Lu Cheng ignored her, she was completely focused on the performance itself. 【Read the latest chapter】
Very exquisitely made puppet characters appeared on the stage. Unlike the puppet shows she had seen before, this puppet show had no lyrics, only narration.
Dao Bai spoke in "Newspeak", and after several weeks of intensive practice in Mandarin, Lu Cheng could roughly understand it.
At the beginning, it was a village with beautiful mountains and clear waters, where the people lived a stable and peaceful life.
Farmers cultivated the land, and blacksmiths forged iron to make farm tools.
Goods are sold in the shop.
A peaceful atmosphere.
Below is a casual conversation between several puppet characters about farming and life, which made the students below feel very friendly.
Then came the role of a young teacher.
This teacher obviously has something to do with the shop owner's daughter.
The two puppet characters each sang a long verse of love and concubine love.
Then, a little abruptly, the scholar began to talk to the peasants about government affairs: the imperial court's defeat in Liaodong, the rebellion in Shaanxi, and the education of his son into the customs.
In Beizhili, they captured the city, raped, plundered, and committed all kinds of evil. The soldiers reached directly under the walls of the capital. The court was afraid of the enemy and did not dare to fight... All this was new to the tasters.
Because these things are only vaguely mentioned at home, and only those who are literate and willing to subscribe to "Lingao Times" know about them.
Now that there is such a detailed explanation, everyone listens very carefully. Many people gasp when they hear the tragic situation of the people who have been affected by war and natural disasters.
Wu Mu carefully observed the expressions of the audience, thinking that if there was any play in another time and space that recited the news reports in the newspaper in such a long way, I am afraid the audience would have shouted "refund".
After all, it’s a blank piece of paper that’s easy to draw on.
Zhao Manxiongski frowned: The publicity effect is good, but this current news can arouse such great interest from the audience, which fully shows that the publicity department is not doing enough.
The current affairs news broadcast that lasted for more than a year was over, and the first act was over.
A few minutes later came the second act.
Accompanied by a sneaky and eerie soundtrack, the curtain opens to reveal the scenery of the county government office.
The county magistrates, masters and government officials are discussing how to collect the extra Liao wages this year and how to get more benefits for themselves from the extra Liao wages.
Not only are the facial expressions of several characters either vicious or ugly, but their lines are also extremely vicious.
For example, "Poor people are just pebbles, but they squeeze out three ounces of oil without killing them. How can we eat meat? People are bitches, and they must be severely beaten to obey." All the students looked silent and angry.
Wu Mu knew that everyone was getting into the fun.
Even someone like Wu Mu, who doesn't care about historical details, knows this.
This scene is different from the real scene.
But it doesn't matter.
A little exaggeration and concentration are necessary to arouse the hatred of the masses.
Then came the discussion of various poisonous schemes to record the people. The time traveler had all kinds of time in his hands, no matter which time and space, all of them were condensed and gathered.
The students below were all gnashing their teeth.
The third act begins to enter the final part, when the government officials enter the village and begin to collect grain and taxes.
Smashing and looting along the way.
He bullied men and women, and even snatched away the widow's last chicken. When the widow cried that she had nothing, she began to pick up the house and sell the straw on the roof.
"I even want rotten straw! I want to demolish the house.
Where people live.
It's really heartless. "
Someone was muttering.
Someone was sobbing quietly.
Obviously the screenwriter doesn't want people to place hatred only on grassroots cadres such as county magistrates and government officials.
In order not to encourage their thinking pattern of "the emperor is a wise man, but the crooked-mouthed monk below is reciting the sutras incorrectly", another eunuch riding a horse appeared, and the eunuch announced the imperial edict as soon as he arrived.
He said he wanted to do a beauty pageant for the emperor.
Then there is the plot of snatching women everywhere, and after the snatching, the eunuch and the local official Haoshen secretly divide the women together, and even add a plot of the eunuch taking concubines.
It is well known that eunuchs do not have that function. I heard that eunuchs who marry wives do not have to take concubines.
The students present looked very angry.
Especially the male students.
The next scene of the village changed from beautiful scenery to a lifeless one. Houses were destroyed and collapsed everywhere, and there was even a hanging puppet hanging on the set of a big tree.
The music became sombre.
The puppets shown in the first act are now dressed in rags to indicate their poverty.
Just when the owner of the only shop was panicking, another government official came and asked him to "become a comprador", so another tragedy happened.
Just as the plot unfolded, the shop owner committed suicide due to bankruptcy.
Her son was taken away and her whereabouts were unknown. When her daughter was raped and sold to a brothel, Yao Yulan suddenly heard Lu Cheng beside her sobbing softly. When she looked back, Lu Cheng put a handkerchief in her mouth and suppressed it. He was crying and his face was already full of tears.
Yao Yulan knew that this love affair aroused her sadness, so she comforted her and said, "Stop crying, this is a show!" Lu Cheng shook her head and suppressed the cry in her throat. Yao Yulan couldn't understand it. She didn't know what it was like for her whole family to wander on the road and starve; she didn't know that her relatives were dying of illness but couldn't even drink porridge. I don’t know the feeling; I don’t know the fear and despair of losing everything and embarking on an unknown journey.
She had gradually forgotten these feelings in the past, and sometimes she deliberately did not think about them.
But this meeting was all brought up by the drama.
"Oh, you are so." Yao Yulan wanted to say that she was too sentimental. Look at how many people were sobbing around her. "Although some people were not crying, there were tears in their eyes."
Stop crying and enjoy the show. "
Yao Yulan comforted her.
She sympathized with the characters in the play and her classmates, but her sympathy was general, and it was different from what most people felt.
Then the scholar went to Fucheng to complain, was kicked out, and then was framed. Finally, the scholar led the blacksmith in the village to rise up, beat away the government officials, and killed the secretary.
Lover rescued from brothel.
At the end of the first half, although the village was in tatters, it began to regain its vitality, the displaced people came back to rebuild their homes, and the scholar and his lover finally got married." The lighting that symbolized the sun illuminated the stage extremely brightly.
Wu Mu was so surprised that he could hardly close his mouth. The level of this puppet show was so high! The plot was a bit patchwork, but the puppets' movements, dialogues and special effects were all beyond his expectations. In Wu Mu's concept, puppet shows are just for children.
I didn’t expect to be able to perform such a complicated plot! Take advantage of the light to return to the house.
He observed the students.
I felt that many people cried just now. "The effect is really good."
Most of the girls team burst into tears. There were only two people who didn't cry. One was Yao Yulan, who looked quite embarrassed because she couldn't express sadness and was out of tune with the people around her.
The other one was Yang Cao, completely expressionless.
Such powerful tear gas is ineffective. Is there really something wrong with this poplar grass? Wu Mu couldn't help but have a big question mark in his heart.
At the beginning of the second half, the village that has restored peace and harmony appears prosperous and peaceful.
The village has its own armed five puppet villagers. Under the leadership of the blacksmith, the villagers are full of enthusiasm, asking for knives and guns on the curtain.
Just then, a warning came.
The officers and soldiers are here! Everyone sounded the alarm and fought against the enemy together, and soon defeated the officers and soldiers.
There was a joy of victory.
What follows is a scene in which the government, seeing that it was impossible to fight, plotted to recruit troops.
Then there was a heated debate in the village over whether to accept the recruitment.
The blacksmith and the scholar insisted on "fighting to the end", but the villagers who had regained their strength believed that "you can't violate the king's law and live in fear all your life." The argument was so fierce that even Wu Mu looked a little fascinated.
At this critical juncture, government spies who had infiltrated into the country were lobbying the villagers everywhere, promising to "let forget the past" and promising "no conscription for three years." The villagers began to change their minds.
at last.
Incited by spies, the villagers arrested all the scholars, blacksmiths and others who presided over the riot and tied them to the government.
The scene in which several important figures were captured by the villagers and sent to the government caused a commotion in the audience below: "What is this! Ungrateful! Are you surrendering now, and are you not afraid of the government settling accounts later?" The students expressed their distress at the betrayal of the revolution by the masses. Sick look.
Then there was another courtroom scene with fierce arguments between the two sides. Wu Mu felt that this scene, from the lines to the plot, was similar to the reactionaries interrogating women in the revolutionary movies he had watched when he was a child. There were even words like "We can't kill them all." .
The next scene shows scholars, blacksmiths and others being pushed to the execution ground and beheaded. Among them, there are scholars who are like the communists in the movie and say righteously: "Your doom is coming! The fire of retribution is at the end of the world." Land!" After the leaders were executed, the government officers and soldiers returned to the village. The villagers who betrayed the riot leaders also did not end well, and received intensified revenge.
The village has returned to a desolate and gloomy scene, with many deserted graves, corpses and more people hanging from trees on the set.
In the last scene, the blacksmith's son and the scholar's wife were seen off by several people and fled to the south. He was going there to find the "hero who saved the country and the people." So the scene ended with the song "Send you off to the road." .
When the light came back on, the audience was still stunned. Such a gloomy ending was different from the dramas they had seen. Traditional dramas always have a bright ending, either "the winner in the hardships" or "the couple returns home." "Although the current ending has given some expectations, it is too miserable and many people are dissatisfied.
Some even said loudly: "Good people should not end up so miserably!" (To be continued u!~!
