Chapter 382: The Red Handkerchief and the Magician
"Since I have handed the things to you, I have to say goodbye. You should be careful.
While you are in Russia, as a courtesy to the landlords, how about I treat you to a meal?"
After Zhang Xiong finished speaking, he looked at Zheng Liyuan, who didn't even glance at him, with eyes filled with wonder.
Seeing that Zheng Liyuan didn't respond at all, Zhang Xiong couldn't help but urged again:
"Miss Zheng, can you please do me a favor?"
Zheng Liyuan turned around in surprise, blinked at Zhang Xiong with her beautiful eyes, and said strangely:
"What are you asking me for? Just ask me a man!"
When Liu Shiba heard this, his face twitched, he grinned and cursed secretly:
"Using me as a shield?"
Seeing Zheng Liyuan's explanation, Zhang Xiong couldn't help but be stunned, smiled awkwardly, and quickly stood up to say goodbye.
The moment he turned around, Zhang Xiong's handsome face showed a hint of ferocity and anger, and he secretly said:
"How can a mature and interesting man like me be inferior to Liu Shiba, a young boy with no hair on his head?
"Mr. Zhang, then I won't give it away!"
Liu Shiba smiled and sent Zhang Xiong to the door.
"Okay! You should be careful!"
Zhang Xiong smiled and patted Liu Shiba's shoulder, turned around and left.
After seeing Zhang Xiong off, Liu Shiba saw Zheng Liyuan frowning and looking at the door, and couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"It seems that you are quite charming. You can see that Zhang Xiong is tempted. He is such a handsome guy!"
After a while, I heard Zheng Liyuan say in confusion:
"That's not right. Since I smuggled the hard drive, why did I come to you blatantly? And I brought it with me and gave it to you directly?"
"You are very smart, but they underestimated me too much. The soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth...
Anyone who underestimates me and China will pay the heaviest price!"
Liu Shiba smiled slightly. He had already felt that something was wrong. Since other forces wanted to take back the hard drive, they could just kill Zhang Xiong halfway. Why bother?
Zheng Liyuan came back to her senses after hearing this, and when she saw Liu Shiba staring at her, she couldn't help but whisper:
"You are a bad person..."
"Oh, bad guy..."
Liu Shiba touched his nose and was stunned by this nonsense.
"You are a bad person. I am a beautiful woman standing in front of you, and you ignore her!"
Zheng Liyuan boldly looked into Liu Shiba's eyes.
"Well, as you said, after you have eaten and taken a bath, my husband will come and pamper you, okay..."
Looking at Zheng Liyuan's exquisite figure, Liu Shiba couldn't help but move his index finger and smiled strangely.
"Go to hell! Be careful Ning Min'er castrates you! Let's go out for a walk, I want to have a big meal and go shopping.
By the way, there is a magic show from all over the world in Moscow tonight, you come with me to see it and relax."
Zheng Liyuan stared at Liu Shiba with a blushing face, and suggested in a sweet voice.
"Well! Then go and have a look!"
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In the evening, Liu Shiba took Qin Da and Zheng Liyuan to the hotel restaurant for a simple dinner!
Then Zheng Liyuan returned to the room and started to dress up, probably because she was going to watch some magic show of all nations in the evening.
Now, Liu Shiba and Qin Da were exhausted waiting. It must be said that women do have extraordinary patience when it comes to makeup.
It is so powerful for a woman to be able to sit there for an hour and draw eyebrows, apply lip liner, and put on powder.
Even Liu Shiba, who had such strong martial arts concentration, felt frightened and frantic.
At this time, Liu Shiba couldn't help but wonder, if women also practiced martial arts, would it be possible to get twice the result with half the effort, such as the Qi Seeking Technique?
Ning Min'er is very talented in practicing martial arts!
A woman's strong love for beauty may give her unlimited motivation. Women can continue to practice tirelessly, and Liu Shiba only needs to say a few words:
"Practice martial arts to keep your youth forever and keep your appearance forever!"
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Zheng Liyuan is considered to be knowledgeable and introduced to Liu Shiba in detail the origin of the Magic Conference of All Nations...
It turns out that this universal magic conference is organized by Sir Hunter, the president of the Commonwealth Magicians Association.
It is no exaggeration to describe the entire conference as a gathering of experts!
The Universal Magic Conference has a supreme status in the magic world, and all countries in the world will send their highest-level magicians to participate.
Many magic tricks and techniques are rare in the world and are not performed publicly, but can only be seen in a few specific cities.
Other countries can only watch the TV broadcast.
Among them, there are as many as thirty magic judges. The judges are not all famous magicians, but include scientists, adventurers, lawyers, politicians and other top celebrities from all walks of life from various countries.
If you can enter the top five in the finals, you will definitely become famous.
The Universal Magic Conference is held every five years, and this time it is publicly stated that it is the 24th.
In fact, this is not the case. The history of the Magic Conference of All Nations has been nearly a hundred years!
Initially, it was the royal family of the British Commonwealth. It recruited strange people from all over the world, and the governors of each colony sent players.
With the gradual expansion of scale and the rise of Western magic craze in modern times, magicians have a high status. Many magicians have hereditary titles, and they need strong financial resources to perform large-scale magic!
Moreover, magician became a magical profession with huge income. Only then was the selection open to the whole world, and each session became more and more popular.
That’s why it’s called the Magic Conference of All Nations!
There were at least a hundred magicians from all over the world participating in the Magic Conference of All Nations. They were divided into several groups. Finally, 20 people were selected to participate in the finals and the first, second and third place were judged!
It is impossible to conquer thirty harsh judges without some skills. Many magicians will be called "out" after only half of the performance, which means they are eliminated.
Not only the jury will shout out, but if the audience is dissatisfied and shouts out in groups, they will still be eliminated!
In other words, when a magician performs, he must not only conquer the judges, but also pay attention to the audience's emotions. He should not perform magic tricks that only the judges can understand but not the audience.
Western magic has evolved rapidly. By the 20th century, large-scale magic tricks were emerging one after another, supplemented by the combination of sound, light and electricity, making many magic performances look like a magnificent musical.
However, traditional Chinese magic has lagged far behind. In the past, several Chinese magicians traveled across the ocean to be invited to perform.
Because China's performances are boring and boring, they feel fresh at first, but after watching more, some self-righteous foreign magicians see through them!
Later, foreigners publicly slandered China in the magic world, thinking that China's magic was nothing more than this, and that Chinese people didn't understand what magic was at all.
Gradually, Chinese magic has no secrets at all in the Western magic world and has become the bottom of the list...
Many magicians who have stolen the essence of Chinese magic have changed the essence without changing the medicine. They just changed the way of performing, claiming to be their own original creation, and deceiving the world and stealing their reputation.
This is an open secret in the magic world. Who said the Chinese are easy to bully...
In fact, this is helpless. Western magicians attach great importance to innovation and are good at creating individual styles!
The performances of Chinese magicians are almost all in the same style, they are all calm and steady, and their movements are exactly the same!
Therefore, the performance of Western magicians is far more exciting than traditional magic, which generally follows ancestral teachings and follows the rules of Chinese magic.
Letting others change their appearance to perform, but still being dumb and eating Coptis chinensis, and unable to express the pain, must be said to be the tragedy of the Chinese Magic Festival!
It is a pity that the skills of local magicians in China have withered, and many ancient magic tricks have been lost, and there are always only a few that change.
Although some people have superb skills that cannot be compared with foreigners, there is always no new change, and the situation will inevitably become more embarrassing.
So much so that later on, he even lost the ability to fight back on stage, and gradually became a supporting role for Western magicians, becoming a clown.
Fortunately, the reason why the secrets of Chinese magic are not known to the public is because the magic world and Chinese magic have some common rules:
That is a magician who cannot reveal the secret of magic to the audience!
As far as the Magicians Association is concerned, disclosing a certain magic secret to the public privately is against the professional ethics of magicians. Once the person is found out, the punishment will be extremely severe.
The person who leaks the secret will be ruined and will be unable to perform magic tricks for the rest of his life.
Hearing Zheng Liyuan's introduction, Liu Shiba couldn't help but feel moved. He thought of Tang Jili, who was still in the Qinling Underground Palace, training with his parents and grandfather...
Tang Jili is an illusionist, and can also be said to be the red handkerchief of the Three Chinese Five Elements.
In fact, in ancient times, red handkerchiefs were commonly referred to as tricks and magic, which were also traditional Chinese skills.
At the same time, the red handkerchief can also be called blinding or illusion.
The magic of the Red Handkerchief is very different from Western magic. Just look at the low-level illusions of the Red Handkerchief that are popular in the world today, such as pills, swords, beans, and rings.
These tricks focus on "turning the lights up and down, and communicating diplomatically."
That is to say, show the front, back, left, and right hands in front of the audience, and let others see clearly the inside and outside of the props, and then perform the show.
But magic is different. The technique of magic is "finger up and down, light left and right."
When the magician points one hand somewhere, look at his other hand: his other hand must be playing with some gadget.
It is a pity that many of the authentic craftsmanship of red handkerchiefs from the Five Elements and Three Schools have been lost, and the listed successors are also very low-key. Otherwise, why would foreign magic become so popular?
Liu Shiba can guarantee that if a magician saw the authentic secret skills of a few red handkerchiefs, he would be extremely ashamed.
"Hmph! Magic Conference of All Nations? I wonder if China has sent anyone to participate?"
Liu Shiba laughed ferociously.
Zheng Liyuan rolled her eyes at Liu Shiba and said coquettishly:
"Does that need to be said? There must be people from China participating. Even if they get the last place, they will still come!"
"Why humiliate yourself?"
Liu Shiba said in confusion.
"Because we are Chinese, even if we lose, we must still stand..."
Zheng Liyuan's expression became unusually serious.
Hearing this, Liu Shiba glanced at Zheng Liyuan in surprise and grinned:
"What do you mean, let's see how we Chinese people lose standing tonight, right?"
Zheng Liyuan said calmly:
"That's right! Even if I can't win, I will still use Chinese to cheer for our country's magicians."
Liu Shiba's eyes flickered, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he smiled in a sinister way:
"Well, let's go join in the fun and see what skills the people from the Five Elements and Three Families have left."
Zheng Liyuan said in confusion:
"What are the five elements and three families?"
Liu Shiba looked around and said:
"nothing……"
Zheng Liyuan said angrily:
"Don't say trash, take it out!"
Liu Shiba grinned and said:
"If you keep beeping, I'll be dead now. Do you believe it or not?"
The honest and honest Qin Da immediately glared when he heard this and gritted his teeth and said:
"I'll hold the door!"
Zheng Liyuan suddenly became short of breath when she heard this, turned around and said:
"Big man, you are so cruel, you are going out..."
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ps: See you at 5pm! There will be an additional chapter at 24pm tonight.
