Chapter 525: Complaining
The effect of the performance exceeded expectations, which can be said to be very good, which can be seen from the expressions of the audience.
In the first half of the play, everyone has a calm face, staring at the triumphant Huang on the stage, the fat pig like Huang and the thin monkey housekeeper, and even a few grumpy people who want to rush to the stage to beat the poor Huang master.
Of course, the experienced gendarmes quickly took control of the situation and did not let them succeed.
In the second half of the play, the overall plot suddenly became much brighter, and the audience's expressions gradually changed to a silly look of "cool".
"Well done." Xu Shiyang watched this scene from the side, and he was in a very happy mood.
"It's not a big deal, it's more attractive to them than to be a scholar...... Uh......"
Gu Hengbo, the president, chief screenwriter and chief director of the National Drama Theater of Qi, only said half of his words, and swallowed the rest alive.
Unlike Xu Shiyang's other wives and concubines, Gu Hengbo is now very taboo about his origin.
In fact, if the Xu family stopped at the festival, she would not be so afraid of her days in Jiangnan - anyway, she was a concubine with someone and a servant in Israel, and her background was not important.
But now the Xu family is definitely not just a mere family of envoys, no matter whether the Xu family can unify the world in the future, Xu Shiyang is more and more likely to become the king of a country, in this way, Gu Hengbo's past as a famous concubine will become her biggest trouble - the heavenly family is different from ordinary people, the biological mother of a certain emperor's heir is born in a concubine, no matter how you explain whether you sell your art or not, and you don't get stained out of the sludge, it's all unclear.
Xu Shiyang and Gu Hengbo's son has been born for half a year, and she sometimes even thinks that maybe it would be much better if she only gave birth to a daughter?
People always ask a little less of a princess than a prince.
However, it is not impossible to give birth to a prince, Gu Hengbo believes that as long as his mother and son do not have too much ambition and only seek a stable and prosperous life, her past should not drag down the children.
Therefore, in the past few years in Qi State, Gu Hengbo has been adhering to three principles:
First, since it is Israel to serve people, then lower yourself as much as possible, and she will meet all Xu Shiyang's requirements, no matter how embarrassing they are.
Second, recognize your own identity and never fight for things that have nothing to do with you, in Xu Shiyang's harem, Gu Hengbo is Wen Yue's staunchest supporter.
Third, Xu Shiyang arranged her work, and she should also do her best - so that at least there is a way out, and it seems that it is not bad to go out to support herself if she can't do it.
Therefore, Gu Hengbo is very concerned about the affairs of the troupe, and when she doesn't need to accompany Xu Shiyang and her children, she spends all her time on the work of the troupe and the improvement of the script and singing.
As the ability of the top everyone in this regard, coupled with Xu Shiyang's vision of leading thousands of years, with a little combination, it is really not surprising that the troupe can achieve its current results.
Xu Shiyang smiled softly at Gu Hengbo, of course he knew what his woman was worried about, as a man, he naturally knew very well that Gu Hengbo was very clean before following him - he actually didn't care much about this, otherwise he wouldn't have left Gu Hengbo behind.
However, this kind of thing really can't be explained to the outside, all Xu Shiyang can do is to try to make her feel the warmth of home and try to protect her from being influenced by the outside.
Let Gu Hengbo be in charge of propaganda work, of course, it is for people to fulfill their responsibilities, but it also means that Gu Hengbo will be gilded with a halo in the eyes of the people - the people will feel that a capable woman will not just entertain people with sex, and Gu Hengbo is a woman with great ability, she must have had to suffer as a last resort.
This aura may ward off a lot of gossip for her in the future.
"Work well and don't overthink it."
Xu Shiyang smiled softly and said to Gu Hengbo:
"You, as well as Wen Yue, Zhao Shan, and Zhao Lin, can all have their own future, and in the future, your name may not just become my appendage."
"The same is true for your children, they will have their own future, and perhaps, their achievements will not be inferior to that of my father."
"I have faith in the kids."
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Tan San, Zhang Youtian, and Master Cao's housekeeper Mu Zhiren lived not far from each other, so the three of them, as well as a few Zhuang Ding from nearby villages under the jurisdiction of Master Mu Zhiren's housekeeper, formed a team and walked towards the Sixty Mile Post together.
Along the way, each of them took a bag of fried noodles weighing five catties, a gourd of water, a small pinch of salt and a stick for wolf repellent self-defense.
The problem is the human heart.
As one of the Eight Great Dynasties, the Cao family's power in the local area can be described as deep-rooted, and Master Cao's orders are not much different from the holy decrees to the locals.
Although Master Mu Zhiren's housekeeper is not the only housekeeper of Master Cao's family, not even a high-level housekeeper, but just an ordinary subordinate in charge of foreign affairs, for a Zhuang head like Zhang Youtian, he is already an unattainable big man, let alone a tenant like Tan San.
This difference is also reflected in the status of each person when he went out on the expedition: Master Mu, as a subordinate of the Cao family, can serve as a middle-level officer, and his subordinates have thousands of strong men; Zhang Youtian, as the head of the village under him, can manage all the more than 100 strong men from their village, and he can be regarded as a grassroots officer; And Tan San is just a big soldier.
However, in the eyes of the soldiers of the State of Qi, whether it is the master of the housekeeper or the head of the village, there is no difference at all from a tenant - they were arrested together, released together, watched a play together, and then the entanglement they took from the soldiers of the State of Qi was exactly the same.
This practice of breaking the original class boundaries made everyone feel a little unspeakably strange.
"Master Mu......" Halfway through, Zhang Youtian suddenly asked boldly: "Didn't you say that the soldiers of the Qi State should eat at least one person every day?" Why don't they eat us and give us food? ”
This is almost close to questioning, if it was two days ago, he would not have dared to talk to Master Mu like this if he borrowed Zhang Youtian's ten dares.
But today is really special, even Master Mu himself didn't mean to blame, he even replied with a face:
"It's none of my business, this is what Master Cao told me personally! I didn't think I could be wrong! ”
Just like Zhang Youtian didn't care about blaming Mu Zhiren before, Mu Zhiren didn't dare to say anything bad about the Cao family before, even in private.
But isn't it special today, right?
So Mu Zhiren's answer was already a little complaining about Master Cao's deception of him.
"Oh, I see......" Zhang Youtian seemed to understand something.
After a while, Tan San, who was walking beside him, suddenly asked, "Master Zhang, didn't you say that the soldiers of the Qi State came to arrest us and let us make cattle and horses for them?" How did they let us go? ”
"It's none of my business, this is what Master Mu said to me personally! I didn't think I could be wrong! ”