Although I decided to go to Zhongdu, I couldn't leave immediately.
Zhu Di made an appointment with them and will give him a reply the next time he performs in the county. There are still a few days left.
But I can't take any time off these days, I have to seize the time to rehearse well.
However, Zhu Zhen doesn't plan to develop any more new plays. Firstly, he only has the allegro lyrics for "The Legend of Wu Song". Secondly, he wants to bite off more than he can chew and polishing "The Legend of Wu Song" is enough.
And considering that in a big city like Zhongdu, people's appreciation level must be much higher than that in Linhuai County, so Zhu Zhen decided to try his best to improve the level of performance.
He asked around and found out that there was an old artist in the town who had performed in Zaju in Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty. He asked his brothers to prepare six kinds of gifts and brought a group of younger brothers to visit him for advice.
The underworld came to frighten the old artist, so how could he dare to say no? However, Zhu Zhen did not treat him favorably, and hired him as the "Ke Fan" master of the Hong family class with a generous salary.
The Peking Opera of later generations has the four skills of "singing, reading, doing and fighting", and Yuan Zaju also has three performance methods of "singing", "yun" and "ke".
Needless to say, singing. Besides, there are no lyrics in "The Legend of Wu Song".
"Yun" is also called "Bin Bai", which is the line of dialogue. Zhu Zhen's allegro calligraphy is unique in its own way, and no one can teach it.
‘Ke’ means ‘Kefan’, which refers to all stage movements including expressions, dance and martial arts in addition to lyrics and lines.
After a dynasty's development, the discipline of Zaju has become very mature. There are all kinds of equipment dances, fighting, somersaults, flag-flipping, walking on stilts, etc.
This is what Zhu Zhen wants the Hong family class to learn.
In addition, after knowing that there were actresses in the opera, he also wanted to find a female actor to play Pan Jinlian. However, in a rural place like this, it would be amazing to have an old artist who had played the lead role. Where could he find a female actor for him?
So, in the next few days, the Hong family group followed Master Kefan and learned from scratch the appearance, posture, movements... these basic skills, although inconspicuous, can take the performance to a higher level.
In fact, most of the supporting roles only need to have a certain appearance, and the main thing depends on the performances of the protagonists.
Fortunately, the three brothers, 2, 3 and 4, have a solid foundation in martial arts, so it is not difficult to learn.
In particular, Zhu worked the hardest. Not only did he practice during the day, he also danced to the sound of a chicken and took the initiative to practice more.
Since the third brother, who is stronger by nature, has decided to participate in the show, he must perform better than the fourth brother!
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Early that morning, the Hong family class came to the town stage to practice again.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhang Hu and the others were still nowhere to be seen.
Zhu Zhen said a little unhappy: "No wait, let's get started."
The old master then began to teach everyone in Hong's class how to perform unarmed fighting.
After a break after practice, Zhang Hu and others arrived late.
Zhang Hu gritted his teeth, faced Zhu Di's cold gaze, walked up to Zhu Zhen, leaned over and whispered: "Sixth Master, we are late."
The rules of the Hong family troupe are that in the troupe, Lao Liu is the biggest.
"Didn't we agree not to be late?" Despite Zhu Zhen's young age, in the past two months, the director has already become quite confident in his words.
"Yes, but the situation today is special." Zhang Hu bent down and reported in a low voice: "We saved someone on the way."
"Oh." Zhu Zhen nodded, with a 'so what' expression on his face?
"Female." Zhang Hu whispered: "Teenage, very beautiful."
"Oh?" This voice was made by Zhu Di, with a calm tone.
"What's going on? Please tell me clearly." Zhu Ye couldn't help but ask.
"Look, take a look." The second brother stood up.
Zhu Zhen looked at it and shook his head. Are all adolescent men like this? The hairless chick is so envious...
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In the only inn in the town, the Zhu brothers met the woman Zhang Hu saved.
She was still unconscious, her face and lips were pale and bloodless, she was skinny and skinny, her hair was messy and yellow, and her breathing was very weak.
"Fuck, this is beautiful." Zhu Di slapped Zhang Hu's head like he was slapping a watermelon.
"Can't even count as being able to see." The third brother said with his usual venomous tongue.
"Just, that's it." It was even more inconsistent with the second brother's aesthetics.
Fifth brother will not pay attention to these things. Doctors are like parents, and they will check the pulse first.
"The tendons in the hands and feet are stretched, and all the six meridians are prolapsed. It should be caused by liver qi inversion and long-term hunger." After practicing medicine for several months, I combined Laowu theory with practice, and my skills gradually improved.
He pricked her ten fingertips with a needle to bleed, and then inserted a needle into the middle of the Quchi. After a while, he heard a hissing sound, and the woman actually woke up slowly.
Zhu Zhen and others praised him one after another. The more exquisite Lao Wu’s medical skills are, the more at ease everyone will feel!
"It's nothing." Lao Wu smiled modestly, prescribed another prescription, and prepared to let his younger brother grab the medicine.
But then I thought about it, the herbal medicine shop in the town had very limited medicines, so I had better go there myself, so that I could adjust the prescription on the spot.
Before leaving, he also asked: "Get her some millet porridge and add some sugar."
Zhang Hu quickly brought the porridge and saw the four brothers of the Hong family folding their hands and chatting among themselves.
‘Oh, I really don’t care about women at all.’ He sighed to himself and had no choice but to feed the woman porridge himself.
After eating a bowl of porridge, the woman's lips turned a little red, and she thanked several people in a soft voice.
"It looks like he won't die." Zhu Di patted his butt, stood up, and said to the woman: "I'll grab the medicine later and ask the store to fry it for you. You don't have to pay."
"Let's go back and rehearse." The third brother, who cherishes time like gold, has long been impatient.
Seeing that he was about to leave after a few words, Zhang Hu quickly stopped him and said:
"Masters, please don't leave. What should I do with this woman? Please get me a charter."
"You picked this guy up and did our shit." Zhu Zhen gave him a big look, not satisfied with him being late and delaying everyone's rehearsal.
"Did your head get caught in the door?" Zhu Di was still very generous and said to Zhang Hu: "If you are afraid that you can't explain clearly, just send it to the government."
Zhang Hu was dumbfounded. I worked so hard to get people from the county government office, then turned around and sent them back?
Fortunately, the woman responded quickly and started crying while covering her face.
"Don't send me to the government, otherwise I will die."
"What, are you a criminal?" Zhu Deng suddenly became interested and said, "Then it's even more important to send it away. Maybe you can even receive a reward of silver."
"I am not a criminal, I have never committed a crime..." The woman cried and shook her head, looking very pitiful.
It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang's sons lacked the gene of caring for women and cherishing jade, so they started talking seriously.
"I have never committed a crime, but I am afraid of being sent to the government. That means someone in her family has committed a crime."
"Well, I was implicated by my family and lost my status as an official."
"My father was also wronged, wuwu..." The woman covered her face and cried, cursing in her heart. She's a fool. Can you have some sympathy?
"Hey, it seems that I have said it." In fact, some of my brothers are sympathetic, but unfortunately there are not many. "The criminals who were wrongly accused are also criminals."
"Why are you so cold-blooded?" The woman finally couldn't help it, raised her head and said angrily: "Aren't you also implicated by your father and ended up in this situation..."
She suddenly realized that she had let something slip, and her voice became smaller and smaller...
ps. Ninth update, additional update after 11,500 orders.
