[Statement: Most stories are folk legends or adaptations of stories, and have nothing to do with feudal superstitions. Thank you for reading, welcome to like and comment. 】
Ancient sayings often say that things become essence after a long time. This kind of story is also common in ancient novels of the gods and monsters. In the modern novel "Ghost Blows the Light and Slows in the West of Xiang", there is a saying in the Partridge Whistle: A dog has not been for eight years, and a chicken has not been for six years!
Dogs are less than eight years old, and chickens have not had six years of life. This is a common saying in the old folk saying, "The chickens, dogs, poultry and livestock raised at home cannot be raised for too many years, because once they survive in human society for too long, they will gradually become human nature, and sooner or later they will become spirits and monsters, and do some evil things that endanger and harm the world.
The story I told today is a human-shaped artifact - a puppet. Speaking of puppets, there is nothing more than puppet show , which seems to be called puppet show now.
In ancient times, people's entertainment projects were nothing more than Cuju , cockfighting , and cricket fighting. If the most popular thing is probably listening to operas, during a village during festivals or major events, invite a opera troupe to sing operas and everyone in the village can have fun together.
During the 6th year of Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty, there was a troupe in the north, but this troupe was different from ordinary troupes. They sang - puppet opera.
The headmaster is a somewhat older person. It is said that this puppet show has been passed down from his ancestors for several generations. Because of its beautiful singing style and superb skills, people from all over the country would look for anyone who asks God for their wishes.
The headmaster is a very nostalgic person. Many of the objects in the troupe were passed down from his great-grandfather's generation. According to time, it has a history of a hundred years. The headmaster's father had told him the allusion that objects became essence for a long time, but the headmaster thought that these old objects were reluctant to throw them away, so he kept them in the troupe.
Recently, because there are many people who hired opera troupes, the opera troupe basically finished singing in this village and rushed to the next village to sing the next one.
That night was to rush to another village, so the headmaster decided to go there overnight. Along the way, the black and dark all the way, and somehow a box of puppets fell on the road. When I arrived at the village at dawn the next morning, I found that a box of puppets was gone. The puppet was something left by my ancestors but I was accidentally lost. The headmaster was very anxious and hurried to send someone to find the same way.
In the afternoon, the person who went there came back in a ox cart with the lost puppet. Since the puppet was not lost, everyone naturally breathed a sigh of relief. After singing during the day, I prepared to rest, have dinner, and sing the nightclub.
opera troupe sings. In order to closely connect the characters between the stories, the characters in the next scene are often taken out in advance and placed in the backstage when they are to be used. Therefore, the head teacher is particularly concerned about the preparation of prop characters, but when arranging the characters to change the scene.
suddenly found that the order of the characters they were originally placed was wrong. The puppet that was supposed to be the fifth puppet that appeared on the field became the third, and the seventh puppet that appeared on the field became the fifth. The headmaster was so angry after seeing it.
Because they have performed this drama for hundreds of times, each step should be familiar with it, and now such a low-level mistake has occurred. If you didn't check it yourself, you would make a fool of yourself. Then the headmaster put the puppets in the wrong order again, but then thought about it carefully. These people have followed them for more than ten years and should not make such low-level mistakes. I wonder if someone was making trouble, so I took a scruple.
The headmaster came to the front desk to look at the layout, then turned around and came to the backstage, and he wanted to see who was doing it. Fortunately, this didn't look at it and almost scared his soul. The puppets that were originally on the ground were alive. The two puppets were still gesturing something in their hands, and then they saw the two puppets walking out and changing positions with each other.
The head master, who had seen the world, then took out a handful of incense ash from the incense burner, walked to the two puppets and scattered them. Then he saw that the two puppets were gone, but the play was about to begin, and the head master thought about waiting for the play to finish singing before making a long-term plan.
After the play is finished, it is the turn of the two puppets who have just made the blame on the stage. The headmaster was very nervous in the audience, because this play can also be regarded as one of the climaxes of the whole play. If something goes wrong, the troupe's reputation for a century will be destroyed in his hands.
The headmaster also specially found two of the most popular people in the troupe to sing. After one show, there were constant cheers, and no problems occurred during the sing. The headmaster then breathed a sigh of relief. The villagers all said that the opera troupe invited by the village chief was good. After hearing this, the village chief looked lit and gave more rewards that night. The opera appointment that originally sang for one day was extended for three days. When the headmaster saw the opportunity to make money, he also left behind the previous incident.
After singing the show that night, everyone was very tired, packed up their things and went to rest.
On the morning of the next day, the headmaster found two good voices who had performed last night, but these two were very strange. The headmaster was talking to them, but they were hesitant and answering questions that were not. Seeing this, the headmaster asked, "Two, I have been following me for many years. If you have anything to say, if you feel that the reward is not enough, I can add money to you."
After hearing this, the two looked at each other, then looked around and confirmed that there were only three of them around, and said to the headmaster in a hoarse voice, "Teacher, it's not what you think!"
When the headmaster heard this voice, was it because he was too tired recently, so he said that he would give them a good rest in the next few days and would give them money.
After hearing this, the two continued to say in a hoarse voice: "Class master, you misunderstood that we didn't want to increase the money or rest."
The head teacher was a little confused when he heard it. Don't need to increase the money or rest, so what do you want to do?
Then the words of the two of them scared the head master to death. The two said that when they were on stage last night, they felt their throats hurt and they couldn't sing. The latter part was not sung by them. At that time, we saw that the effect was very good in the audience, so we could only perform the lip-syncing. Later, the village chief dared not mention this matter to the head master next to the head master, for fear of ruining the signature of our opera troupe.
The headmaster suddenly turned pale when he heard this. This matter is good or bad. Although he helped save the scene, what if he messed up his own troupe later. After thinking about it, the headmaster was about to find a master in the opera troupe.
This master is said to have been in the opera troupe when he was a grandfather of the class master. He has a very high prestige in the opera troupe. Because he was old and could not perform, the class master supported the old man in the opera troupe according to his father's instructions at that time.
The headmaster came to the place where the master rested. Because he was too anxious and did not care about etiquette, he pushed the door open and found that the master was closing his eyes to rest. Then he heard the old man say unhappy: "XXX, you are already at this age, why are you still so rash?"
The headmaster found that his rash caused the master's displeasure and immediately apologized. The old man did not blame him. Then he opened his eyes and said, "I see that your face was pale. Is there anything wrong?"
The headmaster then informed the master of what happened last night.
After hearing what they said, the master said that they were afraid that these two puppets had become spirits. The master also heard that some opera troupes had experienced such a situation. Later, the entire opera troupe was so injured that they were crazy.
The master did not dare to be careless at all, and asked someone to use the two puppets to press under the throne of the ancestor. But the person who ordered to get it looked around and finally came back empty-handedly. The other things were missing, but the two puppets were gone.
The master said at a glance that this puppet can still unbox and pick the lock by himself? Then I continued to search, but I found it all the time and still couldn't find it at night.
Just as everyone was worried, the headmaster suddenly found two things on the beam above his head. After a closer look, they were the two puppets. Seeing this, the master said, "Is that so great? I have already started to eavesdrop on people. If you become human in the future, why don't this troupe be messed up?"
So he ordered people to go up the beam and take down the two puppets. The headmaster then gathered the entire troupe in front of the shrine of the ancestor master in the backstage, lit incense and candles, and worshiped.
I saw the master ask someone to put the two puppets aside, and he sang Bao Gongshu in front of the ancestor's shrine Guo Huai . But he replaced Guo Huai's image with two puppets. Although the master is old, his skills are still there, and he makes Bao Gong lively. In the play, the master asked the two puppets one by one: "Who is here? What's the matter?"
Originally, the master just wanted to sing the play, thinking of making a form to see if he could calm these two things, but he didn't expect that the master's question would come out. The puppet actually spoke, which scared the people present at that time, and then he heard the puppet tell the story of the matter.
It turns out that these two puppets were items made by the headmaster's great-grandfather. Because of the time, they absorbed a lot of the fireworks in the troupe every day, and gradually developed their own thoughts. In addition, they became very interested in the singing opera when watching the troupe rehearsals every day. The reason why they came out to "make trouble" that day was because of that scene, which made them think of the old master (the great-grandfather of the headmaster), so they came out to sing a paragraph. Then they said that many old objects in the troupe also had their own thoughts, but because of this kind of grudge, they were not willing to show up. Then the puppets said that they had not done any evil, they just liked singing opera and opera troupe, and asked the headmaster to leave them behind because of the great-grandfather's past love.
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and someone immediately expressed their objection. The reason for opposition is very simple, how can people and monsters live under the same roof at the same time? But some people agreed, saying that these old objects were nostalgic and did nothing to harm the opera troupe. Then the two gangs argued with each other.
Just as the two gangs were fighting red, the headmaster spoke.
The headmaster said that although you are the legacy of the great-grandfather, you like to listen to operas and sing operas, and have never done anything that would harm the opera troupe, you are indeed weird. If this matter is spread, it may have a great impact on the opera troupe.
People who objected nodded in agreement when they heard this.
Then the headmaster changed his words and said, "But I am also a nostalgic person. You are also old objects left by my great-grandfather's generation. If I destroy you, I will feel a little unbearable. Why not, I will send you old objects back to my great-grandfather's house and place you there. Every year, Zhongyuan Festival, , I will go back to my ancestral home to set up a stage for you and let you sing a three-day drama, but you can't come out in normal times. What do you think of this method?" After hearing this, the two puppets nodded mechanically, and then lay on the ground without moving. The subsequent performance was very successful, and the two puppets had never come out as agreed.
The headmaster then sent the old items back to the grandfather's old house and then purchased new items. During the period around the Zhongyuan Festival, the headmaster no longer took any show and took a group of people back to the grandfather's old house. He set up the stage as agreed, and then invited all the spiritual seats and old objects from his ancestors to the audience. Then he left quietly at night while there was no one, and posted notes at home that he would not welcome guests during the past few days.
During this period, as long as someone passes by the old house of the headmaster, you can hear beautiful singing and cheers coming from the house and the audience.
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