Chapter Seventy-Four: Understand?

"Woo... Woo... Woo... Woo... Woo..."

It's like the sound of the wind, like a cry, it's more like a ghost sobbing, and the sudden weird sound makes the audience in the theater feel like falling into an ice cave, and many people's hairs stand up, and their backs are cold. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The voice tore at people's hearts and livers, making people feel panicked, some of the timid ones were already pale with fright, and more people were pretending to be calm and looking at the stage.

Accompanied by the narrator's narration, a figure (silhouette) appears on the curtain, a scholar in a hurry, who has to walk at night because he missed the village where he stayed.

Just like this person walking in the mountains and forests, walking and walking in the distance appeared a courtyard, there seemed to be a faint light from it, it seemed to be a family, the scholar was overjoyed, quickly stepped forward to knock on the door, to spend the night.

The curtain darkened, accompanied by eerie music, and when it was lit up again, the scene had already changed: in the courtyard, several trees suddenly spoke.

"It's coming, it's coming, someone's coming..."

"Hurry up, hurry up, the lady is going to do something..."

After a pause in the music, a female voice suddenly began to rap in a trill, the voice was extremely resentful, as if it was an abandoned woman crying, and then a pair of long legs appeared on the curtain, and then "flew" the torso, arms, and finally the head, forming a human skeleton.

The sound of gurgling sounded, it was that some viewers were so scared that their teeth were fighting, and more people continued to watch in a cold sweat.

"Wrong, wrong, hand back, hand back..."

At the reminder of the tree, the skeleton creaked and moved, moving in a non-human posture, and finally "straightened", and then the female voice continued to chant, and in the song of resentment, "it" became "she".

There was a knock at the door, and it was the scholar calling for the door, and it became her, and after turning her head in a circle, she walked outside.

"Hell hey, heck, hey..."

Some people trembled, because there was a narrator "explaining", as an audience, of course they knew that this woman was a ghost, and the unaware scholar went to this ghost cave to stay in the mansion, which was simply self-defeating.

In the gloomy music, the scholar was welcomed into the courtyard by a woman, sat down in the room, and several tree demons turned into human forms, pretending to be servants and serving with wine and food.

With a snap, someone in the audience knocked over the water glass, but it didn't cause side eyes from front to back, left and right, everyone held their breath and stared at the curtain on the stage in horror, seeing that the scholar was lured by the woman step by step to death, but he didn't know it.

Liu Kuan wiped his forehead, wiped away the cold sweat that came out, looked back, and made sure that there were many people behind him, so he turned his head, there were many people who acted like him, and everyone was infected by the scene of the shadow puppet play, as if he was the scholar and was in a ghost cave.

Many people have the experience of rushing to travel at night, and even have the experience of staying in a small village in the middle of the night, or staying up all night in a deserted and dilapidated temple, so seeing such a scene, I can't help but empathize.

When you go out, the most feared thing is to live in a black store when you stay, or to be targeted by thieves in the middle of the night and kill yourself, and what is more frightening than this is to meet demons and monsters.

Rushing to the night, the ghost fire floating in the mass grave, the strange sounds and shadows in the mountains and forests can make people tremble, and the play in front of them is even more terrifying.

The woman said that her relatives were out at home, only a few servants were accompanied, and she was very frightened at night in this mountain, and warmly invited the scholars to stay in a room and talk all night.

The sound was so realistic that the audience even had the illusion that it was really raining outside.

The lightning flashed and thundered, the woman trembled, and wanted the scholar to spend the night with her, but she was pitiful, if the audience didn't know that she was a female ghost "in advance", she would really believe it, and the scholar was also attracted by her beauty, and she agreed in ignorance.

Just when everyone thought that the scholar was going to die, the plot took a turn: the woman seduced the scholar to sleep with her, and after some conversation, she was moved by him and decided to let him live.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but then there were waves: the scholar saw the bell tied to the woman's foot, and rang it out of curiosity, and the woman was shocked when she saw this: "Go, go!" ”

"Why is the lady angry, Xiaosheng is unintentional..."

"Let's go! Grandma is coming! ”

The plot is full of ups and downs, causing the audience to be unable to hold back and exclaim again and again, and in the terrifying music body, the "grandma" with a strange body and a voice that speaks for a man and a woman appears.

The woman turned out to be controlled by her grandmother and seduced a man for her grandmother to eat, but she fell in love with a scholar and fled with her sweetheart, and the angry grandmother frantically chased and killed the two.

Sometimes turning into a group of bats, sometimes turning into fierce beasts, such a powerful monster, people can't help but sweat for the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, many people are so nervous that they keep drinking water, and the waiter who observes the words and looks stepped forward in time.

"Guest officer, half price for the second cup..."

In a box on the second floor, Yu Wenwen drank lemonade, looked at the copycat version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" made up by himself, and talked and laughed with his companions.

People who can talk and laugh with him in the box must always have some identity, Sima Yangji, the governor of Huangzhou, is one of them, Sima Yuwen fifteen of Huangzhou is the second, and the other is Zheng Yi, the prince of Peiguo.

After sending his children home, Yu Wenwen went here, and the main creators of the shadow puppet show gathered together to raise a glass to celebrate the full "box office", and drank lemonade in order to avoid drinking and making mistakes.

"Pei Gong's soundtrack is really immersive, and the widow is really admired."

"Where, where, the musical instrument that the king came up with, and this idea, really makes Zheng admire."

Zheng Yi sincerely admired that Yu Wenwen could come up with such an idea, making the ordinary shadow puppet play huge, causing a sensation in Xiyang City, not to mention, the box office really skyrocketed every day.

He didn't dare to imagine what it would be like if he performed in Chang'an, Yecheng or Luoyang.

"If there is no Pei Gong's soundtrack, this scene is at least half inferior, Yang replaces wine with water and toasts Pei Gong with a glass."

Although Yang Ji was disdainful of Zheng Yi's character in his heart, he would never let people see it on his face, he talked and laughed with the other party, if someone who didn't know saw it, he thought that these two people were a nest of snakes and rats.

Yang Ji's ability to act on the spot has been perfected, when he was in Chang'an, he was comfortable in socializing and socializing among the powerful, and when he was young, he was not even afraid of the powerful minister Yuwen Hu, and it was not a problem to deal with Zheng Yi at all.

Two thousand-year-old foxes and an old fox touted each other, the flesh was extremely numb, and the little fox Yuwen Fifteen, who had just debuted, was obviously much more immature, if it weren't for Yuwen Wen taking care of him from time to time, he wouldn't even have a "dialogue".

Yuwen Wen is one of the big owners of this theater (theater), but the actual affairs are in charge of Yuwen Fifteen and his wife, that is to say, Yuwen Wen actually transferred the so-called shares to his henchman Yuwen Fifteen, and he didn't take any dividends at the end of the year.

The interests are evenly distributed, make a fortune together, Yuwen Wen takes everyone to make a lot of money, there is no reason not to bring his henchmen, but it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, and the way he plans to hand over Yuwen Fifteen to make money is the "entertainment industry".

Entertainment in this era is very boring in Yu Wenwen's opinion, and joining the army drama is an exception, but if he wants to be different, the breakthrough he chose is shadow puppetry.

The principle of shadow puppetry is very simple, behind a translucent white cloth, a light is shone on the leather silhouette, and the artist manipulates the shadow figure while telling the story, accompanied by various music, as a performance.

Shadow puppetry is said to have started in the Western Han Dynasty, but in this era, shadow puppetry still seems immature, and Yuwenwen decided to take it to the extreme.

Combining the elements of film and television dramas of later generations, using unique visual and auditory effects, and using abnormal shadow puppetry to shock the so-called well-informed rich people.

First of all, visual effects, shadow puppetry needs to make a large number of silhouettes, people, animals, buildings, objects, and even demons and monsters, which is not difficult for Yu Wenwen, his knowledge, but far beyond this era.

There are many pigs in Huangzhou and a lot of pig skin, so the leather silhouette does not worry about the raw materials, and many of the inspirations that Yu Wenwen drew from later film and television dramas can be expressed by shadow puppetry.

Traditional shadow puppetry, with its small curtain, limits the number of audiences, while Yu Wenwen uses the principle of small hole imaging and glass lens group to copy a simple amplifier and successfully achieve a "big screen".

If you want to expand the number of spectators watching shadow puppets at the same time, in addition to the big screen, you have to keep up with the sound effects, which requires a suitable place that can accommodate many people, but also allows the audience in the back row to hear the sound clearly.

In the era when there was no sound equipment, this was difficult to do, and he could only optimize the layout of the theater from the acoustic aspect, which he didn't know much about, but it didn't matter, someone was a master.

Zheng Yi, the character of Pei Guogong, has a very high attainment in music, of course he does not understand modern acoustics, but his hearing is extremely keen, Yu Wenwen feels that if he was born in modern times, it is not possible to hear the different effects of wind power, thermal power, nuclear power, and hydropower on sound quality through headphones.

With Zheng Yi's golden ears as the guide, the internal layout of the new theater has been optimized, and the ingenious layout of various sound sources can make the audience get a very "realistic" auditory experience.

The theater is there, and the next is the musical instruments, Yu Wenwen synthesized all kinds of musical instruments in later generations, put forward the concept and then Zheng Yi "embodied" it, and after careful adjustment, it also reached the level of being able to perform.

With musical instruments, we have to solve musical problems, and some of the soundtracks are Yuwen Wenlai "humming", composed by Zheng Yi, and the music of the shadow puppet show is completed by Yuwen Wen and Zheng Yi's partners.

The problem of visual and auditory effects is gone, and the hardware aspect is solved, and the software problem has to be solved - the script.

One of the scripts is the famous "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is a story that Yuwenwen is very familiar with, but the detailed script is completed by Yang Ji, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has matured, so Yang Ji has no pressure to compile it into a script.

Another script is "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is naturally adapted by Yu Wenwen from the classic films he has seen, and it is impossible to make realistic special effects in these years, so he borrowed the performance form of shadow puppetry and tried to show various special effects as much as possible.

Demons and monsters, as well as flying swords, shapeshifts, fighting methods, etc., can be expressed with shadow puppetry, and all kinds of brain holes in modern film and television dramas allow Yuwenwen to "reappear" in this era.

Coupled with various sound effects, as well as the opening song of the old version of the "Liao Zhai" TV series that scared countless children to cry, it can be called an unrivaled "special effects blockbuster" in this era.

Producer and director Yu Wenwen, screenwriter Yang Ji, and vocal director Zheng Yi, the three of them formed the "iron triangle" of shadow puppetry, and pondered for a long time before finalizing the script and soundtrack, and then they had to train relevant personnel.

This matter requires a lot of energy, and of course it is done by Zheng Yi, an "expert in the industry", Pei Guogong, who desperately wants to fade out of the court's field of vision, is when he has no official to do and is bored, Yuwen Wen has something to arrange for him, which is very suitable.

Of course it is suitable, there is a share of the box office, even if Zheng Yi looks at the money, he has to work seriously, and the producer Yu Wenwen only has to allocate money.

Isn't the producer and director responsible for spending a lot of money and then "directing" the actress in the room at night?

Yu Wenwen is not interested in wildflowers, but he is very interested in enriching the entertainment life, the theater is done, the shadow puppet team has grown, he can also relieve the boredom of his family, and by the way, create a special industry for Xiyang City.

"Good!!"

The tide of cheers broke out, and the audience burst into tears, cheering for Yan Chixia, who was strong in magic, for killing the old demon of Montenegro, for the scholar to find Xiaoqian's ashes, and for the magic to be one foot high and one foot high.

This scene opened their eyes, the dramas they had seen before could not be compared with the shadow puppets here, and many people were excitedly discussing the plot, full of unfinished looks.

Horror, suspense, fighting, love, chivalry, a variety of elements are blended together, which is really addictive!

Yuwen Wen got up to leave, leaving Yang Ji to continue to talk and laugh with Zheng Yi, while Yuwen Fifteen followed him out of the box, he noticed that Lord Lang's face was slightly unkind, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Lord Lang..."

"How many times have you said it, it's called the king, this is not the palace."

"Wang, are you dissatisfied with your diet?"

"What do you say?"

"Why, this popcorn is elaborate, small... Xia Guan has already tried it, and it is absolutely delicious! ”

Yu Wenwen stopped, turned around and looked at his henchman hatefully: "What did the widow say before?" Well? ”

"How thick and thick the reed pipe of lemonade should be, how dry and dry the pastry should be, how salty and salty the popcorn should be, and how thirsty and thirsty the audience should be after eating, you should know that you don't need to say more!"

"But the king, the popcorn is too salty or the pastry is too dry, and after eating it, I am very thirsty."

"If you're thirsty, buy an extra glass of lemonade! Otherwise, do you think you can sell a few more cups just for half the price of the second cup? Understand? ”

"You! Where's that cleverness? Isn't opening the door to do business just to change the way to make customers spend money? ”

"The more lemonade sells, the audience drinks more, and they have to go to the toilet in a hurry, miss the wonderful plot, maybe they have to grit their teeth and buy a ticket after the show, and then eat popcorn and pastries until their mouths are dry, and they have to buy lemonade."

"The theater business is good, you have more money in your pocket, and you can raise a few more outer rooms..."

"Lord Lang! The small ones don't have an outer room! ”

"None? There are so many young and beautiful little ladies in the theater, you haven't 'directed'? ”

"Lord Lang! You can't just wronged the small..."

"It's an analogy! Understand? Go back and ponder with your daughter-in-law, make more money, don't buckle the rope when you receive people and things, and always think about saving money, you are saving money, and the widow's face has made you lose everything! ”