Chapter 187 Lady Cutting Flowers

Wang Yao grew up in a poor environment, Wang Yao didn't have much desire for material, food and clothing was his biggest expectation in the past, until now he has changed the trajectory of his life, he still doesn't have much desire for material, the money he made during this period is conservatively estimated to be million, but all this money is fed back to the development of Yue Opera and storytelling, he doesn't think that material can bring him anything. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But his life is poor, and the life of Master Ku Shulan can be described as suffering, this village is full of yellow sand, violent soil and dust, and the place where she and her wife live leaks on all sides, dirty and crowded.

Moreover, this eighty-year-old man is riddled with old diseases, skinny and stiff, and almost walking is a problem, and he has to cook by himself every day.

It is hard to imagine that this is an artist who is internationally famous with masters such as Picasso and Matisse, and her living environment makes Wang Yao feel a chill from the cold bone marrow.

Wang Yao is very similar to asking, with so many works of the elderly in various museums, is it not possible to provide the elderly with food, clothing, warmth, and a stable living environment in their old age?

Such unfair treatment made Wang Yao completely indifferent to Lu Sheng and Guan Xianglin and his party.

Lu Sheng came to work with Master Ku Shulan to complete the same work this time, as a way to show the essence of Chinese paper-cutting skills to the International Arts Festival, Guan Xianglin and the director Dongying are both here to shoot discipline films, and those students may be here to mix credits.

These people, no one seems to care, this old man's living environment is so difficult.

From this moment on, Wang Yao finally understood the meaning of material to the world, and only with material can we save and help more folk artists who are in deep suffering, as well as poor people.

Wang Yao called Wu Tianlai and asked about his current earnings.

"What's the matter, brother, if you're short of money, you can say how much you want. "After knowing Wang Yao for so long, Wang Yao entrusted her with almost the entire "Legend of Wu Xun", and he didn't ask, which made Wu Tianlai admire Wang Yao very much, but this time Wang Yao suddenly asked about money, and Wu Tianlai knew that something must have happened.

"I want to build a school. Wang Yao said, thought about it, and then changed his words: "I want to set up a company in the form of a troupe." ”

"Needless to say, I see what you mean. Wu Tianlai smiled and said, "Leave this matter to me, you can do whatever you want." ”

"A place to stay, if big, it is better to be bigger, not too far from the city, the surrounding environment is quieter. Wang Yao said.

"No problem, just check in?" Wu Tianlai asked.

"Well, it's troublesome Brother Wu. Wang Yao said with a smile.

"It's all my own brothers, waiting for you to come back. Wu Tianlai didn't say anything and hung up the phone.

Although Wu Tianlai is a businessman, he is indeed quite cute sometimes, Wang Yao sighed and called Kong Ping again.

"Why did you remember to call me? The sun is coming out of the west. It took two calls to connect, Kong Pingjiao said with a smile.

"Senior sister, are there any people from your opera association here in Xianyang?" Wang Yao asked.

"Xianyang, of course there is, or the vice president, what's wrong?" Kong Ping was stunned, and finally a little nervous, "What happened to you?"

"Need help, you can help me get in touch, I've got a little thing. Wang Yao smiled.

"You wait, I'll contact him and ask him to call you, then remember to tell me something after contacting, it makes my heart furious. Kong Ping hung up the phone in a hurry.

Wang Yao sat on the steps of an unknown house and chatted with the little boy who gave him sweet potatoes.

After a while, a person claiming to be the person in charge of the Xianyang Opera Association, Xue Tao, called and got straight to the point, "Mr. Wang, what's the trouble?"

"Hello, President Xue. Wang Yao smiled, "I want you to help me check, you have a paper-cutting master Ku Shulan here, you know." ”

"Of course, that's a celebrity from our Qin land. Xue Tao was stunned and said with a smile.

"Can you help me contact her family, I have something I want to discuss. Wang Yao said.

"Yes, no problem, I have a message to call you. Xue Tao smiled: "By the way, so you are in Xianyang, I'll visit you." ”

"I came to visit, but I accidentally came here and saw the situation of Master Ku Shulan, and I wanted to know better. Wang Yao smiled: "Do you have any information?" ”

"This, I've only heard of a few, Ms. Ku Shulan was famous a few years ago, especially in our Qindi, but she was too old, so let her go back in peace. Xue Tao said.

"Enjoy your old age in peace?" Wang Yao couldn't help but snort softly, "Your local officials didn't give some benefits?"

"There should be, although paper-cutting has disappeared over the years, Ms. Ku Shulan's reputation is outside, and there are still many celebrities and scholars who visit her, and life should not be too bad. Xue Tao smiled, "Besides, she is not a registered civil servant, and her pension problems should be solved by herself, and the official can't control it." ”

Wang Yao smiled, "Yes, I can't control it, and I don't know what your local officials are taking care of, museums can't manage it, and masters can't manage it." ”

As if hearing the mockery in Wang Yao's tone, Xue Tao was stunned for a moment and asked cautiously, "Did something happen?"

"It's okay, thank you President Xue. Wang Yao smiled, "Please contact his family." ”

Xue Tao answered twice, hung up the phone and stayed for a while, since Kong Ping took the position, the Opera Development Association has promoted various versions of "The Legend of Wu Xun" to everyone, and there are several special ones responsible for promotion and other businesses, so that their troupes have saved huge trouble.

Moreover, the performance of "The Legend of Wu Xun" in Qindi was very smooth, because of the mellow style of Qindi, so there is still some popularization of opera, which is not as serious as the invasion of popular culture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially the effect of this new repertoire and martial arts fever.

After the provincial Qin cavity troupe opened, it received huge praise, and then the troupes from all over the country came to the door to ask for scriptures and wanted to perform, this half month, there are at least dozens of performances every day in the entire Qin land, and just one kind of Qin cavity, there are other local operas, and the effect of the entire "Wu Xun Chuan" on Liyuan Xing is phenomenal.

The troupe was not only able to make money, but also promoted and developed, which made Kong Ping, the newly appointed president, receive great support, and at the same time, everyone knew that she knew the author Wang Gu, an author with such a talent, enough to feed a genre.

Therefore, Xue Tao is the head of the provincial troupe, but Wang Gu is ghostly and no one knows his identity, so he can only rely on Kong Ping, and Kong Ping specially explained the matter this time, and Xue Tao did not dare to slack off.

I personally asked someone to call Ku Shulan's two sons, Ku Shulan's artistic achievements did not change the predicament of her life, and at the same time could not change the fate of her two sons, the two sons are not young, they have started families, but they do not live with the old man, live in other villages, and only occasionally go back to see their mother.

Xue Tao has an identity, and the phone call directly to his two sons is the village chief, and the two sons don't know what happened, after contacting Xue Tao, Xue Tao decided to go and see for himself what happened.

With Kong Ping's attitude of attaching importance to Wang Yao, Xue Tao felt that if Wang Yao owed a favor, he would be able to benefit the troupe in the future by the Opera Development Association.

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After Wang Yao made all the preparations, he touched his pocket, turned out the phone number of the enthusiastic taxi brother last time, spent a lot of money to charter him for a few days, asked him to rent a minibus, buy a lot of snacks and daily necessities to bring over, and asked Zhao to help with the mat first.

If it weren't for Wang Yao's introduction by Mr. Ma, Zhao really wouldn't dare to help Wang Yao with this small 30,000 yuan easily.

After dealing with these things, Wang Yao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the appearance of this village and sighed, and then went to visit door to door to inquire about the situation of this village and Master Ku Shulan.

Master Ku Shulan was more difficult than Wang Yao imagined, and heard from the people in the village that she had a total of thirteen children, but she lost one because of the famine, and in the end only three sons, two sons and one daughter were left.

The two sons went out to work when they were young, and later moved to other villages, and their daughters married farther, and they couldn't serve the elderly.

Later, these paper-cutting handicrafts gradually became unprofitable, so the hobby of paper-cutting Cheng Lanku Shulan, the young people in the village basically went out to work at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and they got married very early, basically at the age of sixteen or seventeen, the women stayed in the village to watch the children, and the elders watched the children, so they multiplied.

This is a common situation in rural China, but since the reform and opening up, a large number of young people who have seen the outside world are reluctant to come back, so they have settled outside, and at the same time, Ku Shulan is not interested in this traditional handicraft.

Ku Shulan because of a misstep, after waking up, she was like a different person, calling herself a flower-cutting lady, and her handmade paper-cutting also began to have life at that time, and then slowly became famous in Qindi, and finally went international.

When Ku Shulan was most famous, she also served as the director of the Women's Association in Qindi, specializing in teaching the folk skill of paper-cutting.

However, with the traditional skill of paper-cutting, it is less and less recognized by mainstream young people, and it seems to have lost its value along with paper-cutting.

But this has nothing to do with art, Ku Shulan's artistic value can be as famous as Picasso and Matisse in the world, because she uses the traditional skills of Huaxiazui to convey the living environment and positive vitality of the lowest working people to the world through exquisite paper-cutting skills.