Chapter 298: The Grand Theatre (Part II)

"You say, can this play last three hours?".

Tan Weixin was stunned for a moment before reacting. Theatre performances, especially wonderful theatre performances, are always meant to be time-out, when the emotions of the audience are mobilized, when the applause and curtain call are all mixed with everyone's emotions, no one knows how long the performance will become. "Three and a half hours, huh? Are you sure your men are thankful? ”

Her sister's encouragement made Tan Weiying very proud, and she said with a smile: "I will definitely be able to." But after the performance, I was emptied of my body, and it was as if my whole body had lost all my strength. So these three performances can only be performed every other day. …… It's just that after these three performances, I don't know when I will be able to perform again. Besides, when the show is over, I'm going to have a good rest. ”

The success of the joint practice made Tan Weiying energetic, but her eyes were a little dark due to fatigue, and the weakness between her gestures could not be concealed. "Well, when the time comes, take a good rest for a few days, and then, after the queen mother's birthday, come back to Yunzhou with us, right?" Tan Weixin gently hugged this sister, who looked much healthier than herself, and said lovingly.

"Hmm," thinking of the meaning of going to Yunzhou, Tan Weiying responded excitedly and a little shyly.

"By the way, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, Sister Yun, my father asked me to send more than 200 invitations from me, do you know who it was for?" For the entire performance hall, two hundred seats is also a large proportion, a while ago Tan Weiying has been busy with this joint practice, when Tan Xiaopei asked people to get two hundred seats, she was annoying, and let her subordinates do it. It's a little strange when I think about it now. The two hundred seats were scattered throughout the hall, from the very edge of the first row to the last. Presumably, it is not used to entertain VIPs, especially the seats in the corners of the last row, and I don't know who it is for. Although the performance of "Midnight" is bound to be hard to find, it deliberately gives people a corner action. It's a bit weird.

"Do you know who there are in Danyang recently?" Ye Tao asked with a smile.

"Who?" When Tan Weiying heard it, he felt that he should have at least heard of it.

"Jiang Yan, the great strategist of Chunnandi, and the latest envoy to Dongping have already arrived, although their actions are all arranged in the box. But there are still some people from other factions on the Chunnan side, so you can't put them together. There are people from Northern Liao, and there are people from Xiling, and His Majesty seems to have staggered the arrangements. Some people still have to go through the people in the intelligence bureau to make them think that it took a lot of effort or a lot of money to get people to sell it. As for some boxes, there will also be some such people waiting to see this "Midnight". Two hundred seats. It's not much. It's divided into three, and it's not much. Ye Tao explained. At least there will be a liaison officer of the Northern Liaoxi Route Army in his own box, Gao Senqi's thirteen-year-old son Gao Lu.

"Why?" Tan Weiying asked, and then she thought of something, and then asked, "Is my father playing some tricks again?" ”

Ye Tao smiled faintly and said, "This is a good opportunity to show the bearing of Dongping's great power." Your Majesty is such a smart person, so he will not let go of such an opportunity. You didn't write too well about the ancestors of the Tan family, and you didn't write too badly about the founders of other countries. Your Majesty will surely be happy. Your identity, your opinion, is here, more than anything else. ”

"Hmph", Tan Wei pouted. Such a cute expression still often appeared on her face, and she never deliberately tried to suppress it. "Father is always like that. Good things always make him associated with military affairs. She frowned again and said to Ye Tao, "You are like this now!" ”

Ye Tao didn't refute, and looked sideways at Tan Weiying. Dai Yun smiled and said, "Your Majesty has made so much money." You should assume that Your Majesty bought a ticket and gave it to someone else. ”

Tan Weiying was amused. "That's good," she said. Midnight doesn't disappoint, though. Although, in fact, the position of the audience actually can't hear the most exciting effect. I once tried, watching this play in the center of the stage, listening to the lyrics of those characters, and in the ** part, the lyrics continued to sound around me, as if the whole world was spinning around me. When rehearsing. I don't know how much effort it took to get those stupid guys to cooperate well, but when they finally practiced, that feeling made people feel that it was worth it no matter how tired they were. …… However, with the rehearsals, we can listen to it up to four more times. ”

looked at Tan Weiying with some expectation and some regretful expression. Ye Tao was a little unbearable. He thought about it. After thinking about it carefully, he said, "Otherwise." After this performance, ten years will be counted, and then we will come to Danyang again and perform "Midnight" again...... Or, twelve to fifteen years later. At that time, it should be the time when the new capital city of Dongping is completed, and we will perform again to unveil the new city, okay? I promise, when the time comes, there will be a way to keep the best sound and picture, how about it? However, shouldn't the performance be worse than just now? ”

Tan Weixin's brows furrowed. Ye Tao has set a terrible timetable for himself, probably at least photography technology and recording technology, but maybe, is Ye Tao going to conquer sound films in ten to fifteen years, or can silent film technology be synchronized with music records? Tan Weixin doesn't doubt Ye Tao's ability, but in the past ten or fifteen years, how many things has Ye Tao to do? How much time can be devoted to technology research and development? That's a big problem. For Ye Tao to make such a promise to his sister, Tan Weixin didn't feel much, at least she wouldn't be jealous or anything. Dai Yun will not either. Because she was already stunned by what Ye Tao promised.

"Really?" Tan Weiying and Dai Yun asked almost in unison.

Ye Tao thought about it again, nodded resolutely, and said, "I said it, and I will promise to do it." ”

What Ye Tao didn't expect was that not long after Tan Weiying, he told the entire troupe about Ye Tao's promise as an encouragement. Ten years immediately became an agreement for everyone, and everyone said that as long as they could still perform after ten years, they would definitely stand on the stage of the Grand Theater again and present a gift to the new capital. Now a little young actors, after a decade of accumulation, may inject their accumulated knowledge of the world into another performance, to witness an era for themselves, to become a name engraved on a technological milestone. Compared with such honors and expectations, the generous gifts that Ye Tao is giving now are not so important.

Six days later, after intense and complicated adjustments, the opening ceremony of the Grand Theatre and the premiere of "Midnight" arrived as scheduled.

In this era, gunpowder is still extremely cutting-edge technology, which cannot be mastered by terrorists, assassins, and dead soldiers. Otherwise, someone would be salivating over the concentration of so many high-value targets in the theater. Tan Xiaopei, Zhuo Xiu, Zhuo Mang, Tan Weiming, Tan Weiran, Tan Weixin, and even Concubine Lian Chang Ling and the little prince Tan Weiya, who rarely appear together, all appeared in the audience and sat in the first row. Ye Tao, Chi Xianping, Huang Xuping, Qu Yan, Pang Rong and other important ministers of the kingdom, as well as Dai Yun, Xu Yao, Chi Yun and other leaders of the younger generation all sat in the second row. Jiang Yan and the others, who were originally arranged in a box, also asked to sit with these people and were arranged in the third row. And Chunnan's envoy is actually Song Xiangjun, the first beauty in Chunnan, not the husband of Song Xiangjun as everyone thought before, but it also makes people marvel at the ingenuity of Chunnan, who has always been very disciplined. But Song Xiangjun also sat in the second row, sitting with Dai Qiuyan, smiling and unrestrained.

There is no need to mention the safety considerations of such an arrangement, and the fact that Tan Xiaopei was sitting in the first row really made those who were arranged in the box uneasy, and they ran down one by one to say hello. Let Tan Xiaopei have no choice but to go on the stage and give a brief speech to everyone before the performance to make everyone feel peaceful. Later, the curtain opened, and the lights of the entire hall gradually dimmed.

The first act begins in the place where the capital of the Tang Dynasty was then known as the Gate of Peace, which was the place where the Empire executed felons. In the background is the red wall and yellow tiles, but the wall is already a little broken Ping'an Gate, Liu Xiangyuan's Xuan Guifei is tied to the stake, and more than a dozen people wearing soldiers' uniforms are constantly piling firewood on the side of the stake. There was still a faint noise and crying in the distance, and the projector also projected the silhouettes of the guillotine falling on the stage, with the screams of the ventriloquist behind the stage, which set off the sad and painful atmosphere of the whole scene, and grabbed everyone's attention at once.

And in this atmosphere, Liu Xiangyuan began to sing the first aria of the entire repertoire. What her voice reflects is not the sadness corresponding to the scene, but the resoluteness and resentment in her heart, telling her complex feelings of being misunderstood, framed, and slandered and framed to get into this situation, and singing all her complex feelings of hatred, attachment, and regret for the emperor who executed all her people. And the cold tone of a treacherous executioner on the side completely stirred up this emotion. At the moment when the hearts of all the spectators hung in the air as the executioner shouted "ignition". "Stop! Fire suppression! The shout instantly relieved all the audience. ……

The role that came out of the backstage is precisely the most controversial "Chen Jia" in the entire repertoire. The old prime minister walked out, saluted Concubine Xuan tremblingly, lowered her from the stake, and put a cloak on her. Then tell her: Your Majesty summons ......