Chapter 40: The Chronicle of the Night's Day (1)

The maid took the three of them to the backyard and found them a small private room by the window. As soon as the three of them sat down, two beautiful big sisters in cheongsams came in and handed hot towels, soap, and hot water. Cheng Qi learned from Guo Shan, washed his face, and rubbed his face with a hot towel for a day, feeling that the idiom of the ancient saying "catching the wind and washing the dust" could not be more appropriate.

After the eldest sisters returned the dusting utensils to a few younger maids, they waited for the three little Langjun to take off their coats. Guo Shan explained: "Eating, drinking and having fun here is a dragon, and the brothers have been running outside for a day, and there is inevitably some dust on their clothes, so they are asked to clean it first, and it will be clean and tidy tomorrow." ”

Cheng Qi only felt that the two soft flesh on his eldest sister's chest were rubbing behind him, where could he care about what Guo Shan was saying, he just nodded indiscriminately. After a while, another short and thin Annan man came in and brought some cold dishes, as well as two pots of rice wine, and the big sisters helped Xiao Langjun pour the wine, but they didn't feed him in person.

Before the hot food came up, another girl with a lute in her arms came in and said that she was blessed; "Do you want to listen to music?"

"Make, make. Pick up two southern songs. Guo Shan took out a few coins from the pile of change on the table, and after the girl hurriedly thanked her, she dragged out a stool from the corner of the box and sat on it to play and sing to herself.

The girl sang a song first, telling the feeling of the girl Huaichun in the boudoir, the words are elegant, the music is profound, the pipa is more pleasant, and the singing voice is moving. Although Cheng Qi didn't quite understand the crepe rhetoric, he also pretended to be profound and nodded frequently. At the end of the song, the girl got up and sat down again after a blessing, this song is quite magnificent, completely different from the previous song, and the sound of the pipa also has the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse. Cheng Qi didn't expect that this girl could perform two completely different styles of music so well, which is really impressive.

After Guo Shan shouted yes, he rewarded the girl with a few more pennies. After she left, the handymen who ran the hall successively served some hot and cold dishes, animals in the mountains, delicacies in the sea, birds and livestock, and so on. The three brothers ate and drank with a heavy stomach, and then left here satisfied.

I walked around the corridor, enjoyed the night view of the backyard by the way, and digested the food in my stomach for a few minutes. The minister led them to the place of the hot springs.

The Song people, like the Tang people, like to take a bath in the open-air hot springs, but unfortunately the hot springs are a gift from God, not if you want to have them. Black-hearted merchants naturally have many methods, such as taking boiler water with sulfur powder and passing it off. The three brothers came to a pool enclosed with curtains, and under the service of the maidservant, they stripped off like newborn babies and jumped into the water with brushes. Now the season is already late autumn, morning and evening are quite cool, into the hot water, is really a moment of boundless comfort, indescribable. The three of them each lived in a corner of the bath, and behind each of them was a blonde maid holding a wooden ladle and pouring hot water on them.

Cheng Qi also peeped at the blonde maid's white thighs and fat breasts at the beginning. But after soaking in hot water for a quarter of an hour, it seemed that the strength of the rice wine had also risen a little, and the courage became bigger, and the hands began to be dishonest. And Huang Yang, this kid, was even more bold, and actually got the maid into the water, and said that he wanted her to rub it carefully for herself.

Guo Shan was also wrapped in a towel, sitting by the water, lowering his head and letting the maid rub his back with an old loofah pulp, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly through the mist, but Cheng Qi felt that this old man should enjoy it a lot. Soon he also enjoyed the back rubbing service of the golden silk cat - don't look at it as a girl's house, the strength of her hands is quite big, Cheng Qi's fine skin and tender meat will make him grin and scream after a while.

After soaking in the soup pool for another half an hour, the three of them wrapped themselves in white cotton bathrobes, and pulled the clogs Shi Shiran to the front of the stage. The Song people had rules for watching the play, and there should be a song and dance performance before the opening, as they saw in the open-air square on the street, and then there was juggling, and what kind of fire and sword swallowing. Wait until the audience's patience is almost worn out, and then it will be the turn of the big show.

Tonight's performance here is a troupe called Qingchun Ban, the play is called "Chen Sanliang", the plot is very simple: a Qing official surnamed Li was framed and died in prison by a traitor, and his daughter sold herself to bury her father and was reduced to fireworks. In order not to tarnish the family's reputation, she changed her name to Chen Sanliang, Chen Sanliang had a younger brother who was fostered in a relative's house and did not dare to come and go, so she adopted a poor beggar and adopted him as a brother-in-law. A few years later, one of Chen's benefactors died in her room. The family members of the deceased made a lot of noise, saying that it was Chen Sanliang who murdered him. The judge presiding over the case happened to be Chen Sanliang's younger brother, who accepted money from the family of the deceased, and disliked that his sister was a disgraceful woman, so he wanted to convict his sister of murder. It just so happened that the beggar of that year now won the top prize, and served as a patrolman, rescued Chen Sanliang on the execution ground, and removed her brother's fame.

This drama has twists and turns, and with the development of the plot, Chen Sanliang's fate becomes more and more exciting, until the last scene turns around, it feels like a tragedy like "Dou E's Injustice", so although it is written by an anonymous person, it is also widely popular.

This kind of long-form drama is generally performed in the tile shop, and the content is performed for about an hour every day, and the speed of the plot rhythm is determined according to the audience's response. If everyone is satisfied, then a side plot can be played for a month, and if everyone is not satisfied, then it will naturally be cut down and hastily finished to act in the next drama.

Judging from today's response, the response to this drama has been very good until now, the female actor who played Chen Sanliang was talking and singing on stage, and no one stood up and said: "You are watering!" ”

But after listening carefully, Cheng Qi knew why no one objected, but they kept applauding. It turned out that what Chen Sanliang said was how he was touched and kissed by a prostitute, telling that he was pressed under an old man, but he thought of something unbearable like a handsome guy. But although these things are vulgar, they are very in line with the mentality of everyone who comes to have fun. What's more, the girls on the stage are only surrounded by a layer of tulle, making all kinds of unsightly sultry gestures on "one table and two chairs", how can the old and young masters who have spent money come in against their fundamental purpose.

Cheng Qi watched it for a while, and muttered: "I know why Huizhou wants to ban dramas." ”

He said that it was an order from the local government of Huizhou: within the local scope of the township, all Spring Festival-related opera troupes are prohibited, and those who knowingly commit offenses will be fined by the host family and the troupe will be brought with a flail.

Teaching bad children like this, Cheng Qi also felt that it was not without reason that the magistrate ordered a ban. It's just that from another level, these teenage girls may not really want to rap these shameful things in public, just to make a living.

Guo Shan said: "Ah Qi likes to watch civilized dramas? ”

Cheng Qi shook his head: "Nature is indispensable...... I'd like to see this too. It's just that from the perspective of art, I think there is still room for improvement in this play. ”

Guo Shan smiled: "Coincidentally, their class leader once went to my uncle's house to sing in the church, and I have also seen him. It's also a bit of a pursuit. Although they play the lower riba people here, they can also sing some spring and white snow. Ah Qi, if you are interested, can you go backstage with me? ”

Before Cheng Qi could answer, Huang Yang threw away the melon seed shell in his hand: "Go together, go together!" ”