Several people got off the carriage and asked the groom to take care of the horses. They came close to the juggler and looked at the beans one by one. When they were touched by the bamboo chopsticks, they seemed to be waving their arms, with spirituality, telling them not to see them.
If you don’t see it, if you say it exists, it will exist. It’s extremely magical.
The magician is a middle-aged man with braids on his head, wearing a long coarse cloth coat, with his sleeves rolled up at his elbows. He places two coarse porcelain bowls upside down on the red silk table. They are placed symmetrically on a high case.
There was a pea covered under each of the rough porcelain bowls. He arched his head to the onlookers and said, "Look, everyone, I will draw a road between these two bowls, and it will come over!"
"Don't believe it, don't believe it!"
Someone who was booing immediately shouted.
"Well, look at it, sir!" The magician tapped the bowl with his bamboo chopsticks, and there was a crisp sound. He then picked up the bowl. The peas that were placed on the table just now disappeared, and he picked up the bowl again.
He picked up another coarse porcelain bowl and saw that there were two peas at the bottom of this bowl. There was one more pea. He said, "This is called the Two Immortals Pandao!"
He picked up two rough porcelain bowls, touched them lightly, and made a crisp sound, "Our craftsmen's skills are not fake. The bowls are empty. Look at the bottom, belly, and top of the bowl. There are no three layers in front of the bowl."
Help, there are no two bottoms at the back of the bowl."
He put down the bowl, and three peas slid onto the red silk table. A coarse porcelain bowl was turned upside down, a distance away. The magician held the long bamboo chopsticks and pointed towards the peas one by one. The peas disappeared, and he opened the coarse porcelain bowl.
Looking at the bottom of the bowl, he saw three peas running under the bottom of the bowl again. He cupped his hands and said, "This is the cave where the three immortals return!"
As he spoke, the onlookers burst into thunderous applause.
As he said this, some people wanted to reward the magician with money. They took out a handful of money from the bag, including copper coins from the sky and the square, as well as newly minted copper coins. A few wealthy people wearing silk clothes even took out a handful of money.
Silver dollar.
"Don't give money yet, don't give money..."
The magician waved his hands repeatedly, and when he lifted the coarse porcelain bowl, a pile of copper coins appeared from the bottom of the bowl, giving it the smell of an autumn harvest.
Immediately afterwards, the juggler performed several small tricks, the most eye-catching of which was the big live fish. Cover it with a white cloth, and there will be a gurgling clear spring in the bowl. Cover it again, and there will be two small goldfish inside.
Swim happily.
In a short period of time, hundreds of people gathered in front of Yongding Gate to watch the opera, which was much more interesting than watching the opera in the theater on weekdays.
"Brother, tell me, he doesn't want rewards for performing tricks, is he just doing it for fun?"
Girl Zhou asked Zhou Yuan in a low voice on Wednesday.
She was protected by several men in the middle, so she didn't have to worry about the crowd. Of course, there was space between them. In broad daylight, she didn't have to worry about tarnishing her daughter's family's reputation.
"this……"
"Brother Bai, what do you think?"
Although Zhou Yuan has more knowledge than Miss Zhou Zhou, he still doesn’t know much about the juggling business. He turned his attention to Bai Gui with a sense of exploration. In the past few months, Bai Gui’s conversation and knowledge were astonishing.
He was extremely impressed.
"The Analects of Confucius says: If there is no desire for haste, there will be no small gains. If you have haste, you will not achieve success. If you see small gains, great things will not be accomplished!"
Bai Gui had something to say. The small amount of money that the magician didn't want to reward now must have other motives. It was not for small profits, but for big business, but he didn't say much more after that.
Talking too much will ruin the magician's business.
As a human being, be careful about yourself and don't talk too much.
He had some guesses about what the middle-aged magician was doing.
The sect of juggling is also called Caimen, and those who do tricks in Caimen are called Cai Lizi, also known as Li Zixing. And those who sell tricks in Caimen are called Tiaochu Gong, also called Chu Gongxing. There are also jugglers with praise.
Those who do martial arts are those who are good at picking tricks, or those who are acrobats.
There are strict boundaries between Chu Gong Xing and Li Zixing. Those who change are not allowed to sell, and those who sell are not allowed to change. In other words, Li Zixing specializes in making money through tricks, shouting and rewards, so they are not allowed to sell tricks, while Chu Gong Xing is not allowed to sell tricks.
Gongxing specializes in selling magic tricks to make money, so it cannot cross the line and do things like Lizixing. In addition, Chugongxing's claim to selling magic cannot be genuine, otherwise it will ruin Lizixing's business.
Menzi is the routine used in magic, also called performance method.
Not long after, as expected, the juggler stopped performing, put his hands in his sleeves, looked at the group of people gathered with a smile, and said, "Want to learn?"
After witnessing so many powerful tricks, there were few people who were not tempted. A few of the younger ones shouted loudly that they wanted to learn and wanted to become their masters on the spot.
But the juggler waved his hand as if he was deliberately teasing them and said: "You can't learn it. You can't learn it. You have to endure a lot of hardships if you want to learn tricks. It doesn't take three to five years. You don't go to elementary school or even get started."
Can’t even do it!”
This sleight of hand requires a quick hand and the use of various techniques to prevent the audience from seeing the tricks.
"There are many categories of magic tricks. When I first came here, it was hand tricks, which were difficult to learn. There are also several kinds of tricks such as silk tricks, color tricks, etc. These kinds of tricks use mechanisms and are not difficult to learn. I don't know who...
"
He pondered for a while and looked at the people watching.
Bai Gui saw that several classmates were also eager to try, so he quickly stopped them.
This is a pig for slaughter.
One transaction can be worth dozens of tricks.
If you want to say that you can really teach real skills, just give them some money. The key is that these magicians all abide by the rules of their own profession, how can they really teach others their special skills.
If you really know how to use these colorful doors, what will happen to assassins like Jing Ke?
"This little brother seems to know a thing or two?"
Next to him, a strong man with a yellowish white silk scarf on his forehead gave Bai Gui a strange look. There were many people watching on this street, but they could see the conspiracy and endured it patiently.
There are not many people.
I didn’t say much, I just tried to persuade my fellow travelers.
"Who are you?"
Bai Gui frowned, feeling that this man was a bit difficult to mess with. After he redeemed the talent of "One Hundred and One Hundred Lis", his eyes became much sharper, and he could tell at a glance that this man should be a practitioner, with strong muscles and thick fingers.
Cocoon is different from the cocoon that does farm work, but the cocoon that is used to dancing with guns and sticks.
"Jiang Beihai!"
A man's cupping of hands.
Bai Gui saw that this man's tone was much more sincere, so his expression softened a lot, but he was still a little wary. He thought for a moment and said: "The magician's trick just now should be the bean in the magic sword Dandou ring, and the bean refers to it."
It's about immortals picking beans... These tricks were recorded in Tang Zaifeng's "Goose City Fantasy", and I just happened to have seen it."
In the fifteenth year of Guangxu's reign, Tang Zaifeng published "Echeng Fantasy Collection", which recorded more than 300 sets of opera techniques.
Seeing the man's disbelief, he spoke again: "A few days ago, I read in the newspaper that our magicians performed at the International Exhibition of Ameiken, which greatly promoted the country's prestige, so I became interested.
I read some magic books."
"That's my uncle, his name is Zhu Liankui!"
At this time, the man believed it. He had also heard about it, and a smile appeared on his face, "But the Echeng fantasy that Brother mentioned, although some of the tricks recorded are accurate, most of them are done by our Caimen to offend Tang.
