The story goes back to the mid-60s, when the Peking Opera Troupe took over the task of composing a red model opera. In those days, the www.biquge.info model opera was a political task, and it was the supreme glory of the Peking Opera Troupe to be assigned to arrange the model opera. So the Peking Opera Troupe dispatched elite soldiers and began to write scripts. And Juan Bei is naturally the backbone of the creative team.

It took Juan Bei a year to make a comprehensive and detailed investigation of the archetypal characters in the play and the environmental scenes where the story took place, made more than a dozen notes, and spent more than half a year on the creation, and the book he took out was well received by the group.

But soon, the Cultural Revolution Leading Group fully involved in the creation and performance of the model opera. After Juan Bei's notebook was reported, there was a very big controversy. Originally, Hu Anbei had very high expectations for the red model play, after all, when the model play first appeared, the concept of choreography was very consistent with the idea of Hu Anbei's drama innovation. For example, in terms of subject matter, we choose more content that is close to the life of the times, borrowing from other genres, such as opera, dance drama, symphony, and the way of expression and accompaniment, as well as a new cinematic design of the stage set.

Hu Anbei had several earnest talks and exchanges with the leading group of the Cultural Revolution on the matter of the book, but the result made Hu Anbei feel like cold water empowerment, and his heart was half cold. The leading group of the Cultural Revolution needs to highlight the heroic figures, they think that the heroic color of the protagonist is not clear enough in the creation of Hu Anbei, and there are many hesitant and contradictory depictions of the thought process, which must be deleted.

There are also those villains, who are not bad enough, not obscene enough, how can they set off the tall image of the hero? It must be changed, the heroic characters are added, it doesn't matter if there are no deeds, make it up, and then put other people's affairs on his head. There are also singing dialogues that must be changed, to be more vernacular, and to be understood by the common people.

The leading group of the Cultural Revolution specially arranged a person to the troupe to guide the ideological orientation of the book. This person's name is Xu Tianhong, a worker rebel who knows nothing about Peking Opera, let alone script creation. But Xu Tianhong is an extremely conceited person, everything must be made up according to his ideas, this is no longer a question of drama serving politics, but serving his own preferences.

Juan Bei is very stubborn in his creation, he is already very disgusted with the face-painting of characters, and now he wants him to make up some non-existent deeds for the protagonist, which is completely unacceptable to him. Hu Anbei and Xu Tianhong began to quarrel non-stop from the first time they exchanged scripts, and they broke up in less than half an hour. At first, the leaders of the regiment thought that it was just a creative dispute, and everyone unified their thinking, and the problem was solved. But it soon became clear that the dispute had developed into an irreconcilable state.

Xu Tianhong is a person with a dark heart, he has quarreled several times, his shortcomings in his profession have been infinitely magnified, and his face is very difficult to pass, he can't figure it out, in an era when everything is dominated by politics, how can there be a diehard element like Hu Anbei who clings to his own creative ideas? If he does not fight his decadent and reactionary creative ideas, he will never be able to establish himself in the Peking Opera Troupe.

Xu Tianhong put aside the argument for the time being, and began to secretly collect black materials from Juan Bei. The leaders of the regiment realized the silence before the storm and hurriedly asked Hu Anbei to do work, but it was just a play, so what was the need to go toe-to-toe with the comrades sent by the leading group of the Cultural Revolution? It was nothing more than making up some plots and stories, and what kind of model plays were not made up now? But no matter how the leaders of the regiment enlightened Hu Anbei, he was still as stubborn as a donkey, did not say a word, and did not touch the matter of changing the script. The leaders of the regiment are worried, if this continues, Hu Anbei's crime of disobeying the superior leaders is still light, and if he goes online, he will sabotage the creation of revolutionary culture, how can there be good fruits to eat?

Sure enough, a month passed, and after Xu Tianhong jumped up and down, a task force was sent from above to investigate the matter of Hu Anbei. In this investigation, the Hu family sang to the Manchu princes, reactionary warlords, and important members of the Kuomintang in their early years, and they were directly deducted from the hat of reactionary residual poison. When he was in school, Hu Anbei had a correspondence with Mr. Zeng, a Peking Opera master in exile in Hong Kong and an old friend of the Hu family, and asked for advice on some professional issues, which was classified as a collaborator and spy on the enemy.

The investigation lasted two months, not only Hu Anbei, but also his father and two elder brothers were implicated, but fortunately, the Hu family and an old cadre in the central government who had not been defeated were friends of life and death.

Hu Anbei stayed in the remote mountainous area of Jiangxi for ten years. Peng Yushu doesn't know how he got over the past ten years, but it is conceivable that a Peking Opera actor used to put all his time and energy into creation and performance, and overnight, there was no stage, no audience, even if he secretly sang two sentences, he was found to be criticized one after another.

Peng Yushu saw Hu Anbei again at the end of 1978. His rehabilitation did not attract anyone's attention, after all, at that time, too many people returned to Beijing after rehabilitation. But Peng Yushu was surprised that after Juan returned to the troupe, he was only responsible for the props and costumes in the troupe, and did not perform on stage again.

During a party for dinner, Peng Yushu found that Hu Anbei's voice became extremely hoarse, and he coughed non-stop without saying a few words, which was similar to the original Hu Anbei's deep voice. In order to protect their throats, Peking Opera actors generally do not smoke or drink, and the same is true for Juan Bei. But when he came back this time, Juan Bei learned to smoke, and he was so addicted to smoking that he began to smoke while sitting at the dinner table, and in less than a meal, a pack of cigarettes bottomed out. Wine too, and I only like to drink high soju, at least half a catty at a time.

After Peng Yushu asked, he learned that when Hu Anbei was working in Jiangxi, his life was extremely hard. It was a hilly and steep slope, and there was not much flat land to grow grain, and you had to carry water from the bottom of the mountain to irrigate it. In the event of a natural disaster, not much food can be harvested. In the spring, their stinky old nine's rations will be exploited by the production team, and they will often be hungry and full. There was no way, Juan Bei had to follow the example of others, digging some wild vegetables and bamboo shoots on the uphill to satisfy his hunger.

After all, Juan Bei has lived in the city since he was a child, and he doesn't know many plants. Once, I picked a wild vegetable by mistake, and after eating it, my throat burned and stinged. That night, I had a high fever and couldn't get out of bed for two days. A kind neighbor carried him to the town to see an old Chinese medicine doctor, who told Juan Bei that he had eaten a plant called "dumb cabbage", which looked like amaranth, but was extremely poisonous, and although he could save Juan Bei's life, his throat was completely finished, and he was likely to become a mute in the future.

Juan Bei recovered from his illness in a daze, but a Peking Opera actor, a bad voice means the end of his artistic life. Although Juan North was sent to the mountains, he did not give up hope. After all, there is art, and there is always a chance to return to the stage, but his voice is hoarse, and his last hope is completely shattered.

Since then, Juan Bei has broken the can, and it can be regarded as completely rooted in the ravine. As soon as his throat was bad, he began to imitate the local old man and smoked dry cigarettes. There is no tobacco produced in the local area, and when Juan Bei has no money to buy it, he rolls the leaves of the tree and smokes, although it is very choking, but it is not addictive, so he only smokes more, and it doesn't take long for this tobacco addiction to go up.

In the mid-seventies, when the political atmosphere was a little lighter, the Hu family contacted Hu Anbei, knowing that he was living a hard life, and began to send him some money, and Juan Bei got the money, most of which was used to buy alcohol, and he found that alcohol was more effective than smoking in relieving depression. Under such a self-inflicted mess, Juan Bei later had a difficult time speaking, basically relying on strokes to communicate with people.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask Peng Yushu, Juan Bei ate dumb vegetables by mistake and his throat was destroyed, but when we chatted just now, although Hu Anbei spoke a little paused, it was still smooth, not like it had a big impact?

Peng Yushu smiled bitterly and said: "If a person has no thoughts, he will destroy himself, but even if he has a little hope, he will be like a person who has fallen into the water and sees a straw, if you think it is impossible, he will try his best." You don't know what he looked like when he just returned to Beijing, he basically couldn't say a whole sentence, he was snoring in his throat, and now he can talk and communicate, you don't know how much effort he has put in. ”

When Hu Anbei received the news that Zhaoxue had been rehabilitated and that he could return to the Peking Opera Troupe in Beijing, he took out all the money he had, bought all the wine, and invited the unfriendly friends who locked up the cowshed to drink it once, and that time, he drank a bottle of soju alone.

When he returned to the Peking Opera Troupe, the leaders were surprised to find that it was very difficult for Juan Bei to speak normally, let alone perform on stage. A flower-faced actor who was such an excellent actor back then, after more than ten years of hard work, the leaders of the troupe had no choice but to arrange Juan Bei backstage and manage the costumes and props.

But Juan Bei didn't care about the contrast between before and after in the group, while doing his job, he quit smoking and drinking, and started his plan to find his voice.

(Lao Tzu said: The ancient people were Taoists, rational and emotional, curing the mind, raising harmony, holding on to moderation, being happy and forgetting cheapness, and forgetting poverty with virtue.) Sex has no desire, no desire but can't, heart is unhappy, no joy and no action, no benefit to sex is not tired, inconvenient for the living is not to slip and reconcile. If you don't indulge in the system and wanton, you can be the world's rituals, measure the stomach and eat, make the shape and clothes, accommodate the body, and act according to the situation, and there is no rest of the world, and it is unfavorable to entrust all things, how can you lose your life for the rich and poor --"Tongxuan Zhenjing")