cloth of the birdcage, and saw a black bird with a white hair on its head lying motionless under the cage. The white hair was stained with a lot of blood. One corner is also slightly raised, and it looks like it should have been knocked into this shape.

Even he couldn't help sighing when he saw the miserable appearance, this bird is too aggrieved, it should be let out to let the air out.

The bird dealer next to him introduced: "This is a mynah with white hair on the top of its head. It is a good variety and has an excellent sound. I didn't dye it. Let me tell you first. I found it in the mountains outside the city. At that time, Fei With great effort, the bird flew extremely fast, and it took a dozen people and an hour to catch it."

"But the starling has been caught since he was caught, and he didn't say a word. He just kept bumping into the cage. He's so stupid. I guess his brain is not good enough, but he still has a lot of strength, and he bumped the cage."

Zhao Huai looked at the starling thoughtfully.

To be honest, starlings are also a miraculous species, they look a lot like crows, with only slight differences.

But it is actually a representative of auspiciousness, and like a magpie, it is also a mascot.

At the same time, it can also imitate the calls of more than a dozen species of birds, including the skills of parrots, and it can also imitate human speech.

[Appreciation Master]'s fate was activated, and Zhao Huai's facial features and body sensations were immediately magnified.

His eyes narrowed slowly, and he could see all the details of the starling in front of him.

This starling's eyes are full of spirituality, different from other birds, although the wings can't move, but the small eyeballs are still spinning.

It was very strange, it kept staring out of the cage, or in other words, kept staring at the mysterious ring on its own hand, wondering what it was thinking.

As if it had a mind of its own.

Through the fate, Zhao Huai can basically conclude that this bird is not that simple.

If you don't care, the bird dealer may throw it away, and then it will be picked up by a wild cat.

So, he decided to take it down.

But before that, let's see if we can get some luck first.

Throwing the copper coin, as expected, got a "blessing" result.

A yellow light cluster escaped.

[Words and colors (yellow grades, etc.)]: When a businessman does business with you, you can always get a good price and save a lot of things.

"Bagging artifact, the grade is not high, but the practicality is good."

Zhao Huai gradually discovered that sometimes practicality is more important than grade.

"Boss, sell this starling to me."

Zhao Huai said.

The bird dealer put down his work and asked curiously, "Why did you buy it? It doesn't sing, and it doesn't look good."

"As the saying goes, a man with ambition is valuable, and a bird with beautiful feathers is valuable. My son, it is better to buy a good-looking and healthy bird. I am afraid that this bird will not live long."

The bird dealer is also a kind reminder.

Zhao Huai smiled and said, "Buying it and burying it is better than being thrown away and eaten by wild cats."

After hearing his words, the bird dealer's eyes moved, and he said with emotion:
"Well, the guest officer is also a kind-hearted person, so I'll charge you one hundred Wen."

"can."

Zhao Huai nodded.

One hundred pennies can be said to be a great deal, otherwise a bird would usually cost more than a dozen taels of silver, expensive ones could be sold for hundreds of taels, and the price of starlings would be more than 500 taels.

(End of this chapter)