Master of Chinese Opera

Chapter 96 Moving into the Courtyard

Early the next morning, without any delay, Shen Yuelou couldn't wait to move into the simulated courtyard house arranged for him by the crew of "The Last Emperor", which was almost the same as Chai Yuan's former residence in his later years.

Although Shuxiangyuan is a good place to live, and the lease period is still nearly a month away, but how can commercial housing be as comfortable as a courtyard house?

Green bricks and green tiles, shaded by green trees, such a fresh and elegant living environment, I have always been yearning for.

The courtyard in front of me is located in the middle of Baishu Hutong, not too far away from Xiangluo Hutong where Mr. Pei Qingfeng lives and Shamao Hutong where Boss Lin Yanqiulin lives, and even closer to Hanjiatan Hutong where Mr. Chai Xunchai lives.

After I put my luggage away, maybe I can drop by Chai's home for a visit.

Enter the front yard from the Guangliang gate in the southeast, pass through a hanging flower arch, and then walk through two hand-painted verandahs, and you will come to the main room and the east and west wing rooms at the second entrance of the courtyard. There are three or five rear rooms behind the main room. It is generally the place where the family members live.

In the courtyard surrounded by more than 20 houses inside and outside, many fruit trees such as grapes, plums and yellow apricots are planted. There is also a rockery pond with fish and screen walls in the free area next to it, which looks very luxurious.

Tsk tsk tsk, it’s really good. This location and environment are among the best in Yanjing courtyard houses.

After looking at the feng shui pattern and decoration of the entire courtyard, Shen Yuelou felt very satisfied.

In fact, anyone who comes here will probably be satisfied, after all, this courtyard is compared to the former residence of the last emperor.

It has been five years since Zhang Cheng fell in love with the right to adapt Pei Qingfeng's novel "The End of the King's Court". Three years ago, when the project of "The Last Emperor" was officially discussed, he started to imitate the former residence of Chai Yuan in his later years. It took two years It took half an hour to build this courtyard house.

After sending the two crew members away and getting the key to the courtyard, Shen Yuelou was already overjoyed.

Spend time planting flowers, feeding fish...

Oh, yes, you can also raise pigeons.

Mr. Mei once had this kind of hobby. In my dream, I saw that since he raised pigeons, not only his eye disease has been cured, but his physical strength has also increased a lot.

It was inconvenient to live in a residential building like Shuxiangyuan before, but now, you can try to raise some pigeons.

Such a life is really pleasant!

After wandering around the new home for a while, when the excitement in her heart gradually subsided, Shen Yuelou locked the door, got up and walked towards Hanjiatan Hutong.

People never leave the road, tigers never leave the mountains, and opera singers never leave the cypress and Hanjiatan.

Back then, when the four major Anhui troupes came to Beijing, the opera actors at that time were the first to fall in Baishu Hutong.

Coincidentally, he and Cheng Changgeng, the leader of the top three opera troupes in Beijing opera, who is in charge of Changqing troupe, one of the four major troupes, are also from the same hometown of Qianshan.

Before the start of the Qingjing Competition, I lived in Baishu Hutong first, which is a pretty good meaning.

The feng shui here should be very prosperous for me.

Thinking about miscellaneous things along the way, Shen Yuelou soon came to Hanjiatan Hutong.

Entering the Hanjiatan Hutong, he raised his eyes to look for the house number of Mr. Chai Lao's house, but saw Chai Xun walking out of the house with a black-hooked birdcage covered in black cloth.

Seeing Mr. Chai walking towards him excitedly, Shen Yuelou looked slightly stunned, and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Chai is going out, it's really a coincidence that Yuelou came."

Hearing someone's greeting, looking up to see Shen Yuelou, the smile on Chai Xun's face became wider.

"So it's Xiaoyou Shen."

After a few words of greeting, Chai Xun couldn't help but waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's not a coincidence, it's a coincidence that you are here, I am going to a very interesting place now, I wonder if you are interested in going to see it?"

"Oh, the place you are going to, isn't it related to it?"

While talking, Shen Yuelou couldn't help pointing to the birdcage in Chai Xun's hand with a smile.

"Hehe, little friend is really smart and unparalleled!"

With a chuckle of praise, Chai Xun then pointed to the things in his cage and said to Shen Yuelou: "In ancient times, the things in the cage were called pipilots, and they were also called skylarks. Recently, they are collectively called larks, which means everyone. Commonly known as the "Son of Heaven" lark.

Today, Boss Fang of Bailing Teahouse in Dongcheng invited bird-playing experts from the four cities of Yanjing to compete on the same stage in the teahouse to choose a bird leader.

Such a grand event, are you interested in watching it together? "

Larks competing on the same stage?

How do we compare, how do we score high and low?

Whose bird's voice is higher and its cry is more jubilant?
Shen Yuelou didn't understand the fun of playing with birds, but Mr. Chai invited him, and he just moved to a new house today, and he was in a happy mood, so he was happy to join in the fun.

It's time to get to know each other for a long time.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuelou couldn't help nodding and replied with a smile: "Hehe, the lark's election for the bird crown is such an elegant and wonderful event, of course Yuelou is willing to go and have a look."

Hearing Shen Yuelou's words, Chai Xun said with a smile on his face: "Haha, good, it's so wonderful that a hundred birds are singing.

Go see it, you won't regret it. "

Bailing Teahouse is located in the middle of Lingjiao Street in Dongcheng, not far from Hanjiatan Hutong. It only needs to walk two streets, and the straight-line distance is less than 1000 meters.

"Little friend Shen, let me tell you that there is a lot of knowledge in raising larks!
The "Southern School" on the Shenjiang side emphasizes that the larks fly around the cage and sing, and there is no strict regulation on the calls.

And our "Northern School" specializes in raising "Jingkou Lark".

The so-called "clean mouth" is to stipulate that the lark is only allowed to call thirteen segments, commonly known as "thirteen sets".

The thirteen sets have a certain order, which cannot be confused, repeated, or omitted, otherwise, it will be regarded as dirty.

When the chicks learn the thirteen sets for the first time, they also have to learn to sing from an old bird. It takes two years to learn the sets stably, and it takes three years to raise a "clean mouth lark". "

This Bailing learns art, just like a young child learns opera in a class, every move, every move, every song and cry are all trained. "

Along the way, listening to Mr. Chai talk about the training method of "Clean mouth lark" and the thirteen sets of names, Shen Yuelou really learned a lot.

I vaguely remembered that Mei Yizhou, the head of the four great masters, seemed to have a stage name called "Little Calling Heaven". There was a rumor that Master Mei's voice was crisp and sharp, like a lark, the best in the world, and he took the lark as the name of the world. The meaning of bird first.

Another rumor is that Mei Yizhou once heard a skylark singing, and he realized something in his heart, his skill and realm both increased greatly, so he called himself "Xiao Ming Tian", and took his teacher as the Son of Heaven.

Hehe, everyone Mei Yizhou and Mei is the second king of the acting world after Cheng Changgeng, the big boss of Cheng.

During the heyday of fame, it was known as "everything in the world does not learn from plum blossoms".

This "Son of Heaven" is rumored to be the teacher of everyone Mei. Thinking about it this way, the relationship between this lark and our Liyuan is really not shallow!

(End of this chapter)