Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 16 The Monkey King (2)
The Zuixianlou's business was mediocre at first, but after hiring a cook from Zhenjiang, the business has become increasingly prosperous.The cook is skilled and skilled in cooking Huaiyang delicacies.The old Beijingers are used to eating salty and fresh local dishes, and they are all very interested in the sweet, soft and light Huaiyang cuisine. Gradually, Zuixianlou is booming day by day.When there are more diners, the price of vegetables also rises, but there is still an endless stream of people to go.As long as the owner who makes the money is proud to go to Zuixianlou.Therefore, when he heard that Zha Wuzuo was going to Zuixian Tower, Feng Shen happily went there.

It's just that it's a long way to get to Zuixian Tower from here, but fortunately, the two of them didn't rush, so they walked slowly towards the direction of Zuixian Tower.

Along the way, Feng Shen chatted and laughed with Zha Wu, walked in the car, and unknowingly arrived near the overpass.

In the area around the Tianqiao, there are many artists who walk the rivers and lakes.They painted pots there, juggling and performing arts.There are those who play diabolo, those who perform routines, and those who hold flags and climb poles. Anyway, there are all kinds of people, and it is very lively.

In the distance, Feng Shen saw people moving in front of him.A group of people gathered in one place, but they didn't know what tricks they were watching.After a while, there was a burst of applause from the crowd, and the sound of clapping hands and applauding was endless.

Feng Shen was so lively, seeing such things happening, he couldn't move his feet.So, he pulled Cha Wuzuo and went straight to the crowd.

When the two separated from the crowd and broke into the circle, they realized that they were actually a monkey tricker.

This kind of monkey trick is very common. It is nothing more than taming a wild monkey and letting it learn some clumsy moves from humans to win a few big coins.

When Zha Wuzuo saw this, he felt a little disappointed.He muttered, and was about to turn around and go out, but Feng Shen grabbed him.

"Master Cha, don't rush away!" Feng Shen lowered his voice, and said to Cha Wu, "Look at that monkey again!"

"What's wrong with that monkey?" Zha Wuzuo said while looking at the monkey carefully.

Looking at it this way, Zha Wuzuo felt that something was not quite right.The monkey looked like an ordinary macaque, but it was much bigger than that monkey.The tail behind the buttocks has been cut off, and the legs and feet are thicker.Moreover, the monkey stood firmly on its hind legs.The most astonishing thing was that the monkey was still sitting on its waist, with its two front paws pushing back and forth in front of its chest, performing a set of Tai Chi in a decent manner!

It's not surprising that monkeys are psychic, imitating people to do some stupid behaviors.But the macaque in front of him, with a wild horse on the left and a white crane spreading its wings on the right, walks with his knees in his arms, kicks his feet and punches, if it weren't for his brown fur, he would be a martial arts performer at a sudden glance.

Every time the monkey displayed a move, the crowd burst into thunderous applause.The monkey player beat the gong for a while, then walked around the crowd, begging for rewards one by one.People were not stingy either, they took out a few big coins one after another and threw them on the surface of the monkey man.After a while, the copper coins on the surface of the gong pointed out.

After turning around, the monkey player poured the money he got into his close-fitting cloth bag, and then threw half a piece of corn cake to the monkey, allowing him to rest for a while, eat something and then continue playing.The monkey also seemed to be very hungry, holding the half of the cake and started chewing.Or swallowing too fast and choking its throat, the monkey coughed a few times like a human, stroked its chest by itself, and finally swallowed the food down.These actions aroused laughter from the spectators around.

"Hey!" Zha Wuzuo was very surprised, and shouted at Feng Shen, "This monkey has really become a master! If it is trained for another two years, the gang of Yamen servants in Shuntian Mansion may not be able to beat it!"

"Master Zha whispered, are you afraid that others don't know that you are on the job?" Hearing Zha Wuzuo's unrestrained mouth, Feng Shen hurriedly pulled him.

But Na Zha had a rough voice, and by the time he covered his mouth, those words had already reached other people's ears.

Hearing this, the monkey-player was startled suddenly, his face a little cloudy and uncertain.The monkey was born with a sharp beak and long gills, a pair of triangular eyes turned straight, like a mouse face.At a glance, you can tell that it is the kind of philistine and cunning person.At this moment, he pretended to be counting money, while pulling the money bag, while lowering his head and squinting, he secretly looked at the checking work.

Although Zha Wuzuo was dressed in ordinary clothes, he was wearing a pair of official boots from Gongmen.Standing in the crowd, these official boots are different from the high-top shoes or soft shoes worn by ordinary people, and it is easy to distinguish them.

The more he looked, the more flustered the monkey-player became.In the end, he tied the purse directly, pulled the monkey and tied it with a thin chain, and then bowed his hands to all the spectators: "Everyone, young and old, I am new to Guibao, and I am not familiar with the place where I was born. In the future, I will have to rely on everyone to support me more. But today, Sai Wukong is also exhausted, so let's play here first..."

As soon as he heard that the monkey player wanted to leave, the spectators around him stopped doing it and began to criticize him one after another.

"What's the matter? Man, you just threw away the money and you're leaving? Hurry up and let Sai Wukong play a few more tricks, I haven't watched it enough yet!"

"That's right! Just now you said it was just a joke, why did you change your mind in a blink of an eye? Are you co-authoring to make fun of us?"

"Old and young men! Old and young men!" Seeing that the onlookers were annoyed, the monkey player apologized with a bitter face, "How dare you dare to make fun of everyone? I just wanted to remember it when I was young. Playing here, I haven't found a place to stay yet, wait for the younger one to find a place to live, and then bring Sai Wukong to make everyone lively."

"What a joke! You ran away, where can I find you?"

"You can leave if you want! Return the bounty!"

"Yes! Return the reward! Return the reward..."

As the spectators talked, they were about to rush forward to get back the rewards. How could the monkey tricker do it?So they hugged and chatted with the spectators and got mixed up.

"This battle...is more lively than that monkey show..." Looking at the chaotic crowd, Feng Shen and Zha Wuzuo looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled wryly.

Feng Shen saw that staying was boring, so he turned to leave.But before he could turn around, he caught a glimpse of a hairy thing suddenly jumping out from the crowd out of the corner of his eyes, and hugged Zha Wuzuo's lap.

Both of them were defenseless, and both of them startled the hairy thing.When he looked closely, he found that the macaque was actually on Zha Wuzuo's leg.

The macaque had a thin iron chain tied around its neck, one end was still dragging behind, whining in its mouth, tears dripping from its eye sockets, it hugged Cha Wuzuo tightly, and refused to let go of its claws.

"This...what's the trouble here?" Zha Wuzuo struggled desperately, and wondered, "Young Master Feng, don't just watch it! Hurry up and help this monkey away..."

Feng Shen had no choice but to bend down, grab the macaque's shoulder from behind, and push back hard.Unexpectedly, the macaque seemed to be determined, no matter how the two of them tore apart, they would not let go of their claws.

Suddenly, the thin iron chain around the macaque's neck snapped violently and straightened into a straight line.It turned out that it was the disgraced monkey-player who squeezed out from the crowd.He grabbed the other end of the iron chain and pulled it back desperately.

As soon as the iron chain was pulled back, the macaque's neck was strangled backwards.Even so, the macaque still refused to let go of Cha Wuzuo's trousers.Its neck was pulled long, the whites of its eyes were turned upside down, and its red monkey face was now suffocated into purple pig liver.

Seeing that there was another dispute here, the crowd of spectators stopped their hands and poked aside one by one to watch the excitement.

"Stop!" Seeing that monkey was about to be strangled to death, Feng Shen was moved with compassion.He leaped forward, snatched the iron chain from the monkey player, and shouted: "It's life anyway, why bother to do it so cruelly?"

Unexpectedly, the monkey player rolled his eyeballs and said falsely: "I want you, an outsider, to take care of the monkey I trained at home? Could it be that seeing my monkey's cleverness, I have the evil intention of taking it for myself?"

"Ridiculous!" Feng Shen was a little annoyed, and said angrily, "What use do I want you macaque?"

"Since this young master doesn't want to confuse this monkey, please keep moving and don't delay the little one catching the monkey!" The monkey joker said eccentrically, "If the monkey disappears, the little one won't even be able to make money." All food and belongings are gone!"

The monkey joker's remarks made Feng Shen choked up for a long time.

"Ouch, I said Young Master Feng," just as the atmosphere was embarrassing, Zha Zuo yelled again, "Let's forget about other things, but quickly find a way to get this monkey off my lap! Everyone has two legs...how come this macaque recognizes my pair as branches of a big tree..."

"That's easy!" Before Feng Shen could speak, the monkey player suddenly took out a leather whip from his pocket, "Look at that monkey with a few whips!"

After finishing speaking, the monkey player flicked his wrist and slapped his whip.

When the crisp and sharp sound of the whip sounded, the macaque hugged on Zha Wuzuo's lap immediately became extremely frightened, and shivered from head to toe.

The monkey juggler raised his whip towards the air, and then quickly pulled it back, and the tip of the whip whipped on the macaque's spine with a whistling wind.

Although the monkey-player's leather whip is slender, it is the kind of "hutou button" made of several cooked leather discs woven together.And when it is twisted, it is also mixed with human hair and iron filings, which is very tough.If it is drawn on the flesh, it will be a bloodstain.

Although the macaque had rough skin and thick flesh, it was still a body of flesh and blood. After being whipped, it fell to the ground in pain and screamed again and again.The monkey tricker showed no mercy, and whipped it open again with his whip.

After a while, the macaque was beaten to pieces.The brown monkey hair was soaked in blood, mixed with the dust on the ground, all battered into wisps.In the end, he fell directly on the ground and became a blood monkey.

Almost all of this happened in a blink of an eye, and everyone around was dumbfounded.No one expected that the monkey tricker would hit the macaque so hard.

(End of this chapter)