LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 151 Introduction to Magic
Zhou Yuan was a new noble in the court, so the Ning'an County Magistrate was naturally willing to cooperate with the action.
After receiving Zhou Yuan's order, he not only wrote the notice himself, but also asked several teams of yamen runners to search for folk magicians in the streets.
The folk magicians did not hesitate to the invitation of the Yulin Camp.
Probably because the Yulin Camp was rich, if they performed well, they would definitely get a large reward. Even if they did not perform well, the Yulin Camp would not do anything to them.
After all, the Yulin Camp was known as the emperor's personal army, representing the emperor's face outside, and never acted presumptuously among the people.
Therefore, not long after the county government issued the notice, all kinds of street performers responded to the call.
When they arrived at Caixi Lane, Zhou Yuan really pulled a group of subordinates to watch the magic show, which made the soldiers relax for a rare moment.
"I have heard that there are five unique magic tricks: Dan, Jian, Dou, Huan, and Sheng. I wonder what skills each of them has made them famous?"
"General, Dan means swallowing iron gall, Jian means eating precious swords, Dou means picking beans by immortals, Huan means nine linked rings, and Sheng means ropes by immortals."
"The magician knows several, you can demonstrate them one by one."
The magician had heard of Zhou Yuan's origin and regarded him as a folk hero and a young hero.
Therefore, he showed all his skills to him in an attempt to win the praise of Zhou Yuan, the leader of the Xinyuan list.
As the four sets of Dan, Jian, Dou, and Huan began to play, Zhou Yuan found that the magician had real skills.
The iron gall the size of a child's fist just fell into his mouth, but he saw it disappear as he swallowed it, and then he took in air and spit out the iron gall and it returned to his mouth.
Zhou Yuan saw clearly that there was no trick to avoid his sight, all of which were hard-trained skills, and the swallowing and spitting were exquisite and extraordinary.
"Some guests used to not believe me, so I would open my mouth to swallow it and show them.
Today, all the guests present are nobles, so I can't be too presumptuous. Please forgive me."
The magician spit out the iron gall and it fell into his hand. He bowed, turned around and pulled the table, put two bowls and seven gum beans on it, and performed the fairy picking beans.
Compared to the real swallowing, picking beans is just a trick. The warriors present can still see some clues, but the auxiliary cavalry strong men are amazed.
This level of skill is already good in Zhou Yuan's opinion. Even if it is not a full-level magic, it will not be much worse.
In this way, if the secret realm of the Color Opera Sect is developed, there is no need to start from scratch.
Centralizing these highly skilled folk artists to train can quickly produce results.
After the four sets of magic tricks were performed, the magician was about to bow and leave the stage, but Zhou Yuan suddenly called him.
"Wait a minute, Master. Isn't there still a rope trick that hasn't been performed yet? I'm very curious about the magic rope."
"General, you don't know that the magic rope has long been lost.
We, the magicians, believe that our ancestors once had a magic trick, but we have racked our brains and have not found it.
So there is only the name of the magic rope, but no magic rope trick has been passed down."
"Oh, there is a commoner here who said that his ancestor was a magician and built a theater called Caixiyuan.
There is a sentence in his ancestral genealogy that if the magic is as good as the real one, you can only get started with Caixiyuan. I don't know if it is true or not."
"It is true. If I trace the skills I learned, it can also be regarded as the lineage of Caixiyuan.
My master once said that the purpose of Caixiyuan was to study the rope trick and the magic rope. If the skills are not good, the theater will naturally be disbanded."
After the magician stepped down, although the performances of other magic tricks were also quite brilliant, none of them were as skilled as the first magician.
It was not until the last magician came on stage and performed the three immortals returning to the cave, the colorful scarf turning into fish, and the hiding of objects as usual that Zhou Yuan's attention was attracted.
"These two are the ones. Send them a letter and invite them to temporarily join the Yulin Camp to serve and find the mystery of the immortal rope together."
"Yes."
The two skilled magicians were very excited after receiving the letter.
This is good news for all magicians. Only when the court pays attention to them can their social status be improved.
Even their children and apprentices will benefit, and the street performers' families will have a future.
"Since you have signed the document, I will not hide it from you.
I suspect that the magic trick of the immortal rope two hundred years ago is related to an undeveloped secret realm.
The saying passed down in the Color Opera Garden, the magic trick is as good as the real one, and the color play is the entry, may be the formula to enter the secret realm."
"It depends on your fate. If you are lucky enough to enter the secret realm, you can get a job in the Yulin Camp and it will be easier to get a job.
But it is better to ask for help from yourself than from others. You two choose a magic trick that is easy to learn and teach it to my subordinates.
Don't keep it privately, I will send my subordinates to find other magicians to verify it."
The reason why Zhou Yuan did not hide it is very simple. Magicians are peddlers who travel all over the country, but they do not sell goods, but sell their art.
They have the opportunity to contact the upper class and the lower class, and they are active near the capital, so they will not be unaware of the secret realm.
After many years of inheritance and hard practice, they must have doubted the rumors of the immortal rope and have done some investigations.
Therefore, it is meaningless to hide it from them. Anyway, the location of the secret realm is fixed and no one can move it.
The two magicians suddenly knelt down and bowed after hearing what Zhou Yuan said.
"How dare we hide it privately? The general is busy for the inferior magic. If we hide it privately again, how can we worship the ancestors and face our descendants."
"Let the general know that our master has visited the government several times and said that the gods can't reach the sky, but the mysterious secret realm.
However, the exploration of the secret has been fruitless, leaving us to search for generations."
"Today, the general is willing to take over the cause and effect of the magic. Whether it succeeds or not, we magicians will respect the general with the respect of the ancestors."
The reaction of the two magicians exceeded Zhou Yuan's expectations.
After all, the people in this world are living people. They have their own pursuits and the ability to think and implement them.
A secret realm is just the icing on the cake for the Wei court, but for a group of magicians, it is the only rope to the sky and the rope to the gods.
"You two, please get up quickly. The core of this sentence is that magic is as good as reality.
In the next few days, you will also need to practice your special skills. I believe that the magic rope will not come by chance. If it does exist, you will always find it. "
For the two magicians, being recognized by Zhou Yuan, the leader of the Xinyuan rankings and a new member of the imperial court, was a major event worthy of being recorded in the family and passed down forever.
For this reason, they did not dare to neglect, and took out the eight tricks of color play at the bottom of the box, binding, binding, hiding, tucking, tearing, carrying, picking, and untying, and let Zhou Yuan choose.
Zhou Yuan finally chose the Nine Links, which emphasizes hand skills and can transform Italian images, as a way to get started.
In the following days, Yulin's auxiliary cavalry patrolled as usual, and the Forbidden Army warriors still performed their escort duties.
Only a group of distinguished disciples and military Taoists were captured by Zhou Yuan and practiced magic together.
"The old Taoist has practiced Taoism all his life, and in the end he has to learn this trick from Master Xiaowei. It is really about seeking truth and borrowing lies, and casting out spirits from the mortal world."
Although the old Taoist said he didn't like magic tricks, he was more serious about learning them than the noble disciples.
Zhou Yuan was even more special. After getting started with magic, he first upgraded to a level every day, and then every three days.
Such rapid progress allowed all the noble disciples and imperial guards to see what genius was.
Even the old Taoist couldn't help but praise Zhou Yuan for his talent in cultivating Taoism.
“One Dharma is universal, all Dharmas are universal, and there is nothing unclear in the world.
This is the essence of the Dharma and the natural state of the Tao. If you, Master Xiaowei, try practicing Taoism, you may be able to gain something. "
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