Chapter 144: The Lantern Festival Begins
Happy times are always short-lived, Liang Chuan just ate a few plates of tea and candied fruit, and after piling up three piles of peels and pits, a person he didn't want to see appeared again, Xu Yang. He was followed by the second ancestor who liked to have broken his sleeves, Xue Qing.
"It's really a place where you don't meet in life, you can be seen everywhere, my Liang Daguan." Xu Yang said to Liang Chuan in a strange manner.
"Yo ho, no wonder my house slave didn't find you when I went to the golden bottle just now, you hid here in the blink of an eye, you let me find it." I didn't expect you to have a little background, and you can still come to the lantern festival invited by the county master, I won't do anything to you now, wait until it's over, don't you run as fast as you just now! Xue Qing is a villain with a dark heart, looking at the four people fiercely, thinking about how to clean up these four people later.
Liang Chuan picked up a dried plum and put it in his mouth, chewed off the flesh, leisurely spit out the kernel to rest assured and then put it on the table, looking indifferent, he actually cocked Erlang's legs and looked at Xue Qing with a contemptuous attitude. From time to time, he also asked the maid next to him to add tea and pass water, which was extremely arrogant.
Now that the situation is endless, this Xue Qing also sent someone to kill the horse gun and go to the golden bottle again, it is clear that he is playing the order, and since Liang Zi has been settled, there is no room for maneuver.
On the contrary, Liang Chuan is even more indifferent, wait for Xue Qing to come to find trouble for himself, most of them are still for the two daughters of the Zheng family who are dressed as men, it will be better, just watch it yourself, see how bold this surnamed Xue is, in front of other people's fathers, dare to recruit other people's baby daughters.
Xu Yang sat in the middle of the back row, while Xue Qing obediently stood behind his father, just like a stone, these second ancestors were all stained with their father's light, and today they were all brought out to gild and find one or two good families.
Xu Yang turned to the back from time to time to look at Liang Chuan, who was sitting leisurely in the back, and was calculating in his heart how to give this kid a little color. Liang Chuan looked at this kid and looked at him with bad intentions, and knew that he must be playing some bad idea again, how can these people be so small-minded, they have nothing else to worry about, and they can't get along with themselves every day.
When the crowd on the viewing platform was basically seated, the performance of the Xinghua Lantern Festival slowly kicked off. The person who presided over the lantern festival was Master Lu, the chief of staff of the county lord, and Master Pin's ancestral home was Shaoxing, and he was also doing this old business that had been inherited for hundreds of years. China's Shaoxing master is a very famous business, although the master is not a formal state civil servant, but the tree is good to enjoy the shade, which does not prevent Master Lu from the transcendent status in Xinghua, even the county master has to sell him three points of face.
On the terrace, the master first praised the current peace and prosperity of the country and the people. After a long period of chaotic conquest of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the current time can be described as a rare peaceful scene in history, except for the skirmishes in the northwest, people really live and work in peace and contentment. Everyone naturally wouldn't be disgusted by Master Lu's words.
Then Master Lu praised the "great achievements" of Song Zhixian in the past year, and what measures such as persuading agriculture and mulberry, living and working in peace and contentment, accepting displaced people, and greatly promoting culture and education, etc., have made the appearance of Xinghua undergo earth-shaking changes. Everyone on the viewing platform was full of praise.
Whoever dares to say two words of gossip, on this occasion, everyone sings red face together, and they have to talk wildly with a clear conscience, and if they dare to say two words of 'truth', they will eat good fruit when they reach the ears of the magistrate.
Next, let's introduce today's various guests, first of all, the officials in the county, everyone basically knows each other. Then there are the big bosses of Xinghua businessmen, all of whom are characters with heads and faces, and finally these famous talents and beauties. Every time the master introduces one, everyone will look at it, but basically everyone knows these characters, and the more brilliant ones are these so-called talents.
Master Lu focused on Xu Yang, as well as a few talents, all of whom are young people in Xinghua in recent years. The young ladies of those big families cast their admiring eyes one by one, but Xu Yang was not modest, and returned the glances cast from all sides with his fists in return.
Zheng Ruoying, Zheng Yuzhi, and the two girls stood behind and pouted for a while, Xu Yang is simply a scum, and he is not a good person at all.
After Master Lu introduced the people on the spot, the lantern festival slowly opened. On the terrace, there are shadows and shadows, and the sound of silk and bamboo is in your ears. Liang Chuan drank tea, ate the peeled fruits and snacks handed over by the two girls, and happily enjoyed the performance on stage.
In the past, you had to see this kind of performance only if you had to get a provincial capital art center, and classical art performers were even rarer, not to mention this kind of original classical performance, Liang Chuan sat on a chair, at this time, it would be great if he could show off on his circle of friends.
At the bottom of the terrace is a small platform where the drum and bugle troupes sit. The rhythm of Qin Se Xun Sheng slowly floated in, and the sound came, and a group of girls dressed in pearls and emerald clothes fluttered, looking forward to the brilliance. To say that the dancing figures of this group are really enchanting, but the fat powder on the face is too thick, which seems to be the beauty of this era, so Liang Chuan still can't accept it.
At this time, the dance is far less gorgeous, flamboyant and unrestrained than the dance of the previous dynasty, but shows a simple, elegant and restrained style, and the dance on the terrace is more characterized by "ancient, leisurely, slow, wonderful and beautiful". It's like a large blank landscape painting, not for people to enjoy the picture, but to create an artistic conception.
After the dancing girl danced, it was followed by acrobatics, which is the favorite of the common people. Although dancing is pleasing to the eye, the common people feel that they are too far away from themselves and cannot appreciate the connotation. It's still this kind of visual impact that is more enjoyable.
There were people on the stage, including old women and children. The spirited old woman was steady, not showing the mountains and water, and there were two boxy brocade pads in her hands, and the brocade pads were held in the palm of her hand, and they turned up like a round cloth. Next to the two little girls, one uses cups, bowls, and plates to perform balance skills, and the other performs plates, bowls, tables and chairs. When they began to perform, a little handsome guy came up, he performed swallowing fire, as if he had swallowed a lot of sawdust in his mouth, and then held a small torch, and the torch was put in front of his mouth, and as soon as he was lucky, the flames of the fire erupted directly from his mouth.
The miraculous means provoked the ordinary people watching under the balcony to applaud endlessly, bursts of applause were like thunder rolling in the sky, and the mood of the masses was quite high.
Not only acrobatics, but also a monkey taming artist with three little monkeys to perform a show. I didn't expect this kind of show to have been around so early and has been circulating for nearly a thousand years. In the corner of the terrace, there was an entertainer carrying a gong and striking it vigorously. The three little monkeys wore a tailor-made little soldier robe, a soldier felt hat, and a short red tassel gun in their hands.
The military plot in the southern region is still quite indifferent, and people are too far away from the war and too long to be touched much. Like Xin Wuxi, he looks serious, and in his eyes, he may soon become a 'monkey'.
The two girls covered their faces and kept exclaiming, locked in the deep boudoir for a long time and not leaving the house, today it is out of the way to Liang Chuan to come over to be lively, otherwise they have to stay at home and embroider flowers.
Behind Liang Chuan, one cold and one hot form a stark contrast.
The monkey performed very hard, and was domesticated to be indistinguishable from a real artist, so you can imagine how many whips he had to take behind his back. After the animal performance, a few female artists came up to practice a few sets of fancy martial arts fights, this routine has not changed much from the later generations, it seems to be energetic, but in fact, neither side has suffered any injuries.
Then the next one made Liang Chuan almost squirt out a mouthful of tea that he drank leisurely, these people were only wearing a pair of pants, and the shape was exactly the same as the sumo wrestler in the island country!
"What is this for?" Liang Chuan turned his head to ask Xin Wuxian with a puzzled expression.
Xin Wuxian didn't expect Liang Chuan to know about this activity, every year the "terrace competition" of the south peak of Hangzhou Huge Temple is a national sumo ring competition, the most authoritative, and the sumo masters of various states and counties are all looking forward to going to the stage to show off their male and female, in order to become famous in the world. In private events, even the government will send officers to preside over the competition and serve as referees, so is there still anyone who doesn't know about sumo?
Even Zheng Yuzhi couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "This is sumo, wait for the next two to wrestle, and there will be a heavy reward for winning the county master." ”
Liang Chuan's jaw almost fell to the ground, this... Isn't this the favorite national art of sumo wrestling among the people of the island country?,In later generations, their own people don't play.,Why is this era of heavy literature and light military force but people are so enthusiastic.。。
For a while, Liang Chuan was tasteless, and he didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy, he couldn't look down on the good things of his ancestors, but was stolen by his neighbors and used as family heirlooms. This is true of traditional Chinese medicine, even more so in traditional martial arts, and now even the sumo wrestling that I have seen with my own eyes.
The performances pushed the lantern festival to a climax, and the crowd stood on the terrace to applaud and cheered. Song Zhixian was quite satisfied when he sat on the seat, and what he wanted was this feeling of having fun with the people, stroking his beard and smiling on his face.
When the sumo wrestlers retired, the terrace was empty. A maid moved a stool and placed it in the middle of the stage. A graceful woman walked onto the terrace with a huqin in her arms.
The viewing platform, which had been quite calm from beginning to end, was unexpectedly shaken.
"It turned out to be the Golden Mansion Oiran!" "Today, Oiran is willing to come out of the mountain, and I have ears!"
This woman does have a bit of beauty, and she can be regarded as a first-class appearance in this small place in Xinghua. More beautiful than Zheng Ruoying, Liang Chuan asked Zheng Yuzhi: "What is the origin of this woman, so that everyone is so fascinated?" ”
"She is the first brand of Xinghua Jinlou, Shen Yuzhen, she is beautiful and very talented, she doesn't sell her body, why are these stinky men so fascinated, how do I know! Hum! There was a strong sourness in Zheng Yuzhi's words, which could be smelled from afar Xin Wuxi.