Tonight's Dionysus Festival is particularly lively.

On the waterway.

The Taoist priest and the ghost-faced girl chase each other between boats.

Long street.

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

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

"The Yamen is handling the case."

The government officials were breathing heavily and staring at the grimacing woman in front of them as if they were looking at a pile of silver, their eyes glowing green.

But when Bo Ziyu looked at the two people who were gradually moving away from them, his scalp went numb and he secretly complained.

These two people are both unscrupulous masters, and they make great moves on the boats. However, they don't know that any of the guests who can board the boats are either rich or noble?

No, the ghost-faced woman got on the painted boat and pushed the guests behind her as a shield. A few young men were unlucky. One moment they were chanting on the railing, and the next moment they were all swept into the water.

Bo Ziyu was terrified.

Suffered.

They were the sons of academic politicians and a group of scholars from the academy.

In the blink of an eye, the Taoist priest rushed into a painting boat again. Unable to control his momentum, he smashed a screen on the mat to pieces.

Bo Ziyu's scalp felt numb.

It's over.

It is an authentic work of Wu Daozi, a treasure that the county magistrate shows off every year.

After a while, the two of them moved to another boat and frightened a naked man and woman.

Bo Ziyu was confused.

Weird.

That's not the county magistrate and his wife... Huh?

Bo Ziyu's complicated mental journey aside, Li Changan couldn't guess it and couldn't care about it.

He flew between the boats, sniffing the scent of the toilet water left by the Ghost-faced Girl, which was gradually fading away.

I was wondering if I should kill her with pain, for example, give her a blast of wind, fire and thunder!

But firstly, being in a busy city, I'm afraid I might hurt innocent people; secondly, I do have many unanswered questions in my heart.

Finally pressed my mind.

Another hard leap.

With a "bang" sound, it crashed into the poop of a boat.

Ignoring the chaos of shouts and screams around him, he followed the smell and rushed forward again, but he ran into a cloud of smoke.

…………

Tonight.

The most popular show, apart from Mrs. Hu's unique skill of wearing a pole, is the smoke illusion performed by Shi Huoluo, an illusionist from the Western Regions who was hired with a large sum of money, on the Li Family Painting Boat.

This person seemed to have tall eyes and a deep nose, a big beard, and was wearing a fluffy and loose robe. He stood calmly on the stage. There were no other props around him, only seven gooseneck jars of different colors.

All he could see was his hands forming the lotus seal.

Flip your wrist and move your fingers.

A wisp of white smoke emerged from the white jar and gathered on the top of his palm. As he changed his gestures, the clump of smoke turned into a flower bud, which was slowly blooming.

When the flower bloomed to its peak, the gesture changed again, and the petals closed and turned into a pure white bird. It flapped its wings and circled around him, landed on his shoulder, and jumped back lightly into the palm of his hand.

Looking forward with excitement, every movement and every feather seems full of interest.

He moved his fingers again.

Cans of various colors spit out smoke of corresponding colors and converged on his palm.

When it comes to gray, the bird in the palm becomes a sparrow; when it comes to black, the sparrow becomes a swallow; when it is coated with yellow, the swallow becomes an oriole; when it is dyed blue, the oriole becomes a lark...

At the end, the smoke gathered into a colorful appearance.

He just snapped his fingers.

"Snapped."

The small bird suddenly bloomed and turned into a big peacock, fluttering its colorful feathers, then spread its wings and soared into the sky. Under the illumination of the street lights, the wings showed an intoxicating light.

Suddenly.

Shi Huoluo pressed his hands.

The peacock cried silently, then swooped down and hit the deck with its head.

The smoke immediately dispersed from the body, and the smoke turned into waves of water, flowing over the boat and onto the stage. And its feathers turned into many fish with colorful scales, slowly swimming in the water with their heads and tails swaying.

Shi Huoluo raised his hand.

The fish in the water immediately swarmed out of the water and transformed into goddesses, holding a pipa, a jacquard basket, or a flute, with their belts catching the wind, and their postures were graceful.

The water waves also surged up, howled, and gathered into the shape of a mountain peak, which was full of pagodas, temples, and smoke. There seemed to be countless little people burning incense and worshiping in it.

And Shi Huoluo put his hands together again.

The vast mist on the mountain transformed into a majestic Buddha, with his lips open and closed, as if he was preaching. Goddess were flying around, and many Bodhisattvas and Arhats were vaguely hidden in the surrounding smoke.

Astonishingly, it was a picture of the Dharma lecture at Lingshan that came to life.

…………

Shi Huoluo's smoke illusion is indeed wonderful, but it's hard to avoid aesthetic fatigue after watching it too much.

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

The onlookers on the side were already watching everything through the water and the lights. In addition, it was already late at night, and there were always flowers, birds, fish, insects, Buddhas, and spiritual mountains. They came and went, and they gradually became tired and bored.

The crowd will disperse before there is anything new to see.

Absolutely cold.

There was a burst of noise on the boat, which made people stop in their tracks.

Then, on the stage shrouded in smoke, two uninvited guests suddenly crashed into the stage.

A short-haired Taoist holds a long sword with exquisite swordsmanship; a ghost-faced woman holds a short sword with ghostly movements. The plain hemp Taoist robe wears a bright red skirt, and two sharp swords, one long and one short, repeatedly strangle.

All of a sudden.

The sword light spread horizontally, twisting the Lingshan, the Goddess, and the Buddha to pieces. The illusionist's hands and feet were so frightened that he froze in place and did not dare to move.

The people on the shore were frightened by this sudden change and were stunned for a long time.

Er.

"good!"

There was thunderous cheers.

"That's how it should be played! There are always birds, flowers, and monks. What's there to see?"

"That's right. Where can a monk chanting sutras and a Taoist priest fight a demon girl look good? Hey, look at that figure."

"Yes! Yes! Listen carefully, yo! There is still a sound."

There are also serious people in the crowd.

"No, those two people seem to have jumped up from somewhere else. It doesn't look like they were created by the smoke."

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

"Do you know this is an illusion? Look at the illusionist. The sword almost hit his neck and he didn't even move. Look at the ghost-faced man floating back and forth in the smoke. Doesn't he look like the goddess before? "

"If this isn't an illusion, what is it?"

Zhen was immediately relieved and joined the cheering crowd.

…

According to the custom of the festival.

The program on the boat has reached a wonderful point, allowing people to row the boat to the shore and say a few auspicious words.

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

usually.

If the show is exciting.

Before dawn, the ship will have a pile of golden copper coins in its belly. If you are lucky and meet someone who is generous, you can also mix in some shining silver.

Then it was illuminated by the lantern carried on the bow of the boat.
To be continued...