Chapter 473: The Stage
Under the moonlight, in the blue Taiping Town, on the square platform, the red cloth carpet has been spread.
A group of singing artists each took out a thin brush stained with paint, and began to carefully dress themselves in front of the bronze mirror. In that big box, all kinds of costume python robes were also taken out, and they were stretched out with hangers, ready to meet the big drama later.
On both sides of the stage, on a stage temporarily built of wooden planks, several troupe members with musical instruments and gongs and drums have sat down, adjusting various musical instruments in their hands, and preparing for the next big play.
Under the stage, benches were placed in an orderly manner, children were playing, and adults from the town also came one after another, saying and laughing and greeting each other.
Every autumn, Taiping Town will usher in a group of singing troupes. They took turns to bring excitement to Taiping Town, showing their true skills, for copper coins, and for the applause of the audience.
Before the night was deep, the rain used neat wooden planks to seal the door of the wine shop.
Dressed in a red silk dress and carrying a red lantern, she headed towards the mouth of the alley, the destination of which was the stage where the song was only held in autumn.
She doesn't like the big drama sung on the stage every year, but she will go there. Not for anything else, but this drama is the only lively thing in Taiping Town......
Walking on the stone road, looking at the closed shops, her eyes lingered on the 'century-old wine', and she wanted to come forward and knock on the door, but she didn't.
Although I don't know what happened to the old man who sells wine, Yan Yu can know that he will be fine. After all, the shopkeeper Li, who runs a pharmacy in Taiping Town, often comes to buy wine from him, but he never heard that the old man who sells wine has been to the pharmacy before......
Carrying the lantern, out of the alley, Yu Yu stood alone on the stone bridge.
In front, on the bright stage with a bronze mirror and candlelight, the person who announced the curtain had already knocked down the gongs and drums.
"Fellow villagers, shopkeepers, squires, today our 'Mengwen Pavilion' first came to Guibaodi, and the first play we sang for the first time must be the most selling kung fu... Everyone, the first play is led by the big red corner Boss Chen, who is famous for our 'Meng Kingdom'......"
Listening to the various introductions of the people who reported the curtain, and looking at the impatient appearance of the villagers in the audience, Li Yu smiled knowingly, but he did not take another step.
She stood on the stone bridge, far away, but she could see clearly.
It has been five years since it settled in Taiping Town. In the past five years, she has not cultivated again, and she has not even tried to breathe or feel the aura. Slowly, she seemed to have really become a mortal, and her spirit body had lost the nourishment of the aura of heaven and earth, and she seemed to have become a mortal in the flesh, and her strength and energy were decreasing more and more, just like the mortals in Taiping Town around her, there was no big difference. After all, she can already dream, and how much difference will she have from mortals.
If there is, it is only your own eyes.
After incarnating as a mortal, the 'Forbidden Eye' still did not disappear. Even if the spirit body needs to grow after remodeling, these eyes born for forbidden art are still there.
On the stage, the actor in costume has already started to perform, with exaggerated expressions and strong rendering voices, combined with the sound of musical instruments that set off the atmosphere, Li Yu really doesn't know what to see. But the applause and applause of the crowd under the stage never stopped. It seems that as long as the actors on the stage stare at them and wave the props in their hands, they will cheer excitedly as if they have received some kind of spell......
If you can't understand it, you won't look at it anymore.
The drama on the stage is performing the life of a character. The crowd in the audience was cheering for someone's life. And the rain was observing them for a brief moment.
A smile, a cheer, a cheer, the people on the stage are acting, and the people off the stage are watching. It seems that no matter how many troubles and sorrows there are, these mortals will fade away at this moment, and only remain silent in a big drama.
"Mortals are mortals after all, simple and ......happy," he said, leaning on the stone bridge and smiling as he looked ahead.
Although the body seems to have become mortal, the heart of the rain still belongs to the monk. After 900 years, she often relied on the 'Taishang Forgetfulness' to forget something. After all, sometimes when she has emotional outbursts, she can't calm down without the help of 'too forgetfulness'.
But this kind of forgetfulness often erupts suddenly after a retreat, in a leisure time. It's like sealed tears, finally bursting in the eyes, surging abnormally.
Those pictures, those people and things, and those emotions that were suppressed by themselves all came to her heart, which she couldn't bear as a weak daughter.
At such moments, she often turns into 'too forgetful' to calm herself down. However, after five years in Taiping Town, she has become a mortal, but she has to face these things that have been sealed.
That will appear in a dream, that will flash in a daze, that is an emotion that I can't control by relying on my own heart. Slowly, Yu Yu learned to face it and silently felt the picture that appeared in his mind. The nostalgia for the master, the guilt for the master, and the feelings of those cardinals in the battle of 'Changtang Pass', although they still did not let go, they were slowly able to reminisce.
Since coming to the "Uniform Dust Star", the longest thing that Li Yu mentioned was his longing for the disciples of the Aoki Sect and his commitment to the deceased back then. But what is hidden in his heart the deepest is the guilt of Momo. The old man who doted on himself and said that he should cultivate well, I don't know if he is okay now......
He didn't have the trick of 'forgetting the way too much' to calm his mind and sweep away all uneasy emotions. I haven't seen my little apprentice for many years, whether he often misses it, I don't know it, but I know it!
After incarnating as a mortal, without the self of 'Taishang Forgetting the Dao', he has to face his own unfilial piety after all......
After the first battle of 'Changtang Pass', the calm that was quickly restored finally broke out after there was no 'Taishang Forgetfulness'. Those cardinals stood in front of them, blood sprayed on their faces, how could they not move themselves!
They are not mortals on the battlefield, they are a group of cold-blooded monks...... For his own sake, he actually used himself as a shield. That feeling of emotion can not be calmed down by dying once on the battlefield......
The storage bag of the 10,000-clothed monk 'Ping An Jane' has disappeared from the battlefield, and although he has searched with his divine sense after waking up, it is impossible to find it!
Whether he chose to leave with the storage bag back then. When they die, they also have hope in their hearts. At least, the 'Ping An Jane' who left his last words has his own immortal venerable to send back to his relatives......
Ying Changfeng said that if he insisted on staying, he would invite himself to drink the wine, but he would regret it if he hadn't fulfilled it. Is it a pity that I instinctively took those 'peace Janes' away......
What is singing on the stage is whose life, whether he is happy, whether he is happy, I don't know if the rain is good. But in my life, there are more regrets than happiness......
In Taiping Town, a big drama was sung for two hours, and when the actor got off the stage to ask for a reward, Li Yu also turned around and left.
There will be emotions, but in the mortal world, I feel it alone, and I don't say much......
On an early autumn night, the rain with a red lantern in his hand was already sleepy, and when he returned to the end of the alley with heavy steps, he suddenly woke up.
On a yellow lamp, the four big characters of 'century-old wine' swayed with the shadow.
The old man with the yellow lantern stood alone in front of the shop, and slowly turned around with the arrival of the rain.
"Yo...... Dead old man, not dead yet?"
"Hmph, uneducated stinky girl......" The old man snorted, and replied unpleasantly.
Between the two, since the rain scolded the store for all horse urine, there has never been a good face or kind words.
Under the flickering of the candles of the red and yellow lanterns, Yan Yu found that there were two wine jars at the old man's feet.
Looking at the two jars of wine silently, she couldn't help but gasp, and secretly screamed in her heart.
The old man who sold wine noticed Li Yu's eyes, smiled, and hit the door panel with a lantern, signaling Li Yu to open the door.
"Big night, who's going to open the door for you. If you want to fight, go to the side door......" said angrily, and Yan Yu didn't care about the old man who sold wine, and turned in the direction of the side door first.
The old man selling wine behind him didn't follow, and Li Yu didn't ask, but the door was never closed.
In the courtyard, the wooden door of the main hall was open, and all the oil lamps and candlesticks were lit. For its lighting room, it also seems to be emboldened for the rain.
"His 'osmanthus wine' is soft, and my 'peach blossom wine' is fierce. If he wants to win, I must make a stronger wine than 'peach blossom wine'. Logically speaking, it is impossible! Could it be that he can really make stronger wine......" Secretly thinking uncertainly, Yu Yu decided that the old man who sold wine and the good man did not come, and the one who came was not good......
In the uneasiness of the rain, the old man walked in with a jar of wine. Just glanced at the rain, put the jar of wine on the table, and then walked out again.
Taking advantage of the old man's time to go out, Li Yu hurriedly stood up and sucked the taste of the wine jar with his nose......
After a while, the old man walked in with a jar of wine. After putting down the jar of wine, he sat down on the wooden chair a little tired.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze at this moment, and Yu Yu looked at the courtyard outside the house, unable to say a word. And the old man also looked at the courtyard and didn't want to say anything.
"Also, it's all here, what do you want to do with a bad old man?" finally couldn't sit still, Yan Yu turned his head sideways and looked at the old man selling wine.
"Taste the wine in the black jar, and then talk about it......" The old man replied slowly, rubbing his eyes with his hands.
After hearing this, Yu Yu exhaled secretly, knowing that what was supposed to come was finally coming.
But at this time, she couldn't have a seizure, so she could only pick up the teacup on the table, and after standing up, she had a heavy expression on her face to open the wine cork in the black jar.
The old man who sold wine didn't make a sound at all, just leaned back in his chair, didn't look at the rain, and waited silently.
Secretly glanced at the old man who sold wine, and finally stuffed the wine open, smelling the aroma of wine inside.
As soon as the smell of this wine came out, Li Yu's face couldn't help but tighten. The smell was very strange, in addition to the smell of wine, it was actually mixed with the smell of blood that should not be there......