Chapter 15 1. Heshang Opera

Kuaiji in the middle of Zhejiang was originally the capital of the ancient Yue State. It was Yuezhou in the early Tang Dynasty, and later changed to Kuaiji County, and then changed back to the name of Yuezhou.In the Song Dynasty, it was renamed Shaoxing Mansion, and from the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Shaoxing Road.There are 151,234 households and 521,588 households on Shaoxing Road, with one chief division, six counties, and two prefectures, among which Shanyin County is the head of the six counties.The mountains and rivers on Shaoxing Road are very beautiful, and the mountain shade is especially beautiful. The king of Jin Xian said: "From the mountain vagina, the mountains and rivers reflect each other, making people overwhelmed. If it is autumn and winter, it is especially difficult." The said is Shanyin County scenery.

A small boat went down the river, and a grand master's chair was placed on the bow.According to Zhang Duanyi's "Gui Er Ji" in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Taishi chair was created by Qin Hui. It was originally only used by officials, but later it became popular all over the world. Bai Dingbuyi can sit on it as long as he has money. Yu Fuyang held a cup of tea and sat on the bow of the boat, looking at the scenery on the bank.Twilight is approaching, although it is autumn evening, Jia'an is still lush and green, and the grass and trees do not wither.With his legs crossed, he murmured in a low voice: "The spring breeze rims the river flowers, and the company day Huanxi wine. A hundred years of slack, a few good friends from all over the world. Horseshoes break the sand and mud, and the shadows plunder the mulberry acres. The master forgets the guest, the sentence The heart is easy to handle. The clear flowing water surrounds the hut, and the beautiful mountains are beautiful. There is a meeting in the secluded search, but the drama language does not know how long. Touching the scroll is like swimming, and you don’t wait to be followed by elbows. Wonderful Penglai sound, three sighs are rare."

This is a song "A Day Trip with Deng Muqian" by Liu Shen.Liu Shen has "Gui Yin Ji", which has died at this time, and his disciples privately posthumously named Mr. Wen Min.At that time, all the elders commented on his poems, thinking that they were overpowering to the ancients. Although they had no official position, their poems were famous.This poem is about the company's outing on the day, and the friendship between the guest of honor.Although the poem is written about the Spring Society, it is the Autumn Society at this time, but Yu Fuyang went out to visit a poet friend this time, and it fits the scene in the poem "deep friendship with the host and forgetting the guest, and the sentence is easy to read".He was good at chanting since he was a child. Although his poems were not very good, he memorized a lot of poems and came out as soon as he opened his mouth.After he finished reciting this poem, he felt that the river wind was blowing on his face, and he was so happy that he couldn't describe it. His ability to recite poems has also improved a lot, and he couldn't help being elated. How are you doing?"

Yu Buzhou was paddling at the stern of the boat.Shaoxing's black-covered boats are owned by others. People sit on the stern, hold one oar, and step on two oars.Usually step on the oars to move forward, so it is also called foot rowing, and the oar in the hand is the rudder.If you want to go fast, you can paddle the oars in your hand, and the boat will go extremely fast.Yu Fuyang went out to visit friends, but Prince Youxue visited Dai at night, and returned home exhausted, made a few couplets, and hurried back without even having dinner, Yu Buzhou, his son, was about to The belly gas is scattered on the oars, and the boat is almost flying against the water surface. Where can I hear Lao Tzu singing any poems?But when the old man asked, he couldn't help but praise a few words, and said: "Father, your poems are getting more and more interesting." He said in his belly: "My father has been playing with this crooked poem all day, and I really have diarrhea. One pair of trousers, one hand on the left and one hand on the right, and I never get tired of it.”

What he said was blunt, but Yu Fuyang seemed unable to understand the meaning of the words, shook his head, and said: "You boy, this poem is not written by me, it is Mr. Liu Guiweng's best chapter. The name of Mr. Liu's poem All the people in the world hate me for being born a few years late, for not being able to make friends with Mr. Liu, it is a pity in life." Yu Buzhou said: "One regret and one regret. Dad, it's getting late, how can I paddle on an empty stomach? Just now I was invited to have dinner at home, but you refused, now it's a regret." Yu Fuyang said seriously: "Poetry and books have the taste of forgetting the old, you little bastard only know one to eat!" Suddenly remembered that Lu Wuguan's poem was "reading has the taste of forgetting the old", and he changed a word, which is like Huangshan Gu Dian turned iron into gold, couldn't help being ecstatic, and thought: "This sentence is really wonderful, I thought of a couplet to make a pair, and then pretended to make it into a seven rhythms. Thinking of Xing's head, he shouted, "Miaozai! Miaozai!"

Yu Buzhou was rowing, and was even more unhappy when his father scolded him.Hearing that my father stopped scolding suddenly, and called it "Miaozai Miaozai", I looked up and saw a light flashing on the far side of Hebutou.He had very good eyesight, so he took a closer look and said, "Father, that's not a temple, it's a social drama." He thought to himself, "My Yu family was originally a well-known sect in the Jianghu, but why did Father become like this?" With such a temperament, what kind of "not enough" is given to me, not enough food and clothing, it's really bad luck. It's really a good but not good spirit, which makes me row when I'm hungry."

Yu Buzhou didn't like poetry and books, so he didn't know that the name Yu Fuyang gave him was very reasonable.The Yu family was originally a well-known sword sect, but when it came to Yu Fuyang's sect, they didn't like swordsmanship since they were young, they only liked poetry and poetry, and they were extremely tricky in naming their sons. Mountain, the two males are taken from Buzhou Mountain, both come from the name of Zhongshan.There are a lot of "bu" characters in it. Although the names of "eat without hunger" and "wear without deafness" are not very pleasant to use, there are many others.Yu Fuyang had prepared a series of names a long time ago. When he prepared the three boys, they would name them Buting, which came from the Mountain of Buting in "The Great Wilderness Southern Classic"; Xianshan; five men are called Buju, because there is a Buju mountain in "Dahuangbeijing"; six men are called Buju, which is the mountain of Buju in "Haineijing"; "There is the country of Hu Buyu; eight males are called immortals, and there is a country of immortals in "Overseas South Classic".At the beginning when Yu Fuyang made this list, Mrs. Yu was shocked when she saw eight men called "Yu Bushi", and begged her husband to change his name. It is impossible to call eight males "immortal".Fortunately, Yu Fuyang is good at choosing names, but his wife's belly is not up to par. After giving birth to two boys and one girl, she has never had another child, which made Yu Fuyang's belly full of good names and heroes useless, and Madam Yu was worried in vain one game.

Yu Buzhou rowed two oars, the boat slid forward like a sharp arrow, and the sound of singing could already be heard from afar.Yu Fuyang likes to watch dramas, and after hearing a few words, he slapped his knee and shouted: "It's "Catching the King Alive"!" The operas of the Yuan Dynasty are mainly divided into three categories: Zaju, Nanxi and Yuanben.The theater originated in Jin Dynasty, and it is in the same line with Zaju, while Nanxi Opera is popular in the countryside around the south of the Yangtze River.Social operas are performed by villagers in the south of the Yangtze River every year after the autumn harvest, and naturally most of them are southern operas.Southern opera is different from Zaju and theater scripts, ranging from more than ten folds to as many as dozens of folds. It often takes two or three days to sing the whole script of a play.This "Catching Wang Kui Alive" tells the story of a singing girl Guiying rescuing the frozen scholar Wang Kui, and the two make a lifelong commitment.After Wang Kui went to Beijing to rush for the exam, he was recruited by Prime Minister Han as his son-in-law after being the number one scholar in high school, so he refused to recognize Gui Ying. In a rage, Gui Ying committed suicide in the Sea God Temple and captured Wang Kui.This kind of story of a heartless man and a poor life girl is very popular in the countryside, and the villagers never get tired of watching it. Although Yu Fuyang considers himself a rich man, he still enjoys this kind of story about a private life in the back garden. At this time, he heard a few words The libretto made it even more unbearable, saying: "No week, hurry up, the show will end when it's late."

Yu Buzhou's temperament is quite different from Yu Fuyang's. Yu Fuyang regards poetry as his life, he is not too young, and still loves to watch the excitement, but Yu Buzhou likes to meditate and practice swords since he was a child, and his temperament is much more stable.It's just that although Yu Buzhou's nature is very different from his father's, filial piety is extremely strict. In addition, he has practiced martial arts well, has a lot of strength, and never contradicts him. Yu Fuyang likes to catch Yu Buzhou every time he goes out. bad, let him row the boat.At this time, Yu Buzhou saw that his father wanted to go up to watch the excitement again, and he secretly groaned in his heart. After thinking about it, he said to himself: "There are always people who sell food when doing social dramas. Although it is not a serious meal, frying a bowl of bald sesame food is good enough to satisfy your hunger "This bald sesame food is originally the Western Region food method. It is soaked in cold water with round noodles, pressed into small pancakes with hands, cooked in a pan, and then removed from the juice, and then fried and eaten. It was popular all over the world in Yuan Dynasty. Everyone loves to eat it. Anyone who does social dramas in the Kuaiji area must have noodles.

At this time, dusk has come, this river is just an ordinary small waterway, and there are no other boats, Yu Buzhou's martial arts is not good, and he is young and strong, when his arms are strengthened, the boat moves faster, and the bow of the boat is already tilted , almost flying out of the water.The stage was originally set by the river, only half a mile away from them, under Yu Buzhou's paddling, the boat arrived at the stage in a blink of an eye, only a hundred or so steps away, he suddenly stopped. When I was far away, I felt that the shadows were indistinct, and the singing could not be heard clearly, but now I can hear it clearly.Yu Fuyang heard the libretto from the stage, it was the scene where Gui Ying offered incense and met Wang Kui lying frozen in the snow at the Sea God Temple, his heart itched unbearably, seeing that Yu Buzhou stopped rowing suddenly, he said urgently: "No week, hurry up and swipe over, this discount is almost over, if you go late, you will miss the good deal."

Yu Buzhou looked at the front and said in a low voice: "Father, don't you think something is wrong?" Yu Fuyang was taken aback, and said, "What's wrong?" Yu Buzhou glanced at it, and said in a low voice: "Father, what time is it now? How can there be so much fog on the river?" Yu Fuyang didn't listen to the opera once or twice, and he never felt that there was no fog around him.He looked at it and said in surprise, "Sure enough! The fog is thick there!" The stage was built by the river, shrouded in a thick fog.The weather in autumn is mostly bright and clear. Although there will be fog when the night is cool, the fog is still a bit thick.Yu Buzhou whispered: "Father, if someone from the Zhao family is playing tricks, how can it be good?" Yu Fu raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be the Zhao family?" The Zhao family in Fuzhou is the Yu family's feud.In the early years, the two families were good friends of Qin and Jin, and they were relatives by marriage. Zhao Jiayuan lived in Shanyin for generations. Later, because of trivial matters, the two families fought endlessly. It has been four generations.Because the Yu family was listed as one of the three sects of swordsmanship, the Zhao family suffered a great deal in the previous generations of fighting with weapons. Deyuan moved to Fuzhou.Zhao Mengchu, the head of the Zhao family at that time, had a hard time thinking about it. He only felt that if he blindly invited outsiders to help him, even if he gained power for a while, the Yu family's all-pervasive counterattack would not be able to stop him. Zhu's daughter invited a Taoist monk who was born in the Maoshan sect to teach the wise nephews of the clan.At that time it was the end of the Song Dynasty, and the world was in turmoil, and the Taoist monk who returned to the secular world did not abide by the clear rules. He was Anxin to be the son-in-law of the Zhao family, but he taught them carefully.The Zhao family was originally the imperial family of the former dynasty. Although it has declined after the change of dynasty, it was eventually the heir of poetry and etiquette. From Zhao Mengchu's generation onwards, it has become the heir of magicians.The Yu family's warlocks are very famous, so the Zhao family's disciples worked tirelessly and practiced hard. In just over ten years, the Zhao family's disciples were able to stand against the Yu family.In contrast, the Yu family has suffered heavy losses due to making too many enemies in the Jianghu, so they have retreated greatly in the past few years. In Yu Fuyang's generation, the Zhao family has faint intentions to replace the Yu family.The two parents have been exhausted from fighting for many years, and they also feel that the grievances and grievances were forged by the previous generation. It is meaningless to fight endlessly like this, so the last time the Zhao family came to commit crimes was eight years ago.Hearing Yu Buzhou say it might be the Zhao family, Yu Fuyang really didn't believe it. Yu Buzhou said: "Eight years ago, two members of the Zhao family were killed by the second uncle, and I haven't seen them come to take revenge these years. I heard that they are preparing their troops and want to attack again. Father, now the second uncle and the elder brother are both I'm not here, I'm really worried..." Yu Fuyang snorted and said, "What are you worried about? Are you afraid that your father is not the Zhao family's opponent?" Yu Buzhou swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart: "I am really worried about this." As his father is obsessed with poetry, books, and chapters, most of his skills have been neglected. He is really worried that if the Zhao family really comes to commit the crime, no one can resist it. up.But he didn't dare to say that, he just said in a low voice: "Father..." Yu Fuyang stood upright on the bow of the boat, with his hands behind his back, and said: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up, the show is almost over." Seeing that Yu Buzhou was still a little suspicious, he said: "Buzhou, your father is not old. Confused. Listen, this piece of "Catch Wang Kui Alive" is sung with correct words, and the Danjiao in the first-class troupe in Hangzhou is no more than that. Although the Zhao family's illusion skills are superb, how can he sing such a brilliant opera? Come?" Yu Buzhou was stunned, and murmured: "That's right." The Zhao family studied illusion. The last time the Zhao family came to attack, Yu Buzhou was still young. He had seen the Zhao family's illusions change endlessly. When it rotted, it spewed out a large swarm of wasps, and a disciple of the Zhao family turned tables and chairs into poisonous snakes under the touch of his hand, which was really frightening.But Yu Buzhou's second uncle, Yu Feiyang, spat out the blood from the tip of his tongue, and the wasps turned into confetti, and the poisonous snakes all over the ground became tables and chairs again, and the illusion was broken immediately.That time, Yu Feiyang told him that the Zhao family's illusions were purely psychological. Although the illusions were lifelike, such as wasps stinging people, poisonous snakes biting people, and wounds like real wasps and poisonous snakes, illusions are always illusions. Flawless, the sound of a wasp flying is not at all like a real wasp, and the body of a poisonous snake is far less flexible than a real poisonous snake.As long as they spot the flaws, their illusions are not difficult to break.Although the stage is now shrouded in fog, it doesn't seem real, but the sound of singing is not even half false.Yu Buzhou is not as obsessed with listening to operas like his father, but he can always tell whether it is good or bad. The sound of singing is soft, crisp and sweet. It is indeed the work of a first-class master. The Zhao family has famous teachers in academic law Suggestions, but opera singing is a cheap industry. In the Yuan Dynasty, the status of artists and actors was extremely low. In the "Yuan Decrees", the fourth volume of the household department article "Le Ren Marriage" clearly stipulates that music people only marry music people. Ordinary people who marry Le people should be punished and divorced.The Zhao family was born as a Confucian scholar. Although the status of Confucian scholars was not high at that time, and there was even a folk legend that "eight prostitutes, nine Confucians and ten beggars", in fact the status of Confucian scholars was still relatively high.The children of the Zhao family can learn Maoshan Taoism, but it is absolutely impossible for them to learn opera. After thinking about this, Yu Buzhou also felt relieved, stopped talking, and thought: "Father is right." He stretched out his hand and pulled the oars twice, the boat rushed into the night fog, and was closer to the stage up.Ordinary fog can be seen from a distance, but it can't be seen from a close look, but this fog is as thick as milk for some reason. Couldn't see clearly from a few feet away.Yu Buzhou slapped his hands and feet, feeling more and more wrong, stopped stepping on the oars, and said, "Father..." Yu Fuyang was listening to the singing with his ears upright, when he heard Yu Buzhou yelled, "What's the matter?" Yu Buzhou looked at the front and said: "Father, I think something is wrong, why is there no human voice besides singing?" Although the opera is sung well, the audience is engrossed in listening to the opera, and it is common for the surroundings to be silent, but no matter what, someone should cough, or the sound of bumping and bumping when the boat is shaking, but now there is only the actor's singing voice, and there is no sound. No other voice.Yu Fuyang was awakened by Yu Buzhou's words, he was stunned, and said: "Yes, something is wrong..." Before he finished speaking, Yu Buzhou flipped his hand, and the wooden oar was already moved forward.The boat moved forward at a very high speed, but it was not easy when it turned back. Yu Buzhou was about to turn the boat around, but just as the boat turned around, he heard a "bang", the boat seemed to be hit by something, The wooden paddle in his hand also seemed to be bitten by something, and he couldn't move it immediately.The impact came so suddenly that Yu Buzhou was taken aback and almost fell into the water.Although he is young, he has practiced diligently since he was a child, his physical strength is strong, his hands and feet are fast, he jumped up and fell heavily, shouting: "Father!" The river was filled with dense fog, and at this time the fog was so thick that it seemed to be wrapped up, and the view from the stern to the bow of the ship was blurred.In the mist, Yu Fuyang said: "Buzhou, is it okay?" He was still calm after hearing the voice, Yu Buzhou settled down and said: "Father, I'm fine." He looked around, suddenly He shouted, "Who is it? If you are a hero, don't hide your head and show your tail!" His voice resounded like spring thunder, as soon as he drank it, the singing stopped abruptly, and the surrounding fell into a dead silence.Yu Buzhou shouted again: "Are you from the Zhao family?" Although he shouted loudly, no one answered.Yu Buzhou couldn't help feeling anxious in his heart, he thought: "What should I do this time?" The boat didn't move at this time as if nailed, the wooden oar was still leaning against the side of the boat.Yu Buzhou only hoped to get out of the thick fog as soon as possible, and reached out to grab the wooden oar, but he hadn't touched it yet, but Yu Fuyang shouted fiercely: "Don't move!" There was a "pop", but a teacup flew straight over and hit the oar handle.As soon as it touched the handle of the oar, it seemed to touch some mechanism. The wooden oar was submerged in the water without even splashing half of the water.Seeing this, Yu Buzhou was terrified, broke out in a cold sweat, and thought, "If Dad hadn't behaved so well, I would have grabbed the handle of the oar, and I would have been dragged into the water." The usually nerdy father was so calm , it was beyond his expectation. At this time, the surroundings are full of thick fog, the twilight is like dyeing, and the eyes are like blind.Yu Buzhou's heart beat wildly, and he thought: "Who is this?" Yu Fuyang looked around, his heart sank. He turned his head to look at Yu Buzhou, Yu Buzhou was sitting at the stern of the boat, mighty like a newly grown leopard.There was a sudden pain in his heart, and there were some tears in his eyes. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.he thought.