Phoenix and Dragon

Leader Shan got the permission, waved his hand, and ordered people to lift up the two biggest boxes among the many suitcases and open them separately.

There is a partition in the middle of the two boxes. Upon closer inspection, four statues of gods with golden bodies are neatly stored in the box.

Is this thing flashing or blinding, how heavy is it? !

The servants of the palace were shocked by this naked local tyrant's style, and they didn't react for a while, but when they came back, they realized that something was wrong.

The theater troupe traveled all over the world, and they have seen those with costumes, gongs and drums, and some with rouge and gouache, but they have never seen any with god statues.

The servants of the palace think that these actors probably have no place to use their energy. What to do with this thing, if you can't eat or drink, it's better to free up your hands and bring more dry food. At worst, you can carry two white big girl.

While the obscene/obscene/obscene thoughts were rambling, the leader Shan had already ordered people to bring out the four god statues with a smile, and lined up on the altar table.

Looking at it in turn, the two statues on the left are a man and a woman, and you can tell after careful identification that they are Emperor Dongyue and Bixia Yuanjun respectively; while the two statues on the right are also a man and a woman, but they are relatively rare in appearance. The man faces two dragons, his posture is like walking against the water, the woman's appearance is icy but with an inexplicable chill, her facial features are like a fairy concubine, she is a young beauty.

The servants of the palace, such poor country boys, had never opened their eyes. At that time, they didn't know what it was, and they thought this group of opera singers were very interesting. Why do they still worship the Dragon King and Daji when they sing?

Forget about Daji, most of the good-looking opera singers don't know the dignitaries, if they don't keep it together, one day they will ruin the country and the people. What does the Dragon King do?Bless yourself to be deaf in your next life?These actors are most taboo about being "deaf" and "dumb", so they rushed to worship the Dragon King because they hated themselves for being too late to starve to death.

It wasn't until later that he escaped from the catastrophe by chance that he didn't know that the two statues on the right hand side, one named Feng Yi and the other named Qixiang, were both water gods guarding a big river.

It's not that the servants of the palace have never seen a troupe worship a god, but it's the first one who worships in such a variety of ways but in a serious manner, and was stunned for a moment.

However, Wang Ba, the leader of the single class, was as calm as eating a weight, completely ignoring the surprised eyes of others, leading a group of actors, shouting slogans, kneeling three times and kneeling nine times to worship devoutly. A god statue was presented with high incense that had been prepared by three pillars long ago, conscientiously like a group of filial sons and grandchildren.

After worshiping the gods, the leader Shan enthusiastically asked his servants to take him to see the stage, leaving the other bosses here to prepare.

The servants happily agreed, and took the troupe master Shan to the Wang's Theater building.

Although the Wang family is no longer powerful and wealthy, the stage is ready-made. When the grass-stage troupe sings in a specific person's house, most of the time the stage is set up. The Wang family obviously doesn't need it anymore, but we still have to check the environment. From where to go on stage, where to turn around and where to exit, all have to be arranged in advance before the class can start.

Many folk opera troupes have strange rules before the performance, most of which are related to gods and ghosts. After seeing these people's solemn worship of gods and sacrifices, the servants have a heart. Ask out, ask if you need to prepare some other rituals, to keep yourself safe and ward off evil spirits or something.

However, faced with this question, Team Leader Shan smiled slightly and shook his head, "We who walk the rivers and lakes have always followed the master's family, and we don't pay so much attention."

These words clearly do not match the preface and the afterword. According to their attitude of worshiping the gods, how does it seem to be careless?

However, maybe the boss Shan’s attitude is too kind, maybe it’s because the subordinate is born with a lack of keen tendons. He deserves to be a poor boy who can’t make a fortune without running around. .

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The play of the Wang family is arranged after dinner.

Clinking cups and cups, full of wine and food, the adults with nothing to do had had enough of teasing the children, finished knocking their teeth, and moved to the theater building of the king's house in twos and threes, laughing or talking.

There are not enough seats in the theater building, and several benches were set up near the stage for relatives and friends to sit on. Wang Qiye was beaten swollen to pretend to be fat, and he set up a water banquet for three days and three nights. All the old people invite a circle.

In fact, there were many relatives in the Wang family, and they mixed in three melons and two dates to join in the fun. After a while, the courtyard was crowded with darkness.

It was originally sixteen that day, and the moon was already fifteen or sixteen. The servants of the Wang family remembered that when they looked up at the sky that day, they secretly sighed, the moon was as bright as a big silver plate.

Autumn is high and crisp, and it is never cold in late autumn. It is a late sunny day, and there is no sign of rain at all.

Because the master's family is going to celebrate their mother's birthday, although listening to operas in the countryside is messy and doesn't pay attention to purely listening to the movement, it also pays attention to a good moral. The rest is early, so the first part will be "Shiro Visits His Mother", and after that, I think the boss in my team can play whatever he wants, so I can guarantee that there will be no delay, okay?"

Anyone in the Wang family who doesn't understand opera has heard of this Duaner, but he didn't expect that the opera troupe invited back like a blind cat bumped into a dead mouse is quite capable, and he agreed immediately.

The gongs and drums sounded, and the show started on time.

The troupe leader wasn't bragging, and the troupe's performances were really good. A section called Xiao Fan went straight to the beams of the house with a high-pitched voice, winning a lot of applause from the actors on stage.

The servant was finally relieved, and after a day of busy work anxiously, the matter was finally settled, the servant narrowed his eyes and smiled, walked through the pile of relatives who the whole family had heard with gusto, and got together. In front of Wang Qiye to ask for a reward.

At that time, Wang Qiye listened beautifully and was in a good mood. When he saw the servant who was doing business, he paid a dime and sent it to the servant without saying a word.

Before the servant could put on a smiley expression, he heard Wang Qiye add while hiccupping: "This is for the bosses to drink tea!"

The stingy old man of feelings didn't take the servant's role into consideration at all. He just ordered people to work without giving them rewards.

The servant's expression immediately collapsed, he smiled on the surface, and turned around hatedly, already thinking about how much money to buy wine from it.

The servant was splashed with cold water by Wang Qiye, and he was too tired to please him, and he didn't want to watch the momentarily lively drama that turned against Yingtian, so he hid in the back kitchen to steal a sip of rice wine to moisten his throat.

In the countryside, it is impossible to catch up with such a lively scene all year round. In the back kitchen, the servants and cooks all went to the theater to join in the fun, and it was very clean at this time.

The servant was angry, so he poured out the newly brewed rice wine, and found a dish of peanuts to drink immediately.

As soon as he drank, he drank until midnight.

The opera strings were babbling outside all night, and the servants were a little drowsy after drinking too much. They felt that it was still the tune of "Tianhe Pei" before going to bed, but when they woke up, it became "The Legend of the White Snake".

The sound of people calling Caier outside was no longer as lively as before. The servants looked up at the sky, and found that the weather turned cloudy at some point, and the strangely bright moon that was just now was hidden from view. A little shadow.

The servants came out again and looked directly at the stage. On the brightly lit stage, the actor coincidentally sang the scene of Bai Suzhen and Fahai's fight, and the water floods the golden mountain. The shape is like golden strands, but it really has a pair of snake-like eyes.

There was a strange fragrance around the stage, a bit like the smell of an actor's makeup, but much stronger than that.

The voices in the audience gradually became quieter, the voices of gossip women discussing the short stories of their parents disappeared, the voices of gentlemen bragging and scolding the world disappeared, and the voices of children crying and having fun seemed to have never existed. The living things seemed to be asleep.

The servants stared straight at the stage. It was clearly an intense and bitter scene, but he didn't know why he felt a little drowsy unknowingly. At this time, a huge drop of rain fell on the stage. It hit his face, the drop of rain was icy and cold, as if it had just melted from the ice, just this one hit him soberly.

The servants raised their heads and found that the stage was still singing, while everyone was sitting in a daze below the stage, as if they didn't feel the raindrops, nor did they feel the strange atmosphere around them.

The servant shivered, and suddenly thought of two words, ghost show.

According to folklore, the gates of hell open at midnight, ghosts and ghosts gather in the world to enjoy the excitement, and they will also play for their own entertainment.

The servant was so frightened that he couldn't make a sound. The more he looked at the people in the yard who looked like no living beings, the more he felt that they had actually been taken away by the "ghosts" on the stage. He was afraid that he would be disturbed by the movement from the world. A ghost from another world, take him away together.

The raindrops were falling more and more quickly, "Bai Suzhen" and "Fa Hai" on the stage didn't show any intention of stopping, and the audience didn't even bother to leave the show, they just sat in the pouring wind and rain in silence.

The servants of the palace finally realized that something was wrong, and they were a little dazed with fright, and their calves were a little cramped. They turned around and wanted to run, but found that they had no strength.

Looking at the stage in both shock and fear, he saw two actors with pink faces on the stage showing a sinister smile at him, then raised his head, stepped on the beam lightly, turned around, In the splashing rain curtain, it disappeared.

The sound of the orchestra stopped abruptly, and the musicians pulling strings, drums and gongs quietly left the stage out of thin air at that moment.

The sound of rain was still there, but the excitement of the night suddenly seemed unreal.

But the owner of the garden was still in a daze, completely unaware of the impending disaster.

The servant was so frightened by this unexplainable change that he couldn't speak. He squatted on the spot and wanted to shout, but his throat seemed to be blocked. While panicking, he suddenly heard the rumbling sound coming from afar.

The servant was stunned for a moment, and when he heard it again, he almost cried out.

Jiangling City is surrounded by rivers. Children who grew up by the river have seen the tides, and know how the tides come and go to drown out all the overwhelming momentum. Naturally, they also know that when the river and the sky are the same, the tide is as huge as a dragon going out to sea. The sound—exactly the same as this time.

Where is the river breaking its embankment!

The things that followed were too chaotic and horrifying. The servants only remembered that before the destructive waves arrived, he tightly hugged a wooden table board that had been washed away by the river, and was floating in the village outside the city of Jiangling where the embankment burst. After a day and a night, on the second day, the government sent officers and soldiers out of the city to rescue, and the man survived.

Lan Cai also learned of the horrific story outside Jiangling City from this person, and the rest of the Liu Family Village, including hundreds of people, old and young, all drowned in the flood unconsciously. , Not a single one was caught.

The servant was frightened into a fool, and just after being rescued, he developed a high fever and kept talking nonsense about "actor, ghost, water...", but no one paid attention to it.

The terrain in Jiangling City is high, and it has not been eroded by the floods. For a while, it is still singing and dancing without shame.

However, during the less than ten days when the servant was in a coma, some strange things happened in Jiangling City. Several of the young masters who often went to the theater said that they bumped into ghosts while watching the theater...

The author has something to say: the story outside Jiangling City is over, and the next chapter will release Qin Jiuye and Shi Ziye.

ps

When writing this chapter, Mo Mo's house was under heavy rain that had not been seen for several years, so Mo Mo decided to squat at home.

However, there was a water leak on the balcony of a certain Mo's house, and stupid Mo knelt on the balcony to wipe the water all afternoon, crying.

The content of this chapter was thought out in advance, but when I wrote it at night, the heavy rain during the day and the still rippling water downstairs... It scared me out of goosebumps.

There is a coincidence in everything, but I have nothing to say as a timid person... Kneel down.