Chapter 20, Tea Stems in the Pot

The mouth of the teapot is not big, narrow at the top and wide on the inside, and you can't see it too clearly when you look inside from above, plus the old army asked Tang Yao not to touch the teapot, so it is not easy to figure out why the tea stalk inside is floating in the air.

Tang Yao lay on the ground, put his face as close as possible to the spout of the teapot, trying to see the structure inside, although he didn't know the illusion yet, but he already had a little understanding, the illusion was not the fairy magic in the mythological story, but there were traces to follow.

There are some special structures inside the teapot, which may have something to do with the tea stalks floating in the air.

At this moment, the old army on the side suddenly said loudly: "The first hundred schools of Qin, the illusion of the north and the south, have now evolved into nine streams and ten families, and there are countless large and small families within the nine streams and ten families, each of which has some unique secret skills, if you want to learn the illusion of a hundred schools, it is impossible, only to specialize in one school, in order to set foot on the peak." ”

Tang Yao was concentrating on studying the teapot, and the old army's voice suddenly made him a little distracted, and he turned his head in annoyance and shouted: "Brother Jun, can you stop beeping, it's very annoying, otherwise you can send these materials back to my WeChat, or print them out directly to me, won't I be done after reading it once?" ”

The old soldier picked up an empty can next to him and threw it directly, just hitting Tang Yao's head, Tang Yao, who was in pain, screamed "oops", but before he could complain, the old soldier spoke first: "As an illusionist, you can't even do the most basic single-mindedness, then you're afraid that you won't be famous for the rest of your life, people began to learn illusion at the age of three, and they have only succeeded after more than ten years of hardship, and your kid is now nineteen years old before he stepped into this way, if you can't even bear this bit of hardship, then you just get out of here as soon as possible." ”

Although these words were said roughly, they still made sense, and although Tang Yao was deflated, although he was angry in his heart, he could only lower his head and endure it.

Seeing that he was silent, the old soldier continued to say aloud: "The ancients were good at chess, with more than ten scholars in nine streams, and their chess skills were even more outstanding. ”

Tang Yao held his chin and stared at the teapot while asking, "To put it simply, it is level one to ten, and then the first stage to the ninth stage, is that the ninth stage the most powerful illusion master?" ”

The old soldier smoked a cigarette and smiled slightly: "Yes, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been an illusionist with more than eight stages, and to this day, the most powerful illusionist on the bright side is only seven stages." ”

"The illusionist still has an exam, whether the certificate will be issued or not, where can I take the exam?" Tang Yao asked.

The old soldier waved his hand and said, "These are not what you should think about now, young people, don't be too ambitious, you haven't even entered the door." ”

Tang Yao instead smiled and said, "Even if I don't get started, there should always be a goal, otherwise I will target you, Brother Jun, how many illusionists are you?" ”

"Me?" The old soldier was obviously stunned for a moment when he heard that Tang Yao was aiming at himself, and then threw a can over and smashed it on Tang Yao's head accurately, and it was still in the same place.

Tang Yao touched his head and shouted, "Don't you be so violent, I'm just recovering from a serious illness, don't be concussed by you." ”

"Less nonsense, do you see the trick in the teapot, don't you hurry up?" The old army snorted, and Tang Yao could only obediently lower his head and continue to stare at the teapot.

Three hours passed, at eight o'clock in the morning, the sun had begun to become a little scorching, the temperature had risen a lot, Tang Yao had been lying on the ground on an empty stomach for a long time, his attention was obviously beginning to be inattentive, but the three hours were not all fruitless, he vaguely saw that there seemed to be some thin lines inside the teapot, but these thin lines were even thinner than a hair, and they were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye when staring.

At this time, the old soldier stood up and said, "I'll go buy a breakfast, you continue to look for clues, and you are not allowed to touch the teapot." ”

Tang Yao nodded, watched the old army leave the rooftop, after three or four minutes, Tang Yao looked around, looked down from the rooftop, and could see the breakfast stalls along the street, and after some searching, he saw the old soldiers queuing at the door of the bun shop.

"Hehe, soldiers are not tired of cheating, since you are not there, don't blame me for not following the rules." Tang Yao moved his mind, and was ready to take advantage of the old army's time to buy breakfast to raise the teapot and look at it carefully.

His fingers approached the teapot little by little, he believed that as long as he raised the teapot and took a closer look, he would soon be able to find the secret of the tea stalk floating in the air, but at the moment when his fingers were about to touch the teapot, Tang Yao suddenly stopped.

"Isn't this cheating?"

A sudden thought suddenly broke into Tang Yao's mind.

After studying for many years, there have been countless exams large and small, Tang Yao admitted that he was not good at reading, and he could barely get into the second book, but he had never cheated for so many years, maybe cheating is not a shameful thing in the eyes of many people, but Tang Yao didn't think so, one wrong step and one wrong step, why did he always think about getting something for nothing.

Just like now, the reason why he asked the old army to learn illusion was to allow himself to gain a firm foothold in the illusionist circle, if he didn't follow the method given by the old army, then he would suffer in the end, it seemed to be just an opportunistic trick, but it was a deep disaster.

Thinking of this, Tang Yao retracted the hand he had stretched out, and it didn't take long for the old army to return to the rooftop with two buns, squinting at the teapot on the ground, and then said with a smile: "Hey, you kid is quite honest, I didn't touch this teapot after I left." ”

"How do you know I didn't touch it?" Tang Yao asked.

Lao Jun said while eating steamed buns: "I have applied a special powder to the surface of the teapot, as long as you touch it, it will stick to your hands, and you can't wash it off." ”

"You're too bad, right, where's my bun?" Tang Yao asked.

"If you want to eat and buy it yourself, we are both poor, why should I buy you breakfast." The old soldier sat back in his place, saw that Tang Yao was a little angry, smiled slightly and threw a bun over, Tang Yao took it quickly and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Thank you, Brother Jun, hehe."

"Go back and WeChat and transfer me a piece of five."

At nine o'clock in the morning, the old army already had a lot of cigarette butts in his hand, he looked at the white clouds floating in the sky and said: "The Shenfu Group is like a towering tree, penetrating into every corner of this land, the illusionist rivers and lakes seem to be ethereal but real, the general public thinks that they have seen through the essence of this world, but they don't know that they are blinded by a leaf, haha, ridiculous and ridiculous......"

At this time, Tang Yao suddenly slapped his head and shouted, "I can see it." ”

Then he turned his head and smiled at the old army, and said loudly: "Brother Jun, is this teapot interspersed with countless filaments that are difficult to detect with the naked eye, these filaments are staggered like spider webs, and after the tea stalk falls, it actually falls on the filaments, which seems to be suspended in the air but is actually just a trick to cover the eyes." ”

Tang Yao couldn't help but be proud when he knew the answer, but the old army grinned and sneered: "Hehe, I thought that such a simple trick could be figured out by looking at it twice, but it turned out that your kid watched it for four hours, it's really stupid." ”

Tang Yao felt as if he had been poured a basin of cold water on his head, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared.

"Now that you can see it, you can proceed to the next training, and you can also take out some tea stems from the tea can and do what I just did." The old army said to Tang Yao, and although Tang Yao was puzzled, he did as he was told.

pinched out five tea stalks, and then threw them into the teapot, but what he didn't expect was that none of these five tea stalks were floating in the air, and under Tang Yao's gaze, all five tea stalks fell to the ground.

"How so? Am I mistaken, there is no filament on the inside of the teapot? Tang Yao asked in surprise.

Lao Jun said: "There are filaments, but they are not dense, I have interspersed a total of ten filaments inside the teapot, if the illusionist wants to get started, in addition to eyesight, the kung fu in his hands must also be good, as long as you can make any piece of tea stalk stay on the filament, then even if you get started, practice slowly, I will sleep for a while." ”

After saying this, Lao Jun directly closed his eyes and ignored Tang Yao's questions later.

Tang Yao was bored, so he could only regain his concentration and continue to try, but he failed several times in a row, and in his opinion, it was almost impossible to let a tea stalk stay on a silk thread that was several times thinner than his hair.

It is inevitable to be discouraged after many failures, and the time is gradually approaching noon, the temperature is rising, Tang Yao is already sweating and it is even more difficult to concentrate, and at noon, Tang Yao's heart is full of anger, so he kicked over the tea can next to him and scolded: "This is impossible to succeed at all, are you fooling me?" ”