Chapter 30: Listening to the Drama

In the police station, Duan Hongye rubbed the fist and foot injuries on his body and gritted his teeth, vowing to avenge this old fist, and the director diligently served him tea and poured water.

People don't dare to close it, and things still have to be dealt with. In the next day's report on the handling of the matter, the director explained the verdict as follows: "Because this person's behavior is just a typical star-chasing fanaticism, he is too deep into the drama, and his behavior is inappropriate, but his motives are pitiful. "The laws of the Republic of China really have no special judicial interpretation of this, and in the end he had to be fined fifty oceans.

But after leaving the police station, Duan Hongye shouted: "Fifty oceans can hug the goddess in your heart, happy!" Joyfully! Worth! Worth. At that time, the newspaper reported a major event, and the good deeds wrote a poem: "Ice and snow are smart, and the leader and the girl in the play are fairies; Why is he anxious and abrupt, and he has a heart and liver of fifty yuan. Because Zhang Yiqing disturbed his good deeds, he hated him deeply. Before you know it, the two have formed a bond.

Two days later, Cai Ye really lived up to his preface and asked Zhang Hanqing to listen to the play again.

Frankly speaking, Zhang Hanqing is not half interested in opera. After experiencing the era of great entertainment in later generations, these pastimes in the early Republic of China can really only be regarded as a prototype.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ministry of Internal Affairs Street was called Goolan Hutong, which was performed by prostitutes and artists holding on to the railing and singing. Later, "Goolan" became another name for brothels. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, officials and wealthy people asked prostitutes to accompany them to drink, play music, and sing during banquets, which was called "calling strips", and on the prostitutes' side, they were called "strips".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, brothels were mainly concentrated on the streets outside Qianmen, first, because it was close to the inner city, and it was more convenient for officials to go out of the city to enjoy themselves; Second, there is a railway station here, and there are many passengers coming from the south to the north; Third, Qianmenwai Street is a famous commercial street in Beijing, which is quite prosperous; Fourth, this area is a concentration of opera gardens, teahouses, and restaurants, where you can eat, drink and have fun, and you can be self-contained.

The chicks and forks and gongs each started their own battles, and the sound of vomiting and vomiting was endless, mixed in the bustling crowd of all shapes, and it was very lively. Zhang Hanqing was very happy to see this situation, which was much more interesting than when he came to "explore" the difference between the northern and southern brothels some time ago. It's just strange, why is it a scene when you are alone, and it's so different from Cai Ye when you come out?

In the early morning of Chaoyuyi, the dust is silent. Zhang Hanqing and Cai Ye made an appointment to come to the Kaiming Theater to watch the play. Although I hate watching the play in my heart, my face pretends to be a happy situation of the first brother---- as the saying goes, if the sky wants to send its great responsibility, it must first suffer its mind and work its muscles and bones... It's a test.

If you don't like it, you don't like it, and you don't need to be vassally elegant, even Lu Xun, the head of the seven great masters in the modern literary world, is not interested in Peking Opera. He said in "Social Opera" that he had only watched Peking Opera twice in 20 years, and it was nothing more than "banging and banging, swaying red, red, green and green", "a large group of people beating randomly", and "too unsuitable for survival" under the stage.

Zhang Hanqing is dressed in brocade clothes, with fluttering cheongsam, and the true colors of the son's brother starred; Cai Yi wore his usual merchant clothes to half-hide his identity. People who don't know still think that Zhang Hanqing is the eldest or younger of his family, and Cai Ye is his follower.

To the south of Zhushikou, it is the tea garden and opera garden where the middle and lower class working people play in the area of the overpass, and people can enjoy various plays such as Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Bangzi, and Quyi with a few copper plates. There is a Peking Opera actor Liang Yiming, imitating Ma Lianliang vividly, and the audience who can't afford to listen to Ma Lianliang's play enthusiastically calls him "Tianqiao Ma Lianliang", and the Tianqiao in Jin Yong's "Storytelling under the Tianqiao" refers to this place. However, Zhushikou is a boundary, and the actor is popular in the Tianqiao area, and being able to enter the Kaiming Theater located at the southern end of Zhushikou means that he has stepped into the upper echelons of the theater world.

The Kaiming Theater was built in the first year of the Republic of China, which was a joint venture between China and Japan, and the shape and exterior faΓ§ade were based on foreign theaters. Because the famous Peking Opera artists Yang Xiaolou, Mei Lanfang, Yu Shuyan, Meng Xiaodong, and Bai Yushuang, known as the "Queen of Ping Opera", often perform here, they have always been representatives of high-end atmosphere and grade.

There are many ordinary people, and today it is even more crowded, and the road is congested, which is close to the Spring Festival in history. Zhang Hanqing sighed in his heart: In the end, it is the evil old society, and the entertainment projects are extremely monotonous, just listen to a play, it is worth such an exaggeration. It wasn't until someone chanted that I knew that Yuan Ke, the second son of President Yuan Da, who was good at poetry, calligraphy, and Kunqu opera, would perform a Kunqu opera here.

Yuan Ergongzi's occasional cameo appearances are certainly worth cheering, not because of his official status. You must know that this Yuan Kewen's son, Ya loves Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, and is a famous ticket for Beijing and Tianjin. is not only proficient in drama theory, has written drama articles, and can appear on the stage, but he is one of the best opera masters in a hundred, Xiaosheng and Ugly have played very well, and the commentators rated him as a correct and round character, and he did not let the famous singer, and his fame was not under Mei Lanfang at that time. It's just that he was obsessed with this way, but he didn't make a living, so ordinary people rarely saw his true face.

Yuan Kewen was born to Yuan Shikai's third aunt, the North Korean Jin, because the eldest aunt had no children, so Kewen was adopted by his aunt from an early age. The aunt was very fond of this son, and it was said that any request he made would be fulfilled.

He has been smart since he was a child, and it is said that he has the ability to read ten lines at a glance and "never forget", so although he is not good at reading like Xue Pan, the overlord of the dumb overlord, he writes poems, fills in words, and writes articles, but everything is fine, and the words he writes are also chic, so Yuan Shikai also has some preference for him.

The arrogance of the aunt and Yuan Shikai's preference have created Yuan Kewen's profligate, willful, and arrogant playboy character, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking (opium). Yuan Shikai had a poor image because his eldest son fell off the horse and suffered from lameness, and he loved this son, so he once wanted to make him the "prince". However, Yuan Kewen is stubborn and uninhibited by nature, and never likes to read seriously, but he likes to sing Kunqu Opera, play ancient money, and become a literati, and he says that he "aspires to be a scholar". It really hurt Lao Yuan, but the roots have been formed, so he has to leave it to him.

Although the tickets for the Enlightened Theater are expensive, they are not worth mentioning in the eyes of General Cai. After all, he is the "General Zhaowei" of the Beiyang Government, and he is the elder of the "Uncle Shi", so it is natural that Cai Ye will invite Zhang Hanqing to open his eyes today.

Sitting on the private room seat overlooking the downstairs, I saw a sea of people, bustling and lively. Although Zhang Hanqing doesn't like to watch dramas, he likes to be crowded. For several days, I have been trapped in Tsinghua Garden as a spring and white snow, and this time I finally took over the earth.

The two sat in the elegant seat on the east side of the second floor, and soon after that, a group of old people in horse coats came in, and there were several young people in suits and leather shoes in the middle, and everyone surrounded a middle-aged man like stars holding the moon. This kind of matching of clothes is no longer strange to old Beijingers, but for Zhang Hanqing, who has traveled through the country, this era of the coexistence of Western clothes and the costumes of the ancient empires of the East has a kind of sensory stimulation of beauty and beasts.

The group seemed to see the two of them, too, and when someone pointed in this direction, several others gathered around and muttered something. Zhang Hanqing vaguely seemed to see that there was Duan Hongye who had a conflict with him two days ago, thinking that there must be nothing good. But with the sound of a gong, everything calmed down. The group of people also sat in the West Chamber, and began to concentrate on watching the play.

After an unknown play, the curtain was closed for a moment, and a miserable singing voice came: "Pack up the earth, mountains and rivers, and the four are empty." After all the misty journey, the desert flat forest, the high mountains, and the rolling Yangtze River, but seeing the cold clouds, miserable fog and sorrow, I can't bear the bitter rain and the bleak wind with resentment. The city is strong, see that the country is safe, who knows me to Xiangyang. ”

Kun dialect is not easy to understand, unless it is an old drama bone, you can enjoy it along the tune if you have a good grasp of the lines. Although Zhang Hanqing also worked in Jiangsu and Shanghai for many years in later generations, he couldn't hear it clearly, so he only felt that this voice was slightly different from Wu Nong's soft words that he had heard, but he didn't know what the difference was, so he had to open his eyes wide to see the strangeness.

Then two martial artists with small flags on their heads appeared in a circle, and then a black-bearded man holding a fake horse whip sang one after another: "The neck blood is spattered, the corpses are scattered, and the exposure is bad." and the first level one after another, driving the owl to show the other side. Desolate, sighing that the soul floats in the sky, sighing who buries the bones in the soil. Pile up the vehicles and look at the example of the loyal ministers. In vain, Zheng Zheng boasted that the phoenix was in the rising sun. ”

Seeing that Zhang Hanqing didn't know why, Cai Ye enthusiastically pointed out and said: "This is a flag." ”

Zhang Hanqing nodded and carefully identified a role, and was very relieved, so he pointed to another person and said, "What is the role of the black-bearded man with a feather duster?" ”

Cai Yi couldn't cry or laugh: "That's the coachman." ”

Zhang Hanqing lost his voice: "Looking at his black beard and black face, I thought it was Bao Gong." ”

Cai Yi couldn't help laughing: "This play is called "Miserable", which is the most famous twist in "A Thousand Loyalties". Emperor Jianwen was shaved as a monk, fled outside, and saw the killed ministers along the way, the head of the Quartet, as well as the implicated courtiers and eunuch women, escorted into Beijing, all kinds of tragic conditions, I couldn't bear to witness, so I was full of grief and indignation. Since the whole song is composed of eight songs, each song ends with the word 'yang', it is also called 'eight yang'. Seeing that Zhang Hanqing couldn't hear clearly with his eyes open, he thought that he had been staying in Fengtian and naturally had no chance to hear Kunqu Opera, so he explained it to him without a stubble, and said a few words of singing.

Zhang Hanqing fully mobilized the music cells in his body to savor it, and finally heard: "Split liver and intestines." The pain of the Yiying Dynasty was lost, and the blood soup in the suburbs was soup. Gaha, a good head is like a mountain cart rushing, and it is not against Zhu Wen Qingliu who was in trouble, he has already won the Qin Confucian class. Add pathos, sigh and loyalty. Shame on me, I have a breath to cry the sun. I couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Oh, I heard it clearly, this song ends with the yang character of 'slanting sun'." ”

Although listening to the drama is a layman, judging from the audience's reaction, it should be very good. Zhang Hanqing's layman saw the excitement, and the vassal elegance was good, and he shouted excitedly at the moment: "Okay!" ”

However, others reacted, and others looked over here with disgruntled expressions. Ahem, just thinking about coaxing, forgetting that this is a tragedy, and the timing is not right---- who let him be a layman?

Someone in the crowd on the west side laughed, but it was the middle-aged man. Someone next to him echoed and laughed, "Ignorant rats." ”