Chapter Seventy-Three: Shadow Puppetry
Lu Bu took three thousand iron horsemen and rushed to meet him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info General Wang Kuang formed a formation, and when he looked at it under the banner of Le Mamen, he saw Lu Bu coming out of the formation..."
"Wearing a three-pronged purple and gold crown on his head, a Xichuan red brocade robe on his body, a beast-faced head-swallowing chain armor, and a delicate lion belt around his waist..."
"With a bow and arrow, holding a halberd, sit down and neigh the red rabbit horse: sure enough, it's 'Lu Bu among people, red rabbit among horses'!"
Before the fight was in Wuhe, he was stabbed under the horse by Lu Bu's halberd, and the halberd rushed straight over. Kuang's army was defeated and scattered in all directions. Cloth things rush to kill, like entering a no-man's land..."
"The princes of the Eight Roads, get on the horse together. The army was divided into eight teams and was distributed in Takaoka. Looking at Lu Bu's cluster of military horses from afar, embroidering flags and beckoning, he came to charge the battle first. Mu Shun, the general of Zhang Yang's department, went out to meet the battle, but was stabbed under the horse by Lu Bu with a halberd. ā
On the stage, the storyteller was foaming at the mouth, and on a curtain behind him, several shadows were fighting fiercely, and at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves, gongs and drums, and metal crashing was endless.
The audience was silent, all of them looked at the stage in a daze, occupying a large curtain of a wall, and was performing the movie "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu".
The narration of the storyteller, the performance of the shadow play, and the various sounds and music make people fascinated to watch.
Someone held popcorn in one hand, but forgot to put it in his mouth, staring at the curtain with both eyes, and the influence of the characters on it was so fierce that he didn't even want to blink his eyes, for fear of missing the wonderful moment.
Some people keep eating popcorn, their hands don't stop, their mouths don't stop, their eyes are staring at the curtain, and the bags of popcorn in their hands are empty one after another, but they are still unsatisfied.
There were also people with clenched fists, shortness of breath, nervously looking at the curtain, and the whole audience was connected to the box on the second floor, and there was no other sound, just waiting to see who could defeat the "Lu Bu among the people".
"Beihai Taishou Kong Rong will be Wu Anguo, so that the hammer will fly out. Lu Bu waved his halberd and slapped the horse to greet him. After more than ten battles, a halberd cut off An Guo's wrist, abandoned the hammer and left. ā
"Gongsun Zhan waved his lance to fight Lu Bu in person. The battle was not counted, and Chan was defeated. Lu Bu rushed to the red rabbit horse. The horse travels thousands of miles a day and flies away like the wind. Look at the catch-up, and the heart will be stabbed after the cloth lifts the halberd to look at Zhan. ā
A general on the side, with round eyes, upside down tiger whiskers, eight snake spears, Pegasus shouted: "The three surnamed slaves are gone!" Yanren Zhang Fei is here! ā
"Yun Chang saw it, slapped the horse, danced the eighty-two catties of the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, came to attack Lu Bu, the three Martin characters fought, and the battle reached thirty, and the two couldn't defeat Lu Bu."
Liu Xuande wielded his double-strand sword and drove the yellow-maned horse to help in the battle. These three surrounded Lu Bu and fought like lights..."
The drumbeat is getting more and more urgent, setting off the atmosphere of the plot more and more enthusiastically, the four horseback figures on the curtain are inseparable, and the storyteller is extremely capable of dyeing but deliberately hangs his appetite, so that the audience is so anxious that they almost come forward to urge.
"Lu Bu was uncertain, seeing Xuande stabbing a halberd in the face, Xuande flashed, Lu Bu waved the corners, dragged the halberd upside down, and Pegasus left."
With a snap, the storyteller slapped the sound wood: "I want to know what happened next, and listen to the next decomposition!" ā
The curtains on both sides of the theater opened, and the audience suddenly brightened, and the audience first froze, and then the cheers rang out: "Good, good!! ā
As soon as the lights went out behind the curtain, the figure on it disappeared without a trace, and the storyteller walked to the center of the stage and thanked the audience: "Thank you for enjoying the light... Ahh ā
The unfinished audience struggled to throw out the reward, and the copper coins fell on the stage like raindrops, and the tinkling sound was like the sound of raindrops.
The storyteller held his head and hid around on the stage in embarrassment, the exaggerated funny appearance made everyone laugh, and a few small guys with their heads wrapped in cloth ran out of the backstage with a cloth bag, "braving the rain" to pick up the copper coins on the stage.
After the gong sounded, several people walked up to the stage with paper trumpets and shouted: "Intermission, intermission!" If you have a change of clothes, please move to the toilets on both sides, and the next scene will start in fifteen minutes! ā
"What's fifteen minutes?"
"A stick of incense time! One stick of incense is fifteen minutes! ā
The audience was boiling, many people left the venue to go to the toilet, and many people stood up, stretched out their hands and stretched their muscles, and the waiters who had been prepared for a long time carried all kinds of pastries, snacks, and tea to sell.
"Is there any popcorn left? Bring me three bags! Another glass of lemonade! ā
"Guest, there is a discount on lemonade now, half price for the second glass."
"Then two glasses!"
At the back of the audience on the first floor, Liu San and a few others were talking and laughing.
"How, this shadow puppet show is pretty, isn't it?"
"Good-looking, good-looking!"
Everyone nodded incessantly, full of excitement, some of them had seen a shadow puppet show, but they had never seen anyone perform a shadow puppet show on such a large curtain.
Coupled with the narration of the storyteller, the realistic soundtrack of horses' hooves, and the background music that sets off the atmosphere just right, this shadow puppet show is really fascinating.
It's not cheap, but it's worth it!
Liu San was very satisfied with everyone's expressions, this is a shadow puppet show that does not exist anywhere else, and the shadow puppet show is performed on such a large screen, it is a full house.
The curtain is large, so it can allow more people to watch the play at the same time, so the scale of this theater is also very large, the first floor is ordinary seats, and the second floor is a private box, which can allow audiences with different identities to enjoy the elegance and vulgarity.
This theater is still roofed, not afraid of wind and rain, and can act every day, since it opened last month, it is really a daily profit.
Merchants who come to Xiyang to do business, travelers who stay for a few days, as well as officials, big families and ordinary people in the city, are all fascinated by the shadow puppetry here.
As a helper, Liu San naturally wants to make his subordinates skilled in "business", and he must know where all the delicious and fun in Xiyang City are, so this is a place where he must come first.
Liu Kuan, who was still reminiscing about the plot, asked interestingly: "I've seen movies and dramas elsewhere, but the skin here... Why can shadow puppetry be performed on such a large screen? ā
"Also, such a big scene, but there is no superfluous echo, the words of the storyteller on the stage, I can hear it clearly here, how is this done?"
"This is the secret of people's money, it's hard to ask." Liu San said with a smile, he didn't say much, he had inside information, it is said that this newly opened theater, that one is also one of the owners.
Who is impatient enough to dare to inquire about the secret of the one-legged bronze man making money?
Liu Kuan didn't ask any more, but there were still a lot of questions from others: "I don't know what kind of weapon that Fang Tian's painting halberd is?" There are also the Zhangba snake spear and the Qinglong Yanyue knife, I have never heard of any military using this kind of weapon. ā
"Hey, storytelling, you can say whatever it sounds majestic, don't you?"
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about the story of the heroes competing for the deer in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the world was divided into three parts, and finally the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin.
The story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I don't know who sorted it out, it seems that the storyteller in Xiyang City realized it overnight, the story content is very exciting, the storyteller who can tell the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it is very popular with various wine shops and tea shops.
Since the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, the world has been in turmoil for more than 300 years, and the people, who are no strangers to the chaos of war, can understand the ambition of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms to pacify the troubled times.
Peace in the world is the wish of the people, but the hero who can calm the troubled times, why not Uncle Liu Huang? Why did Prime Minister Zhuge fall into Wuzhang Plain!!
"How can you compete with the world, but what..."
Liu Kuan sighed, looking a little sad, Liu San patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Brother has read books, it's different, sentimental!" ā
The gong sounds, the next play is about to begin, and the audience sits down and waits quietly for the shadow puppet show to begin.
The curtains on both sides of the theater were lowered, and the room gradually darkened, and the narrator stepped up to the stage and slapped the hibiki wood, and the curtain behind him was lit up.
Four big characters jumped on the screen: A Chinese Ghost Story.