Chapter 8 In and Out of the Play

Yang Kang was violently pushed away by Mu Nianci, and his face showed a look of disappointment, in the eyes of outsiders, this is a scene where a rich kid flirts with a folk girl and is rejected instead of being rejected, don't you see that the girl has run away in a hurry?

Bao Xi looked at her son weakly and slightly playfully, and she could see that her son, who had always been calm, was much better for her than those celebration shows around her, and she didn't have much disgust with Yang Kang's behavior of hugging Mu Nianci, which may be the mentality of being a mother.

Women will be jealous of their husbands for molesting other women, but they will be tolerant of their sons for molesting other women, they hope that their husbands will only love herself, but they will give their sons three wives and four concubines, this is to spread the branches of the family, in this patriarchal society, women can rely on their husbands and sons.

As for Yang Kang's age, it is not small by the standards of this era.

The Han Dynasty stipulated that women should pay more than five times the tax if they did not marry at the age of fifteen, and all unmarried women over the age of fourteen in the Northern Qi Dynasty had to serve in labor, and in the middle of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that men were fifteen and women were thirteen or more to be married, which was a hard rule made in order to increase the country's population.

The Song Dynasty was a little more relaxed, men sixteen, women fourteen to get married, of course, earlier is better, in some rich and noble men will have a relationship with the maid at the age of thirteen or fourteen, some even earlier, the later Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi is twelve years old marriage.

In the eyes of later generations, this is of course illegal, but it is a common phenomenon in this era, so Bao Xiwan also began to choose for his son and concubine, this girl named Mu Nianci is very much in line with her heart.

Yang Kang returned to the Zhao Wangfu in the teasing of Bao Xiweak, he was a little absent-minded along the way, and he didn't know what would happen in Nancheng? Can Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci escape this catastrophe?

When he came to the gate of the palace, he forced himself to calm down, returned to his previous appearance, and began to talk to Bao Xiqiao about today's festival activities, he couldn't let Wanyan Honglie notice anything unusual, this scene should not only be performed but also performed well.

In the palace, the troupe has begun to set up the set and stage busily, although this is an idea that came out of Yan Honglie temporarily, but in the face of the powerful power, no one dares to refuse, and the famous troupes in Kaifeng City have put down their performances and come to the palace of King Zhao.

The stage was set up in a wide courtyard, Wan Yan Honglie brought Bao Xiqiao and Yang Kang here with great interest, sat on the high platform, looked at the stage condescendingly, and put Jingmei's snacks and seasonal melons and fruits on the table next to it, and many maids were waiting beside them.

The Song Dynasty was not an era of great prosperity for opera, but it also broke away from the category of juggling, and began to add storylines to performances, known as vaudeville, and the Jin people were called Yuanben, and the more famous is Zhugong tune, which is an art form that expresses long stories in a way that uses singing and dialogue.

The first scene is "The Legend of the West Chamber", which tells the love story of Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, and later "The Legend of the West Chamber" written by Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty has a reference to this play.

When the miscellaneous drama in the palace of King Zhao was grandly staged, Mu Nianci unfolded the free travel method taught by Hong Qigong and ran all the way, and came to the southern city of Kaifeng, she set off later than Duan Tiande and his gang, but the speed was faster than those soldiers, she was familiar with the terrain of the southern city, remembered Yang Kang's words, and knew that the time was pressing, so she did not return home to pack her things at all, but went straight to the market.

At this time, it was evening, Yang Tiexin should be working in the market, Mu Nianci was familiar with the merchants in the market, and after a little inquiry, she knew that Yang Tiexin was carrying goods at a merchant's house, so she hurriedly rushed over.

At the same time, Duan Tiande took Peng Lianhu and Sha Tongtian, as well as hundreds of soldiers to the small courtyard where Yang Tiexin lived, and began to search, after asking the surrounding neighbors, he knew that Yang Tiexin might be above the bazaar, and it was too much time to wait for the rabbit here, and there might be someone to report to Yang Tiexin to run away, and Duan Tiande, who was eager to make a meritorious service, led people to the bazaar.

Yang Tiexin saw his daughter coming in a hurry, pulled him and walked out, he couldn't help but be surprised, Nianci has always been calm, this time I don't know what happened, Mu Nianci couldn't say it clearly for a while, only said that someone wanted to kill them, and they had to go out of the city at this time, otherwise it would be too late.

Yang Tiexin went out of the bazaar with his daughter in a daze, and saw a team of soldiers coming to the bazaar from a distance, Duan Tiande's sharp eyes saw Yang Tiexin at a glance, and rushed up with a greeting, Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu followed.

Yang Tiexin only believed his daughter's words at this time, this group of officers and soldiers was coming at them, he pulled his daughter and turned around and returned to the market, there were many people in the market, he stayed here for a month or two, he had already figured out his shape, and disappeared above the market after three crutches and two turns, and transferred to a merchant's house.

Hundreds of soldiers searched around the market, and for a time chickens and dogs jumped, screaming and scolding endlessly, and the Nancheng people market was in chaos.

In King Zhao's mansion, although Wanyan Honglie and Yang Kang were also looking at the stage and gossiping, their hearts were hanging there, thinking about what was happening in Nancheng, and they were careful not to let Bao Xiweak find out about the abnormality, and jointly maintain the happiness of this woman.

Ignorant women are the happiest, and this sentence has been fully reflected in Bao Xiweak.

She was the only one who was really watching the play, she didn't know that her husband was being hunted down ten miles away, she didn't know that the two men in front of her, one big and one small, were tacitly hiding her, and she didn't know that this was a miscellaneous drama specially arranged for her.

In some ways she is pathetic, but at the same time she is also happy, there are at least three men who really care for her, and a woman can do this to be considered a success.

At this time, the play ends, and in the free time before the start of the next act, there will be a clown-like actor to interject and laugh at the audience, this clown is very skillful, causing the maids and servants in the palace to laugh, and even the always calm Wanyan Honglie also smiled.

There was a chorus of joy in King Zhao's mansion, and the search and arrest in Nancheng was still going on intensely.

The scope of the search is gradually expanding, and he began to search the houses of nearby merchants, which were the anti-thieves ordered by Wan Yan Honglie himself, and anyone who dared to stop them would be killed on the spot.

Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci hid in one of the houses, this merchant is a wine merchant, he dug a cellar specifically for storing wine, this cellar was dug out by Yang Tiexin, so it is very familiar, he and his daughter are hiding behind a jar of fine wine.

Peng Lianhu took the soldiers to the courtyard, as a former robber leader, he also robbed the merchants, knowing that the merchants like to dig some cellars at home to bury gold and silver and other valuables, this search for the thieves, if not take the opportunity to make a fortune is a pity.

Even after two years as a stable public servant, Peng Lianhu's robber factor did not weaken at all, and he soon found a cellar in the courtyard and walked down the steps.

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