When the time came, the familiar curtain in the theater was closed again, and most of the surrounding lanterns were extinguished, leaving only a small number of lanterns.
Then, a low voice narrated.
"At the end of the Eight Kings Rebellion, during the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms, all life in the Central Plains was devastated, and the people were in dire straits. When a country had no foundation, monsters were born. Therefore, many monsters and ghosts appeared in various places among the people."
"During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there was such a scholar named Ning Caichen. He had a generous temperament and good conduct."
With the voice of the narration, the curtain on the stage slowly opened, and Ning Caichen also appeared on the stage carrying a book basket. When he saw Ning Caichen, Li Ke nodded with satisfaction. This makeup technique was good.
In this era, it is impossible for later generations to say that they devote themselves to art, so Ning Caichen naturally disguised herself as a man, and was played by another young lady from Mingyue Tower who looked more androgynous.
After dressing up like a scholar, there is no sense of violation at all.
When Ning Caichen appeared, he first showed his integrity through a few small things he did in a small town he came to. Until he was about to go to another county, a restaurant owner in the town told him that he had gone out of business. After the city, you would rather stay in the wilderness than go to a temple in the suburbs: Lanruo Temple, because there are female ghosts haunting there, and they murder the lives of passers-by through seduction.
Hearing the name Lanruo Temple, many people in the audience raised their eyebrows slightly. Although there were not as many Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty as there were during Wu Zetian's time, there are already many now, so it is natural for those among the nobles to believe in Buddhism. There is.
Are there ghosts in this Buddhist temple? Just such a place of contrast and conflict shows what kind of ghost world this is.
Although Ning Caichen smiled on the surface and thanked the shop owner for the reminder, after he left the city, he said through his narration: "A man born in heaven and earth, how can he be confused by these monsters and monsters?"
After saying that, Ning Caichen walked towards the wilderness. At this time, the curtain was closed, and then quickly opened again, and then two brand new characters appeared on the stage.
These two people are naturally Yan Chixia and Xia Hou. Li Ke's entire story line is basically adapted from Wang Zuxian's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" that he has watched, but the character settings have been changed.
Because Li Ke has not read the original Pu Songlin novel, he naturally does not know how the original Nie Xiaoqian acted. However, the TV series and the stage play are connected to a certain extent, so Li Ke followed the TV series.
But in fact, these two people are not the hidden protagonists of Li Ke's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story". It seems that the male protagonist is Yan Chixia, but in fact Li Ke elevated Zuo Qianhu in the Hong Kong version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" trilogy to this level Inside one.
But he was not Zuo Qianhu, but Lao Liu, a government soldier who had just finished fighting, had a broken finger and was disabled, escorting his comrades who died in the battle from his hometown.
That's right, he didn't have a name from beginning to end, he only had one name: Lao Liu.
Throughout the first half of the play, he seemed like an ordinary person, and the ordinary people who died among the female ghosts were no different.
When he reaches the second half, the strength he bursts out will become one of the important combat forces in destroying the Dryad Lao Lao. Of course, this old Liu actually represents the "setting" thrown out by Li Ke.
What settings? A soldier who is upright in heart and protects his family and country has a masculine spirit in his heart, is not afraid of monsters and monsters, and is born to be the nemesis of countless ghosts. Although he is ordinary, he has the destiny of the country!
To put it bluntly, it means cheating reasonably.
Performances on the stage kept appearing, and everyone had gathered at Lanruo Temple. Before they entered Lanruo Temple, with the faint sound of a piano and a female singing, there was only simple singing without lyrics, and with this What appeared in the scene was a shallow pool of water sunken under the stage that was characteristic of the stage.
In the soup pool, a woman in ancient costume was dancing gracefully. When the woman appeared, everyone in the audience couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and suddenly widened their eyes.
Those fair and slender legs were vaguely displayed between the long robes, and the highest part even reached the roots of the thighs. The incomparable charm in every gesture dazzled everyone. When had they ever seen a performance of this level?
Well, that's about it
The key point is that the dancer, whose clothes were constantly getting wet with water, looked at the looming temptation, and no one knew how to make a sound. The people eating stopped what they were doing, and some even sat lazily. Everyone in the chair sat up straight.
People sitting in the back row kept craning their necks.
Although the clothes were wet, all the important parts were covered by thick clothes that were impermeable even when wet, so you couldn't actually see anything. But the more it was like this, the more it made all men's throats ache. surge.
Do you test people with a female ghost of this level?
This... they all suddenly understood how the female ghosts who entered Lanruo Temple died.
Seeing the performance of everyone below, Li Ke nodded with satisfaction. Only through this performance can the protagonist's strength and integrity be compared. Otherwise, how will the subsequent plot progress?
When the entire stage play was more than halfway advanced, everyone was completely attracted, especially some of the Taoist priest Yan Chixia's methods, which were formally taught by Yuan Tiangang and others, including various methods of praying to gods, moving talismans, etc. The methods are endless, rather than just two sentences from beginning to end.
And when the grandma appeared for the first time and tried to hurt everyone, a sudden, somewhat damaged steel knife stopped directly in front of everyone.
The super swordsman Xia Hou, who had just competed with Yan Chixia, could not resist the fine steel sword in his hand, but the tree demon's branch was blocked by a somewhat damaged steel sword.
Not only that, this man who was dressed in shabby clothes and not handsome in appearance, which was in sharp contrast to the tall attire of Yan Chixia and others, used some clumsy but effective moves to block all the tree demon branches attacking the three people.
Then the tree demon grandma was "scared" and retreated directly, preparing to let everyone go.
When the tree demon was fighting with Lao Liu, Ning Caichen and others next to him naturally asked why this ordinary man could block such a powerful tree demon. At this time, it was natural for Yan Chixia, a "professional", to explain to them. , which also explains Li Ke’s setting to the audience.
After listening to it, everyone on the stage suddenly realized that this...makes sense!
After spending a peaceful night, Yan Chixia and others took Ning Caichen to dig up Nie Xiaoqian's ashes the next day and told everyone to leave quickly. This is also different from the original work.
But just when all of them were about to leave, the soldier, Old Liu, who regarded several jars as treasures, silently put down the jars, stood up and said something ordinary.
"I won't leave, I'm going to kill it." Lao Liu's words were simple.
"But you can't defeat him alone, you will die." Yan Chixia said.
"Then I'll just go down and meet them." Lao Liu said nothing and stepped directly into Lanruo Temple again.
