Dreaming about the world, embarking on the path of spiritual practice

Chapter 37 Dangerous Rivers and Lakes
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Three people wandering around the county town

Yu Liang saw many strange and strange things that he had never seen before.

Suddenly, the sweet chirping of birds came to my ears.

Yu Liang turned around curiously and walked over to check.

I saw a simple-looking old man holding a whistle as thick and long as a finger in his mouth. It was made of jade and could make various bird sounds when he blew it.

In front of him was a stall with whistles of various sizes similar to those he held in his mouth.

"Boss, what do you have? How do you sell it?"

The old man replied: "If you don't want to be called the boss, the little brother can just call the old man Ma Old Man!"

"This is a gadget made by the old man himself. It can make different sounds according to different blows."

"Only five cents each!"

Yu Liang picked one up from the stall and looked at it in front of his eyes.

I thought this seemed to be the bones of some kind of animal, and I didn't know what method was used to make it look like jade.

There are some small holes drilled on it according to the rules, and the sound can be made by blowing air from one end.

Uncle Wu who was following behind also picked up one and looked at it, and then said disdainfully: "Isn't this just a chicken leg bone? Can this thing be worth five cents?"

Hearing this, the old man smiled and explained: "Although the material of this thing is chicken bones, the old man spent a lot of effort to make it!"

Uncle Wu put down what he was holding and said disdainfully: "No matter how you mess with it, it's still just chicken bones!"

"Yu Liang, don't spend that wasted money on this thing!"

Yu Liang smiled at his fifth uncle, and then asked the old man: "Even if I buy this thing, I can't make as many nice bird sounds as you can!"

The old man did not refute this.

Yu Liang picked up another one from the stall and said to him, "How about this? I buy two and you teach me how to play them. How about that?"

When Uncle Wu saw that Yu Liang wanted to buy, and wanted to buy two more, he immediately tried to dissuade him: "Yu Liang, this thing is not worth the money at all!"

Yu Liang smiled and replied: "Uncle Wu, I really like the sound. I want to buy one and play with it!"

Then he asked the old man again: "How is it?"

But the other party replied: "How about you buy four and I will teach you?"

Hearing what he said, Yu Liang put the things directly back on the stall.

"These are just some skills. You can figure them out if you play with them often!"

"Since you don't want to do this business, forget it!"

Seeing that Yu Liang was about to leave, the old man immediately greeted with a smile: "Wait, wait, I sell, I sell!"

Yu Liang, who was about to leave, then turned around, smiled, picked out two chicken bone whistles from the stall, and said, "Teach me first, and then I'll pay!"

The old man asked back: "I'll teach you first. If you can't learn it, you won't stop buying it, right?"

"Don't worry, you teach me once and I'll pay directly!"

"That's fine, you look after it!"

The old man picked up a whistle and told Yu Liang his technique every time he blew a bird song.

The length, frequency, and weight of the blowing, each change will cause the whistle to sound different.

After learning it only once, Yu Liang memorized all the techniques, paid the money and left happily.

"Oh, Yu Liang, you are wasting your money!"

Uncle Wu sighed again and said.

But Yu Liang turned around, whistled at him, and responded to him with various sweet bird sounds.

After hearing these sounds, Uncle Wu said with a surprised look on his face: "Yu Liang, have you learned it now?"

"Of course, this thing is actually quite simple, just follow the steps and you'll be done!"

Yu Liang handed him another chicken bone whistle: "Come on, Fifth Uncle, you can try it too!"

Uncle Wu took the chicken bone whistle in confusion. He also listened to the old man's teaching just now.

Although the technique for one kind of bird song sound is simple, putting so many together can be complicated.

When I put it in my mouth and blew it, there was only a sharp chirping sound, but no sweet bird chirping.

"Hahaha!"

Yu Liang laughed a few times, and then said: "Uncle Wu, it's wrong for you to brag like this, you want to do this!"

Just when he was about to teach his fifth uncle, a beggar suddenly bumped into him and squeezed between them.

Ok?
Just when he was about to pass away from the beggar, Yu Liang saw him secretly reaching out his hand, using a delicate and flexible technique to put Huzi's filial piety to his fifth uncle into his arms.Yu Liang also secretly reached out his hand, taking advantage of the beggar's attention to Uncle Wu, and stole the money back.

Just when he thought the matter would end there, a silver needle appeared from the beggar's fingertips and stabbed the fifth uncle's waist.

Yu Liang quickly extended his hand and intercepted the opponent's sneak attack with a chicken bone whistle.

At this moment, the beggar noticed Yu Liang's method.

Without making any pause, he bumped into Uncle Wu and left directly.

Something in my hand was knocked off.

"Hey, you~"

Angrily, he was about to say something when he was stopped by Yu Liang.

"Uncle Wu, this is the county town, don't cause trouble!"

Uncle Wu also immediately realized that the other party was just a stinky beggar. It would be bad if he was taken away by the law enforcement team because of a dispute with him.

"Bah, bad luck!"

He spat at the beggar's back.

"Uncle Wu, it's getting late, let's go back quickly!"

Yu Liang took his fifth uncle and his wife and walked quickly towards the city gate.

"Yu Liang, there's no need to leave in such a hurry, we can get back to the village before dark!"

Yu Liang seemed not to have heard what Uncle Wu said, and his steps became faster.

When Uncle Wu saw this, he suddenly reacted and followed closely behind Yu Liang without saying another word.

It wasn't until he left the county and was far away that Yu Liang slowed down.

He turned around and looked at the fifth uncle and his wife who were panting from exhaustion: "That's enough, let's sit down and take a rest!"

The three of them sat under a big tree by the roadside.

Uncle Wu asked Yu Liang, "Yu Liang, what happened? Is there something wrong with that beggar?"

"Ok!"

Yu Liang nodded and spread his palms. In the middle, apart from Huzi's regular money, there was also a purchased chicken bone whistle.

"my money!"

Uncle Wu hurriedly collected the money, as his son respected him: "This damn stinky beggar actually dares to steal my money!"

"Uncle Wu, look at this!"

After hearing what Yu Liang said, he looked carefully and found that there was a tiny silver needle stuck in the middle of the chicken bone whistle!

"When that beggar bumped into you, he wanted to prick you with this silver needle, but I blocked him."

After thinking about it carefully, Uncle Wu said tremblingly: "What does that stinky beggar want to do!"

Yu Liang shook his head: "It's hard to say. Whether I'm going to kill you or not depends on whether the silver needle is poisonous or not!"

When he heard about poison, Uncle Wu became even more frightened: "Well, Yu Liang, do you think this silver needle is poisonous?"

Yu Liang smiled and said: "Whether it is poisonous or not, you will know if you try it!"

He picked up a stone on the ground and threw it into the sky. A passing sparrow fell off because its wings were hit.

"Yu Liang, you!" The show of his hand immediately shocked the fifth uncle and his wife.

"Calm down!"

Yu Liang wrapped the grass leaves and pinched the silver needle

When the two saw this, they immediately became silent!

Prick the sparrow with a silver needle.

Under the gaze of the three people, a long time passed without any other reaction from the sparrow.

"It seems that this silver needle is not poisonous!"

In response, Uncle Wu breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why did that stinky beggar prick me with a silver needle?"

Yu Liang stood up and smiled: "Maybe he wanted to stab you because he didn't steal anything!"

"Okay, don't think too much, since you have nothing to do, just go back early!"

Yu Liang didn't want to add any more trouble to his fifth uncle.

The crisis was over, and the three of them returned to the village with peace of mind.

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(End of this chapter)