It was the first time for Jia Fei to witness the scene of praying for good years in the night village.
She grew up in the Xungui Mansion since she was a child. After becoming a demon, she mostly stayed in Qingchuan County. She occasionally went out of the city to celebrate the New Year.
"Although the New Year's prayers in this village are unique, they are rough and tight. At the end of the year, every house in Qingchuan County is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. The Qian Mansion will lead the gentry in the city to put up various colorful lanterns and paper horses at the Confucian Temple.
, in particular, they will invite the Liyuan team to sing from sunset at the end of the year to the cockcrow at the beginning of the year. Brother Cheng, would you be interested in going to have a look?"
Jia Fei turned to Cheng Yu and said with a smile.
Cheng Yu smiled and said:
"Why, you've been watching it for three hundred years and you're still not tired of it?"
"In the past, I would have been tired of standing on the roof or hiding under one's legs, but this year it is very different. You can mix in and squeeze in the crowd. It should be fun. Let's go.
I can't wait."
After the cat demon finished speaking, he immediately jumped off the roof. Cheng Yu said to wait a moment, returned the spirit to his place, flew out of the ancestral hall, and immediately spread his wings and chased after the cat demon.
Under the clear night sky, a woman in a green shirt was running quickly on the official road where there was still some snow. A gray shadow above her head followed her up and down. Soon, she could see the outline of the city in front of her.
There are also many thatched houses and streets built outside Qingchuan County, but at the moment there are only a few sparse lights.
Cheng Yu spread his wings and flew high into the sky and looked down. There was only a city wall separating him. The city was brightly lit, bustling and noisy, and it was a completely different world from the outside.
He flapped his wings fiercely a few times and landed on the tall gate tower of the city wall. He looked back and saw a flash of blue light pulling out a blue afterimage. He quickly came to the bottom of the city wall. He stepped on the slightly tilted wall bricks and jumped two feet in one step.
Yugao's city wall.
They came to the other side of the city wall and looked down into the city.
Except for the northeast corner of the city, as Maoyan said, almost every house is decorated with lights.
Among them, the two wings of the Southeast Confucian Temple and the Southwest Martial Arts Temple are the most lively.
On the Confucian Temple Street in the southeast corner, various large-scale colored lanterns made of paper compete to shine. In the eyes of the ancients, they have achieved the utmost luxury.
In the front yard of the Confucian Temple, there is a stage where singing, reading, acting, and playing are very lively.
Cheng Yu took a closer look and saw that everyone sitting under the stage was all dressed in silk and satin, and almost all of them were holding hand stoves or other heating objects.
Turning around and looking towards the southwest corner of the city, I saw that the street in front of the Wumiao Temple was even more bustling with people. Although there were no large colored lanterns, the stalls and shops on both sides of the street were all lighting up their own lanterns, and some large shops even had rows of them hanging out.
Strings of large lanterns actually illuminate a street brightly.
People hawking, bargaining, and greeting each other on the street are much livelier and more down-to-earth than in front of the Confucian Temple.
The crowds passing through were all dressed in different clothes. Some were wearing brocade clothes and were surrounded by servants, but most of them were ordinary people wearing ordinary cloth.
The crowds were so crowded that the street in front of the Wumiao Temple was packed to the brim.
When we arrived at the open space in front of the Wu Temple, it was even more crowded. The originally open space in front of the temple was already overcrowded.
It turned out that there was also a stage set up here, and the crowd watching the show kept erupting in loud cheers.
As a result, several temple worshipers in the Wu Temple, as well as several yamen hired temporarily to stand on duty, would sound gongs from time to time to warn people not to fall due to crowding.
"Boom! Whoosh... bang!"
Strings of firecrackers similar to those of flying monkeys began to be set off in the Qian Mansion, and a faint smell of sulfur floated over the county town.
It seems that there is already gunpowder here. Come to think of it, there are monks here who make elixirs and medicines. It would be strange if there is no gunpowder.
"Huh? I didn't expect that the Liyuan Troupe would also be invited to the Martial Arts Temple this year. I wonder which show they are performing in. There is a ring on both sides. Which side does Brother Cheng want to go to first?"
Seeing the cat demon asking, Cheng Yu saw that the Martial Temple was crowded and motionless, so he pointed to the Confucian Temple and flew away first.
At this time, they had a tacit understanding. The cat demon immediately jumped down from the tower and landed on the roof of a house. At the same time, a sparrow fell on its shoulder.
And when no one was paying attention, he jumped over several tile-roofed houses, walked out of a remote alley, merged into the crowd, and walked towards the Confucian Temple.
The Confucian Temple is full of wealthy gentry, which is more orderly than the Martial Temple.
The crowds are not too crowded, so it’s a good time to go shopping.
One person and one bird were admiring the lanterns and flowers on the street of the Confucian Temple. They gradually walked to the open space in front of the temple. Before they reached the temple gate, they were stopped by a few strong men, who actually asked for an invitation from Guan Jiafei.
It turns out that those who can enter the Confucian Temple to watch a play must have a New Year's Eve invitation from the Qian Mansion.
As for the prominent gentry in the county, they would receive messages from the Qian Mansion personally at the end of each year.
But those who were not qualified to receive posts also wanted to sneak into the temple, so they tried their best to make friends with several senior officials in the government and spend money to buy posts.
As a result, Qian Mansion's New Year's Eve invitations have become more expensive year by year, forming an invisible business chain in Qingchuan County.
Jia Fei knew this well and ignored it, but he didn't expect to be stopped before he reached the temple gate.
Seeing that the strong man wanted to check the invitation, she was too lazy to do anything with these ordinary people. She immediately snorted, waved her green shirt, turned around and walked to a side alley.
"Eh? Whose girl is this? She looks familiar, why are you going out to the temple fair alone?"
A strong man guarding the door pointed at Jia Fei's back and asked the people next to him.
"I'm also puzzled. She's so well-dressed, but she doesn't even have a maid, and I seem to see a bird landing on her shoulder."
"I saw it too. Hey, tell me, could that be a new trend in cross-dressing in the capital?"
"It's possible. I heard from the uncle that people in the capital are good at playing."
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Jia Fei ducked and turned into the alley. After walking for a while, Fang took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and jumped into the backyard of the Confucian Temple.
The backyard is deserted, and next to it is the book school.
She turned a few corners and was about to walk to the stage in the front yard when she suddenly remembered that Que Daxian had asked her about the map of this area. Then she recalled that when the new statue of Que Niang Temple was erected, she
The conversation with the Bird Master.
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If he really left, where would he go?
"Boom! Whoosh... bang!"
Another round of firecrackers rang out in Qian's Mansion, awakening the cat demon from deep thought. Let's get him a map first.
So she turned around and walked straight to the wing.
At this time, Cheng Yu had already flown into the courtyard and landed on the top of the stage.
Sitting in the front row were senior official Qian, the magistrate and county magistrate, and several elders from the Qian Mansion. Behind them were Qian Ruyu and other juniors from the Qian Mansion, as well as prominent figures such as the county captain and county magistrate, and then the other gentry. When Cheng Yu entered the temple, the county magistrate had just ordered a play called The Legend of the Tiger Mother.
"Lin Honggong, this is a new play coming to the capital. I have only seen it once before at the Master's Hall. It was very brilliant."
The county official held the playbook and smiled at Mr. Qian.
The officials were polite and happy to see what was happening, so they ordered a cup of tea and started sipping it.
"Boom! Choke, choke, choke, boom...choke!"
The gongs and drums were beating, and Cheng Yu was close enough to hear clearly. The outfits, makeup, and even the singing of this opera troupe were somewhere between Kun Opera and Peking Opera in previous lives.
Even the accompaniment of the musical instruments has the characteristics of both, including the qinhu and the flute.
When the play started, Cheng Yu finally saw the cat demon coming to the front yard, and seemed to put something into the bag on his chest.
He immediately flew to the cat demon and heard her let out a light sigh.
"Why is this year's Liyuan team so different from previous years in terms of appearance and style?"
At this time, an old man next to him turned his head and looked at Jia Fei, and said with a smile:
"You don't know yet, but this is a troupe invited by the capital city. The most fashionable outfits and singing methods at the moment, just take a look."
The cat demon nodded slightly upon hearing this.
The team in Beijing...
Suddenly, she inexplicably remembered the instructions given by the little white hedgehog demon soul before leaving: She and the Great Bird Immortal next to her must not step within ten miles of the capital at the same time.
She turned to look at the sparrow, was he going to the capital?
"Bang!"
While she was lost in thought, a gong sounded, signaling the start of the show.
It turns out that this play is mainly about a wealthy family in the previous dynasty. The master had a wife and a concubine. The concubine had an affair with an outsider. He falsely accused the wife of having an affair with a friend of the master. The master drove away the friend, favored the concubine and destroyed the wife.<
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The wife had no choice but to escape into the mountains while pregnant with Liujia. She gave birth to a son in the mountains but had no breast milk. At this time, a divine tiger came and nursed the baby with tiger milk, naming it Hu'er.
Later, when Hu'er grew up, he accidentally saved the master's life, and father and son recognized each other. Unexpectedly, the concubine who had an affair was afraid that the adultery would be exposed, so she planned to kill the master, and framed Hu'er as the perpetrator, and took him to court. p>
After the master's friend was framed back then, he concealed his name, gained merit and became a county magistrate. A court was held to try this strange case. The sun broke through the sun and the clouds broke through the night, and finally the master was brought back to life. The case was revealed to the world, and the adulterer was questioned and executed in court.
, everyone is happy.
And as soon as the play started, it was about the concubine having an affair with someone else.
The coquettishness of the lyrics and the explicitness of the typhoon made the dandies in the audience whisper to each other and laugh strangely.
Jia Fei was also blushing.
What's more, Mr. Qian's hands were shaking. He didn't drink the tea, and it didn't matter if he didn't drink it.
It was difficult to get to the end. In the play, the county magistrate did not remember his past grudges and was upright, which made the officials feel that the county magistrate's ordering this new play was clearly giving him eye drops.
After the play was over, the county magistrate first shouted "Hello", which caused the gentry in the audience to cheer and praise the team in the capital for being extraordinary. They sang, chanted, and beat, and the plot was ups and downs, with meat and vegetables, and in the end it was a happy ending.
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Then there was a burst of crackling small coins and the sound of broken silver falling to the ground.
Officer Qian secretly let out a sigh of relief and said goodbye to the county magistrate on the grounds of being sleepy.
The county magistrate did not force him to stay. When he saw the officials leaving, he turned around and whispered to his personal servant:
"Tomorrow evening, prepare a banquet of wine in the other courtyard. Master, I will also follow the example of the sage in this play and examine the concubine who is having an affair and make her wear the same outfit as the opening scene."
Mr. Qian led his valet and steward out of the banquet and returned home. He accidentally turned his head and saw Qian Ruyu sitting comfortably in the second row, happily waiting to watch the next show.
The officer snorted secretly from his outer nostrils.
Hum!
Idiot!
Take another look at the high stage.
Obscene words and clichés are insulting to politeness!