Chapter 239: Puppet Show
It stands to reason that Empress Eldest Sun doesn't care much about how to take care of daily life, because everything is handled by the palace maids around her.
Even when she wears clothes, as long as she stretches her hands to both sides, someone will put the clothes on her, she doesn't care how to wear these clothes at all, Datang's clothes are still more complicated than the clothes of later generations, not to mention that the clothes on the queen's body must show nobility and elegance, naturally not ordinary simple clothes.
Perhaps these facilities have great benefits for the people around Empress Changsun, but there is not much difference in the personal life of Empress Changsun, but Empress Changsun turned on the faucet and looked at the water flowing out, and the constant switch looked very interested.
"It seems that your work will be much easier in the future, and I don't need you to waste time carrying water if I want to wash my hands, just go to the faucet, turn the water away, and you can wash it."
"Queen Mother, it's more comfortable for us to serve!"
The palace maids are afraid of losing the opportunity to serve, if the queen has to come by herself, then what use are they?
Empress Eldest Sun also knew what they thought, but he was still very curious about the elevators in the middle of some buildings, which were controlled by the first floor, and there were people on the first floor who turned the rope to make the elevator rise and fall.
It can be said that one person is upstairs, and downstairs can not rely on their own strength, which can be said to be the highest enjoyment.
The queen's house is also a very high floor, originally arranged to live on the first floor, the queen mother did not need the elevator, but the eldest grandson insisted on taking the elevator upstairs to see, when she rose into the air and saw the distance, her heart was about to jump out.
Climbing high and looking far away, just like people standing at different heights, can see different perspectives, and when they see different perspectives, it is often refreshing and pleasant, and they have different ideas.
For people who can only crawl on the ground and rarely climb to high places, the visual transformation is stunning.
Even for a person as high as Empress Changsun, even if they live in the palace, they can have a bird's-eye view of the entire Chang'an on the terrain, but it is just the height of the foundation, and they usually live on the surface of the ground.
Empress Eldest Sun's feet trembled a little, because she knew that there was a lot of space under her feet, and they were not like the people of later generations, who were fearless about living in tall buildings, which could be built so high that they seemed to them in danger of collapsing at any time.
The higher the status and the more people enjoy it, the more they often cherish life, but the scenery in front of them makes the eldest grandson queen intoxicated.
The vista can cover up all the shortcomings, and standing on a tall building and looking at the surrounding scenery is much more beautiful.
Indoor service and convenience can be replaced by people, but the open space with a high view is unmatched in this era.
"Will this house collapse if it is built so high?"
"This house is made by Jiang Blacksmith making a lot of steel bones, and then pouring cement, even if it is ten stories higher, there is no problem. There were no earthquakes near Chang'an. And the foundation of this place is very large, and the structure of the house is also very wide, you can not worry, these forces can be dispersed. ”
In fact, earthquake-proof buildings, Fan Jingjing is not very clear, living in a place where there is no earthquake, but she heard that even if the house built with steel skeleton in the era of science and technology, there are still many earthquakes, and the earthquake building must have a special design, and it is not completely related to the height.
In fact, the main reason why Empress Changsun was relieved was because Fan Jingjing followed her up to the tall building and looked down together.
Even the people who designed the building dared to go upstairs, so there were no safety concerns.
In fact, Fan Jingjing is used to looking at the distance from a high-rise building, although she doesn't know whether the buildings of this era are safe or not, but she is used to being in a high-rise building, so she doesn't think much about it.
Perhaps, only when the earthquake occurs under her feet, will she have a sense of crisis.
"Niangniang, do you want me to let the people below send some pastries, as well as make a pot of tea, make tea in this place and enjoy the scenery, it should be a pleasant thing."
"Good! I even want to move to the top room, so it will be more difficult to get water, right? ”
"There are some difficulties because our current water pipes are not airtight, so we can't do the connecting pipe principle. When it becomes a connecting pipe in the future, maybe we will get the faucet to the top floor. However, this will take time to study. ”
"Is the Water Cloud Palace able to do it? Water delivered to the top floor? ”
"Of course, our water pipes are all connected pipes, and even if there is not enough pressure, we can use a pressurized system to pump water up."
Fan Jingjing knew that Empress Changsun probably couldn't understand it, but the more she couldn't understand it, the more people with high status would not pretend to understand.
However, Empress Changsun and Li Shimin like to listen to these inexplicable terms, and want to see through Fan Jingjing from these terms, but for Fan Jingjing, these inexplicable terms, she comes casually, even if she doesn't understand anything, she can say some things at will.
This is all thanks to basic national education.
The existence of these nouns can be explained in a simple way.
It was also the first time for Li Chengqian to go up to a tall building, and his heart was far away from himself, and he could see far away when he climbed the heights, and this was also a rare experience for Li Chengqian.
The two women around him are important women to him, and he also has a sense of fear of ascending, but she values the two women around her more, and she can't fall down accidentally, so he deliberately pays special attention to the actions of the two women.
When Fan Jingjing and Empress Eldest Sun wanted to lean on the balcony and look down, he would stop them.
"What are they doing?" Empress Eldest Sun asked, pointing to the gazebo in the distance.
"They probably have found the attraction and sat down to make tea. Each gazebo has a different view. There are a lot of gazebos, and even if you all occupy them, they will be enough. ”
Fan Jingjing said.
She deliberately took Empress Changsun to live in the highest building, so that she could see all the scenery from afar.
"There seem to be fewer mosquitoes and flies here, and I used to spend a lot of time outside, and these mosquitoes and flies are the most annoying."
"Queen Mother, the Fan family manor does not have so much civilization, because we will raise a lot of mosquito grass near the residence, as well as near the settlement, like this, a lot of green places, but the control of mosquitoes and flies should be more careful, basically as long as you pay attention to the place where there is no stagnant water, you can reduce mosquitoes and flies a lot, because mosquitoes and flies like to breed in places with stagnant water, so you must patrol from time to time every time, especially after the rain."
Fan Jingjing listened to the smile next to him, in fact, his method of blocking mosquitoes and flies is not only to use mosquito grass, but also to help water polo very much.
Most of the time at noon, Datang people just eat some snacks, and it is not popular to eat.
Empress Changsun was already full of tea and snacks, and then ate some fruits to see the scenery, and when it was good afternoon, he went downstairs to sleep.
When sleeping, of course Fan Jingjing prepared it for them, the spring bed, although I haven't seen it, but the eldest grandson queen slept on the spring bed disapprerovingly, feeling a little easy to fall asleep, and after waking up, she found that the comfort of the spring bed was much better than the bed she slept in before.
Fan Jingjing also specially prepared a mask for Empress Changsun, which was made with special water in the water balloon, and as for the other nutrients, it was basically just flour, plus some to collect some flowers, so that the taste became fragrant.
The nap time is never very long, Fan Jingjing woke up all the people in about an hour, and invited them to one of the relatively short, but relatively large buildings, this building is different from other buildings, its first floor is very tall.
Each room is also very large, but each room has a lot of seats, and set up a stage, the stage is large and small according to the different projects, the viewing space, but it is very large, but in some of the very small places on the stage to watch the seats, if it is next to the back, there is also a telescope, of course, these concubines, do not know what is called a telescope, and they do not have the opportunity to sit in the back row, and the people in the back row do not dare to sit.
The concubines who came here were less than a hundred people, and they could still sit in the front row.
After everyone sat down, Fan Jingjing came to the stage and said a few words, and then asked the guards to stand on both sides to ensure that the men could not approach, because there were men in the actors, especially Yang Siqi, he was an ordinary man, what he was going to stage was a puppet show, and now Yang Siqi's puppet show is already very famous in Fanjia Town, and it has only been a few days, so many people have to go to see one every day.
For people in Fanjia Town, there are many people whose salaries are actually enough to watch puppet shows, because the fees for puppet shows are not high.
And before Yang Siqi acted, there was a group of people who specially helped him write the screenplay, and the screenwriter still had the prince in it, and the prince was in it, and the drama of the court and the court would be very profound, not like the people, the emperor should eat dozens of steamed buns in the palace.
Steamed buns have become a popular food these days.
Although in the palace, they can often enjoy the performances of the pear orchard, and even a lot of superb song and dance repertoire to enjoy, but the most attractive thing about the story is that no matter how it is expressed, as long as the plot of the story is moving enough, even the most humble country characters can pay everyone's full attention.
Fan Jingjing did not let the woman from the song workshop perform on stage again, but asked Yang Siqi to perform a puppet show, and another person specialized in performing shadow puppet shows, as well as puppet shows.
In the harem, it is actually very lonely, and there is not much entertainment, and being able to see the opera makes everyone almost want to stop.
Even the eldest grandson queen held the silk losh, constantly wiping her tears, but she couldn't take her eyes off it.
Men use reason to watch the play, but women use emotion to watch the play, although the logic of many operas does not seem very smooth to them, and even a little deviant, but it is enough to be touching.
These repertoire are all for women, and if a man, especially the emperor, comes to enjoy it, Fan Jingjing would not dare to perform these simple plays.
In addition to the operas edited by many Tang Dynasty people, Fan Jingjing also imitated many articles and later stories to make up operas, which fascinated these people.
At least when Yang Siqi was performing, he was fascinated, and he had to practice several times before he could come back to his senses.
Although the performers of the music are just ordinary people in the countryside, Fan Jingjing in order to let them have some leisure activities, they began to learn various musical instruments, anyway, there are more than 100 people in the Fan family manor who can teach.
There are also more people in the Fan family's manor than others, and when it is time to study at night, almost all of them gather together to learn different knowledge.
These folk beginners have just started to learn, and the music can only be heard in tunes, but the focus is on the story, although it destroys a little atmosphere, but the impact is not too great, because most people at this time, listening to the sound is not to appreciate the beauty of the music, but to mobilize the atmosphere.
After months of practice, these people's skills are getting higher and higher, because learning new things is a new thing for them, and everyone is very willing to learn, because it is very rare to be able to learn in Datang.
Country tunes are not as good as the professionals in the palace, but they can be paired with opera.
Empress Eldest Sun felt extremely enjoyable, but she still felt that it would be better if the music could be improved, so she simply asked people to bring all the orchestras in the palace over.
"You guys live here, I think you have a lot of buildings here?" Empress Eldest Sun said lazily, at this time she drank a sip of the juice of the Fan family's manor, and felt that life was really enjoyable, and the previous days were in vain.
"It can accommodate more than 10,000 people, and they come to us to eat, live and teach......"
"Package teaching?"
"Let them teach us the people of Fanjia Town, these operas we are going to promote in Fanjia Town, and they do not contain eroticism + sex."
Fan Jingjing really thinks that if people in this era take a bath every day and cook every day like later generations, half of the time of the day will be consumed, not to mention that most of them can't light the lights at night, they can only sleep full every day, and get through the day, which is equivalent to saying that they have less time every day than a quarter of the people in the future, of course, some people in later generations can't get up in the morning, not sleep less than six hours a day.
But the vast and industrious masses are sleep-deprived every day.
These operas are not only prepared for the queen and the concubines, but also for the hard-working public to have leisure after work.
In Datang, there is a belief in the gods, and on the birthday of the gods, they will do some activities to express their gratitude, and opera is one of the best ways to worship the gods.