"Plum Garden" is a traditional drama theater in Tongling City, focusing on Kunqu Opera, but with the change of social entertainment trends, all kinds of entertainment programs have gradually increased, and traditional dramas have gradually declined, but "Plum Garden" also understands how to keep pace with the times, adding sketches, cross talk, acrobatics, magic, singing and other programs, and Kunqu Opera only retains one file a week.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, it is the file of the traditional Kunqu opera "The Story of the Jade Hairpin", and the sign is on the door of the theater, and the big characters of "The Story of the Kunqu Opera and the Jade Hairpin", "Mei Siniang" and "Song Laokong" can be seen from afar.

The sparse old men and old ladies bought tickets one after another to enter the venue, and dozens of people gradually sat in the audience seat in the hall of the theater, which seemed to be all the audience today.

An old man in the audience looked at the stage with reading glasses, and said tremblingly: "Ah-how long has it been?" Who plays Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei? ”

The old lady next to her chirped: "Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei are in the Peony Pavilion, and today they are playing the story of the hosta, talking about Chen Miaochang and Pan Bizheng, oops!" Are you old and confused? ”

The theater manager passed by, shook his head, and said with a wry smile to the staff around him: "In a few years, I'm afraid that the traditional opera will not be able to continue, and it will be dull, just like this uncle."

The old man seemed to hear it and pointed at him, "Is this young man playing Pan Bizheng?" ”

The manager almost fell down, when the staff next to him suddenly pointed to the door, "Huh? There are a lot of young people here. ”

The manager saw it, and sure enough, he hurriedly said: "This is a good opportunity to advertise, as long as it can attract them, maybe more young people will come!"

……

Zhou Fengchen and a few people entered the theater hall, and when they looked around, they were surrounded by slightly heavy curtains, and the color of the middle seat was very monotonous, and the audience was full of old men and old ladies, and they couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Li Canying said with emotion: "The decline of traditional opera is too powerful, and it is helpless."

Zhang 13 said: "It's only to blame the singing who doesn't know how to be flexible, if you add some pornographic jokes, funny, hot-blooded, underworld, hip-hop, and tearing devils or something, it's absolutely exciting!"

After speaking, he attracted a circle of white eyes.

The Yuan Zhi monk was also half a fan of the drama, and scolded: "You know a fart!" Traditional dramas are either about poignant love, or heroes and ...... who are loyal to the monarch and serve the country His beauty, carefully sounding exciting, full of charm, endless aftertaste, what are you talking about? ”

Zhang Shisan glared, "You are, you go up and sing, if Lao Tzu doesn't laugh off his big teeth today, I will lose!" ”

Monk Yuanzhi looked disgusted, "I'm too lazy to talk to you laymen. ”

Zhang Shisan was about to talk back, but Zhou Fengchen hurriedly interrupted: "What are you doing?" And idle bickering? ”

Zhang Shisanyi pointed to the Yuanzhi monk, "Sun Tzu! ”

The Yuan Zhi monk retorted, "Birdman! ”

"Poof!" Ah Ling covered his mouth and laughed.

Shangguan Xianyun and Li Canying couldn't help laughing.

Several people found a row of empty seats to sit down, looking at the stage, at this time the curtain slowly opened, the host came to the stage and said a few words and then got off the stage, I don't know where there was a bang sound and a gong and drum, and then a babbling sound sounded behind the stage.

This is where the drama begins.

Soon, Xiaosheng, Laosheng, and Choudan took turns to appear, jumping around and babbling.

Among the six people of Zhou Fengchen and Shangguan Xianyun, only the Yuanzhi monk did not know the truth and watched it with relish, and the other five people were confused.

After a while, a Hua Dan with heavy makeup appeared, full of momentum, with a minor key and a very pleasant singing.

Shangguan Xianyun put his hand on the cloth bag, then nodded, Zhou Fengchen opened the Tianyan to confirm, and waved his hand, "The evil animal has come out, you can start!" ”

Zhang Shisan, Li Canrong, A Ling, Yuan Zhi and Shang all turned around and walked out of the door.

The theater manager who watched not far away looked pity, "I still can't get used to it, let's go!" ”

The staff next to him said "Huh", "There are two more!" ”

The theater manager looked at Zhou Fengchen and Shangguan Xianyun, who were sitting still, and nodded, "Yes, yes, these two young people should really like to watch it." ”

The staff smiled, "It should be Boss Mei and Boss Song who sing well!" ”

……

Shangguan Xianyun glanced at the manager and staff, then looked at the stage again, and said, "This demon is really different, he loves to sing."

Zhou Fengchen smiled, "I'm still singing very seriously." ”

Saying that, he waved and shouted, "Reward!"

The audience instantly fell silent with the word "reward".

The actors on the stage looked at it together, and that Hua Dan looked at Zhou Fengchen and Shangguan Xianyun, and a pair of eyes rolled a few times on her bright face.

When the manager heard this, he was excited, and hurriedly said to the staff: "I haven't met a reward for a long time, hurry!" Tray! Remember to pad red paper! ”

"Great!"

The staff ran out in a hurry.

The old ladies and old men around all looked at them in surprise and praised one after another, "The young man is really good, young people who love to watch dramas are really rare these days." ”

Zhou Fengchen rubbed his nose and said to Shangguan Xianyun: "Actually, I didn't understand a word, these uncles and aunts praised the wrong people, it's embarrassing."

Shangguan Xianyun asked with a smile: "Don't you also like to listen to yellow jokes like Zhang Shisan?"

Zhou Fengchen said righteously: "Listening to Huang Duanzi is more uncomfortable than killing me, I am such an upright person."

It's really uncomfortable to listen to pornographic jokes, and there's no place to vent.

At this time, the staff ran over with a tray of red paper, nodded and smiled at Zhou Fengchen, "Sir, please!" ”

Zhou Fengchen took out two hundred yuan from his pocket, "Mean." ”

The staff was full of smiles, "It's more or less the heart of the gentleman, mainly for the support of the opera, thank you!" ”

He turned around to leave.

"Wait!" Zhou Fengchen called out to him, and took out a yellow talisman from his pocket and put it in the tray together, "The money and this peace talisman are all given to Mei Siniang, don't make a mistake." ”

"Peace charms?" The staff looked at Fu Zhen and muttered in surprise, "Okay, it's ready to be delivered." ”

Waiting for the staff to leave, Shangguan Xianyun asked, "Will you frighten her like this?"

Zhou Fengchen looked at the stage, "It's best to scare her out of the theater, and save the innocent." ”

The opera continued on the stage, and after another ten minutes or so, all the participating actors came to the stage at the same time to bow and thank, and the curtain slowly fell.

"It's so good to sing!" The old men and ladies helped each other to leave, full of praise.

Zhou Fengchen and Shangguan Xianyun glanced at each other and went straight to the backstage.

At this time, the backstage dressing room was full of joy, and some young actors chattered non-stop:

"Someone really rewarded me just now! Still a lad! ”

"I don't know how much I give?"

"It doesn't matter how much, being able to reward shows that he really likes it, which is an affirmation of us."

"Yes! Oh, yes! ”

Hua Dan, who was sitting in the innermost part and silently removing her makeup, suddenly turned pale and scolded coldly: "Enough!" Stop! ”

A group of young actors were suddenly silent, "Mei, Teacher Mei ......"

An old student asked in surprise, "What's wrong with Siniang?"

Mei Siniang's breathing was a little short, her eyes flickered, and she didn't speak, she picked up the sponge to remove makeup and wiped her face vigorously with makeup remover, and soon revealed a delicate and somewhat bewitching young woman's face, looked in the mirror, and then sighed, "I'm in a bad mood today, I want to leave early!" ”

Not far away, a young girl said timidly, "But...... Teacher Mei, didn't you say that you watched us practice basic skills tonight? ”

"No time!" Mei Siniang suddenly stood up and roared angrily, her face a little distorted.

The girl was stunned, lowered her head and tears fell down.

The rest of the people looked at each other, and they didn't understand why "Teacher Mei" was so angry today.

(End of chapter)