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After stepping on someone else's stage, Li Xiruo was too embarrassed to stay any longer, so he snatched some copper coins from Feng Chen's purse to reward the acrobatic class, and then dragged Feng Chen out of the crowd.

Before they could take a few steps, someone came out of the stage.

The man knocked a few times with the gong, then waved his hand, making a gesture similar to driving away.

The crowd fell silent almost immediately, and the jugglers hurriedly started packing their things.

Immediately afterwards, all the candles on the stage were extinguished.

Feng Chen looked at the crowd and asked inexplicably, "What's wrong?"

Li Xiruo raised her head and looked at the stage in front of her. After watching for a while, she suddenly realized, and said: "So this stage is new, no wonder I always feel that there is something different here."

Feng Chen: "?"

Li Xiruo pointed to the stage: "If the stage has been rebuilt, relocated, changed orientation, or has just been erected and has never been performed before, then on the first day of the performance, a ceremony of breaking the stage will be held. When the stage is broken, there will be a performance of "Worshiping the White Tiger" ". The white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong. It starts its activities every year after the Waking of Insects. It will use people's voice to hurt people when they answer questions. People in Liguo believe that Zhao Xuantan, the god of wealth and wealth, has the ability to subdue tigers, so before the performance, they will first Act out a scene where the god of wealth and wealth descends on the tiger, to deter the white tiger so that it does not dare to hurt people."

The nearby pedestrians all walked across the street one after another.

While pulling Feng Chen to follow the crowd, Li Xiruo said in a low voice: "Originally, during the performance of "Sacrifice to the White Tiger", the common people were not allowed to walk around the stage, and had to go back inside to avoid being hurt by the white tiger, but now the rules It's not so strict, everyone can stand and watch from a distance, but you can't speak loudly, which must be observed no matter what."

While talking, three musicians stepped onto the stage and sat down on the left side of the stage.

A moment later, a man with a black face, a black four-color hanger, and red trousers appeared on the stage from the miscellaneous side Hudaomen on the left side of the stage. He wore a black sand hat with a pair of golden flowers embedded in it, and held a A string of firecrackers, the firecrackers had been ignited in the background, and they were now in full swing. The sound was deafening, like rolling thunder, and it was extremely thrilling on this quiet and dark stage.

Li Xiruo leaned next to Feng Chen's ear, and lowered his voice extremely low: "This man is Xuan Tan, God of Martial Wealth, also known as Zhao Gongming, and he is wearing the black clothes and Zhu clothes recorded in the ancient book Nuo Ceremony."

After the point was finished, Wu Caishen began to jump big, "stepping on the seven stars", "pull the mountain shoulder", "left and right kill" and other movements appeared one after another, very powerful, and jumped to every corner of the stage in a short time.With such a jump, all the evil spirits on the stage were completely dispelled.

Immediately afterwards, he stood on the stage with his head slightly lowered and his eyes slightly closed, as if he was sleeping.

The surrounding area was silent, almost to the point where a needle drop could be heard, as if even the birds, insects and mice were holding their breath, for fear of waking him up, and even more afraid of waking up the ferocious white tiger spirit.

The wind blows and the forest moves, and there is a rustling sound.

Wu Caishen slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were clear and sharp.

He wiped his eyes, and began to look around, searching for the tiger's trace, but unfortunately he seemed to have slept for too long, and the tiger had already disappeared.

Unable to find anything, he turned around, boarded the table placed on the stage, and then began to look around again.

Li Xiruo: "He climbed up the mountain, looked out and searched for the trace of the white tiger." His voice was extremely low, almost speaking out of breath.

Feng Chen's Adam's apple twitched.

At the same time, the White Tiger Spirit finally slowly appeared on the stage.

The actor who played the role of the white tiger was dressed in clothes made of tiger skin and a hood made of a tiger's head, and crawled out of the door of the mixed side tiger.

As he walked, he looked left and right, and then he walked around and came to the other side of the stage. The troupe had already placed a chair here, and a piece of raw pork was hung on the foot of the wooden chair. This piece of meat was Dedicated to the tiger, used to stop his mouth, so that he can not open his mouth to hurt people.

The white tiger was naturally overjoyed when he saw the pork. He moved his index finger and wanted to eat the pork. However, this tiger is a fake tiger, and the pork is raw meat. Put it on the tiger's mouth of the hood and touch it, which symbolizes that you have eaten pork.

But this meat has been touched by the tiger, and it is contaminated with evil spirits, and the rest of the people can't touch it again, so the actor throws the meat to the bottom of the stage.

The tiger ate the meat and his mouth was blocked, so the God of Wealth jumped off the wooden table, "touched" and jumped in front of the tiger, trying to catch it.

The tiger was startled, and rolled on the ground to avoid the attack. Xuan Tan chased after him closely, so one person and one tiger started fighting on the stage.

After a moment of fierce fighting, the tiger was finally no match for Xuantan and could barely retreat. Xuantan leaped onto the tiger, rode him on his crotch, took off the iron chain from his waist, and tied the chain to the tiger's mouth , so that the tiger can no longer speak.

The God of Wealth then rode a white tiger and walked backwards from the middle of the stage to the tiger door on the right side of the stage.When they arrived at Hudaomen, members of other troupes wiped the face of the God of Wealth with the "clothes paper" worshiped by the god.Then the two actors take off the God of Wealth's black crown and tiger head mask at the same time.This move symbolizes that the two actors have returned to ordinary people from the God of Wealth and the White Tiger Spirit.

The sound of gongs and drums stopped abruptly, and the troupe members on and off the stage shouted at the same time.

The atmosphere of the whole street suddenly relaxed, and the pedestrians who had been silent all the time also spoke, walked, chatted and laughed happily, and the street gradually returned to the bustle before the performance.

Feng Chen looked at the people around him curiously and suspiciously, like a rich daughter who stepped out of the house for the first time and didn't understand anything.

Li Xiruo covered her mouth and snickered for a while, looked at him and said, "The members of the troupe called out just now to signal to everyone that the ceremony is over, and the taboo of keeping your mouth shut has been lifted."

"I see." Feng Chen nodded, then looked at the stage curiously, looked at it for a while, raised one eyebrow, and said: "Is there really a white tiger spirit in this world?"

"Who knows? But there was a troupe before, because they did not strictly follow the requirements of the performance to perform "Worshiping the White Tiger". As a result, during the performance, Zheng Yindan lost his voice, and Wu Sheng also accidentally fell off the stage during a fight."

Feng Chen was a little surprised: "Really?"

"Really. And this is not the most serious thing. There was a village that moved the theater before. Logically speaking, the stage should be broken before the performance, but the troupe invited by the village at that time would not perform "Worshiping the White Tiger" , All of a sudden, there was no other performer who could be found, so the troupe had to break the rules once, and immediately started singing. As a result, water flooded backstage during the performance, and many people were burned to death.”

Feng Chen was stunned for a while, and said: "The things you leave the country are too evil..."