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As the middle-aged man said, puppet shows were not popular in Changyang City until seven years ago, when a nobleman paid for a top troupe to perform.

What kind of evil is being eliminated, what kind of ghost is being exorcised, and what kind of wish is being returned?People don't seem to care much about it, they only regard it as an entertainment program after tea and dinner. Over the years, this day has become like a festival, and the city people even jokingly call it a game fair.

At this moment, Changyang City seems to be more lively than the Lantern Festival. There are gatherings from all directions, foreign guests are pouring in, and beauties are coming together.

Drunkards don't mean to drink, some people don't really come here for the puppet show, if young men and women are right, the puppet show will become a foil.

Small stalls and hawkers surrounded the Jingque Tower in a dense circle, all of them were happy, their cheeks were flushed, their shouts were full of enthusiasm, and their business was ten times better than usual.

Zhuang Yin stood quietly outside the crowd, looking up at a building with picturesque buildings, in the middle hung a black gold silk nanmu plaque, with three golden characters written on it - Jingque Tower.

At Youshi, the Jingque Tower opened, and crowds rushed in instantly.While being pushed, Zhuang Yin took a casual glance and seemed to see a tall black figure. Before he could see clearly, he was rushed into the building by the flow of people the next moment.

The building is gorgeous and elegant, with three floors and extremely wide.There are [-] seats on the first floor, [-] seats on the second floor and [-] seats on the third floor. If the seats are full, those who come that night can only stand and watch the play.

Up and down, there were nearly a thousand people, and the spacious theater building suddenly became cramped, and even the air was filled with a sense of tightness.

Everyone was talking to each other, while Zhuang Yin picked a hidden corner.

In the center of the building hangs a stage, less than seven feet wide, beautifully furnished. Several musicians have already sat on the left side of the stage, ready to go.

Not long after, a passionate piano sound suddenly sounded, and the people who were talking in low voices suddenly fell silent.

The puppet enters the scene.

Hair-thin strings hung all over his body, and under the reflection of hundreds of candles, there was a cold light.

With a hook and a swipe by the manipulator, the gentle-looking young man with his hands behind his back uttered the first line of the play, and the audience in the audience burst into applause instantly.

This first play is about a young man surnamed Wen whose family is in decline, penniless, hungry and cold, and happens to meet a girl Yan Wan, and they fall in love at first sight.

Yan Wan was born in a wealthy family, and her family members naturally opposed the marriage between the two, so they confined Yan Wan in the mansion and secretly betrothed her to the well-matched Chen Shi, who was 20 years older.

The night before Yan Wan got married, with the help of the girl, she managed to escape from Yan's residence and eloped with Mr. Wen overnight.

Fortunately, their son was born a year after they decided to live privately. At the same time, Mr. Wen made a fortune from business, enough for the two of them to buy a small house.

The story itself is extremely mediocre and clichéd, but the happy ending, the appropriate soundtrack, the superb technique of the manipulator, and the joy, anger, sorrow and joy on the puppet's face as if it were a living person, and the novelty that comes from every move still wins the hearts of the audience. Floor cheers.

The next few plays are all about the stories of loyalty and traitors fighting in various places, punishing evil and promoting good, and justice defeating evil. On tenterhooks.

The sound of gongs sounded loudly, and the last play told the story of eradicating the plague god.

There was a drug dealer who made a living selling drugs and opened several drug shops in the town.As the only drug dealer in the town, the medicines he sells are quite expensive, but his life is quite affluent.

But one day, the town was suddenly infected with a plague, and everyone was in danger for a while.You have to take medicine to treat a disease, and you need to buy medicine to take medicine. The drug dealers really made a lot of money this time.

There is also a benevolent man in the town who donates money to help others, and saves people from fire and water.He paid for large quantities of medicine, boiled the medicine into soup, and distributed it to some poor families.

Unfortunately, the medicine did not play any role, and the plague was still spreading.

At this time, a traveling doctor came to the town. The traveling doctor had excellent medical skills and rejuvenated his hands, and suppressed the plague.

On the second day, an astonishing news broke out in the town suddenly—the medicine dealer sold fake medicines!

The viewers were interested, and when they saw this, the whole audience was angry, saying one after another:

"Where is the conscience of those who sell fake medicines and eat human blood buns?!"

"Earning this kind of black-hearted money, sooner or later, you will be punished by God!"

"He still has a heart? I think he was eaten by dogs long ago!"

The good show is still to come.

After the plague ended, the great benefactor led everyone to denounce the drug dealer, and searched the drug dealer's house inside and out. It was a good thing if they didn't search, but after a search, they found a dead body hidden in the Wen family!

And this dead body is the source of the plague outbreak.

The whole audience was in an uproar, accusing the Wen family of being inhumane and inhumane, for taking so many human lives as a trifling matter in order to make black-hearted money.

In the play, the great good man led the crowd to burn the dead body on the spot, and then confiscated all the fake medicines and destroyed them together.

The pharmacist gritted his teeth and refused to admit it, but when he saw the Dongchuang incident, he threw himself into the river, leaving behind a wife and a son. After the pharmacist's wife committed suicide, she became insane, biting and cursing everyone, and died of illness not long after. bed.

Everyone was happy in the ending. After the drug dealer was defeated, the great benevolent man was praised and praised, and everyone presented a plaque with the four characters "Good Man and Righteous Man" written on it.

"Okay!" Zhuang Yin's heart skipped a beat after the applause, and he moved his eyes, only to notice a strange man standing next to him, who looked to be in his 40s, refined and refined, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes.

Of course, the applause was not from this middle-aged man full of compassion, but from another spectator behind him.