Xiaozifang is located near the left side of Qingbo Gate, named after the story of the grandson of Zhou Dunyi, a physicist in the Song Dynasty, who came to Hangzhou with an ancestral statue to avoid the Jin soldiers. The location here is relatively remote, but the house price and land price are also relatively cheap, and Li Yu simply moved over with his family after buying this opera garden.

The premiere was scheduled for the afternoon, after lunch. Outside the theater garden, there are already some idlers peddling leaflets, which are only a few pennies, which are far more affordable than the five-fold ticket price.

Concessions, promotions, and use this to open up the market, this is all taught by Chen Kai to Li Yu, but it is a pity that he did not have a chance to see this situation, which has to be said to be a pity. However, in Li Yu's opinion, being able to present a perfect performance is the real reward. Even if Chen Kai can't see it at all now, it is the same.

It's almost time, and some viewers have arrived one after another, but the number of people is far less than expected, but it still makes Li Yu feel a little frustrated.

"It's the first time it's performed, and it's going to get better in the future, and it will."

Come on and cheer up, Li Yu returned to the stage, continued to cheer and cheer for those actors, and explained the things that need to be paid attention to in the end.

There is not much time before the official start of the performance, if it is a famous role, it is probably already overcrowded, but it is a pity that the repertoire, troupe and leading role on their side are not famous, and the location is still biased, and it is all because of the hype that they have gathered such a group of popularity. Even at this time, most of the gentry and people sitting in the audience were not in this play, and they were talking about it one by one, and there was no pity, incense, and companionship.

"Yesterday afternoon, there was news that those flag men were back in the city today. Look at this early in the morning, all the merchants from other places have left, and most of the local merchants have closed their doors, which is really majestic. ”

"Can it not be majestic? I heard that Zhoushan City was slaughtered, it is called a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, which is no different from Jinhua and Yinxian a few years ago! They all came back with bloody gas, who would dare to hang around in front of them? ”

"That's weird, it's been half a day, why hasn't there been any movement?"

"Maybe it's afternoon, who knows. Besides, entering the city is also crossing the river, entering from the east and south of the city, immediately hanging people's heads, swaggering through the city, isn't this what they have always wanted? We're here, it's too far away, I guess we can't see it. ”

"That's the same, over there in Qinghefang, I heard that there is no one to be seen on the street. Our filial piety workshop is a little off, but it's quite peaceful. ”

"This is a great goodness, do you see? Master Huang over there, his ancestors have lived in Qinghefang for generations, and it is said that his ancestors and the king of Qinghe County in the Song Dynasty are neighbors, didn't they come here to watch the play? Let's still have our heads on our necks, and we still have this pair of tricks to watch the play, reciting the benefits of Lu Buddha. ”

“……”

The whispers in the audience, and the preparations on the stage are completely over. The performance officially began, and there was no applause, and the audience was still in twos and threes in twos and threes in the audience was only a few more than when Li Yu returned to the backstage.

The stinky daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, and the curtain of the general's door opens, and Cui Jianyun, Cao Yuhua, Fan Shi, Cao Yourong and other characters appear together.

At the beginning, on one side, the girl Cao Yuhua came to Yangzhou with her father Cao Yourong and lived in Yuhua Nunnery; On the other side, the prisoner Fan Shi married Cui Jianyun, and then Cui Jianyun went to Yuhua Nunnery to offer incense.

The characters who appear are all scholars and the daughters of the scholars' families, but unlike the ordinary talented and beautiful dramas, Fan Shi has already married a wife at the beginning. In this way, according to the inertial thinking such as "The Legend of the West Chamber", the scene of a talented man and a beautiful woman meeting by chance has lost the basis of unmarried men and unmarried women, and the audience is attracted by this freshness, at least to see if this Fan Shi wants to abandon his wife like Chen Shimei.

Subsequently, when entering the incense, I suddenly heard the strange fragrance of a woman in the wind, Cui Jianyun followed the fragrance to find Cao Yuhua, and the two hit it off at first sight, and the poems and writings were harmonious. After drinking the poems, I couldn't bear to be separated, but I wanted to serve a husband together, so as to be able to "dream with the night, wear the same makeup, look and face in the mirror, and sing with each other step by step".

"Who is called a good person, sighing and rare! Today, the chess players are right. How can you hook up the same place, marry and return, and sing together. Wei Xian and ramie are mutually beneficial, and the body will be drunk and kill the mellow mash ......"

On the stage, Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua sang together, and the audience was already stunned. Most of the concubines are women with bad backgrounds, after all, wives and concubines are completely different in the Ming Dynasty, according to the "Da Ming Law", it is illegal to take a concubine as a wife, not to mention Cao Yuhua, a woman from an official family, but to be a concubine for a scholar who has not yet made a name for himself. Especially in Yu, Cao Yuhua didn't seem to be a concubine for Fan Shi, but for the sake of being able to stay with Cui Jianyun, which really stunned everyone present.

The reaction of the audience affected the fluctuations revealed by Li Yu's eyes behind the curtain, but the two girls on the stage completely let go at this moment, and continued to sing the lyrics.

The two decided to have a colleague and a husband, and Cao Yuhuagan was the side room of the Fan family. Cui Jianyun went back to tell her husband, Fan Shi first excused herself, and later saw that her wife was resolute, so she was happy to push the boat down the river to enjoy the blessings of all people, so she asked Cui Jianyun's cousin to go to Cao's house to be a matchmaker.

For fear that Cao's father would not let his daughter be a concubine, it was hypothesized that Cui Jianyun was ashamed of himself, so he was willing to retreat to the second room and let Cao Nu be his wife. Who knew that his classmates found out, and they were jealous and sabotage, and revealed their plot to Cao's father in advance, and added fuel to the vinegar that Fan Shi wanted to trick the daughter of the scholarly family into marrying as a concubine.

Cao's father was furious, not only refused to speak as a matchmaker, but also said that he was a friend of Xuezheng, and lost Fan Shi's reputation in the name of inaction, and then took his daughter to Beijing.

Next, the Fan family and his wife returned to their hometown, Fan Shi changed his name and surname to respond again, and after going to Beijing, he learned that Cao's father had become a eunuch, and he lamented that he had no chance with Cao Nu in this life. However, Cui Jianyun was unwilling to fail, and Cao Yuhua became sick because of his greasy friends, and told his father, saying that he had made peace with Fan Damian's poems and texts, and he was introduced as a close friend, but now he is separated from the two places, and he is lonely and sick in the boudoir. Cao's father was relieved, thinking that his daughter was just because of the lack of girlfriends, as long as he accepted a few female apprentices to talk to her about poetry and papers, so he posted the enrollment list. Cui Jianyun took the opportunity to apply for the exam, claiming to be the unmarried daughter of a poor family to be with Cao Yuhua. Sure enough, as soon as the two daughters met, Cao Yuhua's illness was cured without medicine, and Cao's father felt that his method was good, and he accepted her as a righteous daughter because he loved Cui Jianyun.

Fan Shi has changed his name to Zhongju, just under Cao's father's door, although Cao's father refused to marry, but in fact, he only heard his name and did not see the person who proposed marriage, at this time Fan Shi has changed his name to Shi, Cao's father did not know, appreciated the talent of this protégé, and promised his daughter to match.

Cao Yuhua passed the door first, and the next day Cui Jianyun pretended to be Shi Sheng's original wife, and he was going to marry his sister. After the marriage, the two daughters explained to Cao's father the deception they had always had, and the old man had no choice but to accept it with a smile.

This story is beyond the category of talented and beautiful women, from beginning to end, Cao Yuhua is bent on marrying Fan Sheng as a concubine, and all she thinks about is Cui Jianyun; And Cui Jianyun wanted to marry Cao Yuhua, not necessarily for the sake of her husband, on the contrary, after her husband suffered a big loss and did not dare to provoke Cao Yourong again, she still refused to give up, risking her husband's reputation to be ruined again to break into the Cao family, and never return to the Cao family, so that Fan Sheng couldn't help but worry that he would not marry a concubine, so he broke his wife first.

Men love women, such a favorite plot is abandoned, but it is the relationship between Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua, two women, who break through all kinds of resistance and want to be together, is full of the whole play.

From ancient times to the present, the defense of men and women is the most important. On the contrary, between the same sex, the ancients regarded it as much more indifferent, and even the Son of Heaven was not close to women, but favored the little eunuchs, and was also crowned by the scholars and doctors with the reputation that the king did not like to pour the country.

As for women, the phrase "no jealousy" can make the ruling class with a large group of wives and concubines let down their guard - after all, this is far less serious than adultery or hatred due to jealousy, which is bad for women. Especially at the end of this story, Li Yu deliberately pointed out that "the cave room is secluded, the mandarin duck brocade mattress is a hibiscus quilt, and the water ripples are written off the golden account." left jade soft, right fragrant and warm, and smooth in love" to cater to the values of male audiences in the current society, and no one will feel that there is anything taboo in this scene.

At this time, people were very tolerant of this, but after watching the performance here, Shengdan Jingwu and the ugliness left one after another, but the applause still did not sound, and even when the audience dispersed, no one made an evaluation of this "Sympathetic Companion".

Li Yu didn't quite understand why this was the case, but on the afternoon of September 18, "Sympathy for the Fragrance Companion" was staged again, and there were many more people holding leaflets, saying that something had not arrived yesterday, and the audience who demanded the same as yesterday turned out that most of the seats in the theater were occupied by the audience who came to visit.

This is a good sign, and offstage, the talk is mostly about the plot of the story. At least as far as Li Yu is concerned, it was only at the moment before returning to the backstage that he listened to the gossip that "last night, Wang Jiang, the former minister of King Lu who was under house arrest in Qinghefang, was robbed", but he didn't pay too much attention to it.

"This scene will definitely make your trip worthwhile." At this moment, Li Yu thought so.