In the second year of Han Xingping, in December 195, Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian, the former Wucheng Marquis Changsha, successfully persuaded Yuan Shu to take the family heirloom jade seal as the hostage, leading hundreds of private soldiers, a few old generals, three thousand Yuan soldiers, plus a thousand heroes summoned by his childhood friend Zhou Yu, and began his career of conquering Jiangdong! Sun Ce, the actual founder of Jiangdong's foundation, finally left his temporary refuge and headed to Jiangdong to meet his treacherous future!

When he received this news, Tian Fan's psychology was very conflicted! On the one hand, "it's finally here", it is a kind of relieved relief, knowing that Sun Ce will enter Jiangdong sooner or later, but he doesn't know the specific time, which is also a kind of torture! And on the other hand, "Why did you come so soon?" That's a normal reaction to stress! At this moment, Tian Fan finally knew that Xuzhou would not face a three-party joint attack, but a four-way attack! added a Jiangdong little overlord Sun Ce, this generation of heroes that people have to admire and pay attention to! Xuzhou's road to hegemony will be even more difficult!

The New Year is the New Year, and as long as it is not the New Year, it is considered the New Year.

No, I don't know where a hundred opera troupes came out, as if they were planning to take root in Xiapi, they came here at the end of last year, and they haven't left yet! Maybe it's because the people of Xiapi are rich this year and give more rewards, right?

This troupe is very standard, at first there were only a small number of people to watch, and then it slowly became full, so that many big clans invited them to perform at home, but unfortunately they refused every time because the performance was too demanding for the venue and not suitable for performing in a narrow courtyard. This kind of self-inflattering practice immediately made their reputation even greater!

After Liu Bei and others found out, they also organized a group to watch it, but Tian Fan didn't go, I watched too much magic acrobatics in the previous life, and this kind of performance is no longer attractive, besides, what great magic can there be in this era?

Later, the people in Tianfu went to watch, and then it reached the ears of Xiaoqing, Qian'er, and Bai Yuzhu, so they also went to see it when they were idle. After they came back, they all agreed, as if they had taken the benefits of the hundred opera troupe, and tried their best to persuade Tian Fan to go and see it. Seeing that the faces of the three girls were red with excitement, and they were all a little incoherent, especially even Xiaoqing, a monster whose mind was more mature than Tian Fan, who was a man in two lives, was also incoherent, waving his little fists vigorously, Tian Fan had to listen carefully to their words.

According to them, this team was unlike anything they had ever seen, and the level was so high that it was impossible to describe in words! There are two people on the pillar, both of them are women, one is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and his appearance is very sweet, and the other is covered with black veils.

There are three main programs, one is the "Fish Dragon Manyan" that has been performed by someone during the time of Emperor Wu and has not been seen for many years, the second is the "self-severed limbs" that few people know, and the third is the "ladder to the sky" that spreads its own poison.

After listening to the detailed descriptions of the three of them about the three magic processes, Tian Fan's endless curiosity was finally aroused, and he had to go and see what he said!

The first two magic tricks are not very attractive to him, and the magic tricks of "self-cutting limbs" are extremely common in modern magic, but with the help of the audience's visual error, although Tian Fan doesn't know the real secret, but he has seen too much, and he has no interest. Although he hadn't seen it before, he listened to the explanations of the three girls, and he thought it was just a large-scale illusion show, although it sounded magical, but he hadn't seen it, and he couldn't imagine its magic, so he didn't think it was a big deal. The key is the third - the ladder to the sky!

The so-called "ladder to heaven" is an ancient Indian magic trick, which is only seen in legends and has no written records! …,

The performance process is bizarre! On the three-foot high platform, the performer holds a strange flute, a bamboo basket with a lid is placed in front of him, and a large wooden box is placed beside him. During the performance, the performers first dance their hands, producing a thin puff of smoke, which gradually rises into the air and stagnates for a long time. After the performer begins to play the flute, as the sound of the flute sounds, the rope in the bamboo basket lifts the lid and slowly ascends to the sky in a serpentine motion until the whole rope leaves the bamboo basket and the upper part is covered by smoke. When the flute stopped, the rope still hung in the sky, but it no longer swung in a serpentine shape. Finally, the climax! The performer will climb up the rope, and when his figure climbs into the smoke, suddenly, the rope falls, the smoke slowly disappears, and the sky becomes empty again. And when the performer's support staff lifted the box next to it, the performer appeared from the box!

This is a very magical magic trick, and the complete magic trick has been lost for an unknown number of years! Later, a kind of magic that arose related to it, which also uses ropes as performance props, but it is much simpler, only the first half, and there is no climax part of the performer climbing the rope ladder. But even this simplified version of rope magic, the closest written record to the present, is only in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. At that time, the British occupied India and established a colony there, and a British magician came here and interacted with the local magicians. He had the good fortune to see a simplified version of the "Ladder to the Sky" and made a complete account of it. It's a pity that even this simplified version of the "ladder to the sky" was lost!

Hearing that someone could perform such a magic trick, how could Tian Fan not be interested? How can you not watch it right away?

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, Tian Fan took three girls, his younger brother Tian Kun, Tian Long and Tian Hu and several other bodyguards to the performance place of the hundred opera troupe located outside Xiapi City! The weather was fine, and the water left by the heavy snowfall of the previous years had dried up and there was no longer any trace of it. The winter sun is warm, there is no trace of wind, it is a good time to travel, but unfortunately, Mi Zhen can't come! Poor girl......

Due to the high requirements of "Ichthyosaurus Manyan" on the performance stage, the performance of this team has been in the open space outside Xiapi City.

For the hundred opera troupes that can perform the large-scale auspicious illusion of "Fish Dragon Manyan", the Xuzhou Group headed by Liu Bei gave full tolerance, and did not investigate their responsibility for performing in violation of regulations and building illegal buildings indiscriminately. Instead, he sent the urban management brigade at that time to maintain order for them, drive away idle people who wanted to engage in sabotage and extortion, and helped them build a simple circular open field. After all, at the time of Emperor Wu, officials and ordinary people believed that this kind of illusion performance was a manifestation of auspiciousness, a manifestation of peace and prosperity in the world! Although the world is not very peaceful now, this can be regarded as a kind of yearning for peace in the world by officials and ordinary people!

At midnight, Tian Fan and his entourage arrived at the stage about half a mile away from Xiapi City. The high platform is made of wooden planks, and the surrounding area is sealed with wooden planks, and the bottom of the high platform is not visible. Three feet high, dozens of steps around, uncovered on three sides, and a huge curtain on the other side, behind which is the place where the show is prepared behind the scenes. The whole stage is built, just like the common ring in TV dramas. The auditoriums built around the raised platform are paved with wooden planks for the audience to sit down and watch. In order to allow people near and far to see the performance, the auditorium was raised higher and higher, similar to the stands of today's football stadiums, only much smaller and more rudimentary.

At this time, the three sides of the high platform facing the audience were already surrounded by people, which can be said to be a sea of people. Tian Fanxin said, since you want to see it, let's get closer! He commanded several bodyguards to protect his group, and passed the crowd to the side of the high platform and occupied a space. …,

At this moment, I heard someone calling me, and when I turned my head, it turned out to be Lu Xin!

Lu Xin came with Huan'er, and when he saw Tian Fan at this time, he naturally led Huan'er in his direction. When Tian Fan saw it, he hurriedly asked Tian Hu to pick them up, there were too many people...... I'm afraid they won't be able to get through!

After a while, the two girls came over, Lu Xin sat down with Tian Fan extremely ungraceful, wiped the fragrant sweat on his forehead, let out a sigh, and said, "Brother Tian Fan, I'm tired to death!" There are so many people today, a lot more than the day before yesterday! ”

Today, Lu Xin is very particular about dressing, she is the type who does not like red clothes and loves arms, but this time she is wearing a skirt, although the color is black, but compared to those more feminine colors, this black skirt can show the beauty of her body, Qianqian willow small waist, which suddenly made Tian Fan's eyes shine.

Since the last time Lu Xin and Diao Chan went to Tian's house together, she and a few women around Tian Fan have gradually become acquainted, and when they have nothing to do, they will also talk to them to relieve their boredom.

Listening to her words, Tian Fan couldn't help but smile and said, "You've seen it all, you still come to join in the fun knowing that there are a lot of people?" I've never seen you so willing to find sin! ”

Lu Xin didn't care about Tian Fan's ridicule, waved his hand, and said, "Hey, who made me bored?" Isn't this something to do in Xiapi? I heard that there is such a team performing a hundred operas, and I have already come...... Wait, I'll count, well, about six times, right? Huan'er, how many times have we been here? ”

Huan'er frowned with a headache, raised two hands, first stretched out six fingers, then another, then another, hesitated for a while, and then stretched out another ......

Tian Fan was directly knocked down by Lu Xin, damn it, is the girl so boring? It hasn't been long since this hundred opera troupes came, are you here once every two days? This time, he was really crying and laughing, pointing at Lu Xin and having nothing to say.

I wanted to say a few words, but I was stopped by Lu Xin, "Brother Tian Fan, the show has begun!" ”

Sure enough, only a gong sounded, the curtain slowly opened, and a man about forty years old walked out of the backstage. The man's face is like a knife, he looks extremely powerful, he walks with a tiger, very vigorous, looking at this style, he doesn't look like a squad leader, but like a general or a ranger! He walked to the center of the stage and slammed his fist into the audience, and the audience immediately burst into applause and urging. Yang class master smiled, so to make a long story short, a few words passed, and the show officially began!

Just before the show started, Lu Xin and a few girls still talked about how wonderful and exciting the show was, Tian Fan didn't say it, but he laughed in his heart that they had never seen the world. But after the show started, Tian Fan was stupid directly...... It seems that I really underestimated the level of magic in ancient times!