Chapter 138 Listening to Opera in the Liyuan, Yujing City of All Nations
The Beijing Liyuan, or the Liyuan on Baiyi Street, is not far from Donglaiju. It only takes three minutes to walk after getting off Donglaiju. A Jiangnan garden with white walls and black tiles appeared in front of Jiang Xuan.
Looking at their appearance, Jiang Xuan found that the pear orchard in the capital and the pear orchard at the foot of Yinshan Mountain seemed to be carved from the same mold, except that they were a little bigger.
Just as he was about to step into the garden, two figures suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Xuan:
"Taoist Priest, the Liyuan Garden is closed during the day. If you want to listen to music, you can enter the garden at the beginning of the fifth quarter (6 p.m.)."
Looking at the two guards in front of him who bowed and spoke to him, Jiang Xuan waved the dust in his hand and said, "I am not here to listen to music, but to find friends."
The two guards looked at each other after hearing this, and then the slightly stronger guard on the left spoke:
"I wonder who you are looking for in a long time?"
"Chen Qingyi."
The guard nodded and continued to ask, "Don't you know your name?"
"Shenxiao Sect, Jiang Daoxuan."
As Jiang Xuan finished speaking, the guard bent down and saluted Jiang Xuan again:
"Please wait a moment, Taoist Priest. We have sent someone to notify Mr. Chen. If Mr. Chen is willing to see you, we will let you go immediately."
Jiang Xuan nodded to express his understanding.
Others are just gatekeepers, and blocking him is fulfilling his duty, so he will naturally not feel angry.
Not long after, the guard who received the reply suddenly stepped aside, then stretched out his hand towards Jiang Xuan and guided him towards the door:
"Taoist Priest, Chen and everyone are already here. Please enter the garden first."
As soon as he finished speaking, a rapid tapping sound reached Jiang Xuan's ears, followed by a slightly surprised cheer:
"Senior Brother Jiang, it's really you."
"It's only December 19th, and you've arrived in the capital so soon."
Following the sound, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but be speechless when he saw the head of Gua Chen Qingyi sticking out from the wall of the courtyard.
The door is open right there, and this little girl is really talented when she insists on peeling off the wall.
Walking into the opera garden, Jiang Xuan laughed and said when he saw Chen Qingyi who had just come down from the wall.
"The door is right there, why do you have to go to the wall?"
"My master doesn't allow it."
"Two days ago, I sneaked out and was caught by my master. She said that if I dared to walk in front of the gate again, she would break my feet."
The little girl came to Jiang Xuan with her hands behind her back, narrowed her eyes and said:
"If I scratch the wall, it doesn't count as walking to the gate. She has no reason to hit me, right?"
Glancing at Chen Qingyi, who was thinking clearly, Jiang Xuangang wanted to start teasing her, but she opened her mouth again and spoke:
"Senior brother, you came to see me this time. Did you bring me a gift?"
As she spoke, she lowered her head again, played with her fingers a little embarrassedly and said:
"Every time Sister Xu, Sister Yang, and Sister Leng and their friends come to Liyuan, they bring them many gifts."
Seeing Chen Qingyi shrinking his neck like a quail as he spoke, Jiang Xuan suddenly laughed.
what is this?
Want to be strong all your life, but unexpectedly like the shy Chen Qingyi?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan suddenly felt a sense of ridicule, so he simply took out a bunch of candy figures from the jade gourd and handed them out.
This was what he was going to take back to his younger sister Jiang Yao:
"Hey, just a bunch of candy figures, do you want them?"
"want."
Taking the candy man from Jiang Xuan's hand, Chen Qingyi squinted her eyes and started licking it:
"Uncle Li's candies are still delicious. I was caught by my master two days ago when I sneaked out to buy candies."
Looking at Chen Qingyi, who was shaking his head and exuding joy, looking a little silly, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but sigh,
I don’t know if this little girl can maintain her innocence after entering the big dyeing vat of Liyuan.
He stretched out his hand and rubbed the little girl's head like a little fox. Jiang Xuan then released the snow essence from the demon refining pot:
"Hey, this is my gift to you. As for the candy man, I originally brought it back to my sister to eat."
Chen Qingyi's eyes lit up when he saw a snow-white elf suddenly appeared in front of him. Chen Qingyi was eating a candy man:
"Senior Brother Jiang, is this Snow Spirit? Did you really give it to me as a gift?"
Perhaps her eyes were too fiery, which made Xiaoxuejing tap her hooves a few times uneasily.
Squatting down and rubbing Xiaoxue Jing, who was a little afraid of strangers, Jiang Xuan nodded:
"Really for you."
"I met this snow spirit on the way to the capital. If you hadn't called me to listen to music, I wouldn't have met it."
"Of course, maybe it is also destined to you?"
When he first met the Snow Spirit, Jiang Xuan also thought about raising it himself.
But later he discovered that this little guy liked to shed his fur, and as soon as he shed his fur, it would start to snow in the Demon Refining Pot, which made him feel a little like a Muggle.
Although the snow will stop as long as he picks up its fallen fur from the ground, does he have to find a spiritual beast to pick up his fur in order to raise a snow spirit?
In addition, Xue Jing was not on the list of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, so he thought about it for a long time and finally decided to give it away.
And Chen Qingyi is his candidate to send Xuejing.
After all, the bamboo whip this little girl gave him helped him a lot.
Seeing Jiang Xuan say again that he would give her the little snow essence, Chen Qingyi immediately jumped up holding the snow essence:
"Thank you, Senior Brother Jiang."
After speaking, she looked around, then secretly took out a crystal clear orchid and handed it to Jiang Xuan:
"Hey, this is my gift to my senior brother."
"Last time when I was in Yinshan Liyuan, I found that you, senior brother, seem to like things that can restore your mental power, so I asked my master to pay attention to it."
"This is Xuelinglan. As long as you plant it, it will emit fragrance. Once you smell the fragrance, you can restore your mental strength."
"It's just that it likes to stay in a cold environment. Senior brother, you should be careful when planting it."
"Also, don't smell too much, otherwise you will get a headache."
Looking at the orchid in Chen Qingyi's hand, Jiang Xuan's heart moved slightly, and then he looked at Chen Qingyi.
Seeing that she was still smiling, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but smile:
"This orchid is indeed useful to me, senior brother. Then senior brother, I would like to thank my junior sister."
"Why should I be polite to my junior sister?"
Chen Qingyi patted his chest, then put the Xueling Lan into Jiang Xuan's hand, and then pulled Jiang Xuan and ran towards the Orchid Garden:
"Senior brother, let's go to Orchid Garden, and I will sing a song for you."
"But if I sing something wrong, you have to point it out to me. Otherwise, if I sing something wrong on the day I go on stage, my master will definitely put me in solitary confinement."
"But I don't understand opera."
"It's okay, you will know after listening to me, senior brother."
The music in the pear garden can be heard without any sound, but there is a lingering sound around the beams.
When Chen Qingyi reluctantly left the stage, the walls of Bai Yujing had already lit up with fluorescent lights again.
The opera theater will be set up on the stage at the beginning of the third quarter of the Xu hour (7:30 p.m.), and the garden will open at the beginning of the fifth quarter of the You hour (6 p.m.), so Chen Qingyi must leave the stage before the third quarter of the You hour.
Looking at Chen Qingyi who was reluctant to leave, Jiang Xuan straightened the headdress on her head:
"Singing well."
"But it's really time for you to rest. Your face has turned so white."
Hearing Jiang Xuan's praise, Chen Qingyi, who looked a little pale, immediately lit up his eyes:
"Really? Brother Jiang, please don't lie to me."
She really likes to sing.
"I won't lie, I sing really well."
Jiang Xuan did not lie.
For a whole afternoon, Chen Qingyi sang five operas for him: "The Drunken Concubine", "Farewell My Concubine", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "The Fairy Match", and "The Consort". Jiang Xuan also listened with great enthusiasm.
Vision.
The song sung at this time is really fascinating.
Chen Qingyi sang "The Drunken Concubine" on the stage, and Jiang Xuan seemed to have really seen Concubine Yang drunk in the Bathing Flower Pool during the Tang Dynasty.
She sang "Farewell My Concubine" on the stage, and Jiang Xuan also saw the Overlord bidding farewell to Concubine Yu by the Wujiang River in the audience, smiling alone at the thousands of Han troops.
When she sang "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", in addition to immersively witnessing the poignant and beautiful love that has been passed down through the ages, two spiritual butterflies flew from outside the garden and landed on Chen Qingyi for a long time.
Don't want to leave.
At the end of the afternoon, Chen Qingyi sang about the exhaustion of the soul, but Jiang Xuan felt that his mental power had improved a little.
Although it's not much, it's just an insignificant increase, but in the end it's still improved.
This also shows that Chen Qingyi is really getting started with opera.
When Chen Qingyi received Jiang Xuan's approval, he immediately showed a silly smile.
After laughing for a while, she suddenly thought of something. She rolled her eyes and stuffed Xiaoxue Jing into Jiang Xuan's arms:
"Senior Brother Jiang, let me take off my makeup first and take you to the night market later."
After saying this, she raised her little feet and slipped away.
But very quickly, in just a few minutes, she shrugged her head and returned to Jiang Xuan pitifully, reaching out to hug Xiaoxue Jing back.
"Senior Brother Jiang, my master won't let me go out."
As soon as Chen Qingyi finished speaking, a female cultivator from Liyuan in costume appeared behind her:
"Don't pretend to be pitiful with your senior brother."
After scolding Chen Qingyi first, the female cultivator turned her attention to Jiang Xuan and said with some embarrassment:
"Martial Nephew Jiang, Xiao Qing'er will be singing on stage in a few days. Recently, she is asked to practice music during the day and watch us sing at night. By the way, she will explain some precautions to her while watching us sing on stage.
"
"So before she goes on stage to sing, she may not have time to accompany you to the capital."
Jiang Xuan nodded slightly to express his understanding:
"A quarter of an hour on stage, ten years of hard work off stage, my nephew still knows this."
Speaking of this, Jiang Xuan rubbed Chen Qingyi's head:
"Study music well, senior brother, I'm waiting for you to shine on stage and become famous in the capital."
After saying this, he withdrew his hand and bowed to the female cultivator:
"Uncle Yang, my nephew, I won't bother you for now."
Before Yang Yueming could speak, Chen Qingyi rushed in front of her and said:
"Senior brother, you will come to listen to my singing tomorrow afternoon, right?"
Looking at Chen Qingyi whose eyes were filled with prayers, Jiang Xuan nodded immediately:
"I'll come to Liyuan after lunch tomorrow."
Hearing Jiang Xuan's words, Chen Qingyi immediately became happy:
"Don't go out to eat. Junior sister, I will cook for you myself."
"Okay, then it will depend on your skills tomorrow."
Smiling again and patting Chen Qingyi on the head, Jiang Xuan then said goodbye to the two of them, turned around and left the opera house.
However, after leaving the opera garden, he felt confused for a moment.
"Where to go next?"
"Go to the legendary Zuixian Tower to taste the Zuixian Brewing, go to the Qiwu Tower to pick up leaks, or go to the Dengxian Tower to see the elegance of those so-called geniuses?"
While thinking, Jiang Xuan summoned the Jade Chi and rode up, then patted its neck:
"Go to Wanguo City in the south."
You can go to the twelfth floor anytime, but what makes him most curious now is the foreign countries in this world.
Obviously, the City of Ten Thousand Kingdoms is the place where envoys from foreign countries live.
Although Wan Guo is a false reference, the number of foreign countries in Wan Guo City is not less than a few hundred.
"I don't know what the world is like, and how far Western technology has developed."
With his mind spinning, he rode Jade Chi on the Heavenly Road all the way south. The closer he got to the south, the deeper the emotion in Jiang Xuan's eyes became.
The south and east sides of Yujing City are like two eras in Jiang Xuan's eyes.
Pedestrians on the east side carried the carts on their shoulders and carried them with their hands, and the carts were pulled by mules.
But when you get to the east, there are suddenly more modern products such as four-wheeled vehicles, buses, and bicycles.
After arriving outside the walls of the City of All Nations, Jiang Xuan, riding a jade dragon, became even more unique.
However, he is a maverick, riding a spiritual beast and wearing a divine robe. In the eyes of foreigners, he is just like a sweet man.
Looking at the foreigner on the other side of the city gate who was looking at him with bright eyes, Jiang Xuan chuckled secretly and then rode into the city gate.
The Ming Dynasty has regulations that foreigners cannot leave the City of All Nations without permission.
Not only are they afraid that these foreigners will cause trouble, but they are also afraid that these foreigners will be deceived by evil cultivators until they lose their souls.
Of course, ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to enter the City of All Nations, as they were also afraid that they would be tricked by these foreigners.
After all, foreigners can also practice, and some people even have good talents in cultivation, but they just don't have the inheritance.
The exercises they practice are more like the castrated and extreme products of evil cultivation methods.
You can only cultivate to the highest level of magic power, not to mention Yun Shen realm. After practicing for a long time, it is easy to change one's own perception. In addition, there are all kinds of big and small problems.
So since more than a hundred years ago, in order to obtain a complete copy of the Kung Fu, they have sent so-called saints, saints and princes to kneel and kowtow in front of the main sect every day.
It's a pity that the people of Ming Dynasty believe in those who are not our own race, so they basically don't bother to pay attention to them.
Of course, there is no one who pities them.
But those who pity them are the group of bald men in the west and the group of evil cultivators in the north.
When these ignorant foreigners set foot on the vast land of China, the bald man and the evil cultivator had already set their sights on them.
When these aliens set foot on the Buddhist land in the west and the underworld in the north to ask for a chance, they became sheep and cows in the eyes of both.
Buddhism traveled westward and turned a large area of foreign land into Buddhist land, and the natives there became cows that generated the power of faith. They knew Amitabha all day long.
The evil cultivators crossed the sea, hid behind the royal families of various countries, controlled wars, and treated the foreigners as sheep producing wool.
After harvesting the emotions, cut off the body. After cutting off the body, the soul will not be spared.
If it hadn't been for the fact that the evil cultivators and the Buddhist sect were about to lose control in the end, and the royal family Zhu family joined forces with various inheritance families to set rules, the outside world would have no idea what happened to Huo Huo.
In addition, the people of the Ming Dynasty have always looked down on foreign races from top to bottom, so there are very few monks coming to Wanguo City.
Now that they saw Jiang Xuan wearing Shenxiao Taoist robe, it was not surprising that their eyes were shining.
In his thoughts, he rode a jade dragon through the hole in the wall. The aliens, some with blond hair and blue eyes, some with black hair and black eyes, or some with red hair and blue eyes, immediately surrounded them and spoke fluent Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
"Master, I am Edward, son of the Duke of Britain. Please allow me to introduce myself."
"Sir, I am Hera, Princess Mazar. I admire the cultivation world of the Ming Dynasty very much. I wonder if I can become your teacher. I am willing to do everything a woman can do for you."
"Taoist Master, I am Stella, the ambassador of the French Republic. We in France welcome you to settle in our country. For this purpose, we have prepared thousands of virgins and tens of thousands of acres of land waiting for your visit."
Listening to the noise in his ears, looking at the foreigners in front of him who were three meters away from him despite trying their best to show off themselves, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows and pointed at the French ambassador named Stella.
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"You come with me, the rest dispersed."
After the words fell, most of the people immediately dispersed, but a few stepped forward unwillingly, wanting to continue to promote themselves.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows and stretched out his hand.
The next moment, several rays of lightning fell on those who stayed behind.
These remaining people are similar to warriors, and their strength is equivalent to the blood exchange realm, which is the innate realm of Taoism.
However, although their realm is the same as Jiang Xuan's, their skills are lacking. Jiang Xuan is not an ordinary innate realm, and his thunder skills are extremely fierce.
So they knelt down directly.
Of course, Jiang Xuan wouldn't directly kill someone, he couldn't do that yet.
He just dispersed the energy and blood in their bodies and made them unable to move for several hours.
Glancing at Stella, who took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead, Jiang Xuan thought about it, got off Yu Chi, and walked to him:
"Find a car to take me around the City of All Nations."
Here Jiang Xuan got into a classic car hired by Stella, and the news that he entered Wanguo City also spread.
The first person to get the news was his great-uncle Dai Jiuquan.
Sitting on the futon and looking at the information he had obtained, Dai Jiuquan just looked at the direct disciple in front of him and smiled:
"It's not beyond my expectation that this kid will go to Wanguo City."
"There are not many so-called scientific creations in Sixi County. After traveling a lot, you will naturally be curious when you see these things."
"All the foreigners in the capital are in Wanguo City, so it's normal for him to go shopping there."
He Shouyuan, who was standing in front of him, frowned:
"Is Daoxuan too interested in the strange and obscene skills?"
"He has practiced the "Tai Chi Heart Sutra" and can observe spiritual objects. Shouldn't he go to the Wonderful Object Pavilion first? If he pays so much attention to these strange and obscene techniques, he should not neglect the basics."
Dai Jiuquan showed a solemn expression when he heard this:
"Those things are not some weird tricks."
"A large steel ship that moves without sails and can sail quickly without manpower."
"An aircraft that can be controlled by ordinary people and use its power to fly to high altitudes."
"Only one line is needed to allow two ordinary people to talk to each other even though they are far apart."
"A sound TV that can project voices without using magic, shadow charms, or voice charms."
"A camera that can be used to store images."
"It can cause fatal damage to ordinary people from a distance of several hundred meters, and can even damage the firearms of monks who have entered the Taoist realm."
"Gunpowder shells that can pose a threat to some blood-changing and innate warriors."
"All kinds of so-called technological creations created by mortals can indeed be called miracles."
"According to your uncle's deduction, these technological creations also have an extraordinary future, and they can even be combined with the Tao to give the Tao a brighter future."
"So, don't look at all emerging things with a conservative perspective, even if they are not strong enough now, even if we can destroy them with just one thought."
"Change your perspective and look at them from a mortal perspective, and you will find something different and exciting."
"Science is a miracle for mortals."
"If we want to go further, we need to study every emerging thing and not subconsciously reject it because of its weakness."
Having said this, Dai Jiuquan smiled again:
"If something big can happen, I wouldn't mind learning this so-called technology as a teacher."