lied to Kangxi

Chapter 240

Old Eighteen was tired from shopping, and Yuzhu knew that he liked to be lively, so he led him into a theater.

Yuzhu has almost no artistic talents, and he is also a random theater.

The buddy who has been guarding the door, seeing the posture of such a large group of people, knows that they must be the nobles in the capital.

The employees of the car and boat shop are all human sperm, whether poor or rich businessmen, or nobles, as long as they pass their eyes, the accuracy rate of their identities is as high as [-]%, and it is rare to miss them.

"Masters, please come inside. There are seats upstairs." The waiter bowed and welcomed Yu Zhu and the others into the private room on the second floor.

Yuzhu entered the door and saw that it was an elegant seat, but it was actually an open pavilion.

Opposite the table is a row of corridors, under the railings of the corridors, there is a long row of seats.

The owner of the opera garden got the letter and was worried that something might go wrong, so he went out in person to serve the nobles who couldn't afford to offend.

The royal family has strict rules and regulations, and the young and old are orderly.

On the formal occasion outside, Old Sixteen sits in the middle, Old Seventeen sits on his left, Old Eighteen sits on the right, and the jade pillar is next to Old Eighteen.

After the owner of the opera garden came, Yu Zhu knew that this place was actually a garden dedicated to singing Yangzhou Qingqu.

Yu Zhu had heard of Yangzhou Qingqu, but had never seen it, so he was somewhat curious.

Who would have thought that after the actors appeared on the stage, Yuzhu realized that, good guy, eight people came in at once.

Among these eight people, four men and four women, each holding a different musical instrument in their hands.

A rough look at Yuzhu shows that there are flutes, flutes, pipas, four-hus and erhus.Not only that, but also a kind of qin that Yuzhu didn't recognize, as well as dishes and wine glasses.

Afterwards, Yuzhu asked the owner, only to know that this kind of qin is called Daqin.

After seeing the ceremony, the actors all sat under the corridor, and men and women sat on both sides of the corner of the corridor.

The owner of the opera garden brought a thick book of repertoire and handed it to Yuzhu.

This is quite a sight.

One must know that Yuzhu's identity is not qualified to be in the middle, but this boss has found him, one can imagine that he is very shrewd.

Naturally, it is impossible for Yu Zhu to just order the repertoire, that would be too ignorant.

After a bit of politeness, after the elder brothers expressed their attitudes one after another, and he was in charge of the arrangement, Yuzhu opened the repertoire book and ordered a few songs at random.

Yangzhou Qingqu has a very rich repertoire, with more than 400 pieces, which are divided into single pieces and suites.

Most of the singles are about scenery, lyricism, chanting things, lovesickness, etc., such as "Fenghua Xueyue", "Lovesickness in Four Seasons", "Qinghe Weather", "Fireworks Sigh", "Bamboo and Wood Struggle" and so on.

The divertimento is mostly based on folklore and historical stories, such as "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Romance of the West Chamber", "Legend of the White Snake", "Pearl Tower" and so on.

After the play started, Yuzhu listened to it for a while, and felt that it had a lot in common with Suzhou Pingtan.

Today, when Peking Opera has not yet been born, Kunqu Opera is the national opera genre.

It's just that Yuzhu doesn't have much feeling for Kunqu Opera.The Yangzhou Qingqu composed by many people in front of me is quite like the Twelve Girls Band.

The private room is about [-] square meters, which is considered very large.

However, with the presence of the three elder brothers, Haha Zhuzi, the mother-in-law, the aunts and the court ladies, there were more than a dozen people who were eligible to come in.

With so many people crammed into one room, it becomes more crowded.

Old Seventeen was cracking melon seeds while tasting tea, listening with relish.

How should I put it, Old Seventeen is actually quite pitiful.His biological mother, Chen Jiashi, was just an unentrusted concubine with an unusually humble background.

Seventeen-year-old Guo Luomafa and Chen Xihe are still just ordinary second-class shrimps, not even qualified to carry a knife.

Also a second-class guard, a second-class shrimp like Yuzhu with a knife who hangs around in front of the emperor all day is a typical red shrimp.

And the second-class prawns like Chen Xi'e, who are already old and have no future at all, are serious black prawns.

Of course, this person is afraid of comparison.

Old Sixteen was also favored for a while, and it was extremely popular at that time.It's just that after Old Shiba was born, his treatment was much worse.

In other words, although Wang Jiashi, the birth mother of the old sixteenth, is only a concubine.

However, the favor of the old eighteen is the best in the whole Qing Dynasty.Even with his biological mother, Wang Jiashi, even in her late [-]s, she was constantly flopped by the emperor.

Wang Jiashi is a typical mother who is more expensive than her son.Her own son, Lao Shili, lived a much more comfortable life than Lao Shiqi.

However, the fly in the ointment is that the sixteenth-year-old Guo Luoma Fa Kingdom is, so far, only a fifth-rank Fengtian government.

This foundation is too weak, and there is no way to participate in the fight for the big position.

You must know that in today's court, the overall power structure is that Kangxi is in charge of the court, and the great nobles under the Manchuria hold real power.

This is very similar to the clan politics of Cao Wei and the Jin Dynasty.

It was not until the Qianlong period that the Manchu nobles were completely suppressed, and it became a political structure dominated by the emperor.

The 13-year-old Sixteen was not in the mood to listen to the music at all. He kept staring at the young woman in pink who was playing the pipa.

To be honest, having a taste of a woman and not touching a woman's body are definitely two different states of mind.

Yu Zhu at the side also saw what Old Sixteen was thinking.However, he had no intention of intervening.

As long as the old sixteen didn't rob the girls in front of Yuzhu, what did he do?
Kangxi did not give the old sixteen to Yuzhu to take care of.In other words, what the old sixteen did in private had nothing to do with Yuzhu.

There are very few princes and elder brothers in this dynasty who do not do evil.

Even the iron-handed fourth son who is touted as the hero of the British TV series, when he is short of money, he still wants to rob people's property.

At the end of the song, the old sixteen was the first to say hello, and each of them rewarded two taels of silver.

Two liang of silver is enough for an ordinary family of five grassroots in Yangzhou to chew and wrap for a month.

Yu Zhu has also noticed that the old sixteen is obviously interested in that actress and is determined to win.

In the marketplace in the Qing Dynasty, all social classes were divided into nine levels according to their high and low ranks. Later, with the complexity of social division of labor, the sayings of upper nine, middle nine, and lower nine were derived.

Undoubtedly, no matter how one counts female actors, they belong to the lowly profession.

As the saying goes, the cousin is ruthless, and the actor is not righteous.In fact, this juxtaposes the actor and the watch.

Although it is a social prejudice, more than [-]% of it is still accurate.

The reason is not complicated.

Actors have to play various roles, and it is difficult for ordinary people to tell whether she likes you for real or just pretending for money.

Not to mention the cousins, they are in the flesh and blood business, and the customers who give birth to Zhang Shuli, can they be deceived by lies?
The eighteenth child grew up in the palace, how did he know that the world is dangerous?

"Big Zhuzi, the silver rewarded by my sixteenth brother is not old or young?" The old eighteen put his mouth next to Yuzhu's ear and asked him in a low voice.

Yu Zhu smiled and said, "Master Sixteen has his eyes on that actress in pink."

Old Eighteen didn't understand the benefits of falling in love with her. He glanced at the actress in pink, and asked curiously, "Why are the maids around me not as fair as her?"

Yu Zhu couldn't help but smile dumbly, all the women in coats in the Three Banners of the House of Internal Affairs must participate in the small election.

For the beauties in the palace, especially the good concubine Wei, if the score is 10, it can be at least 9.8.

In fact, the women in the palace, those with bad looks, accounted for the mainstream.

It's no wonder that when Kangxi and Qianlong went south, they both liked to bring back beauties from the south of the Yangtze River.

Old Sixteen was also quite tricky. He found the owner of the theater, threatened and lured him, and agreed to a benefit of 200 taels of silver, and he succeeded.

This has a lot to do with the status of actors in theaters these days.

Different from the later generations, most of the actresses in this era are beautiful girls bought by the masters during the famine years.

These little girls have been in the garden since they were young, learning opera from female masters.

However, the opera garden does not support idlers.

For a talented and handsome actress, the master is willing to spend a lot of money to make her famous.Then, they either pay a lot of money to redeem themselves, or they are sold by the boss to dignitaries to play with.

Those who don’t have the talent to learn opera and are also very beautiful, then they will be embarrassed, and they will be sold directly to the Jiyuan by the master, and they will fall into prostitution from then on.

Old Sixteen has won the beautiful actor he likes, so he will comb the cage at night, so naturally he will have a drink to celebrate.He simply spent ten taels of silver and bought a table in the theater.

Now that we are in Yangzhou, we must be eating Huaiyang cuisine.

Huaiyang cuisine is very particular about knife skills, and the knife skills are relatively fine, especially famous for its melon carving.The dishes are exquisite in shape, and the raw materials are mostly aquatic products, focusing on freshness, mild taste, fresh and slightly sweet.

Yuzhu was the director of the Beijing Office, so he is naturally familiar with Huaiyang cuisine.

Because, after the re-opening, the state banquets are all based on Huaiyang cuisine.

The reason is that, firstly, because of its exquisiteness and delicacy, including knife skill, heat, collocation, shape, etc., all reflect kung fu; secondly, the ingredients are simple and easy to obtain.Unlike representative Cantonese dishes that use raw seafood, or even internationally protected animals, such as shark fins and other foods that have been banned.

Of course, among ordinary people, Huaiyang cuisine, which is light and time-consuming, is not as popular as Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, which are generally heavy-tasting.

After drinking and feasting, Old Sixteen couldn't sit still and often lost his mind.

Yuzhu obviously saw it, but pretended not to know it.

Old Sixteen wanted to be an actress, that was his own business, and Yuzhu had no interest in meddling.

As a result, only a quarter of an hour later, Old Sixteen excused himself to change clothes, and disappeared forever.

It's hard for the seventeenth to say anything, but the eighteenth is a little childish.

"Oh, Brother Sixteen took more than an hour to change clothes, isn't it too long?" Old Eighteen couldn't sit still, so he complained in front of Yu Zhu.

After all, Old Seventeen is 11 years old, and the royal children are all precocious. He couldn't help but smiled slightly, and joked: "Brother Sixteen did this, why is it that he values ​​sex and despises friends?" There is leeway.

Yu Zhu glanced at Old Seventeen calmly, and said to himself, the mother clan is not strong, but forced Old Seventeen to learn a smooth way of speaking.

(End of this chapter)