"I'm looking forward to it, too."

Ma Wei grinned and looked at the tall and bright tent in front of him: "I don't know what surprises will be?" ”

"I'll go to the queue first, and then we can sit in the middle, which is the best place to see." Sherlock Holmes said.

"Okay, I'll see you later."

The long line slowly advanced, and soon, Ma Wei arrived at the ticket office.

"3p for a standing ticket, 5p for a sitting ticket..."

Sitting at the back of the long table, a girl with a ponytail and men's clothes and pants straightened her waist and asked with a sweet smile, "Which one do you want to buy, sir?" ”

"Two seats."

Ma Wei counted out 10 copper pennies and placed them in the coin box at the corner of the table.

"Okay."

The girl quickly tore off two note-sized bills, handed them to Ma Wei, led the way with the palm of her hand, and pointed to the curtain behind her: "The position is not fixed, you can sit wherever you want." ”

"Can pets go in?"

"Pets?"

The girl stretched out her white neck, looked under the table, and found the fat orange following Ma Wei's feet, and said humorously: "As long as it doesn't let it be coquettish to other guests and steal our limelight." ”

"It's hard to talk about other circuses, but you certainly won't." Ma Wei laughed silently.

"Gina, hurry up, the show is about to start in 30 minutes!"

The burly man at the ticket office next door reminded him.

"Got it! It's verbose! ”

Gina glared at the man and smiled apologetically at Mavi.

"I won't bother you."

Picking up the bill, Mavi walked into the tent with Yunia and Fat Orange, and as soon as they entered, they felt a sultry smell rushing towards their faces.

Bundles of lit torches are placed diagonally on the edge of the tent, and tall stepped benches are built high around the central stage made of wooden planks, and the tent is illuminated by dozens of kerosene and gas lamps.

The audience who bought the tickets first grabbed the front seats, and Ma Wei came neither early nor late, and did not want to sit in the front row, so he walked directly to the middle position with Yunia.

It didn't take long for Holmes, who was a little slower, to enter the tent, and he saw the two of them in the middle at a glance, and after a few excuses, he successfully came to Mavi's side.

"Dad, when is it going to start?"

Yunia was a little impatient and restless, and Mavi thought that the reason for her anxiety was mainly because the popcorn was about to bottom out.

"It's coming, it's coming..."

Ma Wei pulled out his pocket watch and swept his gaze over the crowd of people pouring in from outside, the audience was a mixed bag, from the well-dressed and richly dressed nobles and gentry to the middle-class who were dressed in ordinary clothes and trying to show themselves differently, they politely sat down with each other and talked and laughed, while the ordinary workers who were financially strapped but still wanted to watch the show gathered around the stepped benches with their standing tickets, most of them holding a glass of cool sweet beer, talking loudly, and occasionally breaking out a few foul words.

"10 minutes to go." Ma Wei said, holding up his pocket watch.

"It's 10 minutes to go! Move fast! Anton, did Anton put on makeup? Where did the regimental commander go? Damn it! He's going to go on stage and read the opening remarks! ”

Backstage at the circus, people in all sorts of shiny costumes run around, squeezing sideways through the piles of debris piled up on either side of the aisle, each doing their own thing and keeping busy.

Miss Tiffany, the manager with the schedule, grabbed a vaudeville actor and asked loudly, "Omre, have you seen the leader?!" ”

"Commander—" Omre looked behind her, a little dazed, "Commander, he's here..."

"Huh?"

Tiffany jerked back to see a young man in a top hat, monocles, tuxedo, and a white dove on his shoulder standing behind her, smiling at her.

"Captain! You're doing it again! ”

Tiffany rolled her eyes angrily: "Can you stop being so naïve?" ”

"I like the way you look serious, Tiffany." The fair-faced, handsome-looking young man bowed his head and kissed the back of her hand, smiling slightly.

"Heh...."

Tiffany wasn't moved at all, and even sneered: "You say that to every woman." ”

"Oh, you're the most special!"

"Less nonsense!"

Grabbing the other party's wrist, Tiffany roughly led the man to the back of the curtain, and by the way, shoved a list of lines into his hand: "Memorize it!" You can use it on stage! ”

"I don't need this."

The man crumpled the line sheet, flipped his wrist, and conjured a rose, plucked the rhizome, and elegantly inserted it into Tiffany's bun.

"Opening remarks or something, just play on the spot, where is it worth working hard for your slender wrist?"

"You've just turned my hard-earned line sheet into a useless rose." Tiffany sneered.

"Roses are my gift to you."

The man shrugged: "As for the list of lines..."

He grabbed it in Tiffany's ear, spread his palm, and a ball of paper appeared.

"I'm not going to waste your effort, it's too indecent."

"If you put your mind into developing your career, our circus would have become the number one in the kingdom long ago!"

"It's pretty good now, isn't it?"

The man patted Tiffany on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I like the circus now, and I'm very relaxed and happy here." ”

"And you still play missing a lot?"

"People, you have to do something interesting while you're young, life is short, you must cherish time."

The man walked towards the curtain.

However...

Tiffany's voice stopped him.

"Stop it, Captain."

Tiffany turned around and looked at the man's broad back: "Everyone knows that I don't say it in my heart because I respect you and love you, but how long can this life last?" There are always times when you make mistakes! ”

"At that point, you will be the head of the regiment, Tiffany, and you will take over."

"Isn't it good to settle down? We have grown from a few people to a big circus with 50 people today, and the balance has long been balanced, so why do we have to do that kind of spurned thing! ”

"I love the way you look serious, and I love seeing people smile from the bottom of their hearts."

The man said without looking back: "This is what I am pursuing, the circus can bring people a moment of joy, but it cannot solve the problem fundamentally, the darker the age, the more we need the appearance of light, my father is like this, my grandfather is like this, I am like this.... The same is true. ”

After speaking, he lifted the curtain, strode onto the stage, opened his arms, smiled, and said in a loud voice:

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sunshine Circus!"

"I'm the head of the regiment..."

"Levine Boger!"