Naturally, spinning tops cannot be limited to the Maplewood Mercenary Regiment compound. It didn’t take long for it to become popular throughout Red Rock Town. There was even a hotel in the town that set up a spinning top competition, and many rules were introduced for the competition. The winner can stay in the hotel for free for one day.
Staying in a hotel for free for a day isn't really a big reward, but isn't it fun?
So the hotel immediately attracted a lot of customers with this trick, especially those with children. If the children win, forget about the pride of "taking your family to stay in the hotel for free". Parents are often happier and prouder than their children at this time.
However, although the top is fun, it is not a very suitable toy for little Loli.
After finding fun for Little Dick and the others, Fang Tian naturally would not favor one over the other and ignore the coquettishness of Little Ivy and the others. So the shuttlecock suitable for little girls appeared on the stage.
Regarding the shuttlecock, there is such a description in the "Records of Things" written by Gao Cheng of the Song Dynasty: "Nowadays, children use lead and tin as money, dress with chicken feathers, and call them shuttlecocks. They walk and kick in groups of three or four. They are clean inside and outside, dragging Grabbing, shrugging the knees, protruding belly, beads on the top of the Buddha's head, etc."
The previous part of this passage briefly explains how the shuttlecock is made, "using lead and tin as money, and using chicken feathers", so the shuttlecock is usually also called the chicken feather shuttlecock.
Chickens were a very common domestic animal in rural China in Fang Tian's previous life, but here, Fang Tian didn't find anyone raising chickens.
But it doesn’t matter, there are many feathered birds in the forest!
In this way, after he tricked the monkey when he started talking about "Journey to the West", Fang Tian tricked another thing.
Ever since shuttlecocks became popular in Hongshi Town, the birds with beautiful feathers in the forest have been in bad luck one after another and cannot escape the disaster of feathers.
Fang Tian, the instigator of all this, was sitting leisurely on a long wooden chair, looking at a group of pink little loli in front of him, raising his delicate calves to kick the shuttlecock, how comfortable it was!
A few days ago, Fang Tian finally tinkered with the armchairs, including long and short ones.
Now he sits on the long one, like the one in Fang Tian's previous life park. And the single back chair with armrests on both sides has become Captain Owen's favorite - sitting on this chair looks better than sitting on a log stool. Be majestic!
So it didn't take long for this kind of backrest chair to become the standard configuration for the chairs of the leaders of various mercenary regiments in Hongshi Town, bringing them one step closer to the realm of the Mountain King.
While he was practicing hard at night and spending his days leisurely during the day, Fang Tian received a familiar visitor.
It was Sharjah, his fellow senior whose strength made him feel unfathomable.
Ever since he took "Journey to the West" back last time, this person had been forgotten by Fang Tian. This time, Sharjah's visit actually had nothing to do with him. He just invited Fang Tian to chat with him like he had been friends for years.
Just chat, who doesn’t know how to chat? I don’t believe that you, a native, are better than me, a person who has logged into QQ and opened at most a dozen windows at the same time! - Fang Tian thinks so.
Sharjah seemed to have a lot of fun chatting with him, and this man would come to visit five or six days out of ten days, and he would often have dinner on the side. In the end, this man would not even go back to the hotel at night. He directly regarded the compound of the Maple Forest Mercenary Group as his own home.
No one dares to refuse welcome, right?
Besides, there is a strong man with unfathomable strength sitting in charge. In addition to being proud, everyone in the regiment has a lot of great stability. - Strong man, this is a strong man!
Others spend thousands of dollars to come and invite you, but they still can’t come! If you don’t believe me, try it!
After nearly a month, Fang Tian and Sha Jia chatted a lot, and Fang Tian discovered that the two of them said they were chatting, but in fact they were not.
Just like this day, after the two of them were chatting about whether the weird name "Maurice" was insulting to the country, Sharjah changed the topic and seemed to casually said to Fang Tian: "By the way, little friend, look
After reading your Journey to the West, I really liked the passage in the first chapter. Every time I read it when I have nothing to do, I feel refreshed and happy in my heart."
After speaking, Sharjah also recited the passage very emotionally.
What Sha Jia recited was exactly the song sung by the woodcutter when Sun Wukong met him in the mountains in the first chapter of "Journey to the West":
Watching chess players playing, felling trees, walking slowly at the mouth of the valley beside the clouds. Selling firewood and selling wine, laughing wildly to express my love. The green path is high in autumn, and I sleep with pine roots against the moon. I recognize the old forest, climb the cliffs and cross the ridges, and cut the withered trees with an axe.
Vine. Harvested into a load, the price of rice is three liters in the market. There is no competition among the seeds, and the current price is average. There is no scheming, no honor or disgrace, and life is indifferent. When we meet, it is either an immortal or a Tao. I sit quietly and talk about "Huang"
court".
When writing this passage, Fang Tian translated it based on the words of this world. In terms of expression, it is naturally impossible to be as refined as the original, but the charm is still there.
Not to mention, Sharjah's chanting at this moment is really quite touching.
Fang Tian thought that it would be okay for him to go to Earth to participate in a poetry recital and take home a bag of washing powder as a consolation prize.
"It's just that there's one thing I don't quite understand. My little friend, I wonder what the phrase 'watching chess fails' means?" Sharja asked after the recitation.
Like Huang Liang Yimeng, Guanqi Kelan is also a wonderful little story in ancient China involving gods and mysteries.
The story goes that in the Jin Dynasty, a man named Wang Zhi went to a mountain to chop wood. He heard faint singing and followed the singing. Then he saw several boys playing chess and singing. Wang Zhi then
He stepped forward to watch. After watching for a while, Wang Zhi felt a little hungry. The boy gave Wang Zhi an object shaped like a date stone. After Wang Zhi swallowed the object, he didn't feel hungry at all. After a while,
, the boy said to him: "Why don't you leave?" Wang Zhi then stood up and prepared to go down the mountain with the axe, but found that the wooden handle of the axe had completely rotted. When he returned to the world, he realized that it had
Many years later, his contemporaries have all passed away.
Tasting this story, people often cannot help but feel a sense of absurdity in time and space.
When Fang Tian told this story to Sharjah, Sharjah was also entranced. He didn't come back to his senses for a long time and didn't know what he was thinking.
When Sharjah finally came to his senses, Fang Tian took the initiative to tell him what "chess" was without waiting for him to ask again.
This thing cannot be explained in words. Fang Tian also felt that although he helped Little Dick, Little Ivy and the others find fun, he was still bored, so he had the idea of making a Go game.
As for the person playing chess with him, isn't this what he is seeing?
He is only a third-level magic apprentice now, and Fang Tian has always doubted whether Sharjah has crossed the threshold of a formal magician. In terms of force value, there is no comparison between the two.
However, on the chessboard, it should be a very satisfying thing to kill this great master until he is in agony and dying, right?