The next day, Li Youran, accompanied by Fang Cheng, walked around the village and asked for his uncle's ID card. He drove to the countryside, found a mobile business center, registered two numbers, and went to
Five hundred yuan of phone charges were charged to each number.
After returning from the countryside, the second uncle called Li Youran again, visited the village chief and several elders at their homes, and gave a few bottles of Tianhai Daqu as a courtesy.
After dinner, Li Youran and his second uncle were chatting in the yard, doing some odd jobs and feeding the chickens. At this time, Huzi came in from outside, said hello to the two of them in a hurry, and then went into Li Fangcheng's house.
went.
"You're a prodigal son." The second uncle didn't seem to welcome Hu Zi and shook his head repeatedly.
"Second uncle, what's wrong with Huzi?" Li Youran was a little surprised.
"This boy, his mother originally found a job for him in the leather shoe factory in the county, but he didn't want to do it because it was too boring. Until now, he still does odd jobs with a hammer and a stick here and there, which is not serious. Forget it.
In the past two years, cockfighting has become popular in Hetai Town in the west. This kid got addicted to playing with others and got into it. I heard that he lost a lot of money. Oh, what a waste of money." The second uncle sighed and said.
"Oh, that's right." Li Youran recalled that when he first entered the village, he saw the distinctive rooster in the wicker basket on the back of Huzi's bicycle. It turned out to be a fighting cock.
He also knew something about cockfighting and had seen related movies and TV shows before.
Fighting cocks are an ancient ornamental chicken species in my country, with a history of thousands of years. Fighting cocks are tall in size, ferocious in temperament, and naturally aggressive. The fight between the two chickens is similar to boxing, with leaping and striking, using both mouth and legs. The scene is intense, exciting, and exciting. It is extremely exciting and enjoyable to watch. Of course, driven by the natural gambling instinct of the world, this ancient sport cannot avoid the same fate as poker, mahjong and crickets, and has become a gambling tool for many people.
Li Youran didn't know what to say, so he returned to his room and closed the door.
After a while, bang bang bang, someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." Li Youran responded.
The door opened, and Li Fangcheng pulled the timid Huzi in.
"It's Huzi, come and play, sit down." Li Youran greeted.
"Tell me, Brother Ranzi is not an outsider." Li Fangcheng pushed Huzi.
"Brother Ranzi, um... can you lend me some money?" Huzi explained his purpose hesitantly.
Li Fangcheng pushed him impatiently, sat by the bed, and told Li Youran the whole story.
It turns out that Huzi went to the town to watch several cockfighting matches two years ago and found it very exciting and addictive. He became obsessed with this thing, so he found someone to apprentice with him to learn the techniques of raising and training fighting cocks. Huzi also had enough melon seeds in his head.
You are smart. Even if you are not good at studying, you are still very smart at learning these things. You can even draw inferences from one example and come up with your own ideas.
Later, I used the money I saved from living frugally to buy several Central Plains fighting cock cubs, raised them carefully, trained them into ferocious fighting cocks, and joined the cockfighting competition circle.
In the beginning, the cockfighting competition in the town was quite orderly. With his careful care and unique tactics, Huzi actually won more and lost less, and also made some money.
Just when he was complacent, the situation began to change. In order to win, some chicken owners would do anything to win, feeding stimulants and cardiotonic substances to the fighting cocks. The owners of the fighting cockpit also turned a blind eye to such things.
Anyway, if it doesn't stop him from making money, why offend others? Sometimes he can even manipulate the game and make huge profits.
Huzi didn't know this, so he started memorizing words from then on and lost games one after another. Not only did he lose the money he had won before, but he also lost all his original capital. It wasn't until someone told him secretly later that he realized what he was doing.
Got hacked.
"Brother Youran, please lend me some money. I have found someone to learn how to use stimulants. I want revenge." Huzi said through gritted teeth.
"You brat, you came to me to borrow money after you lost gambling. Aren't you asking me to encourage you to gamble? I won't borrow it." Li Youran refused.
Upon seeing this, Li Fangcheng quickly helped to plead for mercy, saying that Huzi's parents were about to kick him out of the house. They used to say nothing when Huzi won money, but now they fall out when he loses and threaten to kill Huzi.
The fighting cocks were killed and stewed.
Huzi stood silently, his eyes red.
Li Youran crossed his arms and frowned, as if thinking about something.
Li Fangcheng and Hu Zi also fell silent. The room fell into silence for a while.
"Huzi, even if you use stimulants, are you sure of winning?" After a while, Li Youran asked.
Huzi thought for a while and felt it was difficult to answer.
"Look, you don't know anything about it in your own mind. Let me ask you something, if I teach you a lesson from those black-hearted guys, you can no longer gamble and just raise chickens for fun. Can you do it?" Li
Leisurely stared into Huzi's eyes.
"Yes, Brother Youran, that place is too dark. As long as I can get my money back, I don't want to go there anymore." Huzi immediately expressed his stance.
Li Youran shook his head. He knew that it was easy to express his position, but it was actually very difficult to actually do it.
But facing my childhood friend, I can only do my best.
"I won't lend you money directly, but I have a special set of techniques. You have to try it to see if it works." Li Youran just thought of the jumping fish and aggressive shrimps in the store. Maybe it can be used on fighting cocks.
Have an effect.
"Brother Ranzi, do you also know about cockfighting?" Huzi became excited when he saw that things were turning around.
"You may not be able to do it after learning a little bit. Let me go to your house to see the chickens first." After Li Youran finished speaking, he walked outside.
Huzi and Fang Cheng looked at each other and quickly followed.
Huzi's house was not far away, and the three of them walked there within a few minutes.
After entering the yard, Li Youran first greeted Huzi's mother who came forward, listened to her complaints, and comforted her a few words, and then she and Huzi came to the chicken coop in the corner of the yard.
There are three or four fighting cocks in the rectangular chicken coop, separated by partitions in the middle. They are semi-angular in shape, have small heads, but are strong and tall, and have a knob-shaped crest, which is a typical feature of Central Plains fighting cocks. It seems that Huzi's meticulousness
The care was not in vain.
Li Youran observed it carefully and fell in love with the red-feathered rooster. The whole body was maroon and the sickle feathers were all black.
"Just this one, take him to my house." He pointed at the target and said.
Huzi did not hesitate, opened the door, took the red-feathered gamecock out of the nest, stroked its head and wings with his hands, and murmured in his mouth. The gamecock's mood also calmed down. Then he put it into a wire cage.
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"Brother Ranzi, his name is General Chi, and he is very powerful."
Li Youran nodded and signaled Huzi to follow him with the cage, and the three of them returned to the second uncle's house together.
"Ranzi, why did you bring the fighting cock back?" The second uncle was in the yard and asked strangely when he saw the red-feathered fighting cock.
"Dad, the tiger mother wants to kill the fighting cock and eat its meat. He has no choice but to bring it over and raise it for two days." Li Fangcheng quickly made up a lie.
The second uncle shook his head, muttered something in his mouth and walked away.