Just when Li Huowang didn't know which song he was singing in front of him, the peasants sitting below watching the show started to move. They took out two copper coins and threw them on the stage.
The people watching the show were all farmers begging for food in the fields, and those who lost money were always a few, mostly corn sticks, potatoes and other grains.
If it's thicker at home, you can at most throw in some salted fish and bacon.
However, Luo Jianhua also accepted all comers and thanked them one after another.
"So do all those who sing in big operas need to be paid like this?" Li Huowang understood clearly.
Seeing Luo Juanhua kneeling humbly on the stage, holding her daughter in her arms and continuing to sing in a crying voice, she reached out to pick up things on the ground and put them in the basket. From time to time, she would bow to the cheering people below.
He immediately sighed that it was not easy to earn this kind of rice.
Just when Luo Juanhua was enjoying picking up things, a small piece of broken silver was thrown up.
Her eyes suddenly lit up, she reached out to pick up the silver and weighed it gently. When she found that there were at least five coins, she immediately got into a dramatic tune and kowtowed to the only fat old man wearing silk among the crowd while singing.
"Good, good! You sang so well!" The red-faced old Weng raised his head, and another piece of broken silver flew up, greeting Luo Juanhua with bursts of thanks.
Li Huowang was a little tired of the farce in front of him. He hit him and lay down on the pile of rice straw. He said to Zhao Wu who was relatively stable next to him: "I'll squint for a while, and you can keep a close eye."
"Okay, senior brother."
When Li Huowang opened his eyes again, he found that it was already three o'clock in the morning, and other people were chatting around. It seemed that everyone had spent the night in this pile of rice straw last night.
The stage in the distance has been dismantled, and the Lu family is stuffing the goods into the carriage box.
"Zhao Wu, how many days do we have food?" Li Huowang suddenly asked.
"There's not much left, save it for three days at most." Zhao Wu raised his voice and answered.
Li Huowang handed him the dozens of copper coins and a small piece of black silver that he had dug out of the feed room from his arms. "Let's go to the village to exchange for some food. I guess it will be enough to cover the road."
There were more than a dozen people, all of them young and old, and they consumed a lot of food. They brought so many bags from Qingfeng Temple, and they had almost eaten by now.
Zhao Wu, who was lying on the fool's back, was about to let the fool into the village, but after thinking about it, he reached out and called a better-looking Taoist boy. He put the money in his hand and whispered something.
Li Huowang put one hand on the pile of rice straw and walked towards the stage in the distance.
"Old man, when shall we set off?" Li Huowang asked Lu Zhuangyuan.
Lu Zhuangyuan looked a little anxious at this time, "Little Taoist Master, please wait a moment. My daughter-in-law and Xiu'er went somewhere early this morning. We will set off immediately when she comes back."
Li Huowang was confused. "Huh? Gone? Isn't that what it is?"
When Lu Zhuangyuan followed Li Huowang's finger and looked towards the end of the village, he saw Luo Silk Flowers holding several feet of cloth in his hand, holding his daughter and walking towards this side with a smile.
Seeing this dishonest daughter-in-law, Lu Zhuangyuan suddenly became furious. He rushed over with a pipe rod and cursed her head and face.
Facing her father-in-law's anger, Luo Juanhua looked very innocent. "Dad, didn't you ask me to go to the village to pull cloth? You said the cloth in the town is expensive..."
After venting his anger suddenly, Lu Zhuangyuan turned around, smiled at Li Huowang and said: "Little Daoist, it's okay, let's go."
"Hey~! Dad, don't leave yet. When I went to buy cloth, I got some business."
Hearing this, Li Huowang and Lu Zhuangyuan looked at Luo Juanhua at the same time. "What business?"
"What kind of business we can do is, of course, singing and opera business. The employer is the man who gave the most reward last night! Go and have a look, he said there are some things he wants to discuss with you in detail."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhuangyuan suddenly couldn't walk. He slowly turned around and smiled at Li Huowang.
Although the other party didn't speak, looking at his expression, Li Huowang certainly understood what the other party meant. "It doesn't matter, Leader Lu makes money. We can wait for one more day."
"Aiya, aiya, sin, sin, old man, I'll go and come back." After Lu Zhuangyuan finished speaking, he inserted the cigarette rod in his hand into his neck, and happily dragged his daughter-in-law towards the village.
Li Huowang returned to the pile of rice straw and had nothing to do. He picked up the shriveled road bell and looked at it carefully.
If I can really drive Master You, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance my strength.
It's a pity that this thing can't be summoned now, and we must find a way to fix it.
After looking over and over carefully several times, I found that nothing else was wrong, except that the deflated bell wall was the only possibility.
"Then if it's straightened out, can it be used?"
Li Huowang thought for a moment, placed a square stone under the bell, then picked up a stone and knocked it hard against the bulging side.
But as soon as the stone was knocked, a harsh ringing sound immediately sounded. Li Huowang suddenly had a splitting headache and could no longer hold the stone in his hand.
"If this doesn't work, you have to ask if there is a blacksmith in this village." Li Huowang shook his groggy head vigorously.
At this moment, Li Huowang saw the Taoist boys walking towards here dragging two bags.
He put the Dao bell away and followed Zhao Wu on the fool's back, rushing towards that direction.
"Senior Brother Li, this is all we got." Daotong's immature face was full of uneasiness. Although they were all children, they were very sensible and capable. After all, the ignorant ones had been killed by Danyangzi.
Li Huowang reached out and opened the sack and found that it was filled with dried sweet potatoes.
"Brother, these things without oil and water can't last a few days. A fool can eat a pound and a half in one meal, and eating too much of this stuff will burn your heart."
Zhao Wu's words made the honest bald man hang his head in shame, "You...you...don't...don't...abandon me...
I...I'll eat less!"
There was not enough food. Li Huowang looked at the sacks in front of him and thought about countermeasures.
I heard Lu Zhuangyuan say that there is still a long way to go to build Ye City. If there is no food on the way, the dozen or so people of his will not be able to chew tree bark.
He reached into his arms again and took out a gold ring wrapped with a red string.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Huowang reached out and stuffed it into Bai Lingmiao's hand behind him, which was holding the hem of his clothes.
"Take this thing to exchange for it." Li Huowang took out Xuanyang's jade pendant and handed it to Zhao Wu.
"Brother, how can I exchange this? There is no pawn shop in the village, and others can't find one. Besides, these dirt-legged people who work in the fields may not know the goods."
"The jade pendant cannot be exchanged for food, so what should I do?" Just when Li Huowang was troubled by the food crisis, he saw Lu Zhuangyuan and his daughter-in-law walking towards him.
"Well, little Daoist, I'm having some trouble with my business, can I ask you a favor?" Lu Zhuangyuan looked very embarrassed.
"Leader Lu, I can't sing either. I'm afraid I can't help you with your trouble." Li Huowang felt very ridiculous. Did he still want to go to the stage and do a sword dance?
"No, no, you can help, that is..." Lu Zhuangyuan said this, looked around furtively, leaned over and said in a low voice: "Then Mr. Hu asked me to sing a ghost play...