"Turn on the stage lights and power up the sound equipment. "Officer Wang commanded.

Entering the auditorium and passing through the rows of seats, Mr. Wang and I stepped onto the stage together.

Looking down from the stage, the auditorium is divided into two floors, with about 2,000 seats. The seats were quietly arranged, as if to watch the beginning of a theatrical performance.

I stood alone in the center of the stage for a while, experienced the atmosphere of the theater, and listened to Director Wang and Xiao Dong muttering something in the audio equipment, and then, two more people came downstairs, one is the old Song who paints in the club, and the other is the little princess Yingzi of the head of the troupe's family.

After a while, I heard Secretary Wang ask me, "Wenhua, what do you want to practice?" I hurried over and saw Xiao Dong take out a stack of accompaniment discs from the side of the audio equipment.

On the disc are marked with popular gong and drum accompaniment recordings such as "Peking Opera Percussion", "Majestic Gong and Drum", "Yangge Accompaniment Gong and Drum", "Electronic Gong and Drum", "Northeast Yangge Gong and Drum".

"Just use "Yangge Accompaniment Gongs and Drums", I stood on this stage for the first time, and I was a little nervous, thinking to myself, it is better to be cautious and use the Yangge martial arts I have learned to perform with a higher insurance factor.

If you don't choose songs like this, but choose gongs and drums like "Peking Opera Percussion", the soldiers will probably not understand them, and the chiefs may not like them.

"Wenhua, your martial arts are very good, isn't it very good to perform "Five Steps Boxing" that day? Why did you choose this kind of Yangge percussion?" Officer Wang asked me.

Before I could answer, Director Xiao Dong was busy finding out the accompaniment gong and drum record of "Five Steps Boxing" and releasing it for me.

So, I seriously played a five-step punch, but this kind of punch is too simple after all, and then, I performed the opening dance of stilts Yangge "Lion Dance", although there is no partner, but with my understanding of dance, I still did a whole set of movements.

"Wenhua, your lion dance is to be performed on stilts; Besides, the lion dance can only be performed by two people, you are too tired alone!" Lao Song next to him is a club painter, but he doesn't seem to be a layman for theatrical performances, and he makes sense when he speaks.

"However, stilt Yangge is about kung fu, how can our performance team have practiced stilt Yangge kung fu?" Although Director Wang wanted to accept Lao Song's suggestion, it was indeed difficult to find a partner on stilts.

"Officer Wang, don't you know how to step on stilts?" At this time, Yingzi suddenly revealed the old background of Officer Wang.

"Yingzi, Secretary Wang is a leader, how can you partner me?" I said in my heart, Yingzi was too inattentive to what he said, Secretary Wang is a leader-level person, how can he partner me?

In the past, I partnered with Senior Brother, he was the main actor, and I was an assistant actor; if Director Wang partnered with me, why couldn't I let him act for me! If I asked Secretary Wang to star, what else would we actors do?

"Hehe, I've played shows in the past. However, after so many years, I have long forgotten it, besides, now this old arm and legs have a hard time walking, and it is even more difficult to perform on stilts!"

"It's okay, I'll ask my comrades-in-arms when I go back and see if there is a suitable partner for me?" I hurriedly relieved Officer Wang.

When I returned to the performance team, Captain Tian no longer asked me to practice playing Xiaocheng gongs, but personally led the gong and drum band to practice stilt Yangge gongs and drums and accompanying music.

Actively cooperate with my stilt Yangge. It seems that Officer Wang must have talked to him and explained, otherwise, why did he treat me like this?

Although Captain Tian pretended to be a conductor there, the real conductor of the gong and drum band was Chen Jie.

After practicing for a while, Chen Jie asked me, "Wenhua, what is the rhythm of the gongs and drums of your stilt Yangge?"

Based on my impression, I hummed the gongs and drums performed by the Xie family class.

"Oh, I see, it's the basic rhythm of our Northeast Yangge......" Chen Jie is an understanding person, listened to my humming, immediately wrote down the rhythm, told Captain Tian to go to the office to make a copy, sent a copy to the band, and practiced according to it.

Later events proved that thanks to Chen Jie's major change, Captain Tian and Secretary Wang were not temporarily blinded during the group celebration performance.

So, I felt like I had returned to Xie's class, and in the familiar accompaniment, I started my own stilt Yangge show. That mood is no less than the days in the car class.

The next morning, before the wake-up call sounded, I got up early, folded the quilt lightly, and then quietly came to the beach by the river.

I started practicing my legs and feet for a while, then I did a five-step punch according to the program, and then I flipped and moved to practice the somersault.

Finally, I took out the two stilt sticks that Director Dong gave me and tied them to my legs to practice.

The morning in the ravine was silent and clear, and a mist rose from the river and filled the thick thorn bushes, but my loud shouts of practice pierced it.

Not only through the mist, through the thorn bushes, through the sand, but also through the news broadcast of the barracks broadcast loudspeakers, a loud shout reached the ears of the barracks soldiers.

The students of the literary and artistic training class get up in the morning to wash their faces, brush their teeth, and tidy up their housekeeping. When they heard that they saw my bunk empty, someone asked Captain Tian, "Where is Wenhua?"

"Can't you see, I'm practicing outside!" Captain Tian glared at the other party, presumably, he thought that it was against discipline for me to come out so early to practice kung fu. I haven't done it yet!

However, last night, Secretary Wang seriously criticized him and told him that I must hurry up and practice so as not to affect the performance activities of the reunion celebration.

Moreover, I immediately came to ask for leave and asked to go to the river in the morning to practice. In this way, he can only let me go free.

Although Officer Wang is not so terrifying, behind him is the head of the Propaganda Unit. He attaches great importance to this performance.

Commander Yu was probably tired of watching the veterans' performances, so he ordered all the recruits to perform on stage, so that the leaders of the troops and the soldiers could see the new look of the new forces. In this way, Lao Tian just wants to block me, and it is difficult to do it.

When I returned to the dormitory, I saw that my comrades-in-arms had already sorted out the interior into tofu blocks, and when I saw that my quilt was loose, I hurriedly lay on the bed and sorted it out carefully.

The next morning, I went to the river beach by myself.

On the river beach, the morning sun is shining brightly and the morning breeze is cool. With brisk steps, I walked through the thorn bushes and reappeared by the babbling Tang River.

Today, I looked carefully across the river, only to find that on the other side of the river, there was a steep cliff on one side, and there was a dense forest on top of the cliff.

In the middle of the woods, there is a green, grass-like clearing, and at the edge of the clearing, a towering mountain peak emerges abruptly. This mountain peak has been weathered a little by the wind and rain, and it looks a little dilapidated and dilapidated.

The stone walls on all sides are covered with shrubs and moss, and on the summit, there are a few dead trees lying horizontally. Only the weathered rubble sprouts of green grass and small yellow or purple flowers sprouted.

If I go up and shout at the barracks, it will be very pleasant. I unconsciously became whimsical. Then I saw that at the foot of the hill on the other side of the river, there was a trail leading to the top of the mountain.

If you look at the river, it's not very deep. Moreover, the water flow is not fast. In the middle of the river, huge river pebbles lie in the middle of the river. As soon as I was excited, my feet tentatively stepped on the nearby rock.

Jumping and hopping, I finally crossed the river, followed the trail to the top of the mountain, and came to the bottom of the peak at the edge of the meadow, where I stood and gazed curiously at this strange peak, and it took a long time for my breath and my heart to subside after the climb.

Then I looked around, and there was hardly any sound except for the green pines of the mountain forest, sticking out of their branches and swaying slightly in the morning breeze.