Chapter 268: The Soul of the Drama

I opened the program list and glanced at it hurriedly, and from beginning to end, I lined up more than a dozen excerpts from classic Peking Opera, including the names of the plays, the introductions of the plays, and the introductions of the actors. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But there is no name of Juan North in it, I can't help but be a little disappointed, it seems that not all the unremitting efforts have paid off, the number of days, the number of fate, the number of fortunes, maybe no one has fully participated since ancient times. However, the only thing that makes me a little relieved is that I saw Juan Bei's name in the director's column, and he is still the artistic director of the whole play.

At this time, the lights in the auditorium dimmed and the show was about to begin. Peng Yushu, who was sitting next to me, whispered: "Lao Chang, after the performance, let's talk about Juan Bei, I think he has changed a lot in the past two years, not only in his voice, but also in his mental state, including his living habits." I heard that he was divorced half a year ago. ”

"Divorce, won't they? They are a couple in distress, how could they get divorced?" Peng Yushu's words surprised me very much.

"Who knows? In the past, we were friends who talked about everything, but now, I still listen to the people of their Peking Opera Troupe about such a big matter, and it is very evil anyway, saying that Hu Anbei has a mental problem, and often has domestic violence or something. Some people also said that Hu Anbei went to the Taoist temple on Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province by making up new dramas, and was preparing to cultivate immortals, so could his daughter-in-law still live with him?"

The show began, and the moment the curtain opened, I immediately understood why the show had been scheduled for a year. The stage, from the choreography, lighting, props, to the costumes and appearances of the actors, are all beautiful, sweeping away my view of traditional Peking Opera. The music is even more ingenious, in addition to the traditional instruments commonly used in Peking Opera, there is also a small symphony orchestra to accompany below, and the effect of the sound orchestration is very shocking. It's a pity that my mind is not on the performance at all, I am thinking about the half-watched "Soul of the Opera" for a while, and thinking about the great changes around Juan Bei in the past year, so I simply took advantage of the curtain call of the first act of the performance to change the scenery, picked up the magazine next to me, and left the seat.

In the aisle of the auditorium, there is a row of seats, reserved for the audience who arrive early before the performance starts, which is empty at the moment. Sitting down in the seat, the sound of gongs and drums inside sounded again. This seems to be the group's signature program "Shiro Visits His Mother", and reading the book in such a wonderful scene may be more integrated into the scene in the book, right? I opened the magazine again, found the page that I had just interrupted, and continued to read.

I admit that if it weren't for Peng Yushu's interruption in the middle, I would have always been immersed in the plot of the story and ignored a lot of things. When I read it again, I found that the narrative in the second half of the story is completely different from the previous one. In the first half, there are ups and downs, there are three points of inner emotion, and there are also a lot of helpless depictions of fate. In the back, there is no emotion at all, no joy or anger, no likes and dislikes, just a bland description that borders on indifference. I can't imagine that it was written by one person.

After thinking about it, Qianlong had only one way to overcome the difficulties in front of him. He told Xiao Yulan that this child will not be able to enter the royal family when he is born in the future, otherwise he will be discriminated against in the palace because of Xiao Yulan's background, and he will be bound by the Taoist etiquette, it will be difficult to take special care of him. If one day he is gone, then this child will not only have no support, but will also likely become a victim of political struggle.

Rather than this, it is better for the child to be entrusted to a trusted minister in the royal family after birth, and the minister will do his best to raise the child to adulthood. In this way, he can continue to reuse and promote this child with the friendship of kings and ministers. Since this kid does not have the destiny to become a great unification, let him become a generation of famous ministers, and it will not be in vain for him to go through this life in this life. If she gave birth to a girl, she must have chosen a good family for her to marry to ensure her prosperity and wealth for a lifetime.

It's just that this arrangement will make Xiao Yulan suffer, and she will never be able to recognize each other, and once the child is born, she will be secretly sent out of the palace, return to Guangtaiban, and live an incognito life from now on. Once the child is sensible, he will take the child to Jiangnan to see her.

Xiao Yulan couldn't accept Qianlong's plan at first, she couldn't say goodbye to the child when he was born, but her strength was extremely small, and she couldn't think of any other way. She stopped all creation and rehearsals, locked herself in the house and didn't eat. After thinking about it for a few days, she slowly felt that Qianlong's method might be the only feasible one. She could go and beg Qianlong to let their mother and son go to Jiangnan to live in seclusion, but she felt that if this child returned to the opera troupe, he would become a drama that others looked down on, and he might be able to train hard to become a talent, but who could guarantee that it would not become the result of Zhang Shenlin? For the child, being by Qianlong's side is far more promising than following him.

Xiao Yulan accepted Qianlong's arrangement, but Qianlong had to worry about much more than just a plan. Xiao Yulan is going to be pregnant in Jingshan for ten months, which will inevitably be seen by others, of course, she can also secretly send it to the entrusted minister's house now, but if she usually wants to visit, it will be very troublesome.

Qianlong replaced the original palace maids in the small courtyard, and transferred some trustworthy people to serve Xiao Yulan. At the same time, the construction of the reconstruction of the Jingshan building began. Qianlong is in disrepair in the Shouhuang Palace, and it enshrines the portraits of Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng, which is very important, which is a justifiable reason. At the time of the court discussion, the director of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed that the Shouhuang Palace continued to use the building left over from Jingshan in the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen hanged himself on the big locust tree not far from here.

Qianlong saw the concert and felt that the amount of work was larger, and it could be farther away from the small courtyard where Xiao Yulan lived, so it was naturally convenient to hide the secrets in it, so he pushed the boat down the river to determine it. But Qianlong and even the director of the construction department did not expect that this project would move the buildings originally biased towards the east side of Jingshan to the central axis, and the imbalance designed by Yao Guangxiao back then had his deep meaning.

Because of this setback, the director of the construction department received a considerable amount of bribes in private, and he just thought that by increasing the amount of work and increasing the construction expenses, the craftsmen under the construction department would have more income, and the businessmen who undertook the project below naturally wanted to give him some filial piety to the principal, and he didn't know where this huge bribe came from. But then again, even if he knew that such a transformation would break the Feng Shui of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, would he not accept the silver in his hand?

After the reconstruction began, Qianlong paid great attention to the whole project, and went to the site to inspect on the third or fifth day, which made the construction department nervous. Qianlong ruled the country with benevolence and filial piety, and paid more attention to the places where the ancestral icons were worshipped, which was reasonable. Only the little eunuchs around Qianlong knew that every time the holy car did not go back to the palace directly, but went to the small courtyard where Xiao Yulan lived. But no one dared to spread this matter, it involved the secret of the royal heirs, and it was a big crime to lose his head to say the wrong thing.

I thought that all this would be done after all this arrangement, but who knew that within half a year, another earth-shattering event happened in the palace. The emperor's eldest son, Yonghuang, fell ill and died. Speaking of Qianlong's establishment of the prince, it can be said that the clouds are weird and terrifying.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because of the bloody wind of "nine kings vying for the throne" during the Kangxi period, Yongzheng established a secret reserve system after ascending the throne. That is, the emperor establishes the heir, and does not make it public, but hides the small box with the name of the heir behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque. In this way, all the princes did not know who the heir was, and they lost the object of the conspiracy, and all the princes felt that they had a chance and would be more motivated.

When Qianlong was a teenager, he and Yongzheng's father experienced that period of unbearable frightening, so he naturally agreed with his father's approach. But he never thought that this system would become a curse when it came to him.

Qianlong and the queen Fucha are very affectionate, which is known to the Manchu Dynasty, and their son, the second prince Yonglian, was designated as the successor by Qianlong from the time of birth, and his name was hung behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque. Yonglian is also angry, he has been very smart since he was a child, he can write at the age of two, and he writes poems at the age of five, and he has the style of Qianlong's youth. never thought that Yonglian was infected with a cold when he was nine years old, and his life was whimpered. Qianlong was very sad and posthumously crowned Prince Yonglianding.

Fortunately, a few years later, the Fucha clan gave birth to their son Yongcong again, and the two were very happy and hurriedly identified Yongcong as the heir. But the tragedy repeated again, and Yongcong died of smallpox when he was two years old. Fucha was grief-stricken, depressed and unhappy, Qianlong felt sorry for Fucha, so he took her down to the south of the Yangtze River to relax, but he didn't expect to go to Jinan, Fucha couldn't afford to be sick, and died in a few days. This was an extremely huge blow to Qianlong, although he still had a few sons, he was no longer in the mood to become a prince.

The appearance of Xiao Yulan was when Qianlong was most lonely. Originally, Qianlong just kept her in the palace to make the queen mother happy because she looked a little like the queen mother when she was young, and she sang well in the play. Later, I had a lot of contact, but I felt that Xiao Yulan had the shadow of the Fucha clan in her character, which gave Qianlong great comfort. Of course, Qianlong did not tell Xiao Yulan about this plot of remembering his deceased wife. Xiao Yulan also didn't know that Qianlong, who was the son of heaven, and most of his heirs would not live to adulthood.

(Death, life, survival, poverty, wealth, goodness, discredit, hunger, thirst, cold and heat, are the changes of events, and the deeds of life are also the deeds of life; day and night are the predecessors, and the knowledge cannot be regulated by the beginning.) Therefore, it is not enough to slip and make peace, and it is not allowed to enter the spiritual house. Make it harmonious, pass without losing the exchange, so that the day and night are free and the things are spring, and the one who is born in the heart is also. Yes, it is complete. - "Zhuangzi")