Chapter 6: Tricks
The Taoist priest took a pen in his right hand, wrote a blessing word in the palm of his left hand, and then threw it casually, and the handwriting actually came out of his hand, as if it was a physical one thrown in the palm of his hand, and then the surrounding children scrambled to raise their hands, shouting: "Shan Xianchang, I want to, I want to ......"
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Liang Wenfu stood behind the child, bent down to take a closer look, and the Fu character was clearly written directly with a brush, and it didn't look like it was glued at all.
The Taoist priest stretched out his left hand again, and the pen in his right hand was ready to write.
Liang Wenfu saw that the palm of his left hand was clean, how could there be any traces of what he had just drawn with a pen?
Originally, it was just to watch the excitement, but now Liang Wenfu was really curious, and when he looked at the Taoist priest carefully, he saw that this Taoist priest was dressed quite differently: his unkempt hair was tied up in a bun at will, and he used a half-cut bone comb as a hairpin; a dirty blue sermon robe was worn on his body, and a golden and shiny silk was tied around his waist; the hem of the Taoist robe was only knee-length, and his bare legs were barefoot.
Seeing Liang Wenfu observing himself vigorously, the Taoist priest glanced at him and continued to bow his head to play with the children.
This time, he wrote a phoenix character in his hand, and then chanted "The female doll will be the one who will be a concubine in the future, but I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse...... and threw it at a little girl, and the phoenix character just flew to the little girl's red face, which made the little girl giggle, covering her little face with both hands, as if she was afraid that the word would fly again.
The children didn't know what "is a blessing or a curse", but they probably listened to the drama on weekdays, listened to the first half of the Taoist priest's words, put the little girl on their shoulders, and shouted "Niang Niang is here!"
Liang Wenfu had already read it very carefully just now, but he still didn't understand how the Taoist priest threw out the words written in his hand.
Those children call him Shan Xianchang, is he really a person who has become an immortal?
Seeing that Liang Wenfu looked carefully, the Taoist priest arched his hand to him and said with a smile: "This Xianggong is also a fellow master, and this little skill of carving insects in the poor Dao makes Xianggong laugh." ā
Hearing his words, Liang Wenfu was very surprised: "When did I become a master?"
Seeing the confused look on Liang Wenfu's face, the Taoist priest frowned, picked up the pen and wrote a word in the palm of his hand, and shook it casually, and the word fell on Liang Wenfu's chest.
Liang Wenfu looked down and saw a black word "Yuan" on the placket.
"Why do you write the word 'yuan' to yourself? What does this mean?" Thinking about it, Liang Wenfu raised his head and wanted to ask the Taoist person, but saw that the Taoist priest had already put away his pen and turned to leave.
When the children saw that the Taoist priest was leaving, they quickly stopped playing, followed the Taoist priest and pulled his clothes without letting go, begging vigorously: "I want it too, I want ......it too, I want it too."
Liang Wenfu chased forward to ask for an explanation, but when he turned the corner, the Taoist priest was gone, leaving only a few children chattering around a wall. I asked them where the priest was, but they were told that he had gone inside the wall.
Inside the wall was the backyard of a large family, and when the Taoist priest entered, naturally there was no way to find him.
Since this is the case, then forget it, Liang Wenfu simply continued to shop.
This city is much more lively than yesterday: the streets are full of people, and on every street, you can see a colorful shed, in which you can sing operas and do miscellaneous plays, which is very lively, and the crowd on the street applauds.
Liang Wenfu inquired about a snack seller and learned that it turned out that today was the birthday of the prefect's old father, Mrs. Li, and the prefect had fun with the people, and invited more than a dozen miscellaneous drama classes for the people of the city to watch for free.
Not only that, but there is also more excitement in the square in front of the house: this old lady Li likes to watch tricks very much, and the prefect is very filial, in order to attract everyone with superb skills, not only has he offered a heavy reward, but in the end, the most skilled person can also get a strange treasure water spirit bead!
Liang Wenfu thanked the stall owner and walked directly to the square in front of the house, he was not very interested in singing, but he was very curious about what this strange treasure water spirit bead was, and at the same time, he also saw the tricks of this era by the way!
When he came to the square in front of the house, Liang Wenfu squeezed into the crowd, only to see a high platform on the north side of the square, with a tall vermilion color shed on the platform, and several cases were listed under the shed. There is a table of eight immortals in the middle, and a white-haired old man on the left is sitting in the middle, which is today's birthday star Mrs. Li.
Sitting next to Shou Xinggong was a middle-aged official with a long beard wearing Wusha on his head, the official was wearing a bright red official uniform and a lark patch on his chest, which was the prefect of the city.
The seat on the other side of the table of the Eight Immortals is blocked by a bead curtain, and it can be vaguely seen behind the bead curtain that there are two women, who should be the female dependents of the prefect.
In this era, the defense of men and women is not serious, and it is not as exaggerated as in the Ming and Qing dynasties in another world. However, there are still relatively many rules in large households, and in this kind of lively public occasion, the ladies of the noble family will rarely show their heads, so they hang bead curtains in front of the seats.
In the square below the platform, the officials separated a vacant lot, and the crowd stood around to watch the excitement. Those who want to perform walk into the arena one by one to show off their unique skills. On one side of the field, there were still ten chairs covered with red silk, and now there were five people seated, and five chairs were still empty.
Liang Wenfu inquired and learned that only those who had been selected for their superb skills could sit on these ten chairs, and finally selected the final winner from these ten chairs to get the water spirit bead.
At this time, an artist walked into the arena, this person had a black pockmarked face, the whole person was not a little thin, but he had a big bulging chin, he was wearing a coarse cloth robe, and he carried a wooden box on his back, and there were several small holes in the wooden box.
The black-faced artist bowed deeply to the stage and said loudly: "Villain Liu Jinchan, congratulations to the old lady on her birthday!"
The prefect on the stage raised his hand slightly as a return gift, and a middle-aged man with the appearance of a scribe standing next to the prefect walked to the side of the stage, threw down a few copper coins, and said to Liu Jinchan: "Old lady, thank you, what kind of mastery do you have?"
Liu Jinchan replied: "Master Bing, the little one wants to present a frog song!"
The scribes in the stands didn't understand, and Liu Jinchan added: "It's just to let the frog sing!"
The scribe on the stage turned to look at the prefect, the prefect nodded slightly, and as soon as the scribe bowed, he turned back to Liu Jinchan and said, "Let's start! Use some thought, there will be a heavy reward for a good performance!" After speaking, he returned to the prefect's side.
Liu Jinchan in the audience said: "Obey!" took off the wooden box on his back, put it on a stool, and then removed the lid of the wooden box.
Liang Wenfu stretched out his head to look, and it turned out that the box was divided into more than a dozen grids, and there was a small frog lying in each grid. The little frog sat quietly in the lattice, staring wide-eyed around him, but none of them wanted to jump out.
The surrounding people talked softly, not knowing how this Liu Jinchan was going to make the frog sing.
I saw Liu Jinchan pull out a grass stem from his sleeve and gently knock it on the head of a frog, and the frog "croaked". Liu Jinchan knocked a few times at random, and when the grass stem hit a frog, the frog opened its mouth and chirped, and then immediately shut up. Although the cries of several frogs are all "croaking", if you listen closely, it seems that there is a difference in tone.
Looks like it's a bit of a doorway!
Everyone around stopped talking curiously, and even the prefect and the old lady sitting on the stage sat up straight, wanting to see this frog song.
Liu Jinchan took a deep breath, and then shot like electricity, the grass stalk crackled at a dozen frogs, and all the frogs screamed with the attack, and the cry was not chaotic at all, and it really played a cheerful and festive song with the frog song!
Although I don't know what kind of song this is, Liang Wenfu is really shocked: this song has clear uterine quotient and horns, the tone is too natural, and there is no wrong note or missed beat at all!
At the end of the song, Liu Jinchan stopped the grass stalk on the head of a frog, the frog opened its mouth wide and let out a long roar, the grass stalk slowly lifted, and the frog's cry also changed from big to small, gradually becoming inaudible, and at this point, the whole song ended.
Everyone applauded, Liang Wenfu also applauded vigorously, he can also play the piano, but playing the piano with a frog, it is the first time he has seen it, it is really an eye-opener!
Liu Jinchan thanked everyone with his fists, and then bowed deeply to the stage.
On the stage, Mrs. Li was so excited that he hit the table and admired, seeing that his father was happy, the prefect beckoned, and the scribe hurriedly bent down, put his ear in front of the prefect, and nodded yes again and again.
After the prefect finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the scribe walked to the side of the stage and waved his folding fan, shouting: "The old lady will reward you with one hundred taels of silver!
After that, a family member came forward with ten ingots and ten taels of silver ingots on a tray and handed them to Liu Jinchan, who hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, then put away the silver and wooden box, and sat on a chair on the side of the venue.
After Liu Jinchan stepped back, he walked up to a veiled woman carrying a two-foot-tall box on her back.
The woman walked to the middle of the field, took off the box on her back and put it on the ground, and said to the stage: "The little woman congratulates the old lady on her birthday! I wish the old lady a blessing like the East China Sea and a longevity than the Nanshan pine!" The woman's voice was delicate and beautiful, as if a lark was chirping, listening to the voice, it was probably a girl of twenty-eight years old.
As usual, the scribe sprinkled several bounties and asked the woman what she wanted to do.
The woman replied, "Monkey play!"
The crowd listened to the discussion and discussed: I have seen a lot of monkeys, but it seems that I have never seen a young woman playing monkeys! Moreover, I have never seen her with a monkey? But even so, the monkey is nothing more than a trained routine, and it is still fresh to watch it once in a while, and if it is performed in the same place two or three times, it will make people feel that there is no novelty.
Although this woman is the first time to see, but everyone who plays monkeys is common on weekdays, and today there are many strange people gathered in the north and south of the world, and everyone wants to see something that they can't see on weekdays, just like the frog song just now, who wants to see the monkeys?
Sure enough, the scribe on the stage frowned and said, "Monkey shows are common on weekdays, but today is not necessary, you can receive the reward money!"
The woman did not retreat, and said to the scribe: "The little woman's monkey play is different, and it is guaranteed that no one present has seen it, and if anyone has seen it, the little woman is willing to accept the punishment!"
After listening to the woman's words, everyone wondered: What else could be special about the monkey show?
The scribe on the stage turned around and asked the prefect for instructions, and the prefect nodded his head, and the scribe turned around and said, "Well, it's up to you!" However, the prefect is merciful, if your monkey show is not exciting, there is no reward, and you will not be punished!"