Fox lantern dance is a magical dance with illusions. According to legend, during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a woman named Hu Ying in Xuancheng, southern Anhui, who was very good at fox lantern dance.

Hu Ying fled to Xuancheng with her father. His father was seriously ill and had no money to treat him. Hu Ying was so anxious that she had to cut grass and sell herself. Coincidentally, next to the earth temple where the father and daughter lived, there lived a young scholar named Xie Zhifan. When Xie Zhifan learned of this, he immediately invited Lang Zhong. Who knew that Hu Ying's father was so strangely ill that he first gave birth to many fine hairs on his body, and then he lost all the fine hairs and began to bleed again. It was useless to hire any number of doctors. Hu's father said to Xie Zhifan, "Xie Gongzi, you are really a rare good person in the world. To tell you the truth, no one can cure my disease, so don't worry about it!" Xie Zhifan didn't believe it, but Hu's father passed away in the end. What was even more incredible was that on the day of his burial, he suddenly turned into a pool of clean water, and not even a bone was left. Xie Zhifan had never seen such a strange thing, so he asked Hu Ying, who just cried but refused to say anything.

Through this contact, Hu Ying fell in love with Xie Zhifan from the bottom of her heart. She found out that he was still single, so she asked someone to come to Xie's house to say goodbye and to entrust her life to him. Xie Zhifan politely refused. He said he helped Hu Ying out of morality. If he married her now, others thought he had other plans, wouldn't he become a villain? Hu Ying listened and had to give up this idea. She told Xie Zhifan that since the husband and wife could not marry, if they could become brothers and sisters, they could have a relationship in the future. Xie Zhifan agreed. Just like that, Hu Ying moved to Xie's house.

This year, Xie Zhifan went to the capital to take the exam. When he arrived in the capital, he had nothing to do. One evening, he went out for a walk, and from a distance, he saw a circle of people surrounded by the overpass in front of him, and there were bursts of applause from time to time. Xie Zhifan went over to take a look and found that everyone was watching a girl sing and dance. Dozens of oil lamps were lit around the girl, and every time she danced, the flames of the oil lamps would shake with her, making a melodious and melodious sound. The sound was high or low, the lights bright or dark, blurry and mysterious. When the dance reached its climax, the sound of the lights was even more intense. As soon as the rhythm changed, the girl swung her waist, and a person turned into dozens of figures. It was unknown which one was a real person and which one was a phantom. Everyone was stunned, and they all applauded and shouted.

When the girl came to Xie Zhifan with the tray in her hand, Xie Zhifan couldn't help but exclaim, "Ah, sister, why are you?" At the same time, Hu Ying also recognized Xie Zhifan: "You... you came out of prison!"

Hearing her strange words, Xie Zhifan asked in surprise, "Sister, why did you say that?" Before Hu Ying spoke, tears flowed down first: "Brother, don't you know? Something big happened at home!"

It turned out that just a few days after Xie Zhifan left the house, a group of servants suddenly came to the house, saying that Xie Zhifan had written anti-poems everywhere along the way in the name of going to the capital to take the exam, and now he had been put in prison. This time, they came to raid the house on orders. Xie Zhifan's parents were such an only son. When they heard that this had happened, they vomited blood and fell to the ground on the spot, and they both died soon after. Before Xie Zhifan's father died, he held Hu Ying tightly and said, "Ying'er, you know that Brother Fan must have been wronged. Go to the capital and find a way to rescue him!"

In this way Hu Ying buried the two elders and came to the capital. She didn't know Xie Zhifan's whereabouts, so she thought about it and remembered the ancestral fox lantern dance, and sang and danced in a lively place in order to attract passers-by and ask them for news.

Xie Zhifan listened to Hu Ying's cry, like a thunderbolt. "How could this happen?" He told Hu Ying that he didn't write any anti-poetry at all, and nothing happened. Hu Ying was stunned when she heard it.

At that moment, there was a burst of wild laughter: "Hahaha... What a guy surnamed Xie, you escaped from prison without permission, and you pretended to be fine. Where are you going to escape today?" The two turned around and looked at it.

Someone next to her whispered to Hu Ying that Zhang Wen was the tyrant of the capital, and his daughter was the emperor's favorite concubine. He could rectify whoever he wanted. Hu Ying listened and had a plan.

After three days, Hu Ying arrived at Zhang Wencai's mansion. When Zhang heard that a beautiful girl was looking for him, she smiled and said, "Which girl is looking for this old man? Bring her in to see me!"

As soon as Hu Ying entered the door, she bowed down to Zhang Wencai, saying that she was here to perform in the capital this time, and in order to take root, she came to Zhang's mansion to visit. "Okay," the surnamed Zhang said with a smirk, "Miss, I don't know what tricks you have, can I let this old man see them?" "Okay!" Hu Ying agreed, took out the dozens of oil lamps from her bag, placed them in a circle on the ground, and lit them one by one. Then she jumped into the middle and said to the surnamed Zhang: "Master, the little girl is ugly!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Hu Ying clicking quickly on the ground, like the wind, and suddenly arrived in front of everyone. With a throw of her long sleeves, the sound of the lights was like a silver bottle breaking, and it sounded. Then she flew back and forth, and those oil lamps actually followed her to fly off the ground, flying back and forth, and the clear rhythm could penetrate the sky. What's more amazing is that Hu Ying spun faster and faster, and the oil lamps turned faster and faster, and turned into various colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc. The whole hall seemed to be full of rotating lights, and everything made people feel like they were in a dream.

"Hahaha..." Zhang Wencai slapped happily, "It really looks good, it looks good!" As soon as he finished speaking, everyone saw that dozens of lights suddenly went out, and then there was a blast of thunder in the hall, a flash of lightning passed, the wind gushed, the clouds and rain were dim, and a sudden rain fell in the hall. When the rain and fog cleared, Hu Ying and Zhang Wencai disappeared. Zhang's mansion was in chaos and sent people to look for Zhang Wencai everywhere, but there was no trace of him.

How did they know that at this moment, Hu Ying had already escorted Zhang Wencai to the Golden Palace.

Hu Ying bribed the housekeeper of Zhang's mansion long before she came to Zhang's mansion to find out how Xie Zhifan was framed. It turned out that many years ago, Xie Zhifan's father was an official in Yuyao, Zhejiang, and Zhang Wen was a rich man in Yuyao at that time. Zhang Wencai's son committed a serious crime, and Xie's father arrested him and beheaded him. From then on, Zhang Wencai held a grudge against Xie's father. This time, he found that Xie Zhifan's father had returned to his hometown, and his son had come to the capital to take the exam. In order to take revenge, he decided to use Xie Zhifan's knife to frame Xie Zhifan and write a counterpoem in front of the emperor. In order to save Xie Zhifan, Hu Ying borrowed Hu Dengwu to get Zhang Wencai out, put a knife on his neck, and went to see the emperor to make the truth public. In order to save his life, how dare Zhang Wencai not obey?

Yongzheng learned the truth, regardless of Zhang Meiren's pleas, he ordered Zhang Wencai to be dragged out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded on the spot, and Xie Zhifan was released.

As soon as Xie Zhifan saw Hu Ying, he bowed to her. However, he saw Hu Ying fall to the ground with a "plop", her face as white as paper, and beads of sweat as big as beans coming out of her forehead. Xie Zhifan panicked and quickly picked her up from the ground, hurriedly asking, "Sister, what's wrong with you?" "Brother, I..." Hu Ying said, "I have the same disease as my father, I... I can't do it anymore!" Saying that, many fine hairs were born from her body. Xie Zhifan hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

Hu Ying told Xie Zhifan that the fox lantern dance was handed over by an old man who called himself the fox fairy, and it was for entertainment. The oil lamp contained a hallucinogenic drug; when dancing, you should not use the illusion to the limit, otherwise the drug will be adsorbed into the dancer's body, and you will undoubtedly die. Most of the patients have slender hair, which then bleeds and finally turns into a pool of water. When she and her father fled Henan, they encountered bandits halfway through and kidnapped her into counterfeit products. It was her father who used the extreme magic of the fox lantern dance to save her, resulting in poisoning and death.

"God!" Xie Zhifan shouted, "That's it! Silly sister, why did you come to save me when you knew your life was in danger!"

Hu Ying murmured, "Brother, because I... I like you so much, Brother,ss me?"

Xie Zhifan's heart was cut like a knife, he lowered his head and pressed his lips tightly on Hu Ying's smooth, jade-like forehead. Hu Ying smiled and closed her eyes with satisfaction.