Chapter 7 Big Cats Can Be Touched, Five Taels Each Time

"Twenty coins for low-quality sheep's hair. Thirty coins for a piece of yellow paper. Fifty coins for mountain ink. Thirty coins for white stone inkstone, five coins for clay porcelain water pot. A total of one hundred and thirty-five coins!" The book boy said weakly when he heard Shi Feizhe's words.

I met another poor guy!

Yesterday, Brother Zhang met a ragged man who bought dozens of taels of things in one go! Why can't I meet him! The book boy muttered in his heart.

"Uh... Is there a cheaper one?" Shi Feizhe asked again. In fact, he is now living off his family. Although he has a few taels of silver, he doesn't know how long he will stay in Sancai Town.

Both food and accommodation cost money! When he was in Yiyang City, he experienced the embarrassment of a penny that made a hero stumped. It was too uncomfortable to be hungry and unable to sleep.

"No!" The book boy's face suddenly fell, very unhappy. He felt that he was wasting time!

"Do you have a hard charcoal pencil?" Shi Feizhe had seen a hard charcoal pencil in Yiyang City.

"Those are used by rough carpenters and masons. We don't have them in our study! We don't have them!" the book boy said, shaking his head.

As if hearing that Shi Feizhe wanted to buy charcoal pencils, the big man with a face full of flesh in the corner looked up at Shi Feizhe and continued to copy books.

"Then give me a cut of yellow paper!" Shi Feizhe began to take out money, carefully counted thirty coins, and gave them to the book boy.

The book boy also quickly took a cut of low-quality yellow paper from the bookshelf, gave it to Shi Feizhe, and then went outside the study and started shouting: "Exclusive to Fangxinzhai..."

The so-called cut of yellow paper refers to the thickness of these papers, which is as thick as a knife, about 1.5 cm thick. This cut of paper is about the size of a book, and each piece of paper is relatively thick and of relatively poor quality. Shi Feizhe counted them, which was only a dozen sheets.

I don't know whether the paper in this world is more expensive, or the paper in Sancai Town is more expensive.

After leaving the study, he bought two hard charcoal pencils, and then Shi Feizhe went to Sancai Village.

Hard charcoal pencils are made of willow wood strips, which are about the same thickness as pencils. They are mostly used by carpenters and masons. Every time you use it, your hands are black, which is quite indecent, and the handwriting is difficult to preserve, so few people use it to write or copy secret books.

But Shi Feizhe didn't care about elegance at this time. He just needed a secret book, recorded it, and then practiced it step by step.

The closer he got to Sancai Manor, the more people there were. Following the flow of people, Shi Feizhe came to the gate of a villa with a flying eaves roof.

There are two big stone lions at the gate of the villa. The gatehouse occupies about four or five rooms. In the middle of the six red pillars are two gray-red gates.

It looks very impressive!

On both sides of the gatehouse are two-person-high walls. There is a nanmu plaque on the gatehouse, with three big characters "Sancai Manor" written on it.

"Queue up for registration! Queue up for registration!" The gatekeeper of Sancai Manor, with bulging muscles and a loud voice, stood at the door and signaled the people at the door to line up.

"I am Zhan Ming from Sancai Manor. I am honored to meet all the heroes from the martial arts world!" He was the first to bow his hands to all directions, and then said:

"Our master Zhan Manor has made the martial arts secrets public. Anyone can go to West Manor to read them! But all the heroes who come and go must abide by a few rules. It is convenient for us and for everyone else!"

"First, the martial arts secrets are all in West Manor. You can watch and discuss them, but don't go to East Manor. That is where Master Zhan Manor and us live. There are female family members inside, which is inconvenient. If you mistakenly enter, we will kill you as bandits. Don't blame us for not telling you in advance!"

"That makes sense!" The people queuing to register echoed.

They came for the martial arts secrets of West Manor. If they sneaked into East Manor and were killed as bandits, they really deserved it!

"Second, everyone who enters Xizhuang needs to register simply! If there are fights or murders in the future, we can have a clue to track them based on the registration! Otherwise, Xizhuang will be in chaos and murders will continue, which will make us Sancaizhuang stand aside!"

"Third, after dusk, please leave early! This village does not provide accommodation!"

"Fourth, this village has not completely deciphered the martial arts secrets on the stone tablet. If you practice incorrectly and become mentally ill, don't come to this village to cause trouble!"

"Fifth, there is a big cat in Xizhuang, which is very powerful. Don't provoke it, otherwise you will lose your life!"

Big cat? What big cat? Shi Feizhe was confused.

The big man finished speaking in one breath, and then bowed to the people in the queue. It can be said that the etiquette is very good!

Then he started to let people register. The registration is also very simple, which is the appearance, name, and origin of the person.

As for whether the name is true or false, it doesn't matter. As long as you remember that there is a general appearance and this person, it's fine.

There were also a few people from other places who were not cooperative, but after seeing the muscular man perform the Qi outward, with one hand emitting ice and the other hand emitting blazing fire, they all registered honestly.

Those who had not practiced Qi would most likely slap the man in the face if they met him!

Shi Feizhe also registered in Sancai Manor, followed the crowd to the west, and came to Xizhuang.

Although it was called Xizhuang, compared with the high walls and courtyards of Dongzhuang, it was actually a flat land with five or six straw huts and a few stone benches. In the middle of the flat land were rows of stone tablets with martial arts secrets engraved on them. There were about hundreds of stone tablets!

It was about nine o'clock now. Many people were studying in front of the stone tablet. There were also people sitting on the ground in the straw hut, thinking hard.

But more people were watching a big cat.

It's not that everyone has never seen a cat, but this cat is really big!

It looks like a gray tabby cat with tabby patterns on its body. The hair from the chin to the chest is white, and the four paws are also white. The hair is shiny all over the body, and it can be seen that it eats well!

What is surprising is its size. Shi Feizhe estimated that it is about three or four meters long, like a huge tiger! If it weren't for the gray pattern on its body, it would be easily mistaken for a tiger.

At this moment, it is pressing its paws on its abdomen as if kicking its hands, squinting its eyes, as if basking in the sun, and lazily lying not far from the entrance of Xizhuang. It is not shy at all to the people watching it around.

Next to it, there are two wooden basins and a wooden sign with sixteen words written on it.

"You can touch the big cat, five taels each. You are welcome to feed it, but I don't eat beef!"

There is a cat's paw print under this line of words.

As for the two wooden basins, one is filled with silver, and the other is filled with food residues, which seems to be a cat food basin.

Shi Feizhe has never seen such a big cat in his two lives!

So he stood and watched for a while. It is really hard to say which one is rarer, the martial arts secret book or this thing!

"This is the cat uncle! It is really mighty!" Some onlookers couldn't help but want to touch it, but they may be short of money, so they raised their hands and put them down.

"Do you know it?" someone asked.

"It is said that the cat uncle has lived for hundreds of years and is a great demon in the realm of real people!" The man said: "It is rare to see a master in the realm of real people. Now I can see a great demon in the realm of real people, how can I not be excited!"

"Great demon in the realm of real people!"

"How many hundreds of years have he lived?"

"Fuck..."

The onlookers also exclaimed. The longest-lived martial arts master only lived for 149 years. Now there is a big demon who has lived for hundreds of years in front of him, how can people not be surprised?

Five taels of silver for touching it, it is indeed not expensive! But they are really poor grass-roots people, they really can't afford it, they just discuss it.

"Meow~!" The big cat made an unhappy cry and looked up at them.

That means, you guys talk in a lower voice, you disturbed my sleep!

Uncle Cat can obviously rob, but he still let you touch it. He is too gentle!