Following Yue Erpao's words, everyone came to the garden. Blocked by the railings and grapevine trellises, they immediately saw the busking brother and sister rushing towards the Bagu Inn. Then, they entered the fourth floor of the inn directly from the surrounding street building. , disappeared.
Although they only met once, Yue Guanchao still became curious. After all, judging from the many illusions they had experienced, they almost lost their lives several times. Seeing that this woman might be an illusionist, he felt worried A string tightened unconsciously.
All in all, as long as you encounter illusions, nothing good will happen!
His eyes moved and he asked Xiang Nayi: "The people in southern Xinjiang are also very welcoming to illusions. I think there are many people who reward them generously. Does that mean they don't often see illusions?"
Na Yi nodded and her face returned to seriousness: "You are right. Although the Western Region is the origin of illusion, it does not mean that ordinary people can easily see illusion. In addition, illusion has been in decline for thousands of years, so it is difficult to see. Ordinary people are even more curious about illusions, and such illusions seen during the day are rare, so they want to give generous rewards to get good luck."
"What about the illusionists from the Western Regions?"
Song Siyuan understood that they were wary of illusions entirely because this woman was probably an illusionist. Since she could create a nirvana phoenix in daylight, she at least had some means.
Nayi thought for a moment and explained: "Illusionists are not serious people in the Western Regions. They are just like the various types of you Han people. They are extremely unpopular heretics. Thousands of years ago, they were very popular among the people because of the appreciation of the Tang Emperor. The Tang Dynasty After the Song Dynasty, these things were classified as idiosyncratic skills, and once again became something that could not be put on the stage."
Although Yue Guanchao didn't know what the magicians in the Western Regions were like, he had learned a lot about the various types of Han people after traveling in the world for so many years.
Common people say that there are many kinds of things, but when it comes to saying that, they have to be counted separately.
Let’s talk about Wuhua first!
The so-called five flowers refer to chrysanthemums, kapok, daffodils, pyracantha, and native cowflowers.
Golden chrysanthemum clears away heat and detoxifies, and is a good ingredient for cooling down the wind. It refers to the women who sell tea and cold drinks in the streets and alleys. If these women have stalls, they must be in the corners and alleys, using bamboo mats and sheds to shelter from the wind and cool down. , a table, a few stoves, a few tables, chairs and benches, plus some cold side dishes, tea and fruit cold drinks, etc., you can start a business.
For those who are more limited, if there are no stalls, they often use a bamboo pole to carry two ends. One end is filled with cool chrysanthemum tea, bitter herbal tea, and cool fish iced with well water. If anyone wants to eat, they can stop and buy it. A bowl to relieve the heat.
Such a business has a small profit margin, and you have to look at people's faces when walking around the streets. You have to avoid both supervisors and gangsters. It can only be regarded as earning hard money. After a hard day, you can only earn enough to feed the whole family. If you do it the next day, If you don’t go out to the stall, you’ll just go hungry.
Kapok is a medicinal material. It sounds and looks like a flower. Only after using it do you realize that it is a medicinal material that can cure diseases and save lives.
This is like a doctor who treats diseases. People usually avoid treating illnesses for fear of getting into trouble and dare not deal with doctors. But as long as they are sick, they must tell the doctor, let the doctor inquire about the symptoms, give the symptoms, and apply medicine according to the patient's condition. .
The meaning of kapok is that it is not obvious at ordinary times, and its use is only known when it is necessary to treat a disease.
Narcissus refers to a singing girl in a restaurant. In the old society, the word "watery popcorn" was often used to describe a woman who was immoral. Although this word is different from narcissus, both have similar descriptive meanings, that is, misbehavior. , a prostitute who makes a living by singing.
They usually stay at home, neither work nor walk. They dress in fancy clothes and make up heavily. They rely on the support from restaurants or hotels to live the life of a young lady comfortably. They are cannibals. Being soft-spoken makes people short-handed. If they are willing to live such a life, they have to trade their bodies and bones to make a living by playing piano, singing, and poetry with others all day long. They make a living by making fun for others.
Just like the daffodils on the towers and pavilions, they appear to be white, fragrant and blooming with charm, but they are just destined to be teased and toyed with by others. Like duckweeds beaten in the rain, they have a miserable life. Once the flowering period is over, they are destined to be discarded.
Pyracantha refers to people who make a living as entertainers. There is no distinction between men and women. Regardless of whether they are men or women, as long as they have excellent martial arts, they can pick up gongs and wear them while walking around, shouting and shouting by the street overpass, and so on. Breaking boulders from the chest, using swords and mountains of fire, fetching objects from oil pans, swallowing swords and decapitating heads, or performing superb martial arts, as long as you can earn the praises of onlookers, you can survive in the world.
It's just that this kind of business has no threshold. Anyone can do it. There are too many such jugglers in the streets and alleys. If they don't have some new tricks, they will be quickly outperformed by their peers. To put it bluntly, Well, these sideshows are nothing more than making a fool of yourself in public, and they must be used by others for fun, and the money earned is also entertainment money.
The last one is Gloria nigra. If you count carefully, Gloria vulgare is not a flower, but a kind of herbaceous plant with long vines. It has huge flowers and full fruits. During the mature season, the fruits hang down from the flower vines, almost touching the vines to the ground. It felt heavy, as if Lifu was carrying a heavy cargo.
In the old society, native cow flowers were also commonly used to refer to the laborers who were engaged in physical work. The so-called laborers did not only refer to the same thing, but also the sum of all those who worked hard to eat, including the porters who carried big bags and the bearers who carried sedans and goods for others. , the woodman who chops wood and carries water, the driver who pulls people on the road, as long as they use their strength to eat, they are all included in the effort.
After talking about Wuhua, let’s talk about the eight gates. The eight gates are Jinmen, Pimen, Caimen, Guamen, Pingmen, Tuanmen, Tiaomen and Liumen.
The first door is gold, which refers to fortune tellers in the world who make a living by fortune-telling, fortune-telling, feng shui, catching ghosts and monsters, and praying to gods. They may travel around the world, or they may have a fixed stall, as long as they are doing business. If you do, you will definitely have a disguise with a big "gold" on it.
Ordinary people can see the gold characters on the signboard when they walk far away, so they know that the fortune teller is coming. He either invites them to his home or invites them to a restaurant. As long as he gives money, he can tell the fortune teller. Sir, tell me what you want to see.
A good fortune teller can tell many things based on a person's birth date, face, and palmistry. He can tell clearly everything about marriage, children, industry, wealth, disaster, temper, and lifespan in this life. He can also tell the victim how to solve the problem. The way of fortune and luck, even the number of trees in front of the house and the number of people in the house can be predicted, which is very miraculous.
If they are not good at anything, these fortune tellers will not get into trouble. They always talk about good things like getting promoted, getting rich, and being safe and smooth. Regardless of whether it is efficacious or not, the owner will always live within his means and give the fortune teller a little remuneration, no matter how much or how little. , live within your means.
The most taboo situation for them is to tell the fate of the victim without seeing the victim give money. This situation will often damage the fortune teller's luck. Moreover, it is also extremely detrimental to the victim.
Because in the fortune-telling industry, if the fortune teller takes the initiative to refuse to accept money, there is only one situation, and that is if the victim has no cure and is about to die. They do not accept such unlucky money from dead people.
But anyone who knows this rule, even if he is a poor beggar, must give him a copper coin to avoid being cursed to an early death.
The second door is skin. The skin here refers not to a fur merchant or a fur trader, but to a small peddler selling medicine in the streets.
Most of the medicines sold in the streets are not good medicines. There are toothache pills that are specially designed to treat toothaches, Litongsan that is specially designed to treat dysentery, secret medicinal wine that is specially designed to treat bruises, and the most shameless ones are those that claim to cure all diseases. The supplement pills you buy are actually balls made with soy sauce, or at worst, some dough with Glauber's salt in them. They either have no effect or cause diarrhea and diarrhea. They are euphemistically called detoxification.
These sellers have neither names nor shops, and they can’t even tell the story of their masters and apprentices. They set up stalls and sell products in downtown areas or in the countryside. If there is a problem with the food, they have already left Erli, and you don’t know the surname. , I can’t even chase you.
The third door is Caimen, which means Caitou, and refers to the craftsman who performs tricks.
Juggling is the same as modern magic. It emphasizes speed, speed and silence. Only with fast enough hand speed can the spectators experience the greatest pleasure of doing tricks without being aware of it. The whole trick lies in a "secret" "Word, if people can see the trick, no matter how sophisticated and sophisticated the tricks are, they will become tasteless and boring.
From then on, magic masters have emerged one after another, making many tricks famous and becoming a specialty and must-have item for magicians. The most famous ones are "Three Immortals Return to the Cave", "Fighting Big Duck Eggs", "Blowing the Lamp to Revive Light", "Burning Clothes to See Off Guests", " Chicken turns into phoenix".
The best juggler performs magic with the gods with just one hand, surprising and shocking the spectators.
Hanging Men refers to the warriors who sell force and use big swords in the arena. Compared with jugglers, what they achieve is "practical" rather than the "skill" of juggling. To use big swords, they need to use real swords and guns to chop and wrestle. It’s about getting to the bottom of things and being genuine;
Pingmen refers to storytelling, whether it is Pingtan, excerpts, or Jianghu interpretations, as long as the storyteller comes on stage, he must finish the performance beautifully;
Tuanmen refers to people who talk about cross talk on the street. They are more quaint and wild than in cross talk parlors. In order to win the prize, they usually use some dirty and dirty lingo, which makes people listen to it haha Great happiness, even exerting one's strength feels a little bit better.
Tiaomen refers to small vendors selling gadgets on the street, such as writing couplets, painting door paintings, painting, writing letters, writing complaints, writing invitations, etc. It is mainly done by down-and-out scholars and some private school teachers.
