Xiaozifang is located near Qingbo Gate. It was named after the story that the grandson of Zhou Dunyi, a Neo-Confucian scholar in the Song Dynasty, came to Hangzhou with his ancestor's statue to avoid the golden soldiers. The location here is relatively remote, but the housing and land prices are relatively cheap. Li Yu bought it

After this theater, I even moved my family here.

The premiere was scheduled for the afternoon, after lunch. Outside the theater, some idle people were already selling flyers, which cost only a few pennies, which was far more affordable than the 50% off ticket price.

Giving profits, promoting promotions, and opening up the market are all what Chen Kai taught Li Yu. It's a pity that he didn't have the chance to see this scene. It has to be said to be a pity. However, from Li Yu's point of view, he can present a perfect performance.

A performance is the real reward. Even if Chen Kai can't see it now, the same is true.

As the hour approached, some spectators had already arrived one after another. Even though the number of people was far less than expected, it still made Li Yu feel a little frustrated.

"It's the first time I've performed. It will get better in the future. It will definitely happen."

Come on, encourage them. Li Yu returned to the stage, continued to cheer on and encourage the actors, and explained the final things that needed to be paid attention to.

There is not much time until the official opening of the show. If it is a famous actor, it will probably be overcrowded. It is a pity that their play, troupe and leading actors are not well-known, and the location is not very famous. It is all due to hype.

A wave of popularity has come. Even at this time, most of the gentry and common people sitting in twos and threes below the stage are not interested in the play, and those who are whispering to each other are not in the three words pity, fragrance, and companionship.

Even one of.

"There was news yesterday afternoon that the bannermen were returning to the city today. Look at this early in the morning, all the merchants from other places have fled, and most of the local merchants have closed down. It's really impressive."

"How can it not be majestic? I heard that the city of Zhoushan was massacred. It was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. It was no different from Jinhua and Yinxian a few years ago! They all came back with the smell of blood. Who can still

Dare you wander around in front of them?"

"That's strange, it's been half a day, why hasn't there been any movement?"

"Perhaps it will be in the afternoon, who knows. Besides, when entering the city, you also have to cross the river. Entering from the east or south of the city, you will immediately hang people's heads and parade through the city. Isn't this what they always want?

We are too remote here, so we probably can’t see it.”

"That's true. Over at Qinghefang, I heard that no one can be seen on the street. Our Xiaozifang is a bit off, but it's still peaceful."

"This is a great thing to say. Did you see it? Mr. Huang over there has lived in Qinghefang for generations. It is said that his ancestors and the Qinghe County Prince in the Song Dynasty were neighbors. Didn't they come to our place to watch the show? We are here now.

The head is still on the neck, and the couple is watching the show and thinking about the benefits of Lu Fozi."

"..."

There were whispers in the audience, and the preparations on the stage were completely completed. The performance officially began, and there was no cheering after the show was announced. The audience in the audience was still in twos and threes, but it was only a few more than when Li Yu returned to the backstage.

A stinky daughter-in-law always wants to meet her parents-in-law, so the curtain opens to reveal Cui Jianyun, Cao Yuhua, Fan Shi, Cao Yourong and other characters.

In the opening scene, on one side, the young girl Cao Yuhua came to Yangzhou with her father Cao Yourong and stayed at Yuhua Nunnery; on the other side, the supervisor Fan Shi married Cui Jianyun, and then Cui Jianyun went to Yuhua Nunnery to offer incense.

The characters who appear are all scholars and the female relatives of scholars. However, unlike ordinary dramas about talented men and beautiful women, Fan Shi is already married at the beginning. In this way, according to the conventional thinking such as "The Romance of the West Chamber", the talented man and the beautiful woman

The scene of a chance encounter lost the basis that the man was unmarried and the woman was unmarried. The audience was attracted by this novelty and at least wanted to see if Fan Shi was just like Chen Shimei who wanted to abandon his wife.

Later, when he was offering incense, he suddenly heard the strange fragrance of a woman in the wind. Cui Jianyun followed the fragrance and looked for Cao Yuhua.

I hope to be able to "dream together at night, make up the same makeup at dawn, have beautiful faces in the mirror, and sing with each other step by step in the boudoir."

"Who calls you Yi'er? I know how rare it is! Nowadays, the chess players are just right. How can they hook up in the same place, marry and return together, and sing together. Wei Xian, silk and ramie are mutually beneficial, and they will be drunk and killed by the mellow taste..."

On the stage, Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua finished singing, and the audience was already stunned. Most of the concubines were women from bad backgrounds. After all, wives and concubines were completely different in the Ming Dynasty. According to the "Ming Dynasty Law", with

It is illegal for a concubine to be a wife, let alone Cao Yuhua, a woman from an official family, but she has to be a concubine for a scholar who has not yet achieved much fame. Especially, it seems that Cao Yuhua is not a concubine for Fan Shi, but for Fan Shi.

But being able to stay with Cui Jianyun for a long time really stunned everyone present.

The reaction from the audience affected the fluctuations in Li Yu's eyes behind the curtain. On the contrary, the two female dandies on the stage completely let go and continued to perform according to the lyrics.

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The two decided to have the same husband, and Cao Yuhua was willing to be the concubine of the Fan family. Cui Jianyun went back to tell her husband, but Fan Shi refused at first. Later, seeing that his wife was determined, he was happy to go along with the flow and enjoy the blessings of the whole family, so he asked Cui Jianyun to express his love.

My brother went to Cao's house to be a matchmaker.

For fear that Cao's father would not allow his daughter to be his concubine, he assumed that Cui Jianyun was ashamed of himself and was willing to retire to the second house and let Cao's daughter be his wife. Unexpectedly, his classmates found out, became jealous and sabotaged it, and leaked it to Cao's father in advance.

He became aware of their plot and added fuel to the fire by saying that Fan Shi wanted to trick a daughter from a scholarly family into marrying him as a concubine.

Cao's father was furious. Not only did he refuse to talk to a matchmaker, but he also asked his friend who was appointed as Xuezheng to remove Fan Shi from his position for inaction, and then took his daughter to Beijing.

Next, the Fan family and his wife returned to their hometown, and Fan Shi changed his name and applied for the election again. After going to Beijing, he learned that Cao's father had become an official, and he lamented that he would never be with Cao's daughter in this life. However, Cui Jianyun was unwilling to fail and became a close friend of Cao Yuhua.

Missing her so much that she told her father that she and Mrs. Fan had become close friends in the past when they sang poems and poems, but now they were separated from each other and fell ill due to the loneliness in their boudoir. Father Cao was relieved and thought that his daughter was just lacking friends, so he could only accept a few girls.

It would be better if the apprentice came to talk to her about poetry and essays, so he posted the admission list. Cui Jianyun took the opportunity to apply, claiming to be an unmarried daughter from a poor family, and came to keep Cao Yuhua company. Sure enough, as soon as the two girls met, Cao Yuhua's illness was cured without treatment.

As time passed, Cao's father felt that his method was good, and because of his love for Cui Jianyun, he accepted her as his adopted daughter.

Over there, Fan Shi had changed his name and passed the imperial examination. He happened to be in the family of Cao's father. Although Cao's father refused the marriage at first, he only heard his name and never met the suitor. At this time, Fan Shi had changed his name to Shi. Cao's father

Unexpectedly, he appreciated the talent of this disciple and betrothed his daughter to him.

Cao Yuhua came to the door first, and the next day Cui Jianyun pretended that she was Shi Sheng's original wife, and she was determined to marry her sister. Cao's father had always been rigid and rigid, thinking that human relations were at stake, and it was impossible not to marry, so he gave Cui Jianyun a grand ceremony.

After getting married, the two girls explained to Cao's father that they had been cheating. The old man had no choice but to accept it with a smile.

This story transcends the category of talented scholars and beautiful women. From beginning to end, Cao Yuhua is determined to marry Fan Sheng as a concubine, and all she cares about is Cui Jianyun; while Cui Jianyun wants to marry Cao Yuhua, it is not necessarily for the sake of her husband. On the contrary

After her husband suffered a big loss and did not dare to provoke Cao Yourong again, she still refused to give up and risked her husband's disgrace again to break into the Cao family. She never returned after entering the Cao family, which made Fan Sheng worried.

Don't lose your wife before you get a concubine.

Love-making between a man and a woman, such popular plots were abandoned. Instead, the relationship between Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua, who have to break through all kinds of obstacles to be together, is filled with the whole drama.

From ancient times to the present, the most important thing is to protect men and women. On the contrary, the ancients regarded the same-sex relationship as indifferent. Even the emperor did not approach women, but instead doted on the young eunuchs, and was crowned a king by the scholar-bureaucrats.

I don’t like the reputation of being a beautiful country.

As for women, the words "don't be jealous" can make the ruling class with many wives and concubines lower their guard - after all, this is far less serious than adultery or hatred due to jealousy, which is a violation of women's ethics.

Especially at the end of this story, Li Yu deliberately pointed out that "the bridal chamber is spacious, with mandarin ducks and brocade mattresses and hibiscus quilts, and water ripples and gold tents. The jade is soft on the left, the fragrance is warm on the right, and the love is smooth in the middle" to cater to the values ​​​​of male audiences in the current society.

, let alone anyone thinking that there is anything taboo about this scene.

People at this time were very tolerant of this, but after watching the performance, Shengdanjingmochou left the stage one after another, but the applause still did not ring out. Even when the audience dispersed, no one made a comment about "Lianxiangban".

Evaluate.

Li Yu didn't quite understand why this happened, but on the afternoon of September 18th, "Lianxiang Companion" was performed again. There were many more audience members holding flyers, saying that they had something to do yesterday, and urging them to do the same as yesterday.

Most of the seats in the theater were occupied by admiring audiences.

This was a good sign, and most of the talk in the audience was about the plot of the story. At least as far as Li Yu was concerned, it was only at the moment before returning to the backstage that he vaguely heard something like "Last night, I was under house arrest in Qinghefang"

"The old minister of King Lu, Wang Jiang, has been kidnapped", but he didn't pay much attention to it.
Chapter completed!