Heaven and earth are not benevolent games. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Splendid Opera Troupe toured in major rear cities across the country. Arrived in Zhongshan City a week ago, tonight is the third and last performance in Zhongnan City, and the venue is the Black Swan Grand Theater in Zhongnan City.

As in other cities, the first two performances in Zhongnan City were only used as publicity and foreshadowing, and only a few major parts of the opera "The Revenge of the Prince" were performed, and the only complete repertoire will be performed tonight.

The show is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Just after seven o'clock, the front of the Black Swan Grand Theater was already bustling, crowds of people, groups of men in suits and leather shoes, flowers and willows, fragrant women, greeted each other, and walked into the opera house. The hall on the first floor of the spacious opera house soon occupied seven or eight floors of audiences.

Although listening to opera is a relatively elegant activity, but there are not many people who really like it, the reason why so many people came tonight, there are people who have a vassal and elegant heart, there are people who love to be lively, and most people participate as a banquet, so everyone comes relatively early.

Luo Ji was dressed in a light gray suit, holding Eli, who was also wearing a gorgeous gray evening dress, and walked into the middle box on the second floor.

The two of them were neither in the fun nor in their interests, but were captured by Wallace as chaperones.

Only Wallace really likes to listen to opera, or maybe Wallace thinks Eugene likes to listen to it too.

Actually, whether it is Luo Ji or Eugene, they all like it on the surface.

"It's the first time I've heard an opera." Eli leaned over to look down at the crowded hall and said in a cheerful voice.

"I hope you'll hold on for a while and don't fall asleep." Luo Ji sat on the comfortable sofa and picked a fruit and threw it into his mouth.

Eli smiled, looked back at Luo Ji, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Am I that inferior?" ”

"Can't sleep? Then you remind me, I'm afraid I'll fall asleep. Luo Ji smiled.

"You don't like opera?" Eli asked with a slight disagreement.

Luo Ji shook his head: "I don't like to listen to the full version from beginning to end, it's too long, I'm tired from sitting, I'm tired from listening, it's easy to fall asleep when there are many plain places in the middle, I like to listen to classic fragments of opera." However, I heard that this one is good, and the plot is very compact. ”

Eli looked at it for a while, walked over and sat next to Luo Ji, leaned over and picked a fruit, and asked softly while peeling it, "Are you ready?" ”

Luo Ji smiled: "I'll do something, don't worry." ”

Not long after, Wallace and Eugene walked in, followed by two lieutenants.

After seeing the ceremony, the waiter brought more exquisite fruits, pastries, tea, etc., and the four of them said a few gossips, and the opera officially began.

"The Revenge of the Emperor" is a very classic opera, about the emperor of a certain dynasty was assassinated by his younger brother who coveted the throne, and announced that the emperor died of a violent illness, the only prince who was only sixteen years old at the time was sent by the emperor to inspect the government affairs of various places, and immediately returned to the palace after hearing the bad news, and was betrayed by a cronie around him on the way back to the palace. Ten years later, the prince raised an army to regain the throne, and Lishan Gu became the empress, killing the cronies who betrayed him to the new emperor and became prime minister.

The story is not twists and turns, but the arrangement is compact, the singing is beautiful, the costumes and props are real and gorgeous, and the actors are handsome, and it has been performed more than 20 times in major rear cities across the country, and it has received rave reviews.

At the beginning, it was a fight, the prince received bad news and returned to the palace, but was ambushed, and the guards who accompanied the protection died one by one under the enemy's knife, in order to protect the prince, the personal guard suffered from the prince's clothes, and led the enemy away, although the prince was seriously injured but escaped.

Although there are not many lyrics in this scene, the fight is very exciting, the props are also used with a lot of heart, the blood stains on the body are like the real thing, the actor who plays the prince is long, the face is handsome, and it is particularly pitiful after being seriously injured.

The second scene is the rescue of the mountain aunt.

Before the person appeared, the mellow voice had already resounded throughout the audience, and as soon as the mountain girl appeared, she immediately won a full house.

Eli's eyes lit up in the first scene, and when he saw the mountain girl appearing in the second scene, he couldn't help muttering: "If the mountain girl looks like this, we so-called city people will have to find tofu and die." ”

Luo Ji laughed: "Women really can't see women more beautiful than themselves." ”

Eli glared at him and argued, "Aren't men the same? ”

Luo Ji shook his fingers and said in a low voice: "Men can't see men who are more attractive to women than themselves." ”

Eli peeled a lychee and stuffed it into Luo Ji's mouth, and said angrily: "You are always full of crooked reasoning. ”

Luo Ji smiled and couldn't deny it.

The opera went on one by one, and there really wasn't much boring place, and Luo Ji didn't fall asleep as he said before, but he went to the bathroom because he drank too much tea halfway.

Two hours later, the opera is nearing its end, and the last one is when the prince becomes emperor and beheads his cronies who betrayed him at noon.

This scene was originally the executioner cutting off the heads of his cronies with a guillotine, but the guillotine broke before the performance, and it happened that there was a guillotine in the props group, although the guillotine did not match the time background of the plot, but there was no more suitable alternative tool in a hurry.

As soon as the guillotine appeared, it caused a strong dramatic effect, after all, everyone was more interested in guillotines than guillotines.

The guillotine resembles a three-meter-high door frame, and a heavy guillotine is fastened with iron chains at the top of the door frame, and the knife edge is very sharp.

Underneath the door frame is a shackle that moves up and down.

When in use, lay the person face down flat, and the head is fixed in the shackles. Loosen the chains, allowing the heavy guillotines to fall under gravity along the tracks on either side of the door frame, severing off the head secured to the shackles.

The guillotine and guillotine were more merciful than the original executioner's use of a ghost knife to cut off the head, and the accuracy of the machine allowed the executioner to die with a single sword.

Immediately after the guillotine, there were cronies with heavy makeup, cloaked hair, tied up with flowers, four strong men held their cronies high above their heads, and after circling the stage for a week, they were fixed under the guillotine, and the emperor, empress and ministers each sang a song, at this time the iron chain that fixed the guillotine was released, and the heavy guillotine fell in the exclamation of the audience, and the head of the cronies was cut off and fell into the wooden basin in front of the guillotine.

The curtain slowly fell, and the whole opera ended.

The change happened just as the curtain began to fall.

There was an exclamation, followed by an exclamation, and the people on the stage instantly became chaotic, and the audience in the first two rows began to stir.

Usually after a performance, the chiefs are asked to leave first.

Luo Ji and Eli had already stood up and were about to leave with Wallace and Eugene, but they were attracted by the commotion on the stage.

Luo Ji took the lead and walked quickly to the railing and leaned over to take a closer look.

Eli also came over, stood beside Luo Ji and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Luo Ji frowned: "I don't know, it seems that the human head is too realistic." ”

Eli looked over and was surprised, "yes, there was so much blood, like the real thing." ”

Wallace also walked over when he heard the sound, looked at the increasingly chaotic scene below, and said in a deep voice to the adjutant standing at the door, "Go and see what happened." ”

"Yes." One of the lieutenants stepped out.

Eugene squeezed over and frowned: "It's too bloody, but they have all acted so much, and they should have seen too much of this bloody scene, what is there to make a fuss about." ”

When Luo Ji heard this, his face changed and he said something bad, and said loudly while walking out quickly: "If something happens, immediately block all exits and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving." ”

Wallace also felt that something was wrong when he saw Luo Ji's color change, and as soon as Luo Ji's voice fell, he looked at the other adjutant and nodded slightly, and the adjutant ran out after Luo Ji.

"What's wrong? Isn't it a prop, it's a real person? Eugene pointed to the stage that had just ended.

"Most likely, you two stay here, I'll take a look." Wallace walked out as he spoke.

Eugene hurriedly grabbed him: "It's too dangerous for you to go out now." ”

"It's okay." Wallace tried a little hard to break free of Eugene.

Eugene's hand was strong, and his tone was resolute: "No, Luo Ji has already gone, wait for him to come back." ”

Eli also stepped forward to persuade: "The situation is very chaotic outside, we should wait here for news." ”

Wallace didn't hold on, and turned to sit back on the couch.

Eugene and Eli were so concerned about his well-being, and he was very happy.

The adjutant who went out first soon returned, bringing the news that the dummy used as a prop had been replaced with a real person, and the one who died was Nan Jingquan, who had recently defected to the Luo army, and was now Gumir's subordinate.

Wallace's face suddenly became gloomy, five Yanguo people who had joined the Luo army had been killed these days, and they even killed people in front of everyone tonight, and they didn't take the Luo army seriously.

"Check, you must catch the murderer, you have to live." Wallace ordered coldly.

"Yes!" The adjutant saluted and turned to go out.

The exits were blocked, many spectators were stopped on the first floor, and there was a lot of noise everywhere. But in the face of the armed soldiers of the Romanian country, no one dared to rush out.

About half an hour later, Luo Ji returned to the box.

"Nan Jingquan followed Gu Mier to watch the opera, during the intermission, Nan Jingquan said that his stomach was uncomfortable, so he left first, but he was stunned and sent backstage, and made up to look like a dummy, and the four big men didn't know that the dummy was replaced by a real person, carried it to the guillotine, and killed it." Luo Ji took a sip of water and briefly told the story of the incident.

"When did Nan Jingquan leave?" Wallace asked.

"It's been over an hour before the end." Luo Ji said.

"When did you appear backstage?" Wallace asked again.

Luo Ji shook his head: "I asked several people, but no one noticed, that dummy seems to have been there all along, and no one knows when it was dropped." ”

"Can't you tell if those four strong men are real or dummies?" Wallace said angrily.

"I tried the weight of the dummy, for the sake of realism, the dummy was at least more than a hundred pounds, Nan Jingquan was drugged, his limbs were stiff, of course there was a difference, but no one could have thought that the dummy was replaced by a real person, and they didn't pay attention." Luo Ji explained.

Although the four strong men are playing tricks, they have no less time on stage than the main actors, and they have to play four or five different roles in the whole opera, and before the last scene, they are also on the background of the human form on the field, and they only have a minute to change their costumes and makeup when they return to the backstage, and this opera has been performed for more than ten times, and they don't pay attention to whether the person they carry is a real person or a dummy.

"Have the personnel been investigated?" Wallace asked.

"It's still investigating, but I've checked all the people in the crew, no more, no less." Luo Ji replied.

Wallace didn't speak, and the atmosphere was a little dull for a while.

There were more than 300 people in the audience who came to see the performance tonight, most of them were Luo Guo officers, personnel of the military and political institutions of Zhongnan City, and people in the business circles.

John Shawch arrived after hearing about the accident, and Luo Ji saw that the secret service of the garrison headquarters had taken over the investigation, and there was no need to stay, so after leaving the opera house with Wallace and others, he drove Eli home.

Sitting in Luo Ji's car, Eli finally relaxed and gave Luo Ji a thumbs up: "It's too godly, how do you do it?" ”

Luo Ji shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "Actually, it's very simple, Eugene has two medicines, one makes Nan Jing have abdominal pain, and the other makes his whole body stiff after he falls into a coma. Decais disguised as a waiter, took the opportunity to deliver tea to Nan Jingquan for abdominal pain, in the bathroom, I and Decais teamed up to stun Nan Jingquan and stuffed it into the cleaning car that Dick found, Dick sentry, Decais and I changed into the clothes of the cleaner, pushed Nan Jingquan to the backstage, changed into the clothes of the dummy, put on makeup on the face, hid the dummy, and we don't have to worry about the rest. ”

"Are Dick and Dicks out?" Eli asked.

In addition to those who had "status" and were allowed to leave, the staff of the opera house and the troupe were still detained.

Luo Ji nodded: "After sending Nan Jingquan to the backstage, they left." ”

Eli: "You guys did you kill that headhopper?" ”

Luo Ji: "Last night Decais helped it change a knife. ”

Eli: "Why don't you use a guillotine?" ”

Luo Ji: "Do you think that a real person and a dummy can feel the same?" Besides, that guillotine is a prop, and the guillotine is immortal. ”

Eli smiled appreciatively, "You're dark enough, this man is too effective at killing." ”

Luo Ji pouted: "It's not you who forced it." ”

Eli smirked, "Don't you think it's funny to hoe like this?" ”

Luo Ji nodded thoughtfully: "It's very interesting." ”

The two were silent for a while, and Eli asked again, "Have you ever thought about what to do if those four people find out about Nan Jingquan?" ”

Luo Ji explained: "There is no antidote to Eugene's medicine, if it is discovered, Nanjing Quan will also die, but there is no sensational effect." ”

Eli nodded, and then asked, "Did you say John Shoch could find out?" ”

Luo Ji smiled confidently: "The crime scene is a public bathroom, after the end of the scene, it is full of people, and the backstage is also a mess, the medicine in the whole of Nanjing will become ordinary medicine in a few hours, it is a time of war, there is no way to find it, John Shoch wants to solve the case, let's go to the next life." ”