Late Qing Dynasty Strange Tales
Chapter 44:Late Qing Dynasty Strange Tales
“The face painting?What is that?What does this have to do with my family?”Shang Wenqing still can not accept, the death of his fiancée has brought him great pain, who knows more than one death.
Looking at his grief, Wang Huan intends to tell the truth with him, although others are somewhat jealous, do not want to say and curse-related things, but as a guardian of Yizhuang, he is not afraid of committing taboos, "It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there is a Beijing opera master, called Dragon Five, he seems to be born for the Beijing Opera genius, most people poor life, can master a role is not a life, but this dragon five, three years old, three years old.At the end of the year, the voice is thick, not losing others for ten years to sharpen; nine years old, can play the horn, can play the court; at the age of eleven, the appearance is handsome, the sound is delicate, can sing flowers, then the reputation is outstanding, to the age of fifteen, the old, the young, the outside, the end, the Wusheng, the dolls are not the same, in that era, he is naturally.
“Is there such a person?”Shang Wenqing can not imagine, because the family reasons, he himself in a very young age, contact with the Peking Opera, see the elders in the family every day practice, hard work, just for the performance of the stage, but to spend a hundred times the effort, in his view this is a very waste of time, so he did not want to learn the essence of the country from childhood, but this is called Dragon Five, actually 15 years old can understand the pentagon of Peking Opera, it is incredible.
"Since his reputation is famous, but also won the favor of the city's bureaucrats, many people want to pay heavy money to go home, after all, that era is also a kind of entertainment of Peking Opera."
“What did he do, he did.”
“Of course he is reluctant, and instead of being a caged bird in the official eunuch family, he prefers to be a wild bird of freedom in the pear garden.”
"This man is tall."
"Not only that, but later, he created a Beijing opera model, a stand-in."
“The single point?”Shang Wenqing, who was born in the Peking Opera family, has never heard of such a role.
"One-man, as the name suggests, is a person singing the whole scene."Wang Cape drank tea, paused, "Dragon Five is fluent in the five corners, coupled with his personal timbre is extremely high plasticity, he can not only switch the voice of the role when singing, but also in an instant change of face, the face of the end of the ugly five-cornered face instantly variable, this grimace at the time can be described as a unique, it is also the reason why his residence in the pear garden is full, and the other few are empty."
“Is there such a thing?”
"Trees are very popular, every era is like this, Dragon Five has become the king of that era because of his ability and the achievements of Peking Opera."But the king without the support and power of the king can not protect himself, so there are a lot of jealous people, and naturally more people want to get rid of him."
"He's not very dangerous."
"He himself does not know this, he just wants to sing his own play, but he does not want to go with the jealousy to completely drive him to a desperate situation, many bureaucrats in order to take him back to their own home, forced to say that he is a demon, this grimace is even more demonic."Although he was in the pear garden to help him, how the people fought over the officials, they could only watch him be taken away by the most powerful bureaucrats in the region.”
“This is a fool of all.”
"Yes, but since then, Dragon Five has stopped talking, and there has been no singing in a play."
“But in this way, the bureaucrat who took him away is not an empty bamboo basket.”
"That's right, this bureaucrat is well-behaved, the food beauty he doesn't want it, he can't threaten to imprison, and he can't be tortured, so he doesn't know what to do."
“Why not torture?”
"These actors are weak, after the torture of the bones can not bear, play a good, then this play can not sing."
"Yes, that's right."
"Until a month later, he finally agreed to do the last performance, the reason for which no one knows, but that night, but it was really his last singing."
“He... is dead?”
"Yes, yes, it is said that he painted himself a strange face that night, looks very strange, but look at it carefully, in fact, it is all painted on a face, and then with a red background, it looks like a ghost, and he sang that night is a song "Overlord Farewell to Ji."
“Then how did he die?”
"The guests who watched the play that night were some official eunuchs, from their eyes, only to find that this Dragon Five was singing every role, the face of the face will become the appearance of the characters he sang, not like the previous performance of the grimace, there is a obvious face change action, at this moment he, like a real ghost."
“Did he improve his skills?”
"Maybe so, but that night, when he performed at the last of Yuji's self-blass, Dragon Five finally became a green-clad flower, makeup solemn, and then picked up the sword of his waist and killed himself."
“Deadly?”
"Yes, and that day is the 15th of July, it is said that after the death of Dragon Fifth, his voice still reverberated in the bureaucrat's house, for a long time, after the bureaucratic family also died strangely, the death is the face is put on the mask, with a flying knife inserted in the forehead, slitting the throat and bleeding, yes, it is the death of the 20 bodies in your pear garden."
“Ah, this...”
"After every year, the month where the Chinese New Year Festival is located, all the bureaucrats or pear gardens that persecuted Dragon Five at that time will be destroyed, and the death method will be put on the face of Peking Opera, and then use a flying knife to directly interject, extremely terrible, originally thought that this is just a legend, but this year's Zhongyuan Festival, from the beginning of July, your family began to die, and the cause of death is the same as the legend of the Dragon Fifth Curse."
“Does anything happen to the police at home?”
“The police, they can’t handle it, and if the perpetrator is a human being, there may be some way, but in the face of a curse, in the face of a ghost, the police can only collect the body, which is of no use.”
"Has something happened at home, and after one or two people died, the others have not run yet?"
"I don't know, I don't know, maybe I can't escape."
“Can’t escape?”
"Yes, but whatever the weirdness of the curse, whether it's going anywhere in the world, the curse will always follow, and it will die when it's damned."
Shang Wenqing looked at the mouth of the coffin in front of him, and his heart was full of five flavors.
He went to the coffin, parents 2, brother and sister-in-law, nephew 1 person, management 1 person, kitchen 1 person, 12 actors in the theater, plus Xiao Cui, the whole family up and down 20 people, so lying in the coffin, the cause of death is unknown, Shang Wenqing angry, helpless.
“But how can my family have anything to do with the story of Dragon Five?”
"It's not good that you have a playmaker in your house who persecuted him."
“This...”
"So I advise you to get out of here, maybe you can save your life."
After listening to this story, Shane did not know what to do.
Go back to the pear garden to pack your bags and get ready to leave.
Go back to the pear garden to pack your bags and move into Yizhuang.
Go back to the pear garden to pack your bags and go to the police station.
Return to the Pear Garden.
Shang Wenqing thought for a moment that these four options do not seem to be completely safe.
Be prepared to leave, according to the king's horn, if you leave, the curse will follow, then it is not safe to go anywhere.
Moving into Yizhuang, the environment here is too gloomy, and in the middle of the night it will definitely be scared to wake up, or frozen to wake up.
Go to the police station, but the police let me come here to find the king's corner ah, not to mention the police before leaving seems to say something, he can't do it.
So it seems that choosing which one is a bad ending, but as the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
“Brother Wang, can I move you here?”
"Ah?"You have no problem, right?”
"I...my whole family was destroyed, and for a moment I didn't know what to do, so I wanted to guard them and wait for the first seven and find another place."
"Well, it doesn't matter if I come, but I'm very dark here, and you're not afraid of encountering anything wrong?"
“Me?If something happens to me, it's a good thing to be with my family, and I hope you can help me bury me and my wife."
"Brother, you can't think so, it's better to die than to live, I'm here, to tell the truth is relatively safe, after all, even some bandits will pass through the Yizhuang, for fear of being contaminated with the sun, if you really want to go on this vigil in me, but promise me a few things."
“You said it.”
“First, after nightfall, no matter what happens, don’t open the door even if someone shouts or knocks on the door.”
Nod your head.
"Secondly, follow my rules."Wang horn went to the spiritual position in the middle of the center, "These are the guardians of this righteous house, and after death they place the spiritual throne here, and no matter what happens, they will not be disrespected to them."
"It's natural."
"If you have no opinion on these two points, go back and pack it when it's not dark."
"No problem, I can keep these two points, then I'll go back to the pear garden and get my luggage."
The king nodded his head.
At night, Yizhuang is very cold, not only the weather factor, but also the heavy gas is one of the reasons.
Shang Wenqing looked at the family in the coffin, although he had not seen each other for a long time, but he was out all the time in the years of thinking about home, how much the wanderers outside alone wanted to return home, their parents were alive, and they could do their best after understanding, and only every wanderer outside can understand.
Think of the last time I saw my parents has been so long, although I do not know why there was a big quarrel with my parents at that time, but the mother and son have any deep hatred, that is, gambling for a while, how to think of this is actually a forever separation between God, suddenly regret it.
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