Director of the Centre

Chapter 13 Nonsense
Han Lu has been a class leader since high school, and has joined the student union in college. He has excellent language expression skills. When he speaks "Du Shiniang", it is really ups and downs and bullying, and the eloquence is beautiful.

The story of Du Shiniang comes from the Ming Dynasty novel "Three Words and Two Beats", which is one of the famous stories.It was later adapted into Peking Opera, Henan Opera, Huangmei Opera, and Yue Opera, and was loved by the majority of opera fans.

Although Sichuan opera is noisy, there are also a lot of literary dramas in it. Classics like Du Shiniang naturally want to sing.

The Sichuan Opera "Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Box in Anger" is no different from the stories of several other local operas. The story tells that in ancient times, there was a brothel girl named Du Shiniang, who was born ashamed of flowers, closed moon, sinking fish and wild goose.

Although she has been reduced to prostitution since she was a child, she is unwilling to be at the mercy of fate, and she is devoted to good deeds.In the brothel, she met Li Jia, a son of a rich family, and they fell in love with each other sincerely.

After their lingering for more than a year, Li Jia was so ashamed that he wandered the streets all day long.

Du Shiniang wanted to stay with Li Jia long-term, so the provocateur made the bustard agree: As long as Li Jia pays 300 taels of silver within ten days, Du Shiniang will be set free.

Du Shiniang gave Li Jia 150 taels of silver and asked him to raise the other half.

At that time, she had already accumulated a large amount of gold, silver and jewels, and put them in a treasure chest, which was worth tens of thousands of gold.The reason why she didn't directly give Li Jia 300 taels of silver was because she wanted to test whether her future husband was sincere to her and whether she was willing to risk everything for love.

Fortunately, Li Jia did not disappoint Du Shiniang, so he borrowed the remaining money and redeemed himself for his lover.The two went home happily, and because they were so happy, Du Shiniang sang at the bow of the boat.This singing caused trouble, and the singing sound caught the ears of Sun Fu, a wealthy businessman who was passing by.

As soon as he saw Du Shiniang's peerless face, Sun Fu was fascinated and persuaded Li Jia, "If you marry a brothel girl and go home, will your parents agree, and what should others think of you?"It's better to sell Du Shiniang to me for a thousand gold.

Li Jia was persuaded by Sun Fu and was greedy for a huge sum of money, so he agreed.

When Du Shiniang found out, all thoughts were lost.She pretended to agree with their deal, but then opened the treasure chest in public during the official transaction, angrily scolded the treacherous and unscrupulous people, and threw the treasure chest into the river to die.

This play is indeed quite tragic, a good mango picking festival, singing such a song, the center is indeed ill-considered, no wonder Li Caochang is dissatisfied.

It's just that it takes at least half a month to rehearse a scene, and it's too late to change it temporarily.

The most important thing now is to appease Li Caochang.

Therefore, Han Lu slightly changed the ending of the story.

Said loudly, and said that Du Shiniang committed suicide by diving into the water, drifting with the current, and seeing that she was about to die, it happened that a young man passed by.

This hero is a famous hero. He was born handsome and majestic in his weak crown. He is a hero like a jade unicorn.I have a car and a house in the city, my parents are both dead, and I enjoy fishing here today.

A net went down, but there was a big living person in the net.

After rescuing Du Shiniang, he asked the reason, and the hero was filled with righteous indignation.Saying please don't wait, he picked up the boat and chased after him, chopping up the heartless Li Jia and the wealthy businessman Sun Fu one by one and feeding them to the fish.

Du Shiniang was grateful for the hero's life-saving grace, so she married him.After the two salvaged the treasure at the bottom of the water, they lived happily together ever since.

……

After listening to Han Lu finish this story, Li Caochang was dumbfounded: "The good "The Treasure Box of Rage" was turned into "Fishing and Killing" by you, did you make it up?"

Han Lu: "What nonsense, the old artists in our center are very capable of creating. Who said that old dramas cannot be changed. The center has also created many modern Sichuan operas over the years. Isn't he also well received by the audience? In my opinion, there are a lot of feudal dross in the traditional repertoire, which must be changed. For example..."

"for example?"

"For example, in The Legend of the White Snake, Xu Xian even doubts his own wife. He is a good bastard. Why did the green snake steal the fairy grass to save him? This drama needs to be changed; another example is that in "Hu Family Village", all Hu Sanniang's family was trapped in Liangshan. Killed all, but she wants to marry Wang Xiaohu, instead of fighting to the death, is this still human, worse than animals; another example is Xue Pinggui in "Wujiapo", who married the princess of Xiliang, but pretended to be a passerby to molested him The original partner, a big bastard, this kind of person cannot be forgiven, he deserves..."

Taking advantage of the wine, Han Lu rushed to the train.

Li Caochang murmured: "Change it all, change it all... My mind is a little messed up, let me think about it... just say that the ending of this play is actually quite good, the key is to have fun. Yes, to be happy, it's very right for me appetite."

While talking, he laughed and slapped his thigh hard.

The other villagers shouted at the same time: "Yes, the story has to be changed like this, refresh yourself, and be energetic!"

Seeing that the atmosphere was harmonious, Han Lu took advantage of the opportunity to talk about his purpose of coming here: "It's good to have a good time, doesn't this person just want to have a good time? Li Zhishu, you may not know the situation of our cultural center. There is only 200 yuan left, which is only enough to buy a bus ticket. Look... can you find two cars for me? It doesn’t have to be too good, a bus for people, and a truck for props and musical instruments. In addition, actors are in Your village doesn’t give you money for food and lodging!”

Li Caochang was also straightforward: "Xiao Han, today I hit it off with you, seeing you is like seeing a real brother. It's money, paper."

Han Lu said, Li Ge is straightforward and open-minded. On behalf of the artists who came to perform, I thank you on behalf of Director Yang. This is a deal.

"Don't be too busy, I haven't finished my sentence yet, it's wine, water."

Han Lu understood, picked up the wine glass, and said, "Thank you, brother Li, this glass will be finished first, you can do whatever you want." He raised his head and drank it down.

Li Caochang did not move: "A glass of wine can get rid of me? Xiao Han, you are not authentic!"

Han Lu nodded: "That's right, I accepted Li Zhishu's favor today, you have the final say on how to drink this wine. Ten cups and eight cups, you show your way."

"Ten cups and eight cups are enough? You have more than 50 people here this time, count as 50 people. One or two cups, one cup per person, you mean that they have all drank."

"Fifty cups, five catties." Han Lu was taken aback, "Li Zhishu, you're not joking, right? Leaving aside the amount of alcohol, I have to pretend to have such a big belly?"

The smile on Li Caochang's face suddenly disappeared: "Why, you don't give face? You have state funding in your center, and you eat imperial food. You don't know how to save money, and you can't even make up for the travel expenses. Who is to blame? What? The picking festival can’t be done this time. It’s your center to eat officials’ beards, not me. If you are sincere, drink the wine. Otherwise, you won’t give me Li Caochang, and you won’t give Pingdi Village face. Everyone Say, is that the truth?"

All the villagers said at the same time: "Yes, the grass grower is right, if you don't have a drink, we won't find this car."

"Xiao Han, do you want to drink?"

"Han Lu, are you still a man?"

"If you don't drink, just pretend you didn't say anything about it."

……

Only then did Han Lu understand why Yang Guang asked him to come to Pingdi Village to drink, not to mention that the actors don't drink at all, even if ordinary people come, he will fall down after fifty glasses.

The leaders of the center see that they can drink enough, and they are young and strong, so they will not die on the drinking table on duty.

This year, Han Lu was 25 years old, young and vigorous. Seeing Li Cao's narrow face, he refused to admit defeat. He slapped the table and shouted: "Wine, water, drink it, but you can drink it." I have to make a deal. After drinking Brother Li, you have to find me a good car, you can’t ask for the liberation of the bus company, it has to be a King Long, with air conditioning.”

With a wave of Li Cao's long hand, someone immediately brought over a square table with fifty cups of sweet potato wine neatly placed on it, and placed it in front of Han Lu.

It turned out that they had already prepared.

Han Lu yelled: "It's too troublesome to drink a cup. Get a melon ladle and pour it in. Brother Pao will never loosen it."

(End of this chapter)