Chapter 240 Old Sixteen who values sex over friends
When Lao Shiba was tired of walking around, Yuzhu knew that he loved to be lively, so he took him into a theater.
Yuzhu has almost no artistic talent, and he just randomly found himself in the theater.
The waiter who had been guarding the door knew when he saw the attitude of such a large group of people that they must be noble people in the capital.
The employees of the car and boat shop are all human sperm, whether they are poor, rich businessmen, or nobles, as long as they can see through their eyes, the accuracy of their identity is as high as 80%, and there is rarely a mistake.
"Gentlemen, please come in. There are seats at the elegant banquet upstairs." The waiter bowed and ushered Yuzhu and the others into the private room on the second floor.
When Yuzhu walked in, he saw that it was a private room, but it was actually an open pavilion room.
Opposite the table is a row of corridors, with a long row of seats under the railings of the corridor.
The owner of the theater got the message and was worried that something might go wrong, so he went out in person to serve the nobles who could not afford to offend him.
The royal rules are strict and the elders and younger ones are in order.
At the formal occasion outside, Old Sixteen sat in the middle, Old Seventeen was on his left, Old Eighteen sat on the right, and the jade pillar was next to Old Eighteen.
After the owner of the theater arrived, Yuzhu realized that this place was actually a garden dedicated to singing Yangzhou Qing operas.
Yuzhu had heard of Yangzhou Qingqu, but had never seen it, so he was somewhat curious about it.
Who would have thought that after the actors came on stage, Yuzhu realized that, good fellow, eight people came in at once.
Among these eight people, four men and four women, each holding a different musical instrument in their hands.
At a glance at Yuzhu, there are flutes, flutes, pipas, fourhus, and erhus. Not only that, but there is also a kind of harp that Yuzhu doesn't recognize, as well as dishes, wine glasses, and other items.
Afterwards, Yuzhu asked the owner and found out that this kind of qin was called Daqin.
After the ceremony, the actors all sat under the cloister, with men and women sitting on both sides of the corner of the cloister.
The owner of the theater brought a thick book of music and handed it to Yuzhu.
This is quite insightful.
You know, Yuzhu's identity is not qualified to be in the middle, but this boss found him, and it can be imagined that he is very shrewd and powerful.
Of course, it was impossible for Yuzhu to order the show just like that, that would be too ignorant.
After some polite exchanges, and after waiting for his brothers to express their attitude and let him make arrangements, Yuzhu opened the music book and randomly ordered a few songs.
Yangzhou Qingqu has a rich repertoire, with more than 400 pieces, divided into singles and suites.
Most of the singles are about describing scenes, expressing emotions, chanting objects, and lovesickness, such as "Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon", "Lovesickness in Four Seasons", "Qinghe Weather", "Sigh of Fireworks", "Struggle between Bamboo and Wood", etc.
The suites are mostly based on folklore and historical stories, such as "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "The Legend of White Snake", "Pearl Tower", etc.
After the play started, Yuzhu listened for a long time and felt that it was quite similar to Suzhou Pingtan.
Nowadays, when Peking Opera has not yet been born, the national opera type is Kun Opera.
However, Yuzhu has no feeling for Kun Opera. The Yangzhou Qing Opera performed by many people in front of him is quite a bit like the Twelve Women's Orchestra.
The private room is about fifty square meters, which is quite large.
However, with the three elder brothers present, Haha Zhuzi, Nanny, aunts and palace maids, there were more than ten people who were qualified to come in.
With so many people crammed into one room, it seems crowded.
Old Seventeen was cracking melon seeds and sipping tea, listening with great interest.
How should I put it, Lao Shiqi was actually quite pitiful. His biological mother, Chen Jia, was just an untitled concubine, with an unusually humble background.
The seventeenth-year-old Guo Luomafa and Chen Xiyan are still just ordinary second-class shrimps, not even qualified to carry a knife.
They are also second-class guards. Yuzhu, who carries a knife and hangs around in front of the emperor all day long, is a typical red shrimp.
And second-class shrimps like Chen Xilan, who are old and have no future, are serious black shrimps.
Of course, this person is afraid of comparison.
Lao Shiliu was also favored for a while, and he was extremely prosperous at that time. However, after Lao Shiba was born, his treatment was much worse.
By the way, although Lao Shiliu's biological mother, Wang Jia, was just a concubine.
However, Lao Shiba's favor was unparalleled in the entire Qing Dynasty. Even his biological mother, Wang Jia, was constantly being abused by the emperor even though she was nearly forty years old.
Wang Jia is a typical mother who values her son. Her biological son, Lao Shiliu, lived a much more comfortable life than Lao Shiliu.
However, the only fly in the ointment is that the sixteenth-year-old Guo Luoma Dharma Kingdom Zheng is only a fifth-grade Zhengzhong of Fengtianfu.
This foundation is too weak, and there is no way to participate in seizing a big position.
You must know that in today's court, the overall power structure is that Kangxi is in charge of the court, and the Manchu nobles each hold real power.
This is very similar to the clan politics of Cao Wei and Jin Dynasty.
During the Qianlong period, the Manchu dignitaries were completely suppressed, and the political structure became dominated by the emperor.
Thirteen-year-old Lao Shiliu had no intention of listening to the music. He kept looking intently at the young woman in pink who was playing the pipa.
To be honest, having tasted a woman's body and having never touched a woman's body are definitely two different mentalities.
Yuzhu on the side also saw Lao Shiliu's thoughts. However, he had no intention of intervening.
As long as Lao Shiliu didn't rob the girl in front of Yu Zhu, no matter what he did?
Kangxi did not leave Lao Shiliu to Yuzhu's care. In other words, what Lao Shiliu did in private had nothing to do with Yuzhu.
There are very few princes and brothers in this dynasty who do not do evil.
Even the strong-armed fourth son, who is touted as the British master in TV dramas, still seizes people's property when he is short of money.
When the song ended, Old Sixteen was the first to say hello, and each of them was rewarded with two taels of silver.
Two taels of silver is enough for an ordinary Yangzhou family of five to chew wraps for a month.
Yuzhu had also noticed that Lao Shiliu was obviously determined to win the actress.
In the marketplace of the Qing Dynasty, various social strata were divided into nine levels according to their high and low status. Later, with the complexity of the social division of labor, the terms Shangjiu, Zhongjiu and Xiajiu were derived.
There is no doubt that female actors, no matter how they are calculated, belong to the lower class.
As the saying goes, the cousin is ruthless and the actor is meaningless. In fact, this puts the actor and the cousin together.
Although it is a social prejudice, more than 80% of it is accurate.
The reason is not complicated.
Actors have to play various roles, and it is difficult for ordinary people to tell whether she really likes you or whether she is just pretending to do it for money.
Not to mention the cousins, they are in the business of flesh and blood, so can't they fool the customers who are looking for a ripe plum with lies?
Lao Shiba grew up in the palace, how could he know the dangers of the world?
"Dazhu, the silver rewarded by my sixteenth brother is not for young and old, right?" Lao Shiba put his mouth to Yuzhu's ear and asked him in a low voice.
Yuzhu smiled and said, "Master Sixteen fell in love with the actress in pink."
Lao Shiba didn't understand the benefits of falling in love with her. He glanced at the actress in pink clothes and asked curiously: "Why are the maids around me not as fair as her?"
Yuzhu couldn't help but smile hoarsely. All women from the three banners in the Ministry of Internal Affairs must participate in the small election.
The beauties in the palace, especially the good concubine Wei, can score at least 9.8 out of 10.
In fact, the majority of women in the palace are not good-looking.
It's no wonder that when Kangxi and Qianlong went south, they both liked to bring back beauties from the south of the Yangtze River.
Old Sixteen was also very clever. He found the owner of the theater, coerced and lured him, and agreed to the benefit of two hundred taels of silver, and then he succeeded.
This has a lot to do with the identity of actors in theaters these days.
Unlike later generations, most of the female actors in this era were beautiful girls bought by their employers during times of famine.
These little girls have been learning opera from female masters in the garden since they were young.
However, the theater does not support idlers.
For female actors who have a talent for acting and are pretty, their employers are willing to spend a lot of money to make them famous. Then, they either pay a lot of money to redeem themselves, or they are sold by their employers to high-ranking officials to play with.
Those who have no talent for acting but are very beautiful will be in trouble and will be sold directly to Jiyuan by their boss, and will fall into prostitution from then on.
When Old Sixteen found a beautiful actor that he liked, he had to comb the cage in the evening, so naturally he had to serve wine to celebrate. He simply spent ten taels of silver to buy a table in the theater to wait for dinner.
Since I am in Yangzhou, I must eat Huaiyang cuisine.
Huaiyang cuisine pays great attention to knife skills, and its knife skills are relatively fine. It is especially famous for its melon carvings. The dishes are exquisite in shape, mostly made of aquatic products, focusing on freshness, and the taste is mild, fresh and slightly sweet.
Yuzhu had been the director of the Beijing Office, so he was naturally familiar with Huaiyang cuisine.
Because, after the resumption of the banquet, Huaiyang cuisine will be the main focus.
The reasons are, firstly, because of its exquisiteness and finesse, including knife skills, heat, matching, modeling, etc., all of which reflect kung fu; secondly, the ingredients are simple and easy to obtain. Unlike representative Cantonese dishes that use raw seafood,
Even internationally protected animals, such as shark's fin and other foods that are now banned; third, the taste is light or sweet, unlike Sichuan cuisine, which has a strong taste and may cause discomfort to guests.
Of course, among ordinary people, Huaiyang cuisine, which is light and requires a lot of effort, is not as popular as Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, which are generally heavy-flavored.
After the banquet, Lao Shiliu couldn't sit still and often lost his mind.
Yuzhu obviously saw it all, but pretended not to know.
If Lao Shiliu wants to be a female actor, that's his own business, and Yu Zhu has no interest in meddling in his own business.
As a result, only a quarter of an hour later, Lao Shiliu excused himself to change clothes and left forever.
The seventeenth-year-old had nothing to say, and the eighteen-year-old was a little childish.
"Hey, it took more than an hour for Brother Sixteen to change clothes. Isn't it too long?" Lao Shiba couldn't sit still, so he complained in front of Yuzhu.
After all, Old Seventeen was eleven years old, and the children of the royal family were all precocious. He couldn't help but smile slightly and joked: "What Brother Sixteen did, why does it sound like he values sex over friends?" Without saying anything,
Leave some room.
Yuzhu glanced at Old Seventeen calmly and said to himself that the mother clan is not strong, but it forced Old Seventeen to learn a smooth way of speaking.