Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 515 The Circus Begins

On an early summer night, the circus's premises was crowded with people and brightly lit.

For the townspeople of Onești, today's scene is more lively than a festival; about 70% of the townspeople have gathered here, and even those who cannot afford tickets want to come and see the excitement nearby.

After all, they may not have many chances to see a circus of this scale in their lifetime.

Although there have been some gypsy caravans and wandering artists who came to this town to collect money in the past, they were just small-scale performances after all, and were different from this large-scale performance with a huge performance tent, a program, and ticket sales.

By the way, until yesterday, this fake circus hadn't even made tickets.

Originally, according to Lao Feng's idea, on the night of the performance, the audience should just "line up and pay to enter" at the entrance of the tent, but after Sun Huang joined the "management", he immediately told him that this was complete nonsense.

Not to mention how diverse the currencies were in circulation in Europe at that time, just take the customs of the time for example, many people were still bartering, so when you charge fees, you are bound to encounter bargaining; and then, apart from the "back door" leading to the backstage, the only entrance for the audience to enter and exit our performance tent is the one in the front. If you put people "queueing up to pay" there, wouldn't it cause a traffic jam?
So under the supervision of Sun Huang, everyone hurriedly made a batch of "theater tickets".

Although the product is crudely made, the key point is that the two tasks of "ticket selling" and "ticket checking for entry" can be carried out separately.

At that time, we can set up a few more ticket booths and start selling tickets a few hours in advance, and let the people at the ticket office negotiate with the folks... Anyway, when it's time to enter, the entrance will only be responsible for checking tickets, so as to avoid congestion.

After all this, Old Feng felt a surge of admiration for Sun and Huang. He thought to himself that Dazhen was indeed a powerful country in the East. The nobles from there seemed to know everything, even how to organize large-scale performances? It seemed that he would have to consult with them on everything in the future.

Of course, he didn't know at this time that he would regret this idea soon...

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The first quarter of the hour of Xu.

The circus was about to start, and most of the townspeople who came to see the show had already checked in and entered.

Those who were still strolling outside the tents at this moment were basically hawkers, beggars, gangsters, pickpockets and the like. They were like a group of hyenas wandering in the wilderness, searching for any leftovers to grab tonight.

The members of the Ranger Team will definitely not take these people seriously. After all, they are really capable in the "security" work.

All the pure combatants in the team who were incapable of performing shows and did not have the intelligence to participate in financial or logistical work...the so-called "reckless men" were all assigned to security.

So, let alone a few small town thugs, even if a group of robbers came to raid today, they were confident that they could wipe out the invaders without the audience in the tent noticing at all.

However, what they were waiting for at this time were not robbers, but a cavalry team with light equipment.

In the middle of the team, there was a luxuriously decorated carriage.

The person in the carriage was undoubtedly Lord Comman.

The book implies here that there are naturally more than one village and town in Comman's territory, but Oneşti is the town closest to his castle, so when he comes here, he usually doesn't bring too many people and horses, and on occasions like today, there is no need for the cavalry guarding him to wear heavy armor.

"Father, we're here."

When the team was about ten meters in front of the tent, they slowly stopped. Then a tall, handsome, blond young man from the cavalry drove his horse to the side of the carriage, leaned over and said this to Coman in the carriage in an appropriate volume.

"Okay Roy, I'll be down right away." Coman responded quickly.

After hearing this, Roy waved his whip lightly and made some space.

A few seconds later, Coman opened the door himself and got out of the carriage with a very agile step.

Tonight, the lord was wearing a very expensive and decent aristocratic formal dress, and matching long soft boots on his feet, but at this moment he still stepped on the slightly muddy ground without any scruples, and did not show any strange expression.

Obviously, Comane was different from most of the nobles at that time. He was a man who did not care about details and got things done. Having practiced martial arts since childhood, he was not as "pretentious" as his noble colleagues in many aspects, and he also trained his son in this way.

This is why the lord's son Roy Gabriel Basta, who is only eighteen years old this year, is already a veteran who has trained with the cavalry for many years and has taken on the responsibility of being his father's bodyguard.

"What's that smell? Do I have to come down?"

A few seconds after Coman got off the carriage, another person's voice was heard in the carriage.

Every word of this speech was filled with disdain, and it came from Mrs. Venusa, Commann's second wife.

This lady came from the once prominent Raimondo family and was more than ten years younger than Coleman, only in her early thirties this year. The reason why she married Coleman was simple. Her declining family needed a marriage to return to the stage of upper society, which was also very common at that time.

Coman treated Venusa quite well after marriage. In the nearly ten years of marriage, he fulfilled all the obligations of a good husband. However, Miss Venusa, who had been spoiled since childhood, seemed to take all these for granted, and... she was obviously not very interested in tonight's "circus trip".

However, usually when the lord attends such entertainment activities, he or she must bring his or her wife with him. If she does not come tonight, people may gossip about her, so she came reluctantly.

"Okay, dear, we're here, let's get off the car." Coman didn't get angry, and his tone showed a kind of helplessness that he was used to.

"Oh my God, look at the mud on the ground, my shoes will be ruined." Mrs. Venusa complained while lifting her skirt and got out of the car carefully.

Her mere appearance made the men nearby stand there with their eyes wide open.

Venusa was indeed a very beautiful woman. Her light blue Baroque-style dress perfectly highlighted her plump and mature figure of a thirty-year-old woman, while her delicate facial features and makeup made her look as bright and charming as a young girl.

When Venusa bent down and stepped out of the carriage, her round and tall breasts seemed to be squeezed out of her low-cut long skirt. You could even imagine from this picture how she put on the boning inside the skirt, and how she slowly tightened the drawstring at the back, tightening her soft waist and lifting her upright bust higher and higher...

"The lord and his wife have arrived, and you lowly people, why don't you give way and salute?" At this time, Comman's cavalry captain saw the idle people around and some of the circus's "security" standing there with the look of drooling, so he quickly threatened them.

His roar, or "reminder", was actually for everyone's good, because if Mrs. Venusa felt that she was offended, she would kill someone.

After hearing his shout, most of the people came to their senses and looked away; those who were blocking the road also hurriedly stepped aside and bowed to the lord and his family who were approaching.

At the same time, at the entrance of the performance tent, Lao Feng had been standing there waiting for a long time.

The lord and his family naturally did not need to buy tickets; according to Sun Huang's instructions, Lao Feng had already reserved a "VIP seat" for them to ensure that they could watch the performance from the best angle and the most spacious position without being disturbed by other spectators.

Seeing this, some people may ask, where is the performance now?
Well, of course it hasn't started yet.

Lord Coman hasn't arrived yet, how dare you start the show?
To put it another way, even if you dare to start the show, the common people would not dare to stay and continue watching - what if the lord gets angry because he missed the start and wants to kill some people to relieve his stress, and innocent people are affected?

Therefore, even though the show was seven or eight minutes past its original opening time, because Lao Feng had greeted the audience beforehand and said that Coman would come to see the show tonight, no one dared to make a fuss when the show was delayed.

To make a long story short, a few minutes later, Koman's family of three sat down in the VIP seats, and the escort cavalry they brought were divided into two teams, one team was on guard outside the tent, and the other team followed them into the tent and sat a few meters away from their seats.

"Ah... this place stinks, dear, how long are we going to sit here?" As soon as she sat down, Venusa started asking about leaving.

"Have a little patience, we just arrived." Coman did not directly answer his wife's question, because he knew that Venusa just liked to act coquettishly and complain, but he usually knew her limits, so he just had to keep her steady.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Good evening..." On the other side, Lao Feng had already arrived at the circular open space in the center of the tent and began to host with his loud voice, "Welcome to Gaoying Circus. I am the leader here, 'Silas'." He used a pseudonym here, "Tonight, I will take you to witness a thrilling storm. This will be a fantastic experience you have never seen before. I hope you can open your eyes and ears and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime adventure..."

Sun Huang also discussed with him about these opening words, and it didn't take too long. After all, the point was not the content of the speech, but to create a mysterious and rhythmic atmosphere when speaking to arouse the emotions of the audience.

Lao Feng spoke there for a while, and at the end he added, "Before the performance begins, let us pay our respects to the Lord who has condescended to be here tonight." This completed the opening.

Then... two clowns wearing red noses and colorful wigs, their faces painted pale, and wearing full sets of fancy jumpsuits, came out on unicycles.

Originally, the clowns played by Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai only needed to come out at the opening and between each performance to interact with the audience and liven up the atmosphere.

However, since the "improvements" of all tonight's programs and even the choreography of the entire performance were "directed" by the two of them, now they have to "run the whole show".

For example, when the animal trainer is halfway through his performance and needs someone to help him “amuse the lion”, he will find the clown.

The guy playing with the throwing knives suddenly said he wanted an assistant to hold up the apple, and also wanted a clown.

The two of them became firefighters, participating in almost everything as assistants, so that they could remedy the situation on the spot when the performers made mistakes.

In this way, the performance began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Since this was the first performance of this "fake circus", many people were not used to the performance. Fortunately, there were two clowns who frequently came to the rescue and covered up the situation every time... As a result, the atmosphere on the scene gradually became warmer, and the laughter and cheers of the audience slowly grew louder.

The Comans, including Mrs. Venusa, soon became very interested in the show - they had no idea that the circus was just a group of amateurs pretending to be one.

I guess many viewers have realized by now that, in fact, the entertainment value of this circus performance after the "improvement" of the double harmonies has far surpassed that of its peers of the time.

Although these performers are not professionals, the program arrangements and techniques they use to entertain the public are all accumulated and summarized by countless artists in the past few hundred years. It can be said that they are standing on the shoulders of giants and then hitting their heads through the ceiling.

Even Sun and Huang themselves did not realize that they had brought this circus to a level far beyond "just being able to fool the nobles". They were still thinking that they could just get through the night safely.

Time passed by unknowingly, and the performance lasted about an hour and a half, which was almost the audience's limit at that time.

It was not until the last program, “Flying Man,” was halfway through that Sun and Huang finally had some time to rest and were able to sit backstage together to catch their breath.

"Fuck it... I'm so tired. I won't do it if every time it happens in the future. It's better to be exposed." Sun Yixie sat down and started complaining.

"Don't worry, it's impossible for lords to come to watch every performance in the future." Huang Donglai said, "It's not possible that we will become famous after performing this one performance, and then all kinds of dignitaries will come to see us wherever we go."

"Hmm... Speaking of that lord..." Suddenly, Sun Yixie seemed to have thought of something, and he changed the subject, "I think his wife... is okay."

"Humph..." Huang Donglai sneered, "Brother Sun has something. In such a high-intensity performance, he still swept everything he should sweep, right?"

"Mao! I was just observing Coman..." Sun Yixie immediately began to argue, "Who has his wife sitting next to him? Since she is in my sight, what's wrong with me admiring her?"

"Make it up, keep making it up." Huang Donglai didn't buy his tricks. "Do you want me to help you review the quotes you used to 'admire' many female anchors and comment on them one by one?"

"Fuck you! Shut up right there..." Sun Yixie got anxious and was about to start yelling.

unexpectedly!

"what--"

Following a scream from the audience, there was a sudden commotion outside.

Sun and Huang were both shocked when they heard the voice. They stopped chatting and quickly put on their hoods and red noses and rushed out.

Originally, the two thought that there might be some problem with the "flying man", such as someone accidentally falling to the ground, which caused the audience to exclaim.

Unexpectedly, when they came out to check, they found that someone had died in the seat where the Coleman family was sitting.