The days of the New Year pass very quickly, and the manor is already filled with the atmosphere of the New Year. Since the beginning of this year, due to the rapid increase in population, the popularity of the mountain has increased a lot. The valley in the back mountain is basically full, and the infrastructure department has opened up many settlements in various places on the mountain.

On the 27th day of the lunar month, after the pig killing banquet of the ancient family, except for some special posts, all parts of the manor have been on holiday, so the market in Houshan is overcrowded in the past few days. Today's market is no longer the same as it was two years ago, especially after the opening of the Lijiadaokou Market, there is no shortage of all kinds of goods in the market, and there are also various food halls such as Liangshan Restaurant, so the market is thriving.

Since the continuous enrichment of all kinds of talents in the manor, Gu Haotian has gradually become "lazy", and he has also become the shopkeeper of many things. For example, at the end of the year, he handed over two important matters, the advanced evaluation and the expansion of the escort team, to Xiao Jiasui, who had just returned to the mountain, and asked him to negotiate and solve them with the Civil Affairs Office, the Staff Office, and the Military Justice Office.

In the past few days, Gu Haotian's most fixed life is like this, during the day to visit the elders in the manor, or to visit the relevant personnel, and at night to stay at home with the four little ladies, living a warm and romantic time, and in the past few days, he and these four women have perfected an advanced stage play.

It is said that after Li Shishi and the other three listened to Gu Haotian's idea of a new stage play that day, Li Shishi personally wrote two scripts based on Gu Haotian's "White-Haired Girl", as well as the life experience of the two strong sons who surrendered to the army in Ruzhou, and the deeds of the two tigers.

One is "The Story of the Silver Hairpin", which tells the story of a young man in Ruzhou Erzhuang and his childhood sweetheart woman Lan'er fell in love, but because Lan'er's family borrowed the usury of the local powerful Jia Buren, Lan'er was taken away to pay off the debt, and Erzhuang secretly gave the relics left by his mother - a handful of silver hairpins as a love object, and he fled to Liangshan alone, and later joined the escort team and became a company commander and returned to his hometown to find relatives, but found that Lan'er had disappeared, and he inquired and learned that she was unwilling to commit suicide due to Jia Buren's insult. In a fit of rage, he sneaked into Nan's house and killed the enemy, but when he was going to Lan'er's grave, he happened to meet a wild man hiding in the mountains, who turned out to be his lover Lan'er, and finally the two were reunited.

The other is "Sacrifice Story", which is about the hometown of Huzi, a displaced person in Jiangbei, who was invaded by the northern captives, and was forced to wander to the south with his family, and finally arrived at Liangshan Manor after a hard journey, in order to defend the hard-won happy life, he resolutely joined the escort team, but on the way to buy a horse in the north, he was robbed by the bandits, and he stood up to lead his brothers to fight with the bandits in order to protect the property of the manor, and finally the property was saved, but he himself died with the bandits in the sea of fire.

In recent months, Master Li went to Zhang's mother at the entrance of Li's house to borrow a few people and quietly rehearsed. It is said that Master Li is a talented woman, and she already has experience in rehearsing stage plays when she was in Beijing, and there are several clever and intelligent women around her, and she has been decent for a few months. It's just that because Gu Haotian is really too busy, she hasn't dared to disturb him, so she hasn't set a shape. These few days are just right, so I caught him every day and carved these two stage plays together.

After a few days of improvement, Gu Haotian is already very satisfied with this drama. So one afternoon, he specially invited Zhou Tong, Wen Huanzhang, Zhang Shuye, Xu Churen, Zhao Ding, Zhang Jiucheng and others to observe. Unexpectedly, these people were surprised when they saw it, and Uncle Zhang said at the time that it was really a whimsical idea that no one in the army would work hard for the manor when this drama came out. Zhou Tong said that the students in this phase of the lecture martial arts hall happened to be both old and new people who went up the mountain, so it was better to go to a performance to see the effect. Gu Haotian had this thought in his heart, but the two coincided. On the afternoon of the 28th day of the lunar month, "The Story of the Silver Hairpin" was performed in the lecture hall.

However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the news that the big drama rehearsed by the petty officials and the master and the lady will be staged in the lecture hall will soon be in the escort team

of the officers spread all over the place. Although people don't know what this drama is about, the name of the talented little official and the background of the teacher and the lady who used to be the head of the capital have whetted everyone's appetite. What's more, there are well-informed people who testify that several mountain chiefs of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall and Liangshan Academy have seen it, and they are full of praise, so they came here to stage it. So many people began to camp everywhere, trying to get admission tickets. The first to heist were the first batch of students who had just graduated, and they were blocked in Zhou Dong's public house and refused to stop. Later, Uncle Zhang came to negotiate again, saying that the students in the college should also receive education. In the end, the two agreed to discuss with Gu Haotian and another performance in the evening.

Finally, on the 28th, Master Li saw that his work that he had worked hard for months was finally about to appear on stage, and he was both excited and nervous. But Gu Haotian knew it in his heart, but he was very calm.

By the end of the afternoon, the hall of the lecture hall was already full, and the first audience was not only the second phase of the students, but also the regimental battalion commanders in the manor. Hundreds of people sat there quietly, anxiously waiting for the curtain to open on the stage.

Just when people were scratching their hearts, they listened to the sound of the drum board on the stage, and then the curtain slowly opened, only to see a dilapidated thatched hut on the stage, in which there were some old household goods, only the two Spring Festival couplets posted on the old door frame, implying that today is the day of the New Year. And these props on this stage alone immediately attracted the attention of many audiences, because these things were the most commonly used tools in their homes before.

Then the plot gradually unfolded, the first act forced debt, the second act was sad, the second act was robbed, the fourth act was misjudged, the fifth act was humiliated, the sixth act was revenge, and the seventh act was encountered, the audience's emotions continued to rise and fall with the plot, when Erzhuang was beaten all over the body by the evil slave of Jiafu in order to protect his sweetheart, when Lan'er was snatched away alive, when Lan'er's father died when he could not redress his grievances and died on the pillar, people were filled with righteous indignation and gritted their teeth again and again.

Especially when Lan'er was forcibly pulled into the cave room by Jia Buren, she struggled and cried helplessly: Brother Zhuang'er, where are you, how can you watch your sister being bullied like this; God, why don't you get rid of this unscrupulous and wicked man, destroy this cannibalistic world, and give us poor people a place to live.

The bloody wail of the cuckoo made the hot-blooded men in the audience unable to control it anymore. was already the deputy company commander Er Zhuangzi sat in the second row, and from the second act onwards, he had already stained his military uniform with tears, at this time he seemed to see his sister being bought into Haoqiang's house, and suddenly lost himself, only to see him stand up "poof", pick up the stool and throw it on the stage, while shouting:

"Look who dares to bully my sister!"

After that, he rushed to the stage with angry eyes, and all the people watching shouted along.

This sudden change caused the stage to be abruptly interrupted. Gu Haotian has been standing behind the scenes, and he has to come out to stop it at this time. At this time, people realized that this was just a performance, and Er Zhuangzi also came to his senses under the prevention of others, only to see a bow to the actors on the stage, and then squatted down dejectedly.

The whole performance didn't end until the end of the hour, and although the final ending was relatively satisfying, none of the audience was in a relaxed mood. These young men walked out of the auditorium one by one with calm faces, but they looked at the people waiting outside for the night show inexplicably.

A familiar one asked:

"Brother, what's wrong? Are you happy? ”

"Happy bird, the master now hates to wipe out this thief world with a knife! Straight sissy thief! I really don't know what kind of life I had in the official camp, if it wasn't for the petty officials, I'm afraid I would still be working hard for those pigs and dogs! ”

The man scolded and went away, but confused the onlookers. However, the curiosity was even stronger, and everyone was looking forward to the evening performance.

The performance of the night

Naturally, it was also a great success, that is, those students of Liangshan Academy were all moved, according to Uncle Zhang's night after, many people since that night, they actually started to write from Rong.

The two performances were unexpectedly successful, and Master Li and the "co-producers" Kong Yuhan, Hu Sanniang, Pan Jinlian and others gained a full sense of achievement. From this afternoon to the evening, they have been staying behind the scenes, feeling the ups and downs of the plot, but none of the four of them expected that the plot, which they usually didn't feel much during rehearsals, would have such a big effect on the scene. At that time, they were all worried that the angry eyes in the audience would burn the characters on the stage.

"Sister, Haotian once said that a good performance is better than the preaching of the people in the Military and Political Department a thousand times, today I really believe it, we women are of no great use, and we can do more in these."

Kong Yuhan was the latest to join this creative team, but she was born in the Kong family and has the most solid literary skills, and her eye for things is also very keen, so after this incident, she immediately sensitively realized that this kind of performance will be of great use in the future.

"That "Sacrifice Story" also needs to be prepared earlier, looking at the formation, it must be a big performance next." Hu Sanniang continued.

"What the two sisters said is very true, the slave family didn't expect such a big reaction, but the little official was prescient, I really don't know how he came up with these strange ideas in his head."

Master Li recalled Gu Haotian's various practices when he was in the capital, and couldn't help but think of his legend about the man of destiny in his heart, but he told himself in his heart that he must do this better, and maybe it will be his own reliance in the future.

Only Pan Jinlian didn't say anything, but she was very proud in her heart, she had already regarded the petty official as her dearest, and she felt all his achievements and glory, including the idea of this stage play.

On the 29th of the lunar month, Liangshan Manor will hold the year-end awards as usual. But this year's atmosphere seems to be a little different, in addition to the joy of meritorious service, everyone is talking more about yesterday's performance.

In the Juxian Palace, Wen Huanzhang and Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Zhao Ding and other directors were also talking about the same topic.

Wen Huanzhang was deeply touched by yesterday's performance, and he said to several directors:

"This matter is extraordinary, there must be a long-term plan in the manor, I think it is better to set up a special agency under the military administration department to do this propaganda thing."

"But this matter is being done by the teacher and the girl, so it's not appropriate to put it under the military administration, right?" Xiao Jiasui was a little worried.

"What's wrong, it's just the establishment of a management agency, looking at the trend, the form of the performance will definitely expand in the future, and you can't let Haotian keep holding the money to support it, as for the teacher, the girl will ask her to do the teaching, this Haotian will never mind."

"This is also true, Haotian also mentioned to me when he was in the capital, to let talented women come out to do things, you see that many workshops in this manor now employ women to do things, that is, Liangshan Restaurant and Shuibo Department Store, aren't they also run by the ladies on the mountain? There's no need to worry about this, it's just that this organization still needs to choose some talented people, otherwise it will be difficult for the screenwriter to write the lyrics. ”

Zhao Ding knew that Gu Haotian valued the status of a woman very much, so he was very much in favor of Wen Huanzhang's opinion.

Everyone present is not pedantic people, so they unanimously passed, and only made it clear after ventilating with Gu Haotian.

After the award ceremony in the morning, at the strong request of all the award-winners, "The Legend of the Silver Hairpin" was performed two more times in the afternoon and evening of the same day.

Later, the Military Administration Department announced that there will be a new drama "Sacrifice Story" in the first month of next year, so everyone is looking forward to a torturous New Year.

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