Su Wenhao knew a little bit of the inside story. He looked at Chen Xian with a subtle expression. "Uncle, we might have to drastically change your work. Are you really not worried?"
Chen Xian waved his hand and said, "Literary works are meant to make people happy, excited, angry, or disappointed... If they can evoke the audience's emotions, then they are good adaptations."
Su Wenhao: "Alright..."
Su Wenxuan rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on. "I always feel that the play lacks a strange atmosphere... It would be great if we could really bring out that eerie, ghostly atmosphere."
"The sounds of wild beasts in the mountains and fields, the roars of spirits and monsters..."
After listening for a while, Chen Xian suddenly grasped a key point.
The voices of mountain spirits?
After finishing the meal.
Chen Gui chuckled and said, "Dear students, let me tell you about the afternoon's arrangements. Around 3 PM, the village will give each student a fishing rod to go fishing in the Bazhang River."
The fishing rods cost ten coins each, and you can catch crickets and eels as you please.
A straw hat costs five coins.
You can borrow stools and wooden basins from people in the village.
The fee is 100 coins per person per hour; the village will buy the fish you catch at a rate of 5 catties per coin; or you can take them with you.
For dinner, we can have braised fish and sell the meat to the villagers in exchange for a free dinner.
This is one of the activities.
When the time is 5-7 PM, I will invite everyone to watch a grand opera. Rehearsing a grand opera takes a lot of time, and the ticket price for one person is only ten coins.
At the hour of Xu (7-9 PM), students can go to the riverbank to row boats and look at the stars.
At the end of the Xu hour (7-9 PM), everyone gathered at the school. The villagers had already cleaned up the temporary accommodations, which were small, makeshift rooms.
Five coins per person for overnight stay.
The next morning, breakfast included wild vegetable buns, millet porridge, fried dough sticks, chive pancakes, egg pancakes, and sesame seed cakes. The food was delicious and inexpensive; you could eat your fill for just five coins.
After lunch, if anyone's willing, we can go up the mountain together. We can pick wild vegetables and mushrooms, and if we're lucky, we might even catch a pheasant, find wild chicken eggs and quail eggs...
He rambled on and on for ages.
The students burst into laughter.
"Alright, now the truth is out. That seemingly honest old village head is actually trying to squeeze money out of us at every turn."
Lu Chengfeng scoffed, "I have absolutely no interest in grand operas or anything like that. I'm quite interested in fishing, though."
Old village head, are you trying to fool us? Everyone knows there's been a drought this year, and there are no fish in the village. Yes, we have money, but don't treat us like suckers. A fishing rod is just a green bamboo pole with a hook tied to it, and you dare to sell it for ten coins?
"One hundred coins a hour. Assuming each crucian carp is about the size of a palm and weighs about half a pound, you'd need to catch at least ten in an hour just to break even. That's outrageous!"
This statement caused a disturbance among the crowd.
Chen Gui chuckled and said, “Fellow students, you’ll see once you try it. There are definitely plenty of fish in Qingxia Village. If you’re a beginner, I can guarantee you won’t lose money. If you’re an expert, you can definitely earn enough for dinner.”
"We're not making any money this time, just to host you all and make some friends."
After using those strange words, look at the man standing quietly in the crowd, Chen Xian.
"Let's make friends" is a phrase that Xian Ge'er taught me.
Instructor He chuckled and said, "Making friends is interesting. I'll give it a try."
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