Lu Cheng ignored her, she was completely focused on the performance itself.
The very exquisite puppet characters appeared on the stage. It was different from the puppet shows she had seen before. This kind of puppet show had no lyrics, only dialogues. The dialogues were spoken in "Newspeak". After several weeks of
After intensive training in Mandarin, Lu Cheng can roughly understand it.
In the beginning, it was a village with beautiful mountains and rivers, where people lived a stable and peaceful life. Farmers farmed, blacksmiths made farm tools, and shops sold goods. There was a peaceful atmosphere.
Below is a casual conversation between several puppet characters, which is about farming and life, which makes the students below feel very friendly. Then comes the character 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 court's defeat in Liaodong, the rebellion in Shaanxi, the Tatars' entry into the customs, and the war in the north.
Zhili attacked the city, raped, plundered and committed all kinds of crimes. The soldiers advanced directly under the walls of the capital. The imperial court was as afraid of the enemy as a tiger and did not dare to fight...
All this is very new to the students, because these things are only vaguely mentioned at home - only those who are literate and willing to subscribe to "Lingao Times" know about it. Now there is such a detailed explanation,
Everyone listened attentively, and many people sighed deeply when they heard the tragic situation of the people who had 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". In the end, it was a
White paper is easy to draw pictures on. But Zhao Manxiongski frowned: The publicity effect is good, but this current news can arouse so much interest from the audience, which fully shows that the publicity department is not doing its job well.
The more than ten minutes of current affairs news broadcast 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 opened to the scenery of the county government. The county magistrate, the master and the government officials
The officials are discussing how to collect the extra Liao pay this year and how to get more benefits for themselves from the extra Liao pay.
Not only are the facial expressions of the puppets of several characters either vicious or ugly, but the dialogues are also extremely vicious, such as "A poor man can squeeze out three ounces of oil even if he is a pebble", "How can we eat meat without killing the poor man", "Fools are just bitches"
, I have to be beaten hard to obey.” All the students looked silent and angry. Wu Mu knew that everyone was starting to get into the fun.
Even someone like Wu Mu who doesn't care about historical details knows that this scene is different from the real scene, but it doesn't matter. To arouse the hatred of the masses, a little exaggeration and concentration are necessary.
Next, they discussed various poisonous schemes to exploit the people. The time traveler had all kinds of materials in his hands, no matter which time and space they were in, and condensed them all. The students below were all gnashing their teeth.
The third act begins to enter the climax. The government officials enter the village and begin to collect grain and taxes. They beat, smash, and rob men along the way. They bully men and women. They even snatch the last chicken from the widow.
When there was nothing left, he started to sell the straw on the roof of his house.
"Even rotten straw! If the house is demolished, where will the people live? It's so unconscionable." Some people were muttering, while others were sobbing softly.
Obviously the screenwriter did not want the people to place hatred only on grassroots cadres such as county magistrates and government officials, so as not to encourage their thinking mode of "the emperor is a sage, but it is all the crooked-mouthed monks below who have corrupted the scriptures", so there was another
A eunuch riding a horse was summoned. As soon as the eunuch arrived, he read out the imperial edict and said that he would conduct a beauty pageant for the emperor.
Then there was the story of robbing women everywhere, and after they had snatched them, there was a plot of eunuchs secretly dividing the women with local officials and gentry, and there was even a plot of eunuchs taking concubines. It is well known that eunuchs do not have that function. I heard that
When a eunuch takes a wife, he does not have to take a concubine. The students present seemed very angry, especially the male students.
The next scene of the village changed from beautiful scenery to lifeless. Houses were destroyed and collapsed everywhere, and a hanging puppet was even hung on the set of a big tree. The music became gloomy. Appeared in the first act
The puppets have now changed into tattered clothes to show their poverty. When the owner of the only shop was panicking, another government servant came and asked him to "become a comprador", so another tragedy was staged.
Already.
Just as the plot progressed to the point where the shop owner committed suicide due to bankruptcy, his son was kidnapped and his whereabouts are unknown, and his daughter was raped and sold to a brothel, Yao Yulan suddenly heard Lu Cheng beside her sobbing softly, and looked back.
, Lu Cheng stuffed the handkerchief in his mouth and suppressed his crying, his face was already covered with tears.
Yao Yulan knew that this plot aroused her sadness, so she comforted her and said, "Stop crying, this is a drama."
Lu Cheng shook his head and suppressed the cry in his 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 they couldn't even drink porridge.
I don’t know the feeling of failure; 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 deliberately did not think about them, but this time she was all brought back by the play.
"Oh, you are really -" Yao Yulan was about to say that she was too sentimental, but she looked around and saw a few people sobbing. Although some people were not crying, there were tears in their eyes.
"Stop crying, just enjoy the show." Yao Yulan comforted. She sympathized with the characters in the play and her classmates, but this sympathy was general, and it was the same as most people's experiences.
The feeling is different.
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 servants, killed the book office, and rescued his lover from the brothel. At the end of the first half
, although the village was dilapidated, it began to regain its vitality, the displaced people came back to rebuild their homes, 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 movements of the puppets and the stunts used by Dao Baihe were all beyond his expectation - in Wu Mu
In the concept of puppet show, it is just something for children. I didn’t expect it to be able to perform such a complicated plot!
Taking advantage of the light returning in the room, he observed the students and found that many of them had cried just now - the effect was really good. Most of the girls team were crying profusely. The only person who didn't cry was Yao.
Magnolia looked quite embarrassed because she couldn't express her sadness and was out of tune with the people around her. The other one was Yang Cao, who was completely expressionless.
If such a powerful tear gas bomb is ineffective, is there really something wrong with the 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 had restored peace and harmony seemed prosperous and peaceful. The village had its own weapons - five puppet villagers, led by the blacksmith, played with knives and guns on the curtain with great enthusiasm. At this moment, there came
After receiving the warning, the officers and soldiers came! Everyone sounded the alarm and fought together to defend against the enemy, and soon the officers and soldiers were defeated. There was a joy of victory.
What follows is a scene in which the government saw that the war was not going to work, and plotted to recruit civilians. Then the village had a fierce debate on 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 law."
If you don't follow the king's law, you will live in fear all your life."
The debate was so intense that even Wu Mu was looking a little fascinated. At this critical moment, the government spies who had infiltrated the existence were lobbying the villagers everywhere, promising to "let bygones be bygones" and "no conscription for three years." The villagers began to think. Finally,
, instigated by spies, the villagers arrested all the scholars and blacksmiths who presided over the riot and tied them to the government.
The scene in which several important figures were caught by the villagers and sent to the government caused a commotion in the audience below: "What is this!", "Ungrateful!", "Will you surrender now, are you not afraid of the government settling accounts later?" the students all said to each other.
The masses betrayed the revolution and showed their grief.
Then there was another courtroom scene with fierce arguments between the two parties. Wu Mu felt that this scene, from the lines to the plot, was similar to the reactionaries interrogating the Communists in the revolutionary movies that he had watched when he was a child. It even included the words "We can't kill them all."
The next scene shows the scholars, blacksmiths and others being pushed to the execution ground and beheaded. Some of the scholars, like the Communists in the movie, said righteously: "Your end is coming! The fire of retribution is at the end of the world.
!”
After the leader was executed, the government officers and soldiers returned to the village. The villagers who betrayed the leader of the riot did not end well, and received intensified revenge. The village returned to a depressed and gloomy scene, with many deserted graves, corpses and
More people hanging from trees.
In the last scene, the blacksmith's son and the scholar's wife were seen off by several people and fled to the south, where he was going to find "the hero who saves the country and the people." So the curtain started with the song "Send you off to the road..."
it's over.
When the light came back on, the audience was still stunned - such a gloomy ending was different from the plays they had seen. Traditional dramas always have a bright ending, either "the number one scholar after studying hard" or "the couple both mastered the art".
"Return 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 in such a miserable way!"