Qi Guangheng laughed heartily: "This Bai Wanwan is really interesting, and the food is indeed delicious. I don't know how she came up with these delicacies."
Sun Quan watched Qi Guangheng pack three bags before saying, "She's quite clever. She said there are more delicious foods to come!"
"It's really good..."
Then I saw that the people on the stage were already standing.
The first show was actually a magic show. Everyone in the audience was stunned. No one knew what this "magic" was.
Shen Tao tugged at Wang Jingheng's sleeve in the crowd and said in a rather loud voice, "Hey, what on earth is this magic trick?"
The people around looked at each other and shook their heads, no one could say anything.
Qi Yao curled her lips, her voice neither too loud nor too low, just loud enough for the people around to hear:
"Hey, it's just some tricks!
Do you really think Bai Wanwan is that capable and capable of coming up with something new?"
Lin Zao Zao whispered, "That's right, it sounds mysterious, maybe it's some kind of trick..."
The items had already been prepared on the stage, and two young men in blue clothes carried up a wooden box painted in vermilion and gold.
The box was half a person's height, and its walls were made of thick pear wood boards.
Master Lu, who was performing magic tricks, stepped forward and asked the young man to turn the box twice with the lid open, so that the bottom and walls of the box were exposed for everyone to see.
He raised his hand and patted the edge of the box. His voice was neither too loud nor too low, but it was clear enough to reach the throne. "Everyone, please pay attention. This box is completely empty. There are no secret compartments or layers. Look carefully."
He turned his head and glanced down the stairs. Seeing the eunuch who usually served as his attendant, he smiled and bowed, "Could you please move over and do me a small favor?"
The eunuch nodded, said nothing more, and stepped into the box.
The box was not very big, and he stood inside with his shoulders almost touching the wall. People below could see him clearly, and it was as if he was really standing there!
Everyone around stretched their necks, even the eunuchs in front of the emperor took half a step forward, wondering in their hearts, this box looks like this, it's not closed tightly, and there's nothing hidden, what is the master going to do?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the master picked up a piece of green cloth and covered the box with it. Just as it covered the top, he raised his hand and pulled the cloth off.
In just a short while, everyone below was stunned to find that the box was empty!
The father-in-law who was standing inside just now has disappeared without a trace.
"Ouch!" someone in the front row cried out, and then chaos broke out. The people nearby started to panic: "Where are the people? What's going on?"
"It was in there just now, I didn't even blink, how come it's gone?"
Even the ladies sitting there looked over, their faces filled with surprise, and they whispered, "This is weird! How on earth did this happen?"
The magic trick had just ended, and the whole yard was filled with applause. But before the applause died down, many people gathered together and whispered, "How did that eunuch just die?"
"There doesn't seem to be anything fishy about the box..."
As he was speaking, he saw several circus performers leading monkeys onto the stage.
The monkeys were all skinny, with smooth fur and red cloth rings around their necks. When someone led them, they actually jumped up by grabbing the railings on the edge of the stage.
First, there was a little monkey. The monkey trainer handed a small felt hat to it. The monkey took it with its paws and put it on its head like a human. When it was crooked, it used its paws to straighten it, which made the children in the audience laugh.
The young ladies beside the stage all came forward, and some even took out candies from their pockets and wanted to throw them onto the stage, but were gently stopped by the nanny.
The Queen Mother, who was sitting upstairs, took only a quick glance and then turned away, whispering to the nanny beside her, "These monkeys are making such a fuss, but they're not even presentable. What's the point of this?"
Su Daji burst out laughing:
"Isn't it? Bai Wanwan is from the countryside after all.
It's ridiculous to think that training a few monkeys is a circus. We've seen this before."
Bai Wanwan was too lazy to pay attention to them. She saw the monkey trainer carry two bamboo poles onto the stage, set up at both ends of the bamboo poles, and tied a thin steel wire in the middle.
Who knew that the old monkey was not afraid of the steel wire at all.
The monkey trainer whispered a few words in its ear and smeared something on its paws. It then climbed up the bamboo pole and reached the wire in no time.
Then it put its front paws on the wire, and with a push of its hind paws, it actually stood up.
At first, it took small steps, but later it walked more and more steadily, stretching its two paws to the sides from time to time, as if it was trying to balance with a person.
The wire swayed, and its body swayed with it, but it didn't fall down. It walked steadily from one end to the other, and turned back to grin at the audience.
The audience suddenly fell silent. The kids who had just been clamoring for candy now opened their mouths and stared with wide eyes.
Even the nanny beside the empress dowager who was just said to be "not presentable" couldn't help but look over and take a few more glances.
No one expected that such a hairy monkey could walk on the tightrope more steadily than a human. It was really amazing.
The stage, which had just gone dark, suddenly lit up. Everyone stretched their necks to look and saw several girls in white gauze skirts slowly floating down from mid-air. The hems of their skirts swayed gently in the wind, making them look like real fairies.
The audience fell silent instantly. Even the children stopped making noise and stared with their mouths open.
Someone quietly tugged at the sleeve of the person next to them: "What's going on? How can someone float?"
"Yeah, we didn't see anything hanging, how could it fly down from the sky?" Everyone was stunned, staring at the stage without blinking, afraid of missing anything.
As I was looking, I saw a girl in a light red dress floating in the front. She lightly tapped her foot, then raised her sleeves and bowed slightly towards the audience.
"This... is this really flying?" An official in the front row was so shocked that he stroked his beard.
"I don't see any rope!" The lady next to him was also anxious. She clung to the railing and leaned forward, staring up at the sky: "Yes! I looked everywhere, but I don't see any rope. How can it float so steadily?"
The people at the back squeezed forward, and the children, held on the shoulders of adults, forgot to make noise and pointed at the stage blankly: "Mom! Fairy! It really is a fairy!"
Even the usually calm old eunuch beside the throne couldn't help but turn his head and whisper to the people around him, "Strange... How could this trick have reached this level?"
Bai Wanwan smiled faintly, this was exactly the effect she wanted.
Next was an opera performance of "The Injustice of Dou E". This play had been performed before and was very popular among the people.
Bai Wanwan directly had someone adapt the play, and the stage was performing the part where Dou E was taken to the execution ground.
The female role knelt on the stage, her sleeves stained with blood, and when she sang, "Earth, if you can't tell good from evil, what are you called earth? Heaven, if you misjudge the wise and the foolish, you don't deserve to be heaven!", her voice was filled with tears.
The ladies in the audience could no longer hold back.
The lady in the front row wearing a lilac jacket took out a handkerchief to cover her face. Her shoulders twitched and the corners of the handkerchief were mostly wet.
The young lady next to her was even more direct. Tears streamed down her cheeks, and she didn't even bother to wipe them away. She clutched the maid's hand and kept muttering, "She clearly didn't do it... Why doesn't anyone believe her..."
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