At the beginning of the play, a young boy with red lips and white teeth was holding a fan, looking elegant and unrestrained.
According to the lyrics, everyone knows that this young man is Wu Ming, the young son of the wealthy businessman Wu family. This time he came to Ningguang County specifically for his family's business.
"Ningguang County? I've never heard of this county, but I've heard of Guangning County." Zhao Xiucai blurted out as he was always outspoken. When he didn't say it, no one had thought of this. After being reminded like this, many people immediately remembered it.
There was a lot of gossip circulating some time ago.
It seems to be the dispute between Wu Xiuming, the concubine of the Wu family, and an old man in Guangning County... Wait, the young man on stage calls himself Wu Ming. Wu Ming and Wu Xiuming are just one word different.
They remembered what Wenman said again, that this story was based on reality.
Many people's expressions became subtle unconsciously, and the corner of their eyes kept looking at Wu Xiujie. Isn't Wu Xiuming his concubine?
Wu Xiujie was always smart, and he quickly thought of this. His hands were almost clenched into fists under his sleeves, but his face still maintained a calm look, as if this had nothing to do with him.
Many literati were envious of the wealthy life of the Wu family, and would always say sourly that their family smelled of copper. Even if he passed the examination as a scholar at a young age, he still looked down upon him. Therefore, he could not let these people
See his jokes.
It was best that the story on this stage had nothing to do with their family, otherwise he would not let the author who arranged their Wu family go.
Then the appearance of another protagonist, an old student, completely shattered Wu Xiujie's luck.
The old man's name was Su Shan. He was ugly. When he was old, all his daughters had already left the government.
He and Wu Ming met soon, and they hit it off immediately. Wu Ming felt that Su Shan's vulgarity and open-mindedness that was different from the people around him attracted his attention, while Su Shan wanted to please Wu Ming because he was a rich man.
As a result, the two immediately became friends forever, and their relationship developed step by step.
Both the junior and old students on the stage have excellent singing skills. Although the diction is simple and easy to understand, it still has an evocative charm.
It’s just this combination that really tortures everyone’s eyes.
I wanted to close my eyes, but I couldn't help but want to keep reading. There was a kind of magical power that I couldn't stop reading.
Even the most sane people can see that this story is about Wu Xiuming and Su Dashan. Don’t think that if you remove even one word, you won’t be able to recognize it.
Among all the people present, the one who suffered the most was Wu Xiujie. Every moment of this was a feeling of indecision for him. He wished he could just throw up his sleeves and leave, or order the troupe not to sing any more.
But he couldn't do this. Doing so would be tantamount to admitting that this story was alluding to their family.
It can be said that he was sitting on pins and needles, his teeth were bleeding, and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood.
Who is targeting their family so maliciously? Is it the Mo family? Or the Li family?
Possible candidates appeared in front of Wu Xiujie's eyes, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of ice.
However, Wen Man deliberately provoked him and asked, "Xiujie, you sing really well in this play, right?"
Wen Man did this on purpose. Although he was not very good at reading, he was very sensitive to people's emotions. Wu Xiujie usually pretended to be polite in front of him, but his arrogance and disdain almost overflowed.
Huh, no matter how rich the Wu family is, they are still businessmen. How can they still look down on him? No matter how dandy he usually is, that is, just drinking flower wine, he will always beat others to death.
Wu Xiujie tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and said in a cold voice, "It's pretty good."
"This Wu Ming is really a ruthless and heartless person. He used to be greedy for novelty, so he took the initiative to seduce people. After the incident was accidentally exposed, in order to distance himself from Su Shan, he went so cruel as to beat the person's legs.
He broke it off and even beat him into a eunuch, regardless of the tenderness and sweetness between the two of them."
"Sure enough, businessmen pursue profit, and for the sake of profit, all emotions are sacrificed. To be able to raise such a son, the family tradition of the Wu family is really eye-opening."
A scholar who had a bad relationship with Wu Xiujie deliberately criticized Sang and Huai.
After all, Wu Xiujie was young and vigorous, and his previous patience could be said to be his limit. Now they were pointing at his nose and swearing, so naturally he couldn't bear it. He stood up, and in his anger, he accidentally bumped into someone next to him.
table, knocking everything on the table to the ground.
"That's enough. You maliciously slander our Wu family just because of a fabricated story. Is this your upbringing?"
Wen Man was immediately amused, "Xiujie, why are you so angry? We are talking about the Wu family in the opera story, and no one is talking about your family."
"You are so eager to take the seat, are you feeling guilty?"
"Yes, we are also criticizing Wu Ming, not Wu Xiuming. Or are the stories in this true?"
Wu Xiujie bit his lower lip tightly, and finally left with a sullen face.
Seeing his angry look, the others couldn't help but shake their heads.
"I was skeptical about this story at first, but now after seeing his reaction, I started to believe it."
"Yeah, look at him like that, it's obvious that he's been stabbed in the foot."
"Oh, the Wu family is really arrogant. The status of farmers, farmers, and merchants is still higher than that of merchants. Su Dashan is also a good citizen, but they are so arrogant and maiming people. Wu Xiuming didn't even pay any price and completely ignored us.
The laws of Bactria are nothing."
"I heard that Su Dashan's niece-in-law is Yuan Suijun. He is very upright and is planning to sue the Wu family. If this is true, I will definitely support him when the time comes."
"I don't know who wrote this play, but it's so well written. When my grandma celebrates her birthday, I'll invite this troupe to go back and sing it for her."
Everyone was discussing this matter while listening to the babbling sounds on the stage.
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After Wu Xiujie returned home, he naturally told his biological father about the incident as soon as possible.
Wu Shilin originally thought that this matter had been suppressed, but he did not expect that someone would actually put it on the stage. Even some famous scholars in the state capital had seen it, and the person who took the lead was not some cat or dog, but the son of the prefect. They Wu
The family cannot afford to offend someone.
When he heard Wu Xiujie describing the contents of the opera in detail, the veins on his forehead were beating hard, and he fainted out of anger.
After waking up, Wu Shilin looked at his anxious sons gathered around his bed, and finally broke his wrist and made a decision.
Previously, their family only wanted to push their servants to take the blame and save Xiuming. Now they had to give up this idea. For the reputation of the Wu family, he had to sacrifice his son.
"When someone comes from Guangning County, hand over Xiu Ming."
"We cannot ruin the future of the Wu family just for him."
"I will call everyone in the other houses later and I will announce that Xiu Ming will be removed from the family tree. From now on, he will no longer be a member of the Wu family."
His tone was full of sorrow, and two lines of muddy tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.