Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 631 Li Dachun's Unexpected Joy
Li Dachun's "Being Brave for Righteousness" stopped after punching "Huang Shiren" twice, because after a few seconds of dumbfoundedness, the male actor who played "Xi'er" rushed forward to rescue "Huang Shiren" with open teeth and claws, and immediately punched "Huang Shiren". He can't do it.

"Xi'er, I'm here to help Nen! Why is Nen still tickling me?"

While dodging in a hurry, he defended himself. At this time, the theater troupe also rushed out from the backstage. Everyone worked together to push Li Dachun onto the stage.

"Second cousin, are you alright?" The male role of "Xi'er" leaned over to help "Huang Shiren" up, asked with concern, and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe the other party's blood.

"I lost my tooth."

The male actress playing Xi'er didn't hear clearly, and then asked again, "What did you say?"

"My front tooth fell out!"

"Oh!" Upon hearing this, Xi'er hurriedly yelled to the people on the stage: "Hey~~ Yang Ertang's tooth has fallen out, please help to find it!"

This was originally a temporary stage, and there was no curtain, so seven or eight people on the stage began to look for the front tooth, and the people in the audience just looked at it.
"Hey! I found it!" Suddenly, a guy squatting on the stage yelled, and stretched out his hand to pick something out from the cracks in the plank. Everyone came together to see that it was really a big front tooth with blood on it. Woolen cloth.

Puchi!

Suddenly, a woman in the third row of the crowd couldn't hold it anymore, she covered her mouth and giggled, and then all the men, women and children in the audience also burst into roars of laughter.For many years, I have never seen such an interesting thing.

"Huang Shiren" was angry and hated in his heart. He covered his nose with a handkerchief, raised his head halfway, glanced at Li Dachun's position, raised his foot and kicked him hard, and then cursed against a leaking door: " You are raised by a maidservant! This is an opera, but it’s not true. If you beat me like this, how can you tell my mother-in-law when you go home!"

Li Dachun had already woken up from his previous impulsiveness, "Huang Shiren" kicked him right on the fork of the ribs, and he almost couldn't breathe.My heart said two punches for one kick, I recognized it.

The head of the theater troupe in the backstage was so angry that a bastard messed up a good play.The people around did not dare to speak, the young man who played Zhao Dachun hesitated for a while, and said in a low voice: "Team leader, can we sing or not?"

"Sing!" The troupe leader thought that if he didn't perform because of this, and if he didn't talk about the old men of Beihai Navy, the troupe's signboard would be ruined.Fortunately, there are no "Huang Shiren" scenes in the next three scenes, and there are not many libretto in the eighth scene, so it can be dealt with by temporarily catching someone to replace it.

After a chaotic farce, the "White-haired Girl" was not finished until dark.Because going to the countryside to perform was a task arranged by the Wendeng Military Control Committee, and it also allocated special funds, so the troupe didn't have to ask the audience for rewards.

The villagers dispersed happily, but the theater troupe couldn't go back to Ninghaizhou County today. The troupe leader found the security chief to discuss it. Tonight, everyone will build a bunk on the stage to deal with it overnight.

A stove was built out of a few earthen bricks, a fire was lit, a large aluminum pot was set up, and two barrels of water were drawn from the well in the village.When the water was gurgling to a boil, the noodles were mixed and cut into noodles the size of chopsticks.

While the white gas was rising, the noodles were thrown into the pot.And on another earthen stove, a large pot of seafood stew mixed with dried shrimp, dried razor clams, canned meat and cabbage leaves has been boiled.The frozen white grease and pieces of meat were put into the pot, and soon the air around the stage was filled with the tangy aroma of animal fat, making everyone who smelled it salivate.

Several middle-aged and idlers were attracted by the fragrance, and they stood in the shadows more than 20 steps away and watched enviously, and the halazi dripped down the corners of their mouths without disappointment.

"You guys don't go home, why don't you leave this stuff? Go away! Go home, everyone is ashamed."

Chief Jia, who was invited to dinner by the class leader before, came with a bag in his hand, followed by a big black man, it was Li Dachun who came to the stage to beat people in the afternoon.

Li Dachun put his hands in his sleeves at this moment, bowed his body with his waist bent, his eyes quickly fell on the cauldron full of brine, and after a while, his nostrils fanned, his throat kept moving, and he swallowed his saliva .

"Nen, stay here honestly. When someone comes out, follow Mr. Liu's instructions and make up for it."

"Uncle, don't worry."

"Oh~~ What a fucking treasure!"

The Baochang left, and Li Dachun stood alone in the open space.When the noodles in the cauldron are cooked, the person in charge of the spoon first asks the class leader and Jia Chang to bring two bowls, and then greets other people. More than 20 troupe members gathered around with bowls of hula. They first filled half a bowl of noodles, and then filled a spoonful of marinade from another pot, then sat down in a shelter from the wind, and ate with satisfaction. .

Whenever someone walks by with a bowl full of noodles, Li Dachun stretches his neck unconsciously to take a look.It's a pity that everyone in the troupe ignored him, especially the male actor who played "Xi'er", who even "hummed" when he passed by.

"Mother, these opera singers really eat well."

While thinking about it, he saw Yang Ertang with a bruised nose and a swollen face coming out from behind the stage with a big bowl, and Li Dachun hurriedly got up to meet him.

Although it was dark at this time, the bonfire used to keep warm in the open space was burning vigorously, and there was still a bright lantern hanging beside the stage.Out of the corner of Yang Ertang's eyes, he caught a glimpse of a black figure approaching. He hurriedly turned his head and found that it was the guy who hit him in the afternoon. His face drooped immediately, and he raised his hand and pointed at him, saying, "What are you doing! Don't come here!" !"

His little injury was actually not serious, but his front teeth were missing, which made him look ugly, and his speech was leaking.However, there is a tooth filling shop in the county town of Ninghai Prefecture, and even if the tooth cannot be found, it can be re-inserted.

Dental filling technology in ancient China has existed since the Tang Dynasty. "Xinxiu Materia Medica" records the synthesis of white tin, silver thinner and mercury, which can be regarded as the earliest silver amalgam tooth filling technology.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the places where teeth were filled in the market were called "butth filling shops", and teeth fillings were not a problem.

Li Dachun waved his hands hastily, and argued: "Second brother Yang, I came with Wang Jiachang, and I want to make amends to you. In the next afternoon, Master Liu and Wang Jiachang pouted me, I knew I was wrong. I was just a fool, I'm so sorry!" After saying that, he pulled his hand out of the sleeve and made a big bow to the other party.

Seeing this, Yang Ertang couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said embarrassingly: "Forget it, if I go to the theater again in the future, it won't be like this."

"Hey!" Although Li Dachun agreed, he didn't move his feet, and his eyes couldn't stop looking a dozen steps away.

Don't look at Yang Ertang kicking Li Dachun angrily in the afternoon, he was beaten urgently, in fact he is not a bad person.So he hesitated for a while and said, "Have you eaten your supper tenderly?"

People in Jiaodong call eating "dai", but it actually means "eat".

Li Dachun said embarrassedly when he heard the words: "No, no. I eat enough for one person, and the whole family is not hungry."

Yang Ertang thought for a while, then turned his head and touched it, and saw that the male role of "Xi'er" was squatting in front of the sink and slowly washing the dishes, so he said loudly: "Cui Cui, are you finished eating?"

"Hmm. What's the matter?"

"Lend me the bowl of tenderness, and I will wash it for you after you take it off (after a while)."

As I said before, female actresses were banned in the Qing Dynasty, so no matter what theatrical troupe, dan roles such as Tsing Yi and Hua Shan were played by men, and some male actors even had their feet bound when they were young.In this way, many male dancers gave themselves a female name.In history, the appearance of Kunling in the Qing Dynasty had to wait until after the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and they were not allowed to enter the background.

The one who plays "Xi'er" is also a real master, who was raised as a girl since she was a child, and her actions are no different from that of a girl.He is not the same as Wei Changsheng, the leader of the wild fox is pretending to be real on stage, and after taking off the makeup, he is a man with a hooked nose and pimple eyebrows;If it weren't for the repeated explanations from the previous troupe, Li Dachun would never have believed that the other party was a man.

After eating a large bowl of stewed noodles, Li Dachun couldn't get enough of it, but it was a pity that there were only so many noodles.He greedily licked off the leftovers of soup hanging on the wall of the bowl, and then filled the bowl of noodle soup and sipped it.A long-term laborer like him, except for the wheat harvest and the New Year's festival, hardly has enough to eat throughout the year.Although Chinese New Year is coming soon, but his house is barren, and it would be nice to be able to eat a few sorghum noodles on New Year's Eve, so this meal of noodles is definitely a surprise for him.

While pulling noodles, Yang Ertang looked at Li Dachun beside him. Suddenly, he remembered what the people from the Ninghai Prefecture Military Management Committee said before. If anyone can introduce honest and responsible villagers to serve as soldiers, each head will give five silver dollars. introduction fee.He rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Nen is so delicious, why not join the Beihai Navy, the state city is recruiting people."

"Being a soldier?" Li Dachun shook his head upon hearing this. "Master Liu once said that good iron doesn't make nails, and good men don't serve as soldiers. I used to go to the seaside with him to collect goods, but I saw soldiers from the Green Camp. I heard that they couldn't eat enough for their salary, and they were all hungry. His eyes are glowing green."

"Cut~~" Yang Ertang said disdainfully: "Can the green battalion compare with the Beihai soldiers? They can only run away in front of the Beihai soldiers! To tell you the truth, when I was rehearsing in Wendeng, I was in the same pot with the Beihai soldiers. People eat It's good, there is meat every day, and three meals a day of dry rice and white noodles are enough. The life of the county magistrate can't compare to it."

"You said Jin?" Li Dachun's saliva gushed out again.

"Don't dare~~ Let's talk about this canned meat. Our theater troupe would be reluctant to eat it like a treasure, but the Beihai soldiers are tired of eating it."

Li Dachun apologized and said with a smile: "Second brother, you are joking, how can you get tired of eating meat?"

"Do you know how much they pay each month?" Yang Ertang handed the chopsticks from his right hand to his left, then stretched out his five fingers, turned them over again, and said, "This is the amount!"

Li Dachun said: "One hundred Wen? That's not much. I can still earn sixty Wen by working part-time a month!"

"You fat man! It's ten white silver dollars, worth two taels of silver!"

"Pfft~~" Li Dachun almost choked to death on a mouthful of noodle soup, and spat it out violently.He hastily lifted the bowl to the ground and counted with his fingers.

"Twenty taels of silver a month, isn't it ten or twenty taels of silver that year! I have enough money to build a house and marry a wife!"

Li Dachun slapped his thigh, excitedly said: "Second brother Yang, isn't that a lie to me?"

Yang Ertang rolled his eyes and said, "What's the benefit of cheating on me? Another fist?"

"Hey, Second Brother Yang, I've already made up for you, why are you still mentioning this?" Li Dachun scratched his head, and said with a smirk, "Second Brother, who did you say I'm going to find? I haven't even entered the state. What about the city?"

Yang Ertang said: "How about this, the theater troupe will return to Ninghai Zhoucheng early tomorrow morning. If Nen wants to go, come here in the morning to help pack the cart. When I arrive at Zhoucheng, I will take Nen to register with the Military Control Commission."

"Second brother, the day after tomorrow will be thirty, can this be done?"

"Why can't it work? To tell you the truth, the old men of Beihai Navy don't have the rules of sealing during Chinese New Year."

With this said, Li Dachun came with a burden at dawn the next day, and he was not the only one who came, there were more than twenty.These men were pushing several wheelbarrows, and a few others carried clubs.

Yang Ertang was quite excited at first, thinking that all these people were going to serve in the army.He thought that the punch was not in vain, and he could make a lot of money. Who knew that after asking Li Dachun, he found out that these villagers planned to go with the theater troupe and go to the county to fetch food.

"Nen is only going to get the food now? Tomorrow will be thirty!"

After hearing Yang Ertang's words, all the villagers didn't say anything, but hurriedly helped the troupe load their things into the carriage so that they could go on the road quickly.

The arable land in Dengzhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty was very poor. People at the time described it as "Pyongyang without fifty miles", and it was the area with the most serious food shortage in Shandong.There is not enough food to make ends meet in good harvest years, let alone a famine.During the Qianlong period, with the population growth, the food demand became more and more prominent. Every year, hundreds of thousands of shi of grain were imported from Fengtian by sea trade.

Basically, from the 52nd year of Qianlong, with the expansion of the Manchu Qing army in the Northeast, most of the grain produced in Fengtian was sent to the front line of Ula in Jilin, so the grain in Dengzhou Prefecture could only be imported from the south of the Yangtze River.The problem is that Jiangnan does not produce sorghum, only rice, which is not used to by ordinary people in Dengzhou. In addition, rice is more expensive than sorghum, so it has become normal for farmers to not have enough to eat in recent years.

After the Northern Navy occupied the four counties of Dengzhou, both land and sea trade were cut off.Liu Yong intends to use this move to let Beihai Town quickly ship the people away, and then get out quickly.

However, Man Qing's calculations were obviously wrong, and Beihai Town had already prepared for this.You must know that Longmen Port in the northern part of Ninghai Prefecture is one of the four major ice-free ports in the world for later generations. From October 1793 to January 10, with the full cooperation of the Navy, Minzheng successively transferred tens of thousands of tons of wheat from Beihai Town .

Because of Li Bi's proposal, Kong Shao'an decided to distribute relief tickets to poor households in cities and villages through the "household review" method, and ordinary people can go to the county to receive food by using the tickets.In order to prevent what Li Bi called "necessary extortion and extortion of price", the military management of the four counties did not use subordinate officials from the Qing Dynasty, but sent a work team to the countryside to conduct household examinations in accordance with the principle of "first distant and then near".

The household examination work in Chuiliu Village was completed as early as the end of November, but none of the villagers dared to move after taking the relief ticket.You must know that under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it cost a certain amount of money to receive the relief ticket, and it also cost a certain amount of money to receive the food with the relief ticket, otherwise you would not get a grain of food.Although the work team didn't ask for money when they issued the relief tickets, and they also said that they don't need to pay for the food, but these rural people dare not believe it, they have suffered too much from this!
Who doesn't know that the government has always been a fool since ancient times, who has to believe that it is a fool!

It just dragged on for several days, and seeing that tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, many families in Chuiliu Village are already running out of food, and if they don't go to receive relief, they will not be able to survive this year.So each family in the village gritted their teeth and pooled up half a penny, and the landlord in the village borrowed two pennies before they dared to leave.As for going to Ninghai Prefecture with the theater troupe, the main reason is to worry about being robbed.

Later generations are most familiar with the thieves in Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties as "Thieves".It is so called because these men will shoot a whistle-mounted arrow before launching their raids.However, the thieves in Shandong are generally concentrated in Linqing and Jining, where merchants are busy, and the Jiaodong area is the "old melon thief" who roams around and commits crimes.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those who were in charge of boxing, performing arts, and running and undressing horses were collectively called "guazi".These guys like to pretend to be merchants and beggars, and travel among them, and they usually do it in remote and deserted villages.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty experienced three generations of Kang, Yong and Gan, and always regarded the governance of the "old melon thieves" in the five northern provinces as a priority for the people, and also established a relatively complete arrest system.But as the Northern Navy seized the four counties of Jiaodong, when the two sides advanced and retreated, there was a vacuum in civil security, and the "old melon thief" who had disappeared appeared again.
(End of this chapter)