Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Legend of the White-Haired Witch
Compared with Ninia, who is frightened in her heart and chases ducks on the shelves, the other main performers have been oppressed by the tax collectors, and they empathize with the experiences of the characters in the play, and they all hold their breath to perform class bitterness, blood and tears.
At this moment, the villagers did not know that an art form that would change their fate was about to cry out for the first time since its birth here.
The glowing magic stones, the white curtain between inches, the variety of character scenes, the appropriate combination of light and shadow, coupled with the artists who work hard to perform and the unique lines of the locality, constitute the unique performance effect of shadow puppetry.
There may be many immaturity and imperfections, all kinds of inopportune and unskillful, but no one can deny that this is a performance that speaks for the poor, from production to creativity, from content to effect.
When they saw the girl named Ciel, the heroine operated by Ninia, waiting in the village for her father to come back and bring gifts, people couldn't help but recall the warm moments outside of hard work, and think of the family members who have passed away, all of which are sad and sympathetic.
Vincent temporarily adapted the lines according to the language habits of the locals, and after the polishing of the villagers, it appeared very down-to-earth, and both men and women of all ages could understand it.
The short-lived warmth before the New Year came to an abrupt end with the intrusion of the uninvited guest of the tax collector.
Nine times out of ten, the locals owe money to the loan sharks of the Decas, and many of them have to sell their fields, lose their property, and become serfs, so they are all too familiar with this kind of forced debt scene.
People feel the same way, people grit their teeth, but they also know very well that the gods will not save them, and in the end, the overlords will succeed.
This is how they give holiday gifts to the people of the village.
The poor father was too weak and finally agreed to sell his daughter to the tax collector to pay off the debt.
A living person can only pay interest for three months.
Three months later, everybody knows that everybody can't do anything.
Thinking of the relatives who were taken from their homes in the name of going out to work to pay off their debts and being servants for themselves, the peasants felt as if they had been electrocuted, and their bodies could hardly move except for a slight tremble, only the anger in their eyes became hotter and hotter, like a silent volcano that had accumulated energy.
A strange dead silence makes the not-so-smooth lines on the stage clearer, and the accompaniment that rings from time to time hits people's hearts hard, making them unable to think and even difficult to breathe.
The father committed suicide out of guilt......
The teenage girl was taken away......
A series of accidents that made people grit their teeth and clench their fists with blood marks happened one after another on the stage, shattering all the unrealistic expectations in people's hearts.
They haven't changed, we haven't changed, nothing has changed!
Ciel is insulted and lives without dignity, she has nothing but despair.
When the first young man yelled to rush onto the stage, but was stopped by the skeletal soldiers who maintained order and climbed uncontrollably, Vincent knew he had succeeded.
The peasants have come to think of themselves as the people in the story, or rather, the people in the story were and will be them.
Born out of fear, except for a small glimmer of light, Vincent could feel how powerful the spirit was, even though he didn't like it. ….
The skeleton soldiers could no longer watch the show, and they began to rush to the thousands, blocking the people under the stage.
It turned out that the peasants, who were even afraid of the landlords, were not even afraid of the demons under the infection of the drama, which is really a strange thing.
In fact, the peasants themselves were all carried away, and it was indeed the demon soldiers who were blocking them in front of them, but they couldn't see them anymore and didn't care.
After being forced by the village landlord to destroy his family, he fled the village and hid in the mountains, and when he turned white overnight, all the villagers and resentful spirits let out a roar of indignation.
When she heard Ninia say to Vincent, she read "You want to kill me, blind your eye sockets!" "Scoop up water that can't be dried, fire that can't be extinguished!" "I don't die, I want to live!" "I want revenge, I want to live!" When this series of sonorous words was spoken, almost the emotions of the audience were pulled to a climax.
Not only did the poor girl lose her loved ones, but she was also mistaken for an evil white-haired witch and lived an isolated life in the forest.
Tax-payers and accomplices continue to play a role in making more people victims of the tragedy.
Is it tolerable or unbearable!
The people were crying and roaring, the ghosts were wailing and roaring, and the whole space was filled with indescribable mental fluctuations.
Even the surrounding monsters were infected, and they all let out a howl of excitement, but they were unusually stable and did not show signs of agitation.
There seems to be an invisible powerful force that makes them feel in awe of something while becoming excited.
This play rehearsed on the spot yesterday is so good that the stage effect is so good that it explodes!
Vincent, who was playing the suona accompaniment to his heart's content, waiting for the reinforcement value to rise, suddenly heard the rapid sound of the system.
"Ding, ding, ding!"
Why this movement?
"What's going on?" Vincent used his divine sense to communicate with the system, "Why prompt now?"
"The system detected that the protection value was rising too fast, and the system was not redundant, so there was a risk of overloading."
"Huh? Where is this, to make a shadow puppet and stage props, it took me less than 200 points, and the system is overloaded?"
Vincent was full of suspicion, and after opening the system interface, he was also startled.
"Wow! My God!"
[Boost: 18455/18688]
[Recovery time: 0.5 days]
[Next level: 20000]
【You have been rewarded: Reduced Bonus Cost by 10%】
[Next level reward: 30% reduction in the cost of protection value for unlocking and upgrading skills]
It was less than 12,000 points in the afternoon, why did it suddenly become so much?
The small goal of 20,000 points is not a dream!
I'm afraid that the craftsman god himself didn't expect this to happen.
"Alert! The Enhancement Value continues to grow, exceeding the standard for the Divine Deity's permission......
"The situation is urgent, and I can't solve it! The number of believers has not increased at the same time, and the source of the protection value is unknown......
"The system is calling on all resources to investigate, temporarily suspending the ability to redeem rewards, unlock and upgrade."
No way? Vincent, who was still ecstatic as if he had won the lottery just now, was immediately shocked.
He hadn't seen such a rollercoaster anomaly since the system went live.
What is this situation, is it a prelude to the collapse of the system?
Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play" or "lantern shadow play", is an art form that uses animal skins or cardboard to make silhouettes of characters and uses lighting effects to perform on the stage.
In addition to operating shadow puppets, the performance should also be accompanied by opera language and folk musical instruments, which is a unique folk art in China. This ancient art can be traced back to the Warring States period, flourished in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and spread to foreign countries during the Yuan Dynasty.
Shadow puppet production needs to be made of cowhide, horse skin, donkey skin, and mule skin, and is completed through the steps of leather selection, leather making, drawing, drafting, engraving, coloring, sweating, ironing and embellishment.
In 2011, shadow puppetry was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Xiao Diankang