The storytelling booths on Main Street will only open after the Yao Bell Tower rings five times.
No one will come to listen to books early in the morning, everyone has to find something to eat;
No one came to listen to books at noon, it was hot and sunny, and most people were working;
It wasn't until late in the afternoon that people began to get off work one after another. After a hard day's get off work, they got their wages and would come to Damen Stone Street to have a good meal and listen to stories.
Storytelling has never depended on rewards - it has long since starved to death. No matter in any era, there are far more free prostitutes than those who click three times in a row.
Most of them are affiliated with nearby restaurants. Some restaurants will put the dining tables outside, and some restaurants even let storytellers tell stories inside the store. Their main purpose is to attract customers.
After all, people at this time can't watch videos or play on their mobile phones while eating, but eating is really boring, and storytellers are naturally becoming more and more popular as an after-dinner entertainment that everyone can enjoy together.
As a storyteller, Luan Jiba's dream is to sit on the second floor of the Jinbi Restaurant. The Jinbi Restaurant on Damen Stone Street has four floors in total. The first floor is the lobby, the third and fourth floors are the private seats, and only the second floor
The first floor is the lobby.
The storyteller hired by the Jinbi Restaurant is sitting in the middle tea seat on the second floor, holding a fan in one hand and a teacup in the other. The whole hall can hear the storyteller. When he talks about famous scenes, everyone applauds, and when he talks about sad scenes, everyone applauds.
Weeping, he was called the middle seat.
The middle seat of Jinbi is Mr. Hu Luan, who is known as the "three streams in one", and his three apprentices. Mr. Hu is now in his mid-fifties and is proficient in various aspects of the "Xinyimen", "Yanzhizhai" and "Yuyin Sect"
Skills, and even innovate, integrate the three skills, summarize a "Hu Liu" and establish a sect. Storytelling takes into account the three aspects of voice, plot and intention. He can be called the first storyteller in Xuanzhu County.
Mr. Hu is not in Jinbi all day long. He only goes to Jinbi five days a week, four of which are high-end restaurants in the inner city. He only comes to Jinbi one day, but often on that day, Jinbi will be full.
Countless people were looking forward to it, just to hear Mr. Hu's scream.
Mr. Hu has been a storyteller for thirty-six years. The former county governor praised him for saying "there is emotion in the voices of people in the book". The current county governor Yun Qinghe even gave him a painting with a stroke of his pen, "Tongue Blossoms Golden Lotus", which laid the foundation for Mr. Hu's storytelling.
The status of the ancestor of mankind.
When storytellers talk about it to the extent of Mr. Hu, it can be regarded as a worthwhile trip in life. In the eyes of storytellers such as Luan Jiba, Mr. Hu is their idol.
Luan Jiba is naturally not arrogant enough to want to replace Mr. Hu, but Mr. Hu only comes to Jinbi for one day. The rest of the time, the three apprentices of Mr. Hu are in charge of Jinbi. It is natural for a genius like Mr. Hu to be a genius.
They were in the minority. Although his three apprentices were not bad, they could not inherit the three-rate skills of 'Hu Liu' and could only be regarded as ordinary storytellers.
If it weren't for Mr. Hu, how could the three apprentices have secured the golden middle seat?
But now that Mr. Hu is getting older, and he probably won't be around for a few more years, Luan Jiba feels that there is still some hope that he can compete with the three apprentices for the golden seat.
The restaurant that Luan Jiba is now affiliated with is a restaurant called 'Forklift Man'. It is said that the owner used to be responsible for transporting forklifts during the construction of the outer city, and his skills were learned while cooking for the workers at that time.
of.
Luan Jiba lived next to the 'forklift man'. When he passed by the door, the proprietress who was cleaning the store glanced at him: "There is too little food for lunch. It is not your share. You can find someone by yourself."
Let’s eat somewhere. Or you can pay me.”
Luan Jiba was a little embarrassed. At this time, the boss came out of the back kitchen and shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about? If you don't want to sweep the floor, just go in and pick vegetables. Go ahead and go."
"Why are you shouting so loudly? You will only quarrel with me. What's the use of you besides shouting louder? I don't see you shouting louder to yell at the customers." The landlady was not false at all. She would only respond to the boss's words and throw them away.
The broom went into the back kitchen.
"Brother Chen..."
"Don't listen to that yellow-faced woman, come over for dinner later." The boss waved his hand and said, "If Brother Chen has a bite to eat, you will have to take a bite. She has been very angry recently, so don't take it to heart."
"No, no, no." Luan Jiba said quickly: "I can just deal with it by myself at noon. I have to be busy reading new books to prepare. Brother Chen, you don't need to prepare my share."
"new book?"
"Yes, the sixth volume of the Legend of Vulcan, I asked my boss to buy it."
The boss happily patted Luan Jiba on the shoulder and said: "Well done, life will always have its ups and downs, just get through it. I'll leave you a meal and send it to you later. Why don't you read a book?"
How about eating enough?"
Without waiting for Luan Jiba to refuse, the boss turned around and went back to the kitchen. Hearing that the boss and the wife of the boss were arguing again in the kitchen, Luan Jiba gave a wry smile and went back to his cabin.
His home was not big, and it was full of books and manuscripts. It was messy and dirty. The cleanest thing was a blue and white robe hanging on the wall - that was his job on stage, and he couldn't be careless.
Luan Jiba's cooperation with the 'forklift man' is that the 'forklift man' pays for his food. If the turnover exceeds a certain amount that day, they will split the bill 64%. But since the new arrival has robbed many of Luan Jiba's customers,
, the turnover of 'Forklift Man' continued to decline, let alone splitting accounts with Luan Jiba, it was a bit difficult to even maintain operations.
He doesn't blame the landlady for being rude to him - he is really just a freeloader now. There is no perfect attendance award these days, so as long as he can't attract customers, it's useless for him to talk nonsense.
He has bet all his hopes on the sixth volume of the Legend of Vulcan!
Luan Jiba briefly flipped through the sixth volume and decided to talk about the first five chapters today, so he began to read in depth. Their "Yuyin School" requires a deep understanding of the characters, and "dialogue" is the Yuyin School's winning method, so he
You have to try speaking a few paragraphs first, adjust your voice to better suit the identity of the people in the book, and assign different voices to all the characters that appear, so that the audience can hear that they are different characters at first glance.
Time passed in a hurry. After a while, the landlady opened the door with a bang, put down a bowl of rice bowl and a bowl of soup and left. Luan Ji thanked her and finished the meal quickly, and then continued to study.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Luan Jiba finally understood the first five chapters of Volume 6 and tried it through quickly. He was confident that he would surprise the young and old men tonight.
After sitting all day, Luan Jiba was tired, so he opened the door and went out for a walk.
Just two steps into the street, Luan Jiba suddenly heard two passers-by saying: "Hurry up and grab a seat, otherwise it will be full later."
"I didn't expect that the Legend of Fire God would finally release a new volume. I've been waiting so long that the flowers have withered!"
"The Legend of Fire God"!?
Luan Jiba's eyes flickered. Although he also knew that "The Legend of Fire God" was a must-have for storytellers nowadays, he didn't expect that someone would actually collide with him - even if it allowed him to be a day or two ahead of the schedule!
But Luan Jiba is not in a hurry. After all, there are so many storytellers, and the Xinyimen, Yanzhizhai, and Yuyin sect all have loyal listeners. If people from other schools talk about "The Legend of Fire God", it will not affect Luan Jiba.
A domineering business.
But Luan Jiba secretly felt uneasy, so he followed the two of them to see who wanted to talk about "The Legend of Fire God" today.
However, the further they walked, the stronger the uneasiness felt in Luan Jiba's heart. When he saw the two of them walking into the 'Cold Noodle Girl' shop, his uneasiness reached its peak!
He saw a notice hanging on the wall in front of the cold noodle shop:
"At 5 p.m., Xia Che starts on time to lecture on the sixth volume of "The Legend of Fire God", broadcast by Yuyin, and lectures on ten chapters in a row!"
Xia Che, it’s you again!
Luan Jiba didn't even know how he walked home. There was only one thing in his mind - it was over!
Xia Che is the companion of Yuyin who is younger than him, more aggressive than him, and even has a prettier voice than him!
He never expected that Xia Che actually got "The Legend of Fire God" today!
How to fight now? He said five chapters, and others said ten; he talked about chapter ten tomorrow, and they finished one third of it tomorrow; he just finished talking about half of it, and they finished the sixth volume.
They are both from the Yuyin School, and there is not much difference between Luan Jiba and Xia Che. Except for a few die-hard listeners, everyone else must be following Xia Che's latest progress!
Even if he were to study chapters six to ten right now, his voice would not allow him to speak ten chapters in a row!
It's over now, it's over now...
Luan Jiba lay on the bed in despair, turned over, and suddenly glanced at the "Youth Daily" he had bought and kept.
Looking at the heroic and alluring cover of "Police Women of Yanjing", Luan Jiba couldn't help but imagine that there would really be policewomen in such enchanting clothes patrolling the streets of Yanjing.
With such a female police officer, the crime rate in Yanjing must be very high. Who wouldn’t want to be arrested by her!
After thinking about it, Luan Jiba, a young man who was full of energy and suffered setbacks, kept looking at the cover, and then opened his waistband...
Just when Luan Jiba was about to get busy with his needlework, the wind blew through the window and another page of the newspaper opened. He clicked his tongue and was about to reach out to turn back to the cover page, but his eyes couldn't help but be drawn to the second page of the newspaper.
attracted by the content.
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Hui Bell Tower rang five times in a row. Most of the workers had finished their busy work during the day and either went home to have a meal at home or found a restaurant to fill their stomachs.
Damen Stone Street is undoubtedly the first choice for low-income people: it is cheap, plentiful, and delicious (from a poor person's perspective), and there are many entertainments nearby, where you can watch people playing cards and listen to books.
The news that Xia Che from the 'Cold Noodle Girl' shop was about to tell the sixth volume of the Legend of Vulcan had spread all over Damen Stone Street. Many workers after get off work heard the news and hurriedly rushed to the Cold Noodle Girl.
Rebu is a loyal fan of "The Legend of Vulcan". He has listened to the first five volumes of "The Legend of Vulcan" many times, and he knows the famous quotes in it by heart. When he heard such good news, he almost didn't look at other stores and went straight to
Heading towards the cold-faced girl.
When passing by the 'Forklift Man', Rebu glanced at the storyteller shed outside. He remembered that this storyteller also loved to tell the story of Vulcan, but he spoke too slowly, only a few chapters a day, which was not as good as cold noodles.
The girl can talk more than ten chapters a day. Although Rebu thinks 'Forklift Man' is better than 'Cold Noodle Girl', listening to the book is more important.
At this moment, Rebu heard a deafening shout coming from the storytelling shed, and a scream that pointed directly at people's hearts:
"What would you do if the world ended tomorrow?"
Lei Bu and the nearby diners and passers-by were stunned and looked blankly at Luan Jiba in the storytelling shed.
After taking a sip of tea to moisten his throat, Luan Jiba said: "The first respondent is named Zongsi. She is a female swordsman who patrols Yanjing. She answered this question like this -"
Luan Jiba covered his face with a fan and said in a delicate yet strong girlish voice:
"To me, it's not a question, it's an answer."
"I extremely hope that tomorrow is the end of the world, and everyone can get a fair and equitable final judgment - death."
"In Yanjing, the 'doomsday' is not an illusory existence, but a real reality - wealthy businessmen, powerful men, and nobles. Their existence is the doomsday for the people at the bottom."
"When I first joined the Yanjing Patrol Guards, I felt that there were too many bad people and too few good people in the world, so I wanted to kill all the evil people and protect the good. Over the years, I have indeed killed many evil people and protected many good people;
But more often than not, when faced with evil, I have to stand by and watch, but when faced with kindness, I have to wield the butcher's knife."
"The captain told me that this is to protect the overall situation. The captain is a good person. I believe in the captain, and I also understand what the overall situation is - the political struggle in Yanjing is too complicated. Sometimes, even if this person has done all the bad things, he can't move.
Otherwise, once it overthrows, it will affect the overall situation of the country; sometimes, even if the person is correct, he will have to be imprisoned and executed, otherwise he will not be able to appease other nobles who hold great power."
"Killing one less person and one more person can protect the quiet lives of more ordinary people and save more people from war. It is indeed a good deal."
"Besides, I'm just an ordinary patrolling guard, a seriously ill and dying warrior. Besides obeying orders, what else can I do?"
"So, if tomorrow is really the end of the world, then I will sincerely look forward to tomorrow."
"If I hadn't died of illness on the bed by then, I would have picked up my Qiu Shui Sword and see if I could kill those powerful people who were at large."
"After all, tomorrow is the end of the world, so it doesn't matter the overall situation. And they are just a group of sinners."
At this time, the dining table outside the library was already full of people.
The audience was shocked by these crazy remarks. In Luan Jiba's vivid imitation, they seemed to see a weak and crazy female swordsman. She had a loyal heart, was loyal to the country, and protected the kind.
, but was struck dumb by reality, wearing heavy shackles, killing good people and protecting treacherous ministers, but she hid the ultimate violence deep in her heart, just waiting for a reason to vent.
If everyone were to die tomorrow, not only would she not be afraid, she would even hope to kill the sinners before everyone else died!
How crazy, how violent, and how...just!
'It turns out that Yanjing... is almost the same as Xuanzhu...' Lei Bu couldn't help but sigh.
Snapped!
Luan Jiba was stunned and said: "The second respondent's name is Nietzsche. He is a linguist, cultural critic, composer, and thinker. His answer is like this -"
"You have just gotten off the train at the moment of stardom. Regarding this question, I would like to ask first, when you close your eyes and fall asleep, do you feel like you are 'asleep' or 'dead'? When you wake up the next day
Is that person 'you', or is it a 'new person' who has all your memories?..."
These words were like a bolt from the blue, exploding in the hearts of all the listeners!
