Chapter 0077 Philosopher
When Xiao Rong heard this, his heart skipped a beat. He stood up reflexively to stop Qu Yunmie, but he was the only one who stood up. Both the stranger and the king who started to speak rudely again were sitting there quietly.
Xiao Rong: “…”
The stranger didn't look particularly scared. Instead, he looked at Qu Yunmie in confusion.
He pointed at himself and said, "Me, Lecher?"
Qu Yunmie narrowed his eyes, as if considering where to start.
The stranger spoke again tremblingly: "Isn't he a man? How can I be a pervert just because I look at a man? Who would have improper thoughts about a man?"
Qu Yunmie: “.”
It seems to make some sense.
This time, the person with a dazed expression turned out to be Qu Yunmie. He couldn't think of how he could refute this person, so he subconsciously looked at Xiao Rong who was standing there.
Xiao Rong's expression changed again and again. He pursed his lips tightly, then sat back down. The farce here attracted the attention of others. Xiao Rong put one arm on the table and covered half of his face by supporting his head.
Qu Yunmie opened his mouth: "Xiao——"
Before Rong behind him could finish his words, Xiao Rong had already angrily scolded him, "Don't call my name!" Shameful!
Qu Yunmie: “…………”
Fortunately, the next play started at this time, the stage curtain opened, and the pianist sat in the corner and began to play the piano gracefully.
Xiao Rong had hired this zither player at great expense. One performance was equal to two months' income for a street vendor. Yet he said he couldn't perform for long periods of time. If his inspiration dried up, he would go home and rest for a while. ...
There was nothing he could do about it. There was no music score. He had to compose the music according to the play on stage. It was completely spontaneous. This kind of music was too elegant. Xiao Rong was a person who was used to listening to pop music that expressed emotions explicitly. For a moment, he really couldn't appreciate this subtle style of music.
But it doesn't matter if he can't appreciate it, as long as the audience can. What's more, it's just the beginning. When the theater starts to make a profit, Xiao Rong plans to ask people to find a few divas outside. Pipa tunes have always been appreciated by both the elite and the masses. When he is tired from being busy, he can come here to relax.
The different music arrangements of the pianist are one of the reasons why people want to watch it again after watching it once, but the more important reason is that people’s lives are too monotonous.
This thing called "opera" not only allows people to listen to music, but also allows people to watch the actors' postures and hear the actors singing. Although there are not many places to sing, most of them are in vernacular, but they also like vernacular, because the vernacular here is humorous and rhyming, which is much more interesting than the sad rap they usually hear. Indeed, the rap at this time is basically sad and sorrowful, either telling their own miserable life, or telling the tragedy that happened in other people's homes. Anyway, the ultimate goal is to evoke the audience's tears and let them sympathize and give more money. This group of people thought that the plays in the theater were different, but Xiao Rong wanted to tell them that you are too naive.
The core of comedy is tragedy, and the core of tragedy is also tragedy. Only tragedy can leave a deep impression on people. Otherwise, why would he go to such great lengths to find someone to write the script and play the piano? It is just to make the audience remember these things.
The full name of the play was "The Shrouded Corpse", but few people could remember the name anymore. Everyone burst into laughter at the exaggerated performance of the actors on stage. Those who had seen it were relatively calm, but those who had not seen it laughed so hard that the table was about to break.
To be honest, Xiao Rong felt that this person was even more exaggerated than the actors.
But he is not a stand-in. He has been performing for so many days, and Xiao Rong will not arrange for another stand-in to come in. This person simply has a low sense of humor.
After a pause, Xiao Rong continued to look at the stage.
"The Shrouded Body" tells the story of a family of four. In the beginning, it was a family of six, a couple with three sons and one daughter. The son was disobedient, the father had a bad temper, and the mother had no other choice but to worry. Only the six of them could liven up the atmosphere. The audience's laughter in the beginning was also because of the chaotic life of these six people.
The hot-tempered father would tell his mother at night that he regretted beating his son so hard. The reason his son was beaten was because he saw someone was almost starving to death, so he gave a bowl of rice to the outsiders. The little daughter didn't understand why she was beaten for giving a bowl of rice. At this time, her brother would touch her head and say, "You don't need to understand, you have brothers. When you grow up, our family can not only give others a bowl of rice, but also a bag of rice."
It is warm and harmonious, everyone is kind, and life is full of hope amidst the noise. For an ordinary family, there are three strong men who are about to become adults. Indeed, as long as this family does not get lazy, their lives will definitely get better and better.
Then this scene ended and the next scene began. The background was a large white cloth with faint peaks painted on it, which made it possible to see that it was a distant snow-capped mountain.
It started to snow heavily, and the actors put on thick clothes. The beaten son in the previous scene returned home with only two or three pieces of firewood. There was a beggar at the door who was almost starving to death, but he could only shake his head at him in embarrassment. Just as the beggar was leaving in disappointment, he called the man again, hesitated for a while, but still quickly brought him a bowl of water. In the cold winter, it was difficult to drink water.
The beggar wolfed down the water, and his son returned home, but as soon as he walked in, he heard a shrill cry coming from the house. It turned out that their mother had passed away. The ladle for water fell to the ground with a bang, and the family of five surrounded the actor pretending to be dead and cried bitterly. What was even more absurd was that when the effect of night was created on the stage, there was actually a corpse wrapped in a straw mat on the ground. The family stayed with the corpse like this, and then discussed heavily what they should do next.
This is actually a small detail that only people who have experienced it will understand. The heavy snow not only blocked the mountains, but also froze the ground so hard that even a hoe could not dig it up even a little bit. So if a person died, they could only be left at home temporarily. When they could no longer be left there, they would be frozen in the snow until the next spring when the ground was not so hard, and then the person could be formally buried.
But obviously these people could not wait until that time, because through the actors' words, the audience already knew that their mother was starved to death. She was reluctant to eat and gave the remaining food to her children. She was sick from hunger and had no choice but to endure it, and thus she starved herself to death.
If we don't leave here, there will be more and more straw mats on the ground.
One son mentioned that some people in the neighboring village were heading south, and he called on everyone to go with them, but this was after all the place where they were born and raised, and who knew what the world outside was like? What if they couldn't survive there either?
The sons were arguing with each other, and the final decision was made by their father. As the saying goes, "If you move, you live; if you move, you die." How could these grown men be trapped here and die?
At this time, no one in the family was quarreling, and everyone listened to the old man. Before leaving, the old man found a place and put all the firewood in the house on the ground to burn. When it burned a little, he swung the hoe next to him and dug down a little. When he couldn't dig anymore, he continued to burn. This scene was presented in the form of human shadows. After all, you can't really bring the fire into the theater. These are all wooden houses. It would be terrible if a fire broke out.
But it is the black and white human figures that can make people feel the silent sadness, especially when the human figures are moving, there are actually snowflakes falling from the sky. This feeling that no matter how hard you try, God will not have mercy on you... It's really sad.
No one laughed in the theater anymore, not even a single chaotic sound. Even the guys in the theater stopped moving around. No matter how many times they had seen the show, they would become quiet here and stare uncontrollably at the burly figure on the stage. No matter how burly he was, he was just a pitiful man.
This scene also ended, and at this time Qu Yunmie asked Xiao Rong in a low voice: "What was that spilled?"
Xiao Rong also answered him in a low voice: "The torn waste paper is swept away after the performance. It can be used in the next performance."
Qu Yunmie: “…”
His staff is really frugal.
Qu Yunmie was about to continue looking down when suddenly, he heard a very subtle sound coming from the side. Xiao Rong also heard it. They both paused slightly and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
Zhao Xingzong's nose was red and kept twitching. He didn't want to sob in public, but he couldn't control it. He could only sniffle to force back the tears.
Qu Yunmie: “…”
Xiao Rong: “…”
They looked at each other strangely, and finally chose to say nothing tacitly.
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