Wind rises time and space gate

Chapter 453 Searching for someone
On the stage, the actress who played the role of a concubine was beaten by her aunt and ordered to hide in a corner, crying and wiping her tears. Listening to the maids talking, the eldest sister's marriage proposal did not go well, and the high-ranking marriage was discussed again after the engagement was cancelled. The other party was commenting on it, and the maids secretly guessed that the marriage would not work out.

Originally, I heard that my sister-in-law failed to get married, and my concubine was very happy.

But I heard that the elders in Na Yi's family liked double-sided embroidery, so the concubine thought about it, convinced herself, and presented a double-sided embroidered jade screen to her aunt, regardless of past suspicions...

On the stage, the aunt and daughter-in-law hugged each other and cried, regretting their previous unkindness to the concubine. The ladies and ladies in the audience also had tears in their eyes. They all held handkerchiefs at the corners of their eyes and praised the concubine for her righteousness, as if they were receiving silver coins. Throw it on the stage.

Bai Zhiliu looked at the white silver reward on the stage with a slightly proud expression. He glanced at his aunt's mother. As a result, Mrs. Bai's wife was also looking towards her. Bai Zhiliu was startled and lowered his head in panic. head.

At the end of the banquet, everyone said goodbye. Mrs. Bai and her daughters-in-law personally sent the guests to the second door, "I heard that your Ruolan's marriage has been decided?"

"It's decided. When the auspicious day is set, I'll invite you all to have a wedding drink."

"I'll definitely come."

The reception at the White House was very attentive today, and there was a new play to watch. I heard that there would be a long queue for the new play. I didn't expect that Baifu's reputation was so great that he would be invited to perform in his home just after a new play was released.

"I heard that your sixth lady has not discussed marriage yet. What do you think of my brother?"

"My two brothers haven't discussed getting married yet..."

The marriage of Miss Bai Ruoliu, the sixth lady of the Bai family, is getting better and better. Even the concubines who were at the back of the list and had not yet said they were married, countless people came to ask for marriage.

Lin Zhaoxia received more notebooks.

Zhao Guangyuan was so busy that Lin Zhaoxia caught Jinxiu and Yingyue to help her read the storybook. The two of them went through it briefly before passing the interesting stories to Lin Zhaoxia.

"Princess, how come there are so many people inviting people to perform at home? My slave thinks it's just average."

It’s not that the actors didn’t perform well. In fact, the actors’ singing, reading, and fighting were extremely exciting. The crying scenes came as easily as if they had installed a gate, and the crying scenes were so touching that the actors performed well. You can get countless silver rewards.

But Jinxiu thought the story was ordinary.

When she came out of the palace, she had heard about the scandals among the rich since she was a child, and how few families lived in harmony with their concubines. Which family doesn't fight like a black-eyed rooster? With that priceless jade screen, why should he suppress his aunt and sister regardless of past grudges?

There is no such story.

Lin Zhaoxia gave her a funny look, then looked at Yingyue who was holding her words and refusing to let go, "Yingyue, tell me, why do so many people invite this play?"

Yingyue put down her words and thought for a moment, "Is this the ideal and reality that the princess said?"

He explained with some uncertainty: "Ideals and reality are always different. If Miss Bai Liu writes about a concubine who has been suppressed at home and is depressed, she insinuates the evil heart of her aunt, and then changes her destiny through her own efforts. , I guess no one would invite such a play, and Miss Yu Bailiu’s reputation would be bad.”

Lin Zhaoxia nodded and said to Mianxiu: "Look, Yingyue understands it, but you don't. No wonder so many people come to me to ask for Yingyue's hand, but only a few people ask you."

Jinxiu was ashamed and angry, and stamped her feet, "I don't want to get married. I just want to stay in the palace and stay by the princess's side. What's the good of marrying outside!"

It’s those people who have no vision, huh.

Yingyue also blushed with embarrassment, and felt sweet in her heart.

I remembered that a few days ago, He Yi came to see me, with a haggard look on his face and a little afraid of getting married. Talking about He Yi with Lin Zhaoxia and Jinxiu, he felt quite emotional, "He Yi doesn't seem to be doing well right now."

Jinxiu snorted, "She asked for it too."

They had a good stay in the palace, and the prince treated them very kindly. If they stayed in the palace, they would have a good life in the future. However, He Yi listened to the family's temptation and wanted to be a concubine for the prince, so he sent her out of the palace.

He Yi's family pointed her to seek wealth and honor. After He Yi returned home, she was sent to an official's house to be her second wife.

That man's children are almost older than He Yi. Her stepchildren didn't listen to her at all, and her mother-in-law was afraid that she would abuse her grandchildren, so the middle child was not given to her at all.

She is not taken seriously by her husband's family, and her mother's family often comes to ask for benefits. How much better can her life be?

Yingyue was somewhat glad that she didn't listen to her family's advice and didn't approach the prince, otherwise she wouldn't be able to stay in the prince's palace now. She is going out now, because she is from the palace, and no one will give her a face or two.

The prince and princess treat others kindly and never beat or scold them. They also receive a lot of silver rewards at the end of the year and in peacetime. Now she lives more comfortably than ordinary officials.

Lin Zhaoxia also sighed a few words. In fact, she liked He Yi very much. He Yi's craftsmanship was excellent. When the video of them making wedding clothes was posted on the Internet, many people called He Yi's wife. She has outstanding looks and good embroidery skills. Outstanding and has many fans online.

"So if you look at He Yi, if you want to live a good life in the future, you can only support your mother-in-law and stepchildren at home. If you go against them, your life will not get much better. This is why Yu Ping Ji is invited by many wealthy families. Reasons to go to the show.”

Even if the family is in ruins, they still have to pretend to be peaceful in front of outsiders and give the appearance of family harmony to confuse others.

Whenever a family is not invited to perform in this drama of harmony between wives, concubines, and concubines, outsiders will wonder whether there is disharmony in her family.

If there is disharmony at home, a man who is an official will be looked down upon when he goes out. If the backyard is not repaired, the marriage of his children will not be good.

Not only do you want to go to the show, but you also have to pay a generous reward.

Sometimes reality is reality and ideals are ideals. Most people don't want to face the reality, they just want to see what it looks like in their ideal world.

Lin Zhaoxia's Yuefu Opera Club was a hit. The fire was so popular that everyone in the capital knew about it.

In the past, people in the capital would either watch folk operas or various sideshows. If they could afford it, they would go to the theater and watch various dramas. It's just that those plays don't have subtitles, so not everyone can understand them.

Even if there are subtitles, in Daqi where the illiteracy rate is 70% to 80%, not necessarily anyone can understand it.

In order to achieve the publicity effect, Lin Zhaoxia often performed new plays and programs in public in crowded places in the capital, and invited everyone to watch the plays for free.

The plays of the Yuefu Opera Club are different from the plays that the common people know. Sometimes there are lyrics, but it has dialogue, scenes, stories, emotions and performances, so everyone can understand it.

The Yuefu Theater Club talks about plays that happen around us, such as "The Adventures of Little Stone" and "The Elopement of a Lady". These plays have a warning effect, which opened everyone's eyes and gained knowledge.

After returning home, he can also teach the children at home to prevent being abducted and how to save themselves if they are abducted. He can also teach his daughter not to be greedy for petty advantages, men's looks, or petty favors, and to abandon her family and career and elope with men to live a hard life.

There are also many family ethics dramas that the common people love to watch, dramas about monsters and officers and soldiers catching thieves, and dramas about solving crimes. The people in the capital watch it with gusto, which greatly enriches their leisure life. After the King of Yue held a meeting in the Immortal Tower to make money, he spent a lot of money to repair the palace. Not only did the palace have beautiful scenery of the four seasons, various gardens and flowers bloomed, but also a large theater was opened.

There are plays to watch every morning, noon and evening. Common tickets for new plays only cost 50 cents, and old plays are even cheaper. The people in the front row were reluctant to part with the VIP tickets, but ordinary tickets only cost fifty cents each, so they saved up one and a half days' wages. You can also enjoy the scenery in the garden of the palace, which is really worth it.

The Yuefu Theater Club, which opened in the Yue Prince's Mansion, was packed to capacity.

Sometimes there were almost fights because there were too many dignitaries and dignitaries who reserved the venue, and ordinary people were not allowed in.

The theater club was booming, and the rest of the supporting facilities were also booming. First, the playbook was received with a soft hand, and it was impossible to win. It seemed that overnight all the literate people in the capital began to write storybooks.

Zhou Yijun, the wife of Si Nong Si Du Zhishu, told Lin Zhaoxia that a noble girl from her hometown had eloped, and her family found her again ten years later. She was half crazy and begging on the street, which attracted Lin Zhaoxia. After shedding tears, the two wrote a story about elopement together. After it was put on the stage, Zhou stopped doing business and is now keen on writing storybooks.

Although she earned a lot of dividends from helping Lin Zhaoxia manage Beauty Square, she even enjoyed the sense of accomplishment that walking on the street and hearing everyone talking about their elopement brought her.

Even the families of many officials from the Si Nong Department started writing storybooks.

In addition to story books, I heard that Princess Yue was also collecting various songs and dances, and many musicians and dancers from the orchestra came to her door. To perform, sell music and dance.

Money or not is one thing, but she has received the respect she has never received from Princess Yue.

Princess Yue called them musicians and dancers, not just by words, but because she respected them from the bottom of her heart.

They were originally at the bottom of the class, and were invited by various families to perform on various stages. They were called around and treated as tools. In the eyes of the nobles, they were just lower-class people who entertained people. They always advocated worry. Looked down upon by rich people.

But Princess Yue treated them as guests.

Countless musicians, dancers and actors came one after another, with high enthusiasm for creation, hoping to be valued by Princess Yue, and even more hoped to stay and work in Yuefu Opera Club.

In the 23rd year of the reign of the Qi Dynasty, new songs and dances were constantly released in this year, with wonderful performances and a name that will go down in history.

Even when I heard that the Yuefu Theater Company was recruiting actors of all kinds, countless people sent them in.

"Princess, a woman came from Beiyuan and said that we abducted her brother. She was crying and refusing to leave. She said she wanted to see the princess."

"We abducted her brother?" How to say this.

Just when Lin Zhaoxia wanted to hear the reason, another young man hurried over, panting, "Princess, there are a lot of people around Beiyuan, saying we are buying good people by force!"

I don’t know if their theater club was jealous or was instigated by someone with ulterior motives. The manager was just trying to appease the woman, but in the end, a crowd of people gathered around and said that the King and Princess of Yue were selling goods by force in order to make money, regardless of the wishes of the good people.

Not long ago, a high-ranking official was fired because he forced a good citizen to become a concubine. The King of Yue imitated it again?

A bunch of people gathered around Beiyuan and said they wanted to help get an explanation.

Lin Zhaoxia frowned when she heard this.

The Yuefu Opera Club has suddenly emerged since the end of the year, which has indeed caught many people off guard, and may have also affected the interests of many people. Being jealous is certain.

He led the people to Beiyuan in a hurry.

"It's not performance time now, why are there so many people around?"

"The servant was also wondering. First, the woman came to ask for help. She was very nice and angry at first, and then the manager came out to ask about the situation. Everything was fine, but a group of people appeared out of nowhere and said that there were one or two hundred people in the theater club. , there are men, women, old and young. I don’t know where they got them from. They said that we were all forcefully bought from various places. When the woman heard this, she became excited and wanted to rush into Beiyuan to find someone. , there was a conflict with our people at the door."

"Princess, someone must have seen us and come to look for trouble."

Jinxiu followed, very angry. Her princess helped so many people by running this drama club, and the money was spread out like running water. Outsiders only knew that they made a lot of money, but they didn't see how much the princess spent.

A warehouse full of story books, each worth twenty taels of silver, how many twenty taels of silver would it take to pile them up? There are also those musicians' songs, each one is fifty taels and one hundred taels, and the wages and expenses of so many people in the social opera are hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of silver a month.

"Princess, the prince is not here today, how about I ask Fang Datong to bring a few people over?"

Lin Zhaoxia paused for a moment, "Didn't you say that the woman came alone?" She continued walking forward, "I'm just here to see my relatives, don't mobilize troops."

"Yes."

The master and servants hurried to Beiyuan and saw only three floors inside and three floors outside. The woman who was looking for trouble could not be heard, only her voice could be heard from inside.

"Why are there so many people?"

"Princess, because our theater company opened outside Beiyuan, there were often small merchants and hawkers doing business outside, selling various items and food. Many residents living nearby often came to watch the fun. When the theater was not performing, Many people also go out to buy things, and these small traders never leave when they see business going on.”

Lin Zhaoxia nodded and walked towards the crowd.

"Make way, make way, our princess is here!" The boy who was leading the way opened a path.

When the onlookers saw Princess Yue arriving, they spontaneously made way for her.

Many people have never seen Lin Zhaoxia, so they will stare at her curiously.

"Who are you? Who are you looking for here?" Lin Zhaoxia asked the young woman who was stunned to see her.

The woman came back to her senses and hurriedly lowered her head to answer, "I have met Princess Yue. My daughter's name is Wen Hongxing, from Changping. A month or so ago, my mother took advantage of my illness and sold my brother. I found out that she sold it to someone who came to our village to receive the goods. We found the man's home and came to the capital after getting the news. He found out that my brother had been sold to a theater company, so he came here. "

Changping? Going to a nearby village to receive the goods? "Is that person's name Lin Jing'an?"

Wen Hongxing nodded repeatedly, "His name is Lin Jing'an! He often comes to our village to collect goods and often assigns work to us. I heard that his family is in the Imperial Tomb, so I went to look for him. His family told me that he was in the capital, and my daughter then Found it."

Lin Jing'an said that he worked for the palace, and the princess also knew about this person, so his brother must be here! Wen Hongxing breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Zhaoxia heard that she could say Lin Jing'an's name, thinking that it was definitely not a lie, and looked at the drama club manager aside.

But the steward replied: "We don't have a child named Wen Youliang in our theater club."