Chapter 116: Entertainment Trends

Ningxin City, located in the northeast of China, is an inland city dominated by heavy industry. The city is neither large nor small, with a population of about 800,000, most of whom live in the city. Outside the city belong to villages and towns, and in the past, all the farmers who lived facing the loess with their backs to the sky were all living in the sky, and as far as the eye could see, it was also green farmland.

However, the days of farming are not good, the money earned in a year is not as much as that earned by going to the city to do labor for two months, and it is particularly fortunate, so generation after generation, young people kick off the hoe and run to the city, and by the end of the 22nd century, most of the cultivated land has been abandoned, and the number of households has also decreased sharply, and many of the brick houses built by the peasants at the beginning have been sold with the land, and as for the buyers, they are basically all kinds of troupes that run docks in the surrounding cities to perform their arts.

Just as the tides of the ocean follow certain natural laws, so do the rise and fall of fashion trends. Entertainment elements that were popular a hundred years ago may be silent for decades, but when people get tired of playing with the playthings of the new era, and then pick up the forgotten things of the old era from the corner, it will set off a trend of nostalgia in society, such as theater performances.

Approaching the 23rd century, no matter what type of performance people want to watch, and whether the literary style they pursue is mysterious and thrilling or simple and relaxed, they can be satisfied by technological means. But they are tired of the trick of sending themselves into space or under the sea through VR glasses, and the younger generation craves more exciting forms of entertainment. No matter how high the development of technological images is and how many generations have been deceived, there will always be people who will come to their senses and shout loudly like a child exposing the lie that the emperor is wearing new clothes: That's fake!

In order to balance the relationship between the real and the unreal, and find the evidence that people are actually living in the real world, people have to start yearning for the real things, and the result of the search is to pick up the old tricks that have been abandoned for one or two hundred years, and to love them as treasures.

In addition to the simplification of spiritual food, another drawback of the rapid development of science and technology is that it has exacerbated the phenomenon of disparity between the rich and the poor, which can be seen from the once dilapidated family of the owner of the wolf's den, Han. However, he was born in a good era, so he picked up such a big bargain to inherit and carry forward the national cultural heritage and develop a smart drama that is popular all over the world.

I think that back then, when Ah Han was eight years old, his parents who carried hoes every day and went out early and returned late abandoned the fields and came to Ningxin City, bent on seeking a flat and comfortable future for their children, and no longer like their own and their ancestors who were not angry in the family, counting on a few acres of thin land to be fed and clothed all year round. Waiting for God's alms, not to mention that he can't earn the capital to make the whole family live a decent life, in case of a natural disaster, I'm afraid that even the clothes on my body will have to be pawned and sold.

It's a pity that my parents' hearts are higher than the sky and their lives are thinner than paper, and they have been mixed in this medium-sized city for several years, but they still only have enough food and clothing, and finally they are so tired that they fall ill one after another, and they leave Han and several younger siblings one after another.

Mom and Dad don't close their eyes when they die, and what they take away is the regret that they didn't make a fortune until they die, and what they leave behind is the negative struggle textbook of working without brains and being allowed to keep poor until they are old. From their blood and tears, Han tasted the darkness of the world and the injustice of fate, and gritted his teeth with hatred, not believing that he would be mixed with them in this life. At that time, Ah Han was only thirteen years old, and he began to rack his brains to find a way to make a living.

It's hard to say that his complaints against God worked, and it was then that people who were tired of high-tech audiovisual products began to worship nature and return to their dreams.

Once, Ah Han hid on a street corner and pondered stealing a little money to spend, and happened to hear the spiritual needs of modern people from the high-minded talk of several men.

This time, the coke blossomed in his heart. There is no ink on his chest, he has been a poor boy who has been a subordinater for more than ten years, and he has to stand aside to play high-tech, but when it comes to returning to nature and going to the barren mountains and mountains to hunt for treasures, the people who stand aside are the people in the city. If they want their dreams to come true, must they come to the pride of the sky, the farmer's son?

There are many types of "wisdom troupes", some singing various local operas, some acting dramas or juggling, in short, the word "true" must be highlighted. In this era, people's desire for truth has developed to the point of perversion, as long as someone mentions "truth", there will definitely be people who jump up as if they are boiling water.

Thirteen-year-old Han tilted his little head, pondering for days and nights, and really made him come up with a good idea: Aren't you idiots real? Lao Tzu will give you the highest level of "truth" - a real beast! As long as you dare to buy tickets, Lao Tzu will dare to act!

This trick is really enough. It is also thanks to him that he has endured hardships, and summoned a few fox friends and dog friends who are stealing chickens and dogs at the bottom of the society to catch wild beasts in the deep mountains and old forests. As long as they don't catch rare animals within the scope of the Wildlife Protection Law, no one can control them.

Of course, in order to earn this happy meal, Ah Han and several people did not suffer less. Wild animals are already wild, and they are still fierce birds, so the danger factor is even higher. The hardest time was to go to the wolf's den to trap the wolf. The head wolf of the pack, a she-wolf with a body length of more than a meter and sharp fangs that could bite through a person's throat, fell into a trap to snatch the fat meat that was used as bait, and took the piece of drugged meat back into the wolf's den.

As soon as Han saw it, he was so happy that he was like a mountain of gold and silver. He hastened to take the lead, letting the three brothers follow closely behind with ropes, and leaned over in the footsteps of the she-wolf.

Sure enough, the she-wolf fell down after eating the meat, and the other few who circled around her came to grab the rest, and soon lay on the ground and did not move.

Ah Han and the others waited for more than ten minutes, and were sure that there was no threat next to them, so they hurriedly sneaked around the cat's waist, preparing to catch three or four of them alive and go back to domestication.

Who expected the wolf to be cunning, as shrewd as Ah Han also sighed to himself, a few wolves fell to the ground instead became the bait to lure them, they dived over and hooked, the rope has not yet been put on the prey, there is a ghostly howl "whoop" sound in the oblique thorn, Ah Han did not have time to count the number of wolves, just threw down the rope and fled. But he ran wildly for his life, and he still couldn't get rid of the chasing wolves, and it is estimated that there are twenty or thirty of them hiding in the shadows waiting for the opportunity! The animals chased after him, and they couldn't figure out whether they were chasing him to fill their stomachs or to avenge the she-wolf......

That night, only two of the four people who went to trap the wolf survived, and all of them were seriously injured. Han's already ugly face has since left three deep claw marks, which have become a memorial of the wolf hunt. In order to keep the lesson in mind, he did not hesitate to change the name of the newly founded circus to the Wolf's Den, which caused a sensation as soon as it was posted on the posters, and the virtual currency earned from the first performance was enough to earn his parents for the whole year.