Chapter 61 – Night Talking Jianghu – Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

The cavern was like a dungeon, with a lid on top and an instant darkening of the light below.

Just now I had a very strong feeling that as long as I dared to make the slightest move, that white owl would immediately peck my eyes out.

After Little Locks Head’s group left, only Sister Hong and I were left down here, and we were locked up.

It took about two hours or so for Hong’s sanity to return to normal, and Hong told me that she still had memories of what had happened before, and that she had tried to fight back, but her body wouldn’t listen to her.

Red and I sat on the floor with our backs to each other and she told me something about the owl woman.

She said that she had been forced to swallow a small packet of something earlier, and that packet was known as Fingerling Gold.

I arm pain is still cold and hungry, forced to ask: “that owl is white, what is wrapped in the finger gold, how good to control a person, is not more powerful than that old sea dog’s ecstasy incense?”

In the darkness, Sister Hong said feebly, “Yunfeng have you heard of a man called Partridge Whistle?”

“Partridge Whistle? That’s the grave robber who can learn every bird call under the sun?”

“Yes, that’s the one.”

“This kind of occupation is all the previous skin line, their identity is not only grave robbers, the male is called a partridge whistle, the female is called a partridge woman, this line would have been less people, the female partridge woman is even less, a handful of them, Yunfeng the person we just saw, is the real partridge woman, I didn’t think of it before, there is even a partridge woman who is so young now.”

The leather line is the one that used to do magic tricks, and according to Sister Hong, there were many people in the leather line who had real skills in the past.

Nowadays, people have been exposed to the more familiar leather lines, like the three immortals returning to the cave, swallowing a sword and swallowing an iron ball, and holding the tip of a gun at the top of one’s throat. All of these tactics were only considered inferior in the previous leather lines.

Partridge Whistle and Partridge Woman one can learn birds and the other can drive birds, there are a lot of untold secrets in this, unusual ordinary people simply can not understand.

In the old society of the last century, the leather business fell apart and some people chose to continue to sell their art on the streets, while others were influenced by foreign art troupes and eventually chose to join the circus to perform abroad, among which the most famous one man and one woman are Red Lady and Zhu Liankui.

Zhu Liankui in the skin line when he had been to the palace to the Empress Dowager Cixi performance, Cixi looked very happy, but also specially instructed Sun Danying rewarded Sun Liankui a small yellowtail.

Sun Liankui has a total of four major stunts, respectively, the mouth spit a hundred feet, empty rod fishing, shredded paper reduction, big bowl of flying water, the last big bowl of flying water is Zhu Liankui’s masterpiece, when the entire jianghu leather line no one else will be big bowl of flying water.

In 1898, Zhu Liankui performed for the first time in the United States with a circus troupe, and the Oriental magic of flying water in a big bowl shocked the entire foreign magic world as soon as it was introduced. Since then, Zhu Liankui’s performances are often full, and all foreigners are mesmerized.

At that time, several major foreign theaters were fighting for Zhu Liankui, and all the major theaters wanted to have this mysterious magician from the East.

The major theaters offered Zhu Liankui a sky-high weekly salary, and he finally chose the Boston Grand Opera House, which gave Zhu Liankui a weekly salary of 1,013 U.S. dollars at the time, which, mind you, was the weekly salary of one hundred and thirty years ago…… At that time, the price of goods, five pieces of ocean can marry a concubine!

In the circus of the same period, there was another master juggler named Cheng Liansu, who claimed to have completely cracked the secret of the big bowl of flying water, and he even laid down a war cry against Zhu Liankui.

That winter, this amazing magic showdown from the mysterious East made headlines in foreign tabloids.

Snow fell that same year, and foreigners who came to see the showdown filled the theater.

The time came as promised, Zhu Liankui and Cheng Liansu met and exchanged a salute, clasping their fists each saying Brother Zhu Brother Cheng.

At the beginning of the duel, in order to ignite the atmosphere, both sides show off their skills first, which is called an appearance.

Cheng Liansu’s specialty is “shooting the living”, so that everyone did not expect is that this praise not long after the beginning of the accident.

It was said that a black bird flew into the venue from nowhere, some witnesses said it was a crow, others said it was some other bird. At first, everyone didn’t care about the bird, but to their surprise, the bird suddenly flew to the barrel of the gun that Cheng Liansu was using for his performance, and pulled the trigger with the bird’s claw!

A gunshot!

Cheng Liansu fell to the ground and died!