The circus we used to watch was run by the same circus as the troupe. Build a big round shed first, and the feeling is the same as a yurt. The program of the performance is also very different from now, of course, tightrope walking, and vaudeville performances are indispensable. Throwing knives are also a common performance project, of course, my favorite thing to watch is the beast hunting show, the tiger, the lion python, and the huge bear, but this beast is very obedient.

When I was a child, I went to a circus show with the fat man and a few classmates, and I once cooperated with the animal trainer to be entangled by a python, although I was a little afraid of snakes, but the snake's body was cold and cold, and it was quite comfortable if it was not very tightly entangled.

But with the city's rectification, in big cities like Shanghai, this circus performance is becoming less and less. However, you can still see it from time to time, and the tickets are not expensive, generally it starts at about eight o'clock in the evening, and there are about 100 people sitting in the shed, and there are people checking tickets at the opening. But often in the middle of the show, someone will sneak in, and no one will care at that time.

I didn't dare to sit in the first row, especially when performing throwing knives, for fear that the performer would kill me by mistake.

It was exactly eight o'clock when I got to the outside of the circus shed, and there were quite a few people walking inside, and after looking around for a while, I saw the fat man, and beckoned to walk over.

Shen Mengtian pulled Xiao Huizhi along, while Luo Qiong looked east and west, looking lively again.

"The tickets are purchased, let's go inside. ”

The fat man said with a smile, and after finishing speaking, he pulled Luo Qiong and walked straight forward, as if he was deliberately creating space for me and Shen Mengtian.

"I heard that you went to Uncle Xu today, right?"

Shen Mengtian asked with a smile, looking in a good mood.

"Well, look up some information. ”

I replied casually.

"Are you going to be busy with business again?"

Shen Mengtian didn't know what to say about the work that I did with the fat man, so he replaced it with business.

"yes, let's go along, and don't get separated from the fat men when we enter the arena in a while. ”

Entering the venue, sitting in the third row, the venue was quite lively, and many parents brought their children to watch the circus performance. At half past eight, all the entrances were completed, and then the lights in the greenhouse suddenly dimmed, and then a follow-up light hit the center of the circus venue. I saw a man in a black Tang costume with a humble smile on his face come out, bowed to us, took out the microphone and said, "Good evening, guests, I am the head of the Golden Circus, my name is Zhou Nan. Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedules to come and join us, tonight, we will bring you a different visual feast. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the chasing light suddenly went out, and then several flames suddenly lit up in the darkness, rolling up and down at the same time, and the music sounded in the greenhouse as the flames approached. Suddenly, the lights came on, and two clowns with huge round balls waved flaming sticks towards us.

"It's a clown!"

The children shouted excitedly.

The clowns split into one side, approached the audience and leaped backwards, one of them rolled over and landed firmly on the ground in mid-air, put away the torches, and bowed to everyone.

At this time, the music changed, and the roof of the greenhouse was lit up, and men and women in delicate patterned tights hung ropes with their hands, dancing on the roof of the canopy as if flying.

"Trapeze!"

The fat man said excitedly like a child.

Familiar shows are staged one after another, and often the tamers are guarding behind. The roar of the tiger came from the back of the greenhouse, and even I was excited, and said with a smile: "I will protect you if the tiger rushes out of control in a while, haha." ”

Of course, this was deliberately to scare Huizhi, and the tiger walked out of the shed, but its huge body did not have the majesty of a king, followed by an animal tamer wearing a black coat and a strange mask. Although the dress is strange, but in my opinion, animal trainers are like this, and many foreign animal trainers are covered faces, which can be regarded as a form of packaging.

Strangely, the beast trainer had a whip in his hand, but the trainer walked in empty-handed.

"Don't you have a whip?

I said strangely.

The tiger walked to the center of the arena and bared his teeth and roared at the surrounding audience, and the audience sitting in the first row was naturally afraid, and several girls closed their eyes in fright. But he heard the beast trainer shout vaguely, and then stretched out his hand and pointed at the platform, and the tiger immediately jumped on the platform obediently, not daring to move.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The crowd around them immediately applauded. The animal trainer turned his head and waved suddenly, and several heavy footsteps slowly came from the darkness behind, a lion with thick hair and a brown bear more than two meters tall walked out of the darkness, there were no chains between the two, and there was no wall separating them, but they actually walked in front of the animal trainer without incident.

The trainer stretched out his hand to the platform and let out his previous low roar, and then the lion and the brown bear walked towards the platform without any resistance. After that, he drilled into the fire ring and jumped on the platform, without using any whip tamer, and the tamer did not make any sound, as if the beast had completed all the projects on its own.

However, this was not the most surprising thing for me, the most surprising thing was the python, a total of three pythons actually passed under the feet of the audience, causing a series of screams, and then converged on the stage, each at least four meters long, three intertwined, as if three thick water pipes were entangled together.

Then the trainer raised his hand, and with a slight wave, the three pythons slowly climbed up the pillar, and even swayed their bodies as if they were dancing, even with the same frequency.

"God, this beast tamer is the most powerful I've ever seen!"

I said in amazement, clapping desperately.

At the end of the beast taming performance, the beasts left the stage one by one, but they didn't expect the tiger to leave at the end of the stage when they suddenly roared. Then he turned around and rushed to the audience.

This happened very suddenly, and no one expected it. When the tiger pounced on the first spectator, the surrounding people panicked and ducked. But before the tiger could open its mouth, the trainer ran over, grabbed the tiger's tail, and then pulled the tiger back with a fierce swing. The tiger roared at the trainer in a frenzy, only to see the trainer raise his hand and punch the tiger in the mouth. The tiger, which was still fierce and abnormal just now, immediately cried out in pain after being punched, as if it had turned into a poor kitten.

"Whew!"

The trainer let out a strange roar again, and the tiger rolled over and jumped from the ground, then staggered and hung its head to the side of the audience, and the spectators in the first row were already far away in fear.

But at this time, the tiger actually fell half-kneeling on the ground, slowly bowed, then shook his head, stretched out a pair of tiger claws and merged together, and bowed to the audience with difficulty.

At this moment, the head of the regiment, Zhou Nan, walked out with the microphone and said with a smile: "It was just a small episode, which we deliberately arranged to increase everyone's sense of excitement." You're not scared, aren't you?"

Hearing this, and seeing the tiger's performance, the audience reacted and sat back in their seats and laughed one by one.

At this time, I looked at the animal trainer who was leaving with the tiger, but my heart was full of questions. The tiger must have gone berserk just now, not like it was pretending, but it was so easily subdued by the beast trainer.

Of course, it is normal for the animal trainer to subdue the mad beast, but what is not normal is that the animal trainer grabbed the tiger's tail and pulled the tiger back. This tiger weighs hundreds of pounds, to say the least, can an ordinary human pull it back? How much strength does that need?

In my opinion, this animal tamer must not be an ordinary person.

The rest of the show continued, and after I thought about it, I stood up and said, "I'll go out to the bathroom." ”

Then I walked out of the shed from behind, the outside was much more deserted than the inside, and I didn't really want to go to the toilet, but wanted to see who the animal trainer was!

"I've told you many times that you must completely tame them before you bring them out, what if something just happens? Do you want to stay in this circus any longer?"

It was Zhou Nan's voice, which seemed to blame someone.