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Chapter 137 Pay attention to the impact!

"Let go first."

Lord Xia pried Feng Lingyue off his arm and then pressed her to sit on the stool.

The two looked at each other for a while, and Feng Lingyue suddenly pulled her clothes down without warning, revealing some parts that shouldn't be exposed: "Does this look good?"

"It looks good." Xia Lin nodded and continued, "But that's not the point. Calm down first, or I'll really send you back."

Feng Lingyue was just infatuated but not stupid. She just kept lying on the table in this posture and looked at Xia Lin with a smile. There was nothing else in her eyes. The look of a fanatical fan made Xia Lin feel creepy.

"I can't calm down. I can't calm down when I see you. You can't imagine how I have been through these days. I wish I could grow on you and live in your heart."

As she spoke, she had even begun to crawl in the direction of Xia Lin. If it were in the past, this would undoubtedly be a gift from nature, but times have changed now. When you become an official, you have to pay attention to the impact and can no longer do whatever you want.

So Xia Lin pressed her head down and said seriously: "I'm not joking with you. If you do this again, I will call Tingyun over."

As soon as Tingyun was mentioned, she immediately became obedient. Apparently, in her mind, Tingyun was not just a good sister, but perhaps a huge threat to her.

"I know~"

She is delicate and soft, with a bit of foolishness. To be honest, she is a natural succubus. No wonder she is offered a price of 150,000 taels. This means that the king will no longer attend court early in the morning.

"I asked you to come here this time because I wanted to talk to you about composing music. I heard that you have the highest level of musical instrument skills and the strongest ability among these people, and you are most familiar with music. Then let me ask you, if I were given a new instrument, how long would it take you to fully master it?"

Feng Lingyue is best at two things, one is being coquettish and the other is music. When talking about her old profession, her attention is diverted. She is very crazy. If there is anything in the world that can attract her attention, it is Xia Lin and the other is musical instruments. The musical instruments are even better than Xia Lin.

"That depends. Some more complicated ones may take three to five days to master, while simpler ones can be mastered in one day."

"Yes." Xia Lin nodded: "Come with me."

With a face full of curiosity, Feng Lingyue came to the woodworking workshop in the county, and saw a big object inside. Although it was covered with cloth, it looked one unit longer than Feng Lingyue.

After Xia Lin brought the person here, he lifted the white cloth covering the top, and saw an object that looked like a table underneath. Feng Lingyue was stunned for a moment: "This... is a musical instrument?"

"of course."

After opening the back panel and the cover, a piano appeared in front of them. Looking at the keys on it, Feng Lingyue became curious. Xia Lin introduced: "This is called a piano. It is composed of a soundboard, a cast iron plate, hammers, a top rod, phosphor bronze strings, string bridges and keys. Each key is a note. Try it."

Actually, how to say it, getting a piano was not Xia Lin's original intention, but the only instrument that could compete with the piano was the chimes, but he could use the chimes? Usurpation, one of the most terrifying mistakes in this era is usurpation, the musical instruments of the imperial family must not appear in other places, the typical instruments of power such as bells, tripods, and jars appeared in front of a seventh-rank county magistrate, which was essentially no different from treason.

Therefore, in order to present the stage effect, the piano becomes the only choice, and without a teacher and years of practice, it requires an extremely talented person to play it.

It just so happened that this idiot was this one-in-a-million performing genius.

She had played the flute for Xia Lin before, and judging from her demeanor and musical sense, she had almost reached the pinnacle of perfection, so they decided to give it a try.

As for the piano, it has been in the making for a while, almost at the same time as the Grand Theater. It took more than half a year to make such a piano. Let alone casting the phosphor bronze, it took Xia Lin half his life. Those who said they traveled back to ancient times and made an AK in 80 days are just bullshitting. Xia Lin even has a cell phone with him, so it's really hard for him to tinker with anything.

Feng Lingyue sat on the stool, raised a finger and pressed a piano key, and a note immediately popped out. Her eyes were really shining at that time.

Then she pressed all the keys again, listening attentively while pressing them. In just one go, she memorized the scale of the more than one hundred keys.

"Hmm... It's different from Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu. It seems to be ten notes or seven notes. Let me try again." She tried it a few more times, then nodded gently and said, "It is seven notes, but a few notes here seem to be inaccurate. How can I adjust it?"

Xia Lin pointed to the knob inside and handed her a wrench...

Unexpectedly, Feng Lingyue spent the entire morning doing this, and it was not until lunch time that she finally adjusted the sound that she thought was deviated.

Then she was even able to play some simple pieces of music she was familiar with, and she was very satisfied to be able to give completely new characteristics to the already familiar music through this new instrument.

Xia Lin did not disturb her obsession and even brought her food in a lunch box. However, she obviously had no intention of paying attention to Xia Lin and kept trying to arrange the chords and even started to memorize the music score.

Feng Lingyue didn't even look at Xia Lin once until he left the piano room. This made Xia Lin feel relaxed all over. It turned out that this sister's soul belonged to music, and men were just a side job...

But it is true. Only this kind of almost morbid obsession can make a sudden breakthrough in the professional field. Look at Miss Tingyun. She is just like a morning classmate. She works just to get by. It is enough to play a few songs. Why study hard? Study hard!

Anyway, eight out of ten times Xia Lin saw Yu Tingyun, she was sitting there with a dead mother look on her face, hanging out with Feng Lingyue, being typical brainless and unhappy.

As Xia Lin expected, a large group of tourists arrived just after the intensive preparations for the Grand Theater were completed. The timing was almost the same as he expected, about a month after His Majesty returned, the news of the southern tour reached Fuliang County.

In order to deal with the large number of young artists who came here for the sake of fame, Xia Lin directly adopted the style of a tourist city. First, the name of the charming town had to be promoted. Then he also customized a lot of those tacky check-in road signs - I miss you so much in Fuliang, if life could only be like the first sight...

Next, the cruise ships are fully open. Although the big dragon boats have not been shipped back yet, the small cruise ships are enough for the time being. The real highlight here is the Grand Theater.

Who could have imagined that a large theater that could accommodate 3,000 people would be packed with people every time and tickets would be hard to come by, especially when it came to the performances of the drama versions of Legend of the White Snake and Romance of the West Chamber. Not only inside, but even outside the theater were filled with people. Those who couldn't buy tickets or those who couldn't afford tickets all stayed outside to listen.

As for the ticket price, it was really expensive. The front row tickets cost five taels of silver, the middle row tickets cost three taels, and even the last row and the second floor tickets cost two taels. But even so, the seats were full, and it could be called a feast for audition.

But if you think about it from another angle, the girls here are all the most beautiful girls in the south of the Yangtze River. Normally, you could only see them once for a hundred taels of silver in a pleasure boat, but now you can watch a performance of one and a half hours for only five taels of silver. The beauty of those girls is worth the money, not to mention that they are proficient in playing all kinds of musical instruments and singing.

The highlights during this period include a total of five major plays, including The Legend of the White Snake, The West Chamber, The Peach Blossom Fan, The Story of the Southern Branch, The Peony Pavilion, and Liang Zhu, which will be performed only in the evening.

This five-act play is repeated every seven days. If you want to listen to all of it, the cheapest price is 42 taels of silver. Two taels of silver for the morning show, two taels of silver for the afternoon show, and two taels of silver for the night show, which means six taels of silver for one day. And you have to stay in the theater all day, plus the cost of tea, meals, etc. Don't expect to listen to the whole show without fifty or sixty taels of silver.

But the same thing goes, those who can travel thousands of miles to experience the enjoyment of an emperor are people who are not short of money. If they are arranged to stay in a low position, they will lose face.

But it is really thanks to the talents of these courtesans that although these scenes seem quite complicated, they become extremely wonderful and well-executed under their interpretation, making people unable to stop.

When the performance was intense, the audience would take out their gifts and throw them onto the stage. At first, it was fine, but later, some people would throw gold hairpins, gold ingots and other things onto the stage. These things would be collected by the staff and distributed equally to the performers of the current show.

Not counting tips, with 3,000 people seated full, and six taels of silver a day, that's already a net income of 18,000 taels of silver. This is much faster than robbery, otherwise why is it said that the petty bourgeoisie's money is so easy to cheat? This is the same in any era.

The key point is that they spent money to watch the expensive performances, and when they leave, they will get a souvenir made of bamboo slips. They will get a bamboo slip of the show they watched, with the leading actor's portrait embossed on it and a plot summary of the show on the back.

This thing may not look valuable, but just like a concert ticket stub, it is definitely a good thing to show off. No matter whether you like it or not, you can show it off to people in your circle. As long as you can enjoy other people's surprised and envious looks, then the money is worth it!
The peripheral products of these things are selling like crazy, such as White Snake's oil-paper umbrella, peach blossom fan, small jar of Nanke wine... Most of these things are expensive, but the anti-counterfeiting LOGO on them that no one else can imitate attracts these tourists.

An oil-paper umbrella, the best of the best, costs a tael of silver. But here, if you want to buy it for ten taels, you have to ask in advance, otherwise you will only be able to buy it from scalpers if you are late.

These tourists were really willing to spend money without blinking an eye. Even the newly opened jade shop in Chuntao was sold out. In just a few days, the tax revenue of the whole Fuliang has quadrupled compared with the same period last year! Quadruple!

(End of this chapter)