When I was young, I went to Jinan Prefecture to take the exam just in time to catch up with Beginning of Spring .
According to the old rules, the day before the beginning of spring, those who do business in various fields would carry the colorful building to the government office to celebrate, which people call this "Yanchun".
I also went to watch the fun with my friends.
On that day, there were many people visiting him, and the surroundings were blocked. Four officials in red robes sat opposite each other in the hall.
At that time, I was still young and didn’t know what kind of official was sitting in the hall. I only heard the crowds of people and the gongs and drums.
Suddenly, a person carrying a load led a child with a haircut to the lobby. After that, he seemed to say a few words, but he could only hear the noisy voices and couldn't hear what the person said. He saw the people in the hall laughing.
Then, the people in black said they would start the performance.
The man agreed and asked what to perform. After the people in the hall discussed, a yamen runner came down to ask him what he was best at acting.
The man replied, "I can reverse the season of plant growth."
After the yamen runner reported to the hall, he passed on a message to let him perform into a peach.
After agreeing, the man took off his clothes and covered it on the bamboo box, pretending to complain, "It's really hard for the officials. The ice has not melted yet. Where can I get peaches? If I don't go, what should I do if the officials are angry?"
His son persuaded him, "The father has promised others, how can he refuse?"
saw the man thinking for a moment and said, "I thought about it carefully. It's not the beginning of spring yet, and the ice and snow are still there. It has not melted yet, so how can there be peaches in the world? Only Queen Mother Peach Garden is like spring all year round, so there can be peaches. It seems that I have to go to the sky to steal it."
The son pretended to be surprised: "Ah? Is there a step to heaven?"
The man said, "I have my own way."
As he said, the man opened the bamboo box and took out a ball of rope about dozens of feet long from the box. The man took out one end of the rope and threw it into the sky. The rope was hanging in the air like something was pulling it, and it was still rising.
The rope is rising higher and higher, and when it is approaching the cloud, the rope in the man's hand is also hung in the air.
The man called his son over and said, "Children, come on, I'm old, I'm clumsy and can't get up. You'd better walk for me. You can just grab this rope and go to heaven." As he said, the man handed the rope to the child.
The son took the rope with a very embarrassed expression and complained to his father, "Is my father so confused? Such a thin rope, wouldn't the rope be broken if I climbed halfway?"
The man could only coax and reason with his son: "I have promised him, how can I regret it? Just go for me. If you can steal the peach back, you will definitely get a reward. Then I will help you get a beautiful wife."
The son could only agree and climb up the rope. I saw him using his hands and feet, walking flexibly like a spider on a spider web, gradually disappearing into the clouds.
After a while, a peach as big as a bowl fell from the sky. The man was very happy and held the peach in his hands and presented it to the hall. The officials in the hall looked at it for a long time but couldn't tell the authenticity of the peach.
At this moment, the rope suddenly fell from the sky, and the man was shocked: "Oh no! Someone cut off the rope from the sky, what should my son do?"
Not long after, something fell from the sky. I picked it up and saw that it was my son's head.
The man hugged his son's head and cried: "It must be that my son was discovered by the guards when he was stealing peaches. My son is finished." The man was crying sadly, and another foot fell from the sky, and then his torso and limbs fell from the sky one after another.
While crying, the man picked up his son's body one by one and put it in the box. After covering the lid, he said, "I have only one son, and I will follow me around the world. Today, I encountered such a thing because of the request of the official, so I had to take him back for burial."
He walked to the hall and knelt down and begged, "My son was killed in order to steal peaches. I have pity for me. I can give me some money to go back to bury my son.I will remember your kindness when I die in the future. "
The officials in the hall were shocked and took out the money to him.
The man took the money and wrapped it around his waist, walked out of the hall and patted the box: "Baba'er, why don't you come out soon and thank you officials for your rewards, what are you waiting for? "
I saw a child with messy hair walking out with his head open the lid of a bamboo box to express his gratitude to the hall. After a closer look, it was the man's son.
Because of this performance, I still remember it freshly. Later I heard that someone in White Lotus Sect can perform this magic spell, maybe it is their successor.
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In this article, Pu Songling described a magic performance that he had watched when he was young.
This performance was designed without any leakage, and the plot was ups and downs, which kept affecting the audience. Our emotions.
First of all, the magician reported that the program he performed was a plant that changed in season. After
, it was confirmed that the proposition was peach, but the magician pretended to be embarrassed and could not change it, so he had to go to the sky to steal.
At this time, the proposition had changed. In fact, everyone's attention had been diverted. Everyone no longer cared whether it was a peach, an apple or a pear.
Onlookers began to wonder, how to steal peaches from the sky?
When the rope was put on the sky, everyone had already confirmed that they could go to the sky. At this time, the peaches that everyone was looking forward to had been confirmed to be mostly possible I did it.
The magician and his son sang and reconciled each other again. The spectators were actually a little anxious, afraid that they would change their minds in the end and could not say anything.
The son still went. But the foreshadowing had been laid in the conversation before going, and there was an accident that could happen.
At this time, the spectators would also become a little worried because they buried this possibility in their hearts.
Afterwards, when peaches fell from the sky, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When everyone was surprised to steal peaches in the sky, an accident happened. Although they knew that an accident might happen, the form of the accident was not what the son described before.
Everyone began to be afraid and blame themselves.
The magician also began to perform superbly, crying in front of everyone. At this time, everyone was blaming themselves for the old father for performing tricks. Naturally, they would find a way to comfort the poor father, so the officials donated generously.
Finally, the son appeared in front of everyone in full.
The whole performance was ups and downs, and no one was injured in the performance, which was very satisfactory.
The entire performance continued to maintain suspense, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and the climaxes were repeated, and the reversals were reversed and reversed, which was really admirable.
The whole performance continued to maintain suspense, one by one, one by one, and the climaxes were repeated, and the reversals were reversed and reversed, which was really admirable.
The whole performance continued to maintain suspense, one by one, and the climaxes were repeated, and the reversals were reversed and reversed. It was really admirable.
