The Three Spirit Stones

Chapter 140: Alternative Yingtai

When the scene of Yingtai weeping at the grave was performed, the sedan chair passed by Liang Shanbo's grave, and Ah Cai, who played Zhu Yingtai, kicked the door of the sedan chair open.

The audience burst into laughter.

I saw the female tyrant version of Zhu Yingtai shouting,

"Shanbo, I'm here~,"

Then she jumped off the sedan chair and rushed to the grave.

Maybe she was rushing too fast and couldn't stop the car, so she fell on the grave.

The tomb was built with a wooden frame, which could not withstand the impact and collapsed immediately.

Ah Cai, wearing a gorgeous wedding dress, was lying on a pile of rotten wood. The scene was both embarrassing and funny.

The audience burst into laughter, and many people even fell down laughing.

Fortunately, his subordinates reacted quickly and shouted immediately,

"Quickly release the smoke,"

"Release the butterfly,"

Suddenly, the stage was filled with smoke, like a fairy mirror.

Soon, butterflies flew out from the smoke and flew to the open skylight on the ceiling.

Under the illumination of the lights, the smoke changes into colorful colors.

In an instant, the audience was shocked by this special stage effect!

……

After the performance, the audience voted and finally selected the gold, silver and bronze performers.

At this moment, the host was announcing the list of winners on the stage.

"The bronze medal winner is Xu Jing, who plays the maid Yin Xin,"

"The silver medal winner is Wang Jia, who played Liang Shanbo,"

The actor who played Liang Shanbo was a woman.

During the casting, a man was chosen, but he changed his mind the next day, and no one signed up for the role since then.

When A Cai asked him, he said he was afraid he couldn't handle the role, but actually he was afraid of being misunderstood by Lord Cheng.

You know, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were lovers, and hugging and holding hands were inevitable between lovers.

Ah Cai is not an ordinary woman, she is the apple of Lord Cheng's eye.

Are you and her acting as a couple?

Isn't this cheating on him?

Who can afford such a misunderstanding?

So the actor who was selected earlier withdrew immediately after being pointed out by others.

In desperation, they had to choose a girl to play Liang Shanbo.

……

"The gold medal winner is Liu Hao, who plays Ma Wencai,"

When the emcee read out the winners of the gold, silver and bronze awards voted by the entire audience, thunderous applause broke out from the audience, but Ah Cai, who was standing on the stage, had a sad face.

She thought that with her artistic talent, she should be able to win the gold medal, but she didn't expect that she didn't even get the bronze medal. This was really a blow to her.

"Now, please invite Lord Cheng to come on stage and present the trophies and prizes to the winners,"

The host continued to shout that this was what Ah Cai had discussed in a letter to Cheng Yu before.

"go quickly,"

"Give her the award soon and take her home,"

"She looked like she was about to cry,"

Sun Yuechan urged Cheng Yu, who looked like he had lost all hope in life.

……

From the courtyard of Cheng's house came Ah Cai's sad cries.

After spending so much time and effort, rehearsing again and again, I can’t even get a bronze medal?

Is my performance really that bad?

Is my artistic talent really so worthless?

The sudden collapse of faith made her very uncomfortable.

"Actually, you don't have to be so discouraged."

"There was one scene that was pretty good,"

Cheng Yu persuaded Ah Cai,

"Which one?"

She asked with tearful eyes,

"It was the scene where you kicked the sedan door open. The force was so good that the door flew out at a vertical angle of 90 degrees. It made people feel the despair that Zhu Yingtai felt at that time."

Cheng Yu was fooling her.

Ah Cai pouted and said, "But that was a mistake. I wanted to just kick the door open, but I used too much force and kicked it away."

"This is what we call an accidental planting of willows that eventually leads to a good harvest!"

"It was an unintentional comedic performance. The audience was laughing."

He wanted to rescue her again.

But after Ah Cai heard this, her flat mouth gradually stretched out, and then she burst into tears.

"This is not a comedy, this is a tragedy."

"This is a sad love story."

"Wow~~"

Cheng Yu covered his head and thought painfully, I don’t know whether it is sad or not?

All I know is that I am miserable now!

How can I coax you back?

……

……

For Ah Cai, the play "Liang Zhu" ended in a very unsuccessful way.

For a long time, whenever the residents of Bianjing City talked about her, they would talk about her role as the domineering Zhu Yingtai and the hilarious scene.

People discovered that although this Lady of Hua Ning Zuo County was overbearing, eccentric, unorthodox, and shameless...

But, it seems to be a little bit cute!

At least she can respect the voting results.

Even though the theater is hers, the actors are hers, the prize money and trophies are hers...

She was obviously unhappy with the result chosen by the audience, but she would not manipulate the situation.

You know, it only takes her one sentence to win the gold medal.

Also, although the leading actress's acting skills in this play are terrible, the stage effects are refreshing.

For example, the smoke on the stage, the props and costumes, and the self-luminous glass bottles...

Speaking of those colored glass bottles, they were actually copied by someone with a will.

They also learned from the theater to fill glass bottles with water, fix half of them outside the house with cement, and half inside the house. If they installed several bottles in a room, the room would be bright during the day.

Later, some people even made a living from this!

Just as Cheng Yu thought when he first returned to the Song Dynasty, A Cai's arrival did have a huge impact on this era, and these impacts were subtly rooted in the daily lives of the people of the Song Dynasty over the past decade.

Soap, sugar, cement...

Steam trains till today,

Many of these industrial technologies did not appear until hundreds of years later, but now the people of the Song Dynasty have benefited from them ahead of time.

There are many opportunities in society for ordinary people to survive.

They used to have no other choice but to farm.

If you encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, you can either wait for death or become a bandit.

But now, they have another choice, which is to work in the city.

Because there are many opportunities for survival in the city, as long as you work hard, you can have a meal.

In addition, there is another phenomenon that many women also have a chance to survive.

In this era, the life of an ordinary woman is very miserable. Their life is a life of being ruthlessly sucked dry.

Fortunately, Xiao was not thrown into an abandoned baby tower after birth, nor was he drowned or suffocated by his parents. He was able to grow up normally.

Then, they get married and have children at the behest of their parents and matchmakers, until they can no longer have children.

She is a man's accessory all her life.

It is very rare for a woman to be lucky enough to marry a husband who treats her well. It is common for her to be beaten and scolded after marriage, and many of them are sold by their husbands again and again.

But now there is another way to go.

Cheng's industry has numerous factories that need female employees. Married women have the opportunity to work in factories as female workers. Even many unmarried women who do not want to get married want to work as female workers.

Being able to work in a factory as a female worker is a happy life for them.

Some particularly lucky ones may even receive education, be appreciated by their superiors, and receive promotions and salary increases.

Once upon a time, many women who could not stand their husbands' abuse had the choice of jumping into a river or a well or hanging themselves.

But now, many women know that there are factories in the city that can hire women to work and take in their children.

As long as they work in the factory, they and their children will have a way to make a living.

To be able to eat well, wear warm clothes, earn wages with one's own strength, and not be beaten, sold, or harmed.

What could be happier than being able to live with dignity!