Chapter 335: Drama
After Wu Feng discovered the circumcision technique to prove pi, he recorded his method in detail in a small book, although he could not share his joy with others, but this sense of accomplishment still made him extremely satisfied.
Talent is extremely important to the Xia Kingdom, which has just escaped from the era of ignorance, if the students of the Great Xia Academy Palace walk up to Wang Lang and ask if they are important, Wang Lang will give a positive answer.
It's a very simple answer.
It can even be said that in this world, no one can know the importance of the students of the Great Xia Academy better than Wang Lang.
In a way, these young people who have received the baptism of new knowledge play a more important role than just technicians or officials in Bactria who will change the country.
In this barbaric era, Wang Lang knew how scarce talents were, and forced children to receive education, although they could not immediately get a large number of useful talents, but as long as this development continued, the cultural level of Xia Kingdom would be greatly improved.
According to the approximate statistics of the Ministry of Rites, the number of children studying in the school palace has reached thousands, and these people will be the disseminators of culture in the future.
On the outskirts of Baoding, a small village, the villagers here are all farmers of the Xia Kingdom, and after the conscription order was issued, most of the men in the village were conscripted into the army, leaving only some old and weak women and children to stay here.
In terms of physical strength, most women are inferior to men, and now the farmland of each family is confiscated by the state and cultivated collectively by the local government.
Although there are some drawbacks to this, and it is often difficult to arouse people's enthusiasm for labor in the case of eating a big pot of rice, in the current situation, there are still many advantages to implementing a system similar to that of rural communes, which can at least ensure that the peasants can have enough food rations to live, and even if the grain output is lower than before, it has played an extremely important role in stabilizing society.
At the very least, the men who have been conscripted into the army do not have to worry about their wives and children starving to death on the streets.
The elderly, the weak, women and children were organized, and the county household department photographed the agricultural officials to guide the planting.
Different crops are connected in patches, and the neat farmland is a delight to the eye as far as the eye can see.
"Dangdang!"
The sound of a gong ringing sounded at the edge of the field.
Shen Lian, the young village chief, kept striking the gong with a gong.
Seeing the villagers slowly gathering towards him, Shen Lian put down the gong, waited for everyone to arrive, and said loudly: "Tonight, the performance troupe from the capital came to Baoding to wake up the three-day performance, and I received a notice to let us go and watch it at night." ”
As soon as these words came out, the crowd suddenly became excited, compared to the boring farm work, it is an inspiring thing to see the performance of the performance troupe in the capital.
Looking at the whispering crowd, Shen Lian said loudly: "When you enter the county seat, you must abide by the rules, there will be officials from the Criminal Department patrolling around, if someone makes trouble and is arrested and locked up in a cell for a few days, I won't go and get you out." ”
At this time, an old man grinned and whispered: "Village Chief Shen, we understand the rules, you see that it will be dark in a short time, and there is still a short distance between our village and the county seat, and if you don't leave me now, the old bones will not be able to see it." ”
"Yes! Village Chief, let's go! ”
The villagers shouted excitedly.
Shen Lian smiled and said, "Send the farm tools and livestock back, and we'll set off now." ”
The villagers cheered and hurried back to the village with their hoes.
Villagers who have made some small snacks at home carefully put them in their arms, and it is a very enjoyable thing to watch while eating while watching the show.
Under the leadership of Shen Lian, the villagers went to the county seat in a good way.
At night, a huge stage was set up on the central square of Baoding City, and an iron basin burning firewood was placed next to the stage to illuminate the stage.
At this time, a large number of people gathered in the square of Nuoda, and for the people who were jealous of their spiritual life, this performance was definitely a rare event.
With the sound of a few "dong dong" drums, the crowd that had just been noisy suddenly quieted down, quietly waiting for the actors to perform on stage.
It didn't take long for the show to begin.
When the actors came on stage, the flute player under the stage played some sad music, listening to the flute, the audience's hearts were not lifted, and they did not dare to make a sound with bated breath.
Several famous actresses carried their heads, humming lightly in the fields with a small tune, and with the melodious flute, the people watching the play naturally reminded them of the scene when they were working, and the audience immediately brought their identities into it.
With the awakening of the performance, the low voice suddenly disappeared, and the rumbling drum remembered that several soldiers wearing armor rushed behind the five stations, and the audience was startled when they saw the appearance of officers and soldiers.
"All the villagers will go to the county seat at once, and the enemy will soon be killed."
An actor playing a soldier shouted in horror, and the working women suddenly became a mess and hurriedly followed the soldiers towards the county seat.
At the end of the first act, the audience's emotions have been fully mobilized, and when the curtain opens, the scene is no longer farmland, and a woman holding a child among the dead soldiers on the ground kneels beside the corpse of a soldier and cries quietly.
At this time, a panicked woman hurriedly came to the woman's side and said anxiously: "Li family, let's go, the dinosaur people have broken through the city, and we will all die here if we don't leave." ”
As soon as the name Dinosaur Man appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of the audience and figured out what the enemy was.
"Sister-in-law of the Zhao family, my husband can't just die here, our child has just been born, why did he die." The woman cried.
"The man is already dead, let's go, it's too late if you don't leave, the army has already retreated." Another woman persuaded.
The woman who was holding the baby wept for a while, carefully arranged her dead husband's clothes, hugged the baby in her arms, and hurried out of the place.
The second act ends, and people anxiously wait for the next episode, in which the praying pair mother and son can escape the pursuit of the enemy.
At the beginning of the third act, a group of embarrassed humans try to support themselves and flee for their lives, when the drums become more and more rapid, and after a strange scream, a group of actors playing the dinosaur people surround the group with their teeth and claws, and the woman is in the middle of it.
Several soldiers who were protecting the retreat of the crowd, seeing that there was no retreat, roared and swung their knives at the dinosaur people, but they were outnumbered, and the soldiers soon died heroically.
The people, who had lost their protection, soon became lambs to the slaughter and were captured by this group of dinosaur people.
At this time, the baby in the woman's arms suddenly let out a cry, this sound immediately made the dinosaur man extremely annoying, regardless of the woman's struggle, knocked it to the ground, snatched the baby in its arms, stabbed it through its chest, picked up the dead baby, and let out a strange scream, as if showing off his military exploits.
The angry audience on the stage wanted to rush up to the stage and beat the actors who played the dinosaur people to death, but the riot was quelled by the officials.
The actors were taken aback by the audience's actions, especially the soldiers who played the dinosaur people, who were even more frightened into a cold sweat, and when those people were about to rush to the stage just now, they really thought they were dead.
After the audience calmed down, they pulled themselves out of the story and understood that it was just a story and not a reality.
People whispered about this, the next fate of this woman, talked about how they expected to choose when they encountered such a thing, whether to resist or be captured, and people talked more about being afraid that people were so bad.
The actors, who recovered from the shock, continued to compete.
The captured humans were brought back to camp by the dinosaur people, and they were picked and picked by the horrific monsters like animals.
The human baby was boiled in a cauldron and quickly eaten, as natural as an animal.
And the adults were shackled, and the chews in their mouths were toyed with like dogs.
The smooth skin of human beings has become the beautiful clothes worn by dinosaur people, and the milk of women has become the drink of dinosaur people.
The news of the dinosaur attack has been well known before, and through this performance, the people who have watched the performance have an idea in their hearts, if it really comes to the situation mentioned in the story, maybe death is a happy thing.
At the end of the performance, the hearts of the audience could not be calmed for a long time, and they didn't know that the water shouted: "Kill the dinosaur man!" ”
This sentence completely ignited everyone's anger and fear, and countless people chanted this slogan, the war between different races, either you die or I die, there is no other way to go, although the earth is big, but it cannot tolerate the coexistence of two intelligent races at the same time.
When the villagers returned, they had long since lost the elation they had come, and everyone's mood was extremely heavy.
Although this performance is a story, it may not happen to me in the near future.
The men are now going to join the army, and what happened to the actress has made the women feel more profoundly.
In the face of the terrible nightmare that was very likely to happen, people really understood the imperial court's conscription order this time, and at least a few complaints were completely quelled.
The reaction of the Chinese people was expected by Wang Lang, and the influence of the script he wrote had just begun to show, as long as this play toured the whole country, he believed that in the face of the threat of extinction, the Chinese people would definitely burst out with infinite motivation.
As the New Year is approaching, Yancheng has lost its former liveliness this year, and the streets are deserted, most of which are women buying some things for the New Year.
Wang He, who had joined the army for nearly two years, returned to Yancheng on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month.
Two years of military career, not only exercised his body, but also honed his will, although only ten years old, but the tanned face, can no longer see too much childishness, looks much calmer than before.
After Wang He came back, the first thing he did was to go to Wang Lang to say goodbye.
Looking at the eldest son who had not been seen in front of him for nearly two years, Wang Lang was very relieved in his heart, Wang He's performance in the past two years, he naturally knew in his heart, although he was young, but the training tasks in the army could keep up with the effort, and his degree of effort made Wang Lang impressed.
"It's good to be back, sit down!" Wang Lang said in a deep voice.
Wang He sat on the chair with his waist straight, and it could be seen from his sitting posture that his long-term military training had completely changed his previous laziness problem.
Wang Lang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Can you still adapt to the army in the past two years?" ”
"Father, the sons are very accustomed to living in the army, and they get along well with the robes." Wang He said in a deep voice.
"That's good, you also know what threat our Xia Kingdom is facing, you are on the front line now, are you afraid in your heart." Wang Lang asked.
Wang He smiled when he heard this: "Father, the sons are not afraid, the robes in the army know that when you become a soldier, you have the consciousness of being ready to die." ”
"This is my son, a man must live up to the heavens and the earth, and he must take all the people as his own responsibility." Wang Lang said with satisfaction.
At this time, Wang Lang's three wives rushed over together after learning that Wang He had returned.
When Wang He saw his mother, he quickly got up and said, "Mother! ”
Fanxing looked at Wang He, he hadn't seen him for two years, the woman was sentimental after all, and couldn't help crying.
"My son is back, why are you crying!" Wang Lang said with a straight face.
Hearing this, Fanxing glared at Wang Lang and said: "Hecai was sent to the army at such a young age, can that place be a child's go, what if you are injured and touched, why is your father so ruthless." ”
The corners of Wang Lang's mouth twitched, and he exhaled angrily: "What do you know as a woman?" ”
Seeing that his parents were about to quarrel, Wang He hurriedly said: "Mother, isn't it good for me, I also volunteered to join the army, and I don't feel hard, but I feel that my life is full of meaning." ”
The starry willow eyebrows were upside down, and he looked at Wang Hedao: "You are really the same as your father, I, who is a mother, really raised you for nothing." ”
Wang He scratched his head in embarrassment and glanced at Wang Lang.
"The child just came back and made a noise, and told the imperial chef to get something delicious, and our family will get together today." Wang Lang said in a deep voice.
At this time, Wang He saw two little people hiding behind their respective mothers, and looked at him with some fear.
Wang He grimaced at him, so frightened that the two immediately retracted their heads.
The two concubines dragged the two of them out from behind and reprimanded: "Don't give your brother a salute yet!" ”
The two children looked at Wang He timidly, and said in a milky voice: "Wang Lan, Wang Hai, I've seen my brother!" ”
Wang He smiled and said: "These two are younger brothers and sisters, I didn't expect to grow so big after just two years of leaving." ”
Saying that, he groped in his arms for a while, took out two rattles and shook them, and said: "I came back in a hurry, and I didn't prepare any gifts, you can take these two rattles to play!" ”
The two children excitedly took the rattle and played with it in their hands.
looked at Wang Lang's two concubines and said, "I've seen Erniang, Sanniang!" ”
The two concubines nodded and said, "I've seen Da Lang!" ”