Shimen is poisonous

After the troupe master left, King Zilin suddenly said, "If you want to pass the news through this method, it's impossible. Let's not talk about such a small troupe, even if you write a trick, How many people can see it. Even if someone really notices, your uncle has enough means to block the news. You should not waste your efforts in vain. "

"In that case, what are you worried about, Your Majesty?"

King Zilin choked on him, and said angrily: "I'm kindly reminding you, lest you waste your time in vain."

Ye Baihan smiled and said to King Zilin: "Your Majesty, I really just want to make up a Zen play. If you have doubts, at worst, I'll let you take a look at it after I finish writing it. How about it?"

King Zilin thought for a while, and couldn't help squinting his eyes, staring at Ye Bohan for a while, feeling that he was too confident.

Or maybe, he really didn't intend to do anything through this drama?

The Purple Scale King was skeptical, but since the words had already been said to such an extent, he couldn't continue to stop them.

When Ye Bohan returned to his residence, he began to write the outline of the story. At the same time, he asked the steward to invite a few people, all of whom were scholars, to help him write the lines of the script and polish the lyrics.

It is very difficult for Ye Baihan to write a drama script in a short period of time, especially at this time, the libretto is often full of poems from beginning to end, which makes people feel particularly difficult.

After returning to this era, the worst thing Ye Bohan learned was poetry.Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all available from ancient to modern times, and they can be used after learning, but only poetry, there is a big gap between ancient and modern rhythms, not to mention that Ye Baihan has never learned how to compose poetry, only learned to recite.

At this time, it is necessary to rely on the power of the masses.

Ye Baihan invited someone to come, and he was in charge of the overall plan, and soon he had people work together to come up with a script.The main line and background of this script were all provided by him, incorporating elements such as the Western Buddhist Kingdom, the Three Thousand Worlds, and the Eight Heavenly Dragons, but adjusted them to make them more in line with the logic of this world.

As for the main storyline, he is not so stupid as to use Journey to the West as a stalker, Journey to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, the nine-nine-eight-one disaster is certainly very exciting, but unfortunately it is a bit too ungrounded in this world-81 A universe teleportation technique spans tens of thousands of miles, and the flying shuttle Even traveling hundreds of thousands of miles a day, this kind of fantasy may be very exciting to ordinary people, but it lacks appeal to practitioners.

What's more, real monkeys and stone monkeys are all monsters to the monks here.The way of walking somersaults is too unpretentious, it destroys the temperament of the immortal, and people don't want to learn it.

Based on all the above, Ye Bohan did not adopt the main line of Journey to the West.

He combined the story plots of Huangliang Yimeng, The Wizard of Oz, The Nutcracker, etc., and then embedded them in some classic settings of Buddhism, and finally kneaded a hodgepodge.

After taking the general background of "one flower, one world, one leaf, one bodhi" and changing it to a classic plot in line with Zen Buddhism, such a drama was finally integrated.

The story is about a young man whose mother was seriously ill. He had read a story about the Western Buddhist Kingdom in a miscellaneous journal, so he wanted to go to the Western Buddhist Kingdom for help.On the way, he went through hardships to the west, but he did not find the legendary western Buddhist country.At this time, the young man met an old woman who was dying of hunger on the side of the road-because he thought of his mother to her, the young man gave her the only piece of cake he had.In return, the old woman told him a legend.It is said that there is a temple on the top of the mountain three hundred miles away from where they live, and there is a road leading to the Western Buddhist Kingdom in the temple.

The young man followed the old woman's instructions to the mountain, and he found a temple.But the appearance of the temple made him very disappointed - the temple was very dilapidated, and there was no one there, and there was no one knows how long the ashes had accumulated everywhere, but there was only one stick of incense, which lasted forever.

There is a pair of couplets hanging at the gate of the temple, on which are written two sentences: All causes produce various fruits, and all fruits obtain various causes.

The young man tried his best but failed to find any trace of the so-called Western Buddhist country. In the end, he only bowed in front of the Buddha statue before planning to leave.Unexpectedly, at this time, it rained heavily on the mountain.The heavy rain continued, and the young man was trapped in the temple. At night, he confessed to the gods and Buddhas and stayed in the temple temporarily.

In his sleep, he dreamed of the legendary Western Buddhist Kingdom.

The Buddha Kingdom is as grand and magnificent as he imagined, and the gods and Buddhas are all supernatural.

But when he approached the Buddha, the Buddha said that people in the world seek the blessings of gods and Buddhas, but gods and Buddhas cannot fulfill everyone's thoughts.Because of many things in this world, if you get one point, others will lose one point.Therefore, gods and Buddhas cannot take away others' possessions to satisfy one person's wishes.

Hearing what the Buddha said, the young man said that he was willing to share his share of life with his mother.

After hearing this, the Buddha agreed to his wish, but he still had to test his sincerity.

So the Buddha led the young man under a tree, and saw that the tree was as big as a canopy, with green leaves like jade, and huge red flowers blooming in the middle.The Buddha pointed to the flower and leaf and said: "One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi."

The young man just looked away, and saw his mother's figure reflected on a leaf, and it seemed that he was recovering from a serious illness.He was immediately overjoyed, and was about to call out, but fell headlong into Yezhong World.

……

Ye Baihan figured out the outline of the story, and after showing it to the hired scholars, most of the scholars looked embarrassed.

It's really because this story is too far away from the romance they usually write. Although the general plot line can still be clarified, but the lyrics are a bit confusing. I don't know which angle to start with is enough to move people's hearts.

Seeing that they were in a dilemma, Ye Bohan thought for a while, then had a detailed discussion with them, and provided some ready-made lyrics that he thought were suitable.

Although he doesn't know how to compose poems, he has memorized a lot of ready-made poems.In some anthologies that I have read, the specific words and sentences may not be remembered word for word, but the general sentence structure can still be easily understood. If you complete it a little bit by yourself, it will give you some inspiration.

Even the scholar was a little surprised: "Young master's literary talent is so good, he can write a playbook by himself, why bother to ask me to wait?"

Ye Bohan said: "I'm not good at some lyrics and music, these are made by others, I just borrowed them and used them."

The scholar said: "Is this so? Do the poems have a source? Do you want to mark it?"

Ye Baihan said: "It doesn't matter. This story is about the story of Fang's other world, and the origin of these poems is also related to it. It's okay to mark it, just respect it. After all, even if it becomes famous, it doesn't matter to the original author." usefulness."

The scholar nodded.

The writers of the play that Ye Baihan invited were originally solid people. They were at a loss for the play before, but because of lack of experience, they didn't know where to start.After Ye Baihan gave the example, several people quickly found the entry point and started writing smoothly.

Although most of the lyrics written were suspected of imitating examples, and the style was a bit too monotonous, but Ye Baihan was not too picky.Anyway, as long as the main purpose is achieved.

It took some time to write the script, and then Ye Baihan showed it to the Purple Scale King.The Purple Scale King examined it with a severe attitude of reading each word two or three times, but in the end he didn't see any clues.

Gradually, King Zilin also saw some clues: "Is this a Zen story? But which sect is this Western Heaven Buddhist Kingdom? It doesn't sound like it's talking about Paradise."

Although Blissful Heaven is also in the West, and there are many Zen sects, the specific situation is completely different from what is described in the script, and King Zilin can’t link it together—although there are many similarities, for example, Blissful World and The name of Blissful Heaven, the core concepts of Zen and Buddhism, etc... But other than that, the characters and scenes in the rest of the story are completely different from Blissful Heaven.

The scenes described in the playbook are a bit too exaggerated and grand.If such a practice sect really exists, then the power of Zen Buddhism will be too powerful, let alone the saying that one flower one world, one leaf one Bodhi, three thousand worlds of Buddha.

No matter how it sounds, it is very pompous and lacks authenticity.

But apart from these, King Zilin has to admit that the script itself is quite interesting, and the setting of the Buddha Kingdom in it is also very provocative.

Ye Bohan seems to want to express the core of Zen Buddhism, which is causality and epiphany, through the script, and he has done it quite successfully.Although King Zilin had read dramas about immortals before, most of them were written by mortals. He told the legends from the standpoint of mortals, and had nothing to say about the practice itself or their respective ways.

This is also natural, most practitioners don't care about these things, and don't waste time compiling scripts.Like this pear garden in Abbot City, in fact, most of the performances are mortal scripts, which is enough for entertainment.

Most of what mortals write is what they take for granted, so even if the script is published, it will either be about slaying demons and slaying demons and traveling the world in style, or it will be about a romantic affair.

Ye Bohan is obviously compiling very seriously.

After Zilin King saw it, he faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.Ye Bohan seems to be compiling Zen stories very seriously. Except for the absurd background, the whole play directly points to the core of Zen.

However, the Purple Scale King couldn't figure out why he did this.If it's just to cover up people's eyes and ears, or to transfer time to hide the situation, it would be too troublesome and thoughtful for him to do so.

Ye Baihan looked at Zilin King, Zilin King was silent for a long time, but he couldn't find a reason to stop Ye Baihan, so he said rather reluctantly: "That's how it is."

Ye Bohan laughed immediately, and then took the playbook to find the class leader.

Then this play, which seemed to be no problem, soon attracted the attention of many Zen people after it was staged.This was something Zilin King did not expect.