Chapter 15 third quarter

The last bulge of the silk scarf disappeared suddenly, lying flat on the ground, and the wavy roll stopped abruptly. Zhang Xian disappeared, disappeared under the silk scarf. Everyone looked left and right in shock, no one dared to speak, no one dared to step forward, who would dare to believe that this miraculous scene happened right in front of their own eyes? Suddenly someone screamed: "The sky cover teaches the earth!" With the cry, a person jumped out of the crowd and rushed towards the colorful silk scarf.This person is Chen Guo from Wangfenglou! Chen Guo exclaimed that the method of training the sky and the earth was not from Chen Guo's nonsense, but from a wonderful book of ancient Chinese tricks called "Ancient Color Miscellaneous Sources? Zhang Yingshan's Performance Review".

It is said that this book was written by Zhang Yingshan, a magician in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhang Yingshan spent his whole life collecting and sorting out all the tricks in China since ancient times, and described the performance process of the tricks in detail. It is said that there are 733 tricks in total. For this ancient trick, Zhang Yingshan added his own commentary behind each trick description, which actually solved the secret of this trick.But the commentary on each trick is extremely esoteric and difficult to understand, and it does not form a sentence. I don't know if Zhang Yingshan wrote it blindly.

Another way of saying is that Zhang Yingshan felt sorry for the gradual decline of Chinese juggling and the lack of talented people. In order to preserve the essence of ancient Chinese juggling, he wrote this "Miscellaneous Sources of Ancient Colors".But Zhang Yingshan knows very well that if some tricks don't know the secrets, they can only be preserved in the written description, and no one can recover them. He can't write down the secrets of the performance for no reason, which violates the ancient teaching of juggling inheritance.After much deliberation, Zhang Yingshan had no choice but to use this extremely esoteric and difficult-to-understand words to hide the secret in it, waiting for someone who is interested in slowly deciphering it in the future.

"Miscellaneous Sources of Ancient Colors? Zhang Yingshan's Performance Review" is extremely rare in the world. After Zhang Yingshan's death, more than a hundred copies of this book were hand-copied and scattered all over the rivers and lakes.After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a literary inquisition was implemented, and books of the Ming Dynasty were burned wantonly.The Qing government has always held a negative attitude towards ancient Chinese tricks, believing them to be ingenious tricks. They are also affected by the invention of Ming Dynasty weapons such as muskets and cannons, as well as various Ming Dynasty scientific and technological achievements such as physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

There are only a few fragments of "Ancient Color Miscellaneous Sources? Zhang Yingshan's Performance Review", which were secretly copied by the book burners at that time. Among them is the ancient trick of training the earth with the sky cover.According to the records in the book, the trick of Tianmao training the earth first appeared at the end of Tang Dynasty. It was invented by a Taoist priest named Jiumo. Because it was so magical, the world thought it was Taoism and immortality. Later, someone discovered it in the process of practicing it. Flaws turned out to be a kind of blindfold, and this was attributed to tricks. In the Song Dynasty, there were still more than ten people who could perform.People who perform the method of training the earth with the sky cover cannot be on a high platform, nor can people look at them at the same level.Moreover, the law of sky and earth training strictly stipulates that you cannot perform to the same person twice, which is the same as "not performing the same set of magic tricks in front of the same audience" in the commandments of modern magicians.

Chen Guo had a fragment of "Ancient Color Miscellaneous Sources? Zhang Yingshan's Performance Review", so when he saw Zhang Xian disappearing under the colorful silk scarf, he immediately thought of the heavenly cover training the earth, and he couldn't hold it back at all. Rushing up to uncover the silk scarf, it is possible to decipher the secret of the heavenly cover training the earth. Chen Guo rushed out and was about to grab the gauze scarf on the ground, but at this moment the gauze scarf shook suddenly, making a "thumb boom boom" sound, and a large amount of thick white smoke gushed out from under the gauze scarf.The scarf flickered in the white smoke and disappeared without a trace.

The white smoke has no peculiar smell, but it is extremely thick, persists for a long time, and spreads rapidly, covering people inside, making it impossible to see clearly what is one step away.Frightened by the white smoke, Chen Guo took a step back, and as soon as he came to his senses, he scratched desperately in the air. White smoke suddenly surged up and filled the surrounding crowd, causing everyone to run away in shock and become a mess. But the white smoke came and went quickly, within ten seconds, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and the white smoke had faded immediately, and slowly dissipated.

Chen Guo stood in the middle of the field, with empty hands, looking around in circles, and kept growling: "Where is the person! Where is the person! Where is Zhang Xian?" When the onlookers gathered again, no matter how hard everyone searched, they couldn't find where Zhang Xian was. Zhang Xian just disappeared and never appeared again. When Zhang Xian disappeared in plain sight, Li Yizheng squatted in front of Zhang Xian's room door, inserted a piece of wire into the lock, stirred it lightly a few times, and the door opened. For this kind of basement room, the door lock is just a decoration for a thief like Li Yi, and it doesn't take much effort at all.Li Yi had already found out where Zhang Xian lived last night. This time, he only needed to avoid the shop owner or the buddy to go down to the basement. For Li Yi, it was all pediatrics and there was no difficulty.

After Li Yi got into the room, he quickly closed the door.There was no one in the room, and a huge suitcase was opened, casually placed on the ground beside the bed. Li Yi hurried forward and rummaged through the suitcase, but apart from some worn-out sundries and clothes, there was nothing of value in the suitcase.Li Yi was a little puzzled. He clearly saw Zhang Xian carrying a big suitcase, which looked very heavy. How could there be only these things?Could it be that Zhang Xian hid important things elsewhere? Li Yi didn't dare to delay, and searched in the drawers of the surrounding cabinets, but still found nothing.Li Yi took a step back, thought for a while, ran to the bed, and reached out to grope in the bed.

Li Yi paused, and touched something on the bed beside the pillow. He took it out and saw that it was a hard-sided notebook with six words written in neat calligraphy on it: Zhang Xian's Miscellaneous Notes on Magic. Li Yi said softly: "Magic?" After saying that, he quickly opened the notebook and looked it up. This notepad is densely packed with lowercase letters. Some pages are neatly written, while others are messy. Li Yi's throat tightened, knowing that there was something extremely important written on it, he couldn't help turning to the first page, and carefully read a few lines of text, which read:

magician commandment (1) Respect your colleagues. (2) Practice carefully every day without slack. (3) Do not perform until you are proficient in practice. (4) Teaching magic is not without cost. (5) Do not disclose the secrets of magic. (6) Do not tell the specific effects of magic tricks before the performance. (7) Do not perform the same set of magic tricks in front of the same audience. (8) Magic should be developed in the right way, and magic techniques should not be used for evil. After reading the commandments, Li Yi frowned, and hurriedly closed the notepad. He wanted to stuff it back under the bed, but he hesitated and put it in his arms. Li Yi glanced at the room again, then retreated quietly, avoiding the shopkeeper's attention, and left the inn quickly. Li Yi didn't go back to meet Huo Yajin immediately, but went around a big circle and hid this "Miscellaneous Notes on Zhang Xian's Magic" in a tree hole before returning to find Huo Yajin. Huo Yajin was still sitting in a daze not far from where Zhang Xian disappeared. After Zhang Xian disappeared, everyone present waited for a long time, but none of them saw Zhang Xian appear again.So everyone panicked and searched around happily, but there was still no trace.Some people got scared and accused Chen Guo of going forward to uncover the colored cloth on the ground, which must have disturbed Zhang Xian's spellcasting, and Zhang Xian was trapped underground; some people thought that Zhang Xian might be a fairy, and he came here to show everyone It was inconvenient to stay for a long time, so he left in hiding; some people said that we must have violated Zhang Xian's taboo, so we left.After some discussions, Zhang Xian still couldn't come out, and Zhang Xian couldn't be found, so everyone had to leave angrily. Li Yi rushed back and saw that everyone looked weird, so he asked first before he knew that Zhang Xian had suddenly disappeared like this.Li Yi felt uneasy, so he found Huo Yajin nervously, pretended to be stupid and didn't know about it, and asked Huo Yajin directly: "Master Jin, where is Zhang Xian? Are you leaving?"