Thursday morning.

Cosette yawned and brought an omelette and bacon from the kitchen. The silly girl insisted on waiting for Grandin to come back yesterday until after 11 p.m.

She woke up early again today, so now she is seriously sleep-deprived.

Grandin is okay, the extraordinary physique makes him still have a lot of energy. He was at the dinner table replying to his hard-working students. Yesterday Audrey sent a letter asking him for some knowledge of herbalism.

"Miss Audrey, there is a difference between cow moss and oxtail, the former is a spiritual material, and can make an elixir that makes people very itchy. And the latter is just a weed on the side of the road...... Allowing the potion to evaporate at room temperature will result in a bright white powder, which can be miraculous when sprinkled against enemies. ”

He thought for a moment, picked up his pen again, and wrote:

"Please remember to wear gloves and pay attention to the wind direction when using it."

He finished the last paragraph and stuffed it into the envelope. Dripped sealing wax, and when the wax was not completely solidified, it was stamped with his own family coat of arms.

Eventually, he gave the letter to his exclusive messenger, Wiggins.

"Yes sir, I'll send it over right away."

Wiggins put the letter inside the canvas bag.

"Don't worry, do you want to go to the circus to see a show today?"

The thought that Cosette had been in the house for two months, and that he hadn't taken her out to play, made Grandin feel a little guilty. And his own messenger runs for him every day, and he should reward him with his own reward.

"Really, really."

Wiggins stammered.

Cosette's eyes widened in anticipation.

"Of course, there is a show at 9 a.m. in the circus. We meet at home at half past eight and then we go to the central square of Joe Wood. ”

Grandin had already asked Arthur about it yesterday. Jack works at the Joy Circus, in which he is an acrobat. The circus performs once in the morning and one in the evening.

He was going to try his luck in the morning, and if he couldn't find it, he would take the two little ones on vacation.

Everyone agreed on a time, and then began to split up.

Wiggins went to deliver the letter, and Cosette went back to the kitchen to make some sandwiches that were easy to carry. And Grandin is going to the night watchman's station to clock in and submit a list of suspects in the jewelry theft.

As he reported on his findings, Ms. Helen gave a rare smile of approval.

But she couldn't laugh at once, as Grandin turned and left the Nightwatch's building.

……

"Sir, I've heard that the circus is popular for lions jumping rings of fire and acrobatics, as well as sword-swallowing and blindfolded darts!"

Wiggins was excited all the way and kept talking in the carriage.

Grandin is persuading Cosette:

"Cosette, you don't have to be obsessed with the maid's job. I can arrange for you to go to a public school, and knowledge can change a person's fate. ”

But Cosette doesn't seem to have much interest in it.

"Squeak!"

The carriage came to a sudden stop.

The groom in the front compartment knocked on the door:

"Sir, the front is blocked, and we can't go any further."

Grandin buttoned up the double-breasted buttons of his tuxedo, opened the door and bent down to get out of the carriage.

In front of the carriage was a crowded crowd.

They had reached the outer edge of the central square in Jowood, for Grandin saw the iconic group of clock towers in the square, one to the left and one to the right.

"Why are there so many people, is it a holiday today?"

For a moment, Grandin thought he had forgotten an important holiday.

The two children also jumped out of the carriage briskly, and Wiggins was a little surprised when he looked at the surging crowd:

"It's a normal Thursday."

As the crowd gathered, Grandin took Cosette to his side.

"Sir, I heard that there will be a grand performance in the square today, which is why so many spectators are here."

The coachman pulled the coop and turned the carriage around, explaining to Grandin.

"I'm sorry for you, we'll go over by ourselves."

Grandin paid the fare, then carried a child in his hand, and squeezed forward through the crowd by his extraordinary physical fitness.

The further you go to the central square, the more people there are. In the end, even Grandin couldn't squeeze in, so he could only look left and right to find a carriage stuck in the crowd.

He squeezed through and negotiated the price with the weeping driver.

Then he threw the children on the roof of the car and rolled over himself to the empty spot.

The people around him all craned their necks and looked up to the sky.

When he got closer, he found that a steel cable had been pulled between the two bell towers facing each other across the square. Thinking of the grand performance that the coachman had just said, he had a conjecture.

Is this going to be a tightrope walk?

The terrible air in Bakeland made the top of the bell tower cloudy, and the steel cable was also hidden in the mist.

The colorful flags on the buildings of the square are hunting, and today is by no means a good day for performances.

In the middle of the two bell towers, a clearing was stopped by the circus people.

The surrounding audience was all excitedly discussing, and from time to time Grandin heard from them "the supreme ...... Longest ...... No protection".

But what surprised him the most was that he heard "Jack the Performer"!

What about the police?

Grandin didn't believe the National Police Agency would approve such an event, and then he saw the police struggling to squeeze in the corner of the plaza. Their uniforms were ripped off, and their hats were lost.

"It's hard for me to stop him unless I step on the heads of the crowd and run forward."

Grandin thought for a moment and gave up on the idea, the 'machine' body control could help him maintain balance in the human head, but it was a bit too shocking.

He didn't want to be the first performer.

As he pondered, waves of surprise, admiration, or cheers came, and the colored flags on the building were pulled by the waves, stretched straight.

At the top of the bell tower, a man dressed in a green linen shirt and black loose trousers appeared. He had two red silk bands tied around his ankles.

With a balance bar in his hand, he started performing!

The wind, the fog, the cheers, none of this could affect him in the slightest. He staggered like a fairy, back and forth on that thin wire, lying or sitting.

The voices of the people around him gradually became quieter, and they were all frightened by him.

But he didn't realize it, and in the end he even lost the balance bar!

To the exclamations of all the spectators, he hugged the air and began to dance as a pas de deux at the highest point of the central square!

This bold move made the legs of some gentlemen crispy.

Grandin's extraordinary eyesight allowed him to see the intoxication on the face of the performer, Jack, who was enjoying the moment.

After the dance, all the people in the square began to vent and began to shout and cheer uncontrollably.

Jack stood in the middle of the cable and gave a gentlemanly salute to the audience.

This action made the cheers of the audience in the square louder, and the ground shook faintly.

At the moment when the cheers were at their highest, without warning, he jumped into the air. At that moment, he spread his arms and was as free as a bird.

Grandin covered Cosette's eyes.

The screams that pierced the eardrums beheaded everything.