Chapter 778: What is a soldier
When the time was up, the familiar curtain was re-drawn in the theater, and most of the surrounding lanterns were extinguished, leaving only a small number of lanterns.
Then, a muffled narrator sounded.
"At the end of the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, the Central Plains were devastated, and the people were struggling to make a living. If the country has no foundation, the demon will be born. Therefore, in various parts of the people, many demons and ghosts were born. ”
"During the Northern Weekend, there was such a scholar, named Ning Caichen. He has a generous and bold temperament and is of good character. ”
With the sound of the narrator, the curtain on the stage slowly opened, and Ning Caichen, who was carrying a book basket, also appeared on the stage. When he saw this Ning Caichen, Li Ke nodded with satisfaction, this makeup technique is good.
In this era, it is impossible for later generations to say that they are dedicated to art, so Ning Caichen naturally directly disguised herself as a man, and was played by another neutral-looking little lady in Mingyue Tower.
After this scholar dressed up, he didn't see any sense of disobedience.
When Ning Caichen appeared, he first showed his integrity through a few small things he did in a small town, until he was about to go to another county, and a hotel shopkeeper in the town told him that after leaving the city, he would rather spend the wilderness in the wilderness than go to a temple in the suburbs: Lanruo Temple, because there are female ghosts there who murder passers-by by seducing.
Hearing the name Lanruo Temple, many people in the audience raised their eyebrows slightly, although there are not as many Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty as there are in the Wu Zetian period, but now there are a lot, so there are naturally people who believe in Buddhism among these nobles.
Is there a ghost in this temple? is such a place of contrast and conflict, which shows what kind of ghost world this is.
Although Ning Caichen smiled on the surface and thanked the shopkeeper for the reminder, after he left the city, he said through his narration: "The eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, how can he be confused by these ghosts? ”
After speaking, Ning Caichen walked into the wilderness, and at this time, the curtain was raised, and then soon the curtain was opened again, and then two new characters appeared on the stage.
These two people are naturally Yan Chixia and Xiahou who appeared, and Li Ke's entire story line is basically adapted from Wang Zuxian's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" that he has watched, but the personnel settings have been changed.
Because Li Ke has not read the original Pu Songlin novel, he naturally doesn't know how Nie Xiaoqian acted in the original book, but the TV series and the stage play are similar to a certain extent, so Li Ke follows the TV series.
But in fact, these two people are not the hidden protagonists of Li Ke's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", it seems that the male protagonist is Yan Chixia, but in fact, Li Ke promoted Zuo Qianhu in the Hong Kong version of A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy to this one.
But he is not Zuo Qianhu, but a government soldier who has just finished a battle, has a broken finger, is disabled, and escorts his comrades-in-arms who died in battle, Lao Liu.
That's right, he has no name from beginning to end, only one name is Lao Liu.
In the first half of the entire stage play, he is like an ordinary person, and there is no difference between ordinary people who die in those female ghosts.
When he gets the second half, the strength that bursts out of his body will become one of the important combat forces to destroy the tree demon grandma, of course, this Lao Liu actually represents the "setting" thrown by Li Ke.
What is the setting? A soldier who is upright in his heart, defends his family and defends the country, has the masculinity of the army, is not afraid of ghosts, and is born to be the nemesis of countless ghosts, although ordinary, but with national fortune!
To put it bluntly, it is necessary to be reasonable.
Before they entered Lanruo Temple, with a faint piano sound, and a female voice singing, there was only a simple chant, no lyrics, and with this scene appeared the characteristics of the stage sunken under the stage a shallow soup pool.
And in the soup pool, a woman in ancient costume was dancing, and when the woman appeared, everyone in the audience couldn't help but gasp and widen their eyes suddenly.
The fair-skinned and slender legs, faintly displayed between the caftans, the highest part even reached the root of the thighs, and the incomparable charm between the gestures made everyone dizzy, when had they ever seen a performance of this level?
Well, probably
The point is that the dancing man, the dress on his body is constantly wet with water, and the looming temptation does not know how to make a sound, and the person who eats stops his movements, and even some of the people who sit lazily on the chair sit up straight.
The people sitting in the back row kept stretching their necks.
And although the shirt was wet, it was wrapped in all the important parts because it was covered with thick clothes that would not penetrate even if it was wet, so that nothing could be seen, but the more it was like this, the more it made all the men's throats surge.
Do you test people with a female ghost of this level?
This...... They all suddenly understood how the female ghosts who entered Lanruo Temple died.
Seeing the performance of everyone below, Li Ke nodded with satisfaction, through this performance, he can compare the strength of the protagonist, and his integrity and excellent character, otherwise, how can this follow-up plot be promoted?
When the entire stage play was more than halfway through, everyone was completely attracted, especially some of the methods of Yan Chixia, a Taoist priest, but they were officially taught by Yuan Tiangang and others, and all kinds of methods such as inviting gods and verbs emerged in an endless stream, rather than just two sentences from beginning to end.
And just when the grandmother appeared for the first time and tried to hurt everyone, a sudden, somewhat broken steel knife stopped directly in front of everyone.
The branch of the Dryad that the super strong swordsman Xia Hou, who had just competed with Yan Chixia, could not resist even the steel sword in his hand, but was stopped by a somewhat broken steel knife.
Not only that, this man who was dressed in tatters and did not look handsome, in stark contrast to the tall outfits of Yan Chixia and the others, used some clumsy but effective moves to block all the branches of the Dryad that attacked the three people.
Then the dryad grandmother was "frightened" and retreated directly, ready to let everyone go.
When the Dryad was fighting against Lao Liu, Ning Caichen and others next to him naturally asked why this ordinary man could block such a powerful Dryad, and at this time, it was natural for Yan Chixia, a "professional", to explain to them, and also to explain Li Ke's setting to the audience.
After listening, everyone on the stage suddenly realized that this ...... Makes sense!
After spending the night peacefully, the next day, Yan Chixia and others took Ning Caichen to dig up Nie Xiaoqian's ashes, saying that everyone should leave quickly. This is also different from the original book.
But just as they were all about to leave, Lao Liu, the soldier who regarded a few jars as treasures, silently put down the jars, stood up and said an ordinary word.
"I'm not leaving, I'm going to kill it." Lao Liu's words are very simple.
"But if you can't beat him alone, you'll die." Yan Chixia said.
"Then go down to meet them." Lao Liu dropped a sentence and directly re-entered Lanruo Temple.