Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 256 Folk Art Troupe

In a small place in the countryside, the flavor of the New Year is definitely stronger than that in a big city.

Just like Erlong Town, most of the people in the town know each other, even if the relationship is not very good, but it coincides with the New Year, and everyone will say Happy New Year to each other when they meet!
But if it is in a high-rise building in the city, not to mention that people in the whole community know each other, even if the neighbors across the door do not know each other, it is not uncommon.

In particular, there are a lot of migrants in big cities, and many of them just live in rented houses, so there is a lot of mobility, so there is no need to know them at all.

This also led to a situation where many people felt lonely despite living in a metropolis with millions or even tens of millions of people.

And this does not exist in small rural areas, because there are acquaintances wherever you go, and everyone passes cigarettes to each other when they meet~chat~Congratulations on the New Year!

Some go out to work, talk about what they have seen and heard in big cities outside, and some stay in their hometown to develop, and talk about the changes in their hometown over the past year.

Chen Li and his party headed for the most crowded place in Erlong Town.

Big turntable!
This is the bus station of Erlong Town, because the passenger cars always get on and off here.

At the same time, it is also the commercial center of Erlong Town, such as barber shops, Tao Ranju, small restaurants, and even game arcades are all nearby.

The game arcade in Erlong Town is full today.A group of little kids who got lucky money completely occupied the arcade.

But it is estimated that it will not be long~ This game arcade will basically be empty.

It is estimated that the first Internet cafe will appear in Erlong Town soon~!And once there is an Internet cafe, who will play this kind of joystick game console?

Not to mention those online games, even if you go to an Internet cafe to play Red Alert, Interstellar, and CS, it is much more delicious than this kind of old-fashioned game console.

It is quite nonsense to say that Internet cafes actually prohibit consumption by minors, but in fact, the vast majority of Internet cafes in the country are supported by minors.

This is actually one of the reasons why Chen Li later gave up opening an Internet cafe.

As for another bigger reason, it was because Chen Li suddenly remembered an event that affected the entire Internet cafe industry.

Chen Li knew very well that he might not be able to prevent certain things from happening, so...he was going to keep himself away from those vortexes.

Of course~ Chen Li gave up entering the Internet cafe business because he has enough ways to make money. Even if he doesn't open an Internet cafe, he can become a rich man.

But that doesn't mean everyone else is like him.So ~ it is bound to be like the previous life, in the next few years, it will quickly open all over the country.

It was not until the emergence of smart phones that Internet cafes were gradually reduced to the edge.

"Chen Li~!"

Just when Chen Li and Li Yuan were flirting with a group of their peers, a minibus stopped at the turntable, and Liu Qingqing was the first to get out of the car.

Hmm~ The asphalt road from Erlong Town to Huilong County is indeed very good.

The original more than an hour's drive was shortened to four to ten minutes, and as the road conditions improved, more vehicles went to Huilong County via Erlong Town.

Therefore, the county even opened another shuttle bus from Huilong County to Erlong Town. Unlike the previous bus departing from Erlong Town, the departure station of this bus is Huilong County.

Liu Qingqing took the 8 o'clock shuttle bus to Erlong Town, and arrived in Erlong Town in more than half an hour.

The most important thing is that the asphalt road is much more comfortable than the previous muddy road.

I used to take this road by car. If it was raining, let alone the danger of driving, let’s just say that the road is full of potholes. .

But now this asphalt road is not without its shortcomings, because the asphalt road is laid on the original road, so the actual distance has not been shortened.

Because there are many mountains and hills in Sichuan Province, and there are many curves, even if it is an asphalt road now, the speed increase is not very fast.

In the previous life, this road was later built into a provincial road, and the cost of that road was much higher than it is now.

And because when the road was built, the mountains and bridges were built all the way, so it was almost a straight road. At that time, it only took more than ten minutes to reach Erlong Town from Huilong County.

"Sister-in-law~ Happy New Year!"

As soon as she saw Liu Qingqing, Chen Xue's eyes lit up, she stepped forward and stretched out her hand to Liu Qingqing, and she didn't forget to pull Wang Yan to signal her to follow suit.

Wang Yan and Liu Qingqing are also familiar, and she also likes her brother's girlfriend, so she also extended her hand.

"Sister-in-law~ Happy New Year!"

Two sister-in-law calls made Liu Qingqing blush, but luckily she was prepared before she came.

Liu Qingqing took out two red envelopes from her pocket, handed one to Chen Xue and the other to Wang Yan.

This is the first time Liu Qingqing has given out red envelopes to others, and if her mother hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't even have thought of it.

"What about mine?"

Chen Li also stepped forward to imitate his two younger sisters and stretched out his hand, but what he received was a slap from his girlfriend.

"Where are uncles and aunts? I have to pay them a New Year's greeting first."

This is polite, even if Liu Qingqing's mother didn't tell her, she would do it.

This was considered business, so the group wandered to Li Yuan's house again.

Liu Qingqing paid New Year greetings to everyone in turn, and received several red envelopes.

And she kept the red envelope dry, because no one would go to Liu Jianjun to get the red envelope back.

If Chen Li wasn't Liu Qingqing's boyfriend, he would dare.But the factual soldiers did not allow him to do so, so Miss Liu accepted the red envelope, which was a pure profit.

After paying New Year's greetings to the adults, the time is freely arranged by everyone, so the group went to Xinjiekou.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it stands to reason that everyone should go home for a reunion.

However, some people do not choose to rest during this time period, and they even choose to be busy during holidays.

Troupe!
To be precise, it should be called a folk art troupe.

In this art troupe, there are cross talk talkers, dancers, sketch performers, and even Northeast Errenzhuan.

And the most exciting ones are probably the acrobatics and magic tricks!

Of course, this is just Chen Li's personal hobby!As for the others, they seem to prefer dancing and kung fu shows.

Needless to say, dancing, because most of the dancers are beautiful and wear little clothes, so it is easy to bring rhythm.

As for kung fu performances, let alone such things as breaking boulders on the chest, lying on nail boards, piercing the throat with steel spears, swallowing swords and so on.

These things, in the next 20 years, fewer and fewer people will know.

Because practicing these traditional skills is very hard, and as the country's economic development soars, there are ways to make money, so fewer and fewer people are willing to learn these things.

In fact, even in [-], fewer and fewer people are willing to watch these things.

Compared with these, many people would rather watch the video.

Yes~ Although the cinema in Erlong Town was deserted, the staff of the cinema directly converted the cinema into a small video hall.

Formal videos cost [-] cents per person, informal ones cost [-] yuan per person!

Don't tell me, with such a change, the business is still very good.For example, Li Yuan used to go to see irregular people.

Well. Okay!Chen Li had also been there, but he was always brought there by Li Yuan.Otherwise, he wouldn't spend two yuan to watch those movies where two or three people act in one scene.

Of course, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and both Chen Li and Li Yuan are bringing their future wives, so they definitely can't watch the video.

But Erlong Town is so big, there are almost no entertainment methods, and Chen Li and Li Yuan don't like playing cards, so they had to bring their girlfriends to watch the show.

This art troupe's business is not good. Even on such a festive day as the first day of the new year, few people come to see their performance.

In fact, being able to live and run during the Spring Festival is a proof that the art troupe is not doing well.

Those who made money broke up and went home for the New Year years ago. Only those who did not make money like this group would choose to run around during the Spring Festival.

The performance of the art troupe starts at 10 o'clock, and the ticket is two yuan per person.

The price is not high or low.The reason why no one watched it was probably because today is the first day of junior high school.

And it's still the morning of the first day of junior high school, which is the first performance of the art troupe this year.

It's too early, and everyone is still visiting each other to pay New Year's greetings!Where did anyone come to the show?

So when Chen Li and his group bought tickets to enter the tent, they found that there were only a dozen or so sparse people inside.

Counting Chen Li and his party, there are only more than 20 people.

But the rules of the world, even if there is only one person sitting in the audience, the performance of the show must continue.

Not long after Chen Li and the others sat down, they chatted and ate melon seeds for a while. When it was 10 o'clock, the performance officially started.

Accompanied by the host's opening speech and introduction, several dancers stepped onto the stage.

And it was because of this dance that Chen Li probably knew why the art troupe was still going to the villages and towns to make money during the Spring Festival.

Generally speaking, the dance performances of this kind of folk art troupe are almost all modern dances.

Choose a piece of music with emotion, and dance with the beautiful-looking dancers who don’t wear much, and the temperature in the tent will rise accordingly.

But the opening dance of this dance troupe turned out to be the Water Sleeve Dance!
To be honest, the performance is actually very good, and the dancers are also very beautiful!But how should I put it~ I don’t really cater to the market!
For this kind of performance, you have to go to that kind of art stage, or go to the TV station or various evening shows or something.

In fact, it is not impossible to do this kind of performance in this kind of folk art performance, but it should not be the first one!
With such a performance, if you don’t have any artistic bacteria, you really can’t tell whether it’s good or bad.

Chen Li belongs to the kind of artistic bacteria. After all, he used to be the marketing director of a nightclub, and the nightclub also has performances.

And the nightclubs at that time were full of talents, and it was not uncommon for some graduates from professional colleges to perform in nightclubs.

Therefore, when it comes to art appreciation, Chen Li thinks that he is still slightly higher than ordinary people.

But at this moment, the art troupe in Chen Li's eyes was obviously from a professional background, and definitely not a Yeluzi folk art troupe.

Chen Li felt that those dancers were more like a local art troupe.

That kind of professional style is simply not something that those who are self-taught or those who only learn a little superficially and then come out to make money can do it.

So. Chen Li probably also knows why this art troupe is not doing well.

Because even when these actors are performing, they feel like they are "holding up"!
Not grounded or engaging with the audience, but it's not over the top, it's more like...a done show!
But in fact, this kind of "orthodox" performance is not suitable for going to the folk at all.

Especially in a small rural place like Erlong Town, if you talk about elegance to the audience, that person can spit all over you.

For ordinary people, the program just needs to look good.

And this good-looking actually has multiple meanings, the program is good-looking, the actors are good-looking, even the way of acting is unique and so on.

Like the water sleeve dance just now, from an artistic point of view, this thing should be moved to the TV screen, rather than in the tent on the open street of Erlong Town.

So ~ not surprisingly, after the performance of this show, the reaction of the few audience members in the audience cannot be described as "flat".

Everyone looked at the host on the stage with "eager" and "expectation" eyes, because they were looking forward to the next program that everyone wanted to see.

However, the facts disappointed everyone. The following programs were almost all traditional art programs.

This disappointed those who paid for tickets to watch the show. When the last middle-aged man came onto the stage with an erhu, someone in the audience finally couldn't take it anymore.

"What the hell, you play the erhu for me when it's Chinese New Year's Eve."

"Get off!"

A bottle of iced tea was thrown onto the stage in the tent. This tent is actually very big, but it may be to allow more people to come in to watch the performance, so there is very little space left for the stage.

So in fact, when performing on stage, it is very close to the audience in the audience.

As the iced tea bottle fell to the ground, perhaps because the cap was not tightened tightly, the drink in the bottle splashed everywhere.

However, because the audience was scarce, Chen Li and others who were seated at the front suffered a disaster.

If it was Chen Li and Li Yuan who were splashed by the drink, it might be okay, but Liu Qingqing, Zhao Xiaoqiu, and even Chen Li's two younger sisters were also splashed.

I can't stand this!

I saw a black shadow passing by in the air, and a chair flew directly towards the guy who smashed the drink just now.Then Li Yuan shouted:
"Who the hell lost the bottle?"

(End of this chapter)