Chapter 12    Little Bamao!

By noon, Li Zhao's purse was filled with broken silver, worth about fifty stagnant. This was not a small amount, enough to buy four or five strong cows.

It felt almost done. Li Zhao pulled the white buns, and the two retreated from the crazy crowd, but did not leave the cockfighting ground, but went up the second floor along the stairs.

It turned out that the cockfighting ground was divided into two layers, one was playing cockfighting, and the second was selling cockfighting. There were a large number of cages, which contained all kinds of cockfighting: reed flowers, green velvet, black velvet, snowflake tops, big flower tails, small flower tails... The crowing sounds came one after another, and a cockfighting expo could be held.

Each chicken cage has a note pasted, indicating the breed, price, grade, etc. of the in-cage cockfighting in the cage.

What is the situation? Are cockfighting still divided into levels?

Yes, based on the breed, combat effectiveness, and previous results, people habitually divide cockfighting into five levels:

Ordinary products are played by ordinary people. They are all kinds of goods that can be seen everywhere on the street. They have no skills and can only fight bravely. The prices range from a few hundred cents to a few cents of money. They are cheap goods.

Good products, strong and aggressive, and you must also know some fighting skills. They are the main force in major cockfighting fields. The price is more than ten cents of money, which is enough to buy a strong cow.

The best quality is burly, strong in combat power, beautiful feathers and excellent fighting skills. The price is at least 100% and most people cannot afford it. Only wealthy merchants and nobles can be attracted to it!

The finest products are professional chicken trainers who select the best varieties and train them with secret techniques. They are majestic, powerful and domineering, proficient in various fighting skills, and have a sense of fearlessness. When fighting, they will advance and retreat, and will never stop until they die!

This kind of cockfighting is worth more than a thousand guan, which is even more expensive than a golden rooster of the same weight. Only top-level powerful people can afford it. The number is extremely rare. It is often priceless. There have been even people who have lost their money just to buy a fine cockfighting!

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The best is to be defeated, to be invincible, and to have the power of a king. With a long crow, it can make all chickens in the world surrender. Such an existence can no longer be called a chicken, but a phoenix seed!

This kind of top-quality cockfighting has never appeared, so many people believe that the Phoenix seed does not exist at all, but is just a fictional one by a flirting person. As for the price... priceless!

Of course, the grade of cockfighting is judged by people. It is inevitable that there will be mistakes. Someone bought a not-so-conspicuous cockfighting at a low price, but it was a top-grade with strong combat power. He won consecutive battles and made a fortune.

Some people also bought first-class cockfighting at high prices, but they didn't know that when they arrived at the cockfighting arena, they would collapse at once, and they were not useful.

The people of the Tang Dynasty's love for cockfighting has reached a point of madness, and some even spend all their money just to buy a good cockfighting!

Therefore, Li Zhao planned to buy a few cockfighting, train it carefully, and then sell it at a high price. The profits obtained in this way are much more than those who bet on cockfighting, and there is no need to take any risks.

However, after wandering around the second floor for a few times, Li Zhao was very disappointed. One thing is: the cockfighting here is of poor quality, mostly it is not useful, even if you train it carefully, it is useless.

Secondly, the price is too expensive, and it costs dozens of guan and hundreds of guan. One of the top-grade green-feathered chickens, known as the treasure of the store, actually offered a sky-high price of 800 guan, which is enough to buy a good house.

Li Zhao spent more than fifty knots of money on his own, so he only won more than fifty knots of money. Can’t he just buy a few chicken feathers back?

What to do?

It was easy to deal with, the two left the cockfighting ground and entered the nearby alley. There were also people selling cockfighting here, but it was not adult cockfighting, but just hatched chicks.

There is no way, the game of cockfighting is too expensive, and there are very few people who can really play it. What should I do if there are those who are more enthusiastic but lack funds?

The best way is to buy some chickens and feed them well, train them carefully, and then use them to fight when they grow up. If you are lucky, you can cultivate one or two top-quality or high-quality cockfighting, which can be sold for a lot of money!

Therefore, many poor families will raise a few cockfighting cocks in their families, dreaming of making a fortune through this!

Having said that, the knowledge of raising chickens and training chickens is very profound. Without the talent in this area, even if you raise ten thousand cockfighting, it is difficult to produce one that can become a climate and waste food in vain.

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"Young Master, do you buy chickens? These are all good varieties. They are all strong. If you buy them and feed them well, you will definitely get a few of them into the climate. Then you will get rich."

“What price?”

"One penny per piece, if you buy more, you can get a gift."

"good!"

After wandering around for a few times, he stopped in front of a small vendor. There were several large baskets filled with chicks and chicks. He looked really good. Li Zhao squatted down and carefully selected them.

Choosing cockfighting is a big question, specifically, it is ‘three views and one model’.

When you look at the feathers, the cockfighting is made of the four colors of green, red, purple and soap, white feathers, reeds, yellow persimmons, brown and red, and other colors are the second... Mixed feather chicken is the bottom-ranked product!

Second, when looking at the head, the head is small and solid, the mouth is sharp, the nostrils are thick, and the eyeballs are generally white, yellow and red, among which white is the best!

Third, look at the legs. The claws of chicken legs are a sharp weapon for fighting. They require strong legs and feet, slightly curvature, and strong jumping power... The claws are long, thin and sharp, and are suitable for winning.

The last model has two bones under the butt of the cockfighting cock. Use your hands to gently caress the situation. The closer the thin gap between the two bones, the smaller the chicken, the longer the energy, and the greater the impact of the cracking force!

Relying on the principle of three looking and one touch, Li Zhao quickly picked out ten chickens, including three green feathers, three red feathers, two purple feathers, and two black feathers... They all jumped around, all of them were first-class and good seedlings.

If you train it well, you will definitely be first-class cockfighting. It will not be a problem to sell it at a high price. At that time, you will be able to live a comfortable life as a rich man in the countryside.

"Chirp—chirp!"

"Um?"

Just as we were about to pay, a crisp crow suddenly came, with a surprisingly loud sound. And while the crowing sounded, the chicks chirping in the basket suddenly lost their voices, as if they were scared.

What's the situation?

I searched along the sound and found that there was a small bamboo basket next to the vendor, with a chicken chick in it, which was just a very ugly little hair. The previous chirping was exactly what it called.

"Why are there a small miscellaneous hair here?"

"Oh, don't mention it. The best breeder in the family has been holding a nest of more than twenty eggs. Unexpectedly, it was all water (bad eggs that cannot be hatched). Only one of them hatched. It was thought it was a rare thing, but I didn't expect it to be a ugly little hair. I took it out for six or seven days and couldn't sell it.

Not only that, this guy is also extremely dishonest and always fights with other chicks. It’s messy in the basket. In desperation, he has to leave it alone. If he really can’t sell it, he will take it home and stew it, it’s a piece of meat at all!”

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"Haha, such an ugly little hair is rare. Since no one wants it, sell it to me and take it back for fun, it's also fun!"

"It's just a little miscellaneous hair. Since the young master likes it, I'll give it to you."

Mixed chickens are the lowest-quality chickens in the fight, and they are not valuable at all. If they are thrown on the street, someone may not pick them up. Therefore, the small vendor gave them generously to Li Zhao and even brought a small bamboo basket.

Li Zhao was not polite either. After paying the money, he left with eleven chicks.

When I arrived at a secluded place, I immediately took out the little mao and looked up and down carefully. I liked it so much.

"Master, just a little miscellaneous hair, is there anything strange?"

"Haha, you don't understand. If there is a way, everything will turn back. If the best comes, the best will come. Everything in the world is often only a little different from the best and the worst. By chance, how can you know that today's little miscellaneous hair cannot fly up the branch and turn into a phoenix?"

Li Zhao observed carefully and found that Xiao Zamao's appearance was indeed ugly, but his head was small and pointed, his eyes were bright, and his qi and veins were long... After a good training, he might not be able to become a first-class cockfighting in the future.

Let’s take a step back, even if you can’t cultivate yourself, it’s quite interesting to raise such an ugly pet, right?

Next, the two found a medicinal materials store, bought several medicinal materials that Li Zhao urgently needed, and went to the nearby market to buy some daily necessities. Then they found Cai Bo, who had sold out the mountain goods, and returned to Qianlonggang in a ox cart...

After returning to the small ancestral hall, Li Zhao personally built two chicken coops with blue bricks, laying clean straw inside, and surrounding bamboo and wood fences outside as the residence of the chicks.

Logically speaking, the chickens are still small, and building a chicken coop is enough for them to live in.

But Xiao Zamao is too domineering and always bullies other chicks. The chicken coop is messy. In desperation, he has to ask it to live in a single room.

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In the days that followed, Li Zhao finally didn't have to worry about money. He felt that his hands were tight, so he went to the cockfighting ground to play a few times. With his superb eyesight, he returned home with a full load every time.

Eleven chicks are also growing vigorously, and they will definitely be first-class cockfighting in the future and can be sold at a big price.

Of course, cockfighting is just amateur leisure, and Li Zhao's main energy is still on practicing and studying, so as to work hard to improve his skills.

Li Zhao knew clearly that the future Tang Empire did not need a cockfighting master, but a commander who was both civil and military, could win every battle, and could quell the chaos and save the world!

After a while, news came: Li De's family of four was back!
Chapter completed!