From Chasing His Wife To the Top

The old man was very happy. He didn't expect that there are still young people willing to learn shadow play in such an impetuous society.

This surprised the old man.

Although his reason for learning shadow puppetry is a bit unreasonable.

But as long as it can bring joy to others, shadow puppetry has meaning.

The old man looked at Li Hao and said bluntly, "Just call me Grandpa Ge from now on."

"Yes, Grandpa Ge." Li Hao nodded.

He asked Li Hao: "Do you know anything about shadow puppetry?"

Li Hao replied: "Yes, I checked before. According to historical records, shadow puppetry began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and spread to West Asia and Europe during the Yuan Dynasty. It has a long history and a long history."

Grandpa Ge didn't express his opinion, but let him continue talking.

Li Hao shook out all the content he searched yesterday: "Shadow puppetry is a dramatic form that allows the audience to watch a kind of light and shadow performed by two-dimensional puppet through a white curtain to achieve artistic effect; , Usually it is a leather product made by folk artists by hand, knife carving and painting, so it is called shadow puppetry."

"Okay, stop." Hearing this, Grandpa Ge stopped and turned to look at Li Hao.

Li Hao wondered: "Why, what's the matter? Grandpa Ge, am I wrong?"

"Yes, but the premise of learning shadow puppetry is not to understand these things." Grandpa Ge explained: "First of all, you need to understand the production process of shadow puppetry. There are eight processes, such as coloring, sweating and ironing, embellishment and synthesis, young man, you have to learn all of these."

"In addition, we need to learn how to arrange lighting, which cannot be accomplished overnight."

Listening to what Grandpa Ge said, Li Hao understood that he was worried that he would retreat.

So Li Hao promised: "Don't worry, Grandpa Ge, I will never give up until I achieve my goal."

When Grandpa Ge heard this, he became very happy. He patted Li Hao on the shoulder and said comfortingly, "Your little girlfriend will be very happy knowing everything you have done for her!"

"I hope so, but I'm afraid I'll be embarrassed if the shadow puppet show I perform doesn't look good." Li Hao has always been confident in everything, but he is also a little apprehensive when facing a new field.

Grandpa Ge raised his eyebrows, "With me here, what are you afraid of, go, follow me into the house!"

Li Hao looked up and found that during the conversation, Grandpa Ge had brought him into a small courtyard.

It's not far from the community park. From a straight-line distance, it's only 100 meters long.

But because there are many alleys, the actual distance is a bit far.

Grandpa Ge took out the key, fiddled with it a few times, and opened the door.

He turned his head to look at Li Hao, and said with a smile, "Come on, come in quickly."

Li Hao walked in.

He glanced at the environment of the yard.

Two words, clean.

But Grandpa Ge still took the broom placed by the door, swept the ground seriously, and said, "This place was just swept this morning, why is there dust again?"

He immediately took Li Hao into the living room.

"Wait for me here, I'll go get the theater box."

Grandpa Ge walked in immediately, and after a while, there was an extra wooden box in his hand.

Li Hao looked at the box and found that the surface was very clean, as if it had been refurbished.

He hurried forward, wanting to help.

But Grandpa Ge shook his head: "No, no, I will do it myself."

He put the juggling box on the table.

Then opened the box.

He took out props one by one and explained: "This is shadow cloth, this is shadow puppetry"

Grandpa Ge set up a small table in the open space of the living room, surrounded by curtains, and asked Li Hao to move a long table on the edge of the front desk.

He set up a shadow screen on the case, and while he was busy, he explained to Li Hao: "This screen is commonly known as "shadow window". We have two types, one is screen window, and the other is paper window."

"Okay, close the door." After Grandpa Ge was ready, he asked Li Hao to close the door.

When the door is closed, the lights come on.

Li Hao saw a leather figure appearing on the curtain.

"Talk about the ancient stories in one mouth, and dance with millions of soldiers with both hands. Three feet live and rest, all with ten fingers to make humor. Sometimes under the bright moonlight window, a smile can still be mastered."

Grandpa Ge shouted loudly behind the curtain: "Today, let's talk about a famous passage in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Guan Gong Ji Kills Cai Yang"!"

After a while, the shadow puppets of Guan Gong appeared on the screen.

After Li Hao saw it, he couldn't help but be amazed.

One morning, Grandpa Ge performed three wonderful shadow plays for him.

They are "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "The Legend of Yue Fei", and "The General of the Yang Family".

It can be seen that Grandpa Ge was also a passionate man in the past.

Seeing that it was getting late, Li Hao said with concern: "Grandpa Ge, why don't you take a rest."

Grandpa Ge immediately put down the shadow puppet in his hand and sat down.

"By the way, does your little girlfriend know that you are going to play a shadow puppet for her?" Grandpa Ge asked while drinking tea.

Li Hao said with a smile: "I want to give her a surprise."

"That's right." Grandpa Ge said cheerfully, "I guarantee that she will be very moved when the time comes."

But at the same time, Li Hao was a little worried: "Grandpa Ge, this shadow puppetry can't be practiced in a day or two, and I don't have the foundation before that. Can I practice a shadow puppetry well in a month?"

Grandpa Ge waved his hand: "Don't worry, what I showed you just now is a professional version of shadow puppetry, you can't learn it."

Li Hao:.

"Then what should I do?" Li Hao asked.

"It's okay, I just need to teach you how to use the shadow puppets and master the plot, and you'll be fine. Of course, if you're going to perform or something in the future, you'll need to spend more time practicing."

Li Hao nodded when he heard it: "Then I am very grateful to Grandpa Ge."

"Well, why don't you eat here at noon today, and then I will teach you the most basic skills in the afternoon." Grandpa Ge said enthusiastically.

Li Hao thought for a while, and finally agreed.

In this way, during the two days of the weekend, apart from sleeping, he basically practiced shadow puppetry.

Before going to school, Grandpa Ge gave him two small shadow puppets and said, "You can practice the position of each character facing the wall at school, come on!"

"Yeah, thank you Grandpa Ge, thank you so much." Li Hao took the little shadow puppet, looked at the Guan Gong figure in his hand, and said gratefully.

"I want to thank you." Grandpa Ge said cheerfully, "I haven't played shadow puppets so happily for a long time, but I have a granddaughter who is about the same age as you. She used to play shadow puppets with me before, but now she is learning I was busy, so I didn't let her play."

Li Hao promised: "It's okay, Grandpa Ge, after this surprise, I will bring her to you and learn shadow puppets with you."

"Okay, okay, I welcome you very much." Grandpa Ge smiled: "I'm just bored right now, and no one will play with me."

He glanced at his watch and knew it was getting late, so he said, "Okay, hurry to school, or you'll be late later."

"Okay, goodbye, Grandpa Ge."

"Be careful on the road."

After bidding farewell to Grandpa Ge, Li Hao ran all the way to the bus stop.

Not far from the platform, he saw Luo Xiaoke wandering there.

"Xiao Ke." Panting, Li Hao stopped in front of her.

Luo Xiao saw that he was sweating profusely, so she immediately took out a tissue, helped him wipe off the sweat, and asked, "Why are you sweating all over from running?"

"I, I'm afraid you'll be in a hurry." Li Hao said panting.

Luo Xiao could see that he was happy when he said that, but his expression was reproachful: "You are stupid, I would rather wait for you a little longer than see you sweating from running, what if something happens."

"Haha, I knew my little cutie was the best for me." Li Hao laughed.

"It's good to know~" Luo Xiaoke seemed to have thought of something, and asked, "By the way, have you done what your mother arranged for you?"

Li Hao was stunned for a moment, then hesitated: "Is it done?"

"Why is there a word for bar?" Luo Xiaoke wondered.

"Because I don't know whether to continue helping her next week." Li Hao explained.

Luo Xiaoke nodded after hearing this: "So that's the case, that's okay, you can help Auntie more, Auntie doesn't have to be so tired."

"Yeah, I see." Li Hao nodded.

He looked up at the approaching bus, and reminded: "Okay, the bus is here, let's get on the bus."

"Okay~"

Then, the two of them got into the car.

After returning to school, Li Hao continued as usual, either doing homework or teasing Xiao Ke.

He even wondered in his heart, if Xiao Ke looked at everything he had prepared for her until that night, would he be moved?

When the time comes, Xiao Ke gets excited, and then

Just when Li Hao was "fantasizing", a classmate outside the classroom shouted: "Brother Hao, the head teacher is looking for you."

Seeing that Li Hao was still unmoved, Luo Xiao sat beside him in a daze, and reminded: "Pig, the teacher told you to go to the office."

"Ah? Good." Li Hao immediately realized that he stood up and walked out of the classroom.

But as soon as I went out, it was broken.

Fang Sisi is drawing at the moment.

She accidentally drew the line out of the expected range, so she asked Lu Chenyi beside her, "Gao Lu, do you have an eraser?"

"No." Lu Chenyi shook his head, "I've never used this thing, real men have to cross it out."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense." Fang Sisi gave him a blank look, then looked at Luo Xiaoke, and asked, "Xiao Ke, do you have an eraser?"

"My eraser disappeared last week, and I haven't had time to buy it yet." Luo Xiaoke explained.

"Is that so?" Fang Sisi could only look at the painting on her desk, "Forget it, or I'll just draw like this."

Luo Xiaoke looked at the schoolbag in Li Hao's drawer and said, "Li Hao should have it, or I'll find it for you."

"Why don't you wait for him to come back." Fang Si thought for a while and suggested.

Luo Xiaoke originally planned to wait for Li Hao to come back, but she thought that the two of them had been in a relationship for so long, and according to his personality, he shouldn't mind.

So she opened the zipper of her schoolbag and said, "It's okay, I should be fine with an eraser."

As soon as the schoolbag was opened, Luo Xiaoke took out the pencil case from it.

"Here!" Luo Xiaoke handed the eraser to Fang Sisi.

Fang Sisi took the eraser, wiped the painting, and said, "OK, it's done! Thank you Xiao Ke."

"No need~" Luo Xiaoke immediately put the eraser back into the pencil case, ready to put it in the bag.

But this time, she saw the shadow puppets falling out.

Luo Xiaoke picked up the shadow puppet and wondered, "Why is there this in his schoolbag?"

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