Dragon Clan: Started by being picked up by Xia Mi, and then defeated the strong

Chapter 125 How Much Do You Think I Look Like Him? (Two in One)

Ginza, Kabuki Theater.

This Kabuki theater has a history of over a hundred years and is considered the king of Kabuki theaters.

It was burned down and rebuilt several times. Today's building has a distinct Momoyama period style, with a purple cloth hanging in front of the door.

Countless national treasure-level Kabuki actors have performed here, and it is considered the highest honor for newcomers to perform here.

The newcomer on stage is named Kazama Ruri, and the play is "Shinbian Kojiki".

The ticket that Fengjian Liuli gave to Xia Mo was a VIP ticket. Upon entering, a waiter would help her change clothes and then lead her to the best box.

Xia Mo was sitting in a private room on the second floor, wearing a pure black "iromuchi" haori and holding a white paper fan.

Iromuchi is a type of kimono commonly worn by Japanese women. Iromuchi refers to a kimono with only a single color other than black and no patterns.

In some formal occasions, such as weddings, graduation ceremonies, etc., women will also wear colorless clothes.

Xia Mo followed the local customs and changed into them, but she felt like a widow mourning her deceased husband, and she couldn't help but look pitiful and frowned slightly.

Since she didn't have a husband, Xia Mo lacked a sense of empathy. After much thought, she brought out the people closest to her.

"Should I wash Xia Mibi's selfie into grayish white, put it in a photo frame and hold it in my arms?" Xia Mo pondered.

The curtains on the stage were drawn, it was pitch black, and the guests were whispering.

When Xia Mo entered the venue, she noticed that most of the people who came to watch the Kabuki performance were young women. In fact, they were frequent visitors to nightclubs and were used to drinking and laughing with gigolos. But now they were as reserved as ladies, graceful and well-educated.

"Yo, you are worthy of being the number one gigolo in Japan." Xia Mo tapped the fan and clapped her hands in praise.

Xia Mo didn't know much about Kabuki, so she looked up relevant information on Baidu as a last-minute study.

Kabuki is a type of drama actor and has nothing to do with the customary places like Kabukicho, which are mostly performed by geishas.

There are four major classical dramas in Japan: Kyogen (comic talk), Noh (ghost and god legend drama), Kabuki (Peking opera) and Ningyo Joruri (puppet drama).

Kabuki has a history of nearly four hundred years. It was first performed by a woman named Akuni in Kyoto. It was widely popular because of its novel and gorgeous form.

However, the shogunate at the time believed that Kabuki performances were immoral, so they changed the performances to have male actors play female roles, and then... a male trend arose.

Xia Mo was lost in thoughts.

At this moment, the lights suddenly went out, and someone struck Sakuragi's small drum. The drummer struck the drum again and again, and the drum sounded hoarse and low, like a ghost whispering in the distant ancient times.

The curtain opened, and a woman in white stood quietly in the center of the stage, with her long black hair loose.

So Xia Mo sat upright, knowing that the Kabuki performance had begun.

“All the happiness in the world is like a fleeting flower in the shadow of the moon; only loneliness and pain always accompany us in the depths of the underworld.”

The woman sang and slowly raised her head. Her face was as pale as paper, except for the corners of her eyes which were a sad blood red.

She looked like a ghost from the depths of the underworld, but her figure was graceful and charming, like a peerless beauty wrapped in gauze, which made people's hearts flutter slightly.

Xia Mo saw that the woman was played by Fengjian Liuli. Kabuki actors often put white powder on their faces, have rosy eyes, bright red lips, and wear heavy kimonos. They look like pale porcelain sculptures, which is a bit creepy.

However, the seductiveness of Kabuki actors in performing female figures has nothing to do with their appearance. After all, Kabuki makeup is different from most people's perception of beauty.

The female figures show their tenderness, charm, dignity or loveliness to the fullest with every frown and smile.

Even though you know that the beauty on the stage is a man, you are still attracted by his charming eyes and savor them endlessly.

Fengjian Liuli sang and danced, as if a thousand-year-old female ghost possessed him and sang and danced through his body.

I think the female ghost must have been a stunning beauty when she was alive.

Xia Mo was silent for a while. She found that Fengjian Liuli, a man, was more feminine than her!

Look at Fengjian Liuli's white sleeves spread out like the wings of a white bird, with ancient characters written on them with ink.

The left sleeve symbolizes the rising sun, the growth of all things and the dreamlike world, while the right sleeve symbolizes the rising moon, dry bones and cold sand and the eternal underworld.

As he danced, he took off his outer white robe, revealing brilliant painted clothes.

The audience all felt creepy. That colorful shirt looked more like a funeral dress for the dead than a gorgeous dress for the living. The patterns of skulls and maggots were embroidered on the shirt.

A translated screen above the stage displayed background information about the play, with Ruri Kazama playing Izanami, the Japanese mother goddess.

"A New Story", this new mythological drama is about the divine marriage between the father god Izanagi and the mother goddess Izanami, and their subsequent estrangement.

Izanagi and Izanami, as the father and mother goddesses of the Japanese gods, can be said to be the origin of mythology.

The story of their union is similar to the love between Fuxi and Nuwa in China. They are brother and sister, and the process of their being together is witnessed by heaven and earth.

But Fuxi and Nuwa were not circling the pillar, but pushing the millstone. "If the millstone can roll down from the mountain without breaking, then let us stay together."

In Japanese mythology, Izanagi and Izanami entered into a divine marriage and subsequently gave birth to many gods.

Oh, and she also gave birth to the eight major islands of Japan, otherwise the gods would have no place to live.

When Izanami was giving birth to the God of Fire, the rebellious son burned his mother to death, so Izanami fell into the underworld, away from her husband and child.

Seeing that his wife was gone, Izanagi was furious and first killed the God of Fire, and then ran to the underworld to find Izanami.

In the palace of Hades, after a period of longing and resentment between the two, Izanami decided to return to the earth with Izanagi.

But she had already eaten Huang Quan's food and became a part of this place.

Izanami said that she would discuss with the god of the underworld and try to get a chance to return to the human world.

At the same time, Izanami instructed her husband to wait outside the palace and not to enter without permission under any circumstances.

Izanagi agreed.

But later, Izanagi became so impatient with waiting that he took off his wooden comb, lit a fire with the teeth, and went into the palace to find his wife.

But Izanami was seen with maggots wriggling all over her body, her throat was blocked and she was already the filthy goddess of the underworld.

Izanami raised her head and looked into Izanagi's eyes.

I go!

Izanagi was horrified. Who is this evil creature?

This is not his beautiful wife at all!
Izanagi suddenly had three thousand thunders roaring. He turned around and fled, escaping from the ugly woman of the underworld who was sent by his wife to capture him, and escaped.

As a result, the once loving couple became enemies. Izanami hated her husband for not keeping his promise and vowed to kill a thousand people every day.

Izanagi replied that he would build 1,500 delivery rooms every day, so that 1,000 people would die every day and 1,500 people would be born every day.

As a result, the country's population gradually increased.

Coincidentally, there was a man named Orpheus in Greek mythology who also went to hell to save his lover.

But at the last critical moment, when they were about to leave hell and return to the world, Orpheus broke his promise and looked back at his wife.

The wife will stay in hell forever and become Hades's person.

These two mythological stories tell us a truth: people should keep their promises, otherwise their wives will become someone else's.

The pure love god of war is furious! The minotaur is ecstatic!
At the end of the kabuki performance, Izanagi was dancing happily with the children in the foreground, while Izanami was crying and singing behind the black gauze curtain.

The white human figure folds repeatedly, showing how sharp the pain of being abandoned is.

Ruri Kazama was singing and dancing in hell wearing shrouds, surrounded by only dry bones.

During the intermission, no one was making any noise in the lounge. Everyone was immersed in the performance. Some people felt lost, while others were whispering.

The second half is different from the sad and resentful first half. It is a cheerful and majestic story about the feat of Susanoo, one of the three great gods of Japan, killing the Yamata no Orochi.

This time, Kazama Ruri played the role of Yamata no Orochi. He wore a scaly robe over his plain clothes. His dancing moves were exactly the same as when he played Izanami, except there were no lyrics.

……

As Susanoo killed the Yamata no Orochi, cold flames erupted from all sides of the stage. In the midst of the fireworks, Susanoo tore off the colorful robe that Kazama Ruri was wearing, revealing a bloody woman.

She lay quietly in the light in the center of the stage, like a falling maple leaf.

The voice-over is filled with the low singing of Feng Jian Liuli, which is sad and desolate, just like a lonely soul crying in a well:
"Tired, tired, ghost-faced lord;
The road ahead is long gone, looking back is nothing;
The broken boat floats on the sea, and the lonely city is in sight;
I still remember the great kindness in the past, but I hate that the water flows eastward. "

Xia Mo was silent. She could see what kind of story Feng Jian Liuli wanted to tell. The story was a new one, so naturally some plots of the myth were rewritten, with more new settings.

In the stage play, the Yamata-no-Orochi is actually the incarnation of Izanami. She returned from hell and came back to the human world after hundreds of years, just to kill her treacherous husband.

The greater the hatred today, the greater the love once was.

But why did you stay in this small place of Izumo without moving after coming out of Huangquan, and even drink alcohol to make trouble? Xia Mo couldn't help but complain.

However, she also clapped along with the audience, and for a moment the applause was thunderous.

Although this story has some logical flaws, Kazama Ruri's performance of Kabuki was undoubtedly at the master level. Many Kabuki masters in the audience burst into tears and went on stage to hug him.

Ruri Kazama is really good at creating emotions. It makes people immersed in it, singing and dancing, and feeling the sadness and sorrow of Izanami, played by him.

However, when you come to your senses, you will find that something is wrong.

(Like a certain writer)

Xia Mo tapped her paper fan, wondering what the deeper meaning was in Kazama Ruri's adaptation of the story of Susanoo slaying the Yamata no Orochi.

To be honest, Xia Mo had a feeling that she was a shrimp-headed girl. It seemed that Feng Jian Liuli was performing specially for her when she stepped onto the Kabuki stage for the first time and rewrote the myth. What message was she trying to convey?

Riddler, nasty.

Or ask myself.

The performance ended successfully. Someone knocked gently on the door of the box where Xia Mo was. A waiter took out a white invitation and invited Xia Mo to the backstage for a chat on behalf of Fengjian Liuli.

Xia Mo raised her head and agreed. Since she dared to come to the Kabuki theater alone, she was naturally not afraid of meeting Fengjian Liuli.

……

The winding corridor leads to the backstage, where gangster bodyguards in black suits line up and bow. On their chests are the "ghost" badges of the Ghost Clan. These brass badges reflect bright light under the lights.

At the end of the corridor was a black wooden door. A young, beautiful, and bright woman in a black kimono was kneeling outside the door. She pulled the door open, prostrated herself on the ground to salute Xia Mo, and then closed the sliding door behind her.

Behind the door is a bright Japanese-style house. Outside the window, there is a lot of noise. The audience is still cheering for this exciting performance, but the house is quiet and empty.

Fengjian Liuli was wearing a scarlet robe and removing her makeup in front of the mirror. The makeup on the left half of her face had been removed. The person in the mirror was between a plain white boy and a pale beauty. The distorted beauty was breathtaking.

"Long time no see, Xia Sang, you're here." Fengjian Liuli said without turning her head while removing her makeup with makeup remover.

"Yes, I'm coming."

"First of all, congratulations on the great success of your performance. Everyone liked it very much, and we can hear the long applause from outside."

"Do you like it?" Fengjian Liuli asked with a smile.

"Compared to Kabuki, I prefer stage special effects dramas, for example, when Ultraman fights the little monsters, everyone makes the sound of Gaia--" Xia Mo said.

"But I can appreciate both lowbrow and highbrow art. It was my first time watching kabuki and it was a pretty good experience."

"I don't think you would adapt a mythological story for no reason. The Yamata-no-Orochi is actually the incarnation of Izanami. What are you implying?" Xia Mo asked curiously.

"Of course I want to convey a message." Feng Jian Liuli had removed most of his makeup at this time. He said meaningfully, "This is a great gift from me to Xia Sang. If Xia Sang can't interpret it, I can tell you."

"So, what's the price?"

Fengjian Liuli did not answer, but continued to speak.

"I know that Xia Sang came to Japan not just as an intern. You were appointed by Principal Angers. If there is anything in Japan that can attract him, it is nothing more than the secrets and legacy of the White King."

Xia Mo raised an eyebrow when she heard this, "Is the Yamata no Orochi related to the White King? You said it so bluntly, stupid tape?"

"Because you won't leak the secret, I trust you."

As he spoke, Fengjian Liuli fiddled with his hair and turned around. At this moment, the light was shining from behind him, so his heavily made-up face could not be seen clearly. Xia Mo discovered that Fengjian Liuli and Yuan Zhisheng's facial features were almost exactly the same.

If Fengjian Liuli put on a long black windbreaker and carried a solemn ancient sword, Xia Mo would think that Yuan Zhisheng was playing a trick on him, and Crow and Yasha would hide in the corner and try to hold back their laughter.

Fengjian Liuli smiled slightly and instantly turned back into that handsome boy.

The Fengjian Liuli that Xia Mo was familiar with was back, and she noticed that what really distinguished the two people was their temperament.

The elder brother is sharp and upright, like the long sword on a samurai's waist, while the younger brother is graceful and beautiful, like the sword hidden in the sleeve of an aristocratic girl.

Ruri Kazama is also a natural actor. He can transform himself into another person just by changing his hairstyle and clothes.

Fengjian Liuli stared at Xia Mo, her pupils shining brightly.

"Xia Sang has now met the director of the Executive Bureau, the real Yuan Zhisheng. Look at my appearance without makeup. How much do I look like him?"

Fengjian Liuli asked with a chuckle.

(End of this chapter)