Chapter 64: Journey to the West begins

'Come and see, come and see, come and see the stone monkey making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, the Yin Cao, and the Dragon Palace. 'I've had lunch and I've rested. The four of them regained their vitality, and Xiaohu struck the gong, "I have seen the aunt, the father-in-law, the lady of Langjun, the boy and the girl, it's time to start the play, come and see Ah." ’

It's okay if you haven't seen it, the plot is wonderful and not to be missed. At this time, the surrounding crowd surged, several children pulled their parents, several young people, came over like here, they had to move, and brought more people.

'What is that guy shouting?' What kind of stone monkey haunts the Heavenly Palace, I have never heard of it. ''Do you want to check it out?'' It seems that a lot of people are going somewhere. A few people turned their heads and walked over, and these performances in the theater were actually old routines, and now there were new performances, which attracted them to pass, and it didn't take long for people to be crowded under the trees.

You have to sit down in front of you, and the little ones can come back and watch. It's about to start. After Xiaohu struck the gong and shouted the last voice, he also got behind the performance stage. The stage looked rather rough, with two sticks standing upright in front of it, and a large white cloth stretched out.

The white cloth is upright, and underneath is a high table. There is a cloth in front of the high table to prevent you from seeing the back of the high table. It made some people feel fresh, as VIPs, Xiaohong and Yang Er sat in the front row, Ah Yong looked at it from a distance with disdain, and said disdainfully, "It's just a puppet show." ’。

'Synopsis. Suddenly, Li Chen opened his voice and shouted, "Saying that, Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, he opened the heavens and the earth with one hand, and finally fell, his bones turned into mountains, and his blood turned into rivers." Later, a human head and a snake took the body of a great goddess and created a human being. ’

However, the ancient god of fire Zhu Rong and the god of water worked together, Zhu Rong failed, and in a fit of anger, he hit one of the four pillars of heaven and earth. From that time on, mankind on earth was afflicted, and the rain in heaven did not cease, and the earth fell to the southeast, causing floods to continue. ’

'The female snail could not bear the suffering of mankind, so she cut down the giant turtle in the East China Sea and used it to support the heavens and the earth. He also collected spirit stones to open a furnace to mend the sky. In the end, the sky was finally mended, but in order to make up for the crack, the female snail collected a thousand spirit stones, of which 999 were used, and it just so happened that the last piece was left, and the female snail casually put it on the top of a mountain. ’

Li Chen is talking about Journey to the West, and Li Chen has become an old business, and he decided to use this to get the money for his family. That day, I went around Shengming Temple, saw the level of Xuzhou, and found that if he only relied on his ability in Cangfang Town and told some fresh stories, he might be able to make a living, but it seemed a little difficult to make a lot of money.

He was not reconciled, so he was lost in the crowd. In the warehouse array, in fact, he is just a mess of money, and he has no long-term plans, but now he wants to start a family.

Not only did he start a family, but he also planned to make a name for himself. In order not to be hunted down again. Although I don't know, whether it was when Jinzi was chasing and killing him, I don't know why Dangjinzi didn't just give an order and send the government to arrest him, and I don't know how he was found hiding in Changshou Temple, it doesn't matter.

If it was to the level of the Longevity Temple, he really didn't have to worry, he only needed to make money, make a lot of money, and then he could hire a bodyguard and a master to protect him. So, he couldn't be satisfied with what he could eat.

Xuzhou can support a long-standing theater, sure enough, the people's livelihood is relatively rich, and the people are more rich for recreation, but the competition is also fierce. Li Chen is confident in his own story, and there are no long chapters and novels in the Tang Dynasty, they are all short stories and legends.

As long as he comes up with a long novel as the subject matter, then it is easy to gather crowds. In this era when there are no novels, it is strange that the people who are used to reading prose and short stories are suddenly baptized by the long chapters back to the novel. Imagine a modern online article, readers can read it to the extent that they know that it is a person who can't wait for the author to update 100,000 words every day.

It's just that these are too slow, and he believes that there are many people who will become customers when he hears about it, but he also wants to come up with some new tricks to attract more people. So he set his sights on puppet play, which is the modern shadow puppet show.

'What was the last time?' ', synopsis, this is the way to learn the dramas of the later generations, lest someone hasn't heard it and doesn't know what to say, after saying that, Li Shen deliberately sold it, 'Does anyone know?' I don't know if we're going to start from the beginning. ’

"I know, I know, last time I said that the Monkey King went to loot the armory of the Aurorai Kingdom, and then he was going to the Dragon Palace, and he was going to get the weapons. A little kid, apparently in the morning, jumped to his feet and said, 'Oh, little brother, you have a better memory than mine.' ’

"Okay, last time, I said that the Monkey King Yicheng returned, and his spells and supernatural powers were great, but he didn't take advantage of the weapon, and he had four monkeys under him, and told him to go to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea to ask for a weapon." I saw that Sun Wukong suddenly drilled into the sea. Speaking of poof, there really has to be a poof, as if something has fallen into the water.

There was a shadow puppet show in the Tang Dynasty, Li Chen came to Shengming Temple that day, and was surprised to realize this matter, but the shadow puppet show in the Tang Dynasty was not common, Li Chen was also in the temple, and saw the monks saying that there was actually a shadow puppet show to cooperate, and the men, women and children in the audience were fascinated, Li Chen thought that he could increase his popularity in this way.

Wukong was very happy, and when he took out the sea treasure to look at it, it turned out that there were two golden hoops at the two ends, and a section of black iron in the middle. There is an engraved line of words next to the hoop, called to: "Ruyi golden hoop stick, weighing 13,500 catties." He secretly rejoiced in his heart: "Presumably this baby is as good as expected." As he walked, he thought to himself, and said with his hands upside down: "It would be better to be shorter." "Take it out, it's only two zhang long, and the bowl mouth is thick."

You see him doing the magic, throwing away the solution, and going around the Crystal Palace. The old dragon king was frightened, the soul of the little dragon was scattered, the turtles, turtles, turtles and turtles all shrank their necks, and the fish, shrimp and crabs hid their heads. Speaking of this, not only is the white cloth showing how Wukong shows his magical powers, there is also a background sound behind it, but also with sound effects, seeing a lot of people of all sizes, clapping and applauding, Li Chen has not yet taken out the gong to ask for a few rewards, and several viewers feel that they have thrown some copper coins to the front.

Shadow puppetry alone is not enough, Li Chen thought that he had watched some TV and movies behind the scenes, talking about how to use some simple props to simulate the sound of nature.

Therefore, Li Chen racked his brains, desperately trying to recall what kind of things and what methods can be used to simulate the sounds of nature.

'Thirteen, are you playing?' Can I also come along? When Li Chen racked his brains, he remembered to put beans in the bamboo strips and shake them, which could simulate the sound of rain, Ah Xiang spoke, "Good, Thirteen is not playing, he is trying to add a little effect to the shadow puppetry." Do you have to finish cutting all the shadow puppets? ’

It is not a simple job to play shadow puppetry, Li Chen fully mobilized the three elementary schools, and even Xiaohong came to help. He moved his mouth and asked Xiaohong to draw the pattern on the paper, and then Ah Xiang cut it carefully, and Xiaohu and Xiaopu carefully handled the movable parts of the puppet, and glued them to the pole to make it easier to control.

Li Chen pointed out what the puppet should look like in the world, let Xiaohong draw, and then racked his brains to dub it, but he didn't expect that Sanxiao gave him a lot of help, he said a few words, Sanxiao can give him a lot of advice, especially the puppy, he will also be very good ventriloquist, a mouth will naturally simulate a lot of sounds, so that Li Chen has a lot of brains.

However, even so, many props still cost a lot of money, plus paper, a large piece of hard yellow paper he needs, and he needs three articles. In this way, it cost him a lot of money, which he borrowed from Xiaohong cheekily, and the guarantee was that if he didn't come out, he would have to stay here as a long-term worker to pay off his debts.

It seems that he has gained a bargain, and if he enters, he can make a lot of money, and he still has a job to do if he loses, but he actually doesn't want to get it if he works in a brothel.

That's all for today, for more information, please listen to the next breakdown. The next performance will be three days later, and I will invite my parents and fellow villagers to cheer more. After Li Chen said dryly, he took a curtain call, "Next time, please see Sun Wukong rebelling out of the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor personally ordered, Li Tianwang and Prince Nezha, point to the Twenty-Eight Nights, Jiuyao Xingguan, Twelve Yuanchen, Wufang Jiedi, Four Values Gong Cao, East and West Star Dou, North and South Two Gods, Five Mountains and Four Blasphemy, Putian Astrology, a total of 100,000 heavenly soldiers, 18 heaven and earth nets, the lower realm went to Huaguo Mountain to capture Sun Wukong, how Sun Wukong fought with the heavenly court. ’

Oh, talk a little more, it's wonderful. The audience booed, but Li Chen didn't plan to talk too much, he had already talked about the fifth episode of Journey to the West today.

In fact, he doesn't completely follow the chapters of Journey to the West to make paragraphs, first of all, he will add some narration by himself for special effects. The most important thing is to deliberately leave a suspense for people, so that everyone is worried, and they will come again next time.

'Three hundred... Three hundred and five... Four hundred... There are 500 texts in total. Ah Xiang counted the copper coins stacked into a stack, and then cheered, fifty wen a stack, a total of eleven stacks, a stack of less than fifty, was ignored by Ah Xiang.

'Ah Xiang, don't count, put the money away, and owe it to that table.' Li Chen shouted, waiting for Xiaohu and Puppy to put the table on the car, Ah Xiang grabbed the money bag and climbed into the car, Li Chen pulled, Xiaohu and Puppy pushed on both sides, Ah Xiang hummed happily in the car. They have a lot of "furniture" (Taiwanese: tools), and the things are not heavy, but they can't finish loading them without using the car, and even this car is borrowed from the Yang family.

A hard day has a harvest, you can buy some good things on the way back, eat a good meal, Li Chen felt a sense of relief, hard work was not in vain. While walking, listening to Ah Xiang singing, Li Chen began to think about his future plans in his heart.