Chapter 4: The Legend of Cats and Ghosts (68) - The Role of Posters
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Zong Zhe was countered to the army, didn't speak for a long time, and said in his heart: Damn, that gothic style shouldn't be some Western Regions music that I haven't heard, I suddenly became interested, and the more I thought about it, the more itchy my heart became. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Seeing that the opponent was shaken, Chris immediately said: "I can agree to the conditions that Mr. has made before, but I must discuss many matters one by one, and establish the basis in writing, in black and white!" What do you think?"
Zong Zhe was stunned for a moment, and he began to re-examine the two guests, and his eyes did not leave this one named Ouyang Feng. He felt that he was the best at discerning words and colors, and discerning the true face of people under the masks they wore. But he couldn't tell the person in front of him for a while, judging from his aggressive posture when he bargained with himself, he looked like a profit-heavy businessman, but there seemed to be something else besides.
Since you can't see it clearly for a while, it's better to get him into the drama troupe first and then slowly get to the bottom of it, and by the way, see what he and Gao Xiaogongzi are going to do together.
Is this considered to be a self-made decision without Murong Mo's permission? For a moment, such a thought flashed in Zong Zhe's mind, but it was a performance after all, so he would cut it first and then play it.
After thinking about it, Zong Zhe showed an expression of admitting defeat and said, "Qing'er, go and get the seal for your father!"
Then the two sides discussed some details, reached an agreement, and signed the pledge.
Piano master Zong Yang has officially become a short-term contract worker!
Zong Zhe was obsessed with music, and he couldn't forget the "gothic style" he heard just now, and he couldn't hold it back at this time, so he asked Chris to explain it to him quickly.
Chris didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Sir, do you know the cat ghosts that everyone is talking about in the streets and alleys recently?"
Zong Zhe nodded and asked in surprise, "What does this have to do with the cat ghost?"
Chris smiled and said, "What I call gothic music, that's actually ......"
As soon as they talk like this, they can't stop.
A few days later, a strange picture scroll was posted outside the door of the embroidery building.
The people of the capital have never seen such a painting, ink is not ink, white painting is not white painting, and it is difficult for anyone to relays what they have seen to a second person in words.
It was a picture scroll based on black splashed ink, the thick black ink color spread randomly on the rice paper, at first glance it looked like a dead tree trunk with intricate branches, and at the top of the branches were strange hands with teeth and claws, and it was like a dense mist, the mist was billowing, covering the sky and the sun. A strange image is formed between the ink and the white paper, and in the center of the picture is the silhouette of a young girl, but she is wagging a black tail. In other parts of the picture, people see different opinions, some say they saw a skull, some say they see a tombstone, others say they see a full moon, some say they see a bouquet, others say they saw a crow.
On the left side of the scroll, there are several big characters "Cat Ghost Banshee", and the four characters are dotted with complex and gorgeous patterns, and more words are hidden in the patterns, revealing more information. In the lower left corner of the huge scroll, hidden among the black ornaments, are two names that are like thunder in this Bianliang City - the unparalleled frost bamboo class qin master Zong Xun and the famous Beijing painter Wu Daoren! This huge picture scroll is obviously from Wu Daoren!
Who has such a big face to be able to invite these two at the same time? And who is the cat ghost banshee?
Xiulou claimed that the "cat ghost banshee" was a stunning woman named "dill", not the oiran "Pei Yuniang" that everyone rumored. Dill is about to put on a good show on a full moon night.
Oh my God! This play is arranged by Zong Ying, and this painting is painted by Wu Dajia, these two names are enough to shock people!
For a time, the audience was blocked, there were always hundreds of people crowded in front of the scroll, the people who saw the scroll squeezed out of the crowd, preached everywhere, and more people came to see, for several days, from morning to night, the gate of the embroidery building was surrounded by water.
Everyone is talking about it. Some people wondered: "Could it be that the cat ghost is not Pei Yuniang, but this one called dill?"
"Who knows......"
"Xiulou is so ostentatious, aren't you afraid that the government will arrest them?"
Suddenly, someone shouted: "This woman is a blood-sucking goblin, let's report to the official!"
Before the words could be spoken, a person squeezed out of the crowd. Some people recognize that this benevolent brother's name is Liu Er, and he is a broken child. This Liu Er turned out to be a down-to-earth family, but he was lazy and lazy, and he was good at gambling, so he lost a good family, and he was so depressed that he begged for food on the street to live. He was originally a child of a rich family, after all, he had some vision, and when he saw that it was painted by Wu Daoren, he wanted to grab the painting, and the scroll itself was worth a lot of silver taels. Someone shouted: "Liu Er, you have taken your pants, you can go in and lift the shoes for the young lady...... The crowd suddenly burst into laughter. Ignoring everyone's ridicule, Liu Er rushed to the front, stretched out his hands and pulled the scroll on the wall.
Who knew that before his hand touched the scroll, his wrist was grabbed, which was obviously not the skill of the turtle in the embroidery building. Immediately afterwards, Liu Er's collar was also grabbed. I only heard someone shouting: "I don't know what is dead or alive, get out!" Liu Er was thrown out of the crowd with a strong force, and fell to the ground with a bang. He looked intently and saw the two catchers standing under the scroll like fierce gods. Liu Er didn't dare to speak, got up, rubbed his sore buttocks, and limped away, and the crowd laughed again. After laughing, everyone felt strange, why did the Kaifeng Mansion catch the painting quickly, but didn't catch the monsters upstairs?
The rumors of cat ghosts are in an uproar in the capital, and the common people are panicked. Although everyone is curious about this picture, they are all talking about the tiger color change when they think of the cat ghost, and they are even more shocked when they hear the words "vampire banshee".
Someone read the words on the painting aloud, and the onlookers knew that the embroidery building also claimed that in the process of the performance, the cat demon may suck your blood and seduce your soul, if you are not afraid of death, you will come to enjoy this soul-inspiring performance.
Someone in the crowd said, "Who is going to see this play if he dies?"
Everyone shook their heads, no one had the guts.
Another person asked: "I invited the piano master Zong Xun and invited Wu Daoren, how much silver does this cost...... If no one goes to see it, won't the money from the embroidery building be wasted?"
While everyone was talking about it, suddenly the neighing of Herod's horse was heard.
As soon as everyone turned around, they saw two tall horses walking towards the crowd step by step.
Immediately, there was a noble son in brocade clothes. The man on the left rode a red sweat horse, his body was strong, like a mountain and a pine, the sun shone down from his back, and his face was blurred, and someone in the crowd used his five fingers to block the sun, and his erect facial features and bronzed skin could be vaguely seen. The aura emanating from this person's body is a martial arts practitioner at first glance.
The horse on the right is pure white, and the person on the horse is wearing a navy blue brocade bird and beast pattern robe, and the collar and cuffs are inlaid with white fox furs. He has slender eyebrows and eyes, and he is smiling at the moment.
The two of them had an extraordinary bearing, riding horses slowly, walking towards the picture scroll, and the original onlookers, seeing them coming, unconsciously gave way and moved their eyes from the picture scroll to them.
The man riding the jujube red horse is not very familiar to everyone, but someone recognized the peach wood sword behind the man riding the white horse, and called out, "The peach wood sword of Tianyi Villa!"
The crowd became lively.
Hearing everyone's discussions, the man riding the red horse looked at his companion's peachwood sword and quipped: "Lord Shizi, it seems that you are prepared, are you going to use that peachwood sword to subdue this vampire demon queen?"
The man known as "Shizi Ye" sighed for a long time: "Alas, my peachwood sword is just an ornament, how can it be compared to the invincible fist of your brother? It seems that you have to collect that goblin!"
"Your immortal method is not working, I can't think about it anymore!" said that, the two laughed.
After a while, a few little guys hurriedly chased after them, squeezed through the crowd, and came to the two of them.
The man on the white horse tapped the saddle with his whip and said to the boys, "Go, set two seats!"
A servant agreed, and immediately ran into the embroidery building.
The man riding the white horse is not the Taoist who can make the immortal law, he is the prince of Nanyang Hou, and most people only know that the mansion he lives in is Nanyang Hou Mansion, not Tianyi Villa.
This prince is called Zhao Shiju, and he is the grandson of Nankang County Gong after Zhao Defang, the fourth son of Taizu, and the son of Zhao Congzhen, Marquis of Nanyang. Zhao Shiju is now seven years old Chinese New Year's Eve, has literary talents, loves to make friends with celebrities, and is quite famous in Nanyang. In addition to singing poems, he is also a good immortal, but he is not really a cultivator like Cao Kai, what he likes is the art of slaying demons and eliminating demons, and immortal spells. He made friends with the warlocks, and the peachwood sword was dedicated to Zhao Shiju by a Taoist priest, and it is said that it was used by the "Tianyi nobleman" to become a Taoist priest, and it is a treasure handed down from generation to generation. Later, he nicknamed his Nanyang Hou Mansion "Tianyi Villa".
Zhao Shiju said: "I haven't been to the capital for a long time, but it's much more interesting than last time!"
"It seems that we are in time for this big buzz!" the red horse man held his chin, his eyes locked on the graceful curves outlined on the scroll.
The man riding the jujube red horse has an equally prominent background, he is the youngest son of Chai Yong, the current Chongyi Gong, after Chai Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Chongyi Gong built "Chongyi Villa" in Cangzhou, with two sons under his knees. The eldest son is called Ruo Na, and the younger son is called Ruo Ne, but these two sons are neither clumsy nor wooden. The eldest son is clumsy, proficient in martial arts, righteous and wealthy, hospitable, and friends with heroes all over the world. Now he is in charge of the "Chongyi Villa", the village often gathers thirty or fifty heroes, because he always helps the people in distress, so he is respected by the world's heroes, and is respected as "the current Meng Weijun".
Chai Ruone's martial arts are also first-class, but there is a famous brother on it, which is naturally inferior, so he always says that he can "embroider legs". He rarely stays in Chongyi Villa, and often makes appointments with three or five friends, has fun everywhere, and travels to famous mountains and rivers. Recently, he was a guest in Nanyang, and he was playing with Zhao Shiju, and overheard rumors that demons were harming people in the land of Gyeonggi, so the two rushed to the capital together to find out.
When I entered Beijing, I found that everyone was not talking about cat ghosts harming people, but about cat ghost performances! Everyone in the city was talking about it. This made the two very curious, and then they went straight to the embroidery building.
At present, they all guess that if this woman is really a cat ghost, I am afraid that she would have been captured by the government a long time ago, so it can be seen that Xiulou wants to take the opportunity to build momentum and make this "dill" popular. This move was very bold, and both of them couldn't help but have some curiosity about the woman, imagining what kind of posture it would be?
I am not afraid to make everyone suspicious and discuss, because this can create hot spots and rely on public opinion to build momentum, which is the role of posters. There is another difficulty, that is, Kaifeng Mansion. At such a time, will the government ban this performance in the name of disturbing people's hearts? Chris thought of a way, he asked the old bustard of Xiulou to take the initiative to file the matter of this performance with Kaifeng Mansion in advance, explaining that this time it was purely a "gimmick" to borrow cat ghosts.
Now is an extraordinary period, there are no clues in the case, and all kinds of pressure in Kaifeng Mansion are huge. Bai Tang and Jian Shi both suggested to check Pei Yuniang, and Shen Yu was thinking about how to find a reason to check the embroidery building. Who knew that at this time, Xiulou took the initiative to come to the record, saying that he was going to have a cat ghost performance. If in normal times, Shen Yu would not bother to pay attention to this kind of thing, but this time it was as if he was sleepy and met a pillow, it was really just the right time! Shen Yu's mind turned quickly: the embroidery building was holding a performance at this time, first, it could divert everyone's attention and temporarily reduce the pressure on the government office; second, it was just the opportunity to go to the embroidery building to check it out. Therefore, Shen Yu not only immediately agreed, but also sent two catchers to help maintain order. And Bai Tang and Jian Shi mobilized a large number of arrests and secretly surrounded the embroidery building, while observing Pei Yuniang's movements, and monitoring whether there were any suspicious characters.
At this time, Jian Shi sat in the teahouse opposite the embroidery building, watching the people coming in and out of the embroidery building. A plainclothes catcher came upstairs from outside and reported the riot just now, as well as the reservation of seats for the two sons of the family. Being able to come up with a "cat ghost" to attract people is really a trick of the embroidery building, and the sword shop has to admire.
Seeing that the person invited by Xiulou turned out to be "Zong Yan", Jian Yan said in his heart: The previous incident of fierce fire oil, and wronged Mr. Zong to stay in the prison for a few more days, and when I personally released him from the prison, he did not say a word of complaint. In private, he is kind, not as temperamental and difficult to serve as rumored outside. I really don't know what kind of play he will arrange this time...... I have to say that even I'm starting to get interested.
A horse-drawn carriage stopped at the end of the street. The coachman said, "Madam...... Now the people are blocking the road, and the carriage can't pass!"
A woman lifted the curtain and glanced out, her face was covered with a thin veil, covering her face, but the temperament exuded from her body was like a natural noblewoman, elegant and noble.
"This one named Dill has disrupted all our plans!" asked the coachman lightly, "Do you want to send someone to kill her?"