Chapter 791: Seven-Rank Civil Official
"Today is the birthday of our old man Zhang, and thank you for coming, please ask Mr. Zhang to say a few words to you" At this time, a little old man with a melon skin hat and a black brocade dress stood on the stage and shouted to the ghosts below, this little old man's age is about sixty years old, his eyes are not big, he has a red rosacea, two mustaches on his mouth, and a handful of goatee on his chin.
When the ghost with the goatee finished saying this, a fat man wearing a blue official robe and a hat like a hat walked to the stage, the age of this man was about fifty years old, and there was a pair of emu embroidered on the chest of the official robe on his body. The civil officials of the Qing Dynasty, the first grade crane, the second grade golden pheasant, the third grade peacock, the fourth grade mandarin duck, the fifth grade white pheasant, the sixth-grade heron, the seventh-grade emu, the eighth-grade quail, and the ninth-grade blue finch. The military attache has a first-grade unicorn, a second-grade lion, a third-grade leopard, a fourth-grade tiger, a fifth-grade bear, a sixth-grade biao, a seventh-grade and eighth-grade rhinoceros, and a ninth-grade seahorse.
"Today is my birthday, I set up a stage in our Zhang family compound to invite the villagers to come and watch the show, thank you for coming here, if the villagers have any difficulties in the future, you can come here to find me, I will do my best to help everyone" This old man Zhang arched his hand to all the ghosts under the stage and greeted, it stands to reason that when the leader said this, the people below should have thunderous applause, and those ghosts under the stage looked at the old man Zhang on the stage lifelessly did not say a word, nor applauded, I could make out the grimace on the faces of the ghosts in the audience.
"Okay, I'm not going to talk nonsense, let's watch the show!" After saying this with an embarrassed face, Old Man Zhang walked off the stage.
After Mr. Zhang got off the stage, a group of actors in opera robes walked on the stage and began to babble and sing Peking Opera, I thought that I didn't listen to the music cells of Peking Opera, what those actors on the stage sang, I didn't listen to it at all, Donnie Yen, this kid listened to it with relish, he closed his eyes and shook his head and tail beside me.
"Can you understand what those actors on stage are singing?" I asked Donnie Yen with a curious expression.
"Those actors on the stage are singing "The Drunken Concubine", and these ghosts sing much better than those people now," Donnie Yen said to me with a smug face.
"I didn't expect you kid to understand Peking Opera, you're really amazing," I couldn't help but give Donnie Yen a thumbs up and praise.
"Peking Opera, that is the quintessence of our country, my master and his old man's favorite thing to listen to in his life is Peking Opera, when I was six years old, my master and I often went to the Grand Theater in Beijing to listen to Peking Opera, almost every month my master will take me to listen to that one meeting and two sessions" Donnie Yen said to me with a smile.
"Your master's hobby is really a little different," I replied to Donnie Yen with a smile.
Personally, I think that most of the people who like to listen to Peking Opera in our country are around sixty or seventy years old, and there is no young person like us who likes to listen to Peking Opera in a hundred people, although Peking Opera is the quintessence of our country and the history and culture of our country, but I think that sooner or later one day Peking Opera will be eliminated little by little, although I don't like to listen to Peking Opera, but this is not what I want to see, and I hope that the quintessence of our country can be passed on far away.
It took more than three hours to finish singing this play, and at this time my sleepy eyes were about to open, but Donnie Yen listened to it with great interest.
"That's all for today, thank you to the villagers who came to cheer" The old man who looked like a master walked to the stage and said with a smile to the ghosts under the stage, after the ghosts in the audience heard these words, their bodies turned into a yin wind and disappeared in front of me and Donnie Yen.
"Let's both hurry up!" After I said this to Donnie Yen, I was about to turn around and leave, who would have thought that the four ghosts with knives guarding the door drew their sabers from their waists and blocked the door, preventing me and Donnie Yen from leaving.
"You two are really bold, our Zhang Mansion is not the two of you who come when you want to come and leave when you want" It was the old man who looked like a master who said this.
At this time, there were many ghosts standing in the courtyard of the old mansion, the old man Zhang in the official robe did not speak, he was sitting on a Taishi chair with a serious face and looking at me and Donnie Yen, and on the Taishi chair next to him was sitting a female ghost who was about forty-five or sixteen years old, it seems that this female ghost should be the wife of the old man Zhang, and there are several young and beautiful female ghosts standing behind the old man Zhang, I guess they are either the concubines of the old man Zhang, or the daughters of the old man Zhang, In my opinion, those female ghosts are more like Master Zhang's concubines, and it was normal for rich men to marry three wives and four concubines in ancient times.
"I'm really not embarrassed, our brothers heard the sound of singing in your mansion, so they involuntarily walked in, please forgive me if you disturb" I bowed nervously to the ghosts in front of me and said, at this time my heart was pounding.
"Today is my birthday, and everyone who comes is a guest, so let the two of them leave!" Mr. Zhang watched the two of us post a sentence, and when I heard what Mr. Zhang said, Donnie Yen and I breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang" After I said this to Mr. Zhang, I carried the box and wanted to leave with Donnie Yen.
"You two wait a minute" Donnie Yen and I just turned around to leave, when a female ghost stopped the two of us.
"Dad, that man is good-looking, I want him to be my man" A female ghost about twenty-one or twelve years old pointed at me with a shy face and said to Mr. Zhang, when I heard the female ghost say this, my legs were weak and I almost sat on the ground.
After Mr. Zhang listened to her daughter's words, he began to look at me, and I wanted to cry at this time.
"Old man Zhang, there is still something urgent to do next, wait for me and this little brother of mine to visit you another day" After I said this to Old Man Zhang, I strode towards the gate.
"Stop them" Old Man Zhang got up from the Taishi's chair and ordered the four ghost officials with knives guarding the door, only to see the four ghost officials with knives in front of me and Donnie Yen with their long knives in their hands, looking at the two of us with a fierce expression.