Chapter 139 is ambitious

By the time the second episode was staged. The first episode is still hot, and many guests have watched it more than twice, so that there are still many guests who haven't even watched it once because they didn't line up, and many guests asked Tingsong to continue to stage the first episode.

As soon as Ah Xing and Ling Zifeng discussed, they decided to encore the first episode in the second half of the evening to meet everyone's needs. Surprisingly, the encores of the first episode also had a good attendance rate, which brought a lot of extra income to the theater.

The performance of the second episode was also very successful, and the master and apprentice changed actors, but it did not affect everyone's viewing. Both performances each day were packed. Journey to the West, which has two episodes a month, has now become an indispensable part of the lives of ordinary people in Jincheng.

With the increasing popularity of Journey to the West, and the characters in it are becoming more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, A-Xing began to develop its related industries, first launched the first episode of the character ceramic statue, a total of the main characters of the first episode are included in it, the ceramic statue is finely made, colorful, once launched, it immediately caused a crazy rush to buy, almost all Journey to the West fans will buy a set and put it at home to play and enjoy. Then a lot of masks were introduced. There are all kinds of monster images, and not only children like it, but even adults can't help but buy one and have fun holding it. What's funny is that when Ah Xing once went to the street, she saw a peaches seller, wearing the mask of Sun Wukong, shouting: "Come and buy the fairy peaches that Monkey King likes to eat!" Not to mention, the effect of the advertisement is really good, among the three vendors who sell peaches together, his peaches sell the fastest, Ah Xing couldn't help laughing, she looked at the jealous looks of the other two vendors, and knew that her Monkey King mask was going to be sold for two more.

Two episodes were broadcast, and after a month, the income of the theater plus the purchase and sale of small handicrafts has returned to its original level. If it weren't for the fact that the tour and Shangfu performances had not developed, I believe that the silver earned would have been even more! The actors took a lot of rewards, and they all showed elated expressions, and those actors who once wanted to leave couldn't help but be glad that they had made the right decision and stayed in Tingsong. Because the current Qingyun is already in jeopardy.

Since Tingsong relied on Journey to the West to bring him back to life, Hu Lingxuan's plan to defeat Tingsong in a short period of time failed, and the money he invested in the early stage was lost because he did not achieve the predetermined goal, and his father reprimanded him fiercely, blaming him for quick success and lack of careful planning. was not rigorous enough, and ordered him to withdraw from Qingyun as soon as possible, so as not to lose more. Although Hu Lingxuan was unwilling, he had to listen to his father's orders, and finally had to leave Qingyun Theater in disgrace. Although this incident did not affect his heir qualifications, it also caused him to lose a lot of trust in his father's mind, and some of the more important businesses in the future did not dare to be handed over to him again.

After Hu Lingxuan left, Zhang Qingshan was faced with a mess. Without the Hu family's funds, it would be impossible for him to maintain low prices, and the ticket price returned to the previous 25 yuan. Of course, it's also 25 money, so naturally I want to keep this money to watch Journey to the West. In this way, Qingyun's guests are getting fewer and fewer day by day, and his income is getting less and less day by day, but so many dramas have to pay wages and eat, and the huge expenses are so overwhelming that he can't breathe. The current situation is even worse than when he specialized in opera. At that time, there were still some old customers who watched opera, and they could barely make ends meet, but now after Hu Lingxuan's stirring, those old customers have not come. Now it's simply a matter of opening the door for a day and losing a day's silver. After a month, the whole person seemed to be ten years old, and he couldn't help but regret not listening to Li Si's words, if he didn't want to take revenge on Tingsong and Axing, he wouldn't have accepted Hu Lingxuan's extremely thrilling plan to get to this point.

Later, when he couldn't sustain it, Zhang Qingshan had no choice but to close the door and give the theater to someone else. He concentrated on other businesses, but his savings for more than ten years were equivalent to being thrown into the water, no matter how distressed he was in his heart, no matter how unwilling he was, there was no other way.

In fact, it is none other than Ah Xing. She was afraid that Zhang Qingshan would resent her and refused to give her the theater, so she deliberately found someone else to come forward to bring the theater down. After topping Qingyun, she sorted out Qingyun's drama again, and those who were willing to stay stayed, and those who were willing to leave would also give them a little silver to leave.

Ling Zifeng was very puzzled by her move, "Ah Xing, Qingyun has almost 100 plays here, all of them are left behind, how can we afford it, even if they let them open a new play, but Jincheng is only so big after all, and there are only so many guests." Can't afford to raise so many people! ”

Ah Xing smiled and said to Ling Zifeng: "Uncle Ling, Jincheng is not very big, but the capital is not small!" ”

Ling Zifeng was infinitely surprised: "The capital? Could it be that A-Xing wants to open a theater in the capital? ”

The idea of opening a theater in the capital was put forward by Hu Lingxuan, if she didn't have such an idea before, but since she heard him say this, she couldn't suppress this ambition in her heart.

Ah Xing nodded and said: "The capital is just the first step, I want to let the entire big city of the Tang Kingdom have our Tingsong Theater." I want Journey to the West to tour the whole country, and I want the whole Tang Dynasty to see our Journey to the West. Not only Journey to the West, there will be more serials. As long as each theater has a serial, and when it is over, it will go on tour in each branch! Ah Xing looked at Ling Zifeng, her clear eyes sparkling, "Uncle Ling, think about it, how much silver is that!" ”

Ling Zifeng opened his mouth and was stunned for a long time, and it took a long time before he seemed to react, he sighed softly, and said honestly: "I...... I can't imagine ......."

Ah Xing smiled, looked at him and said, "Uncle Ling, I can't imagine it, but I know that it must be a lot, a lot." It's a lot, so much that we can't ...... like."

Ling Zifeng looked at her, his eyes became brighter and brighter, brighter and brighter, and finally, he nodded vigorously and smiled: "Ah Xing, let's rush forward together!" ”

Ah Xing also nodded heavily: "Take Tingsong and rush to the whole country!" ”

However, the matter of opening a theater in the capital is not something that can be done, there is still a lot of preliminary work to prepare, and there are many things that are inconvenient because of the unfamiliar place there. Ah Xing remembered someone at this time. Maybe he can help. So, Ah Xing wrote a letter to Uncle Wang, the owner of the car dealership in Beijing, asking him to help find a store and learn about the situation of the drama in Beijing.

The capital is far away from here, and the correspondence is at least one or two months away, plus Uncle Wang knows about the time of the investigation, Ah Xing knows that it will take at least three months for her to receive the news.

Before receiving the news, Ah Xing didn't have to talk to everyone about it, and calmly dealt with Tingsong's matter.

Qingyun's renovation is still very new, so it can be opened as soon as it is topped. Ah Xing saw that Qingyun's theater was relatively large and could accommodate more people, so she changed the main theater of Tingsong to Qingyun. And the old theater staged the first episode of Journey to the West, as well as some old dramas from the past. And so many newly added people, some of them have arranged scenes for the next episode of Journey to the West, and the scenes that have not arranged scenes have been arranged to take the old plays to tour the surrounding cities, and Qingyun has rehearsed a lot of plays before, and if you arrange a tour, you can still earn a lot of silver, at least enough to send everyone's monthly silver.

But Ling Zifeng and Tingsong's old actors discovered a strange thing, wasn't Fang Mozhu in Qingyun? Why didn't you see him? Ling Zifeng and Ah Xing talked about it, and Ah Xing said: "It's not easy to want to know, just ask Qingyun's former manager." ”

Qingyun's previous steward, surnamed Liu, heard Ah Xing's question, and he was hesitant, his face was embarrassed, and he seemed to have something difficult to say. Ling Zifeng was anxious about Fang Mozhu's safety, after all, he was the one who had worked with him for so long, although he betrayed Tingsong, he still didn't want anything to happen to Fang Mozhu.

Ling Zifeng urged Steward Liu and said, "What is there that can't be said? Could it be that ......" his heart trembled slightly, "Could it be that something happened to Fang Mozhu?" ”

Steward Liu sighed and said, "Fang Mozhu was taken by a third-grade official from the capital and was taken to the capital!" ”

Everyone knows what it means to be "favored by Lord Zhang", which is also a very common thing in the play, some good-looking actors are easy to be favored by some powerful people with special habits, and turn them into their own forbidden descendants, so as to meet some of their perverted needs. And the ending of those plays is often very tragic, and if you are lucky, you can still save a life, but most of them are tortured to death.

Ling Zifeng was sad in his heart, he said: "How could he agree, he clearly knew ......" clearly knew that this was a point of no return.

Steward Liu glanced at him, and then replied softly: "Fang Mozhu didn't agree at first, but in order to get the 1,000 taels of silver, Boss Zhang drugged Fang Mozhu's meal...... Later, Master Zhang took Fang Mozhu away overnight. ”

Ling Zifeng scolded: "This Qingshan is so despicable! ”

Steward Liu whispered: "Master Zhang is a third-grade official, even if Boss Zhang wants to oppose it, he is afraid that he can't do anything......

When Ah Xing heard this, she shook her head very decisively and said, "This is Zhang Qingshan's greed, if he really wants to refuse, how can he not think of a way?" ”

Lin Hai, Mei Xianghua, and Rong Zheng all showed sad expressions on their faces, thinking of the infinite scenery of Fang Mozhu in the past, and they were embarrassed in their hearts.

On that day, all the old actors in Tingsong had no joy on their faces, although they hated Fang Mozhu's betrayal in their hearts and did not talk about morality, but they were uncomfortable knowing that he ended up like this.

And Ling Zifeng looked at the increasingly handsome face of his apprentice Rong Zheng, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of unease in his heart.