I'm catching tricks in the Hong Kong variety show world

Along the way, Su Hao saw a coffin shop, a tombstone shop, and a paper shop. He thought of the stuffed bear at home. The effect of the puppet technique he experimented with earlier was not very good. If he chose to use a paper man as a puppet, he would not be able to use it. Know what will happen.

"Young man, are you buying a paper figurine for your ancestors? I don't know whether you want a boy or a girl?"

A round-faced man with a thick build came out of the store, glanced at Su Hao with a philistine look, and started to solicit.

Su Hao pointed to a one-meter-tall paper puppet and asked, "How do you sell this?"

"600 for each, 1000 for a pair, you can choose a man or a woman. You can serve your grandpa as a paper burner. Grandma can't be less, right? Otherwise, the old man will be angry."

Zi Ning remembered that Su Hao was an orphan. When he saw that Su Hao was interested in paper figures, he thought he was going to attend the funeral of a friend or relative or colleague.

Wreath-bearers are common at funerals.

She subconsciously helped: "Boss, 600 is so expensive? Isn't it just a paper man? The material cost is not much, and the craftsmanship cost alone is not so expensive, right?"

Zi Ning has been guarding the carpentry workshop these days, and there is a lot of shopping in the old street.

The shop owner immediately picked up the paper doll and turned it over in an exaggerated manner, pointing to a bamboo pole at the joint of the doll and said: "Beautiful girl, you see clearly, I use bamboo materials here, not just cardboard boxes. , this craft is not cheap, after the paper figurine is tied up, I still need to hire someone to color it and create a face."

Su Hao's eyes followed the shop owner's gestures and landed on the bamboo pole at the joints. He took it and tried it on, and found that this one-to-one simulated paper man was about seven or eight kilograms. It was of appropriate weight. He wanted to buy one to practice as a puppet. technique.

His eyes then swept over the face of the paper man. Whether it was a male or a female paper man, the face was very round, and both cheeks were covered with a layer of blush, giving people a strange sense of joy. Su Hao looked at it It always feels a little weird at first glance.

So he asked out of curiosity: "Why are there no eyes on this paper man?"

The shop owner laughed and said, "Pretty boy, don't you understand this? There are rules in the paper craftsmanship. Don't make eye-catching eyes on the paper figures, otherwise weird things will happen easily."

Zi Ning couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's weird? Could this paper man still be alive?"

The shop owner gave Su Hao a Yuxi cigarette and said in an exaggerated way, "Maybe he will come back to life."

Zi Ning still wanted to argue, but suddenly thought of the strange things he had experienced a few days ago, and shut his mouth.

Su Hao lit the Yuxi cigarette that the other party handed him, "I want this paper man, 500 each, can I have it?"

The shop owner brought over a matching paper girl next to him and said, "Good things come in pairs, two for a thousand."

Su Hao took out his wallet and said, "Okay, just buy a pair."

The shop owner pointed to the other funerary objects in the house, "My dear, you always have to buy two wads of paper money, right? There's also this newly released iPhone 1, a Mercedes Benz, and a two-story villa. Burning them all together makes them look stylish and grand." , I guarantee that your ancestors will be happy down there and not miss Shu."

"No."

After a while, Su Hao came out with two paper figures between his arms. He turned heads a lot more while walking on the road.

Zi Ning complained from behind, "Why did you buy these things? Looking at so many people, are you going to attend a funeral?"

Su Hao: "No, you will know soon."

The two returned to the carpentry workshop. In addition to the old carpenter who helped them make spiritual tablets and wooden boxes, they found that there was an additional young man in the courtyard.

This man looked a little dull, and was sullenly cutting wood with a saw.

Zi Ning secretly introduced: "This is an apprentice of the old carpenter, named Amu."

Su Hao nodded, came to a slightly empty corner, and placed the two paper figures in his hands.

Su Hao took out two rolls of silk thread from his pocket, one was a thin transparent thread, and the other was a thick gray thread. He tied the thin threads to the ankles, knees, wrists, etc. of one of the paper figures, and tied the thick threads to The string is tied to the back of the paper figure.

After checking it again, Su Hao stepped back to a position of five or six meters. He moved his fingers and controlled the thread to start beating. A magical scene appeared. The originally motionless paper man slowly raised his legs and stretched out his arms.

Zi Ning's eyes widened. She covered her mouth with one hand and stared blankly at Su Hao's fingers.

Su Hao's face was serious and focused. He slowly closed his eyes and controlled the paper manikin to make a half circle around a water tank in the courtyard. During this process, he stepped over a 30 cm high log and finally stopped in front of a strange man.

Su Hao opened his eyes and looked back at the paper man, and found that the man was holding a cigarette in his mouth. He was short in stature, but had very thick limbs, dark skin, and short, lean hair. He was staring at him with a surprised look on his face. Looking at the paper man in front of me.

If it weren't for the broad daylight, he would have thought he had encountered a ghost.

He also saw the thick gray thread tied behind the paper man, and then he turned his attention to Su Hao, "Pretty boy, can you control the movement of this paper man?"

Su Hao glanced at Zi Ning next to him in confusion, who came over and whispered, "I don't know him either, but people often come here to order things. Maybe he is a customer who comes to buy things."

Su Hao put away the silk threads on the paper man, lit a cigarette and said casually: "I also learned it from a beggar who came from the north a few years ago. I just played around. They call this a puppet master over there. They perform on the stage." use."

The strange man asked again: "What is the handsome boy doing now?"

Su Hao: "He's just a homeless person."

The strange man pondered for a moment and praised: "It's really an amazing craft. The puppet master's craft is now a unique skill. If you use this thing well, you will make a fortune sooner or later. What a pity."

Su Hao smiled and said nothing.

After a while, the master craftsman from the carpentry workshop came out and followed the strange man in the courtyard pointing at a coffin leaning against the wall. "It's just this size, but the wood needs to be stronger. I'll need it within half a month."

Su Hao's ears moved and he heard the conversation between the two of them word for word. He learned from the old carpenter that the man's name was Ah Cai. The purpose of buying the coffin was to bury an elder in the family who passed away.

What's strange about Su Hao is that usually when buying coffins, they always buy existing coffins, because if someone dies in the family, the body can only lie at home for three days at most. If it stays for too long, it will easily stink. How can anyone order a coffin half a month in advance?

Could it be that we can conclude that the old man died in about half a month?

After Ah Cai left, the old carpenter took out a pair of spiritual tablets and a wooden box in a packaging bag from the house and handed them to Su Hao, "The willow wood you sent over is of good quality. I can finish it in a week. At that time, you will send someone to pick up the goods, and the labor cost will be 1. Remember to settle the account together when the time comes."

Su Hao nodded, then touched Zi Ning's hair and walked out of the hospital.

He put the paper man and the packaging bag in the trunk of the Passat, and thought for a moment to call Bo Ge, "Bo Ge, when will the butcher's knife be delivered to you?"

"Ah Hao, I'm at the slaughterhouse right now. You can send me here."

Brother Bo's voice on the phone was a little weird.

Su Hao drove the Passat to Bo Ge's slaughterhouse without much thought. Bo Ge directly invited Su Hao to the office next to him, then closed the door and nervously handed Su Hao a cigarette.

"The gender of my wife's fourth child has been determined and she is still a girl."

Bo Ge's face looked a little depressed.

Su Hao was surprised and said: "Didn't you say that it will take half a month to check out? It's only been a few days? Could it be that the test was wrong?"

Bo Ge said dejectedly: "That's what a small hospital says. This time I took my wife to a big hospital, a private hospital, so it shouldn't be wrong."

"Could it be that I, Crow Mouth, chose the name Zhan Zhao in advance? Or does our old Zhang family deserve to have no boy?"

"But I've had the same dream for the past few days..."

Brother Bo stared at Su Hao and swallowed, his eyes showing a mixture of nervousness and excitement.

Su Hao thought of the scene he saw at Bo Ge's house. The ghost in the painting, Bo Ge's father, might really live in their home, so he asked calmly: "What dream?"

"I dreamed about my dad. He told me in the dream that my fourth baby was a girl, so I hurriedly went to a private hospital to spend money for a check-up."

"My father also told me to change my career and stop killing pigs. In addition, I should not take this pig-killing knife back with me. He said that the pig-butchering knife carries the resentment of the dead animals and affects the feng shui of our family. As long as we do At these two points, if you have another pregnancy, you will most likely get what you want."

Brother Bo finished speaking in one breath, and then looked at Su Hao nervously, "I asked my mother and my wife afterward, and they both had the same dream. The key is that I dreamed that my father told me in my dream for several days in a row. .”

"Don't you have a friend who is a Feng Shui master? Why don't you call him and consult him now? I'll pay for the consultation fee."

Su Hao pondered for a moment after hearing this.

He wanted to say that a boy or girl is determined by the chromosomes of both men and women, but as he spoke, he thought about the various experiences in this world. Maybe there is something that can determine the fate of the Boge family.

If Bogo changes his career, he will have an opportunity to get this butcher knife.

Su Hao said: "Don't waste the consultation fee on the Feng Shui master. He actually doesn't know much about this aspect. I only have one suggestion. If you decide to have another child, wait until your wife gives birth to her fourth child. It is best to leave a gap of one year between the two, so that both you and her can take good care of themselves, which will increase the success rate."

Bo Ge immediately patted Su Hao on the shoulder. The nervousness disappeared and he became more and more excited. "Okay, I'll listen to you. What do you think is the probability that my fifth child will be a boy?"

Su Hao smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't know that if your probability was [-]-[-] before, it is at least [-]-[-] now."

"The [-]% chance is already quite high. It's worth giving it a try. No matter whether the fifth child is a boy or a girl, I won't have another baby in the future."

Su Hao's eyes fell on the sheath of the butcher's knife on the table. The power of this butcher's knife had been tested once before in the Dafugui Opera House. It is a rare prop. If you have the chance, you must use it. Get started.

"What are you going to do after you stop killing pigs?"

Bo Ge returned to his seat with a relaxed expression, "I'm going to open a pork shop. I don't kill animals, but I can continue to work in related industries. I have saved some money over the years, and it will not be a problem to raise a family. Plus I With the connections I have accumulated in the slaughterhouse business, even if I change my career, I will do better than others, and at least the meat I buy will definitely be of better quality than others."

"Brother, we are brothers. You have seen the magic of this knife before. I know you like it. You can also use it when you work in the miscellaneous department. It is most suitable to carry it with you for self-defense."

Su Hao's expression also relaxed, "Please ask Brother Bo to give me a price."

"I'll sell it to you for 30 yuan. The material and sharpness of this knife alone can sell for 20 to [-] yuan. The magic of it is only over [-] yuan."

Su Hao nodded and said, "Okay, but I don't have enough money right now. I'll save it with Brother Bo for a while. I'll come back with the money to pick it up within a month."

"Okay, just don't blame me for being a philistine. I'm also talking about business."

After coming out of Bo Ge's slaughterhouse, Su Hao finally felt confident.

To be honest, 30 is not much at all. After all, the willow root he took away from Yuanjia Village is worth far more than 30. This time it is like getting a butcher's knife for nothing.

Looking at it from another angle, without Su Hao, the willow tree might still be growing on the water channel of Yuanjia Village, continuing to destroy the feng shui of Yuanjia Village. If another 200 years pass, we don't know how far it will have grown. Yuanjiacun said that the village was destroyed and people died.

Chapter 126 Ten years of skill, entering the palace

This soul orb upgrade has a total of three skills.

After verifying the [Power Puppet Technique], Su Hao found that this thing still has a lot of room for improvement and operation.

The other two skills [Five Sense Enhancement and Hearing] and [Ten Years of Chinese Martial Arts Gift Pack] have not been activated by Su Hao. Since he came to the slaughterhouse today, Tan Zuo Chen's warehouse is nearby, and Su Hao is eager to go there. Verify it in front of Chen.

Look at how far Tan Leg has reached in these ten years.

After saying goodbye to Brother Bo, Su Hao got in the car and drove to the entrance of the warehouse. He happened to encounter the Taekwondo gym upstairs after class. A group of laughing children wearing white training uniforms filed down in groups, and some came up to pick them up. Some of them went out in twos and threes to wait for the bus at a nearby bus stop.

Su Hao took a glance and found that these Taekwondo apprentices were both male and female, with a ratio of about [-]:[-]. The younger ones were five or six years old, and the older ones were fifteen or sixteen years old.

Then he shook his head.

They don’t learn Chinese martial arts, but they just praise foreigners’ bad feet. Aren’t the so-called additional etiquette in Taekwondo just like Confucianism?

This has to be said to be a kind of sadness.

Fortunately, Hong Kong Island has gyms for taekwondo, karate and muay thai, as well as domestic Sanda wrestling and boxing gyms. After all, Bangzi’s fancy boxing and leggings are not the only one.

I heard that the martial arts in the Mainland is basically dead.

Various slogans such as 'If you fight, you will go to jail', 'If you win, you will go to jail, if you lose, you will be hospitalized'. They use various laws to suppress the bloody nature of the Chinese people, and finally force these people to become renters and screws. sheep.

Sad call?

When Huo Yuanjia founded the Jingwu Gymnastics Association decades ago, he still knew that practicing martial arts could 'strengthen the body' and protect the country in times of crisis. But now the only way to practice martial arts is to fight?

In addition, the good-looking routines used by martial arts actors in movies and TV shows are just "performance special editions" and have nothing to do with combat effectiveness. They can't even compare to Jeet Kune Do, which uses fancy fists and embroidered legs.

The real national martial arts in the mainland is probably dead.

Su Hao's eyes swept over the children who were learning Taekwondo, and an inexplicable thought popped into his mind. Tan Zuochen's warehouse was located just below the Taekwondo gym. Wouldn't it be extremely frustrating to see all these troubles every day?

Thinking of this, Su Hao focused his attention on his heart again. There were two experience bags like disposable tea bags lying inside. When he focused his attention and stabbed them together, a rush of heat surged out of his mind. , the bones on the limbs cracked.

A wave of heat surged down his body, and his entire body seemed to straighten, becoming taller and stronger.

Su Hao opened his eyes, and there was an aura of violence and eagerness in his heart, "Is this Tan Zu's ten years of skill?"

He spread his hands and found that there was already a layer of calluses on his palms.

Su Hao bent over and rolled up his trouser legs, stretched out his hand to pinch the heavy muscles on his calf, and instantly understood.

What he got last time was an experience package that could enhance his understanding, which could improve his understanding and learning ability. In essence, it did not improve his strength much.

This time the ten-year experience package was different. In addition to ten years of skills, various one-on-one and one-on-many fighting experience skills exploded in his mind like a spoonful, echoing for a long time.

Even his physical fitness has improved a lot.

Not only that, but what frightened him even more was that the violent thoughts in his mind that he couldn't suppress seemed to pop out of his body. He glanced at the Passat in front of him, and immediately there was a kick hitting the hood. thoughts.

"Oops, I can't keep up with my mood."

Su Hao's situation at this time was a bit like being possessed.

In order to divert his attention, he once again concentrated on penetrating another skill package, five-sense enhanced hearing.

Su Hao stood there with his eyes closed, his ears twitching unconsciously. He heard the scraping sound of the shoes of the children who had just left outside the yard, the sound of car brakes a few kilometers away, and the sounds of people who had not left the Taekwondo gym on the second floor. The sound of students' bare feet hitting the floor.

Every sound appeared clearly in Su Hao's eardrums.

He turned his attention away from the distance and heard a steady and powerful breathing coming from the warehouse.

Su Hao opened his eyes and rushed into the warehouse door with three steps and two steps at a time. As expected, he saw Tan Zuo and Chen Zheng resting their legs on the coffee table and lying on their backs on the sofa to take a nap.

From the even and powerful breathing coming from Tan Zuochen, it can be judged that Tan Zuochen still maintains a certain degree of combat effectiveness and good fighting condition.

Su Hao didn't go out of his way to wake him up, but instead came to the sandbags hanging in the warehouse.

Standing with his legs in front and back, he raised his legs and kicked them up. When the sandbag was kicked up and reverberated, Su Hao suddenly dodged over and appeared behind the sandbag, hugging the sandbag with both hands.