You think the master's ability is fake and his reputation is fake, right? Silly boy, please take a closer look -"As he spoke, Brush Li held his pants with his fingers and gently lifted them up. The wh

You think the master's ability is fake and his reputation is fake, right? Silly boy, please take a closer look -"As he spoke, Brush Li held his pants with his fingers and gently lifted them up. The white spots disappeared immediately. When he let go, the white spots appeared again. , strange! He put his face up and looked at it carefully. It turned out to be a small hole! The small hole in the white underwear was exposed when he was accidentally burned when smoking. It looked like white powder. Click exactly the same!

Brush Li looked at Cao Xiaosan and said with a smile: "Do you think his reputation is all false? Then you are lying to yourself. Learn your skills! "On the first day of Cao Xiaosan's apprenticeship, what he saw, heard and learned may not be understood by others in his lifetime!

Kuaishou Liu

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Kuaishou Liu

Everyone is a waste of time in childhood. Sometimes I feel bored when I stay at home, or my father thinks I am too noisy and sends me away. When I go out for fun, I can't help but go to the street corner near my home to watch Kuaishou Liu perform tricks.

Kuaishou Liu is a fat man who sells candy at a stall. He has a carry-on. The wooden box is painted green and placed wherever the stall is. There is a horizontal board with holes on it, and rows of cheap red lollipops are stuck in the holes. In order to attract children to buy candy, the trick is very simple, commonly known as "small bowl smash". A piece of silk-like yellow cloth is spread on the ground, two small white porcelain tea bowls, and four big red glass balls. Three ordinary props made him become elusive. He held a tea bowl in each hand. You clearly saw two red balls under each bowl, but you didn't even blink. Hey! Four. All the balls actually ran under a tea bowl. Did the balls get through the ground? He turned the two bowls over like this, shouting to the sky and the earth, pointing his hand in the east, and blowing in the west. It sounded like there were some invisible gods acting as his assistants. The four little balls came and went, and it was impossible to guess where they were. This kind of trick was harder to perform than the magic on the stage. Only one side of the stage faced the audience. In street magic, there is a circle of people around, and people's eyes come from all directions, so it is easy to see the flaws. Once, I saw him move his fingers quickly, stuff a ball under the bowl, and clasp it. He couldn't help shouting:

"Under the bowl on the right, I saw it!"

"Did you see it?" Kuaishou Liu Mingliang's big eyes flashed at me in surprise. , then he said to me in a serious manner: "No way! You have to be right." If you guess wrong, you have to buy my candy. "

"Okay! I'm right!" I saw it with my own eyes, so I insisted. My confidence made my voice very loud.

Unexpectedly, Kuaishou Liu laughed and suddenly Turn the tea bowl on the right over.

"Look, where is it?"

Hey, why is there nothing under the bowl? There is only a round shape on the yellow cloth at the mouth of the bowl. Did the ball pass through the yellow cloth and go under the bowl on the left? Kuaishou Liu seemed to know what I guessed. He reached out and opened the tea bowl on the left again, but there was nothing! The ball flew away? I saw him. He put the two empty bowls together, raised them above his head, and shouted: "Come!" He shook the tea bowl with both hands, and there was a rattling sound inside. When he opened the bowl, he saw that all four balls appeared in the bowl again. . Weird, weird, weird!

The people watching around let out a burst of surprised sighs.

"How about it? You lose! But you lose here." There will never be a fine, just buy a piece of candy and eat it. This sugar is boiled down from pure sugar, so you won’t suffer any loss if you eat the sugar alone. "

I was so ashamed that I bought a lollipop amidst the laughter of the crowd and stood at the back of the circle. From then on, I only stood at the back and watched, and never dared to push to the front to talk too much. Talkative. His tricks are really amazing in my eyes. This is also a person I really admired in my childhood.

He was only in his forties, and he was still full of energy. , heavy muscles, white teeth and red lips, and black eyebrows that looked like they were painted with a brush. He squatted there like a standing white elephant.

While performing tricks and selling sweets, his bright and protruding eyes looked around, taking care of all directions; he kept telling funny jokes. A pair of fat hands with round fingertips but flexible movement. The four small balls flickered in and out of the hands. I had a strange idea at the time that his hands seemed to be double-layered, and the ball was always hidden in the middle. Alas, the thoughts I had when I was a child will no longer exist now.

This pair of extremely agile hands is probably the origin of his nickname "Kuaishou Liu". He also called himself this name, so that no one in the area where we lived knew his great name. Many of my childhood hours were spent in this simplest and never tire of folk tricks, in this maze that has never been solved, and in his magical and unpredictable fast hands. of. How much curious happiness has he given me?

Those people and things that accompany childhood will always go away with the passing of childhood. I haven’t seen Kuaishou Liu very often since I entered middle school. I just ran into him occasionally when passing by that intersection. He still performed the "small bowl smash" with such excitement, and there was a small green wooden box filled with lollipops beside him. At this time, I was already a sensible older child and no longer imagined his hands as double-layered, but I still couldn't see any flaws. I couldn't help but stand there and watched with interest for a while. I dare say that no matter how good the repertoire is in the world, even Ibsen and Shakespeare, I can't get enough of it hundreds or thousands of times.

I went to high school out of town. Once a person leaves, the childhood and youth left behind in his hometown are like a closed book. The beautiful stories of the past, the friendly characters, and the sweet and drunken scenes are like fresh petals caught in the pages of the book, and they turn into withered memories when you open them again. Who can resurrect everything in the past? The deceased grandma, the missing best friend, the mother's black curly hair, the long-lost beautiful books, the lost little white cat with green eyes... and Kuaishou Liu.

In the summer of my sophomore year in high school, I went home for vacation. One day, I saw more than ten children shouting and yelling around something at a street corner not far from my home. When I took a closer look, I was shocked to see that it was Kuaishou Liu! He still sold candy and performed tricks, but his appearance had changed drastically. After not seeing him for ten years, it seemed like twenty years had passed. The appearance is close to that of an old man. Just the wooden box beside him gave him a sad look. It was badly damaged, black and sticky, and no trace of the pleasant green color it had previously had. The holes in the horizontal board for inserting candies have been enlarged by the bamboo sticks used for lollipops over the years, and the lollipops inserted in them are tilted here and there. Look at him again, where has all the flesh on his shoulders, back, belly, and arms gone? The full curves are gone, and sharp bone shapes are protruding under his clothes; his face seems to be smaller. The eyes were dull, and they lacked the spirit of looking around and shining in all directions. These hands particularly moved me - he had clearly changed his hands! There were streaks of veins on the back of the hands, and there were circles of wrinkles on the dirty fingers, like old silkworms that had shrunk after spinning out all their silk... So, everything happened back then. The mysterious atmosphere and peerless skills disappeared from these hands. He grabbed two tea bowls with tattered mouths and turned them over awkwardly. The four small balls bumped against the edge of the bowl without thinking and fell from his hands. His hands didn't work! The children shouted: "Where is the ball?" "In my hand!" "It's between my fingers!" As he shouted, he panicked, and his hands became less and less effective and trembled. He was shaking so hard that he didn't even know where the balls were. No wonder there were only a few children around.

"It's in his hand, that's right! It's definitely not under the bowl!" shouted a fat boy with a bald head.

I also clearly saw that when Kuaishou Liu dunked the tea bowl, he took the ball on the ground in his hand. This movement is slow and pure, and the mistakes are very obvious. The children clamored for Kuaishou Liu to open his hands, but Kuaishou Liu clenched his hands tightly and smiled awkwardly at the children. With this smile, all the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, like a ball of crumpled paper. He almost said in a pleading tone:

"It's in the bowl! I don't have anything in my hand..."

How could Kuaishou Liu, who was so proud back then, speak in this tone? ?These childish and serious children just refused to let go and had to ask Kuaishou Liu to open his hand. How could he open his hand? If he opened his hand, everything would be over.

I really don't want to see Kuaishou Liu in this embarrassed, confused and helpless state. How I wish he could be like that time - because I thought I was smart and exposed his background, forcing him to show off an unpredictable trick. The ball suddenly disappeared and came at a moment’s notice. It would be great if he could use that trick again and let these ignorant children experience Liu Er's jaw-dropping ability, which is worthy of the name! But he is old and will no longer have those beautiful years.

I walked into the children, pointed to the wooden box next to Kuaishou Liu and said:

"You are all wrong, the ball is on this box!"

The children were baffled by my sudden words, and they all looked at the wooden box. At this moment, from the corner of my eye, I saw Kuaishou Liu stuffing the small ball in his hand under the bowl as quickly as possible. .

"Where is the ball?" the children asked me.

Kuaishou Liu Xiaohe opened the tea bowl on the ground and said:

"Look, it's right here! How about it? You are wrong, buy a piece of candy, this candy is It's made with pure sugar, so you won't suffer any loss if you just eat sugar."

The children were deceived and stopped making noises. One or two children paid for candy, and the rest left in a hurry. Then only me and Kuaishou Liu, who had escaped from the predicament, were left. When I turned my head, he was looking at me. He definitely doesn't know me. His gray eyebrows were wrinkled, his weather-beaten face and gray eyes were full of questions. It was obvious that he didn't understand why a strange young man like me wanted to help him.