On the corner of Tianjie Street, on a wide place with a leeward and sunny face, the huqin, tooth boards, and drums are intertwined in one place, and a small opera troupe is preparing to appear there. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing that there is a white opera that does not cost money to watch, there are a lot of passers-by and idlers on the traffic artery connecting the Tangfang Bridge to the Mingwa Corridor. Get ready to listen to a show and watch a lively show.

"Ladies and gentlemen in the capital, they are from Xiajiangbei, surnamed Cheng. Now that the autumn crops have been harvested, I will bring a few little apprentices to Nanjing City with such a little superficial gadget to show off, not for anything else, just to make everyone happy! ”

A short and fat man dressed like the head of a troupe walked to the center of the crowd and began to show off this set of rivers and lakes. The onlookers were a little impatient, most of these grass stage teams were given a set of gadgets when they came out, and they were going to be brilliant. (Just like all online games now, the trial and promotional versions are free, but if you want to play deeper, hehe, People's Coin you'll have to be ready!) ）

After a few boos, the actors who had already dressed up appeared in the sound of silk and bamboo tooth boards.

Different from the Kunqu opera and miscellaneous operas that scholars and doctors like to watch, the outfit and appearance of this small drama are basically the same as the daily life of the people, and even the singing and recitation are all slang songs, which are catchy to listen to. After listening to a few tunes, someone was already able to hum along.

The story of the track is also very simple.

A certain family in a certain place in the south of the Yangtze River was saddled with nearly 100 acres of money and grain to pay taxes because the rich man in the town collaborated with the household secretary and tax collectors to play flying and trickery. The family got up early and worked hard at night, but at the end of the year, they couldn't make up the amount of money and food that should be handed over.

In desperation, the family's father could only go to the rich man's house to borrow money. The borrowed money is not much, it is just a penny. With his own five acres of paddy field as collateral, the interest was negotiated at three cents. Autumn harvest settlement.

As a result, after the autumn, the wealthy owner came to the door to ask for debts, but he took out the paperwork that should return ten silver dollars!

How does this make it?!

Dad was indignant, "I just borrowed a penny, how can I repay you ten silver dollars?" However, Caidong took out the contract document, and the terms written on it were written in black and white, and a dollar was clearly written on it. As a result, the household secretary, the land security, and the tax collector drank the order together, and the five acres of paddy fields were returned to the wealthy owner. In anger, the old man fought to the death, and in anger he drank brine in front of Caidong's house on the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve and drank brine to commit suicide.

The family was ruined.

This is the story that happened when the first emperor was alive.

"With a thunderclap, the heavens and the earth moved, and the saint tomorrow ascended to the great treasure." In the background of everyone's chorus, Hongguang Tianzi ascended the throne, and the imperial court implemented a decree on rent reduction and interest reduction. When the wandering children heard this, they immediately rushed back to their hometowns and demanded that Caidong return the land that had been seized by cunning. As a result, he was naturally knocked out of the door by a group of wealthy slaves.

An angry pair of children sang a song at the door of Caidong's house, which skillfully integrated the laws of the imperial court. "The Son of Heaven has an edict that the interest shall not be one and a half cents. But you have to take three cents! How much more is the rest of the lamb! You bully you are hurting the heavens and reason, and sooner or later you will be reported! ”

Singing here, many onlookers have just woken up, I'm afraid that this troupe is not so simple to come to the capital to sing wild stage opera! This drama is definitely written by a master!

Indeed it is. This little play of "A Penny" was written by Ruan Dacheng, the most outstanding screenwriter of this era. For Ruan Dacheng, who has written dozens of large and small plays in his life, this kind of street drama does not have the high standards on the singing board, nor does it require how mournful and moving, it is completely easy. However, the difficulty lies in blending the various systems issued by the imperial court with the reality of Jiangnan. However, this is not difficult for Ruan Da writers.

Soon, his pen turned, and the repertoire changed again.

When the audience's emotions fluctuated for the joys and sorrows of the family in the play, there was a new turn in the play.

"Now the patrol is dismounted in Gusu, upholding the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, and punishing the corrupt officials and the powerful! Why don't your sister and brother go to Gusu and beat the drum to Lord Cha and voice their grievances?! Under the guidance of passer-by, a pair of sisters and brothers went to the patrol in front of the imperial history yamen to beat drums and voice grievances and hand over appeals.

With a gauze hat and a round neck, three locks of ink hair, at first glance, he is an old student of the Qing Dynasty official who appeared on the stage, playing the role of Zha Jizuo, who can heal children crying at night in Jiangnan: "Sons, the lights are bright in the daytime ahead, it must be a thief's lair, and come forward with me to kill him cleanly!" Kill this remnant of the country with me! ”

A small drama was completed under the happy ending of the Qing officials' appearance, the punishment of Haoqiang, and the return of the occupied land. At the end of the day, the old student read aloud, "Anyone who is strong in a place, dares to take advantage of it, and does not respect the laws of the country, the official will be severely punished!" Vow to bring the world back to life! ”

In "The clothes are all scolded to check the white land, in fact, there is a blue sky in the prosperous world, Zhaoxue, who has been wronged for several years, and Yongqu is a song to praise the peace. In the chorus, this street drama "A Penny" is over.

Unlike the audience, who are accustomed to taking out the gong to ask for money, these actors are packing their bags and preparing to walk.

"Humph! Want to go?! How can it be so cheap?! I don't know when, a group of short-clothed men came outside the crowd.

"Advocate for the cool lackeys! It's really worth fighting! ”

The first few people, carrying short sticks, iron rulers and other objects in their hands, looked at the group of actors viciously.

Not far across the street, another street theater is playing orchestral. It seems that there is another drama to be performed on the streets.

"Anyone who wants to see a play is across the street! The famous auspicious class sang "Xiaoyaojin"! If you don't want to watch the show, get out of here! lest the old poles get you covered in blood when they punish the cool officials and traitors and lackeys! The leading few men drove away the onlookers with an authentic accent outside Nanjing.

People who watch the excitement will naturally not resist these guys who look like they are not kind, not to mention, in the theater team opposite, there are old students in the civil and military forces, and at first glance it is a lively repertoire with civil and military forces. Anyway, it's all about watching the excitement, where to watch it, not to watch?

Sure enough, the gong and drum guy sounded like a storm, and Wu Sheng, who played Zhang Liao, came on the field and fought with the flower face who played Sun Quan. A group of dragon sets are also quite hard-working, hollow and head turned over in a variety of tricks, swords and guns dance like a windmill, and the scene of Zhang Liao fighting Sun Quan's 100,000 army with 800 infantry is quite wonderful, and everyone applauds loudly.

When Zhang Liao led the crowd into the encirclement, he was rescued by hundreds of people who were cut off by the Eastern Wu Army and surrounded in the encirclement, and shouted loudly, "Zhang Liao is here, who dares to fight?!" After the morale of the Cao army was greatly boosted, the Battle of Xiaoyaojin on the stage ended, and Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, came on the field.

Liu Xie, who is red-faced, handsome, black-three, king's hat, yellow python, jade belt, colored pants, and thick-soled boots, soon lost the bearing of a dynasty emperor. Under the persecution of the powerful minister Cao Cao, he had to order the inner servant Mu Shun to pass the blood edict on his behalf, asking the princes of all parties to raise troops to crusade against the powerful minister Cao Cao. As a result, the secret was discovered by Cao Cao. Mu Shun was killed alive with a rod.

"Sigh that the Han family was unfortunate and traitorous, and the thief met Cao Cao, a national thief. Reward and punish without telling me about life and death,

The private party reprimanded him for suppressing his colleagues. In Xu Tian, the audience He Guan's shoes were reversed, and the murder of the country's uncle and concubine was becoming more and more ferocious.

Queen Fu was loyal to serve the country, and the letter to the country's abbot married Sun Liu to punish Cao. Hate the sky and don't bless the Han wind to blow off the hat,

The letter cannot be concealed from the traitor. It is difficult for the widow Han Tianzi to protect his karma, and Ren Huaxin will go out of the court after the ambush.

The second emperor is young and waiting to be disciplined, who will she rely on after her death? After crying, I can't help but feel like a knife,

After crying, people can't help but cry. Full of sadness, there is nowhere to complain. ”

The old student who played the role of Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, sang the lyrics with slow three eyes, and brought Cao Cao's crimes of disobedience one by one. There were also people next to him who recited aloud: "The powerful ministers are in charge, and they will cause trouble to the court." Such a powerful minister and traitor who supports the army and respects himself, treats the Son of Heaven as nothing, and is good at being a powerful minister and traitor, is Cao Cao alone? ! ”

Hearing this, there were those in the crowd who had brighter brains, and when they saw the fierce and vicious men in short clothes opposite, and then tasted the dialogues and lines in "A Penny" just now, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on their backs. Immediately squeezed out of the crowd, and muttered, "After watching a drama, I forgot about the things to be done at home!" Damn it! Damn it! ”

Squeezed out of the crowd and quickly flashed into the alley next to the road, this person saw that no one was chasing behind him, and then he let go of his heart. Wipe the sweat from your forehead and run briskly in the direction of home. In a hurry, he panicked and collided with a group of men pouring out of the alley opposite.

Looking at the sturdy man dressed in a short shirt, wrapped his head in a green cloth, tied to his upper arm with a straw rope made of red and yellow straw on his left arm, and carrying a short stick and iron ruler chain short knife in his hand, this person was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.

"In the city of Liudu, at the foot of the palace, not far away is the first assistant and the six yamen, as well as the governor's mansion of the five armies. These people actually dare to fight in groups here?! ”

Looking at the seemingly endless group of men pouring out from the depths of the alley, this person couldn't stop chanting the blessing of the Buddha in his heart, and finally waited until the crowd gradually decreased, and then he tried to open his legs and ran towards his home as if flying.

On the street, the group of fierce men surrounded the "One Penny" troupe that was about to pack up and leave after the performance. "Stop! After being a drummer for a long time, you want to leave without even saying anything? How can it be so cheap?! ”

A ginger-skinned man pointed at the short fat man dressed as the class owner with a short stick and shouted and cursed.

The faces of the other people in the troupe all changed, but the class leader and a man in Tsing Yi who didn't speak for a long time still looked as usual.

The man in Tsing Yi stepped forward, clasped his hands into fists, and made a salute.

"Bosses, three old and four young." The man in Tsing Yi clasped his fist with his left hand and his right hand, and his three fingers were together, and he performed a greeting etiquette on the rivers and lakes.

"I have been sent here to do business. I have already greeted the old and young masters on the ground. I don't know why the bosses are here to accuse? ”

The words of the man in Tsing Yi are neither soft nor hard, but there is a blade hidden in his words. My team is singing here, but they have greeted all kinds of ghosts, snakes and gods on the ground. What kind of green onion is this guy who came out of the field?

"This?!" The turmeric-faced man was speechless for a while, not knowing how to deal with this man's questioning. But a guy with a white face and pockmarks on his side shouted: "If you open your eyes for the rebellious ministers and thieves, everyone will naturally be punished!" ”

After Mazi said this, there was a sudden uproar in the crowd. "Brother Ma is right! Let's just do the right thing for heaven and fight this group of rebellious ministers and thieves! ”

"Oh, so you're going to fight?" The man in Tsing Yi looked as usual, but the short and fat squad leader beside him was a little uncontrollable: "The northwest dry sky is cloudy, a lotus flower is full of pots, the upper is the king, the lower is the minister, and the Cao gang is not a family." "With his experience of walking the rivers and lakes, as long as he says his identity as a Xiangtang in the Cao Gang, then the local ruffians and gangsters will give some face, and then everyone will cross the rivers and lakes, maybe there will be friends who know each other. No amount of trouble can be solved.

However, this trick didn't work today.

"Phew! Who is the Cao Gang family with you? Lao Tzu is the righteous man praised by the adults and gentlemen of Donglin! Today I'm here to clean up your gang of guys who are fighting for the tigers! Mazi spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground, expressing his disdain for people in the rivers and lakes like the Cao Gang.

For this kind of behavior of not knowing the rules of the rivers and lakes, or carrying a mallet that pretends to be confused, the man in Tsing Yi and the class owner can only shake their heads to express their helplessness.

Since it is impossible to negotiate, then there is only one way.

"Hit!"

The men in short clothes shouted, and the short sticks and iron rulers in their hands were shown together, and they were about to fight against everyone in the troupe. The Shengdan Jingugue people in the troupe are naturally not to be outdone at this time, not to mention that they also know that there are big trees behind them to shelter, what are they afraid of doing with these green skins who have no foundation and no reason?

As a result, two groups of people fought in the location of the Xinjiekou business district in the future!

For a while, the old man wearing a round-necked gauze hat held a brick in his hand, and a man in a cloth dress and skirt flew up and kicked a man to the ground. A few of them wore the dragon suits of the servants and soldiers, and they fought with punches and kicks.

In comparison, after all, there were a lot fewer people in the troupe, and soon, they were pressed and beaten into a corner by the men in short clothes. Many people had blood on their faces, and the head of the class, the man in green clothes, and a few martial arts and ugly people in the troupe waved the evasion cards and official title cards that were used as performance props as weapons to resist the short sticks and iron rulers in the hands of the men in short clothes, as well as the chaotic bricks and gravel that kept flying overhead.

There was a big fight here, and Xiaoyaojin over there also sang to a climax. Hua Xin, who was fighting for the tiger, had already dragged Queen Fu out to be killed under the cane, and Liu Xie's two sons also died at the hands of Cao Cao. And Liu Xie himself became a prisoner of his cheap father-in-law Cao Cao.

"Who dares to be so presumptuous at the feet of the Son of Heaven?!"

A loud shout came from behind. Let the triumphant face and pockmarked face who were calculating how much reward they could receive couldn't help but shudder. Turning his head, I don't know when, my own troupe has been surrounded by hundreds of men who appeared in the green cloth and Baotou behind them at an unknown time, and all kinds of silk and bamboo musical instruments are placed on the ground in an orderly manner. Just now, Zhang Liao, who was majestic and killed the Eastern Wu army in the midst of 100,000 troops, and was able to heal the night cry of children in Jiangnan, was trembling like a quail. And Prime Minister Cao Cheng, who is powerful all over the world, is even more white and black with beads of sweat on his face.

"Who dares to make trouble here?!"

The man who led the team asked knowingly, and consciously sent the red and yellow straw weaving on his left arm forward.

The man in green clothes who was blocked in the corner of the wall and beaten suddenly brightened up.

"The little brother is from the Hang San Gang! The gang is full of forty-two ships, entering Beijing to play white flags and white borders, red on the top of the yin and yang, black on the bottom. What you eat is long flowing water, and it burns Kunshan firewood! I don't know which group of brothers are here? ”

"Sixty-six full ships, entering Beijing to play the dragon flag, half a moon, golden hook Ruyi. The food is turned over the flower water, and it is burned with firewood from all over the world. We're from the Jiabai Gang! ”

After a few incisions, friend and foe were immediately distinguished. There are a large number of people in the Cao Gang, and a canal runs from Hangzhou Gongchen Bridge to Chaoyang Gate in the capital, running from north to south for thousands of miles. With a strong force of 128 and a half gangs, in order to facilitate management, and also in the course of operation over the years, six major gangs have been formed, including "Jianghuai Si", "Xingwu Si", "Xingwu Liu", "Jiabai", "Jiahaiwei" and "Sanhang". The man in Tsing Yi and the man who led the team belonged to the two halls of the Sanhang Gang and the Jiabai Gang respectively.

With red and yellow straw weaving, the head is wrapped in green cloth is the elite gang selected from the Cao Gang. Although most of the weapons in their hands are short clubs, iron rulers, chains and other sharp weapons for group fighting, only a small number of people have short knives and axes. However, it was much stronger than the group of ruffians on the other side.

Among them, there are many elites of the Cao Gang who fought with Liao thieves in Tongzhou, Jinan, and Shandong and served as volunteers! Although it is said that at the beginning, he only served as a guard in the secondary direction on the battlefield, cleaning the battlefield, guarding prisoners and seizing supplies, etc., but after all, he is also a character who has been on the battlefield and seen a big scene. Once you start to do it, you consciously or unconsciously use the tactics of the generals very skillfully.

Originally, these ruffians and hooligans saw that the Cao Gang with big trees and deep roots felt that they were three points shorter, and once they started to move, they couldn't beat them. So, with a shout, I had to scatter as birds and beasts.

"The people who beat us are still planning to run?" The man who led the team laughed fiercely, and as soon as the iron ruler in his hand was raised, hundreds of men immediately chased down the street.

Such street scenes were staged one after another in the city of Nanjing.

In the climax of the performance, the ruffians hired by Donglin set fire to the yamen of the imperial history of the city! Not only did it burn the yamen, but even the several official sedan chairs parked at the door were not spared, and after a fire, they turned into a pile of black ashes. (To be continued.) )