Although Chen Yuan is not rich, he does not lack a big man.

He didn't want to take advantage of his master's temple and the helpless kindness to get a free bowl of mutton stew, so he took the initiative to pay for it.

"Since I reached the Shiqi Realm and embarked on the path of spiritual practice, my strength has increased a lot, and my movements have become much more agile. The boss, an ordinary person, naturally cannot catch up with me."

After leaving the cake shop and walking on the street again, Chen Yuan thought to himself.

After walking a few steps in the crowded crowd, Chen Yuan saw a crowded crowd on the road ahead, surrounding about twenty or thirty people.

Chen Yuan was curious, so he followed and squeezed into the crowd that kept gathering.

After squeezing into the crowd, Chen Yuan discovered that the person surrounded by the crowd was a folk craftsman who was about to perform a show.

This folk craftsman is a dark-skinned, short and thin middle-aged man.

He wore cloth-soled shoes, a black gown, a mole at the corner of his mouth, and looked like a country gentleman.

He looks like a folk craftsman who travels all over the country and is exposed to the sun.

I saw a rectangular table in front of the folk craftsman, and a stool behind the square table. The craftsman was sitting on the stool behind the square table. In front of the table, there was a wooden box covered with black cloth.

Stuff.

The passers-by onlookers were very curious and were guessing what was under the black cloth.

The folk craftsman held a small stick in his hand and held it in front of the passers-by who were watching:

"Everyone, my surname is Xu. I am the third eldest child in my family. Therefore, my family named me Xu San. Some people also call me Xu Laosan. I come from Lingzhou in the northwest. I was born in a farmer's family, but I don't like to cultivate the fields. I like to run around and travel all over the country.

I learned some skills."

"Here today, based on what I have learned, Bo Jun smiled. If everyone thinks that my performance is not good, I will throw a reward on the ground. No matter how big or small, everyone is here to feed and feed their parents. If anyone thinks that my performance is not good, I will give you a reward.

, just turn around and leave, don’t let me stain your eyes.”

After saying this, the folk craftsman used a small stick to lift off the black cloth covering the wooden box, revealing the scene inside.

Under the black cloth, I saw that it was indeed a wooden box as everyone had guessed.

There are many grids inside the wooden box, with a total of twelve holes. In each hole lies a frog with a green back and a white belly, with a bulging belly.

"Everyone, please look at the box below. This box contains a total of twelve field frogs. Use the wooden stick in your hand to hit their heads to make different sounds."

While talking, the folk craftsman used the wooden stick in his hand to hit the heads of five or six frogs in the wooden box.

Gu~gua~gua~

Strange to say, these twelve frogs placed in the wooden box grid were extremely well-behaved, and none of them made any strange noises.

But when the folk craftsman gently tapped the frog on the head with the wooden stick in his hand, the frog immediately screamed.

This folk craftsman knocked on five or six frogs in a row, but none of them made the same sound.

"Interesting, animal training?"

Chen Yuan, who was about to leave next to him, saw this scene and his interest was immediately aroused. He gave up the idea of ​​leaving and decided to stay and see before talking.

But I saw the folk craftsman tapping the heads of several frogs a few times and then stopped the next action.

Looking at the crowd of onlookers around him, he said: "I, these frogs, can also play music. If you don't believe it, please watch and enjoy."

The passers-by who were watching around looked at me and I looked at you, and they knew that this was the craftsman who wanted to reward him.

Most of the people watching were just there to watch the fun, and it was impossible to get them to pay.

Therefore, most of the people in the crowd pretended not to hear anything, but did not leave.

Anyway, when this kind of craftsman performs his craft on the street, there is no shortage of rich people who are willing to reward him among the crowd of spectators.

Even if they don't lose the reward money, if the rich owner loses the reward money, they can watch the craftsman's performance for free.

Sure enough, among the crowd, there were people who were not short of money and donated generously.

Soon there were four or five passers-by who were watching and threw reward money at the craftsmen.

Most of them were small coins with a 25% discount, but two people gave a big coin.

Chen Yuan was mixed in the crowd, originally planning to choose to side with the majority and watch it for free.

But in the end, he couldn't resist the condemnation of his conscience, so he left two big bucks to this folk craftsman, and became the folk craftsman's big brother. He got over the addiction of being a big brother.

Seeing that someone actually gave two large rewards, the person who gave the money was a handsome young Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe. Not only did it attract the attention of passers-by, but it also made the folk craftsman named Xu San pay attention to Chen

Yuan cast a grateful look.

However, when the reward was received, the craftsman named Xu San did not deliberately delay it.

Immediately he started to perform. He used the wooden stick in his hand to hit the frog's head in a disorderly manner.

Suddenly, from the mouths of these frogs, there was a burst of sweet music, like a gong struck by a cloud, and the five-note tune was clearly distinguishable.

Everyone heard it clearly, and they were all surprised and intoxicated.

Even Chen Yuan, a time traveler, was intrigued and listened attentively.

In his two lifetimes, this was the first time he had seen this miraculous skill of knocking frogs into music.

After knocking on a cup of tea, Xu San finally stopped.

"Everyone, the performance is over. Let the field frogs take a rest. If you still want to listen, you can wait until the field frogs have rested and then drop the reward and continue listening."

Craftsman Xu San bowed his hands to passers-by.

"Shh!"

As soon as Xu San finished speaking, the passers-by who had finally satisfied their curiosity dispersed amid boos, and there were no more two people left around.

The so-called folk crafts all rely on the curiosity of passers-by. After passers-by have seen it once and satisfied their curiosity, they feel that it is nothing more than that.

They are not willing to let them lose reward money again.

Xu San was not surprised. He knew that no matter how beautiful the tricks were, passers-by would find them boring if they saw them too much, so he never stayed in one place for too long.

Seeing all the passers-by around him, he immediately covered his frog box with a black cloth.

Then he squatted on the ground to pick up the reward money that was thrown on the ground, but just when he had just finished picking up the reward money on the ground.

A pair of feet wearing cloth shoes appeared before my eyes.

Xu San raised his head and saw the handsome young Taoist priest wearing dark blue Taoist robes who dropped two big coins for him.

“Once the spectator’s reward is received, it will not be refunded.”

Xu San tightly stuffed the reward he had just picked up into his arms, and said to Chen Yuan with a wary look on his face.

Chen Yuan smiled and said: "Sir, don't worry, I'm not here to ask for the reward, but I want to make friends with you. I would like to invite you to be a guest. I wonder if you can give me a favor?"

Hearing that Chen Yuan was not here to collect the reward money, Xu San immediately put down his guard.

……

Xu San took the wooden box containing the frog with him and was invited by Chen Yuan to sit down in the backyard of Lu Xian Temple.

When the temple was busy, Chen Yuan brought a guest back, so he took the time to serve tea to the two of them.

When Xu San saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel shocked, and looked at Chen Yuan sitting next to him in surprise.

Although he first came here not long ago, he knew that Lu Xian Temple, a temple dedicated to the immortal Lu Xian Gong, was very famous within a hundred miles of Lujiang City.

The Taoist priest Zhu Changkongzi of Luxian Temple is also very prestigious in the markets around Luxian Temple and in the countryside. Everyone respects Zhu Changkongzi.

But after he entered the Luxian Temple, he saw that the temple's Zhu Changkong showed up to personally greet the guests and serve tea.

So Xu San probed: "Looking at the young Taoist Priest freely wandering around the Luxian Temple, could he be Taoist Zhu Changkongzi, the new disciple?"

Xu San said it unintentionally, but Chang Kongzi, who had just helped serve the tea next to him, heard it intentionally and was shocked.

He doesn't have the courage to compete with the immortals for disciples.

If Chen Yuan is willing, it is not impossible for him to become Chen Yuan's disciple, regardless of his age.

Changkongzi quickly explained: "This gentleman has misunderstood. Taoist fellow Taoist is a distinguished guest of Lu Xian Temple and is temporarily staying in Lu Xian Temple. I, an old Taoist, cannot be your Taoist master."

Hearing that Chang Kongzi actually called the handsome young Taoist priest in front of him a Taoist friend, Xu San realized that the young Taoist priest who had just rewarded him with two large sums of money on the street had an extraordinary status.

Xu San felt a little uneasy when he thought that he was invited to Lu Xian Temple as a guest by the other party, but he didn't know the other party's purpose.

He believed that as a traveling folk craftsman, apart from his ability to tame frogs, he had nothing else worthy of being coveted by the extraordinary young Taoist priest in front of him.

So Xu San asked: "I wonder why you are being treated so politely?"

Chen Yuan said bluntly: "The reason why I invited you here is because I am curious about how you trained the frog to be so magical that it can play music, so I specially invited you to come and answer my questions."

Xu San suddenly realized, no wonder the young Taoist priest was willing to drop two big coins in reward on the street just now. It turned out that he was eyeing this skill of his.

However, he has been traveling around for many years and is used to seeing many strange things. He knows that the ones he cannot offend the most are Taoist monks.

Especially those monks and Taoists who know magic, have real talents, and have high abilities.

The young Taoist priest in front of him, even the distinguished Zhu Changkongzi of Lu Xian Temple, called him a fellow Taoist, and he was quite respectful to him in his expression and words.

Maybe he is a Taoist priest who has skills and has practiced magic.

Craftsman Xu San was secretly shocked. He was not the only one who could offend such an expert. A folk craftsman who only knew how to tame frogs could offend him.
To be continued...