The characters in the new play are easy to draw, but after setting up the characters, Cui Xie realized that he had dug a hole for himself.
These characters do not overlap with the characters in operas on the market today. To make the audience identify with his characters, they must write richer scenes to show their characters for these thousands of households. Wouldn't that run counter to the original intention of his Jinyiwei Dazaju, which he easily relied on to pour water through play.
Cui Xie looked at the renderings that were getting thicker and thicker with a headache, and felt that his drama had to be serialized.
The Northern Song has four acts, each act contains only ten pieces, and there is not much content at all. Either start a series of zaju dramas like "Water Margin" since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, where everyone takes the lead in a play and then co-stars together again; Come on stage, the story line slowly unfolds—
But both have major flaws.
If it is a series of dramas, there are already too many dramas on the market with each thousand households as their soul male protagonists. His series of dramas will be submerged in the flood, and there will be nothing to show. The difficulty in writing Southern Opera is that it can't find anyone—now the advantage of Northern Opera over Southern Opera is overwhelming. There are very few people who write Southern Opera. They are in Beijing, and they cannot find such an author.
It seems that the only way to draw the story is more detailed and accurate, and ask people to take it to the south to see if a talented person can find it to write it for him, and then teach the troupe to act according to the picture.
Hiss—speaking of which, how old is Tang Bohu now
Cui Xie's knowledge of Ming history was really bad. After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't remember when the four great talents in Jiangnan were born.
Seeing how meticulously he painted, Cui Xie sighed, "It's not like that. The one I gave to Mr. Li last time has already been done thoughtfully, and the painting this time is almost the same as those paintings with half-column characters. This "Water Margin" is as detailed."
Those who print the Water Margin are the top half of each page printed with pictures, the bottom half of the text, and a single line of text in the middle that summarizes the original text and explains the pictures. Just looking at the picture is the same as a comic strip, but the article at the bottom is called picture cutting, which makes the page look short and cramped, and it is not as comfortable as inserting illustrations between pages.
Just look like a comic book...
Cui Xie's heart moved slightly, and he squinted at the two-page draft in his hand for a while, then suddenly got up and took the previous one, put the two together, grabbed Cui Qi's pen, and dipped it in thick ink outside the frame. Write two lines of text with the image.
Facing the empty palm, Cui Qi said with lingering fears, "Big brother, how can you steal it? If I accidentally stain the paper, it will be a lot of trouble to make up for this painting!"
Cui Xie ignored his complaints, put the two paintings together left and right, put them on the table, and told him to stand up and see the effect.
What effect can this have
Cui Qi stood up in confusion, looked at it carefully for a while, nodded and said, "Very good, is the eldest brother going to change the format again, and print the courtyard book into two books as wide?"
Cui Xie shook his head and asked him, "Just by looking at the picture and my words, can you tell what's on the picture?"
The picture on the right shows a beautiful young man in a white robe, hanging upside down outside the eaves of the roof, poking at the window paper with his fingers, and peeking behind the window. Shaved head, there are many crying women sitting around.
Below the picture on the right is the text: "Xu Qianhu chased into the courtyard, afraid to disturb the thieves and dare not break in, so he used a golden hook to hang his body upside down, and licked the window paper to peep inside the house."
The bottom picture on the left reads: "I saw a few shaved Japanese wraiths clustered around the house, and many of the captured women were forced to serve the thieves with tears."
In just a few sentences, the story in the picture is clearly explained. But even if it doesn't match the words, looking at the picture, you can recognize the beautiful boy in white, the pioneer Xiao Xu Qianhu, and you can see the shameless cruelty of the thieves in the house.
It's pretty good... It's just that I haven't drawn it to the back, so I look a little anxious.
Cui Qimeng nodded and praised: "The painting is good, and it will be clearer with this word! It is better to understand than the previous article written with a picture for the background."
Cui Xie stood up and looked at the two pieces of paper on the table, placed them on the chair, and spread them on the ground again. He made a frame with his hands, looked at the drawing circle in the frame, and asked slowly, "Look, if Just add two lines of words at the bottom of this painting, can it still be read as a book?"
Cui Qi frowned and said, "Then, this, this is not a picture book?" Except for erotic pictures, fairy, flower and bird picture books, there is no such printing!
But regardless of this strange point, the painting is pretty good-looking, and the pose is also good-looking.
Cui Qi said hesitantly, "But it's all painted... The plate is so big, it's not easy to engrave, and it costs more paint. Isn't it expensive to print? I'm afraid there aren't many buyers?"
No, no, he believes that there must be more people who read villain books than serious ones!
Cui Xie took a ruler and drew a frame half the height of an ordinary book page on the paper, and greeted Cui Qi: "Try to shrink all my drawings to this size. If you can, we can print four in one edition. Pages, the cost of the board is half that of a normal book!"
If only the black and white embroidered image plate is printed, the coloring part is saved, the engraving plate is easier and the cost can be lower.
Cui Qi was obedient, and began to try painting without saying a word. However, his technique was only capable of drawing and imitating drawings. Before scaling, he had to find skilled painters to draw such small drawings.
He looked at the distorted figure under his hand, and shook his head helplessly: "I think I should call someone for my eldest brother, I can't draw well with this method."
But it was still popular to grab marriages outside, and Cui Xie didn't dare to ask him such a white and tender young man to go out, so he called Cui Liangdong again and asked him to send the driver to Ju'anzhai to find someone - just the handyman who followed them first. Li Jinbao. He is not young, and he is average-looking. It is estimated that he does not need to take a car, and he will not be robbed on the road.
I don't know when the chaos caused by this concubine election will end.
Cui Xie let out a long sigh and told Cui Liangdong to be careful. When he went, he would take some snacks to see Teacher Li and ask for two more days off for him.
Cui Liangdong hovered in the air with awe-inspiring ambition, patted his chest and promised, "I promise that two people will go, and three people will come back. What shouldn't be lost will never be lost, and what shouldn't be too much will never be lost!"
He asked someone to get out of the car, and Cui Xie asked Cui Qi to help, arrange the drawn pictures in order, look at the pictures and the text, and see if the stories are connected, and how many lost ones need to be added and corrected.
If it is made into a comic strip, the difference between the characters can not be separated from the image of the actors, and the distinction will be more distinct. Moreover, there is more room for drawing than acting, not to mention flying over the eaves and walls, it is enough to let thousands of households go straight to the sky when they fight!
Don't worry about finding someone to write a play anymore!
Even though he was beaten to death, he couldn't write a song that the audience liked, "How can the ecstasy be prevented from setting the sun in the evening, and the romantic debt is willing to pay", and he couldn't write any good final poems or final words, but writing this kind of simple and simple The prose is not a problem. Coupled with good-looking color pictures, why are so many people criticizing the text of his accompanying pictures like they are critical of the articles in the field
It is enough that the common people can understand and like to see it!
Choi Xie confidently arranged the pictures and sentences, and stepped up the idea of the next plot. After about one hour, five or six quarters, Cui Liangdong suddenly rushed in in a hurry, followed by the handyman Li Jinbaolai. "Not good! Young Master, something happened!"
Something happened to Mr. Li!
Cui Xie stood up abruptly and asked, "What's going on!"
Cui Liangdong didn't even bother to drink his saliva, and hurriedly said: "Li Xueshi reported yesterday that Liang Fang and Wei Xing, two eunuchs, maliciously released rumors of choosing ladies, so as to make money from the wealthy people in Beijing. , the brothers who shielded the noble concubine took advantage of the chaos to deceive the concubine of a good family, and asked the emperor to punish them, so that people could refute the rumors as soon as possible, so that the people would not panic and get married and make so many mismatched marriages.
"But the emperor loves those two eunuchs, and Concubine Wan is blowing the pillow wind, but he can't bear to deal with those two people? They lightly got rid of their crimes, and in turn said that the text on our Master Li's memorial is not in compliance with the regulations, and asked Jin Yiwei to arrest him. You're in jail!"
Cui Xie's heart burned with fire, making his mouth dry and his breath hot; but he thought very calmly in his mind that Li Dongyang would be the first assistant in the future, and this case would not be a big deal.
But what if... He traveled to worship Li Dongyang as his teacher, and wrote these plays, which has changed history, and called a wrongful case that Li Dongyang has never experienced in history at this time
Two extreme opposite feelings surround him, making his expression terrifyingly severe, and his words so cold that one dares not refuse. He asked lightly: "When did Jin Yiwei take it, and who went? Why is there no one from the Li family to deliver the letter?"
With a trembling heart, Cui Liangdong lowered his head and replied, "I just took the person away this morning. I don't know the name, but it's from a hundred households surnamed Lu. Li Xueshi's father is now sick in bed, and Young Master Li is too young to care. What happened, not to mention the female family members in the backyard. His family said that he had gone to Li Youshi, Liu Yushi, Yang She and his close friends, but considering that the son is young, our family does not have a court. People, never informed us."
When I was young, I didn't have people from the court, and it was true that it didn't matter. But he is Li Dongyang's entrant disciple. If something happens to the teacher, how can the disciple ignore it? !
He nodded slightly and looked at Cui Liangdong approvingly: "You have grown up now, and you are doing very well. I will go to Li's house first, and you will go to the accountant to pick up three hundred taels of silver for me, and then pack some to get it. I would rather bring more gifts than less gifts. Then ask someone to ask Imperial Physician Liu to come to Li’s house to treat my master.”
Cui Liangdong wiped the sweat from his face and agreed immediately, only to ask one more question: "Young Master is going to visit Li's house? Is this too much money?"
I'm afraid it's not too much, but not enough.
He instructed Cui Liangdong to pick up the best things and pack them in a brocade box and put them on a carriage; he pushed the manuscript on the table and asked Cui Qina to discuss it with Li Jinbao. He himself went back to the room, changed his clothes, straightened his gauze cap in front of the mirror, shook his sleeves, and went out of the room absolutely.
He arrived at the Li's house first, and it was already in chaos, and everyone was in a panic, just like the Cui's house who was arrested by Jin Yiwei at the beginning.
No, it was more tragic than the Cui family.
At least the Cui family was taken away by Mrs. Xu, who could cut off the relationship, not the pillar of the Li family.
He went to visit Li Taigong first, and said to the old man who seemed to be a few years older in one day and his spirit was drained: "Master, please take care of your body and wait with peace of mind. The princes in the court will not sit back and watch the power. Eunuch framed the teacher, although my student is useless, but he also recognizes the pacification envoy of the Beizhen Fusi, and I will try my best to ask him to protect the teacher."
Li Taigong breathed hard, and said firmly: "If you can see my son, take a word for me - tell him not to worry about his family, he was convicted for reining in the evil of castration, we old and weak Although women and children can't do anything for him, they are also proud of him and would like to live and die with him!"
His face was blue and yellow, but his eyes were abnormally bright. Cui Xie was afraid that he would be hurt by anger and anger, so he held his hand tightly and revealed a history in a low voice: "Master, don't worry too much. , will come back safely. He is going to be the first assistant in the future, how could he be hurt in the hands of two eunuchs!"
Li Taigong coughed twice and said with a smile, "You're really happy when you talk, no wonder Dongyang likes you when he mentions you... Cough, he doesn't worry about you before he leaves, so don't tell you, you don't have to look at it. He, the prison is a place where ordinary people can go..."
Cui Xie shook his head and persuaded him with a forced smile: "Didn't your master watch those Jinyiwei dramas on the market? Jinyiwei is not what it used to be now, they all know loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, and will not harm good people..."
He resigned from Taigong Li and went out, and when he saw the Li family's steward, he left two coins and a few packets of various medicinal materials, telling him that he had called his family to hire a famous doctor, and asked them to take care of Taigong Li.
Li Da Gongzi Zhaoxian was also waiting for him under the porch. When he saw him, he rushed up and asked, "Senior brother, will my father be okay? Uncle Shi and the others didn't look good after they came. I'm afraid my father really..."
His eyes were red, but he refused to cry. Cui Xie stroked the back of his head and comforted him calmly: "Don't worry, the teacher will be fine, so many adults are working in the court, when today Zi is also the king of Shengming Zhuzhao, he will be back soon."
Even if it can't be done soon, as long as you don't get punished in the imperial prison and wait until the death of Concubine Wan next year, this matter can be turned around.
He ruthlessly abandoned his junior brother and asked the driver to drive to Beizhen Fusi.
The four characters "Beijing Fusi" are really a thunderstorm. Rao is that the driver has watched several Jinyiwei dramas, and I heard that going there is also a battle between two groups, and I begged the son not to die.
Cui Xie said impatiently, "You have to go! If you don't want to go, I'll go out and hire a car and a sedan chair. How can the teacher be in prison and the disciples resting at home like nothing else?"
On the way, he still remembered to buy a few boxes of vegetables, a basket of hot steamed buns, and a jar of good wine. The coachman was very timid, and when he arrived on the street outside Damingmen, he was already reluctant to shake the reins. Cui Xie simply did not bother to use him, so he stuffed a forty-two small silver ingot in his waist, carrying a food box and wine. Altar, strode to Beizhen Fusi.
The imperial prison is a prison set up by the royal family. How can people who have entered the imperial prison be visited as easily as the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple
Cui Xie took out the money from his waist and cupped his hands: "The student is a disciple of Li Xueshi who was arrested and imprisoned today, and he came here to visit his teacher. My husband was arrested without any guilt. I ask the two adults to accommodate and let the students in. Send him a meal and see if he is in good health."
The two gatekeepers looked at Yin Zi with dazzling eyes, but they both gritted their teeth and refused with tears: "His guilt and innocence will be decided by the Holy Spirit, and it's not up to you. The prisoners are all sinners who have passed the imperial court. , Li Dongyang even made Sacred Heart furious, and he was ordered to be imprisoned, how could it be so good to see him!"
Cui Xie's efforts were unsuccessful, and he really wanted them to pass on Xie Ying and go in to enjoy the feeling of the privileged class. But he also knew more clearly that the last thing he could find at this time was Xie Ying.
At least you can't find Xie Ying in the Zhenfu Division.
Otherwise, people will think that Xie Ying has something to do with Teacher Li, and then tell him to avoid suspicion, and change the case to someone who compliments Wanjia, I am afraid that the teacher will be tossed to death.
He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Can those two big brothers bring these meals in for me? My teacher is over forty years old and his body is weak. He can't stand the dampness in prison, so he always has to bring him some wine. Keep out the cold."
The two gatekeepers looked at the wine jar and said embarrassingly, "The person who took the case..." This is the person who has been greeted by Eunuch Liang in the palace and the former commander, Lord Wanda Wan, can they be more careful? What
They were about to persuade Cui Xie to stop again, when suddenly a handsome and gentle official in red robe came from the side door of Zhenfusi, and waved the two captains to go back to the station. He strode up in front of Cui Xie himself, his brows were slightly sullen, he looked down at him, and said in a low voice, "This is the second time I've seen you come to Zhenfusi to visit the prison."