Chapter 110: Many doubts
As for the development experience of Jingyao Grand Theater, all insiders in the Peking Opera industry will know more or less about it.
That was the glorious entrepreneurial history of the Ji family, and after three generations of hard work, the Ji family finally sat firmly on the number one spot in the first family in the Peking Opera industry. It's just that the written records are mostly more official, and too much personal color has been added to the word of mouth, so it is inevitable that it will gradually become distorted, and it has long been impossible to completely restore the history of the year.
For example, when Ji Guangfan talked about how his old man founded the Jingyao Grand Theater in his early years, he would definitely not mention how much other Peking Opera families helped, and now he still has a friendship, only the Mei family, which has the same status, is left, and the other major families are not worthy of a name.
The people in it are warm and cold, and they can't be crueler.
Speaking of these, even Gu Nanqiao, a bystander, was a little indignant: "If this is the case, Ji Guangfan is too inauthentic, at the beginning, the big guys ran it together, and now that the Jingyao Grand Theater has developed, he kicked his partner out of the door, which is not reasonable, right?"
"Ji Guangfan was originally a person who chased fame and fortune, so it is not surprising that he could do such a thing...... Haven't you dealt with Liyuantang, Ji Munan is arrogant and unruly, not to mention the principles that should be adhered to in the inheritance of the Peking Opera family, even if it is the demeanor that an ordinary Liyuan disciple should have, he has not inherited it - Ji Guangfan taught such a junior, and continued to be arrogant and unrestrained, you can see what kind of person Ji Guangfan is......."
"Feng Tan, what you said is a bit extreme. Su Yiyang leaned lazily on the back of the chair, casually hooked the corners of his lips, and interrupted Feng Tan's words with a chuckle.
Gu Nanqiao originally thought that he couldn't listen to it anymore, and planned to say a few good words for the Ji family, but who knew that Su Dashao had just opened his mouth, and he took the damage without dirty words to the extreme.
"If you want to say that you can't be a person, you can't do things authentically, sometimes you really can't rely on your parents, the heroic character of your grandfather at that age, and in the end, don't you also give birth to a profit-hungry descendant like Ji Guangfan? A mouse poop spoils a pot of porridge, which is not a rare thing, and the Liyuan Opera Troupe has been operating for several generations, and it is inevitable that there will be one or two disciples who corrupt the doorway, but the rat poop taught the shell Lang, and the father and son also dominate the Peking Opera market, which is a new thing. ”
Su Yiyang didn't show any mercy in these words, he was many times more ruthless than Feng Tan said, so that Feng Tan was so amused that the corners of his lips were hooked and he laughed lowly, and Gu Nanqiao was also deeply amazed by Su Dashao's outstanding eloquence in personal attack.
When Su Yiyang said softly and wanted to make people happy, when the words were full of honey and mercilessly damaged people to the ground, even the punctuation marks were poking at the hearts of people's hearts, and in a word, they were two varieties throughout, so that they could switch seamlessly, which was really not easy.
After a short teasing, Gu Nanqiao quickly fell into thought.
Su Yiyang hadn't mentioned the Jingyao Grand Theater much before, but when he expressed his position in Liyuan Hall, he lightly explained that he and Ji Munan had a grudge because of the family affairs of the year. Maybe it was because Su Yiyang hid his emotions too well, Gu Nanqiao didn't think about it deeply, and he didn't know what kind of deep hatred was hidden behind it.
Until this moment, it seems that Su Yiyang obviously has a deep grudge with the Ji family, and the intricate past events that Feng Tan talked about are clearly only the tip of the iceberg, and it can be seen that it is far from a good beginning and a good end.
Jingyao Grand Theater, or Ji Jia, is behind a bottomless pool of muddy water.
"Today's Jingyao Grand Theater has become nothing more than an accessory to the Ji family's consolidation of status, and its reputation is all earned by capital operation.
Su Yiyang took out the cigarette case from his pocket, knocked one out, and clamped it to his lips. The firelight brightened the dim night, and the faint smoke diffused through his slender fingertips, and his beautiful smiling eyes seemed to precipitate explicit irony.
"If Ji Guangfan could learn Grandpa Ji's three-point bearing, the Jingyao Grand Theater would not have stopped moving forward for many years and was reduced to what it is now...... Today's Jingyao Grand Theater, the development direction and the establishment of the original cart before the horse, have long been different from people, Ji Guangfan has no ability to bring together several major Peking Opera families, and it is almost inevitable that the theater will go downhill. ”
"It's not that he doesn't have the ability, he doesn't dare. Feng Tan sneered and said unhurriedly, "When Ji Guangfan did everything possible to win the management of the Jingyao Grand Theater from the hands of the seniors of the family, how could he add uncontrollable factors to himself out of thin air, as for the operation of the theater...... He must have never cared. ”
"Ji Guangfan is so selfish that he is clear, as a complete egoist, how can he talk about feelings?" Su Yiyang casually flicked the cigarette ash and laughed mockingly, "What this head of the Ji family cares about is nothing more than the prestige and status of the Ji family, and it can be seen from what he did in the Peking Opera Association that the Jingyao Grand Theater is just a bargaining chip for him to win a place in Vanity Fair, nothing more." ”
"If Grandpa Ji could manage the Jingyao Grand Theater for a few more years, everything would have been different, maybe those performances would have been on the stage a long time ago and talked about by the audience, and my dad wouldn't have ......."
Feng Tan didn't say the words later, just lowered his eyes slightly, sighed in a low voice, and the murmur squeezed out between his lips and teeth was unsearchable, and the end note carried indescribable bitterness and regret.
"After all...... It's a pity. ”
What Feng Tan said was very vague, Gu Nanqiao was not a family inheritance, and she didn't know anything about the secret rumors of the Jingyao Grand Theater back then, except for Mei Hanqiu, she had heard other names for the first time.
Hearing these deeds at this moment, Gu Nanqiao had reverence for Dean Ji and sympathy for other families, but his emotions only stopped there, and he didn't have more sense of participation.
It wasn't until Su Yiyang's sudden sentence suddenly pulled Gu Nanqiao to the center of the topic.
"I said Feng Tan, you are also sad about the spring and autumn, what Grandpa Ji wanted to do back then came to an end, since Ji Guangfan had no intention of taking it, I took it over the same, now Xiao Nanqiao has begun to practice steadily, and the results are just around the corner. ”
"Boss Su is too good at putting gold on his face. ”
Feng Tan seemed to have heard something funny, raised his eyebrows and joked, "You compare this small spring garden with the Jingyao Grand Theater back then, and you don't want to think about how you compare to others from repertoire to volume, from investment to personnel, and to this level of confidence, isn't it too ridiculous?"
"What's the matter, is it so difficult to admit that I've done a good job?" Su Yiyang was very unimpressed by this, as if he had seen through Feng Tan's thoughts, and blurted out the words as a matter of course.
"Feng Tan, I can see your little abacus clearly, so I can't hide it with me, it's boring - if you want to put pressure on the Jingyao Grand Theater, you have to have the right chips, so many years of disappearing, it's just to hold back a big move, if it weren't for the good development of the spring garden, can you attract your big Buddha?"
Feng Tan didn't say anything, but he didn't deny it, just coldly hooked the corners of his lips.
Su Yiyang and Feng Tan have been in contact, and Gu Nanqiao, the center of the topic, heard it in a fog, no less than watching the gods fight.
She frowned slightly, she couldn't hold back for a long time, and asked with a puzzled face: "Wait, Su Yiyang, let me interrupt...... What does Dean Ji's vision have to do with me?"
Seeing the doubts in Gu Nanqiao's eyes, Su Yiyang opened his mouth unhurriedly, and simply clicked through the words.
"When the Jingyao Grand Theatre was established, there were two major core sayings that several major Peking Opera families were moved, the first was the commercialization of Peking Opera, which directly faced the market and attracted more audiences, and the second was ...... Repertoire reform of Peking Opera. ”
"Peking Opera repertoire reform?" Gu Nanqiao raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, that's what you mean. ”
It didn't matter if Gu Nanqiao asked more, Su Yiyang gave her a positive answer.
"More than 30 years ago, Grandpa Ji thought about doing Peking Opera reform, and he agreed with several major Peking Opera families that the Ji family would not be a monopoly, and then he would count the shares according to the performance performance of the juniors, and when he retired, the new dean would be selected based on merit. So under the supervision of Grandpa Ji, the original repertoire of Jingyao Grand Theater has done very well, just like Feng Tan said, and there are many good ideas that are not outdated now. ”
Later, the commercialization of Peking Opera became the general trend, and Jingyao Grand Theater, as the leader of the year, successfully earned the first pot of gold, and has a remarkable status so far. It's a pity that the repertoire reform stopped after Grandpa Ji's death, and it was not thoroughly implemented. ”
After the death of Ji Lao, the Jingyao Troupe lost its core cohesion, coupled with the sudden intervention of capital, it was inevitable that the management would lose its heart, and the theater gradually began to be chaotic.
The first to bear the brunt is Ji Guangfan.
When the old man was still alive, Ji Guangfan didn't dare to disobey the rules he left behind, but now that he is gone, no one can control Young Master Ji, so he is naturally unwilling to give up the huge Jingyao Grand Theater to others.
In terms of singing skills or repertoire creativity, he can't take the lead, so he can only suppress the children of several major families in other ways, and affect the process of the performance.
When the partner has two hearts and starts to use small means with his own people, it is when the group is facing collapse. Later, it is not surprising that the internal problems of the Jingyao Grand Theater became more and more acute, and it became uncontrollable to fall apart.
The first to go out independently was Mei Hanqiu, who was tired of being on a par with the other four family heirs and chose to stand on her own. Then the sudden fire took away Feng Sunan's life, broke the iron triangle of the Jingyao Grand Theater, and then Sun Jing suddenly committed suicide, which completely ended the glorious years of the Jingyao Grand Theater.
The only person left is Ji Guangfan.
He naturally took over the position of director of the Jingyao Grand Theater, and the development over the years has been fruitless, his reputation and momentum have become more and more fierce, but the performance level has not improved, that is, the ones who have just been criticized by Su Yiyang and Feng Tan.
Speaking of this, Su Yiyang chuckled and pulled the topic back again.
"Don't say much about the old things, Feng Tan, you have gone around such a big circle, and it is a relic and a photo, what do you want to say, should you deliberately find the spring garden, just to recall the glorious experience of the previous generation with me. ”
"Boss Su, don't worry, I'm not so idle. Feng Tan narrowed his peach blossom eyes slightly and glanced at Su Yiyang lightly, "What I want to say is the suspicion of the death of my father and Aunt Sun back then." ”
Hearing this, Su Yiyang was rarely more serious, he tilted his head and looked at Feng Tan, as if he wanted to see something from his trivial expression, and then spoke unhurriedly.
"At that time, in the Su family's villa, you said that Uncle Feng was killed...... What's the suspicion?"
Feng Tan pinched the rim of the teacup slightly, and a faint sigh quickly dispersed in the wind.
"Suspicious, it's that glass bead—"
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