Chapter 10: The Birthday Banquet of Wanfu

Then, Yi Jiuxiao drew an arc with both hands, the palms of his hands were behind his back, and he spread his wings into a milk swallow, kicked his feet on the ground, jumped five or six feet high, and spread his legs in a scissor style, which was the posture of the milk swallow out of the nest. When the swallow first learned to fly, it was not yet proficient, and when it flew to a height of five or six feet, it deliberately fell downward, landed on its wings, and then flew again, and so on three times.

Subsequently, the milk swallow soared into the sky, instantly turned into an adult swallow, flying and flipping in the air at a height of two feet, making a cloud-piercing shape for a while, doing three copying water for a while, and doing a beam shape for a while, the action was coherent and natural, light and delicate, and fluttering and realistic.

Before the demonstration was over, Liangyu's applause rang out, and he applauded continuously, and then the three of them applauded together, and in the applause, Yi Jiuxiao landed on the ground in a fixed manner, and once again clasped his fists and saluted the three people in the seat.

"What a swallow dance, it's really pleasing to the eye. Since Yi Jiuxiao came in, the owner Liangyue has not spoken, but now he finally spoke up, and he was amazed as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Xiaoyu, it's decided, you let this kid prepare well, and if it's done, you have to reward him well. ”

After the owner Liangyue finished speaking, she got up and prepared to leave, there have been many affairs in the song and dance workshop recently, she has a lot of things to deal with, and she can't delay here. Liangyu bowed down and said "yes", although they are sisters, they are still in awe of this owner's sister.

Yi Jiuxiao and Xin Song were confused, and they didn't know what the two of them said, so they all stood quietly aside, waiting for Liangyu's instructions. Liangyu sent away the owner's sister, turned around, and explained to Xin Song and Yi Jiuxiao what happened and the follow-up arrangements, and planned to lead Yi Jiuxiao and others to Wanfu to perform on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the program performed was the swallow dance just now.

There are still five days left to prepare, and the swallow dance needs to be perfected, and the official performance must be soundtracked. Yi Jiuxiao did not have a soundtrack for two performances of Qingyan Boxing, but there must be a soundtrack to perform in Wanfu, one means regular, and the other soundtrack makes the dance more harmonious and charming, which can bring out the wonderful atmosphere.

There were originally more than a dozen musicians in the song and dance workshop, and they were all requisitioned by the state government this time, so who will score Yi Jiuxiao. In the end, Xin Song decided to take action in person, Xin Song is in his early thirties, has been in the song and dance workshop for 18 years, is a versatile person, in addition to dancing will also be guqin and other musical instruments, guqin soundtrack swallow dance should be very suitable.

Wanfu's performance task is very challenging, Xin Song in order to show the importance of the performance, not to appear too monotonous performance, decided to let the other four teenagers also participate in the performance, he specially designed a birthday dance, by four teenagers to practice, the soundtrack of the birthday dance is suona and drums, Xin Song plays suona, Yi Jiuxiao acts as a drummer in it.

Drumming is not difficult to learn, Yi Jiuxiao is a very smart person, and he also tried drumming in the army in his previous life, so under Xin Song's careful guidance, he learned it in less than a day, although he is not very proficient, it is not a problem to cope with this soundtrack.

During the rehearsal, Liangyu went through the programs of Xin Song and several people, praised Xin Song's design, and asked several people not to have stage fright, to perform wholeheartedly, and not to have any problems in Wanfu, otherwise it will be difficult to explain. Liangyu's hope is pinned on Yi Jiuxiao, and the other four teenagers have not been learning dance for a long time, and their performances are very rough, and the birthday dance can only be regarded as a number.

Early in the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wanfu's carriage came to pick it up, and the two cars carried six people to Wanfu, Wanfu was in the southeast part of Kaizhou City, which almost occupied a whole street, Yi Jiuxiao visually inspected it, the entire mansion was not less than one mile longitudinal and longitudinal, and the tall wall surrounded the mansion, which was almost a city within a city.

When he saw Huang Luo's residence, Yi Jiuxiao felt that it was quite big, but compared with Wanfu, Huangfu was not even a corner. Yi Jiuxiao was also born in a big family in the Great Song Dynasty in his previous life, but the scale of the family mansion is far from being comparable to that of ten thousand families.

The carriage stopped at the south gate of Wanfu, at this time the front of Wanfu was already full of traffic, they couldn't go to the main gate, led by the Wanfu steward six people from the side door to enter, to see Wanfu, the housekeeper Wanfu, Wanfu is in his forties, medium stature, dressed in housekeeper clothes, white complexion, graceful bearing, the big family is really not ordinary, the housekeepers are extraordinary.

Xin Song and Wan Fu greeted each other, Wan Fu looked at the lineup of the song and dance workshop, an adult with five teenagers, the eldest was only twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger one was only eight or nine years old. He knows a lot about the song and dance workshop, and the youngest kabuki who go out to perform are fifteen or sixteen years old, and the oldest is more than twenty years old, what does it mean to send a few children over, his face was immediately displeased, but he didn't say much, after all, the song and dance studio is an official institution.

The six of them rested in a guest room, there were refreshments and fruit plates, and a small servant served beside them, although Wanfu was dissatisfied with the arrangement of the song and dance workshop, there was no lack of etiquette. A few people drank tea in the room, ate fruits, and waited for the birthday banquet to begin.

Yi Jiuxiao and the others came relatively early, so the waiting time was relatively long, and they waited for two hours before the birthday banquet officially began, and the six of them followed the steward of Wanfu to the place where the birthday banquet was held, the Wanfu Banquet Hall.

The whole hall is about 20 zhang long and about 10 zhang wide, and hundreds of tables are densely placed in the middle, and the tables are full of guests all around, which is really full. At the northernmost end of the hall, a stage was set up, and the flowers around the stage were splendid, and there were things such as longevity cakes, longevity noodles, longevity points, longevity peaches, longevity wine, etc., and two teams of maids stood on both sides of the stage.

On the middle table near the stage sat today's birthday star Wan Mu, graceful and luxurious, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, wearing a phoenix crown and a bright red ribbon. Although he is seventy years old, he doesn't look old, he doesn't seem to be even fifty years old, it's no wonder that Qi Guo has lived past a hundred years, let alone the old man is still a cultivator.

Sitting side by side with Wan Mu is a majestic middle-aged man, who is Wan Qianhao, the head of the Wan family, and the husband of Wan Mu. Wan Qianhao is a person in cultivation, and he is cultivating to build the eighth layer of the foundation, and he is also a master in Kaizhou.

At the same table with Wan Father and Wan Mu is their second son Wan Qianjiang, Wan Qianjiang is in the position of Langzhong in the Ministry of War, which is the rank of the fourth rank. There are also a few officials who came from Beijing to congratulate the birthday, and they are the friends of Wan Tianfeng, the son of Wan Tianfeng, in the court, Wan Tianfeng has been guarding the border all the year round, and he can't rush back to celebrate his mother's birthday, but he has a lot of friends in the court, and he came to congratulate him on his birthday after hearing the news.

The state government also sent two officials to congratulate them, but neither of them could sit in the chief seat, so they could only sit in the second seat aggrievedly. There are Beijing officials, and the state officials are naturally one level lower, unless Taishou is here in person, but Taishou is going to preside over the state capital celebration today, and he has no time to come.

The other seats were the clansmen, relatives and friends of the Wanjia family, the businessmen of Kaizhou, and Huang Luo was also at one of the tables. There are also many guests from other states and counties, and Wanjia has a large business and many friends.

The birthday banquet has a special master of ceremonies, named Wan He, who announced the process of the birthday banquet on the stage, first of all, everyone gave the birthday star Wan Mu birthday speech, and then set off fireworks, and then the birthday banquet officially began, the host family toasted to each seat, and waited for the wine to pass three rounds, and began to sing and dance performances, and the guests watched the song and dance while drinking.

Wanhe focused on the program of the song and dance performance, it turned out that in addition to the song and dance workshop, Wanfu also invited two folk teams in Kaizhou, Xinle Class and Pian Dance Workshop, although the overall strength of these two teams is not as good as the song and dance workshop, but there is very little difference. And in this performance, all the actors sent by the two teams are the leading actors, and they are also the best shows.

After listening to the host's introduction, Xin Song's face became ugly, he has been in the industry for many years, and he is quite familiar with these two teams. Xin Song himself performed on the same stage with these two teams in his early years, and he considered himself inferior to their main actors.

If the main actors of the song and dance studio can come over, they will definitely not be afraid of them, but with today's temporary combination of newcomers, it is really difficult to compete, and it will definitely break the name of the song and dance studio. But this is the case, how can I continue to act, I can only hope that Yi Jiuxiao can play well, but he did not tell Yi Jiuxiao and others his thoughts, so as not to have pressure and stage fright.

Each of the three teams has two programs, and the order of arrangement is the solo dance of the dance workshop, the cappella of the Xinle class, the birthday dance of the song and dance workshop, the musical instrument performance of the Xinle class, the combination dance of the dance workshop, and the solo swallow dance of the song and dance workshop.

Just when Xin Song was thinking and nervous, the processes in front of the banquet were all gone through one by one, and the performance officially began.

The first to take the stage is the solo dance of the dance workshop, the actor is a young woman, graceful figure, beautiful face, the performance is a fan dance, accompanied by pipa and yaoqin, in the melodious music, like a gentle butterfly flying in the flowers, smart with a bit of charm, but also elegant, like a beautiful elf left in the world, fully demonstrated the actor's profound dance skills, won the opening red, thunderous applause.

Then appeared is the singer of the Citale class, this is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, beautiful appearance, she sang the new song "Thousand Longevity Song" made by Wang Ke, a lyricist of Qi State, the singing voice is cheerful and bright, although there is no musical instrument accompaniment, but there is a clear rhythm, full of charm, the words are also auspicious, very appropriate, won a round of applause and cheers from everyone in the audience.

The following is the birthday dance of the four-person group of the song and dance workshop, and the four children hold the birthday prop Shou Tao, with the theme of the dance of offering peaches and birthdays. The four children were obviously very nervous, although Xin Song didn't say anything to them, but they watched the first two performances, and felt that there was a big gap, and they had no confidence, so they played a small drum in their hearts, plus the basic skills were not solid, and the rehearsal time was short, the whole performance was relatively chaotic, almost lackluster, among them, Feng Feng almost fell during the performance due to stage fright, there was no applause, and there was laughter.