They set off for Nancheng together, and Mr. Long Yue had already invited me to be their guide. "
"Those two annoying dragons still need a guide?" Hai'an snorted lightly, and said in a moderate voice, "I've never heard that they like opera."
He turned his head and looked at Long Bing who was coming over with a smile, and asked with a raised brow: "I heard that you came to China this time to find something? Why did you go to the theater again? What you are looking for is in the Nancheng?"
As soon as the words came out, all four were shocked.
Jiang Greed, including everyone from the Demon Management Bureau, focused their eyes on Long Bing instantly.
Bi An smiled and said: "Mr. Long Bing can tell us what you want to find. We have a lot of people and we will definitely be able to find it for you."
Hai'an seemed to be gloating about his misfortune, and continued to add fuel to the flames: "Yes, Huaguo's friends are very enthusiastic. What you are looking for, you can say it openly."
"It's not something important." Long Bing's cheeks twitched, and his eyes became more and more gloomy: "It was when I was traveling in China, I fell in love with a girl who sang an opera in the countryside at first sight. It's just that I never saw each other again. Now that I think about it, I only vaguely remember that the woman’s hometown is in Nancheng, so I want to visit it.”
"So I wanted to see my old lover..." Hai'an said with a look of understanding on your face, "It's just that we are not ordinary people after all, sometimes in the blink of an eye, those young men and women are already very old .”
"Human life is too short." He sighed a long time, pressed his index finger to his lips and said, "I don't know if the woman you like is a handful of white bones, or an old woman with white hair and chicken skin..."
He said so on his mouth, but there was a wicked smile in his green eyes.
Long Bing looked at him with gloomy eyes: "Don't worry about that."
"Of course I don't worry about it." Haian shrugged innocently: "I'm just afraid that you will cry when the time comes, so I kindly remind you."
Then he turned to Jiang Li and said, "Jiang, Long Bing probably won't need you tomorrow, why don't you come and be my guide." He blinked and whispered, "I know a lot of their little secrets. Oh… "
Jiang Greed's eyes flashed, he pondered for a moment, and then responded with a smile: "It's an honor."
Regardless of whether Hai'an is an enemy or a friend, just because he can directly expose the purpose of Long Bing and others, it means that he and Long Bing and his party are not against each other.
Hai'an and Long Bing are both from the United States, so they must have had a lot of contacts, and they must know more news than them.
There is a saying that goes: The enemy of an enemy is a friend.
"See you tomorrow. I'll go back and take a beauty sleep first." Hai'an waved at him, turned gracefully and walked towards the elevator.
Seeing this, the two humans headed by him immediately followed.
Instead, Long Bing and the others waited for him to enter the elevator before turning around and leaving one after another. Obviously, he deliberately avoided Hai'an, and didn't want to conflict with him again.
…
After the dinner party was completely over, everyone from the Demon Management Bureau went back to the bureau and held a temporary meeting. After arranging tomorrow's work schedule, they went home to rest after get off work.
Because of the unexpected schedule of Long Bing and others, Jiang Li will definitely not be able to go to Nancheng with Xue Meng and the others tomorrow. After returning home, he packed up the daily necessities of the three boys, and after calling Zhang Tianxing, he and Bi An drove Jiang Chi to Zhang Tianxing's house.
In fact, Jiang Li wanted to hand over the younger brothers to Ying Qiao to take care of them, but with the fourth brother around, it was definitely impossible. I can only trouble Brother Ku.
He stuffed Zhang Tianxing together with the ticket given by Director Cheng.
Tomorrow's trip to Nancheng is for work, so he definitely can't bring his family with him, but during the day, Jiang Li had already said that he would take them to Nancheng to watch a wild stage show.
After inquiring about the hotel at that time, you may be able to drop by during your break.
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The next day, after lunch, the convoy of the Demon Control Bureau headed for Nancheng.
From Jiangcheng to Nancheng, it takes about two hours on the highway. It was already afternoon when the group arrived at Nancheng Hotel.
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The opera festival had already opened in the morning, and the hotel guests came and went, most of them were tourists who came here admiringly.
The front desk of the hotel also thoughtfully provided a route map and brochures to the venue.
Jiang Li took a brochure, only to know that the official name of this event is "Nancheng Folk Opera Art Exhibition". The venue is Wenlingtai.
It is said that the Lingtai was originally an altar, and it was built in the middle reaches of the Linghe River.
Linghe River is a tributary of the Yangtze River, and its trunk runs through the entire Nancheng. The tributaries are all over the whole area of Nancheng. In the ancient times when God rewarded food for food, the water of Linghe River was the basis for the survival of the people in a city.
When Linghe is safe, the people are safe.
Therefore, in order to pray for good weather, the people of Nancheng gradually developed the custom of offering sacrifices to the god of the Linghe River. Wenlingtai is an altar built by the people of Nancheng to worship the god of the river and pray for good weather.
Every year when offering sacrifices to the River God, the excitement is no less than that of the Spring Festival. At that time, the transportation was inconvenient, and only the waterway was the fastest. People from ten miles and eight villages rowed their boats, dragged their families, brought chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and other sacrifices to Wenlingtai, waiting to participate in the river god ceremony.
On the day of the ceremony, the river near the Lingtai was full of boats next to each other. When the ceremony started, everyone watched from the boats. It can be placed on the bow of the ship for trading or bartering.
When the sun goes down, lights will be hung on these boats, for the sake of excitement and to attract people, and there will be boatmen singing operas and songs on the bow... This kind of spontaneous behavior gradually became more and more popular because more people participated. The unwritten rules have become a classic link that must be staged every year, and it is called "wild stage opera" or "wild stage".
With the popularity of opera culture, the jungle stage after the festival is getting more and more lively every year, and even many actors who want to make a name will go to the jungle stage on the day of the festival.
However, people like this usually don’t show their faces directly, and most of them wear a mask to cover their faces. If the cheers are high, they will take off the mask halfway after the end, and become famous in one fell swoop; if no one cares, they hide in the cabin Li left in despair, waiting to come back next year.
Of course, this is the old time scene introduced in the brochure.
Today is a modern society, and the promotion of feudal superstition is not advocated. Therefore, the official only briefly mentioned the background of offering sacrifices to the river god in the propaganda, and then focused on the "wild platform".
Today's wild stage operas are naturally different from those in the past. In order to stir up the atmosphere, the organizers specially invited many famous folk opera masters to come over and set up high bonuses to encourage folk masters to come and play in the hall, forming a healthy competition situation.
It's just that since the title of "Jungle Terrace" has been used, it naturally has a taste of the past.
So the time and place of this exhibition is set on the Ling River at night.
All the boats were contacted by the organizer in advance. In addition to the small boats on the jungle platform, there were also several larger sightseeing cruise ships parked at the pier not far away. The cruise ships were decorated with antique flavors. After buying a ticket, tourists can board a boat and enjoy the grand view of the Dayetai on the river.
It was only evening when Jiang Li and the others arrived at the Lingtai.
The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled down, and the river was full of sparkling waves. Several black-covered boats of different sizes were parked not far from the river bank. Looking from a distance, one could see figures shaking at the bow of the boats. Occasionally there was a high or low babbling sound, which should be the people on the boat hanging voice.
A group of people first went to the Hexian restaurant near Wenlingtai to eat special seafood, and then went to the river after it got dark.
Jiang Greed followed behind Bi An, lowered his head and sent Jiang Chi a message, telling him that he had arrived at the Lingtai, and if he had time at night, he would go to them again.
But at this moment, Hai'an squeezed the others away, and came to Jiang Li's side and asked, "Do you want to go on a boat with me?"
Jiang Greed had no choice but to put away his phone, looked at the cruise ship by the pier, and asked doubtfully, "Didn't we charter a cruise ship?"
"What's so fun about a cruise ship?"
Hai'an shook his finger, pointed to Long Bing and others in front of him, and said, "They said they want to take that kind of black-covered boat, and I think it's good too."
He looked longingly and said: "I watched it in a TV series, a pot of wine, a boat, a couple of confidants, boating on the lake, tasting wine and enjoying the scenery... Isn't it a great thing in life?"
The corner of Jiang Greed's mouth twitched, not knowing where he saw these things. I couldn't help reminding: "Going on the ship at night and drinking alcohol is prone to accidents and is not safe."
Hai'an stared at him in disbelief, and after a while he whispered, "So it's not that my charm has declined."
It is clear that Jiang Greed is missing a string.
It's really not interesting at all.
Can't move.
Jiang Li looked innocent. Seeing that Long Bing and the others over there had already started to select ships, he couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "Do you really want them to disperse? In case of accidents, it may not be easy to deal with."
Of course, Bi An did not fail to understand this truth. He whispered: "I don't want children not to be able to trap wolves and see people under their noses. They are honest, but they won't make the next move. Only when they disperse can they move forward." Have the opportunity… "
Now that they knew that they were coming to Nancheng to find something, in order to lure the snake out of the hole, they had to create opportunities if they had no chance.
The author has something to say:
Hai'an: Dead straight man!
Greedy cub:? I am curvy.
Longlong: Yes, I can testify.
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Chapter 114
Now that Qu An had already made arrangements, Jiang Li didn't add any further comments. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City
When he turned around and went back, he saw that Hai'an had already selected the awning boat and was choosing masks at a mask booth. brochure has