Chapter 120: The show begins
The birthday banquet of the old lady of the Cui family is finally about to begin.
Guiheban has long been prepared, this time, Yang Fenglou is completely arranged in accordance with the routine of the later generations of the hall.
The so-called Tanghui opera is a Peking Opera performance team that accepts the invitation and goes to the place designated by the inviting party to do a special performance, which is divided into four plays: the opening gong, the central axis, the finale, and the major axis according to the order of the repertoire performance.
The reason why these names are used as the names of the repertoire performances is because in the early days of opera performances in later generations, the play list was written on silk cloth, and then put away with a wooden shaft.
It is worth mentioning that the so-called finale is the repertoire of the penultimate performance, and it is also the essence of the whole performance, and the reason why it is placed in the penultimate position is mainly because the whole performance is too long, and the audience is afraid that they will not be able to stand it and leave, so the most essential play is placed in the penultimate position, which can not only let the audience enjoy the most as much as possible, but also avoid the audience from mentioning the exit and missing the wonderful.
The list of plays arranged by Guiheban for Mrs. Cui is as follows:
Cairo, "Blessing of Heavenly Officials".
The central axis, "Lock Lin Bag".
The finale, "Magu Presents Birthday".
The repertoire of the big axis was not arranged in advance, but was prepared to leave it to Mrs. Cui to order the play.
The big axis repertoire invites the old lady to order the play, this is the so-called "entry point"!
The so-called "entry point" is passed on from the Xuanzong Dynasty, according to legend, before Xuanzong watched the song and dance or opera of the Jiaofang Division, he would order the supervisor of the Jiaofang Division to present the tooth card, which was marked with the name of the song and dance to be performed, Xuanzong wanted to see that, so he used a cinnabar pen to point a little on the tooth card, and the point was the dance, and the point was not performed, this process was called "entering the point".
When Yang Fenglou said the idea of entering the point, he immediately got the approval of Cui Qigongzi, and praised Yang Fenglou greatly.
Mrs. Cui has a ninety life expectancy, and it is also a great pleasure to be able to enjoy the treatment of an emperor!
This "entry point" is a pleasure for the Cui family, and it is also a pleasure for Yang Fenglou, he is taking the opportunity of "entering the point" to get close to Mrs. Cui, which is very important to Yang Fenglou Li Sirui's plan.
Before the birthday banquet of Cuifu, the two of them made plans early.
The first step is to obtain the consent of Cui Qigongzi, empty the repertoire of the last big axis, and then make a tooth tag with Nanzhu, the front is the name of the repertoire, and the back is the plot introduction of the repertoire, and then prepare to give the old lady "some points" at any time.
In the second step, Li Sirui paid attention to the second master of the Cui family at any time through his own intelligence network, as soon as he appeared with the resolution of the clan conference, he would immediately arrange for an internal response of the Cui family to cover the bowl with a unique three-talent bowl and offer tea to the old lady, as a signal to remind Yang Fenglou to "enter the point".
The third step, Yang Fenglou "enter the point", this time is difficult to grasp, Yang Fenglou specially prepared several sets of rhetoric, for example, if the previous repertoire has not been finished, it is said that it is to let the actors prepare in advance, please ask the old lady to point out the big axis in advance, if the performance is over, let Yang Fenglou make the ceremony of "entering the point" more grand, and make the "entry point" rhetoric more lively, in short, it must be delayed until the old lady has completed the clan resolution, and then he can go to the old lady Cui.
In the fourth step, when the old lady finished the clan decision, and Yang Fenglou was by the side of the old lady Cui, Li Sirui arranged for another internal response to pass the news to Ruimu Nanshan of Qingyunmen as a servant, and he took the Liu brothers and Zhao Liang to make trouble together, and the bigger the trouble, the better
In the fifth step, the chaos was together, and the first person responded to it, so he stepped forward and pretended to be eager to ask Mrs. Cui to take shelter for a while.
In the sixth step, Yang Fenglou took advantage of the chaos to get the clan resolution that Old Lady Cui had already completed, and only needed to memorize Old Lady Cui's approval.
In the end, the situation subsided, and Yang Fenglou also got the comment, that is, to complete the task.
This plan was formulated by Yang Fenglou and Li Sirui for a long time, and the different reactions of each time node, each main task, and the cooperation between each person have been made a lot of deliberations, which can basically ensure that nothing goes wrong.
However, no matter how careful the plan is, it also needs to be tested by reality, and whether it can succeed or not depends on the final result.
And the time to test the plan has finally arrived.
Guiheban has already set off for Cui Mansion!
The old mansion of Cui's Mansion is the eastern city of Shenzhou City, pay attention to "yes", not "in", the reason is very simple, Cui's old mansion occupies the entire eastern city of Shenzhou!
Guiheban traveled all the way, and every building he saw belonged to Cui's old mansion!
It can be seen that the Boling Cui clan is strong.
As the actual head of the Cui clan in Boling, the birthday of the old lady Cui is naturally very lively, not to mention anything else, just the relatives and guests who came to congratulate the birthday occupy the east, west and north directions of the Cui family's old house, and there are eight huge courtyards, which is not counting the main courtyard where the old lady Cui stayed!
In these courtyards, there is enough natural wine and meat, and at the same time, many juggling teams and singing and dancing teams are invited to perform, and the Guihe class, as a troupe personally invited by Cui Qigongzi, has really made a reputation in Zhenzhou and even Chengde Town, so it was naturally arranged directly in the main courtyard to perform Peking Opera for Mrs. Cui.
Gossip is not mentioned.
Before it got dark, the birthday feast began.
The Peking Opera of the Guihe class also officially opened.
There is nothing to say about the play "The Blessing of Heavenly Officials", it is just lively.
What he said is: The Jade Emperor in the sky, because of the blessing lord of the lower realm, is willing to give kindness, and his yin skills are huge. The special edict of the Heavenly Officials, (Fu Xingjun), invites all the gods of good fortune and bestows blessings to show good deeds. The old man of Antarctica, the Cowherd, the Weaver Girl, Zhang Xian, and the God of Wealth were invited to the blessed land, and each offered gifts. In addition to the Tianguan Xuanyu: entering the first product, ranking in the court, and the princely generation, the rest of the immortals also have their own gifts. Such as Zhang Xian's son, God of Wealth bonus, etc. Finally, the heavenly officials led the way, and each sang a eulogy.
This play is the most suitable as the opening gong play of the festive hall, and the festive words such as "the blessed lord of the lower realm" and "the blessed land of the good door" in the play are endless, which makes people listen to it, and it is called a festive celebration.
In the main courtyard of Cui's mansion, those who accompany the old lady to watch the play are either the relatives of the main branch, or the children of the old lady's best friends, all of whom are his juniors, and they all hope that the old lady Cui will live a long life.
When they heard all kinds of festive words, they all shouted well, especially in the last part of "The Blessing of the Heavenly Officials", when the gods sang:
Yayayayaya
Ahhhhhhh
Early in the morning, wearing a jade belt and gold medallion to tune Ding Nai,
Envy, envy and envy.
Look at it, see that Demen is auspicious,
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations.
Qingqingqing, Qingfumen thousand auspicious photos,
Daodao, Dao people are happy.
Bye bye bye, bless the glory of the Lord,
I will leave this happy event to future generations.
These guests even sang a word of good, making the atmosphere in the entire main courtyard extremely warm, so that the guests in the other courtyards all tried to come over to take a look, and even the old birthday star himself was made laugh by these juniors.
And Yang Fenglou was standing in the shadow of the backstage, taking advantage of the lights in the main courtyard, quietly looking at the old lady Cui on the high platform opposite, with an indifferent expression.