Five days later, The Story of White Hair was officially staged at Caiyi Theater.
Because the Lu family's class was the best in rehearsal, Zhao Tong let the Lu family's class come on stage.
It was still on the open-air stage, and people still watched the show for free. This time, the garden even provided hot water to quench the thirst of the people watching and keep out the cold.
This white hair note is 50% off when it comes out. There is a big red paper posted outside. Today only the first 30% off will be shown.
Because it was a new play and there was hot water to drink, more people came to watch it than before. The theater could not accommodate it, and the walls and roofs of the people's homes outside were all covered.
As soon as the play started, it caused a sensation.
In order to create the atmosphere of a snowy night on New Year's Eve, Zhao Tong specially arranged for two people to scatter goose feathers on the top beam of the stage.
Against this background of heavy snow, Lu Youwang's daughter Lu Xiaoyu, who plays Le'er, wore a tattered red coat with reed flowers exposed, and took small steps on the stage.
Le'er opened her mouth and sang:
The north wind is blowing, the snowflakes are fluttering, the snowflakes are fluttering, the new year is here.
Daddy went out to avoid paying bills, but he still hasn’t paid back for seven days. I was waiting for Daddy at home, waiting for Daddy to come home to celebrate the New Year...
Although it was just the beginning, everyone in the audience was stunned. The drama at this time was a drama. There was a erotic section at the beginning, where four people performed a show, and then the dressed-up musicians played a few times. The people did not I’ve never seen this kind of thing that goes straight to the main show.
Because it was a novelty, everyone was attentive.
Zhao Tong was on the Fengwu Building nearby, drinking tea and looking at the open-air stage below.
At this time, the upstairs was full, and they were all invited by him to watch the show.
Needless to say, Miss, Su Shi, Zhou Chu, Qian Wenxi, Lei San in the mansion, a group of heroes led by Jian Suyi from Suiyulou, Qi Hongyu and Zhao Paner from outside, Zhu Xiaoyi and Lu Qiu from the dirty clothes gang, There are about 100 people in total.
Lei San and Zhu Xiaoyi stood behind Zhao Tong and winked. Lei San pursed his lips angrily, and Zhu Xiaoyi whispered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what is Ouyang Bei's acting profession?"
Zhao Tong put down his tea bowl and said, "He will act as a rogue and call him Ouyang Renzhi."
Lei San from the side chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, Ouyang Bei doesn't have to act deliberately when he plays a rogue, he can just act as he is."
Zhu Xiaoyi also said: "You see, Ouyang Bei has a rogue character."
Zhao Tong smiled and said nothing. After a moment, Zhu Xiaoyi suddenly said: "Come out, come out."
Everyone in the building immediately watched.
I saw Ouyang Bei dressed up like a gangster, with a few strokes of oil paint on his face, and walked onto the stage with a figure-footed step.
Su Shi wondered: "What is this kid holding in his hand?"
I saw Ouyang Bei holding a flower gun in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other.
He walked a few steps with crooked eyebrows, hummed a few more times, bowed and looked around and saw no one was around, so he showed a sly smile and sang:
Ask for rent, ask for rent, and ask for accounts.
I have four treasures hidden around me: an incense stick, a gun, a kidnapper and a basket.
When he saw his boss, he would burn incense, and when he saw his tenants, he would use his gun.
If you can, you can kidnap, if you can, you can kidnap!
Everyone watching the show upstairs was in an uproar, and Ding Daxie said bitterly: "You really don't need to act like a villain!"
Lei San said: "This is how Ouyang Bei usually behaves. He can't be said to be a scoundrel. The things he boasted about being a famous knight in the northwest are all nonsense in my opinion."
Zhu Xiaoyi also said: "You're right. He looked like this when he went to the fence before. There was no need to act at all. The damn thing this time was that his true nature was exposed."
At this moment, the people in the audience were also whispering to each other, and many people had expressions of disgust on their faces.
Tokyo is prosperous and business is booming, so the streets often breed rogues, gangsters, and other people who want to take advantage of the sidelines.
These people either bully the weak, oppress the people, extort, and do all kinds of bad things, or they are just brave and fierce, causing trouble all day long.
Lei San used to be a aggressive and aggressive gangster who was extremely unpopular with the people.
What the people hate the most is gangsters, who oppress good people, extort money, and do all kinds of evil. Gang gangs use their power to bully others, and they are specially used to be the backbone of officials or wealthy families, and they also do all kinds of bad things.
So as soon as they looked at Ouyang Renzhi's appearance and appearance on the stage, they basically guessed what he was doing. When they listened to the lyrics, they all felt itchy with hatred.
After Ouyang Bei finished singing, he monologued for a while on the stage, talking to himself about the despicable thoughts and sinister thoughts in his heart, and then went to knock on the door of Leer's house.
The first chapter of "White Hair" is over.
At this moment, everyone started talking, whether in the audience or in the building, and most of them were scolding Ouyang Renzhi. After all, he just had an inner monologue, and what he was going to do next was very bad and vicious.
Among the people watching the show in the audience were some gangsters from nearby. They were standing in front of the stage, shaking their heads. There were five or six of them, but no one dared to approach.
At this time, the people were angry because of the show, scolding and looking at the rogue.
The rogue laughed out loud at first, saying that the Ouyang Renzhi on the stage looked so much like him that he might be his counterpart on the street. However, under the angry eyes and expressions of the people, he gradually calmed down, and finally seemed to be unable to bear it. With so many people staring at him, he ducked down and ran away from the crowd in despair.
Zhao Tong saw all this, and the people were probably still afraid of the gangsters, but why did they dare to look at them coldly and scare the gangsters away at this moment?
Because there were many people at this time, everyone hated the rogue in their hearts, and everyone expressed the same anger. When the rogue felt it, his momentum weakened. Even if he usually dared to flee, he was now panicked and timid.
This is the power of unity.
Unity does not only require a large number of people, but also a common belief and a common goal to form an effect, and that effect is to unite as one.
Without a common goal and belief, it is just a mob.
The same goes for fighting on the battlefield. Everyone thinks about how to kill the enemy and win, regardless of life and death. Then the combat effectiveness of the army will naturally increase infinitely.
If everyone is thinking about how to save their lives and how to escape, then the outcome will naturally be that they will collapse at the first touch, break up in a panic, and defeat is self-evident.
At this time, the second part of the play began.
The noise in the audience calmed down, and the people began to watch the show.
Le'er and his father had never expected that on the night of New Year's Eve, the gentry would send gangsters to come to collect debts. They were all frightened and begged hard, hoping that the other party would allow them to spend the New Year.
Ouyang Renzhi laughed triumphantly and sang:
They all say that.
Poverty breeds treachery, wealth breeds conscience!
You old man has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, and I hide it in my heart. If you don’t have money, it’s just a disguise. But if you know where your arm can twist past your thigh, if you dare to deny it, you’ll be in trouble and lose your life!
After this part was sung, the already quiet stage suddenly boiled like a pot.
The people who come here to watch the theater are all ordinary people. There may be a few wealthy families, but most of them are ordinary people.
These ordinary people are actually the poor in Tokyo.
The so-called poor does not mean that one must not be able to open the pot at home, have no clothes to cover the body, have no food to eat, and beg on the street.
Life is difficult and difficult, life is difficult and embarrassing, life is tight, and they are all poor.
Tokyo is prosperous and lavish, but in the eyes of the nobles, scholars, wealthy merchants, ordinary people like them are poor, mud-legged, and low-income people.
In essence, they are not much different from the poor people in Jiangnan who lost their land and made a living by working as tenant servants for the gentry.
They also make a living by working for others or working hard. They usually live cautiously and lead a hard and tiring life.
Ouyang Renzhi's sentence "Poor people are treacherous, rich people have conscience" immediately stimulated them. They lived cautiously and did not dare to cause trouble. Being poor means being poor, but how did it become "poor people are treacherous"?
There are indeed some criminals among the poor, but are all officials good people? Aren't the people detained in Tai Prison and Dali Temple Prison the same people with turbans who violated the law?
Are there no rich merchants in Kaifeng Prison?
Can't one sentence describe all poor people as having evil intentions?
The people in the audience started shouting, and some shouted on the stage: That's nonsense, you're talking nonsense.
Others shouted: Distortion, this is a distortion.
Ouyang Bei didn't even look at them on the stage and hummed:
The master is absolutely right, there are thousands of acres of fertile land, someone is worried about him, and he cannot be kind to his tenant servants, so he has to find a way to deceive him.
Today I will deceive people. As long as the hard work is paid, everything will no longer be left to him.
Zhao Tong looked down from upstairs and nodded: "Ouyang Bei did a good job!"
Lei San said: "Your Majesty, this doesn't look like acting to my subordinates. Maybe he has been a gangster before."
Zhao Tong smiled and shook his head: "Just wait and see!"
Ouyang Renzhi saw that Xin Bailao couldn't come up with the money to repay the debt, so he started to coax him into selling his daughter to pay off the debt. When Xin Bailao refused, Ouyang Renzhi used threats and inducements, both soft and hard, and even used a gun to frighten him. The father and daughter hid in the corner and cried holding each other's hands.
Xin Bai Lao sang:
It is reasonable to pay back debts, but what is the reason for robbing your daughter?
It's my fault that I can't pay you back, and I'm willing to do everything for the master.
Please let my daughter go!
When the second part of the play ended, the people in the audience were filled with indignation.
Let’s not talk about the level of the interest earned after nine outings and thirteen returns. In the play, it’s all said in vain. It’s not enough to be beheaded on trial, so why would you want to rob someone else’s daughter?
Some of the people in the audience borrowed this kind of money for emergencies. In less than a year, the interest rate doubled several times. When the time came to pay back the money, they sold their houses and almost shed a layer of their skin. Now that I saw what was happening in the play, I couldn't help but Just shed tears.
After a while, the third episode began.
Ouyang Renzhi came on stage with a group of doglegs, surrounded by the gentry Wang Shiren.
Then Ouyang Renzhi threatened again. The thugs even smashed everything in the house and forced Xin Bailao to put a pledge on Leer's deed of sale.
Xin Bailao refused to die, so he was pinned down on the table by his dog legs. Then Ouyang Renzhi grabbed his hand and forced it!
Then Leer was snatched away by the gentry Wang Shiren, and Xin Bailao stumbled after him, but was kicked down by Ouyang Renzhi, vomiting blood.
Xin Bailao looked at his daughter and cried heartbreakingly:
Oh my God, you are doing evil and doing good in a wrong way.
Earth, earth, you don’t distinguish between good and bad, what is earth?
Then he got up and hit his head on the door.
The third fold of "White Hair Story" ends.
The people in the audience were all dumbfounded. This was too tragic. The gentry Wang Shiren was cold and cruel, and Ouyang Renzhi was vicious and vicious. These are all evil people!
And what happened to Le'er after she was captured by Wang Shiren? Xin Bailao, her only relative, has committed suicide. What will she experience if she is taken into his home?
The people were still not satisfied and wanted to know how to perform next.
However, the theater had already posted a notice that the three-fold play would be performed today, and other dramas would not be performed, and the show was now over.
Lu Youwang went on stage to beat the gong, and the people slowly turned around and left. But unlike the past, this time they were scolded all the way.
However, it is obvious that more people scolded Ouyang Renzhi. It seemed that all the evil things were done by Ouyang Renzhi, and not many people scolded Wang Shiren, the mastermind behind it.
Zhao Tong couldn't help but frowned upstairs. This seemed to be a little different from what he thought!
He looked back at Lei San: "Is Ouyang Renzhi hateful?"
Lei San said: "It's so hateful, my subordinates wish they could jump on the stage and beat him up to relieve their anger!"
Zhao Tong nodded, becoming more and more confused, feeling that Lei San was biased and mistook Ouyang Renzhi for Ouyang Bei.
He looked back and saw Shi Qian chatting with Ding Erxie, and couldn't help but waved his hand.
Shi Qian trotted over and Zhao Tong asked, "Who is the most hateful on stage?"
Shi Qian said without thinking: "Your Majesty, of course it's Ouyang Renzhi!"
Zhao Tong wondered: "Ouyang Renzhi is just a rogue. Everything he did was ordered by Wang Shiren. Shouldn't Wang Shiren be the most hateful one?"
Shi Qian was stunned: "Your Majesty, Wang Shiren didn't beat anyone, nor did he force him to sign. These were all done by Ouyang Renzhi."
Zhao Tong thought for a while and suddenly said: "Which one is hateful, Xixia or Beiliao?"
Shi Qian immediately said: "Of course Xixia is the most hateful."
Zhao Tong thought about it after hearing this. In fact, many people in the Song Dynasty knew that some of Xixia's actions were actually instigated by the Liao Kingdom. Without the support and courage of the Liao Kingdom, Xixia would not dare to do many things, but it was Xixia that people hated the most. .
Isn't this similar to what's happening now?
He added: "What if Wang Shiren made these by himself?"
Shi Qian said: "My lord, that's hateful. It's just that Wang Shiren is a scholar and has the reputation of being a scholar..."
student? To win fame? Yes, yes.
Zhao Tong sighed in his heart when he heard this. He already understood the reason and knew that his thinking was too simple.
This was just an ordinary gentry, not a nobleman, so the people automatically ignored him and put most of their hatred on Ouyang Renzhi.
Think about that rogue in front of the stage. The people hate him, hate him, and dare to glare at him. What if he were replaced by a scholar with the same fame as Wang Shiren? Will people still do that?
The Song Dynasty gave preferential treatment to nobles and scholars for too long.
Zhao Tong glanced outside the building and could still hear the yelling in the distance. They were all scolding Ouyang Renzhi, but there were no words scolding Wang Shiren.
Things were a little different from what he thought. It was because he had ignored the status of noble scholars in the hearts of ordinary people for more than a hundred years.
It seems that it is not easy to light a fire without relying on illusory things like Mingjiao or Wang Qingliangshan's method of gathering bandits...
(End of chapter)
