Chapter 150: A Good Show
After Xiao Guo left, the steward of the City Lord's Mansion immediately summoned everyone and informed them that the song needed to be slightly modified. For several masters who have been in the troupe for many years, this situation also happens often, so no one makes a fuss about it.
It's just that Li Bai and Cerbella were taken aback after reading the script.
The original story of the opera is like this:
The fallen scholar rushed to the exam and encountered a demonic beast, and he was powerless, so he hurriedly fled to the deep mountains, and happened to meet the flower fairy picking flowers in the mountains.
The flower fairy took on human form, saved the injured scholar, drove away the demonic beast that was following him, and took the scholar in to heal him.
Subsequently, the scholar and the fairy fell in love for a long time and decided to get married.
However, on an outing, the scholar meets a woodcutter. The woodcutter told the scholar that the mountain was inhabited by a flower demon who specialized in eating people. Then, he told the scholar that the Desperate Flower could make the flower demon manifest. Moreover, as long as the flower demon eats the desperation flower that is more than three hundred years old, then the flower demon can be subdued.
The scholar listened to the woodcutter's words, took advantage of the flower fairy to go out to pick flowers, and picked a desperation flower that was more than 300 years old in the deep mountains.
On the night of the marriage of the scholar and the flower fairy, the scholar quietly put the desperate flower into a glass of wine, poisoning the kind-hearted flower fairy who loved the scholar deeply.
Before he died, the flower fairy told the scholar. She had already noticed that the wine was poisonous, but in order to make herself truly the wife of a scholar, the flower fairy was willing to drink the poisoned wine.
After the death of the flower fairy, thousands of flowers withered in the deep mountains, and the demonic beasts were raging, and there was a sense of death everywhere. Only then did the scholar know that he had fallen for the woodcutter's tricks and was used by others, so he poisoned his newlyweds.
In remorse, the scholar also drank poisoned wine and went to Huangquan with the flower fairy.
After the two died, God took pity on them and sprinkled a flower seed in the valley where they lived. The flower seeds take root, sprout and bloom, and finally grow into a poisonous mandarin duck flower. Poisonous mandarin duck flowers, two flowers, one non-toxic, one poisonous. In later generations, infatuated men and women resented women, so they used poisonous mandarin duck flowers to test whether their beloved was willing to stay with them.
After the change of the track:
The woodcutter reappears and transforms into a flower fairy.
It turns out that the woodcutter is the sister of the flower fairy, and the poison fairy is transformed.
The scholar saw through the woodcutter's trick in time and teamed up with the flower fairy to defeat the poison fairy. Since then, the two have lived a life like a fairy couple.
The poisonous mandarin duck flower is just one of the rare flowers planted by the flower fairy and the scholar.
After reading the new songbook, Li Bai and Cerbella admired the person who changed the songbook, and the original sad and sad story was immediately happy when it was changed.
There is no doubt that an important character needs to be added to the songbook: the poison fairy.
Just as the steward was about to introduce Li Bai and Cerbella, a woman in a theater robe came out of the backstage of the stage, babbling and appearing in front of Li Bai.
When Li Bai saw the woman in front of him, he suddenly looked confused.
"Gong ...... Bai Yu, why are you?" asked Li Bai.
"Qiang Qiang Qiang ...... Da ......"
Bai Yu deliberately pretended to be an opera accent and circled around Li Bai.
"If you can come, Miss Ben can't come?"
As she spoke, she deliberately looked at Cerbella, who was silent.
"Cair, Bella, she's pretty good-looking, with fair skin and a lovely face. Lin Zibai, you have a good eye!"
When she spoke, there was a pungent energy in her words.
Li Bai smiled awkwardly, and didn't know what to say for a while. But there was one thing he immediately understood, the poison fairy in the song book must be Nangong Baiyu.
As expected, Nangong Baiyu also held the music book in his hand and began to talk to Li Bai and Chel Bella. When reciting the song, the originally brutal and pungent lord of the palace was extremely serious. On the contrary, it is Chel Bella, because of the difference in the way of thinking between the Eastern and Western continents, it is difficult to understand some places in the song.
Throughout the day, Li Bai and the three of them were near the stage, and they even went to the stage to rehearse from time to time. In the evening, thanks to the efforts of a group of people, the performance has become presentable.
At night, Los Angeles is still bustling with people. Lanterns were hung in every house in the city, and the lights were bright, and the whole of Los Angeles was a prosperous scene.
The steward of the city lord's mansion sent people to set up a stage in front of the flower market, and invited all the masters behind the stage, and as soon as a good show started.
Just as Li Bai and the others were over, a team of people was also sent from the City Lord's Mansion to maintain order at the scene to avoid chaos.
Soon, after a burst of gongs and drums, the people in Los Angeles gradually gathered towards the flower market. Some people are waiting to watch the play, some people are waiting for the end of the play, the belonging of the poisonous mandarin duck flower, in short, the audience is surrounded by water, and there are people everywhere.
Just as Li Bai and the three of them walked onto the stage, the audience cheered and applauded loudly.
Especially a group of cultivators from the Western Continent were even more novel.
When one of them saw Chel Bella, he shouted: "Pull it, pull it, Mapo Dip Tongue Crane, Buhavo!"
(Meaning: there, there, it's my sister, come on!)
Chel Bella, who heard someone shouting in the Western Continent language, immediately waved his hand to the stage. Many people in the Eastern Continent didn't know that she was waving to her brother, and they screamed one after another.
Li Bai stood next to Chel Bella, which naturally attracted a lot of cheers. This pair of scholars and flower fairies seem to be very favored.
Nangong Baiyu was full of vinegar, pouted, and whispered: "Hmph! Isn't it just a pair of blue eyes, what's the big deal?" See how proud you can be, and there will be a ...... you look good."
"Bang!"
A few gongs and drums sounded, "The Fallen Scholar and the Flower Fairy", the show began.
On the stage, Li Bai was dressed as a scholar, carrying a basket of books, and gradually brought the story to the scene.
In the middle, Li Bai's performance made the audience sigh, lamenting that the scholar was deceived by the woodcutter and lived up to the deep affection of the flower fairy.
As for the flower fairy played by Chel Bella, she is full of fairy spirit, which makes the audience cheer constantly.
But the most commendable performance is Nangong Baiyu's poisonous fairy. When she showed her jealousy of the flower fairy, the various expressions, the tone was just right. She showed the image of the poisonous fairy in three points, one time it made the audience grit their teeth and hate the despicability of the poisonous fairy, and the other time it made people applaud and praise Nangong Baiyu's acting skills.
"Good! good......"
There was cheering under the stage, and some people had already begun to throw money into the donation box, and a thousand taels of silver was not a big number in front of 10,000 people.
Suddenly, in the midst of the crowd riot, several people in ordinary clothes kept moving, gradually approaching the stage.
With a "boom", someone in the crowd released a powerful spiritual power and rushed to the stage from under the stage in an instant.
Suddenly, several people who did not know the truth of the audience were shocked out, and the screams and howls were immediately heard, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
"There are assassins!"
The guards of the City Lord's Mansion immediately spotted those people and screamed. Then he turned to the assassins, and the two sides immediately fought.
The audience immediately scattered and fled to avoid harming the pond fish.
On the stage, Li Bai immediately became alert, and subconsciously blocked in front of Nangong Baiyu.
"County Lord, looking at the spiritual power released by these people, they are all professional warriors, and their strength is not weak, and eighty percent of them are coming for you. The target on the stage was too obvious, so we hurriedly withdrew. ”
After Li Bai finished speaking, he grabbed Nangong Baiyu's arm and walked to the back of the stage.
As soon as the riot happened, those cultivators from the Western Continent also went to the stage, in order to save Cerbella so that no one would go against her.
There are also several waves of people, some of whom take advantage of the chaos to raise money, and some who take advantage of the chaos to fight the idea of poisoning mandarin ducks.
For a time, the personnel on the field moved frequently, and it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.
Just as Li Bai and Nangong Baiyu ran outside the stage, a black shadow flashed, and a dagger in the black shadow's hand quickly slashed.
With a "bell", the dagger hit the surface of something solid in an instant, and the sneak attack failed.
In an instant, an old man with a hunched body stood in front of Nangong Baiyu with an angry face.
"Zuo Lao!"
Li Bai took a closer look, it was Zuo Ting who saved Nangong Baiyu just now and blocked the other party's sneak attack.
Zuo Ting's hand flashed with red light, and the majestic spiritual power was suddenly released, and the momentum was magnificent.
Through the night, black shadows moved back and forth around Li Bai and Nangong Baiyu, looking like they had not achieved their goal and would not give up.
Zuo Ting no longer hid his strength, and the martial arts pattern of half a copper coin immediately appeared on his forehead.
He unceremoniously stretched out his right hand, and a red bloody hand phantom immediately slapped towards the black shadow.
The black shadow seemed to be shocked by Zuo Ting's strength, and immediately hid in the darkness.
Then, another white-bladed aura appeared, flying directly towards Nangong Baiyu.
Zuo Ting stood in place, motionless, and the spiritual power around his body surged, forming a huge spiritual power protective cover, protecting both Li Bai and Nangong Baiyu.
"Bang!"
The dagger in the shadow's hand was flicked away again, forcing the shadow to hide in the darkness once more and lie dormant again.
Obviously, Zuo Ting relied on his strong spiritual power to forcibly resist the other party's sneak attack. But the other party's body is weird, and he doesn't fight Zuo Ting head-on, but just keeps launching sneak attacks.
The enemy is in the dark, and the self is in the dark. If it continues to be consumed like this, sooner or later it will be taken advantage of by the other party.
For a while, in the face of the sudden killer, Li Bai, Nangong Baiyu, and Zuo Ting were extremely passive.