Tonight's Dionysian festival is particularly lively.

on the waterway.

The Taoist priest and the ghost-faced woman flew between the painting boats.

Long Street.

Bo Ziyu led a group of servants to break up the crowd and run wildly.

"Get out of the way!

"The yamen handled the case. ”

The servants gasped and stared at the grimacing woman in front of them, as if they were looking at a pile of silver, and their eyes glowed green.

But Bo Ziyu looked at the two of them who gradually shook them off, but his scalp was numb, and he secretly complained bitterly.

These two people are both unscrupulous masters, and they have made a big move on the painting boat, but as everyone knows, which of the guests who can go to the painting boat is not rich or expensive?

No, the ghost-faced girl drilled into the painting boat and pushed a bunch of guests behind her as a shield. A few young boys were unlucky, they were still chanting on the railing one moment, and they were all swept into the water the next moment.

Bo Ziyu's heart was shocked.

Suffered.

It was the son of a scholar and a group of talents from the academy.

In the blink of an eye, the Taoist priest rammed into a painting boat again, couldn't hold it back, and smashed a screen on the seat.

Bo Ziyu's scalp was numb.

Finished.

That is the real handiwork of Wu Daozi, and it is a treasure that the county order has to show off every year.

After a while, the two moved on to another boat, scaring out a bare-bottomed man and a woman.

Bo Ziyu's mind was confused.

Weird.

That's not the county lord and his daughter-in-law...... Ay?

Bo Ziyu's complicated mental journey is skipped, Li Changan can't guess it, and he can't take care of it.

He flew between the painting boats, sniffing the scent of the flower water left by the ghost-faced girl, which was already fading.

Thinking about whether it is time to kill the killer, for example, reward her with a thunderbolt!

But first, I am afraid that I will hurt the innocent when I am in the middle of the city, and second, I really have many doubts in my heart.

After all, press your mind.

Another leap of effort.

With a "bang", it crashed into the aft tower of a painting boat.

Ignoring the chaotic scolding and screaming around him, he followed the smell and rushed again, but crashed into a cloud of smoke.

............

Tonight.

The most popular program, in addition to Aunt Hu's pole-wearing stunt, belongs to the Li family's painting boat, which is said to be the smoke illusion performed by Shi Huoluo, an illusionist from the Western Regions invited by Heavy Jinyan.

The man looked tall, dark-nosed, bearded, and wearing a fluffy robe, and stood on the stage with no other props around him, except for seven gooseneck jars of different colors.

I saw him forming a lotus seal with his hands.

Flip your wrist and hook your fingers in between.

A wisp of white smoke came out of the white jar and gathered above his palm, and as his gesture changed, the smoke that gathered into a cloud turned into a bud and was slowly blooming.

When the flowers are in full bloom, the gesture changes again, and the petals turn into a pure white bird, fluttering its wings and circling around him, landing on the shoulder, and jumping back into the palm of the hand.

Jumping and looking forward to it, every movement, every feather is full of fun.

He snapped his fingers again.

The canisters spit out smoke of the corresponding color and gathered in his palm.

When it comes gray, the bird in the palm becomes a sparrow, and when it becomes black, the sparrow becomes a swallow, when it is plated yellow, the swallow becomes a oriole, and when it is dyed blue, the oriole becomes a lark......

At the end of the day, the smoke converges into a colorful shape.

But he snapped his fingers.

"Smack. ”

The little bird suddenly grows and turns into a big peacock, shaking up its colorful feathers, and then spreading its wings and swaying, under the reflection of the street lights, the wings render an intoxicating brilliance.

Suddenly.

Shi Huoluo pressed his hands.

The peacock cried silently, then swooped down and hit his head on the deck.

The body suddenly dispersed into smoke, and the smoke turned into a ripple of water, overflowing the boat onto the stage. Its feathers turn into many scaly fish, bobbing their heads and tails in the water.

Shi Huoluo raised his hand.

The fish in the water immediately swarmed and jumped out of the water, changing into the appearance of a goddess, or holding a pipa, or a jacquard basket, or holding a flute, with clothes and belts as the wind, and the posture was wonderful.

And the water waves also surged, howling and gathering, gathering into a mountain peak, the top is full of pagodas, temples, smoke is miao, there seem to be countless villains in it burning incense and worshipping.

And the stone fire Luo put his hands together again.

The vast mist on the mountain conjured up a majestic Buddha, his lips open and closed, as if preaching and preaching. The celestial maidens are flying around, and there are still many bodhisattvas and arhats in the surrounding smoke.

It is a picture of the Lingshan lecture that has come to life.

............

Shi Huoluo's smoke illusion is indeed wonderful, but if you watch too much, you will inevitably get aesthetic fatigue.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the cheers and applause on the shore are gradually weakening.

The spectators on the side were already watching from the water and the lights, and most of the night passed, and there were always flowers, birds, fish, insects, Buddhas, and spiritual mountains, and they gradually got tired and bored.

Before a new look, the crowd will disperse.

Cold.

There was a commotion on the boat, which made people stop.

Then, I saw the stage covered in smoke and fog, and suddenly crashed into two uninvited guests.

A short-haired Taoist carries a long sword with exquisite swordsmanship, and a ghost-faced woman holds a short sword with a ghostly body. The plain linen robe was dressed in a bright red dress, and two sharp swords, one long and one short, were repeatedly strangled.

Suddenly.

The sword light was vertical and horizontal, and the Lingshan, the Heavenly Maiden, and the Buddha were all twisted to pieces, and the illusionist's hands and feet were cold, and he froze in place and did not dare to move.

The shore was frightened by this sudden turn of events, and there was a half-loud sound.

Orr.

"Good!"

It was thunderous with joy.

"That's how it should be played! Always birds, flowers, monks, what's the point of view?"

"That's right, where is the monk chanting the scriptures where the Taoist priest fights the demon girl to look good? Hey, look at that figure. ”

"Yes, yes, listen, yo! ”

There are also more real ones in the pile.

"No, those two seem to have jumped up from somewhere else, not like they came out of smoke. ”

Someone next to him immediately laughed at him for making a fuss.

"Do you know if this is an illusion? Look at the illusionist, the sword is almost slashed to the neck, and he hasn't moved, and you look at the ghost-faced man, floating in the smoke, doesn't he look like the previous goddess?"

"Isn't this an illusion?"

He was relieved and joined the cheering crowd.

......

According to the custom of the festival.

The program on the painting boat has reached a wonderful point, which can make people row a small boat to the shore and say a few auspicious words.

At this time, the spectators on the shore will take out the reward money and throw it into the boat, depending on the excitement of the show and the size of their own purse.

Usually.

If the show is exciting.

If you don't wait for the dawn, the belly of this boat will be tired with a bunch of yellow copper coins, and if you are lucky, you can meet a generous shot, and you can also mix it with some white silver.

Then it was illuminated by the lantern carried by the bow of the boat.

Bright and clear, a boat is good-looking!

As a result, this small boat has a good name, called the "treasure boat".

On Shi Huoluo's side, it was his little apprentice who arranged to go rowing to collect treasures. Eight or nine-year-old children are the age of lethargy. Halfway through the night, the little one was already dazed and half-asleep.

Cold.

Let the applause of the spectators scare away the sleepy worm, quickly wiped the dream saliva from the corner of his mouth, drove the boat to the shore, and did not say a word of auspiciousness with his face held high.

I was at a loss to find that the cheers, applause, and tips and money on the shore all came to an abrupt end.

He turned his head to look.

It turned out that the white jar had been smashed on the ship, and a large amount of white smoke poured out for a while, enveloping the entire painting boat, and now it was foggy, and it was impossible to see anything clearly.

The audience looked at each other.

This is...... Part of the show?

But they didn't wait long, and they could only hear "clang", "clang", "clang" in the white smoke...... There was a crunch.

Suddenly.

Black, yellow, purple, green, blue...... All kinds of smoke gushed out together, and then entangled and gathered, and all kinds of strange and strange images were conjured up on the painting boat.

For example, the peacock loses its feathers and exposes its bare buttocks; a fat pig wears a feather coat and holds the lute behind it and dances in the sky; the solemn Buddha has no head and is replaced by a huge fish head; the Buddha's head grows on a yellow dog, and for a while he wags his tail and pees, and then he holds the fat pig in the sky and hums and does the work......

The messy strange image made the people on the shore jaw-dropping.

Serious people have already scolded "bad morals" and walked away, but unscrupulous people account for the majority.

So, all of a sudden, applause and laughter erupted.

On the apprentice's side, the money was raining down, and after a while, the draft of the boat tightened a little.

It's just that some laughs are angry, he loses his head in his hand, and smashes the money on the little apprentice, and he is also in pain and sweet in his heart.

But at this time.

"Ouch!"

A cry startled.

It was Shi Huoluo who was kicked off the boat by the Ghostface.

"Huh?"

The apprentice looked back at this scene, full of doubts.

"Is there still this show in our house?"

Is there one?

Not really.

Should I row a boat to save the master?

But the reward here is happy, and there is a lot of money.

is still swinging between the dilemma of the master and the reward, and the cheap master over there has already pulled himself out of the water.

He took off the fake mustache that drooped down his chin, hurriedly wiped the makeup powder on his face, and hurriedly spoke in an authentic old Qin dialect, screaming:

"Don't smash the color can!"

There was a sound in response to him in the smoke.

"Bang dang. ”

Forthwith.

A thick black color spread from the center of the smoke.

Everywhere he passed, he swallowed the Buddha, melted the heavenly maiden, and turned into the spring palace. In the blink of an eye, the colorful colors and strange images on the stage were all swallowed up, fused into a cloud of chaotic thick black smoke, and quickly swept across the strait.

The audience on the shore has long been holding their breath.

What kind of unexpectedly wonderful show is ready to start?

didn't wait for the show, but first saw the nobles at the stern of the boat fluttering and jumping into the water. Everyone looked at each other, and the black smoke had reached the shore.

There are those who are bold, or those who lack heart, relying on their long necks, leaning out first, and facing their faces.

As soon as he was next to him, he suddenly retracted and lay on the ground, not saying a word, only coughing desperately and crying.

The crowd was stunned.

Haven't reacted yet.

"Run!"

Everyone looked over, and it turned out that Shi Huoluo threw off his arms and rowed a small boat, carrying the apprentices and the copper of the reward desperately to escape from the spreading black smoke, and smoked freely, and added a sentence with a roar.

"Smoke is poisonous!"

The crowd was in an uproar, and then in the screams and panic, they scattered like birds and beasts.

............

"The yamen arrests the murderer!"

"Spread out!"

Bo Ziyu led a group of officials against the flow of people, and finally came late.

But the first kick is so vigorous that everyone is vying to be the first to be afraid of falling behind, and the next kick is you looking at me, I am looking at you, and no one dares to step forward.

The black smoke had spread and completely blocked the streets on both sides of the river, even seeping into the houses on the side of the streets.

To pass.

If you don't want to take a long detour, you have to rush hard.

You can look at the crowd's running posture, and then look at the thick black in the smoke.

Do you eat food on errands, and you have to work hard?

In the end, it was still Bo Ziyu's iron head, he stomped his foot fiercely, cut off a sleeve, covered his mouth and nose and rushed in.

But as soon as he was exposed to the smoke, he knew why those passers-by were crying and shouting.

This smoke is very poisonous!

As soon as the eyeballs were touched, it was as if someone had stabbed the eyes with a needle, and he screamed, subconsciously covering his eyes, and the black smoke took the opportunity to sneak into his mouth and nose, blocking his screams, and then pulling the trachea hard.

It's a heart-rending cough.

Seeing this, the officials hurriedly snatched him back, rushed to the shop next to him for a scoop of water, and rinsed his mouth and eyes with him.

At this moment, black smoke suddenly surged.

But it was Li Changan who covered his nose and closed his eyes and bumped out of it.

Bo Ziyu pushed away the water scoop, with a pair of red eyes, and a hoarse voice, he went up and asked:

"What the hell are you doing?"

He puffed and pointed to the smoke that was still billowing and spreading.

"That poisonous smoke ......"

Before he finished speaking, the Taoist priest raised his hand and waved.

The wind gathered against the surface of the water, carrying the black smoke straight into the sky, and then it was disturbed by the wind and dispersed.

Catch was stunned, and then asked: "Ghost face ......"

Before he could speak, the Taoist priest threw an object into his arms.

Hurriedly caught it, and it was a demon mask with broken corners and a little blood.

"What is this?"

His eyes widened, and he was about to ask.

The Taoist had already jumped on his knees and jumped straight to the top of a three-story attic on the side of the street.

Condescending, looking down on the long street.

What you see in your eyes, those who point fingers at him, those who are unaware, those who greet guests, those who beg for their performances, men and women, young and old, rich and poor...... The long street, the painting boat, all kinds of people, etc., all fell into the eyes, but there was no ghost-faced person.

The Taoist priest habitually urged Chong Longyu, but was embarrassed to find that Fang Cai's smoke had numbed his nose.

To make matters worse, he removed the calf on the horse.

The armor was already full of rifts, and there was not much mana left on it.

Li Changan frowned tightly and looked back at the east of the city.

The prison of the government that was silent in the night.

............

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

The government prison.

The officials were swept over by the strong wind, and when they got up, they found that everyone was injured, and the unlucky ones broke their bones and broke their heads, and the lucky ones were bruised and swollen.

Seeing that the Taoist priest chased the ghost-faced man and disappeared, they simply dispersed to seek medical treatment, leaving only a few beggars with flesh wounds and guards locked back in the depths of the prison.

And the few people left behind were not idle, took out the wine and food prepared early, set up a stall, and played Pai Gow in a messy cell.

"Do!"

The dominoes quickly poked on the table.

The horse-faced official scolded.

"Fuck it, where are the many bugs? ”

It turned out that a red-headed big centipede was just pressed under the domino, and its head was pressed against the poisonous hook, its body was curled, and its dense gastric feet were wrapped around the dominoes.

The companion next to me is also impatient.

"Who knows, although it was not clean in the past, there were not so many insects. ”

As he spoke, he pouted into the depths of the prison.

"Maybe it was the cheap beggar who brought it in. ”

Although his words were emotional, they were not untargeted.

The beggar didn't know if he grew up in a dung pit, and he was covered in a foul smell, even if he was locked in the innermost part of the prison, far away, he could still smell the stench on his body, and he could see the flies and mosquitoes flying around him, which was really tireless!

"That's pretty good. ”

Another official next to him laughed.

"When I first came in, this guy didn't stink so much, he just kept shouting that he was hungry, and the noise hurt people's ears. ”

"I heard that this guy was hungry and panicked, and attacked a little lady on the street, almost eating human flesh. ”

The official squeezed his eyebrows and opened a ridiculous speech.

"Otherwise, let's order chicken bones from him, save me from hunger, and come to eat a few of our brothers' human flesh. ”

The horse-faced servant suddenly sneered.

"Chicken?"

He grabbed the half-crushed centipede and threw it at the beggar.

"Let's eat worms!"

A few people laughed for a while, and began to drink and eat meat happily, play cards and gamble for money.

but they did not see it.

After the big centipede hit the ground, it rolled up and struggled a few times, and then suddenly unfolded and quickly crawled towards the beggar.

Climbed up the calf, got into the trouser legs, climbed over the neck, and finally crossed over the ears, and the tentacles shook a few times, and actually got into the ear canal.

Orr.

The beggar, who had been stiff, shuddered suddenly, and a pustule appeared on his cheek, which grew in size at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it reached the size of a fist.

Under the swollen translucent skin, you can glimpse the yellow pus, red blood, and faint wriggling bugs.

Just a few breaths.

The pustule gradually became smaller and smaller, and finally it was withdrawn under the skin, leaving only a yellowish mark.

The skin on the neck began to bulge slowly.