Volume 2 Xia He Chapter 77 The deep mountains and old forests sing flower drums
There are no stars and no moon, and the sky and the earth are dark. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info said it was a way, but in fact I couldn't think of a way for a while.
I also blamed my lack of experience, carelessness, no careful observation and judgment, and unknowingly fell into the trap of the demon fox. I was angry and regretful, my heart was in a hurry, I started the trick, recited the heart mantra several times in succession, but there was no effect, and I blindly sent a few moves and five thunder palms around me, but it was still no success, gritted my teeth, and determined that one direction was blindly walking through the forest, and my heart said that I could always go out.
I don't know how far I walked or how long it took, but I never got out of the forest. The wet clothes on my body were dried by the body temperature and soaked with sweat, and the whole person was tired and hungry, I was shocked, angry but helpless. I had no choice but to stop, sit on the firewood and grass, and look around while resting.
Although I am not afraid of ghosts and gods now, at this time, I can't catch the demon fox with a thousand knives, but it has always refused to show up, and I can't break through the "cage" it has set up. This made me very aggrieved, and I couldn't support it anymore. It's good that I've experienced several dangers in the past two years, and my psychology is still quite strong, but I won't collapse.
I don't have a watch, I don't know the time, I don't know what time it is, but one thing is certain, Aunt Hu, the alcoholic madman in the hospital, they must be in a hurry, maybe they have already called someone to look for it, in case they also encounter such a situation, it is bound to be difficult to support, and something big will happen if they don't get it right.
We must break the deadlock and get out of the predicament, otherwise the consequences will be serious. I sat on the ground, took a deep breath, forced myself to calm down, calm my mind, and gradually cleared my mind as the bad emotions such as regret, anxiety, and helplessness were expelled.
I carefully recalled every detail of coming up the mountain in the afternoon, and finally found that in fact, as early as when I was blindly looking for the fat man, I fell into the path of the demon fox, and after the thunderstorm, I was directly brought into the illusion by it. Good talent has a solid foundation, although there are also anxious and anxious, but his mind is never chaotic.
The surroundings are quiet, full of tree shadows, I thought about it, it is still at night at the moment, it is the time when the demon fox is active, it is useless to break through in such a hurry before, it must be unfavorable to me, only calm down, recover mental and physical strength, and wait for the dawn to have a way to stand out. I suddenly became enlightened, sat cross-legged on the ground, put my hands under my abdomen, and felt much better. I wanted to ignore it, but my stomach was empty, and I was uncomfortable with cat scratching, and I couldn't concentrate my thoughts for a while. At this time, there is no wild fruit on the mountain that can be satisfied, not to mention the current situation, no longer dare to break into the chaos easily, so I have to sit against the trunk of the tree, close my eyes and recuperate, and wait for the dawn before making plans.
I don't know how long later, a burst of music came faintly in the meditation, and the sound of gongs and drums was mixed with the sound of the piano and suona, and I slowly opened my eyes. The scenery was still the same, and following the direction of the sound, I noticed that behind the slope in the lower left, in the distance, a glimmer of light was shining through the overlapping branches and leaves.
He shook his somewhat drowsy head, rubbed his eyes, stood up, calmed down, and decided to follow the light to take a look.
Bypassing a dozen large trees, there was a trail in the forest, and I walked along the road, and after a while, I came out of the forest, and the lighted farmhouse yard not far in front of me was impressive. This yard located on the hillside is a bit big, similar to the old yard of Secretary Liu's house in our Xinghua Village, with mud walls and green tiles, a big tree in front of the door and a bamboo forest behind the house, and a low fence to block the view, you can't see the inside, it is estimated that there are more than ten or twenty houses. There were several smaller courtyards in the adjacent area, but only this one had lights and noises at this time.
I was surprised to see how many families lived on the mountainside of this dense forest.
When the gongs, drums, and suona stopped, there were men and women singing with the sound of the piano in Yiyiyaya, which sounded a little familiar, but for a while I couldn't remember what song it was. Occasionally, there was a loud burst of laughter.
I stopped and listened for a while before I realized that there was no singing in the courtyard, but someone was singing, and it was singing the tune of the flower drum in our place. Because it was still a little far away, I couldn't hear the lyrics clearly, and I didn't know what I was singing. I was amazed, and walked briskly towards the gate of the courtyard.
Turning an elbow bend, I went to the stone road in front of the courtyard, and I could see that the gate of the courtyard was wide open, and a small platform was set up against the fence in the courtyard, with big oil lamps lit on both sides, and there were two men and women wearing costumes and makeup on the stage who were singing vigorously, and there were many men, women and children watching the play gathered in the audience. Surprised, I strolled over and stood hesitantly at the door.
The people in the courtyard were staring intently at the stage, and no one paid any attention to me, an outsider, so I walked straight into the courtyard and stood at the back of the crowd to watch the play.
Probably hearing the movement, an old man sitting in front of me turned his head and smiled at me, lifted his butt and moved aside to free up a place on the bench, and pouted at me, meaning to let me sit and watch. I quickly smiled back, shook my head and refused his kindness, but whispered in his ear:
"What's going on on this stage?"
"Flower drum play, the whole book of "Bangs Playing Golden Toad", just sang the third scene of bangs chopping wood."
Flower drum opera "Bang Hai Plays Golden Toad"? I couldn't help but be shocked again.
Flower drum opera is our local small drama here, also called flower drum lamp, singing in a small tune of mountain songs, dialogue and more local slang, rap from time to time with more explicit meat words, often make the people who watch the play blush and heartbeat burst laughter, in the old times it was called **, can not enter the theater to perform, only popular in the countryside, in the early fifties after the adaptation of opera artists became a large local drama, and later the new play "playing gong. "Mending the pot" was also made into a movie and put on the screen. But this "Bangs and Golden Toad" is an old play, and it belongs to the "four olds". Although the policy has been much more relaxed now, it is the first time I have encountered such a blatant singing. Maybe it's because the sky is high in this mountain, and the emperor is far away, and no one cares about it.
I've only seen the new modern flower drum opera, and I've never seen the old one, but I know the story of "Bang Hai Plays the Golden Toad". It is said that a long time ago, there was a well called the loofah well in Liujia Village in Changde City, Hunan, and there was a golden toad essence that had been cultivated for five hundred years, which was refined into seven purple coins, and often spit out a white light from the mouth of the well at night, straight into the sky. There is only a fox that has been cultivated for hundreds of years in the back mountain, and it has been refined into a talisman treasure red light orb, and the golden toad spirit wants to seize the red light orb of the fox fairy in order to make up for a thousand years of Taoism and ascend to heaven as soon as possible. After being defeated by the fox fairy sisters, they fled back to the well.
Next to the loofah well lives a descendant named Liu Hai, his family is poor, kind-hearted, and his mother is filial; He often went to the nearby mountains to cut firewood, sell firewood and buy rice, and lived with his blind mother. The innocent and kind-hearted fox fairy nine sisters fell in love with the hard-working and filial young woodcutter bangs, one day, it transformed into the beautiful and handsome nine sisters Hu Xiuying, blocking the bangs of chopping wood to go home, and took the initiative to ask for marriage. After the two got married, she used the red light jewel to make Liu's mother's eyes see again, and the family lived happily.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, he turned into a blind man and deceived the jewel from Liu's mother. The fox fairy Hu Xiuying lost the treasure of her body, for fear of revealing her original form and frightening Liu Hai's mother and son, so she had to endure the pain and escape into the mountains. When Liu Hai heard the news, he chased Hu Xiuying despite the rain and wind, the road was dangerous in the dark, and finally with the help of the talisman snake god, he seized the jewel and the husband and wife were reunited. Instead, the Golden Toad Essence lost seven coins and was spat on and teased.
This story was told to us by the fire on a cold winter day, and my mother told it to my siblings I don't know how many times. When my mother was a teenager as a girl, she joined the village propaganda team and learned to sing the flower drum opera, which I had heard her hum since I was a child, so it is no wonder that I was familiar with it at first.
This is the first time I've watched a cosplay. Nowadays, each commune has a literary and artistic propaganda team, and some brigades also have it, but they can only sing the revolutionary modern model play, not this kind of old costume play, of course, they don't dare to sing even if they can sing, they can only hum in private. Because of this, I, who was born in the sixties, have never seen the traditional singing of old operas.
I never imagined that in such a deep mountain, in such a situation, I would accidentally see it. I was a little excited, standing in the courtyard, with my eyes wide open and my ears propped up, watching the pair of men and women in ancient costumes on the stage doing various movements with music, while singing enchantingly:
He lives in Shili Village, Houshan
Not far from here, Hu's door
His father's name was Hu Jiuwei
Mother Li Shi and my mother
Gave birth to nine of my sisters
My name is Hu Xiuying
After the woman finished singing, she said in a coquettish voice: Brother Qiao, what about you?
The man replied, "You ask me, and you hear."
The family lives in Wulingjing, Changde
Liujia Village next to the loofah well
Daddy is famous Liu Zhide
Mother Yu is an elderly person
There is no brother on the top, and there is no brother on the bottom
Single, I bangs alone
I'll give you my name
What else is clear
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The chic and strange makeup and robes, exaggerated movements, and beautiful tones are completely different from the model play, which gives me a new feeling. The real traditional old drama turned out to be like this. I was completely captivated and watched with relish, forgetting everything else for a while.
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Brother bangs, you are my husband, wow
Sister Hu, you are my wife
Brother Hai, you lead the way and go forward
My wife, thou art with me
Go wow
Xingluo
Go wow
Xingluo
Come, come, ouch