Chapter 446: Tianjin Jingyuan (Part II)
After Xiao was re-controlled by the Nationalist Government from Tianjin. Tianjin's economy has become cautious again. Chinese and foreign businessmen gather here, and ships come and go in the port of Tianjin every day. If Shanghai is the outlet for materials from southern China. Then Tianjin is the outlet for materials in northern China, and its prosperity is no worse than Shanghai. Driven by the economy, Tianjin's Liyuan Opera Troupe has also ushered in a period of flowers, as long as it can sing two sentences, it will not be able to eat this bowl of rice in Tianjin. In Tianjin, the famous characters in various opera troupes are highly touted, although their status is still regarded as cheap by those scholarly families, but their social status is much higher by the touted public around them, even those rich and powerful business officials have to be honored as bosses when they see these famous characters.
Luo Yunsheng is also a small corner in Tianjin Liyuan, and his Qin accent is a must, but it's a pity that this is in Tianjin. Tianjin people, who are accustomed to listening to Beijing-style Kunqu opera, are naturally not interested in this kind of heroic and rough singing, so his Yunsheng class can only perform in small teahouses and small theaters in some slum neighborhoods. Fortunately, most of the people working at the wharf in Tianjin are people from Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, and they are naturally very happy to hear this kind of hometown opera that can only be seen in temple fairs and festivals in Tianjin. Although they were not able to give much money, they finally supported Yun Shengban and allowed Yun Shengban to gain a foothold in Tianjin, the land of Longtan.
On this day, Yun Sheng's class started a play in the Deju Building outside the front gate of the old city of Tianjin, singing the famous play of visiting the West Lake to save Pei Sheng, Luo Yunsheng, who played Li Huiniang, ushered in a fire-breathing stunt and ushered in the applause of the audience, even if the coolies who did not have two dollars on their bodies were willing to pay a few change rewards. After Luo Yunsheng finished singing, he went down to the backstage, and the boss of Yunsheng's class led a middle-aged man in a dress over, and before the boss could introduce, the middle-aged man stepped forward by himself, and greeted him with a strange tone that was cold in his bones, but his words seemed very enthusiastic: "Boss Yun, good singing skills!
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Luo Yunsheng frowned slightly, and couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart. Although the play of Traveling to the West Lake to save Pei Sheng is a famous play of the Qin dialect, its singing skills and rhyme cannot fully show the characteristics of the Qin dialect, let alone any blood, and the biggest feature of this play is the part of the fire. The praise of the middle-aged man in front of him revealed his identity as a layman, and thinking of Qin Yan's current position in Tianjin Wei, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in Luo Yunsheng's heart.
Although there was some little affection in his heart, Luo Yunsheng, who was accustomed to the rivers and lakes, naturally knew what it meant to be happy and angry, raised his hand and hugged his fist at the middle-aged man, and said, "Sir, it's ridiculous! Dare to ask, sir?"
However, this middle-aged man seems to be very good at observing words and feelings, although Luo Yunsheng concealed it well, but the middle-aged man could see Luo Yunsheng's inner feelings based on some details alone, a sneer flashed on his face, and the enthusiasm he had exposed before also subsided, and he didn't answer Luo Yunsheng's question, just played with the jasper wrench of his thumb.
Feeling that the atmosphere had become a little awkward, the boss of Yun Sheng's class hurriedly stepped forward to relieve the siege and said, "This is Mr. Fang, the head of Jingyuan. I came today to invite our Yunsheng class to Jingyuan to act in the evening. ”
Hear this. Luo Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed a look of surprise that could not be concealed, and he hurriedly agreed: "Thank you for your love." I, Yun Shengban, will definitely be here tonight. ”
"This is the best! Jingyuan started the play tonight, and the master invited more than a dozen big opera troupes from Tianjin Wei to start the play together, I hope you Yunsheng class will not let the master down. Seeing Luo Yunsheng like this, this middle-aged man couldn't help but sneer, thinking that he was just a sycophant and greedy for money, and looked down on Luo Yunsheng by two points, and took out a bundle of invitations. Throw it to Luo Yunsheng, put down a few words, and then turned around and left Deju Building.
The middle-aged man's attitude did not affect the mood of the boss of Yunsheng's class, he picked up the invitation card on the ground with a happy face, opened it and read it twice. Luo Yunsheng, who seemed to be in deep thought on the side, said: "Yunsheng! This is a big opportunity for our Yunsheng class, if we can get the appreciation of the master of Jingyuan tonight, our Yunsheng class will be able to eat in Tianjinwei." People are completely here for you this time, you have to be careful tonight, don't go wrong. ”
Everyone in Tianjin knows the one who lives in the Jingyuan in the Japanese Concession, although he is just a phoenix that has lost his hair, but it is also a phoenix after all. There is still some influence on the ground of Tianjin. The big and small opera troupes that eat pear garden rice in Tianjin sharpen their heads and want to get into Jingyuan, sing a play, and get a praise from Jingyuan, just this praise is enough to make the opera troupe firmly stand in Tianjin Wei, where dragons and snakes are mixed. For Yun Shengban, who can only roll in the lower layers, it is very good to be able to get the bundle, as long as they don't act in Jingyuan, they will be considered successful.
Luo Yunsheng nodded and coped with the instructions of the boss of the theater troupe, but he was thinking about other things in his heart, and finally simply complained to the boss on the grounds of preparing for the evening play, and returned to the private room prepared for him in the theater alone. After returning to the private room, he instructed the troupe not to disturb him, then locked the door, and removed his makeup in front of the mirror, with a very strange smile on his face, which seemed to contain joy, excitement, hatred, murder, and so on, which made him look particularly eerie.
"Master, senior brother, junior brother Xiaoyue. You all know it too! Our chance has come, just tonight, as long as I get close to Fuyi, I can get rid of that scourge and avenge you! Don't worry, I have been preparing for this day for ten years, and I will never miss it. ”
I saw Luo Yunsheng removing his makeup. While talking to himself, it seemed that there were other people around him who felt very weird. After removing all the paint from his face, he stood up, turned around and walked to a waist-high wardrobe, squatted down and lightly drew his fingernails under the wardrobe, and heard a click, a drawer popped out at the bottom of the wardrobe, and after pulling the drawer open, he saw nine ghost-headed flags neatly placed inside. A sinister aura immediately filled the entire room, and the hot tea on the table quickly cooled down under the influence of this yin aura.
Luo Yunsheng is not an ordinary servant. He is the descendant of the Lower Nine Streams, his sect is called Guiqinmen, and the patriarch of his sect was born by robbing tombs, and then accidentally obtained a volume of foreign Taoist cultivation in an ancient tomb, which allowed him to be promoted to the cultivation world and create a lineage. Although they are already regarded as foreign sects in the cultivation world, they sometimes also do some tomb robbery and grave digging activities, and because their dead sect is mostly active in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, they have learned the Qin dialect, so the people in the lower nine streams call them the ghost Qin sect. It's just that they thought the name was unpleasant and unlucky, so they changed it to Guiqinmen.
The noble family is able to gain a foothold in the spiritual world. It's because of that foreign way cultivation method, and now they are all destroyed, and only Luo Yunsheng is left. It's also because of the method of cultivating the outer path. After the appearance of Kunlun Fairyland, the master of the Guiqin Sect was self-aware, and did not go to Kunlun Wonderland with other lower ninth-rate sects that merged into the Outer Dao Alliance, and escaped a killing robbery, but who would have thought that the heavenly calamity would be avoided, and the human catastrophe could not escape, and some people took a fancy to the secret book of foreign Taoist cultivation in his door. Overnight, dozens of people in the Demon Dao broke into their door, killing them all, and in the end, only Luo Yunsheng, who came out with medicine, escaped.