Chapter 46: The Battle of the Gonggong
A few people quickly left the palace gate.
"Aunt Zhu, you might as well wait for your mother here." Qingluan said to Aunt Zhu.
Several of them are young men and women, and with Aunt Zhu watching, they are a little restrained and awkward after all.
"The eldest princess ordered the servant to serve the county lord with her, and the servant could not disobey the order." I wish my aunt not to be arrogant or humble.
Qingluan was helpless, so she ordered Ziyu to stay by the golden chariot and wait, and she took Yuzhu with Aunt Zhu to accompany her.
She and the county lord of Chaoyang got into Yue Wu's carriage.
Aunt Zhu and Yuzhu sat in the carriage of the county lord of Chaoyang.
And after Yue Wushu gave up his carriage to the county lord of Jianing, he had to get into the same car as Xiao Boyan.
Seeing Xiao Hou's iron-blue face, Yue Wuxian couldn't help but smile and said: "Xiao Hou, it's just to have a cup of tea, as for this face, you also know that the county lord of Jianing has a casual and naΓ―ve temperament, and he is also very helpless." β
"Shut up!" Xiao Boyan scolded and lowered his voice: "I haven't asked you why you didn't put that matter aside, you are still embarrassed to talk and laugh here." β
Yue Wuxian raised his eyebrows, "Li Wen can't get rid of it, isn't there other vassal kings, just start with them, why bother being so frustrated." β
Xiao Boyan closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the car to suppress his anger.
Recently, everything has not been going well, and everyone has not let him worry, and even this long-time ally has begun to perfunctory him.
Thinking of Fang Qingru's actions at today's palace banquet, Xiao Boyan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. She suddenly presented a song to the emperor, I don't know if it was instructed by Taifu Zhifang, or did she want to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix?
I have to say that Xiao Boyan's thoughts coincide with Qingluan.
Xiao Hou thought of Jianing's increasing indifference to him, as if he had changed a person, and he was even more irritable in his heart.
Perhaps, he should really divorce her and marry Fang Qingru again.
Here Xiao Hou Zhengtian is fighting, and the carriage has arrived at Changle Fang on West Street, and not far from entering the Fang City, it is the Fengxiang Building in the city.
As soon as the servant at the door saw Yue Wuxian and Xiao Boyan's carriage coming, he immediately trotted and brought a brocade stool and put it next to the carriage.
Yuzhu had already jumped out of the carriage, ran to the carriage, and helped the two county lords to get out of the carriage.
"Order a house and put it in my name." Yue Wuxian said to the servant, turned his face to Qingluan and smiled: "The county lord pleases first!" β
A few people entered a large and luxurious hall, which had a small stage, in front of which there were curtains, and several high candles and oil lamps were lit in the four corners of the hall, illuminating the hall brightly.
Qingluan and others sat down in turn, and several maids in colorful clothes served the copper stove tea cup and cooked tea for the guests.
In addition, the servants brought melons and fruits in season, including oranges, apples, and melons from the Western Regions.
"Is your magician still here?" Chaoyang asked the maid in front of him.
"Yes, it's just that I'm performing for the guests now, I'm afraid I won't be able to come at this time." The maid said softly.
Chaoyang sighed regretfully.
Yue Wuxian: "If there are any other kitsch performances, you can call them for us to take a look." β
Maid: "The troupe has recently rehearsed a lantern and shadow show, if you are interested, you can watch it." β
"Oh?" Yue Wuxian turned his face and asked Qingluan, "I wonder if the two county lords are interested?" β
"Then call and see." Qingluan nodded.
When she was grounded in the house a few times ago, she rehearsed lantern and shadow plays with the girls, and now she can control the puppets quite freely, but I don't know if there are still shortcomings compared to these professional artists?
After a while, more than a dozen artists came in from outside, as well as a few drum players.
They set up a screen on the stage, the lights were shining behind them, the piano and drums sounded, and two or three beautiful colored ladies and leather puppets appeared on the white cloth screen, walking and waving their sleeves.
At this time, there were servants singing leisurely:
β¦β¦ The dream is turned back, the years are all over, and people stand in small courtyards and deep courtyards. The column is full of smoke, throwing away the residual embroidery thread, and this spring is like last year......
"What kind of play is this?" Chaoyang craned his neck and asked an artist.
"Returning to the nobles is the dream of the new platoon." The artist replied respectfully.
"What kind of garden dream, I don't understand the babbling at all, you guys pick up some lively ones again." The county lord of Chaoyang was dissatisfied.
The artist seemed to be a little nervous, and hurriedly told those who were handling the puppets to stop.
"The repertoire of the little ones will be on this, what do you want to see, please command." The foreman immediately held a booklet and asked everyone to look at it with trepidation.
Yue Wuxian asked people to hand the booklet to Qingluan and Chaoyang, and he only drank tea leisurely with Xiao Boyan.
Xiao Boyan leaned on the Luohan Collapse at this time, holding a tea cup in his hand, quietly looking at the beautiful silhouette of Qingluan, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chaoyang picked for a while, but he didn't know what to look at, so he had to push it to Qingluan: "Jianing, you choose." β
"Just play this co-worker's anger and don't touch the mountain." Qingluan handed the booklet to the foreman.
"Whoa!" The foreman took it with both hands and instructed the artist to start changing the shadow puppet props.
Gonggong Anger Touches Buzhou Mountain is an ancient mythological drama, and when Qingluan watched the lantern and shadow drama for the first time, he was fascinated by its magnificent and lively scene.
The play tells the story of the water god working together, with a human head and a snake body, red hair and black face, leading two evil gods to challenge the fire god Zhu Rong.
The two evil gods under the Gonggong are a human-faced snake god with nine heads, and the other is an insidious and cunning invisible floater who likes to make trouble.
The three of them stirred up the wind and rain, causing the mountains and rivers to collapse, the East China Sea to capsize, the flood to flood the world, and the human race to kill and injure countless people, just to capture Zhurong's Guangming Palace.
So, the fire god Zhu Rong harnessed a fire dragon, united with the wind god and Gonggong to fight to the death, only to hide Xiangliu in the ground, and the floating floating also turned into a ghost; The co-workers were chased and forced to escape, and finally they were angry and crushed under the collapsed pillars.
There are many monster fight scenes in the play, seven or eight artists operate at the same time, and there are drum musicians and pianists playing to set off the fierce battle scenes.
Qingluan's eyes swept lightly over Xiao Boyan and Yue Wuxian, and saw that they were also looking at it, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.
The two of them plus Xiao Luo are not just like the co-workers, but it's a pity that the Great Qian Dynasty didn't have the God of Rongfeng to resist them.
Perhaps, his own father......
Qingluan frowned, thinking about this in his heart, when the door of the wing room suddenly made a loud noise, as if someone was kicking outside, and then, the noise sounded.
There were already servants in the hall who ran to open the door and watch, only to see a few drunken guests pushing away the servants and staggering in.
"Haha! It turns out that there is a great beauty here...... "A strong black man full of wine, half-open brocade robe, pushed away the servant maid who was in the way, and stumbled towards Qingluan Chaoyang.
Yue Wuxian's face sank, he stood up, kicked the big man in front of him a few meters away, turned his face and shouted to the servants outside: "Blasting these people out!" Kill it or not! β
Xiao Boyan also got up and said to the servants beside him, "Where are you in charge?" To let such a fanatic rush in. β
The big man who was kicked off staggered to his feet, pointed at Yue Wuxian and scolded, "Where did you come from...... Brat! Dare to ...... to your grandfather Do it! I'm tired of it! β
Someone next to him recognized Xiao Boyan, and hurriedly helped him and apologized to Xiao Boyan: "I don't know if Xiao Hou is here, the villain is rude." β
The kicked big man blushed, took out a dagger regardless of it, pointed at Yue Wuxian and scolded, "Shaft!" Grandpa I want to ...... Kill you......"
The person who helped him was sweating on his head, and hurriedly persuaded: "General Mu, Xiaoyao Hou is here, don't make a ......."
There was a commotion in the private hall, which frightened the artists and pianists who played puppets to the side.
Qingluan sat beside him and didn't move, taking a leisurely sip of the teacup.
This General Mu Silian was a heroic general under Xiao Boyan a few years later, and now he should be in the imperial city as the deputy commander of the forbidden army Qianniuwei.
Qianniuwei, the emperor's uncle's personal guard.
She thought about it, slowly stood up, walked to Yue Wuxian's side, looked at Mu Silian with beautiful eyes, and asked in a coquettish voice: "Brother Wuxian, who is this person?" β
When Namuslian saw a beautiful girl in full costume come to him, his hazy and drunken eyes instantly straightened, as if he didn't recognize her, and muttered, "Beauty, ......"