On the Grass in the Lili Garden [Peking Opera]

Erfeng stopped beside a purple spring flower, said nothing, just glanced at the flower.Lin Weiran is not stupid, he understands that what the girl means is that I like this flower, you can pick it and give it to me.

Picking a flower is easy, relying on Lin Weiran and Wu Xiaosheng's skills, climbing to the side of the big tree to pick off the tallest leaves is not a problem.

But can this love flower be picked casually, if it's not interesting to others, don't tease them.Besides, there are rumors that Erfeng's mother would slap her father when she was angry. I don't know if this is hereditary. What if I pick flowers for the girl now and tell people that I don't like you tomorrow, will I be wronged if I get slapped Injustice.

Well, let's make it clear sooner.

"I'm actually planning to go to work in the province. I'll come back to visit my home this time, and I'll be leaving in a few days." Lin Weiran is not good at saying this kind of clear-cut relationship. .

"Are you going to sing an opera in the province?" Sure enough, the simple and simple Erfeng didn't hear the ambiguity at all.

Go to the Provincial Peking Opera Theater?It's not that Lin Weiran hasn't thought about it, it's that he didn't dare to think about it.He just said that so casually, perfunctory.

The provincial court is full of talents and famous artists. It is said that the interviewees lined up outside the steamed stuffed bun shop at the street corner. It is also said that those who can’t keep up with the new play three times during the rehearsal can pick up their luggage and leave. There are plenty of alternatives to replace you, no matter what kind of job you do.

"I've been to the province. There are many flowers in the flower bed in the central square! There are also many tall houses!" Erfeng was very excited to find a common topic with Lin Weiran.

Her father often drove to the provincial capital for transportation, but he never took her there before, saying that the little girl's house was running around.Last year, on her 16th birthday, I finally took her there and bought her a skirt.Yes, tomorrow she will wear it out for brother Weiran to see!

Xiao Lin, come and see my old man when you are free.Thinking of the Provincial Peking Opera Theater, Lin Weiran suddenly recalled a friendship with Zhu Yanhong, a famous speech school veteran of the Provincial Academy.

Two years ago, to celebrate the [-]th anniversary of the "Hui Troupe Entering Beijing", Peking Opera performances were held all over the country. The motherland was full of national quintessence, and various Peking Opera troupes received a lot of funding and subsidies to stage new plays.

At that time, Lin Weiran had just started working in the County Peking Opera Troupe. Taking advantage of this upsurge, and with the spiritual and material encouragement of the Provincial Department of Culture, the troupe arranged two Xiaosheng operas "Yuanmen Shooting Halberd" and "Eight Sledge Hammers" and several old Huadan operas.

Lin Weiran was really doing a favor at that time, Lu Bu in the morning and Lu Wenlong in the afternoon, the performance was rehearsal.Lin Weiran was the only student in their group, so naturally they were all his protagonists.

Their county troupes send operas to the countryside. Although few of the villagers really understand operas, the peasants are not stingy in shouting "Hello" loudly, and they applaud with real force. Lin Weiran, a newly graduated student, scored 120 points inspiringly. The spiritual head of the show performed on the threshing floor.

Some remote villages don’t even have electricity, and the lighting is not good enough to perform at night. They perform during the day and drive to the next village in the evening by tractor or horse-drawn carriage. Almost every night, they can’t sleep until the sky is full of stars.

What happened to mountain landslides and flash floods happened too many times.The actors in the whole troupe each carried a pack of costume props, and rolled their trouser legs through the knee-deep muddy stream. If they were unlucky, there were still a few leeches hanging on their calves after landing.

"The clothes in the province are so beautiful. The sweater my father bought for my mother is embroidered with golden beads. My mother likes it so much that she can't bear to wear it!" Erfeng didn't notice that Lin Weiran's thoughts were wandering, and Talking to himself.

Once, after a three-hour hike in the mountains, Lin Weiran and the others came to a beautiful mountain village.

Because there are many mountains and forests here, this village is only connected to the outside world by narrow roads. In addition, the land in this area is fertile and the harvest is good. Most of the villagers are self-sufficient by farming, and few go out to work. At other times, few outsiders come and go.

When the guide announced that they had arrived at their destination, the exhausted actors were all inspired by the beautiful scenery in front of them, and they praised the director's decision to come here to deliver the play as wise, correct and forward-looking.

There is a natural pool next to the big tree at the entrance of the village. The water in the pool is clear, and there are unknown plants growing on the bottom of the water, with yellow and white flowers. The whole plant is immersed in the water, and the branches are rippling with the wind and waves.The sun, not covered by white clouds, sprinkled gold flakes on the water without hesitation, which is really sparkling.

The guide was a postman from a nearby village. Seeing that everyone was shouting at the pool like a monster, he told everyone to keep some compliments. There are many such scenery in the village.

After hearing the news, the village chief took everyone to the home of the richest man in the village, Lao Liu.

Everyone in this small mountain village farms to support their families, and the difference in living standards is not that big.It is said that the old Liu's family name was not originally Liu, but their ancestors were high officials in the imperial court. After many years of hard work, they retired and returned home, changed their names and moved to this small mountain village like a paradise.

After changing dynasties, although the descendants of high officials do not have many generations of officials to inherit, there is still a difference between the taste cultivated by the scholarly family and the authentic peasant style. The house built is antique, and the window lattices are carved with gold.

Although the Liu family abided by the ancestral precepts and never showed off, and never said how much gold and silver the family had, the villagers looked at the unknown beasts built on the roof of his house, and the plum, orchid, and bamboo planted around the house. Ju's pavilions, they unanimously elected the Liu family as the richest man in the village.

The Liu family neither admits nor denies it. Every day, they farm with everyone in the morning and chat in the afternoon, and they also take the initiative to teach the children in the village to read and read. The whole village gets along very well.

Lin Weiran and the others listened to the village head while they were walking. The head of the group sighed, thankfully, the ancestors of the Liu family were wise enough to find such a secret place. No wonder.

The Liu family treated Lin Weiran and his party well. Although there were no delicacies, every dish was delicious in color, flavor and taste, and the accompanying tableware was also very refreshing. After the actors had a full meal and rested for a while, the performance began.

After the autumn harvest, the field has a wide field of vision, surrounded by fellow villagers who came to watch the theater with their families.No theater troupe had ever visited this quiet village before, and only a handful of people had ever gone out to listen to model operas.

Lin Weiran had already changed into a water suit and a python robe. At this time, the face of Master Zhang, who was arranging his helmet and hat, turned a little green.

Master Zhang is responsible for the troupe’s clothing, helmets, shoes, metalworking and woodworking. These tasks are done by four or five people in the big troupe, but the county troupe has few people and few plays. Many, one person is enough.

It turned out that the road was bumpy, and the bamboo tube holding the pheasant's tail was cracked at some point, and one of the two pheasant's tails was broken.Lin Weiran was also taken aback, he was about to play Lu Bu, how could he play with feathers if he broke the pheasant's tail?

Not to mention the impact on the quality of the performance, if one piece is broken, it will be visually ugly.Master Zhang suggested not to insert Lingzi if it is impossible, but Lin Weiran disagreed. He said that if he did not insert Lingzi, he would not be Lu Bu in "Shooting a Halberd at the Gate".

It's better to wear it than to wear it wrong.It's not that Master Zhang doesn't understand the rules of the Liyuan, he also said this out of desperation because he was afraid that Lin Weiran would not perform well.Seeing Lin Weiran's insistence, Master Zhang opened the toolbox and rummaged through it, and finally found a thin rope and wrapped it around the broken part, so that Lin Weiran could relax later when he exerted his strength.

Master Zhang and Lin Weiran were busy, while the owner, Lao Liu, and a man in his fifties sat aside and watched.

Naturally, the next performance could not be complete. Although it was temporarily repaired and the broken plume could barely be erected, it definitely affected Lin Weiran's performance.You can only pick out one side of the feather, and you can only do it in a small way, and the artistic effect is compromised. Although the fellow villagers may not be able to see it, Lin Weiran feels sorry for herself and feels that she has not done the best for the audience. performance.

In order to "take care" of the feather just now, he exerted different force on his head and neck than usual. After Lin Weiran left the stage, his neck felt extremely uncomfortable, probably some tendon was pulled.

The man who was sitting next to Lao Liu just now came over, exchanged pleasantries with Lin Weiran, taught him a cervical spine exercise, and helped him pinch it a few times, it really felt better.Lin Weiran was very grateful.

Lin Weiran was the first to play, and now other colleagues are still preparing nervously and he is fine, so he chatted with this person who claimed to be surnamed Zhu.

Lao Zhu said that he came to Lao Liu's house to watch Guqin.The ancestor of his Zhu family was a qin master, and there are many guqin passed down from his family.As a result, it was broken during the Cultural Revolution, and his father had no choice but to dig a groove in the beams of the house, hid the two best pianos in it, and the rest were seized.

Later, the policy was implemented, and some were sent back, but most of them had traces of being smashed, and it was okay to play casually, but they had no collection value.

Lao Zhu found out that there are some good violins in the Liu family's possession here, and he wanted to see them for a long time, but he couldn't find the time. This time, he made a special trip because he accidentally dropped his hand a few days ago and was given sick leave in the unit.

When Lin Weiran heard that he dropped his hand and came to see the piano, he knew that he was really a piano lover.When she was at the drama school, Lin Weiran asked a teacher to learn a little guqin for the rehearsal of "The Meeting of Heroes", and she liked it quite a bit.

Lin Weiran still remembers the words of the theater teacher: "You are going to play Zhou Yu, do you understand Zhou Yu? If there is a mistake in the song, Zhou Langgu, even if the piano on the stage is fake, you don't need to play it for real, but if you haven't learned the fingering of the guqin, you will be trembling." No matter how you look at it, it looks like an epileptic seizure! Then Cao Cao is very happy!"

The students laughed at that time. After class, with the help of Mr. Jing Hu, Lin Weiran contacted a Guqin teacher and learned once a week. When he graduated, the tuition fee was to sweep the floor and water the flowers at the teacher's house for hygiene after finishing the class every week. .

When he arrived at the county theater troupe, he didn't play anymore. The troupe didn't even have props, let alone a real piano, and he couldn't afford it himself.

Just like that, the old and the young chatted very speculatively, and Lin Weiran followed Lao Zhu to the attic of the study to visit Liu's Tibetan piano.

Considering that Lao Zhu fell his hand, Lin Weiran took the initiative to walk in front, and he was the one who pulled the door and lifted the curtain, and helped Lao Zhu up the stairs, saving his injured hand from holding on to the railing.

Sensible, this is the word Lin Weiran was praised the most since she was a child.

During the conversation, Lao Zhu invited Lin Weiran to visit him in the provincial capital when he was free, and show him some of his pianos.Lin Weiran took the note written by Lao Zhu, and was stunned when he saw the address and name: Zhu Yanhong of the Provincial Peking Opera Theater.

"You are Teacher Zhu!" Lin Weiran was excited.

Lin Weiran had heard of Zhu Yanhong, a famous school of speech in the Provincial Academy when he was an old student in the children's class. At that time, he didn't understand how outstanding Zhu Yanhong's four skills and five methods were in the industry. He was simply very envious of Zhu Yanhong. Yanhong has his own special beard.

You must know that the dolls of every senior student are looking forward to having their own beard.Although he has seen many stills of Zhu Yanhong in recent years, this is the first time he has seen Mr. Zhu without makeup.

Zhu Yanhong smiled and nodded.He liked the young man very much.

Just now seeing that he would rather wear the broken feathers than take off the feathers, Zhu Yanhong nodded beside him.Later, Zhu Yanhong was even more happy when he saw that the child was polite and caring, and could chat with him about guqin.

After the reform and opening up, more and more young people like piano, guitar and violin, and few of them love guqin.

That night, a group of people from the county Peking Opera Troupe gathered around Senior Zhu Yanhong to toast frequently, and Lao Liu joked, "It's over, it's over, I've been robbed by guests like this", so a new round of toasts attacked Lao Liu , The host and guest enjoyed themselves with wine.

Zhu Yanhong patted Lin Weiran on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Lin, come and see my old man when you are free."

Lin Weiran sent Erfeng back with his thoughts wandering all the way.When he returned to his home, he didn't bother to wash up, so he fell on the bed and began to think about going to the provincial capital.

Before that, his plan was to go back to the county and ask the county kindergarten and elementary school if they could recruit music teachers, and if not, go to the song and dance troupe.Just now, in order to find an excuse, he said nonsense about going to work in the province, but was misunderstood by Er Fengyi, which gave Lin Weiran a new idea.

Otherwise, go to Teacher Zhu and ask if there is any job opportunity?

The author has something to say: Don’t look at Lu Bu’s Lingzigong, which is very romantic when shaking his head, but it actually hurts the cervical spine, so it’s not easy to tease a beautiful woman