On the afternoon of Songhai Academy's holiday, a very famous theater troupe entered Chaoge.
Chaoge people love theater, and there are many theaters in the local area, and they like to go to see it before tea and after dinner. This team is mobile, they can sing wherever they go, and sometimes they can make a living as a performer on the street.
This group of people hired Chaoge Theater, which is still relatively famous, and publicized that there is no need to buy tickets to watch the theater in front of the building, so that everyone in the whole city knows this troupe.
As soon as Wen Yantong finished sleeping at home, Mu Yang came to the door.
She remembered that during the morning vacation, Mu Yang had said goodbye to her specially, telling her to be careful on the way back to Chang'an, but the farewell was meaningless at all.
After Mu Yang came in cheekily, he asked the house servants to make a pot of hot tea for him with the best tea.
Wen Yantong entered the main hall with a yawn, "What's the matter, looking for me in such a hurry?"
Mu Yang took a sip of tea and said, "I heard that a group of well-known troupes from other places have come to Chaoge, and they have booked a performance at the Jiaren Building on Qiying Street. There will be three performances in the afternoon."
Wen Yantong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became more energetic, frowning, "When did you come to Chaoge?"
"Just today." Mu Yang said, "Would you like to take a look?"
Wen Yantong agreed without thinking, and then asked, "Why did you come to find me? Where's the young master?"
"Brother Xi has entered the palace. If he had time, he would go with Brother Qianyuan, so I came to you." Mu Yang said.
Wen Yantong looked at him suspiciously, then snorted softly, "I think you want me to call Fu Zixian again?"
Mu Yang didn't feel embarrassed after being exposed, instead he laughed, "You still understand me."
"Am I that easy to use?" Wen Yantong was speechless.
Mu Yang thought about it seriously, "Anyway, it's very easy to use in this matter. Last time I went to find him by myself, but Fu Zixian didn't see him. Instead, he saw some of his brothers and sisters. When I went back, I was still beaten by him." Dad scolded me."
Wen Yantong heard that he was so miserable, so he didn't bother to worry about it.
The situation of the Mu family and the Fu family is very special. In fact, Mu Yuan and Fu Sheng had known each other since they were young, and it seems that they were destined by fate. At the beginning, Mu Yuan was a bandit on the mountain top, who made a living by robbing wealthy people passing by. He practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he was very familiar with the terrain of the mountain, so the government sent out several times to suppress the bandits, but all failed.
Later, the government sent people into the mountains to negotiate with him, intending to recruit security and give him a general to do.
The next day, Mu Yuan tied up the negotiators and threw them out of the mountain, and asked them to say four words: There is no door!
In Mu Yuan's words, robbing houses is his ancestral business, and it cannot be defeated in his generation, and it is impossible to work for the government even if he dies of poverty and starvation.
I have to say that Mu Yuan's brain circuit is really strange, I have never seen anyone who regards bandits as a business, and it is still a family tradition.
When Mu Yuan was twenty-two years old, his father let go, and he became the head of the mountain. Seeing that there were a hundred or so people who could not eat or wear clothes, they cried all day long, and they would probably suffer through winter. But he couldn't pass, so he decided to do the big ticket.
He led a strong man on the top of the mountain to guard the official road outside Chaoge City. Most of these official roads are for people from the government to deliver letters or for officials to enter and leave Chaoge, so the bandits have always used this road way ignored.
But Mu Yuan was so forced that he couldn't help it, so he robbed the team officials and family members with a big knife.
Coincidentally, the person sitting in the carriage was the number one scholar named on the gold list, Fu Sheng. At the age of twenty-five, he received the decree and went to Beijing to take up a post. The road was safe and sound, but he was robbed near Chaoge.
Mu Yuan cleaned up his entanglements, distributed all his clothes to his brothers, and delivered a letter to the government, saying that if he wanted the champion to return alive, he would send him a thousand taels of gold, otherwise he would give him Send the head to the government.
Never before was that bandit so courageous, daring to threaten the royal family blatantly. The emperor was furious because of this, and threw several memorials in the court hall. Just when there was no one in the reserve position, the emperor said to the princes in front of the military officials, whoever solved these bandits and rescued the number one scholar would be the crown prince.
In order to kill Mu Yuan, several princes fought fiercely, and the civil war broke out before reaching the top of the mountain.
But Mu Yuan was on the mountain, but was fooled by Fu Sheng and couldn't find the south, east, north and west. He has never read a book and is illiterate. He can only understand half of Fu Sheng's nonsense. For half a month on the top of the mountain, Fu Sheng told him the disadvantages of being a bandit every day, and urged him to take his brothers down the mountain to do business and make a fortune.
Mu Yuan was completely brainwashed. Seeing that he was wavering, Fu Sheng added more money that he was willing to give Mu Yuan's gold hundred taels to do business, so that the brothers could enjoy themselves without having to worry about it every day.
Mu Yuan immediately announced that he would abandon banditry and go into business, and took Zhuangyuan Lang back to Chaoge to fetch gold, and asked his brothers to wait for him for a few days. On the way down the mountain, I happened to meet the little prince who was leading the army to suppress the bandits. It was conceivable that Mu Yuan would never return like this.
Originally, he had a chance to kill Fu Sheng when he was caught, but Mu Yuan was not a vicious person. Knowing that he had fallen, the knife staggered his neck and stabbed Fu Sheng's right shoulder, piercing through the shoulder blade .
Later, the little prince hid Mu Yuan in the dungeon, and sent people to destroy the mountain. The bandits who had been entrenched on the mountain for three generations fled and were completely wiped out. The little prince was also successfully established as the prince.
Later, Mu Yuan spent two years in prison, and when he saw the sun again, the little prince had already become the emperor, and he was also assigned to the military camp.
Fu Sheng could no longer dance swords in his life, and in exchange Mu Yuan stood in court for most of his life.
Over the next few decades, Fu Sheng gradually rose from the position of fifth-rank official to the position of prime minister, and Mu Yuan also changed from a bandit who shouted to fight and kill to a general who guarded the peace of the frontier.
Mu Yuan probably held a grudge against Fu Shengzhi, so he often spoke ill of Fu Sheng, and when he saw a small sign, he would go to a memorial to join him.
It is said that once when Fu Sheng was talking with others, he mentioned, "General Mu's complexion is indeed darker than ordinary people."
Then this matter was also reported to the emperor by Mu Yuan. The reason was that what Fu Chengxiang said hurt his heart and kept him awake for three consecutive nights.
There are countless things like this. Mu Yuan once taught Mu Yang to stay away from the Fu family, saying that the Fu family were all transformed by monsters, full of calculations, and if they were not careful with them, they would suffer a lot.
Wen Yantong thought that Mu Yuan might also have been transformed by a monster, a pig demon.
Due to Mu Yuan's obstruction, Mu Yang didn't dare to come to Fu Zixian again, so he came to ask Wen Yantong.
Wen Yantong went back to his room, changed his clothes, and went out with Mu Yangtong.
The wind in early February was still cold, and I was a bit weak, and I needed to put on a cloak when I went out. When Wen Yantong was wrapped in a cloak, Mu Yang was already wearing a sleeveless jacket again.
If it wasn't for hearing that the troupe had only entered the city today, Wen Yantong would not have wanted to come out in such a cold day.
It was this troupe who assassinated Cheng Yanchuan.
This theater troupe should not have been formed temporarily. There are many killer organizations in the private sector that were cultivated from an early age. While practicing killing skills, they also learned other things. Some are geisha in brothels, and some are opera actors who babble during the day and sneak into other people's houses to kill people at night.
Cheng Yanchuan invited this troupe at the Hundred Flowers Banquet. They rehearsed for more than half a month for the Flying Immortal from Heaven. At the banquet, they hoisted the assassin's body high with silk threads and spun seven times in a row while flying into the air. Then the spinning force threw out the flying blade, piercing Cheng Yanchuan's throat.
Because the speed is too fast, no one can save in time.
In fact, if the killer's flying blade missed, Cheng Yanchuan would also die, because his tea was poisoned.
There were two groups of people at the Hundred Flowers Banquet who wanted to attack Cheng Yanchuan at the same time, so Wen Yantong and others alone could not save Cheng Yanchuan.
She and Mu Yang went to the prime minister's mansion first, and still let the guards report through the side door.
What he didn't expect was that he would meet Prime Minister Fu.
Mu Yang hurriedly got out of the carriage and took two steps forward, blocked Wen Yantong, and saluted Fu Sheng, "Mu Yang, my junior, has met Prime Minister Fu."
Seeing him, Fu Sheng smiled and said, "Why are you here at the prime minister's mansion at this time? Are you looking for Xiao Liu?"
Mu Yang nodded, and said truthfully, "The younger generation heard that there is a stage in the Jiaren Building, so I want to ask Fu Zixian to go and see it."
Wen Yantong stood at the back, lowered his head and dared not speak, feeling very puzzled.
Fu Sheng wanted to go out, why did he go through the side door? Or did he hear that Mu Yang came to look for him, so he came to the side door specially
Just as he was thinking, he heard Fu Sheng say, "It just so happens that I'm going to see the troupe too, why don't I just get up."
After he finished speaking, he ordered his servants to call Fu Zixian.
Mu Yang naturally didn't dare to refuse, his eyebrows moved, so he had no choice but to agree.
Wen Yantong didn't know if it was her own illusion, she always felt that Fu Sheng was very gentle when he was with Mu Yang, just like an ordinary elder. When I saw him in the Shuoyue Tower earlier, he was obviously very majestic, which made everyone in the room tense up.
Fu Zixian was called out after a while, and Mu Yang didn't dare to hook his shoulders to Fu Zixian like before, he greeted people honestly, and then got into the carriage.
Fu Sheng and Fu Zixian sat in the same carriage, walking in front of Mu Yang.
When Mu Yang got into the carriage, he froze, didn't speak, and leaned against the window with weary eyes. That Mu Yang made Wen Yantong think of Lin Daiyu, who was soft and weak.
She smiled, "As for?"
Mu Yang said, "I got closer to Fu Zixian, and my father would scold me. Now, when I go back to the prime minister's mansion, I will bring out Prime Minister Fu. I'm afraid my father will beat me up when I go home."
"No." Wen Yantong said, "If your father beats you up, didn't he make it clear that he would not give Prime Minister Fu face? Although it is rumored that your father and the prime minister are at odds, your father will still give this kind of small face .”
Mu Yang was a little hesitant, and he believed it seventy percent, but he still said, "My father will seize any opportunity to not give the Prime Minister face, he will seize it tightly, he is such a small-minded person."
Wen Yantong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Your father must not hear these words."
The two of them followed Fu Chengxiang's carriage to Qiying Street, and saw many people around the street corner from afar. Chaoge's roads are extremely spacious, with two lanes on the left and right, and the roads are clearly separated from vehicles, pedestrians and pedestrians, so even if the street corners are full of people, the roads will not feel crowded.
The location of the Jiaren Building is very good, there is a large open space at the corner, and a temporary stage was set up, surrounded by many people, talking about the empty stage.
This kind of theater troupe usually finds a few babysitters, and then spreads rumors about being famous in other places. The more the lies are spread, the more true they become, so most people think that this is really a famous theater troupe.
Fu Sheng went out low-key and did not bring many guards with him. After getting off the carriage, he asked the guards to open the way, and a few of them successfully entered the beauty building.
There are three performances on the stage inside the building, and only one performance on the outside stage, so the ticket price of the Jiaren Building is actually higher than before. The building has been adding seats, the front row is empty, but the back row is full.
Prime Minister Fu was the most important person in the building. When he appeared, many people recognized him and stood up to greet him. For these saluting people, some Fu Sheng just nodded and passed, while others would chat for a few words, so as to see the official status of those people.
Fu Sheng led Wen Yantong, Mu Yang and the others to sit in the front row, the seat closest to the table. The table is still empty at the moment, and it is still in the preparation stage.
When he was seated, Mu Yang wanted to sit beside Fu Zixian, but Fu Sheng beckoned him to the side, he sat down stretched, and looked at Fu Zixian pitifully.
But Fu Zixian was quite steady in front of his father, he was the kind who couldn't speak, and didn't receive Mu Yang's distress signal.
After Wen Yantong sat down, he approached Fu Zixian and said in a low voice, "Your Prime Minister also likes to listen to operas?"
Fu Zixian nodded, "Father really likes to listen to opera."
Wen Yantong frowned slightly. The key is that the original book did not say that Fu Sheng loves to listen to operas! The Fu family is a scholarly family. Fu Sheng was the eldest grandson when he was born. He was regarded as a key training object by the Fu family. He has been reading poetry and books since he was a child. He dislikes entertainment such as dialogue books, operas and storytelling.
What is going on now? Could it be that Fu Chengxiang's character design also collapsed
Fu Zixian said again, "Next time if you are looking for me, you can tell the guards to look for Xiaodou, he is my personal servant, he will come to inform me if there is anything."
Wen Yantong nodded, he really should pay attention, otherwise Prime Minister Fu will be brought out today, and who will be brought out in the future.
Mu Yang was so nervous that he was almost like a stone man, he looked so pitiful.
But Fu Sheng seemed to want him to relax, and asked a lot of irrelevant questions. He laughed when he answered, and seemed to be in a good mood. Gradually, Mu Yang became less tense, and could still chat with Fu Sheng with a smile.
Fu Zixian was very quiet, except for a few words with Wen Yantong, his expression was calm at other times.
Not long after, there was commotion at the door again, Wen Yantong looked back curiously, and saw a few guards entering the door with the curtain lifted, followed by Cheng Yanchuan in an apricot-yellow robe.
Following closely behind were Cheng Xin and Chi Jingxi.
Wen Yantong's eyes lit up the moment he saw Chi Jingxi.
Perhaps because he was going to enter the palace, he was dressed a bit formally today. He is wearing a black-colored woven gold snow-collared padded robe, a ruby and silver silk crown on his head, long hair tied high, and a smile on his face.
Many officials on the road stood up to salute the three of them, but Cheng Yanchuan blocked them all. When they got to the top, Fu Sheng got up from his seat first. Then Mu Yang and Fu Zixian followed.
Fu Sheng stood still, and said with a smile, "I've seen the prince, His Highness the fifth prince, and the young master. I never expected to meet the three of you here."
Cheng Yanchuan said with a smile, "Prime Minister, you don't need to be too polite, it's just that the reputation of this troupe is too wide, so I came to see my younger brothers."
Fu Zixian also stepped forward to salute, Wen Yantong hurriedly followed his footsteps, and the two saluted the prince and others separated by a few people, but Mu Yang was a little behind, it was very cumbersome to follow rules and regulations.
Cheng Yanchuan also avoided the etiquette, and then the few people took their seats one by one.
As soon as Wen Yantong sat down, he saw Chi Jingxi still standing there, his eyes swept over from his position one by one, looked at several people, and finally fell on Wen Yantong.
When the two looked at each other, Wen Yantong smiled at him, showing his white teeth. Chi Jingxi looked normal, and after a pause, she slowly sat down.
There are still two empty seats in the first row, but no one dares to sit.
After waiting for another cup of tea, the gongs and drums sounded, and the drama began.
The overhead lights were dimmed a few times, the light on the building dimmed, and then there was the sound of gongs and drums, and the discussion gradually quieted down.
The first sang was the classic "Dou E's Injustice". Because they were sitting in the front row, they could hear the vocals very clearly. Wen Yantong also learned some operas before. When he was very young, he followed his second uncle as a performer to survive. At that time, he still couldn't hold Xi Qin, so he learned a few opera tunes, and made music for his second uncle's music beside him.
Although I stopped studying when I grew up, I have always loved listening to operas, so I don't find it boring.
At the end of the play, someone rushed in again, saw an empty seat next to Wen Yantong, sat down immediately, and asked, "Child, where is this singing?"
Wen Yantong tilted his head and replied, "Dou E is wronged."
She is the line of defense, the person who came in just now was actually Mu Yuan! She subconsciously turned her head to look at Fu Sheng, secretly wondering why such a coincidence happened? Enemy road is narrow
Mu Yuan didn't pay attention, and sighed, "Why is this the first scene?"
His tone was full of disappointment.
Wen Yantong didn't dare to speak anymore, and sat down with his neck curled up.
Mu Yuan sat and listened for a while, feeling bored, so he began to look around, and then saw Fu Zixian.
He stretched his neck sideways, "Aren't you a child of the Fu family?"
Fu Zixian nodded quickly, "I have seen General Mu."
"Aren't you afraid that your father will know when you come here? Your Fu family always carries the sage books, so how can you tolerate you coming to the theater?" Mu Yuan said.
Wen Yantong shrank back, thinking to himself, you should look up!
As soon as Mu Yuan finished speaking, he looked up and saw Fu Sheng looking at him with a smile on his face. Mu Yuan's expression was stiff, his neck shrunk back, he sat for a while without knowing what he was thinking, then he stood up and said to Fu Sheng, "Yo, I never thought that Prime Minister Fu also likes to watch operas, it really surprised me. "
Fu Sheng also got up, "General Mu was joking, how can someone carry sage books all day long? It's okay to have fun occasionally."
Mu Yuan curled his lips secretly, and was about to speak when Mu Yang also stood up and shouted, "Father."
Seeing him, Mu Yuan stared, "Ah, you little bastard, don't come here yet."
Mu Yang shrank his head and said, "You don't have any vacant seats, where should I sit?"
Mu Yuan looked down at Wen Yantong. Wen Yantong kicked his legs and stood up immediately, "Come, come, Master Mu, sit here."
"No need." Mu Yuan pressed her shoulders and sat down directly, "Let him sit there."
Wen Yantong was firmly pressed, and dared not move.
Then Mu Yuan saw Cheng Yanchuan and the others again, saluted from a distance and then sat down.
After Mu Yuan sat down, he didn't look for a while, and then began to doze off, sleeping soundly with his head on the seat. Wen Yantong fell to the ground in admiration, the sound on this stage was so loud, how could he still fall asleep
After the third scene was sung, Wen Yantong couldn't sit still anymore, got up and walked outside. She didn't have to salute anyone, so it was an easy walk.
Wen Yantong had thought about it before, if Cheng Yanchuan could escape this disaster, the best way was to raise Cheng Yanchuan's own vigilance, and she wanted to pass two key messages to Chi Jingxi.
Chi Jingxi's team doesn't have low IQs, so after asking them to be more vigilant, they will arrange the rest by themselves.
Wen Yantong walked straight along Qiying Street and found a brush and ink shop.
When the shop owner saw her clothes, he knew she was from a wealthy family and welcomed her warmly. Wen Yantong pretended to choose, pointed to a purple jade pen, and asked the boss to take it out for her to try.
The shop owner unsealed the pen on the spot, took the inkstone, and ground the ink himself.
Wen Yantong tried it with a pen, and wrote a few words on the paper, "Come on, let me see what you write with this pen."
She put the paper in front of the boss, "Just write these words better than mine. If the writing is better than mine, I will buy this pen."
The shop owner didn't think much about it, and happily picked up a pen and wrote down: Wolong, Shuijing, Opera, Torture, Singing, Lazi, Slaughter, Washing hands.
Finally, in the lower sentence: go before and stay behind.
Wen Yantong couldn't think of any profound riddles. If these words were removed from the previous word, the combination would be: Longjing poisonous, actor killer.
Longjing is the tea that will appear at the Hundred Flowers Banquet at that time. As long as this sentence is passed to Chi Jingxi, he should understand it.
Wen Yantong folded the paper that the shop owner ordered with satisfaction, and then bought the pen without saying a word, but after going out, he changed hands and threw the pen in an inconspicuous place.
After she put away the paper, she went to the street to sell some snacks. When she returned, she saw Chi Jingxi standing outside the Jiaren Building, watching the performance on stage from afar.
Wen Yantong quickly stepped forward, went to Chi Jingxi's side, walked around him and said, "Why did the young master come out?"
Chi Jingxi's attention was pulled down, he looked at her and asked, "Where did you go?"
Wen Yantong held the snack in his hand, "I'm hungry, so I went to buy something."
She squeezed a peeled chestnut and handed it forward, "Do you want to eat it?"
Chi Jingxi lowered her eyes and paused for a moment, as if thinking about whether to eat or not. Wen Yantong thought that he wouldn't eat, so she wanted to withdraw her hand, but she didn't expect Chi Jingxi to pinch her wrist, bent down and lowered her head, and bit the chestnut at her fingertips.
As if deliberately, the teeth bit down on her fingertips.
Wen Yantong rubbed his fingertips and said, "Why does the young master still bite?"
Chi Jingxi chewed the chestnuts with a sullen face, and said after swallowing, "It's clearly your fingers that were on my teeth."
"Okay, okay, my fingers are too loose, I will discipline them after I go back." Wen Yantong said, "Aren't you going in?"
Chi Jingxi said, "No, there is no place for me inside."
Wen Yantong wondered, "Why not?"
Chi Jingxi said, "It's just not."
Seeing that he was talking nonsense with his eyes open, Wen Yantong couldn't refute anything, so he stuffed a chestnut into his mouth and remained silent.
Before the two of them stood for a while, a voice suddenly came from a distance, "Young Master!"
Chi Jingxi turned his head, the corners of his eyes sank immediately, and an indifferent expression appeared on his handsome face. Wen Yantong followed suit and saw a strange man walking towards this side, followed by several people.
Wen Yantong looked around and saw that among those people were Fu Tanghuan and Fu Shi, and immediately understood that these people should all be Fu Sheng's children.
Chi Jingxi was probably very unwilling to talk to them, so he snatched the chestnut from Wen Yantong's hand and pretended to be eating.
Would this method of refusing to communicate be too obvious? They all saw it!