Chapter 29: Setting the Stage
"Where, where, dare I ask old man, do we have any well-known sects here? Like me, for example." Li Huowang asked what he cared most about.
"There are! Of course there is, there is a Monk Temple in Xijing City, I heard that the Buddha inside can be very effective in seeking children!"
Monk temple? Li Huo Wang recalled that Danyang Zi had mentioned earlier that he had once been chased by monks, and wondered if it was this temple.
Li Huo Wang marked this up in the center, no matter what, those who went against Danyang Zi's man-eating beasts, then they should all be good people, right?
"But, Little Taoist Master ah, you're a Taoist priest, it's not quite appropriate to go to a monk temple, is it?"
Li Huowang looked down at the Taoist robe on his body. The other party's words really reminded himself, should this clothing be changed, he was not a true Taoist priest.
"How's business these days, old man? It's not bad, right?"
Sensing that Li Huowang was skimming off the topic, Lu Zuoyuan immediately took over the topic.
"Hey, what's good ah, we have a big drought in the past and a big flood, this year the people have no money, willing to watch the theater reward is even less, the rich people can not afford to invite the theater troupe, are eating a seat on the end, yuck! How unfilial!"
"It'll pass, just get through these years."
"Yes, let's get through it, we have to think of ways to live on."
"I just think, if the year is good and then run a few hundred times more, when I save up enough money, I'll buy a theater belonging to my Lu family in Xijing City, then I can rest in peace even after I die."
"With the theater building, my son and my granddaughter will never have to come out to suffer like me again, they can honestly study at home, maybe in a few years, my old Lu family's ancestral graves smoke, really read out a scholar boy it! At that time .... Heh heh heh." Lu Zuoyuan giggled with his tobacco stick.
Li Huowang quietly listened to Lu Zuoyuan's thoughts on the future, he actually quite envious of the other party, living to such an old age, still have a goal to work hard for.
Under the leadership of Li Huowang and Scholar Lu, the atmosphere between the two sides eased a lot.
At least Lv Juren and Lv Xiu Cai no longer regarded Dogwa and the others as monsters, they already knew that they were human beings, but they were just very sick.
What can be done about it, who wouldn't be sick, they are all bitter people.
When they came to Wuligang, Luo Silk Flower has been ripe to let Bai Lingmiao hold his daughter.
Standing on the flat ground where the rice was sunning, Lu Zuoyuan looked towards the villagers under the eaves of the house holding bowls to eat their dinner. "Alright, Wuligang is crowded, let's put down the ground here and draw pots, Lu Jia Ban opens the box! Set up the stage!"
They want to sing an opera, Li Huowang is not going to leave in a hurry, rushing for such a long time, everyone is tired. It was just time for the others to take a break.
Li Huowang was not a fan of this ancient form of entertainment, but it was clear that the others were very curious and ran over to lend a hand.
The tall bamboo poles were cut to hold up a few large red cloths, and the whole stage was taking shape.
Li Huowang, who was lying on a pile of yellow rice poles in the field to catch up on his sleep, suddenly felt someone poking his nose, and he opened his eyes to find that it was the smiling Bai Lingmiao.
She held up her hands and a golden shaking object appeared in front of Li Huowang and said excitedly, "Senior Brother Li, look! What a bright copper mirror! People are being illuminated clearly! It's what they sing opera with to put on makeup!"
"It's not even dark yet, you took off your blindfold so quickly, and you're not afraid of ----"
Li Huowang's words came to an abrupt end, he looked at himself in the bronze mirror and froze, the mirror was so unfamiliar.
"Senior brother Li, what's wrong with you?" Bai Lingmiao sensed a hint of something wrong.
"Senior Sister Bai, is this what I looked like when I was in Qingfeng Guan?" Li Huowang hesitantly touched his face with his hand.
"Yes, you've always looked like this, what's wrong? Is there anything different about you in the mirror?"
Li Huowang touched the face of the hand put down, reached out to the bronze mirror in front of him, his own face is still the same face.
But he was no longer a teenager, he hadn't just come to this world, he had been here for some time.
"If that was true there at the hospital, I was estimated to be seventeen at most at that time, so how old am I now?"
This was a question Li Huo Wang could have asked, but he couldn't answer, in addition to his confused memories, he had likewise lost his age.
He could only barely tell from his appearance that he should not be over thirty yet.
Li HuoWang endeavored to search through his confused memories, but still found nothing.
"Senior Brother Li, what's wrong with you? Are you alright, don't scare me." Seeing Li Huowang's reaction, Bai Lingmiao looked a little nervous.
"I'm fine, I just remembered something, hurry up and give the bronze mirror back to the others, the Lu family members will be using it soon when they sing."
"Uh-huh." Bai Lingmiao hugged the bronze mirror and ran towards the back of the theater stage that had already been built.
"Eeeee~~ Ah~~" looking at the distant Lv Lifeng who was dangling his voice, Li HuoWang laughed to himself and reclined on the cereal pole. "Hey ...... I'm living like a joke."
He thought he would be a little more intense emotions, but unexpectedly very calm, just another goal in mind, looking for his age.
At night, the sky was cloudless, and the bright moon shone brightly in the sky, illuminating the humble theater stage clearly.
Hearing that there was a theater troupe coming, almost everyone in the entire Wuli Gang came.
For the farmers who usually did nothing but plow the fields and sleep, the opera troupe's singing was very tempting to the farmers who did not have any entertainment.
The Lu family's troupe was very small, except for a two-year-old who couldn't speak yet, there were only six people in total.
They had to play, play, sing, and put on makeup to act, so they were simply too busy to do it. So they could only appropriately cut out some items.
Fortunately, the farmers were not picky and sat on the stools they brought to watch with great interest.
Li Huowang and the others lay on the pile of rice poles and watched their babbling and singing from afar. He had never heard of an opera and didn't know which one they were singing.
He only recognized Lu Zuoyuan with his black face and mustache and his sword, and he was so old that he was still singing and chopping on the stage, and he looked very energetic.
"Good!!!" The sound of applause suddenly rang out, scaring Li Huowang.
One by one, the whole sun paddy field is full of standing, stage Lu family members acting is full of sweat, under the stage is full of people watching the red face, only Li Huo-wang as if a spectator.
Unconsciously, the moon has reached the middle, Lu family class performance is also close to the end.
At this time, Li Huowang saw dressed in tattered clothes, Lu Scholar's daughter-in-law with makeup, holding his daughter, carrying a straw basket on stage with a crying face.
"Ruthless uncle drove me away~~"
"As if that lone goose was left to drift ~ ah ah ah ~"
"It's like the weeds on the side of the road that people step on."
"My mother and daughter are so hungry and cold, it's hard to bear."
"I can only ask for food on the street."
Singing this, Luo Silk Flower gently pinched her daughter's buttocks with her hand, and the two-year-old child suddenly cried out in response.
