Chapter 1234: The clown

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In his thirty years of life, he had never suffered such a vicious attack. After listening to Li Ang's gentle evaluation, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but stop his steps and fell into a long silence.

"Why did you stop? Weren't you just preparing to take me to perform for your parents?"

Looking at the young prince's constantly trembling back, listening to the creaking sound that could only be made when teeth were grinding hard against each other, which made one's scalp tingle, Li Ang couldn't help but laugh, then comforted him warmly:

"Rest assured, I am just a clown with fairly exquisite skills. I won't say anything to your parents. Just perform a small magic trick and some juggling, and it will be over.

After all, the humor of a fake clown like me is only in the juggling in my hands, at most just making your parents laugh. But your humor is in your heart, you only need to..."

"Shut up!!!"

With a sudden violent shout, interrupting Li Ang's comfort, Prince An De Lie turned his head suddenly. His face, still carrying three parts of youth, was full of ferocity:

"You guessed right, I also have to follow the rules of this world and cannot casually commit behavior that violates the identity of a 'prince.' But if you want to use the method of using words to anger me to make me take the initiative to let you out..."

"No need, everyone here is a talent, I love this place so much~"

Waving his hand to interrupt Prince An De Lie's words, Li Ang tied the balloons to his waist, took out four small colorful balls from his bosom, and began to juggle them with both hands with a smile. He even occasionally lifted his two legs alternately, constantly throwing the colorful balls horizontally from between his legs, which immediately drew a large round of applause.

"Well played!"

"Amazing!"

"Add one more! Can you add one more ball?"

"Add! Everything can be added!"

After answering the heckling guests not far away, Li Ang's hand movements didn't stop. Maintaining the juggling motion, he slowly walked to the open space in front of the platform. But for some reason, the four small balls actually turned into five, and after a blink, they turned into six.

"Wow!!!"

"You can actually juggle six balls at the same time?"

Looking at Li Ang's hands, which were moving constantly like a butterfly among flowers, even leaving afterimages, the guests stopped their banquet and looked over curiously. Some who were drunk even began to applaud and cheer.

"Beautiful!"

"What a great clown!"

"You flatter me, you flatter me!"

After finishing the juggling with a fancy hand-switching move, Li Ang pinched his red big nose, bowed to thank the guest who had just praised him for being amazing, and then said with a look of shame:

"Actually, I am not very amazing. In our clown world, there is a senior named An De Lie who is much more amazing than me.

An ordinary clown like me can only juggle some ordinary colorful balls, but that senior An De Lie can juggle things that are amazing. Knives, forks, bowls, plates, tables, chairs, benches—he can take them all out and juggle them..."

When he said this, Li Ang tilted his head slightly, gave Prince An De Lie a gentle look, and then made a mouth shape, silently adding:

'He can even take out his dead parents and juggle them.'

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Painting him in was the biggest mistake!

After personally experiencing Li Ang's terrifying aggressiveness, looking at Li Ang, who walked up to a guest and borrowed a few small things, Prince An De Lie, with an ugly face, couldn't help but clench his fists tightly. He then walked through the guests with his head down and found the Wang Hou, who was watching the performance with great interest.

"Mother."

After reaching out and pulling the Wang Hou's sleeve, An De Lie took a deep breath, tried his best to put on his original innocent and brilliant appearance, pointed at Fei Liya, who was lying in the crowd of guests and had fallen asleep at some unknown time, and begged:

"The friend I invited is tired and fell asleep. Can you have someone send her home?"

"Alright."

After glancing in Fei Liya's direction, the Wang Hou touched Prince An De Lie's head with love, whispered two words to the attendant, and then said to the young prince:

"I have already had someone call Ba Ge Si to help you send your friend back... Come, An De Lie, sit in mother's arms."

After reaching out and hugging the young version of An De Lie and holding him in her arms, the Wang Hou, while gently pinching little An De Lie's warm and soft earlobe, said softly:

"That clown performed really well. It's been a long time since I've seen such a good clown performance... An De Lie? I remember you liked watching clowns juggle very much, and you even wanted to be a clown yourself before. Why aren't you watching now?"

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An De Lie, who had just been severely sanctioned by the "clown theory," let alone watching Li Ang's clown performance, felt uncomfortable all over just hearing the two words "clown." He wished he could escape from the "Royal Banquet" immediately.

But firstly, he couldn't bear to leave the Wang Hou's warm embrace, and secondly, he hadn't personally watched Fei Liya being sent out of the "Royal Night Banquet." Prince An De Lie had no choice but to endure it, sitting in the Wang Hou's arms like a real child and watching the performance.

And Li Ang in the distance seemed to have truly accepted his new profession. He was shuffling in a pair of bright yellow oversized leather shoes, walking with a funny pigeon-toed gait, showing the guests in the front row the things in his hands.

"Everyone, you have seen it and touched it. This is indeed an apple, not a prop I brought."

Following that gaze, which was sharper than a knife, and finding the position of the young prince, Li Ang turned his front toward him and the Wang Hou without leaving a trace. He then used his finger to pinch a fingernail mark on the fruit skin and said with a smile: "Everyone, take this fingernail mark as proof. Next, I am going to perform a magic trick of extremely high difficulty. I am going to turn this apple..."

"Yee!"

After listening to Li Ang's announcement, the guests present cooperated quite well and heckled:

"Boring, boring!"

"Just this?"

"Is there anything difficult about turning an apple into nothing?"

"Change another one, change another one! This one won't do!"

"Everyone, everyone, please don't be anxious. This magic trick of mine is not that kind of primary trick of turning an apple into nothing!"

Pressing his hand down to signal everyone to keep quiet, Li Ang's expression became serious. He rolled up his sleeves on both hands and said mysteriously:

"Those who turn apples into nothing usually hide them in their sleeves or block them with their arms. But I am doing it right in front of you without covering or hiding anything. And not only am I going to turn the apple into nothing, but I can even turn the apple into another kind of thing!"

Without covering or hiding? And can turn an apple into something else?

Hearing Li Ang's suspense, the guests were immediately aroused with curiosity. They couldn't help but hold their breath and stare tightly at Li Ang's hands.

"Everyone, I am going to start!"

After nodding seriously to the surroundings, amidst the blank gazes of the guests, Li Ang bit into the apple with the fingernail mark, crunched it clean in two bites, then, with his cheeks filled, carried the fruit stem at the top of the apple core around the field. He announced proudly, though his speech was muddled:

"Look! I turned the apple into an apple core!"

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"Oh! So that's how it's turned!"

"Yee!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Crazy, hahahaha!"

It was unknown whether the 【Colorful Clown】 badge had taken effect, or if they had truly been tricked by Li Ang's cold joke. Looking at that proud clown, everyone except Prince An De Lie was almost laughing like crazy.

However, just when everyone was laughing and heckling, Li Ang suddenly bent over with an "ouch," covered his mouth in pain, and screamed:

"Bad! Bad! This apple... this apple!"

Could it be that someone poisoned it?

Seeing that the dead magician had run into trouble, the guard captain, who was following orders to pick up Fei Liya and prepare to send her home, was startled. He hurriedly threw her back to the ground and was about to run back with his head down. However...

"This apple... how did it grow back?"

Amidst the panicked expressions of the guests, Li Ang's hands covering his mouth arched slightly, then he suddenly straightened his waist and spread his hands. The apple that had just been eaten into a core was actually lying intact in his palm, and on the fruit skin, there was even the fingernail mark that had been pressed into it at the very beginning.

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After a period of silence, the banquet, which had been as quiet as if someone had been strangled, suddenly erupted into thunderous applause.

"Wow!!!!"

"It's actually still the original apple?"

"Wonderful! Too wonderful! I have never seen such an amazing clown!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you for everyone's praise!"

After bowing to the guests who were applauding and cheering, Li Ang said with a smile:

"Actually, these are all small tricks of mine. If you really want to talk about amazing, it has to be that clown senior named An De Lie. He can turn things into nothing, and it's not just apples. Even living things work. Chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, pigeons—he can even turn bowls, plates, and horses into nothing."

Seeing Li Ang mention him again, although he didn't understand what "plates and horses" referred to, Prince An De Lie still couldn't help but tremble all over, glaring at Li Ang with murderous intent.

And the surrounding guests were also aroused with curiosity by Li Ang's praise. Someone who liked to stir up trouble asked:

"Since that clown named An De Lie is so amazing, why didn't he come over with you?"

"That's a long story."

Li Ang sighed upon hearing this, then said with sympathy in his eyes:

"To tell you the truth, the hardest part of our magic trick is not turning things into nothing, but how to turn the things that were turned into nothing back. Although senior An De Lie learned the first half very well, he didn't learn the most important second half.

One day, I don't know what kind of illness he had, but he actually turned his most important thing into nothing, and then no matter what, he couldn't turn it back. He went a bit crazy. As for what this most important thing is..."

When he said this, Li Ang paused slightly again, then turned his head to glance at Prince An De Lie, whose face was iron-blue, and gave a smile that said "you understand."

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I'll kill you! I must kill you, damn it!!!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1235 =====