The Xiao Ji in Chen Feng's hand was taken away by the host.
When the host took it, he held it with both hands.
Carefully.
The feeling in his heart was inexplicably awkward.
It was as if he was holding a ticking time bomb.
The key was that when the Xiao Ji was first spat out, it was still wet, as if it had just hatched from an eggshell.
But in just a moment, it became fluffy.
Its whole body was covered in light yellow down.
Its two dark, round eyes seemed to sparkle.
In the palm of his hand, it occasionally flapped its tender little wings, and its crisp chirping sound was not like a chicken's, but rather like a nightingale's.
The host was so nervous that his throat felt like it was smoking.
He always felt like he was holding a demon.
One that Chen Feng had conjured.
As for how he conjured it, he didn't know.
Because Chen Feng had previously played a magician at a charity gala, and even demonstrated the magical ancient trick of 'Drawing a River on the Ground'.
His miraculous techniques were no longer a secret.
Therefore, spitting out a Xiao Ji from his mouth was also reasonable.
The host left.
Chen Feng on the stage also exited his role as the eminent monk and returned to his normal state.
On the judging panel.
You Laoxiansheng had been staring blankly at Chen Feng.
He didn't speak for a long time.
Feng laoshi and Han laoshi, out of respect for him, also didn't want to speak first.
The entire live broadcast was eerily quiet.
On the live streaming platform.
“My goodness, my eyes have truly been opened today.”
“The turtle upstairs has opened his eyes again, everyone come and watch.”
“Is Chen Feng a descendant of Piccolo Daimao?”
“Was that just magic?”
“Is there even a need to ask? It must be magic. Chen Feng has played a magician, alright. This little trick is nothing.”
“I don't think so.”
“The key is, this is a live camera, and there was no camera switch. He swallowed the egg just now and didn't make any other movements, so where did that Xiao Ji come from?”
“@Approaching Science, the production team can come and interview him now. This is a bit strange, and Chen Feng couldn't have known that You Laoxiansheng would suddenly want to test him, could he? And it was a monk role? He just happened to bring a Xiao Ji as a prop?”
“Don't analyze it, everyone, the more I analyze, the more my hair stands on end. There's no one home, just me. I'm a fair-skinned, beautiful, 1.2-meter-tall, long-legged weak woman, and I'm really a bit scared.”
“Upstairs, can you send me your address? Brother will accompany you.”
“The more you think about it, the more terrifying it becomes!”
“You're overthinking it, everyone. Just treat it as magic, alright? Don't worry about it. I'm only concerned now, is our Feng Ge the champion?”
...
Live broadcast scene.
You Laoxiansheng finally returned to normal.
However, his behavior was also quite strange.
He stood up and walked to the side, standing respectfully, putting his hands together towards Chen Feng, and nodding slightly, saying, “Thank you.”
Chen Feng quickly waved his hand: “You Laoshi, I don't deserve it.”
“Chen Feng, although I don't know how you did it, I agree with your interpretation just now, very much so. And it's clear that you know that allusion.”
You Laoxiansheng sat down.
Everyone else was confused.
Feng laoshi on the side asked curiously: “You Laoxiansheng, what allusion are you talking about?”
“Hehe, it's an allusion about Ji Gong.”
You Laoxiansheng chuckled.
Han laoshi on the other side quickly pressed: “You Laoxiansheng, please tell us. What allusion is it, and what does it have to do with Chen Feng's performance just now?”
“Alright, then I'll tell you.”
You Laoxiansheng cleared his throat and said: “During the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong liked to go on incognito visits, everyone knows about this, right?”
“Whether it's in performing arts or novels, or even TV dramas, this has been used to tell stories.”
“So, the allusion I'm talking about is when Emperor Qianlong once went to Jiangnan and visited Lingyin Temple at that time.”
“Because accompanying a ruler is like accompanying a tiger, everyone knows this truth. So when they learned that the emperor was coming to Lingyin Temple, the abbot at the time was in a difficult situation, and finally, having no other choice, he sent Ji Gong, who was still a monk in the temple, out.”
“To receive the emperor.”
“So, Qianlong arrived at Lingyin Temple.”
“He had always known of Ji Gong's reputation at Lingyin Temple, so as soon as they met, he wanted to make things difficult for him, and asked him the difficult question of whether a monk eating an egg counted as taking a life.”
“If he answered well, he would be spared; if he didn't, he would be beheaded.”
“At that time, Ji Gong didn't even think, he just went to the back kitchen, took an egg, swallowed it whole, and then recited those four lines of Zen poetry.”
“Chaos of heaven and earth, wrapped in a shell, neither skin nor bone, nor hair. This poor monk takes you to the Western Heaven, to avoid a knife in the human world.”
“Afterward, Ji Gong spat out a fully feathered Xiao Ji.”
“That Xiao Ji jumped out of Ji Gong's mouth, stood in his palm, grew with the wind, and in a short while, turned into a large rooster.”
“The large rooster flapped its wings and flew out of the main hall, landing on the east wall and crowing with its head held high.”
“So Emperor Qianlong was convinced at that time.”
“This is the allusion I'm talking about.”
Speaking of this, You Laoxiansheng chuckled and said: “Perhaps Chen Feng did this performance to pay homage to Ji Gong, so he borrowed this allusion. For me, I am very pleased. Leaving aside the magic performance part, I still very much agree with Chen Feng's interpretation of an eminent monk.”
After hearing these words, the audience suddenly realized.
Oh!
So there was an allusion to this.
No wonder You Laoxiansheng even bowed to Chen Feng.
He wasn't paying homage to Chen Feng, he was paying homage to the story, right?
So, Chen Feng was indeed performing magic.
Otherwise, his Xiao Ji should have turned into a large rooster.
...
At this point, there was no more suspense about the champion.
Compared to Chen Feng, whether it was Han Tao or Yu Zhiwen, their popularity was pitifully small.
And in terms of acting skills, Chen Feng could already be described as returning to simplicity.
Just as he himself said.
Fiction becomes reality.
This was also the netizens' feeling about him.
Among the dozen or so roles he had interpreted since participating in the variety show, basically every role seemed like a natural performance.
So, he truly resembled whatever he acted.
Thus, with the unanimous approval of the three old artists, Chen Feng ultimately won the national championship of the variety show What is an Actor.
Han Tao and Yu Zhiwen ranked second and third, respectively.
The moment Chen Feng won the championship, the entire venue erupted in cheers.
The entire network celebrated.
On the live broadcast screen, bullet comments flew across the screen.
The already established fan groups spontaneously began to dominate the screen in celebration.
...
At the same time.
In an inconspicuous corner room far behind the studio hall.
Staff members were slowly organizing props.
The show had concluded, and the props were being fully stored.
At a certain moment.
Suddenly, there was a clang from the room behind them, like the sound of breaking glass.
Several staff members who were collecting props were startled.
Glass broke?
This place was nine stories high.
A child shooting glass with a slingshot?
Several staff members quickly turned around and rushed into the room to take a look.
Indeed!
The window glass was broken, with a rather large hole.
Cold wind poured in.
The few people looked at each other.
What hit it?
At this moment, one of the staff members suddenly pointed at a paper box on the table and exclaimed: “That Xiao Ji is gone.”
The few people quickly searched around.
One of them instinctively rushed to the window and looked out.
What he saw startled him so much that all his hair stood on end: “Oh my god, come and look, is that tiny shadow... a Xiao Ji? It... it actually flew down from the ninth floor?!”
Everyone quickly rushed to the window and looked down.
In the dark night sky.
A tiny figure seemed to soar among the buildings, and soon disappeared.
It looked like it, and yet it didn't.
Vaguely, it seemed that the Xiao Ji had grown quite a bit, and could actually fly...