Chapter 7 Jia Lan asks about the opera in the Grand View Garden. Officials who know their duties and their age will be rewarded
Yuanchun praised it and took Daiyu's sentence "The fragrance of rice flowers in ten miles" and changed the "Huange Villa" to "Daoxiang Village". He also ordered Tanchun to copy out a dozen poems with colorful notes, and ordered the eunuchs to pass the biography of the outer wing. Jia Zheng and others who were waiting outside the hall took it and praised them all.
Later, Jia Zheng introduced the "Ode to Return to the Province", and Yuanchun ordered the gift of jade and gold steak and other items to be given to Baoyu and Jia Lan.
At this time, under the Grand View in front of the main hall, the great-grandson of Ningguo Mansion was about twenty years old. Jia Qiang, who was responsible for managing the opera troupe, was leading twelve female dramas and waiting impatiently.
These twelve female dramas are the twelve actors and officials in the Red Chamber. They are the twelve girls bought from Gusu to learn opera by the Jia family for the Yuan Concubine. They are named civil officials, treasure officials, jade officials, ling officials, rosy officials, lotus officials, ruddy officials, egg officials, floral officials, kungfu officials, bean officials, and moxa officials.
After standing for a long time, Jia Qiang was impatient when he suddenly saw an eunuch in the hall running over, and he stood upright and waited, only to hear the other party say, "Hurry up! The poem is finished, come and bring the show! The imperial concubine is going to order the show!"
Jia Qiang urgently presented the brocade book with him and twelve lists of flowers.
When he was young, the eunuch came out again, and the concubine Dao ordered four plays. The first one was "The Banquet"; the second one was "The Shocking Chou"; the third one was "Changbanpo"; the fourth one was "The Full Bed"; the fourth one was "The Full Bed". Jia Qiang hurriedly played it. Songs were the sound of breaking the stones, and danced like a demon.
Although it is a description of makeup, it is full of joy and sorrow.
On the side seat in the main hall, Jia Lan looked at the very lively opera on the stage. As a modern person, he had no idea about opera in addition to a few songs from his hometown and those famous songs in the world. He only remembered that the four plays ordered by Yuan Fei to visit relatives in the original work, all ended in a tragic way, which foreshadowed the tragic death of Yuan Fei and the destruction of Jia's family in the future.
But today I heard the eunuchs just sang the title. Needless to say, Zhao Zilong rode alone to save the master in "Changbanpo", thanks to the great hero of the gold medal, there is a scene in "The Godly Condor Heroes" where Yang Guo respects Guo Jing 16 years later. He sang this part of "The Full Bed of Sculpture", which tells the story of Guo Ziyi's birthday and the birthday of seven sons and eight sons-in-law.
Jia Lan also accompanied her mother Li Wan to watch several plays during two years of visiting the Red Mansion. After all, Jia Mu was a playboy, so it was a good play. So the mansion would always invite a opera troupe from the south to perform a play for Jia Mu. Although the babbling Wu Nong soft words were also quite nice, Jia Lan was devoted to studying and preparing for the exam at that time, and there were other chores, so he almost never listened to it carefully.
Fortunately, he didn't understand, and there was something next to him.
"Aunt Lin, what is the story about this "Hao Banquet" and "Shocking and Eagle"?"
Daiyu raised her smoky eyebrows slightly, and glanced at Jia Lan with watery eyes. Seeing him confused, she couldn't help but smile. She knew this disciple of poetry. She was one with Jia Baoyu, one with two extremes.
He specializes in the poetry of scientific research, and has no art at all, and has no interest in opera. Instead, he heard him humming some strange songs to himself, and asked him if he refused to say anything.
So Daiyu giggled and joked with Jia Lan, "It's okay to tell you, but you also want to tell me what song you hummed outside my yard last time."
Jia Lan was slightly stunned. After thinking about it, she realized what Daiyu was talking about. Then she smiled and said, "It's just a random song. If you want to know, you should tell me everything."
Daiyu nodded with satisfaction before explaining: "This "Hao Banquet" comes from the Kunqu opera "A Handful of Snow", which plays the story of Mo Huaigu's family being destroyed by the treacherous minister Yan Song because of the value of "a handful of snow" in the Ming Dynasty."
[High treasure? Covetous? Family is destroyed?] Jia Lan's eyes suddenly condensed, and these words seemed to imply something?
He felt something, and turned around and looked at Baoyu next to him, and saw that he waved his head in a hurry, as if concealing it, but Jia Lan didn't even look at it carefully at this moment.
【Did it refer to the spiritual jade?】
Before he could think about it, Daiyu's gentle voice sounded again: "Is this "Shocking and Evil" from "Kite Mistakes", which said that there was a man named "Lie Youxian" and was ignorant of his skills.
One day, he took the kite written by the talented man Han Qizhong and fell into the backyard of the Zhan family. He was picked up by the second lady Zhan Shujuan. The beautiful and talented Zhan Shujuan was released on the kite with a poem.
After reading it, Han Qizhong admired his talent, so he wrote a kite-song proposal poem, imitating the way his friend had done before, but was picked up by the ugly and eager eldest lady Zhan Aijuan. Aijuan secretly asked Han Sheng, but Han Sheng mistakenly thought it was Zhan Shujuan, and when he met, he retreated quickly. From then on, Han Sheng regarded beauty as ugly, and Zhan Shujuan mistakenly recognized Han Sheng, and all kinds of farces after her birth."
【Recognize beauty as ugly?…】
After hearing this, Jia Lan pondered silently, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what Yuanchun wanted to hint.
He only vaguely remembered that the four plays that Yuanchun mentioned in the original work, combined with the verdict was used by Cao Gong to further predict the ending of Yuanchun and the Jia family. Some people analyzed that all of this was pointed to the plot after eighty chapters. Unfortunately, the plot after eighty chapters was too dispersed. In addition to the version compiled by Gao E and others, some ideas for the ending, the truth has become an eternal puzzle.
After Daiyu finished speaking, she saw Jia Lan not responding for a long time. When she saw that he was dazed again, she almost laughed. Fortunately, she was used to being cautious, and the embroidered embroidered handkerchief covered her mouth and stopped her smile.
Thinking of showing off his talents tonight to overwhelm everyone, I didn’t expect that Yuan Fei would only order him to write a plaque and a chant. It would be better to write more than one violation of the order. He just randomly wrote a five-character verse to suit the situation. Later, when Baoyu was troubled, he wrote another song for him, but he didn’t want to be sold by this guy.
Fortunately, Jia Lan added fuel to the fire, but she relieved herself, so she cursed softly in her heart: "Idiot!" and continued to watch the show.
After the four plays, an eunuch came to Jia Qiang with a gold plate of pastry and asked, "Who is Lingguan?" Jia Qiang knew that it was the thing that the imperial concubine was happy to give to Lingguan. He was so happy that he hurriedly took it and ordered Lingguan to kowtow. The eunuch said, "The imperial concubine has an edict saying, 'Lingguan is very good, and then he will do two more plays, and it will be fine."
Jia Qiang hurriedly agreed, and because of his fate, Ling official wrote "Going for the Garden", "Shocking Dream" was released. Ling official made the play of this two, which was not the original role, and insisted on not doing it, so he decided not to do it, so he decided to write "Meeting" and "Screaming" was released. Jia Qiang twisted her but had to do it according to her.
After seeing this, Yuan Fei listened to the eunuch's report that the officials of the emperor refused to play, and he felt more fond of the emperor.
It turns out that Lingguan was originally a Xiaodan, "Going to the Garden" and "Amazing Dream" were originally a play that Zhengdan Fang was responsible for. Wouldn't Lingguan be too arrogant if he sang it?
Chapter completed!