Chapter 15 Chapter XV

Zhang Sandao: "We punished Luo Luo to sing a piece of Beijing opera." Chuck followed suit.Luo Yinggong stood up slowly, and said with a smile: "I will come to a section of 'Ganlu Temple', which was sung by Qiao Xuangong during the Three Kingdoms period. I made everyone laugh." The queen of the king, the great-great-grandson of the Han emperor stayed. He has a second younger brother, Marquis of Hanshou Ting, Qinglong Yanyue. There is a salty wind, Zhangba snake spear is used to grab the throat; whip the governor and he is angry at the bull's head, and fight Wen Hou in front of Hulao Pass; a roar in front of Dangyang Bridge, drinking the water from the bridge and flowing back. His fourth brother, General Long Changshan, is unrivaled in the world The hero crowns Kyushu; Chang Banpo saves Adou, and kills Cao Bing. Who has this group of generals? And Zhuge uses tricks. It doesn't matter if you kill Liu Bei, how can his brothers give up after hearing about it! If soldiers come to fight, Cao Cao sat and collected the profits. I turned around and played the queen mother: I will plan to marry a couple.'" The singing was powerful and passionate, and it echoed in the barbecue season building for a long time.Zhang San and Chuck couldn't help applauding after hearing this.Chuck said: "Unexpectedly, Brother Luo still has two tricks. He really speaks and tastes well. Today I opened my eyes." Zhang San said to Ji Zongbin: "Boss Ji, please give us another pot of lotus leaf porridge!" Ji Zongbin responded Go, and then serve lotus leaf porridge again.Zhang San praised: "In winter, the lotus leaves of Ji's family are still so fresh and tender, there must be a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors." Ji Zongbin laughed: "It can only be understood, but cannot be explained in words."

The three of them drank until three o'clock in the afternoon, and Chuck got up to say goodbye because he still had to visit his friends.Mr. Luo Ying took out the silver tael from his pocket and prepared to pay the bill. Ji Zongbin happily came upstairs with a brush, inkstone and rice paper in his hand: "It's still the old rule, this silver tael is not used. Please ask Mr. Luo to write another poem." Luo Yinggong took the brush, pondered for a while, On the rice paper, dragons and phoenixes danced, and I saw that it was written: "The sun is shining on the cold lake and the purple mist is growing, and the spring whip is accompanied by the rainbow. There are many conversations. This year, the scenery is unique and different, and there are endless bosom friends and wine."

Ji Zongbin took the poems and notes, and took them back to the back room as if he had found a treasure.Several people went downstairs, just after leaving the gate of the barbecue season, Ji Bin hurriedly came downstairs again, Luo Yinggong asked why.Ji Zongbin looked at Chuck and Zhang San: "I heard from the guys just now that one of these two is the 'drunk man' Zhang Sanye, and the other is the 'arm saint' Chuck, both of them are people with unique skills. It is a pleasure to meet you today , can you show me a little skill, so that my brother can open my eyes too."

Luo Yinggong looked at Zhang San and Chuck, who were drinking and nodded.Chuck shouted "Zhu" and jumped up, jumped seven or eight feet high, raised his hand, and took off the plaque of "Barbecue Season".Everyone applauded.Ji Zongbin shook his hands anxiously, and shouted: "Don't smash my film, our Ji family still points to it to eat!" Chuck smiled and jumped again. Everyone still didn't understand what was going on, and the "Barbecue Season" The plaque was hung upright again.Ji Zongbin stuck out his tongue: "Good guy, he really lives up to his reputation!"

Zhang San looked up, but saw that there were two big iron nails on the forehead of "Barbecue Season", which were used by Ji Zongbin to hang the door curtain, Zhang Sandao said: "Boss Ji, I think these two big iron nails are very obstructive, and they are piercing people." It’s amazing, I’ll nail it in for you.” As he spoke, he was exhausted, jumped up, and slammed headfirst into the iron nail.Hearing a pop, the iron nail was firmly driven in.Zhang San jumped up again, stretched out his head, and after another iron nail went in, it flew out from the door frame and was nailed right on the belly button of the portrait of Maitreya Buddha with a big belly on the wall inside the house.Seeing Ji Zongbin, he was dumbfounded, and everyone applauded again.

The three broke up at Yinding Bridge, and Chuck headed west. Luo Yinggong persuaded Zhang San to live with him temporarily, and invited him to the Jixiang Opera Garden to listen to Yang Xiaolou's Peking Opera "Picking the Pulley" the next morning. Zhang San readily agreed. Luo Yinggong's family lives in the nearby Yu'er Hutong. Walk east through Gulou Street, and you will be there in a bag of cigarettes.This is an ordinary courtyard, spacious and tidy, with several wintersweet and an old jujube tree planted in the courtyard.Luo Yinggong is now a doctor in the post office, and his life is considered prosperous. His parents have gone to the south to visit relatives. Currently, there is only one maid who cooks and looks after the door at home, but it is quiet.

When Zhang San walked into Duke Luo Ying's room, he saw a lot of calligraphy and painting, large and small, all over the wall, including calligraphy and painting by Mi Fu, Zhao Mengfu, etc., masterpieces by Wu Daozi, Tang Bohu, and others, as well as his own calligraphy and painting.In the middle hangs a portrait of Guan Hanqing, a great dramatist in the Yuan Dynasty, which was painted by Luo Yinggong.Opening the curtain, there is also a study room, which is densely packed with purple bamboo bookshelves, including "Four Books and Five Classics", "Tang Poems", "Song Ci", "Yuan Qu", "Chu Ci" and other books, but more of them are operas. class of books.There is a small bed in the corner of the room, the bedding is neat, and there are a few thick books on the bed.

Luo Ying said: "You can rest on this bed tonight, and I will go to sleep in my parents' room." The two talked for a while, and it was time to light the lamps. Mr. Luo Ying asked the maid to buy some pork belly and liver, boiled the wine, and the two of them drank again.Duke Luo Ying became happier as he drank, and he told an anecdote about Liyuan: "Before Emperor Qianlong, Kunqu opera, also known as Yabu, was popular in the capital. Since Kunqu opera entered the palace and noble mansions, the rhetoric became more and more gorgeous, obscure and difficult to understand, and gradually separated from the citizens. "Huabu" and "Lantan Opera" have flooded into Beijing since Emperor Qianlong and Lord Jiaqing. This "Lantan Opera" is the current Beijing opera. They are Cheng Changgeng and Xu Xiaoxiang. The second is the "Sixi" class, and Mei Qiaoling is in charge of the class. The third is the "Chuntai" class, and the fourth is the "Hechun" class. First, the famous actress Gao Langting leads the famous Anqing "Sanqing" in the south of the Yangtze River. The Hui troupe came to Beijing and participated in the performance of Lord Qianlong’s 80th birthday. Afterwards, troupes such as ‘Sixi’, ‘Chuntai’, and ‘Hechun’ came to Beijing one after another...”

Luo Ying grabbed a handful of peanuts and stuffed them in his mouth, and continued: "The four major Hui troupes each have their own characteristics. At that time, there were 'Sanqing' songs, 'Sixi' songs, and 'Hechun' songs. , the saying of the children of "Chuntai". The Hui troupe specializes in performing Hui opera. There are many repertoires, and the martial arts is very popular. Occupied by Hui troupes, the prosperity of this kind of opera endangered the status of Kunqu opera of "Yangchun Baixue" in the opera circle of Beijing Normal University. During Daoguang's time, due to the coming of Hubei Han Diao to Beijing, the art troupe of Hui troupes gradually became Beijingized, and Beijing opera was born... ..." Zhang San listened and fell asleep lying on the table. Duke Luo Ying knew that he was very tired, so he helped him to the bed and waited for him to fall asleep.

Early the next morning, the two came to the Auspicious Theater to the east of Donghua Gate.In front of the gate of Jixiang Theater, there was an endless stream of theater fans.On the left side of the gate stands a wooden sign with a big colorful notice and a portrait of Yang Xiaolou painted on it. The three characters of Yang Xiaolou are very dazzling, and there are three black characters of "Picking the Pulley" below it.Facing the gate is a big brick screen wall, and in front of the screen wall there are colored heads and mosaic.The old man at the gate recognized Mr. Luo Ying, and when he saw Mr. Luo Ying, he nodded and bowed his head and said, "Hey, Mr. Luo is here too. Please come inside. There is a free box upstairs." Mr. Luo Ying pointed to Mr. Zhang San: "This is my guest. .” The old man smiled: “Please come inside.”

The two went upstairs, picked a vacant box and sat down.Looking out Zhang Sansi, the stage faces south and sits north, and the other three sides are theater buildings.A lot of spectators have come, the garden is full of mist and people's voices are noisy, there are people smoking big cigarettes, drinking big tea, eating assorted snacks, cracking melon seeds... there are endless hawkers and hawkers. Just as Zhang San was watching, he suddenly saw something thrown from below, and he caught it casually. It turned out to be a hot towel handle, and Mr. Luo Ying also took one, saying: "The hot towel handle for wiping your face here is only available in the official chamber." At this time, a man came up from behind, handsome and handsome, dressed as a martial arts student, with a loud voice, he cupped his hands at Luo Yinggong: "So Mr. Luo has also arrived." Luo Yinggong said to Zhang San: "This is Yang Xiaolou." Then he introduced Zhang San to meet Yang Xiaolou , Yang Xiaolou knew haha: "It turns out that Mr. Zhang is here too, brother is really lucky!" At this time, someone downstairs called Yang Xiaolou, Yang Xiaolou greeted him, took his leave and went downstairs.Zhang San was quite interested when he saw Yang Xiaolou's monkey eyebrows and monkey eyes. Luo Ying said: "Yang Xiaolou is known as a 'live monkey'. His father, Mr. Yang Yuelou, was a famous martial arts student during the Tongzhi period and was known as one of the 'Thirteen Wonders'. He studied opera in Xiao Rongchun's class, and later learned martial arts student Yu Jusheng as his teacher. After he graduated from the department, he became famous. Yang Xiaolou often went to the palace to perform, and won silver awards from the Queen Mother many times." Zhang San saw some patrolmen pouring in at the door.Luo Ying said: "These inspections are all for nothing, and they don't spend a penny. They sit in the last row of the pool seats. This is called the 'repression seat'. The owner of the theater can't afford to provoke them, so they set up this row of special seats. Seat...look, the play has begun." Wearing the armor of a general in the Song Dynasty, Yang Xiaolou appeared on stage in a heroic manner. He played the role of Gao Chong's pulley.He spoke clearly, sang passionately, had a loud voice, and was handsome in martial arts. The audience applauded and cheered endlessly.Zhang San couldn't help applauding too.Luo Ying said: "Yang Xiaolou's style is exquisite in performance, elegant in workmanship, known as 'martial arts and singing'. His best plays are "Changbanpo", "Hanjinkou", "Lin Chong's Night Run", "Zhan Wan "City", "Picking the Pulley", and the hook-face drama "Water Curtain Cave", "An Tian Hui", "Iron Cage Mountain", "Golden Leopard" and so on..." Before the words were finished, I heard someone shouting in the palace next to me: "Don't listen to this, change! Change!" A group of people followed suit.Others threw eggs, stones, and fruit peels on the stage.Yang Xiaolou still wanted to act, but there was a lot of noise in the garden, yelling, stopping, whistles, and the sound of breaking things all mixed together. A man dressed as a guard in the official box next to him shouted loudly: "Master Rong wants to see, who is the owner of the theater, if you don't change the theater, let's see if we don't smash the theater!" Zhang San turned his head and saw an official with a chinchilla face reclining in the official box next to him.He wears a crown with a flower feather on his head and an official uniform, and he embraces a young woman who is as beautiful as a flower and jade; there are seven or eight evil angers standing around him.The official was over sixty years old, with a fat body, a swollen yellow face, a few short gray beards, a pair of misleading and lifeless eyes, and all his teeth had fallen out. Zhang San recognized the official, he was Minister of Military Aircraft Rong Lu.