Yan ghost

In front of you is a stage.The purple-clothed waiter sat down, and Xiang Yan sat on his right side.An opera teacher came and said, "My lord, they are all up and ready, and it will be ready in a while."

Xiang Yan clasped his arms and said, "It's so late, I'm sorry to bother you." The gentleman left without seeing him.

"It's just the right thing to sing at night."

Xiang Yan turned his head and asked the purple-clothed waiter: "You let me read, but this is your story?"

The purple-clothed waiter said indifferently: "It's your story."

The silk and bamboo intersect, and the sandalwood board is lightly pressed.I saw a storyteller sitting on the stage, Xing Mu patted it, and sang: "People in the world say, you should die for your love, for your festival, for your will, as it is for people, so it is for ghosts."

The two house slaves carried the suitcase and walked past the storyteller.When the storyteller stepped down, the scenery moved accordingly, and what came into view was the gate of a large house.The house slave carried the luggage into the house, and the two actors came forward to thank them.The red-clothed opera singer covered his face and asked the green-clothed opera singer beside him: "What about the reward?" The green-clothed opera singer turned around and opened the box, picked up two small wooden armors that were one arm long, and gave them to the slaves of the two families.

The two slaves walked aside.One person snorted and said: "Poor actor, I don't know what you gave me." The other person said: "Hey, I didn't expect any reward from them. You've lost face by talking nonsense." go.

The actor in green clothes said: "This place is fifty or sixty miles away from the capital, and in such a wild place, I didn't expect there to be such a big family." The actor in red laughed and said, "You've only read opera books since you were born, so you're really ignorant. This ancient city is huge. There is a background." The actor in green asked: "What is the origin?" The actor in red said: "This is the old capital of Weiyang in the past. Look at this house with a grand style and a deep courtyard. It is not certain that it belongs to a relative of the emperor. Biefu." The actor in Tsing Yi suddenly said, "I said that I just entered the city and saw some dilapidated walls, and they looked very grand."

The red-clothed actor asked: "By the way, why did you give away things from the young master just now?" The green-clothed opera singer laughed and said, "That young master is dumbfounded, he won't even know if he lost it." The red-clothed actor pushed him and said: "You Just bullying other people's children. Speaking of which, where did the young master go to play again? Twelve or thirteen years of age will suffer everywhere with us, if we lose it, the family will be very sad." The actor in Tsing Yi shook his hand and said: "I can't lose it, it's probably by myself I hid aside and drew pictures and went to chop wood. Our troupe has always played wits and beauties, and he doesn’t like to watch it as a child, so I guess he must take advantage of our acting tonight to pester the master to learn puppetry.”

Another person came on the stage, the class master dressed up and asked the two of them: "What are you still wearing in these clothes? The host's house has already served dinner. When the guests finish their meals, they will order you. You haven't put on your make-up yet and get ready."

The two opera singers took off their green and red clothes, and put on a set of more colorful costumes. One looked like a gentleman, and the other was dressed as a brothel girl.Two boats moved to the stage, one boat contained several treasure chests, two actors took the boat, and the other boat had a young master and two servants.A few actors came from the bank to wait and see.

The woman said: "Today you all testify that the concubine is worthy of the husband, and the husband is the concubine himself!"The son was ashamed and remorseful, he grabbed the woman to apologize, but saw the woman holding the treasure box and jumping towards the heart of the river.

The young master on the neighboring boat suddenly stood up, raised his hands and shouted with the servants: "Kill!" The young master was stunned, and quickly grabbed the crazy young master.The woman also got up from the water and stepped forward to help.

The actors on the shore retreated with the boat, and the rockery and flowers moved into the stage.It turned out that the actor was singing on a courtyard stage.The guests in the audience fled in a hurry.A few people from the theater troupe came up and tied up the young master's character with five flowers.

The class leader walked aside, and the old lady in the same seat apologized.The old man just waved his hands away.The butler handed over the money and said: "This is too bad luck, this is your reward for this play, pack your bags and leave quickly."

Inexplicably and helplessly, the two actors shook their heads and changed their clothes, pretending to be a rich lady and a poor boy.The pavilions were removed, and the stage was transformed into a public stage.Several people stood in front of the stage.

Xiaosheng folded a weeping willow and approached the young lady.The young lady was pleasantly surprised, but hesitated to speak.Xiaosheng said: "Let's talk over there." The lady smiled and said no.Xiaosheng lightly holds on to the skirt of the lady's sleeve.The lady asked: "Where are you going?" Xiaosheng said: "In front of the peony bar, beside the lake and mountains and stones." The lady asked: "What are you doing?" hug.

"You!" At this moment, a master walked out on the stage, and the two panicked, but they heard: "Bloodwash the shame of subjugation! Go!" The master roared, and the servant and maidservant behind him also shouted: "Wei Wang!"

The audience dispersed in confusion.The host stepped forward and said angrily: "What's the matter with your theater troupe? This happens every time. Are you determined to smash our stage?" The host came to the stage to persuade him, but he was pushed to the ground.The host said: "Go, go." The actor ran around.

The drum music changed, and suddenly became cheerful.A little boy appeared on the stage, half-armed in black, eccentric.He grabbed a fleeing actor and asked, "What's going on?" The actor said, "I'm bewitched, I must be bewitched. Every three o'clock, a few actors in our room will get up and dress up, and sit on the stage." The old carriage came from nowhere, and it didn’t come back until dawn the next day. Now those actors are all sick on stage.”

The young master tilted his head and said: "This matter is strange, let me inquire about it." He took a few steps forward, and the scene behind him turned to the street.He came to the storyteller, took two steps to the left, two steps to the right, and finally stood still.

The storyteller said: "Our town was originally the old capital of Weiyang, and there was an ancient battlefield nearby. You said that the actors called Wei Wang and sang about the death of the country, all of which were acting out the battle between Wei Yang and Wei Fang in the previous dynasty."

The little prince asked, "Who is this king of Wei?"

The storyteller said: "Wei Wang Linjiang was the prince of Weiyang State 500 years ago. He was subjugated shortly after succeeding to the throne and became a prisoner. After three years of suffering, Wei Wang escaped from Kaifang, joined forces with Chilan, returned to his homeland, captured the former king alive, and forced Kaifang's army Withdrew from the capital. The former king knew that this man was eager for revenge, so he pretended to surrender, and asked the two armies to withdraw first, and secretly ambush him to arrest him. The king of Wei couldn't bear to be humiliated again as a slave, so he killed himself immediately."

The little prince sighed: "It's a pity, there is no order of the king, he was enthroned twice, and missed twice." After singing, he walked around the stage twice, and changed to a ruined temple behind him.Several common people poured into the stage and scolded in front of the temple.

"How dare you sing nonsense about the past in our territory!"

"Unlucky Chilan troupe, get out of Kaifang!"

The young master explained: "Because the theater troupe has been unable to perform, they have exhausted their money, and now they can only squeeze in this ruined temple in the countryside."

He walked into the temple, and the actors sat on the floor, all complaining.At the end of the song, the actors lay down one after another, and the young master also pretended to fall asleep.

As soon as the lights dimmed, night fell, and a carriage drove in from one side.The young master opened his eyes, and saw several actors sitting up, walking out of the temple in a daze, and getting into the carriage.The young master hesitated for a long while, not daring to get in the car.Seeing the carriage leave, he summoned a wooden armor and rode away.

When the drums turned, it was eerie.Behind him became an ancient battlefield, with bones piled up everywhere.The young master came to the stage riding a wooden armor. He saw the carriage parked on the side of the road, ran around twice, and saw the dim lights in the center of the battlefield.He pointed to the lights and said in shock: "The actors are actually singing for Wei Yang's ghost soldiers, and all of them are bewitched by evil spirits."

As the young master walked away, the actors came to the stage and sang a gloomy song, then bowed their heads and retreated.The young master returned to Taichung and said: "Once these actors sing at night, they will sing wrongly on the stage the next day. I will dress up the dolls I have in hand to replace these actors. I will be with them tonight. Go see."

A row of puppets came up behind him, the young master turned around and put on makeup on the puppets.The lights went on and off, and it was a day.The little prince ordered the puppets to lie down one by one, and finally he also lay down.

The carriage came again.This time the young master got up first and threw a handful of charms at the sky.The puppets then got up and lined up to get on the carriage.The young master followed at the end and also got into the car.

Before the ancient battlefield, the young master got out of the car with the puppets, and a group of Wei Yang ghost soldiers surrounded him.A ghost soldier laughed and said: "Fortunate tonight, I have a boy moleste with me. I think this young man is pretty and lovely, so let's sing a song first."

The young master hesitated again and again, but bit the bullet and came forward for a while.It can be described as shocking, and the ghost soldiers of Weiyang covered their ears and begged for mercy.

Taking a sneak peek at Xiang Yan, the purple-clothed waiter raised his mouth slightly, laughing at his incomplete tone.

"Stop singing!" At this time, a ghost general came, wearing a purple robe, with messy black hair and blood dripping from his neck.When the young master saw the general, he asked stupidly: "How can there be such a peerless appearance and world-renowned elegance in the world?"

Xiang Yan snorted, and the purple-clothed waiter said calmly: "You said this yourself, I didn't invent it."

At this time, all the ghost soldiers called Wei Wang and dragged the young master away.But the young master was looking at him eagerly all the way.

The general said: "My king of Wei is in Linjiang, and I hate this kind of obscene eyes the most in my life." The resentment suddenly rose, and millions of bones trembled behind him.There was a circle of white bones lying on the feet of the young master, and he stood up in response to the sound, and gave him a hard lesson.

The puppets came to the stage to carry the little prince back.A puppet wrapped bandages on the young master while walking.

The young master said: "This beating made me unable to get up for three days. But I am a cheap person. The more I was beaten, the more I missed him. The more I think about it, the more I feel sad about what happened to him, and I am obsessed with his appearance... After five days, I feel better. , and took puppet actors to the ancient battlefield."

Surrounded by puppets, the little boy with a bandage on his head walked to Taichung.He said: "This king of Wei doesn't like to listen to operas, so naturally he didn't show up. But this time the ghost soldiers dare not let me sing again."

He strolled a few steps, pointed to a tomb and said, "This clothes tomb is very magnificent!" After that, he climbed in, turned his head, took out a dagger and said, "This dagger is engraved with the word Lin Jiang, and it belonged to King Wei!" Overjoyed, he drew his dagger.Lin Jiang immediately took the stage.

"I hate this young master, and I can't move a dagger, so I can only summon bones and seal him in the tomb." After Lin Jiang sang, the bones came on stage, pushed the young master back into the tomb, and fell sideways outside the tomb.

The young master sat down cross-legged and said, "I just don't plan to go out. Since this tomb belongs to you, King Wei, you will definitely come back. I will express my admiration for you every day, and see if you can bear it."

Lights on and off, repeated twice.The young master slowly fell to the ground, and said wearily: "I haven't touched a drop of water for the past two days, and I have some headaches. It's better to go out earlier." He cast a charm to attract a group of dolls, and pushed the bones to step down.

At this time, Lin Jiang came to the stage to fight with the puppets.His swordsmanship is superb, if he blocks at will, the dolls will fall down one after another.Then Lin Jiang walked behind a puppet and entered the puppet.The other puppets retreated, leaving only one on the stage.

The little prince was dying, and saw the bones were removed, and a puppet crawled into the tomb.So he said: "Why is this puppet of mine so powerful? Even Lin Jiang, the king of Wei, can beat him. Could it be that I was hungry and fainted and dreaming." The puppet said: "You can deceive people by singing operas with broken wood, how can you beat me?" .”

The little boy was so excited that he couldn't help reaching out to touch the doll's face, and he was punched again.He aggrieved: "I, I, I didn't mean to be frivolous. I just marveled that ghosts can possess dolls. How did you do it?"

Lin Jiang thought to himself: "It seems that I misunderstood, he is just a child, it's okay to tell him." So he said: "This is the technique of Kai Fang's conquest of ghosts. I have fought with Kai Fang for many years and learned a little bit."

The young master said: "The king of Wei is very powerful, can you teach me?"

"No."

"Will King Wei let me go?"

Lin Jiang said again in his heart: "I originally intended to lock him up in the tomb, although I changed my mind, I can say that he must have lost his composure."

"King Wei, let me go back." The little prince begged, "I just want to bring you back to life. I can make you the strongest wooden armor in the world, and restore your beauty in the previous life."

Lin Jiang bowed his head and waved, and Bai Gu left.The puppets came to the stage and helped the young master out of the grave.The soldiers stepped forward, Lin Jiang shook his head.

Everyone retreated, only Lin Jiang was left, and said: "Once this boy leaves, it will be ten days." He paced back and forth until the young master came to the stage and brought a puppet who was similar in shape to him and dressed in the same clothes.

"Although this puppet is only half-finished, it is the first puppet made for the power of ghosts." The young master opened the puppet's chest, put the dagger in, and said, "This dagger is something that King Wei cares about. Into a puppet, the soul can also become one."

Lin Jiang walked behind the doll and got into the doll's interior.The ghost disappeared, and the puppet moved: "It's easier to control than the previous puppet."

Seeing that Lin Jiang was happy, the young master couldn't help but stare at him more, and ended up being beaten again.Lin Jiang clenched his fists and said, "It's been a long time since I hit someone with my own hands." He smiled without hesitation, but he looked at the young master as a fool.

Lin Jiang said: "I haven't asked your name yet."

The little prince made a bow and said, "Go back to the king of Wei, and I'm going to Yan."

Lin Jiang said: "I am no longer a king, you will call me Lin Jiang in the future."

The theater troupe walked by from behind.Xiang Yan turned to bid farewell, and said: "The theater troupe has left, but I still stayed. There are some old houses next to the ancient battlefield. Although there are occasional rain leaks, they can still be used after repairing. I will stay here for a while and be a puppet in the daytime." , ask Lin Jiang to try it at night."

Moved into a dilapidated house behind.The vocal music sounded, joyful and beautiful, and Lin Jiang took the stage to dance the sword.After looking at Yan Tuo's face for a while, the music gradually weakened, and he said, "You come home with me." Lin Jiang said nothing.

Xiang Yan said again: "This doll needs to be further modified in the future, I have to go back to the workshop. Besides, the materials and tools here are not good enough." Lin Jiang turned his back and said: "No matter what you say, I will We will not abandon these martyrs.”

Xiang Yan walked to the front of the stage, took out a talisman, shook it, secretly smiled, turned around and stuck it on Lin Jiang's back, and Lin Jiang fell to the ground.

The lights came on, and it was daylight again.Wei Yang's ghost soldiers floated back to the tomb one after another, rolled up Lin Jiang, who was blind-eyed, to Yan, and got into the carriage.

When the curtain of the play is closed, the first act ends.