In the next few days, the Cui family will rehearse at home to celebrate the return of Cui Zhuangyuan. The county also sent people to build archways for the three jinshi. The street was very lively inside and out, and the music of silk and bamboo drums was non-stop day and night, and the county officials often came to enjoy the drum music.
Although Qian'an is mountainous and dangerous, the trend of opera troupes is not slower than that of the capital. As soon as the comic strip of Jinyiwei came out, the Jinyiwei dramas performed by various groups have changed their makeup and clothing according to the comics. Especially in An Qianhu's play, the artists have been asked to add the plot of men disguising as women without any teacher. , it is almost to steal the limelight of Jinyiwei's big movie.
It's a pity that the makeup skills and stage effects here are not as good as those of Jingli. Many props are made of wood, which is not as cheap and convenient as the wax products used in Jingli, and it is easy to introduce new ones.
The Cui brothers usually study and have not seen a few scenes. The two Zhang Guojiu are people who have seen the world. Seeing that the makeup is not exquisite here, and the stage props are not realistic... While watching, they boasted to the neighbors about the good theater troupe they had seen in Beijing, and called the class leader to come. Instructing others how to arrange it, I wish I could approve it and put it on the show.
Cui Xie let them dance like flowers and butterflies, and as long as he didn't bully his neighbors like his uncle, he wouldn't restrain them.
After all, he has more important things to do.
When watching the play, he also closed his eyes and shook his head like everyone else, as if he was deeply involved in the play. In fact, he had opened the ancient chemistry book in his mind, and was seriously studying how to show some of the miracles of his ancestors.
It's a pity that the book summarizes most of the production and living techniques of the ancient working people. It seems that the most bluffing trick is a trick with a mysterious name - the Yuanguang pseudo method.
Some chemical formulas are involved in the circular light method. The principle is that gallnut water contains tannic acid, which can turn black when encountering saponin solution. It is an application of dyeing and weaving technology. Cui Xie couldn't understand it anyway, so he jumped over to see the specific method of implementation: that is, use gallnut water to draw on the back of the paper, and when the water dries, the drawn things disappear. The ferrous acid solution is poured up, and the previously hidden picture will be revealed by itself.
This method is similar to the method of using invisible potion to write secret reports on paper in a very war drama, and using fire to show the handwriting, but it is more convenient and natural to use water instead of fire.
In the play, An Qianhu sang the song "Sell Good Wine", and the neighbors who were listening to the play cheered loudly. The aria of the thief who cheated on women applauded. Choi Xie also opened his eyes and looked at the stage, pretending to like the show as much as everyone else.
In the evening, the guests dispersed, and the four children went back to write honestly about their afterthoughts. Cui Xie also took advantage of the opportunity to see off the guests to take a walk outside, and bought some galls and brought them back to fry them. Saponite is easier to get. There are new paints in the bookstore. On the pretext that he wants to paint, he asked someone to send a whole set of paints, picked them out and dissolved them with water, and tried them on the spot.
Works well.
He wrote the words "Do not get married" on the paper with diluted gallnut water. After drying, only a little yellow mark could be seen. Then spray it with soapy water to reveal the ink characters, which is quite effective. obvious. If the edge of the paper is immersed in water, and the capillary effect is superimposed on it, the ink words slowly appear on the piece of white paper, it really looks like it was written by a ghost... Coax the child to be rich!
He burned the snow-white mulberry paper used for the test, prepared a dozen pale yellow bamboo papers, and wrote the words "Do not marry" on the back of the top piece of paper. The words were randomly selected from the PDF. Nothing of his own. After the water dries, there will be a little imprint on the paper, but the bamboo paper is a little yellow, and it is written on the back of the paper. If someone else does not know it, he will not be able to see anything if he looks closely.
Prepare these things, and you will almost have to invite the drama and wine. Cui Xie found someone to figure out a suitable day to break the ground, and brought two family members and four children from Beijing to Jiaxiangtun in the west of the city to prepare to worship the ancestors' graves.
Thirty miles from Jiaxiangtun to the city, and the ancestral tomb was halfway up the mountain. They opened the city gate in the morning and went out. They were afraid that they would hurt their children when they walked too fast. Cui Xie asked his family to go to Zhuangzi to hire a strong worker first, and he untied the horse from the carriage, which was carrying three wine gifts, yellow paper, and firecrackers. The remaining two horses were shared among the four children. Take the horse and lead them up the mountain on foot.
On the mountainside is the ancestral land of the Cui family. Hunters and woodcutters seldom go up to disturb them. From a certain forked path in the mountain, it becomes quiet. There are deep trees and lush forests in the mountains, and various birds and insects inhabit the branches and leaves. The chirping sounds are connected with each other, and the rustling sound of the wind blowing in the branches is originally a place that is always clean, but it gives people a strange quietness. sense.
Brother Zhang Heling got on the horse and felt that the wind in the mountains was much colder than at home. He felt gloomy in his bones and couldn't help asking, "Why is it so quiet here, can we wait for the family to come up together?"
Cui Xie said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, you are relatives of the country, you can be contaminated with the royal majesty and dragon spirit, and nothing strange can entangle you. Brother Heng and Brother He don't have to be afraid, here are the ancestors of our Cui family, you are sincere Worship is also good to ask your ancestors to bless you with sincerity in your studies as soon as possible."
Cui Heng told him to tune in so long that he didn't expect to escape from his clutches. He didn't care whether he succeeded in his studies or not. Hearing the words was just cold. Brother He was envious of his eldest brother's achievements, and he wanted to be admitted as a jinshi like his father and brother.
The four children dared to follow him up the mountain, and then saw the small ancestral land of the Cui family. There are not many graves and hills, and they are connected one by one. Most of them are small mounds with a bluestone stele. They simply wrote a few inscriptions, but they are all clean, as if they had just been cleaned for a few days. Among them, the most splendid mound reads "Cui Liu's Tomb", and at a glance, it can be seen that it is the tomb of Cui Xie's biological mother.
Cui Heng glanced at it, his eyes heated up, and he didn't know whether to hate or regret.
I hate myself for not being able to stop my mother from falsely accusing the magistrate in my early years, and I regret that I didn't study hard in the past. If he could have prevented his mother's misunderstanding, he would not be a widow now, and his mother would not have been exiled to a barren land and buried in the Cui family's ancestral tomb after death.
Cui Xie did not look at him, but took off the broom from the horse, took down a few rags and a bag containing water, and told the Cui brothers to get off the horse and clean up after him.
The two told him to study in a circle at home, but they really didn't do much work. They didn't know that they had to wet the cloth and wipe it again, so they wiped it clumsily with a dry cloth. Cui Xie took a big broom and swept the ground before the graves of Gaozu and great-grandfather, and took a water bag and poured it on a rag to wipe the bluestone tombstone. The two uncles of the Zhang family also looked at them eagerly, and asked Cui Xie if he could do something—anything is fine, the best way is to burn paper money, use a stick to pick up scraps of paper, and if they get hot, they are good at it. do this.
Cui Xie didn't even think about letting them touch the fire. Seeing that they were not the kind of people who could sweep, he took out a roll of bamboo paper and pen ink cartridges from the cloth bag on the back of the packhorse, and asked them to find a large flat stone and put today's travel notes first. Write it out and check it out at night.
The faces of the two Zhang Guojiu were instantly darker than that of Ash Pile, and the Cui brothers who were working also fought a cold war.
He actually came out to visit the grave with a pen and paper!
There is such a big event as tomb sweeping that can't stop homework!
What is there to write about going to this kind of barren mountains and forests to sweep graves and burn paper? Is this something written by their literati
The Zhang brothers took the paper with grief and indignation, and looked around for a big stone on which to lay the paper and write. When they found it, they found faults, either because the stone was angular or because it was too dirty and stained the paper in their hands.
The sages all say to cherish the writing paper, how can you write on such a dirty stone
At this time, the family who went to call Zhuang Hu had already caught up. Seeing the Zhang brothers circling around a very dirty stone, they had to clean up a place where they could write. The Zhang family brothers saw that Cui Xie had already placed three sacrifices, put incense candles, and was taking two younger brothers to pay tribute to the ancestors.
Those family members and the villagers couldn't control them, so they separated two people to watch them, and the rest knelt in front of the tomb.
Cui Xie first recited an article of his own in the field of science in front of the grave, and loudly reported to his ancestors the happy event that he was admitted to the top spot, and vowed to do his best to serve the country, and also to spread branches and leaves for the Cui family to continue. Zong Yu.
He is the eldest grandson of the Cui family, and he has the responsibility of succeeding the patriarch. This is a responsibility he cannot escape.
Cui Xie vowed to continue the glory of the Cui family, and took yellow paper to burn with his two younger brothers. Burning it, he handed the paper to Brother Cui Heng and the family behind him, got up and said, "Our father and grandfather can't come here. Just relying on a few of us young people burning incense and offering sacrifices may not satisfy our ancestors. You and I burn For the paper money, I will write a few ceremonies and burn them together, so that the ancestors can be honored in the underground."
He took a used water bag with his own hands, and shook out a small packet of pre-ground soap vitriol from his sleeve and poured it into it quietly, intending to wipe the tombstone and write on the top of it. But when he got up, he saw that the Zhang brothers were still lingering beside the big stone, making the paper dirty and wrinkled, and they hadn't written anything yet, so he squinted his eyes and thought of a better way.
Close-up magic master Choi Xie is coming online!
He deliberately pressed the corners of his mouth, frowned slightly, walked to the two brothers, and asked, "Why are you still rubbing? This stone is so dirty, you even write on it without wiping it?"
Those family members came to wipe, he waved his hand and sighed: "How can you control him. Let me serve these two little ancestors."
The two little ancestors murmured and dared not speak. Cui Xie asked his family to remove the old paper, poured out the alum water, carefully wiped the stone, deliberately soaked the stone surface, and threw the paper with the writing on the back on the wet place.
The reaction between the soap vitriol and the gallnut was very fast, and the black writing gradually came out from the stone surface.
Cui Xie pretended that the papers were sticking together, and it was difficult to twist them apart. The Zhang brothers stared at the piece of paper that they needed to write on, wishing to stare through it, staring at it, and then they could see the three words on the paper from light to dark, from blurred to clear.
Don't get married.
The Zhang brothers screamed and turned around to run. The villagers stared at the two little nobles, and hurriedly stopped them from letting them run into the mountains.
Only then did Cui Xie turn around, without looking at the stone face, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the two brothers first: "What are you making a fuss about! This is the tomb of your husband's family, and it is also a place to be respected. Although you are relatives of the state, you should not go too far. …”
The two children pointed at the stone face and stammered: "Word! Word..."
The family members also saw the words on the paper, and said "Huh" in surprise. Only then did Cui Xie look down at Shi Mian, pretending to be frightened, and accidentally dropped the bag of alum water on the ground. The light-colored soapy water soaked into the ground. He lowered his body and lifted the piece of paper from the stone, looked at it slowly and carefully, and closed the paper abruptly, clasping it into a ball in the palm of his hand.
Zhang Heling said tremblingly: "On the stone, on the stone..."
Cui Heng and Cui He also rushed over from the grave and looked at the blue stone—there was still a little black shadow on the stone, and Yingyingchaochuo could also see the words "Do not marry".
Just now, Cui Xie swore to his ancestors that he would spread branches and leaves and prosper the Cui family.
The Zhang brothers were afraid and looked forward to changing a piece of paper and threw it on the bluestone, but unfortunately the alum water was dry, and the paper had not been written with gall water, and nothing was displayed.
With a calm expression of rejecting superstition, Cui Xie wiped off the little compound with a rag, and said to the Zhang brothers, "Don't be afraid, this should be dirt on the bluestone, I didn't wipe it clean, and the paper showed through when I threw it on. It looks like words, but it's not real words."
Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, he felt slightly satisfied, and threw the paper with the words into the fire to destroy the corpses, and said lightly: "Even if the words are real, it's a warning sign given to me by my ancestors from the Cui family. Harmful. I am the current champion, which demon dares to invade? You two are very valuable, so don’t worry. You will live in Zhuangzi tonight. I live in the mountains. If there is anything, the ancestors of the Cui family will naturally find I say."
After coaxing the children, he called his family to his side and whispered: "You have cleaned up the hut next to me, and then take the young masters back to live. I will find some masters and high gongs to do the dojo tomorrow and see how to resolve it. It's weird."