Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The Mid-Autumn Festival of Cui's family started with a flat family dinner and ended with an assignment and a study plan looking into the future. Other families can't live this way. Those wealthy officials and people, not only on August 15th, but also several days before and after they would invite relatives and friends, set up a stage to sing, and set up a feast.

The five troupes who have sang the Three Kingdoms troupe for Ju'anzhai are the most invited, and the trick girls who pretend to be the beauties of the Three Kingdoms at night canvassing for votes are even more beautiful. Countless people are vying to invite home to sing songs. The worth of the five has risen to more than a hundred taels of silver a day, and the owner needs to light incense cloth candles and prepare four beautiful screens before they are willing to appear.

——The incense can not be the poor Sihe incense made by the Cui family, but a good incense block such as Shentan. A banquet can burn dozens of silver patterns.

Even if it is so expensive, there are some people in Beijing who are willing to spend a lot of money to buy the limelight. Those who can't be invited have to sacrifice their face and go to other people's homes to spend the festival.

Only Gao Gonggong's mansion could hold it, and invited an autumn wedding class who had just come from Zhending to have a banquet and sing at noon for six days in a row. Not only did his family use the famous team, but also sang "Journey to the West" instead of the now popular Three Kingdoms.

Gao Su is also helpless--

He received many posts at home, all of which invited him to listen to "Three Kingdoms" at night. I don’t have a team that got a one-day ticket in the Huang’s Garden, or played a famous trick in the Three Kingdoms and Five Beauties at night. The team he invited has just entered Beijing and lost out on the reputation alone. If the banquet is held in the evening, and they invite the famous "first beauty of the Three Kingdoms", and they invite an anonymous country team, who's the person who receives the post goes to?

Gao Su only hates himself for being late and unable to hire a good team. He is also afraid that someone will listen to his own drama at noon and listen to other people's plays at night. Comparing the two, if he feels that his family loses to others, he simply calls Zhiqiuxiban. Singing his own masterpiece, do not compare with others in the Three Kingdoms.

What Qiu Xiban was good at was "Journey to the West" written by Yang Jingxian in the early days of the country.

Gao Sudu this fairy drama is nothing more than smoke, and then people look for tricks and ask how to make cigarettes, how can the fairy conceal in the smoke and leave the scene flutteringly. The shopkeeper Ji was in the night scene with the lineup, but during the day he didn't know much about it, and he didn't dare to perfuse him. He suggested that he wanted to study, so he asked Cui Xie at night.

Cui Xie has a lot of experience in this aspect, and wanted to give him a detailed description of the stage setting. But it was almost Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was too late to decorate the background and rockery trees, so I had to put on the curtain first to create a fade-in and fade-out effect.

Before the performance, hang several layers of gauze curtains high up on the stage to make curtains, and use thick ropes to tie the curtains to the pillars on both sides. When the performance of the scene is over, they will be released layer by layer. The veil gradually faded from thin to thick, and some cigarettes were placed outside to cover it, which would have a somewhat elegant effect.

In a hurry, I couldn't think of a better idea, so I could only do this.

Some of Gaofu's spun yarns are embroidered with gold and gold, which are picked up in rolls of white and azure. At the curtain call, it was no longer the actors retreating into the small door behind, but the curtains were lowered, and the figures were blurred until they were invisible, and they were somewhat hidden in the depths of the smoke.

The Qiuxi class performed an audition in the Gao's family, and performed the third and first release of "God and Buddha Descending Sun". This play is a scene in which Li Tianwang and the princeling surrender to Sun Xingzhe and return the king's daughter of the Golden Ding to the middle school.

King Li Tian was in gold and golden armor, the prince was like a beautiful woman, while Sun Xingzhe was wearing a brilliant red armor and a silver crown. The Queen of Jinding was dressed up by Xiao Yuegui. It was Cui Xie’s eye makeup for the figures of the Three Kingdoms. She was dressed in a robe, dressed in a fairy bun, and decorated with gold beads and jade. She painted abruptly as a mistress of Luoshui.

The scenes of the appearance of the immortals and the order of the four heavenly kings by Li Tianwang to send the golden ding girl back to the hometown are littered with cigarettes, like walking on a cloud. All the heavenly soldiers led by Prince Soushan to capture the Monkey King. First, the curtains were lowered, leaving only Li Tianwang on the court, and then Guanyin emerged from the center of the curtain layer by layer, as if piercing through a half-day fairy fog. Sure enough, it looks better than putting up the curtain from behind the stage.

Gao Su personally sat under the stage to monitor the effect. At first he wanted to find faults, but later he was dazzled and praised, and shouted: "Good! Good! Good! Isn't this Journey to the West more beautiful than the Three Kingdoms? No one Luo Guanzhong came to write it as a novel. Otherwise, Ju An Zhai would be asked to publish a book of Journey to the West. I'm afraid I won't wait to buy him ten sets of eight sets!"

invite! Please write a few more posts! Such a good show not only has to call the honorable fellows that you want to make, of course, you also have to call close friends and colleagues to watch.

He posted the post to Fusi, the two towns of North and South. After August 15th, Jin Yiwei did not have to take turns in the palace, and everyone who could spare time went to his house to listen to it.

Because Xie Ying had helped Gao Gonggong find a fairy picture of "Antian Conference", he didn't take credit afterwards, and he made them treat his father and son as human beings, and he should be invited to anyone who didn't. On August 20th, he happened to be improper, so he asked Gao's steward to bring him to Gaofu himself, and listened to his family's new play with a few invited honorable persons, conductor Zhu Ji and others.

"Journey to the West" has a total of six books and twenty-four publications. By August 20th, it happened to be the sixth book. It sang "Hu Ma Po Asking for the Heart Seal, Sun Xingzhe Answering Kong Zen, Spiritual Bird Mountain Gathering, Tang Sanzang Dynasty" "It's all monk plays.

By the time "Participating in the Buddha's Scriptures" came out, the three disciples made a verse and worshipped the master, hiding behind the thin single-layer veil, but did not leave the scene, but sat down behind the veil. When Sanzang read, "The three monks have passed away, and the poor monk is making fire with him", from the ground in front of the three, a group of flame-painted curtains were slowly pulled up into the air and then fell.

After the gauze fell, the three of them stood up, tying their hands with the zhi fist seal, the fearless seal, and the saying seal, and performed a scene of burning away the old body and liberating right and wrong.

The audience burst into applause, and a guest said with joy: "It turns out that I was most afraid of hearing this passage when I heard "Journey to the West". The three apprentices went off the scene and sang, "Cut off their heads when they pass away, and sell their tails." ', the old monk waits to raise a fire, won't he really become a roasted pig? It's just like this in your mansion, I can see that Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Shahe are not dead, but become Buddhas!"

Especially when the flames fall together, people change from sitting and turning into standing, with Tang Sanzang's chanting of "Going in and out of the pool", which really gives people a sense of relief. .

Xie Ying whispered the Buddha's name and sighed: "I don't know where Brother Gao invited the opera troupe to sing such a good play. I have also heard a few troupes sing Westward Journey, but I have never seen such an exquisite arrangement. "

Gao Su leaned against him and smiled triumphantly: "Where the folks in the drama team understand this, it would be nice to be able to perform the show. Those who really make these exquisite settings must be those who are ingenious and scented with books. ."

He leaned toward Xie Ying's ear, posing a whispering posture, and said in a not very low voice: "Look at that stove, is it the same as when Ju'anzhai held the Wumei election?"

He took a look at the incense burner below the stage, and when Xie Ying showed a look of sudden realization, he smiled and said: "I found the former owner of Ju Zhai proprietor, and he asked him to tell the owner of that house, The shopkeeper, as well as the Jinrongtang that sells rouge in the master's house, tried their best to prepare this play for me."

He shook his head a little regrettably and said, "This book only has to be asked by a poor woman, and no beautiful lady will come out. Otherwise, I will show you the makeup made by Jinrongtang, which is better than those of their troupes who are familiar with the Three Kingdoms Opera. Pretty good!"

Xie Ying held the venue and pointed to the stage and said: "The appearance of Master Xuan Zang is better than that of other people's. Just looking at the handsome faces of the monks are all white, you know that Dan's horns must be better in appearance. I have a chance to come back to the mansion and harass a play."

Gao Su said generously: "Brother Xie wants to see the beauties, so you don't really have to wait to listen to my play. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jin Rongtang put out an eyeliner. All the actors in my family wear eye ointment. It looks big and bright. When you look back, take a few boxes from my house and ask the ladies in the family to apply them. In the evening, ask them to sing the "Jin Yun Tang Beauty Series" for you. How about going to someone's house to listen to the show? Is it strong?"

He was full of aftertaste, obviously he didn't sing this play less, and he didn't know if he wore an armor to play Lu Bu when singing.

Xie Ying waved his hand and declined, "I don't have that pleasant person. It's useless to come. Brother Gao should leave it to a beautiful woman."

Gao Su raised his eyebrows: "What do you say. You don’t have one at home, don’t you know one or two outsiders? Now all of those sisters are willing to put half-black eyelids on them. It’s a bit eye-catching. Give her a box of eye ointment if you like it. It’s comfortable to look at, isn’t it?

It doesn't have to be... the home I know outside sells this eyeliner.

Xie Ying didn’t say anything for a while, Gao Su clapped his hands and asked someone to send two boxes of eyeliner, and said to him: “This eyeliner only sells 20 boxes a day. I haven't had any concubines yet. If it weren't for you, Brother Xie, I'd rather give them snails and dailies if you change people."

Xie Ying was stuffed with two boxes of eyeliner that he didn't use, and it was inappropriate to return it. She thanked him for his kindness and took the two boxes of eyeliner home. Although others didn't get the gift of Gao Su's heart, but the Journey to the West itself sang well, and the stage layout was also novel, not inferior to the Three Kingdoms at night, and they all left with satisfaction.

With this "Journey to the West", the Gao family's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet actually stole a third of the limelight from the people who ordered the original Three Kingdoms and Five Beauty troupe. Although Grandpa Gao could not come out in the palace, he heard that the banquet was beautifully organized, and he was very happy. Even Liang Fang flattered in front of Concubine Wan Gui, and offered some eyeliner, which was praised by the empress. , He didn't care about it.

When he went home on a shift, Gao Su asked someone to reopen the banquet and invited the troupe to sing "Journey to the West".

The opening scene was when Chen Guangrui and his wife were robbed. Mrs. Chen let go of Jiang Liuer's role. Gao Gonggong met so many beauties in the palace. When he saw Mrs. Chen, Dan Jiao couldn't help but praised: "What a beauty, this The team has this kind of Danjiao pressure, and it will become popular in Beijing in the future."

Gao Su happily asked how he was looking for a theater troupe, how he asked Cui Xie to help set up the stage, so that he made this Western game exquisitely and exquisitely, and he said all the things that made the limelight in Beijing.

Mrs. Gao listened to the words "eyeliner", her eyelids jumped twice, and asked: "Eyeliner? This is, this is sold in the shop in Cui's house? Why didn't you send a message to the palace early! "

If he knew it was his own shop, how could he call Liang Fang's stuff to steal the limelight! Isn't it good for him to dedicate himself to the old niangniang, Wan Niangniang, and the empress niangniang and Bai Niangniang!

He paused with hatred, and pointed to his son: "What good is it for you to marry a wife early? It's not as good as the **** Liang, a **** who has the intention of not knowing how to give it away after getting eyeliner!"

I gave it... I gave it to Xie Ying, so that he could give it to someone outside.

Gao Su closed his mouth and did not dare to speak, and told him to scold him enough before saying, "Although Grandpa Liang offered eyeliner, the cream was sold by our familiar Cui family. We only got close to him. Or we too. Ask him for some eye ointment to give away? Grandpa Liang has to ask someone to buy it in the store if he wants it. We can order as much as possible from him, so that he will not give it to others and give it exclusively..."

"For the palace? Let's take the purchase? If we can tell the emperor to buy eyeliner from outside the palace, it would be a good job. It's just that the purchase is a lot of money. Maybe how many people will fight with us. Liang Fang, Wei Xing and the others must stare at this piece of meat, and they have to make plans..." Gao Gonggong sighed: "No, the opportunity to please Wan Niangniang is already taken by him, let’s see if the Niang Niang likes it first. I don't like this thing, the days in the future will still grow."

Gao Su knew that he had messed up the errand this time, and when the drama was finished on stage, he asked Dan Jiao to come out and kowtow to his adoptive father to show him how he dressed up.

The Gao family is studying eyeliner, and the Xie family is also studying eyeliner.

Xie Ying took a thin eyeliner and traced a pair of eyes according to the shape of the eye in the instructions, and then dipped in ointment, and traced an isolated line on the paper. The line was drawn slightly longer, and the arch in the middle was a line higher than that of the eye. I applied eyeliner, and the end of the eye was picked up a bit after receiving it. A fan-shaped fine pleat was drawn on it, and a pair of long and straight sword eyebrows were more like the eyes in his heart.

He stroked the painted eyes with his fingertips, but a pair of brighter and more lively human eyes appeared in his heart. The eyelids trembled slightly, and his eyes flowed, seeming to contain thousands of words waiting to confide with him. He couldn't help but smile, fold the paper, put it in the eyeliner box instead of the instruction manual, and personally received the top of the treasure rack.

It's a pity that he doesn't know how to paint, so he can only do it like this indiscriminately. If he can paint something more like this, it would be great.