After Gao Su left, Cui Xie opened the PDF in his head and copied down the set of the academy books, thinking about how to make special effects.
This Lantern Festival was still shown at the party time - the last fold of the courtyard has the words "I will see the color around Aoshan, the silver table is painted with candles", "Wan Zhan lanterns around the front and back", the singing must have already lit the Aoshan and candles It's time. Today, there are no incandescent lamps in this world. Candlelight comes with PS filter effect. It doesn't matter if the background is arranged rough.
Just in the past two days, the painting of "Three Kingdoms" has reached the 91st "Sacrificing to the Master of the Han Dynasty in Shanghai, and the Wuhou of the Central Plains", and the single illustration only needs to draw Sima Yi and Kong Ming that have been drawn before. He draws a draft, and can teach Cui Qi and the bookstore handyman to do the formal sketching and coloring first, as long as he looks at the progress in the middle and does color fingering, he does not bother much.
The rest of the time is for this drama.
Cui Xie picked up the knife and slowly cut out more than a dozen pens, looking at the background of the play while cutting—
The big male protagonist "Yuxu Shi Xiangxuantian God" claims to be born in the land of Rengui in the north. When it comes, the country will be covered with snow, and his residence can be arranged as a snow scene. The "Jiutian You Yishen" who communicated the letter had the phrase "ride a crane", so he simply got him a fake crane, made a coiled prosthetic leg on it, and let You Yi make his own legs. walk and pretend to fly across cranes. In the middle, there is a scene where You Yi envoy goes to invite Emperor Wenchang. You can cover it with a veil in front, and then quickly change the background of a large curtain with a palace painted on it.
The next fold is that Jiutian You Yishi turns to invite the Great Emperor Wuxian Lingguan and the Five Sacred Mountains to come down to the earth to appreciate the lanterns. This scene is a bit underworld, with ghost officials appearing, but it can't make the emperor unhappy. It was simply changed to a constellation background, with stars shining on the black curtain, and the tables and chairs Qiluo in the upper palace were still laid out in front, and they were as rich and noble as the palace of the emperor on earth.
In the last scene, when the saints come to the human world, they have to get some blowers to blow some silk flowers and gold foil from their heads, fluttering and falling to the ground, just like the appearance of gods coming to the world...
This play is too simple to be added, that is, Master Yuxu invites people to come down to the earth to celebrate the Lantern Festival for the big tomorrow. It stands to reason that there is no difficult part to deal with. However, he didn't know much about the technical level of the palace, so he closed his eyes and tried hard. What if he couldn't figure it out? Or do it too ordinary, what if the emperor does not like it
The more Cui Xie thought about it, the more difficult it became that he couldn't solve it alone. He was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pick up—
He is unfamiliar with the situation in the palace, and Gao Baihu is not always able to find people, but Xie Qianhu often enters the palace, and the more festivals come, the more he has to stay by the emperor's side, he must be very familiar with the situation of the palace opera. what! He is also familiar with the performing techniques commonly used in the palace!
How could he not ask for advice with such a respected God
Cui Xie squinted and smiled. The pencil in his hand circled between his fingers, and he returned to the middle of the index. He shook his wrist lightly, and drew the background image.
The next day, it started snowing early, and by the end of school, the ground was all white, and the weather was gloomy, not the time to go out. But Cui Xie didn't care about that. In the morning, he told his family that he was going to enjoy the snow and relax. After school, he put on a sheepskin robe and rode a little white horse to Xie's house.
He came to the door in such bad weather, and even the concierge of the Xie family was taken aback and asked, "Young Master Cui didn't come here only two days ago, why did you come to look for our lord again in this weather?"
Cui Gongzi took off his hood, smiled evilly, and asked warmly, "I asked Brother Xie for help because of some embarrassment. I wonder if he is at home?"
Fortunately, on a snowy day, people would not be able to see his expression clearly when they were far away, otherwise they would not dare to lead him home.
There is no need for training today, and Xie Ying didn't have any business trips or case handling tasks, so he naturally stayed at home. It's just that he saw him come to the door after only so many days, and it was still in the wind and snow. Xie Ying was inevitably a little worried, dragged him into the hall, waved his family back and asked, "Didn't all your family go back, maybe there are? What are you looking for me for?"
Cui Xie stared that no one saw him, and rolled his eyes at the Forbidden City, complaining, "I didn't come when I had time, but now I'm like a thief if I want to see you, and I have to find something to come here. "
Even if I miss him, I shouldn't go out on this day. What if the horse slips on the snow? I just told him to take care of himself last time...
Thanks to this snowy day, not only the windows were closed, but the curtains were also placed in the house, so that nothing could be seen from the outside. Xie Ying reached out and put him in his arms, pressing against his cold robe, slowly warming him.
Cui Xie's cloak and hat were covered with snow, and he had asked the Xie family to bake them. The cotton-padded clothes inside also sucked in enough cold air, and it was icy cold when attached to the body. He was afraid that Xie Ying would freeze, so he hurriedly pushed him: "It's very warm in your room, I'll get up after a while, and I don't need to hold my body. Be careful to freeze you."
Xie Ying felt cold when he touched his neck, and sneered from his nose: "The cold air on your body can freeze me to pieces, how much cold did you get outside?"
He simply took Cui Xie to his warm pavilion, threw it on the thick kang mattress, sat on the edge of the kang and tore off his shoes, stretched out his hand and pressed him into the mattress.
Cui Xie was lying on the hot kang, hot air seeping through the bones, ironing his body lazily, pulling his hand to his heart, almost not wanting to sit up.
Xie Ying was not in a hurry to get him up, she sat on the kang with half of her legs bent, put one hand on his neck, looked down at him and asked, "What's the matter first, you have to go home early in this weather. , I have already ordered people to go and prepare dinner."
Cui Xie rolled over and hugged Xie Ying's arm, dragging him to the point where he couldn't sit still. He was lying on the bed, his face almost touching his own. He raised his head and kissed before saying, "I want to ask Brother Xie Ordinary acting in the palace, do you have the habit of arranging landscapes, making cranes, and cloud cars?"
The two were so close that they could smell each other's breath, and the symphony of gardenias blended together, and it was impossible to tell whose breath it was. Xie Ying grabbed his hand that touched her chest and pressed it onto the bed, rubbed her cheek against his neck, and gently kissed his lips from the neck, feeling the body temperature of the two of them gradually warming up, and she was about to Unable to restrain himself, he let go of his hand and sat up again.
As soon as Cui Xie got hot, he was about to withdraw, but he couldn't be stronger than him. He was so angry that he grabbed his hand from fingertips to wrist, trying to conquer him with his modern technology.
Unexpectedly, Xie Ying could hold back, pinched him on his leg, said "don't make trouble", and then started talking about business: "The layout in the palace is more luxurious than the stage outside the palace, but it's just a little bit more arranging. Tables and chairs, cars and sedans painted with curtains, etc. I have never heard of cloud cars, but cranes... If you put cranes on the stage, the sound of gongs and drums will startle them, right?"
The tip of Cui Xie's tongue lightly drew a circle in his palm, he felt his arm stiffen a little, then he felt a little satisfied, raised his head and said, "It's not true, it's like tying a lantern on the Lantern Festival with bamboo framing, It is pasted on paper, and people stand and walk inside, looking like they are walking on cranes."
Xie Ying said with a smile: "If this is the case, it's not difficult to do. What's wrong with the Aoshan Denghai in the palace. If you say this, I can think of it, and the craftsmen will naturally think about it. Out. What else? What is the cloud car, and does it do the same?"
Cui Xie played with his calloused fingers, squinted and said, "It's just something like this, make it shorter, wrap it with fluffy cotton wool, and attach a few wheels to the bottom frame to follow people in and out. Riding on the clouds, this is a bit like a fairy, right? There will be a large curtain behind the stage, and some rockery and artificial trees..."
He originally wanted to ask Eunuch Gao to use gypsum to make the rockery and artificial tree, but the gypsum was too heavy and inconvenient to move, so he just asked Xie Ying: "It's a bit fake and not good-looking to wrap silk to make trees and stones. It's cheap, and it can be coated with a layer of things that freeze quickly?"
It would be nice to have a plastic foam, or a silicone or something to pour out a shell, but Daming probably doesn't have such a thing, right? He himself didn't hold out much hope. Thinking that it couldn't be done, he would stick it with paper like a lantern, but Xie Ying answered happily, "There is such a thing... Isn't that what you're talking about?"
Excited, Cui Xie squeezed his waist and sat up from the thick kang mattress: "Oil wax?" Isn't it the kind that waxes cars
Xie Ying looked at his surprised expression, and couldn't help but smile, "Don't you usually watch wax oil? Isn't it just swirling and condensing when candle tears flow down, what's so strange?"
How can such a person who knows everything, just can't think of something that everyone knows
Xie Ying didn't feel that he was ignorant, but felt that he got into a dead end for a while, and there were some places he couldn't think of. But this kind of look that reminds people and suddenly realizes is also very cute, and it makes people want to draw it as a souvenir-much more lovely than the dignified and stable adult image he painted.
He couldn't help pinching Cui Xie's cheek, and seeing that he was still a little ignorant, he asked with a smile, "Why, can't you figure it out?"
Cui Xie shook his head, and when his hand touched his lips, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit his finger, and said vaguely, "I didn't think about what wax wax was, but I always thought it was made of insect white wax. I just remembered that oil wax is only 8 cents a pound, and white wax costs 3 cents and 4 cents a pound. It really cannot be the same thing..."
When Xie Ying heard the difference between things based on price, he felt more and more interesting and couldn't help laughing. Just as he was smiling, he heard footsteps approaching outside, and quickly pushed Cui Xie and winked.
Cui Xie reluctantly let go of his fingers, straightened his clothes and sat by the kang table; Xie Ying also sat on the other side of the kang table, still sitting cross-legged on the bed. Both of them were wearing thick cotton-padded clothes, and they didn't lie down for a while without wrinkling, and their heads were wrapped in hair nets, so they weren't afraid of making trouble.
When the family came in, they sat across the table, holding a teacup in each hand, talking about stage art, just like a pair of regular friends.
The steward who came in didn't look up at them, but lowered his hand and asked Xie Ying where he put the pot.
Xie Ying pointed to the kang table and said, "Let's put it here, get more mutton, donkey meat and other things that can generate heat, and then get some green vegetables hidden in the cellar, as long as the wine is not the sweet wine on the top. Eat the pot is yourself. It's comfortable to do it, you can just put the dishes aside, you don't need to keep anyone."
In such a cold weather, Cui Xie still has to ride home on horseback, so he can't drink too much, and of course he has to eat a pot to warm himself up.
The lambs raised on the Zhuangzi of the Xie family are now slaughtered and cut into thin slices, then served with Baoding donkey meat, rinsed in boiling soup, dipped in sesame sauce and eaten, and can't even wear cotton clothes.
Xie Ying was afraid that Cui Xie would sweat his clothes and get sick from the wind on the way, so he simply told him to take off his thick clothes and put his thin jacket on him. The two sat at the kang table, enjoying the smell of meat and steaming soup, and while eating, they studied how to use Daming technology to create a modern stage play effect.
There is no content in this kind of Lantern Festival, it is nothing more than a few lines of "Celebrate the Lantern Festival" and "Bless the Lord with endless longevity". own ideas.
The two liberal arts students and sports students slammed Fang Qiu with their cups, and discussed how to transform the blower box used by the blacksmith as if they were engaged in scientific research, and sprinkle flowers, gold confetti and feathers disguised as snowflakes from the second floor of the stage. As for the light effect, you can arrange the lights from the patio on the second floor, use colored paper lanterns to change the light color, and use a brass or silver-plated board as a lighting board to light it down, and ask them to slowly test the effect during rehearsal.
If it weren't for the fact that we can only make iron wire now, but can't make steel wire, Cui Xie really wants to ask Chenghua Emperor to see the Weiya artifact of modern film and television dramas.
He shook his head with a little regret, moved the play from beginning to end, and asked Xie Ying: "If Jiaofang Division arranges it by himself, what else is more eye-catching than our methods?"
Xie Ying pointed at the mutton with chopsticks, thought for a while, and said, "It's just fireworks when the gods are on stage. It's not summer, and you can also do water puppet shows. It's not that fresh."
Cui Xie touched his chin and said, "If you build an ice arena and let the actors play while playing, then the gait will be like a fairy."
Xie Ying felt that his arrangement was fresh enough. The Jiaofang Division had never arranged such a lively show in recent years. The Bell and Drum Division also had the emperor's favorite actor, A Chou. I like it.
He picked up a slice of meat that was cooked just right, put it in Cui Xie's bowl, and said with a smile, "It's not easy if you think about it, just make up your brain. It doesn't matter if you eat a few more bites, I'll ask them to send some hawthorn later. Cake to digest food."
Mutton nourishes the kidneys, and eating it does not nourish the brain.
The kidneys that have been supplemented for so long can't be used, so what are they doing to supplement him!
Cui Xie bit his chopsticks, rolled the mutton slices on the tip of his tongue and ate them, sipped his chopsticks and complained, "I will be seventeen after the new year, and my aunt said that I should marry a wife and have children at this age, what are you doing? Are you taking me as a child?"
Xie Ying's hand holding the chopsticks suddenly loosened, and it took a while for her to regain her senses. She smiled and said, "It's time to solve major life events at this age. Next year... No, after next month, you will be an adult... What are your plans, but you want to give your cousins to you?"
Cui Xie said with a smile, "Brother Xie, don't be kidding me. How could a cousin marry me? My aunt said she wanted to pay attention to famous ladies..."
Xie Ying nodded and persuaded with a smile: "It's better for your family to treat you. If you have such relatives, you should move around more than you can support the door alone."
Xie Ying showed restraint and forbearance, generosity, as if he really didn't care, but Cui Xie looked dissatisfied, walked around the table, climbed to his side, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "But I will I want someone who was born in eunuchs, good-looking, gentle and considerate, considerate, generous…”
Xie Ying listened to his words, nodded from time to time, and felt that he was right, marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, Cui Xie really deserves such a wife.
He even wanted to ask Cui Xie which daughter he wanted. If he didn't care about the door, he would recognize several princes.
He was thinking wildly when the people around him suddenly jumped into his arms, bit him lightly on his chin, and whispered into his ear: "...Xie Qianhu who likes to help me secretly."