Chapter 50 Designated Audience
And this theater ...... It's at the intersection outside the village!
It was here last night, the grave woman helped me solve the trouble, and I also met Old Man Liu! As soon as the two met, Old Man Liu repelled the grave woman and almost died in her hands!
The stage is set up in the middle of the crossroads, and there are all kinds of paper figures, incense burner tributes and other things on the stage, and there are several rows of wooden benches under the stage!
These should be the stands, that is, I glanced over and saw a candle standing on each bench, and in front of the bench in the middle of the stands, there was a picture of the torture.
"Bai Hui, you will listen to the arrangement of the boss of the drama team, this yin drama is just a formality, the scene is live, and it will be fine!"
Seeing that Uncle Xing was leaving, I wondered, "You don't watch the show?" β
A trace of panic flashed on his face, and Uncle Xing smiled dryly: "In addition to the troupe and the designated audience, other living people must avoid this yin play!" You can't even hide from a distance and watch it! β
"Otherwise...... The soul has to be snatched away by dirty! β
Hearing this, my scalp tingles! Uncle Xing smiled again and said, "Bai Hui, you will come to my house after watching the play!" I'll pick you up and wash the dust! β
After saying that, Uncle Xing and the others left without looking back. I stared at the backs of the Xing family, and saw that they were walking very slowly at first, but after walking more than ten meters, these people actually trotted up in a panic!
I'm afraid that if I'm late, I'm going to encounter something terrible!
It made me feel even more uneasy! The so-called shady play...... What the hell is it? Since it's sung to ghosts, does it really matter if I, a living person, is there?
What should I do if something dirty comes to the stands?
Just as I was pondering, the boss of the troupe came over and said hello to me:
"Young man, I heard Lao Xing say, you were sent by his family to watch the play?"
The boss of this troupe is a bald middle-aged man, and his face looks very kind, and when the boss asked, I hummed and handed him a cigarette.
The boss took the cigarette and lit it, squinted his eyes and said, "Our opera troupe is dedicated to singing yin opera for the countryside, and we have been doing it for some years!" β
"Young man, relax your heart and watch the play! Nothing will happen! β
As he spoke, the boss smiled and took out a wooden card, stuffed it into my hand, and said, "We have a piece of this wooden card!" When you watch the play, you hold it in your hand, and if something dirty comes, it will know that you are the invited theater watcher, so that they will not harm you! β
I looked down and saw that the wooden sign was rough and rubbed, with a skull pattern drawn with a black pen on it, but it was nothing special.
After putting away the wooden signs, I pointed to the empty bench under the stage and asked:
"Boss, what's the matter with these candles on the bench?"
The boss turned around, pointed to the remains of Xingyan, and said, "It stands to reason that this yin drama is sung to this deceased!" But it will inevitably attract lonely ghosts passing by to listen to the play! β
"And these empty seats are for them! When the show starts, if the candle on any of the benches is lit, it means that there is a ghost...... Sit on! β
Hearing the boss say this, I couldn't help but gasp, it turned out that this is the so-called yin play! No wonder there are so many benches! It's all for ghosts!
Imagine waiting for all the candles on the benches to be lit...... How horrible does that look like?
Looking at the empty bench under the stage, I felt a chill down my spine, so I asked the boss:
"The ghost who came to see the play...... How? β
The boss is from here, and when I asked, he didn't seem to be afraid, and shook his head:
"That's not for sure! At least seven or eight, right? And it doesn't have to be all ghosts...... There may be something else dirty! β
"So! This drama must have a living audience! If there is yang energy, then you can calm the field! Or do you want to ...... If the stage is full of ghosts, then we don't dare to sing this play! β
Maybe he was afraid that I would be frightened, so the boss patted his chest and said to me:
"Don't be afraid, young man! You're holding the wooden card steadily, and there's nothing going on! Our drama troupe is not joking, hundreds of yin dramas have been sung, and nothing has happened! β
"Moreover, if you really want to make any mistakes, I can't explain it to Lao Xing, and I won't be able to do this in the future!"
The boss talked about this, so I didn't say anything, found a bench in the back and sat down, and began to wait for the yin drama to begin.
As far as I could see, on the benches in front of me, candles were standing quietly, and the people on the stage were busy.
Further on, the outline of the village was vaguely shrouded in night, it would not be time to go to bed, but the village was dark. There are no lights at all.
Looking back, behind me was an endless wilderness, so dark that I couldn't see my fingers.
"Torture! Brother, I'll help you to this job, and it's not in vain for my colleagues! β
Facing the posthumous image diagonally opposite, I silently said in my heart, in this situation, I can completely walk away, but I feel a little sorry for the Xingyan family by doing this.
After all, I had almost exactly the same experience with Xing Yan, and I had the best experience of what happened to him, and my intuition told me that I had to participate in this shady drama.
The same two people, the same snake plague, so can I escape the fate of torture?
Not long after, the yin opera officially started, and I saw the boss of the troupe walk up to the stage, bow deeply to the audience, and say:
"Thank you for coming to watch this scene! We are a small opera troupe, the level is limited, if you don't sing well, please include more Yin Immortals! β
The tone in which the boss said this was like speaking to an elder, very polite, and I heard him call the ghost "Yin Immortal"? There may be something special about this.
Bowing again, the boss said again: "Yin and Yang, may all Yin Immortals enter reincarnation as soon as possible!" β
I was the only one in the audience, and all the candles on the benches were still out! The boss bowed to the empty bench under the stage, and the picture looked a little weird.
When the words fell, the boss took out a piece of paper money from his arms, lit it, and threw it into the air!
Mars are flying all over the sky, and the picture looks like a kind of eerie beauty, when the paper ashes slowly fall, the boss leaves, and an actress in a flower dress walks up to the stage and says softly:
"The first scene is...... Ghost daughter-in-law sleeps the night on the river! β
In a strange beating of gongs and drums, the yin opera officially began, and I heard the drama sing:
"Negative Lang! I'm ten months pregnant, how can you bear to conspire with that vixen...... Harm me? β
As soon as the first sentence was sung, I saw the bench where the sentence was left behind...... The candle is lit!
Torture! He's coming to see the show! Looking at the fire in front of him, it lit up the gloomy auditorium, and the flames flashed in the wind, but they stubbornly did not extinguish it!
At that moment, in addition to fear, I was more curious, it turned out that this was the so-called yin play!
Unlike traditional dramas, yin opera is completely sung to ghosts, so the tune is high and low, it sounds gloomy, and the lyrics are even more resentful and dark.
In this regard, I can also understand that I have experienced too many fears that ordinary people can't imagine these days, and now this scene is afraid for me, and I can barely bear it.
Glancing at the candle on the torture bench, I took a deep breath and continued to watch the play.
The actress on the stage sang very hard, while singing, and there were people next to her who kept throwing paper money on the stage.
First of all, the psychological quality must be strong, otherwise in this big night, singing in such a remote place, facing those empty benches under the stage, ordinary people will definitely not dare.
After the first scene, I swept around, and saw that the audience was lit up with a glass of wax, which made me feel a little strange.
What about the lonely ghosts? Why didn't any of them come?
It stands to reason that this crossroads, the heaviest gloomy atmosphere at night, originally I thought that there would definitely be a lot of ghosts to watch the show, that scene is certainly scary, but compared to that, the picture in front of me makes me feel more creepy!
Something is wrong!
The second scene was staged immediately after, this time with the expression of a man with a fake beard, and he arched his hand towards the empty seat, and said:
"It's called ...... Lord Yama angrily sentenced the negative man! β
The lyrics of the play are not much different from before, they are all things between some ghost daughters-in-law and negative men, what crosses the Yin River, and the little ghost catches the oil pot and so on.
After watching the second scene, I felt a little overwhelmed! At that time, the audience was swarthy, and except for the torture words, none of the remaining candles were lit!
I panicked! Seeing this, you may want to say, isn't it good to have no ghosts? What are you panicking about?
You don't know, such a big auditorium, so many seats, but just a light of wax! The miserable yellow candle flame swayed wildly in the dark! Under the illumination of the candlelight, the torturer in the posthumous image was expressionless, staring at me in a daze!
That picture is really scary! How I wish there was another light of wax to drive away the darkness and divert my attention from the torture!
After singing two scenes in a row, the audience was still the same, and the second wax was never lit.
"Enjoy, belowβAnonymous hanged!" A gray-haired old man came up to the stage to introduce him, and then began to sing.
I won't write the lyrics here, it's just some noose, strangulation, going to the underworld and the like.
I didn't know much about drama, and I didn't have the heart to listen to the drama at that time, so I patronized the candles on the benches, but unfortunately from beginning to end, I waited until the third scene was finished, and none of the lonely ghosts came.
After the old man stepped down, I saw that the troupe began to pack up their things, and they were ready to end!
That's it? The so-called yin drama is nothing more than that! Uncle Xing told me so mysteriously before, it was so simple to say earlier, I didn't need to refuse them at that time!
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