Fu Qiuning couldn't help but be intoxicated and admired it for a while. The female officer was a little impatient, but she knew in her heart that this was the wife of Jin Xiaohou, the most popular person in the imperial court. She was not an ordinary actor, and she couldn't help herself from talking, so she patiently stood behind Fu Qiuning until she finished watching. , then he led her onto the bamboo bridge and went straight to Bilian Pavilion.
Fu Qiuning only glanced at it, and felt a "thump" in her heart. She thought to herself, "Damn, she really deserves to be royal. Are all the beauties in the world concentrated here?" Take a look at the beautiful faces of these fairies, tsk tsk tsk, tsk tsk tsk, these are the real seven fairies, because when I look at them one by one, I see there are more than thirty of them, and several of them are dressed in men's clothing, showing some chicness in their beauty. , Fu Qiuning knew in his heart that this Huangmei Opera would now follow the path of Yue Opera, with the male protagonists being dressed up by women. But he didn’t know if this was the custom of the Ning Dynasty opera, or because he could not let his wife, the Marquis, have contact with outsiders. male. I thought that if the latter reason was true, then this feudal society was really abominable. The opportunity to meet beautiful men was cut off all the time.
But then I thought about it, even if you are a handsome man, who can be better than Jin Fengju? I'm tired of looking at the most handsome man in the capital, why should I go see other handsome men? Thinking of this, he felt relieved and said to everyone with a smile: "In terms of appearance, you are all one of the best, so naturally you have nothing to say. Now it depends on your talent in Huangmei Opera. I will sing two lines now. You Listen carefully, and then sing one by one. Whoever sings well will be kept. Although this method is simple, it is the most effective. Do you understand?"
More than thirty people said together: "I understand." Then Fu Qiuning cleared his throat and sang two lines: "I asked the crescent moon in the sky, who can compare with my brother Cowherd; I asked Lao Feng by the fence Tree, how have you ever seen two flowers that look like my sweetheart, and then ask the clear stream to sing the water..."
The more than thirty singers and dancers were all busy memorizing it, but for a moment they forgot to admire how good the opera was. Just kidding, if I can be selected into the troupe this time to study opera with Mrs. Marquis, and shine in the International Civilization Conference in the future, can I get less of this reward? Even in the future, they can rely on them for life. Women like them naturally don't have to think about good families. As long as they can have a man who knows both coldness and warmth, even if he is poorer, he will be good to himself. When the time comes, I will become the hero of winning the first prize in the Civilization Conference of All Nations, and my husband will not dare to offend me in the future.
With such a beautiful wish, a group of singers and dancers made their brains spin like never before and tried their best to memorize the lyrics of the songs. However, Fu Qiuning only sang it once, and then asked them to sing it one by one. At first she couldn't help but shake her head, but when she heard what happened later, her eyes became brighter and brighter. One after another, the singers and dancers were picked out and stood behind her.
The selected singers and dancers were of course very excited, but those who were not selected had sad faces, and a few were dissatisfied. They thought that we were no worse than those few, and we didn't hear how they were any better than us in singing. Why did the young Marquis and his wife only want them? Could it be that someone handed over the money? It shouldn't be, she just arrived, right? Or are they all smart enough to give away the money in advance? Yes, I heard people say that Madam Marquis was a concubine of the Prince of Zhenjiang. She was left out for a while after she got married. Could it be that because of this, she was greedy for money
The more these people thought about it, the more reasonable they became. After Fu Qiuning finished the selection, one of the unsuccessful candidates stepped forward and said boldly: "Madam, wait a minute, this selection is not fair to us."
Fu Qiuning didn't expect that someone would make trouble on such an occasion, but she didn't want to argue with these miserable women, so she just frowned slightly and said lightly: "Oh? Why did the girl say that?"
The female officer who brought Fu Qiuning over earlier hurriedly stepped forward to scold him, but she saw Qiuning wave her hand and said softly: "Let her speak. No matter what, this is always a skill, and it must be convincing."
When the woman who was unsuccessful heard what Fu Qiuning said, she became more courageous and said in a deep voice: "Of the ten in front of us, six were unsuccessful. This is naturally unfair. Madam asked us to sing first. Every time we have more Sing it once, and the ones behind them will learn it again, and they will naturally sing better than us. What’s so strange about this? Why only choose them and not us?”
Fu Qiuning glanced at the woman, suddenly smiled, pointed to a girl behind her and said, "Come here." Then she turned back and said to the protesting woman, "You say it's unfair, okay, I'll give it to you again." An opportunity, now I still sing two lines of the opera, this time I let her sing first, please listen, I am not unfair." After speaking, he opened his mouth and said: "The man is to the flower, the sister is to the flower, the pair is right. Under the ridge of the field, a seed was dropped and a sprout sprouted... "
After singing this section, she asked the selected woman to sing first. Because it was a play, the woman was a little panicked because although the melody was simple and lively, it was too much and she couldn't remember it all at once. Even so, It's actually finished, but there are a few mistakes and omissions.
Fu Qiuning looked at the girl who was dissatisfied before and said calmly: "You can sing too. As long as you can sing like her, I want you."
The girl pursed her lips hard and suddenly started singing, but she stopped halfway through singing. It was obvious that even she could hear the difference. She looked at Fu Qiuning desperately, with tears in her eyes. Spin around.
Fu Qiuning sighed, glanced at the other girls who were not chosen, and said, "Do you understand? Although you sang first, you didn't sing in tune. It's not so much that those who sang later took advantage. It would be better to say that they suffer. Because if they listen to you, they will easily go out of tune, but they don't. Instead, they sing better than you. This means that they remember better than you. Although there are shortcomings of one kind or another, the four They can train it in a few months of training, but you may not."
Everyone was speechless at this time, and Fu Qiuning said calmly: "Actually, it's not necessarily good to be chosen by me. The rest of you must be good in appearance, singing and dancing. There will be no shortage of distinguished guests in the palace these days. , when you dance and sing, as long as you perform well, you can still get generous rewards, and maybe you will be favored by some dignitary, and the emperor will send you there."
In fact, she didn't think there was anything good about this fate, but these ancient women were different from her. They thought this was a good fate. Sure enough, when Fu Qiuning said this, many girls' eyes lit up, and they were no longer what they were before. of frustration.
The singer and dance girl who was not chosen bowed and left. The female official before her exclaimed: "Since yesterday, word has spread in the palace that Mrs. Marquis's play is really like fairy music." It's wonderful. I didn't believe it at first, thinking how could it be so exaggerated? Who would have thought that when I heard it with my own ears today, I realized that those people praised it too lightly. I'm afraid such a beautiful play may not exist in heaven."
Fu Qiuning almost laughed out loud, thinking that these women in the palace had nothing to do, so they spent all day thinking about how to flatter their masters, so they developed such powerful flattery skills. This is too exaggerated. A little bit
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw some more people coming from a distance. Although they were far away, Fu Qiuning could see clearly that these people were holding various musical instruments in their hands. I guess it was the palace band. When these people came closer, she realized that there were no male musicians inside, but all female musicians.
A female officer came forward, and the previous female officer greeted her, said a few words to her, and then led her over. When the other party saw Fu Qiuning, she introduced: "This is Lin Sile, and everyone here is As for the female musicians she can use, the two musicians Zhang and Liu have already told Lin Sile that from now on they will compose the music for the madam first. When a certain time comes, they will ask the two musicians Zhang and Liu to polish it. After the preliminary rehearsal, What do you think, madam, of joining an ensemble of male musicians?"
Fu Qiuning nodded and said: "Of course you understand these things better than me, so let's do it like this." After saying that, the female musicians walked in, Fu Qiuning sang the first two pieces of music, and saw that the musicians were all listening carefully, and then He wrote down notes on the paper again, and after a while he played roughly, and they were almost inseparable. This surprised Fu Qiuning. He secretly said that they were all musicians in the palace, and probably all the geniuses who played musical instruments in the world were gathered here. , this effect is too immediate.
Because of his sincere praise, Lin Sile was busy being humble and praised Fu Qiuning's performance. She didn't care either. In fact, from yesterday to today, her ears were numb when she heard these kind words. So after a few words of humility, she first gave a general lesson to those singing and dancing girls. The roles in this would be discussed later. They will be selected based on their respective performances and vocals, so there is no need to rush now.
As it was already noon in a blink of an eye, a palace maid came over to Chengci Palace and said that the Queen Mother had summoned the young prince and his wife to go back for a meal. So the female musicians and singing and dancing girls left one after another, and Fu Qiuning also followed the palace maid to Chengci Palace. , but saw that Mrs. Jin and Mrs. Jiang did not go back. The Queen Mother betrayed Fu Qiuning's huge favor and left them in Chengci Palace to give them a banquet.