Chapter 126: The Quintessence Of China Is Dying, A Legacy Of The Times (Subscribe)
Chapter 126: The Quintessence Of China Is Dying, A Legacy Of The Times (Subscribe)
"Authentic Tai Chi successor?"
Listening to the chubby old man's speech, the old people in Mulou Village looked at the old man in surprise.
"That's all in the past." Old man Ji shook his head and waved his hands.
"Can you teach us?"
The old man who praised old man Ji was eager to learn.
As soon as the words came out, other people heard the exchange and leaned over. They came to practice Tai Chi every day, which showed their love for Tai Chi, and their Tai Chi was taught to my friends from each other.
"sure."
The old man known as Ji old man is full of smiles on his old face.
As he spoke, he stretched his posture. Looking at his explanation and posture, it was obvious that he taught people Tai Chi, and the order was very clear.
The courtyard this morning was a little different from usual. Five or six old people who like to practice early gathered together to listen to the lectures and learn Tai Chi, making happy sounds from time to time, happy to learn good Tai Chi postures.
"The feeling is still not up to standard, your body flexibility is better than ours." The old man who praised the old man sighed.
He has been studying for a while, and obviously he has learned it all, but when he typed it, he was not as good-looking as Old Man Ji, nor were his two friends.
"This has something to do with the industry I was in before, but as long as you have the heart and practice more, it will be fine.
The old man Ji smiled.
The chubby old man also said at this time, "Yes, practice more, you need to work hard to be like old man Ji, who is our pillar, and we don't intend to win old man Ji."
At the end of his speech, he stared at his companion who came with him and smiled.
Time passed quietly.
The morning exercise ended soon, and the old man called Ji Old Man went to the temple with two friends when he was almost done teaching.
They paid homage to Lord Chenghuang.
Then they said something to the old people, said hello and left.
"Are you still coming tomorrow?"
"Come on, we've been around here for the past two days."
The three left the temple fair.
there.
An Yuyuan stood under the dead tree in autumn, and he saw the scene of the old people learning Tai Chi from the beginning to the end.
He likes this kind of "retirement" scene very much, which was difficult or even impossible to see in the past.
"There are more and more people in Mulou Village." He recalled the pictures of the past years. There were not as many people in Mulou Village in the past. , Mulou Village gradually became lively.
In the past, very few, or even no, old people from outside came to Mulou Village.
then.
An Yuyuan found that the kitten was awake, so he went to tease the kitten.
When the kitten saw An Yuyuan, it took the initiative to run over. It didn't even eat the bread, and ran to lick his fingers with its little tongue, getting very close to An Yuyuan.
After teasing and feeding the kitten for a while, there were more and more people, An Yuyuan patted the kitten on the head, told it to go to the temple, got up and left.
into the temple.
"My lord." Zuo Bing, the ghost assistant Zuo Bing, came out of the underworld at just the right time, holding an ancient book in his hand.
"Is there any movement in Shanbo?"
An Yuyuan said softly, his eyes fell on the ancient book in Zuo Bing's hand.
"Yes, my lord." Zuo Bing nodded, and held up the ancient book with both hands. The ancient book was shining with a dark yellow halo, and on it was the word "Shan Bu".
"Um."
An Yuyuan nodded and took the good book, tapped the good book, and the good book automatically opened to its active page.
At the same time, he looked down at the regular script characters that appeared on the page, and said, "Have you read the content above?"
"seen it already."
Zuo C's voice sounded.
And at this time, An Yuyuan also saw the contents of the good book.
Ji Renyi.
A native of Lanhua Village, Baihua City, now residing in the North District of Cangshi City, aged ninety-five.
Originally named Zhang Shoujia, when he was three years old, he was adopted by his father to a friend as an adopted son, and his surname was changed to Ji, named Renqu.
His adoptive father died when he was thirteen years old, and his adoptive father had no wife. Ji Renyi dropped out of school to work, and began to travel around with a theater troupe. He thought life was bleak, but he found light in drama.
In the same year, Ji Renyi found the meaning of life. He likes drama, and earnestly practiced opera tunes and postures...
At the age of fifteen, she performed well and served as Huadan, receiving a lot of attention.
In the same year, he met and fell in love with Fengqin, a girl who newly joined the troupe...
sixteen years old.
With the help of the head of the troupe, sixteen-year-old Ji Renyi and Fengqin worshiped the world. In the same year, life was hard, wars broke out, the theater troupe fell apart, and the girl Fengqin lost a leg and became disabled.
Ji Renyi never left the girl, and endured adversity and persevered.
At the age of twenty, Ji Renyi found former members of the troupe to form a drama troupe again, continuing the life of the past, with a burst of drama, stunning the world, and becoming popular.
The theater troupe continued until it was disbanded twenty years ago.
At the age of 21, Ji Renyi's wife gave birth to dragon and phoenix twins.
At the age of twenty-three, his wife gave birth to a son again.
At the age of twenty-four, Ji Renyi had another son. There were four children in total in his life. Only the eldest son studied drama, and the other three children were all engaged in other industries. Ji Renyi was disappointed about this, but he didn't say much.
At the age of fifty-seven, he founded a drama academy, hoping to find more children who love drama, and take in many orphans. The drama academy is also known as an orphanage.
sixty years old.
When his wife passed away, Ji Renyi was by his side, and he was destined to be in the North District of Cangshi.
At the age of sixty-seven, for ten years, the School of Drama was not doing well, but the Orphanage received much attention and support.
Three years later.
Drama schools exist in name only.
In the same year, a certain university was willing to buy the college, keep the national quintessence, and make it a simple elective course of the college. The number of students was very small, and the children in the orphanage had a way out.
When Ji Renyi was sad, he was also happy. He transferred all the money from the university's acquisition of the college to the orphanage, and established a real orphanage to adopt fatherless and homeless children.
At the age of seventy-five, the drama troupe disbanded.
At the age of eighty-one, Ji Renyi entered a nursing home. He found his former companions and sang operas in his spare time. The pensions are all donated to the several theater troupes that still exist today to help them maintain the troupe.
At the age of eighty-two, he was admitted to the hospital with a serious illness, and was unconscious. He could not survive the night. After listening to the drama, he woke up and exercised.
Ninety years old, hospitalized again. Old friends came to see him for the last time, wearing costumes, Ji Renyi saw this, the miracle reappeared, persisted, and did not step into the gate of hell.
"Ji Renyi..." An Yuyuan murmured and closed the ancient book.
"Zuo Bing, do you have any ideas." He had some thoughts in his mind.
Zuo Bing saluted, "Happy to be kind and charitable, never leave his wife, and should bless the descendants, reward good luck, reduce disasters for three generations, and drive away catastrophes.
"Not bad." An Yuyuan nodded.
It should be like this if one wants to reward kindness, and immediately a special brilliance flashed in his eyes, this is the qi-watching technique.
He was looking at the secrets of the sky, looking at Ji Renyi's position in the book of goodness, and looking at his life trajectory. In an instant, An Yuyuan looked into the distance, his eyes were zooming out, and he saw an old man in a white coat who was arranging some papers .
That was the old man who came to do Tai Chi in the courtyard of the Town God's Temple, the old man called Old Man Ji by his old friends.
"It's the old man."
An Yuyuan was surprised, he did not expect Ji Renyi in the good book to be him.
There were illusory colors in his eyes. After a while, he retracted his gaze and lowered his head in thought. He saw something.
Next to him, Zuo Bing stood there respectfully, quietly waiting for Lord Chenghuang's orders.
next moment.
An Yuyuan looked up at Liao Zuo with a smile.
"Zuo Bing, do you have time?"
Hearing this, Zuo Bing was stunned, he didn't know why the lord suddenly said that.
"Does your lord have any orders?" Zuo Bing said, and added again after finishing speaking, "Your subordinate has time.
"I want you to go out with me."
Zuo Bing was slightly stunned, and the next moment there was surprise in his eyes, but he didn't say much respectful salute, "I can go out with the adults, my subordinates are willing!"
Although his expression was icy and cold, he was very happy in his heart. As he said, he was very willing and happy to go out with Lord Chenghuang.
Hearing this, An Yuyuan smiled slightly, "Then go out later, and go out after listening to the pilgrim wishes.
Yes. "
"
Zuo Bing respected the voice.
at dusk.
An area very close to Mulou Village, which belongs to the combination of town and village, has a very good development.
Although there are no high-rise buildings, there are beautiful city views, there is still some traffic, and there are relatively high-end hotels and shopping malls [this is an area in the development stage.
Banyan Park.
This park is named after a century-old banyan tree. This park is very old, and occasionally old people come here to cool off.
But recently the park has become much deserted. A shopping mall was opened one kilometer away, and some facilities have been demolished for the sake of the town’s appearance. This is also one of the reasons.
A few elderly people were handing out leaflets by the park.
In the open space cleared by the park, there are still traces of a platform, where a middle-aged man directed.
"The night after tomorrow, there will be a theater performance." An old man with thinning hair and wearing a long-sleeved white coat sorted out a stack of leaflets and handed them out to passers-by.
When a young man saw the old man handing out leaflets, he was stunned for a moment, and then politely took the leaflets.
Look at the content of the leaflet.
: The night after tomorrow, at 8:00 p.m. in Banyan Tree Park, there will be theater performances, and there are plays in many places. Those who are interested in opera and drama can come and see it.
The words on it are very simple, marked with the time, and there are some pictures of old people, the performances are all old people, Chinese population...
After a few glances, the young man smiled and nodded at the old man, then left politely with the leaflet in his hand.
Ji Renyi watched the young man leave the back.
He sighed.
Today's young people don't like drama and opera anymore. He doesn't feel dislike for young people, but he cherishes the future of drama and opera.
"There will be a theater performance the night after tomorrow, so you can come and see it." Ji Renyi was not too disappointed, seeing another passer-by approaching, he smiled and took the flyer.
"Drama may be gone in more than ten years."
At this time, my friend, the slightly fat old man, whispered.
He heard Ji Renyi sigh, and knew why old man Ji said that. There will be a drama performance this time, and everyone will do it for old man Ji. He said he wants to perform again. He hasn’t been on stage for decades. He wants to I want to go on stage again.
Ji Renyi felt that he was already ninety-five years old, and he might not live for a few years. He wanted to perform again while he was still able to move, and the time of the performance was also the time when he was on stage for the first time.
"Old man Ji, don't think too much about it."
"I know." Hearing his friend's reassurance, Ji Renyi smiled, "I'm not unhappy, Qingshan, don't you know me? I sigh, just sigh for the future of drama, but I also know that young people don't like opera now Now, it’s not their fault, there are too many things that are more interesting than operas now.”
"I hope this time more people will know about opera.
The fat old man named Zhang Qingshan said to Ji Renyi with a smile.
He is seven years younger than Ji Renyi, and he is one of the few who is considered to be on the same level as Ji Renyi.
older people.
This performance is held for Renyi. They have all been greatly favored by Renyi and have been helped before. Renyi wants to perform again, and also wants to do his best to perform this performance
This time the opera drama, so that people now see how good the opera is, so that they can generate interest, knowing this, they will work together to put on another drama.
Hearing this, Ji Renyi nodded.
"Sure." He affirmed.
at this time.
A familiar voice sounded, grandpa and grandpa. "
Three youthful and beautiful figures came from a distance, one of them saw Ji Renyi heard the sound, and hurriedly raised his arms and waved in this direction.
She was wearing a white skirt, a popular JK outfit, and a white shirt, looking beautiful and cute.
"Xiao Ya'er is here." Ji Renyi looked at the old man with a look of joy in his old eyes.
This is his great-granddaughter. (i.e. granddaughter's daughter.)
She is the granddaughter of Ji Xi, whose nicknames are Xiao Ya'er and Xiao Ya'er, and her full name is Ji Yaxin. She is very loved by him, very filial, and lively.
"Aren't you at work?"
"Grandpa, you forgot that today is National Day, and I'm on holiday." Ji Yaxin smiled.
"Oh, yes, look at my 650 memory."
Seeing grandpa's wry smile, Ji Yaxin covered her mouth and smiled lightly, "Grandpa, give us some leaflets, and I'll help you distribute leaflets."
"No, no, go out and play when you are on vacation." Ji Renyi waved his hand, he felt that the child had finally had a vacation, so there was no need to help him distribute leaflets here, wasting the vacation.
"It's also a kind of relaxation for us to help grandpa."
Ji Yaxin said and pointed to her friend, "Look at how beautifully we are dressed today, when the time comes, we will send out a few more leaflets to our grandpa so that more people can watch the drama."
She and her friends An Bingbing and Tong Mei all wore K-shirts, which was specially requested by her in order to help her grandfather distribute leaflets.
Zhang Qingshan beside him smiled and agreed.
He told Ji Renyi that this was a good thing, and praised Ji Yaxin. With them, it was easier to distribute leaflets. He was no stranger to Renyi's great-granddaughter. Occasionally during holidays, "Ji Yaxin would come to the nursing home to see Renyi.
"Grandpa Zhang is right." Ji Yaxin nodded.
After finishing speaking, she took the promotional paper from Grandpa Zhang Qingshan and walked towards the nearest passerby.
My friend An Bingbing and the others are also learning to post.
They are no strangers to these old people, they are one of the volunteers in the nursing home, and occasionally they will follow Ji Yaxin to do volunteer work.
Seeing this, Ji Renyi had no choice but to agree, "They are all good boys.
With Ji Yaxin and the others, it is indeed much easier to distribute leaflets. Many people will stop and look at the drama paper more.
Zhang Qingshan also jokingly said that Ji Yaxin and the three of them should also come to perform the day after tomorrow. They don’t need to sing, they just need to be a guest star. As soon as this remark was made, the three daughters of Ji Yaxin immediately agreed.
This is very interesting.
"Don't mess it up." Ji Renyi listened to the agreement of the three great-granddaughters, and said seriously, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
He is very strict with opera.
He also attaches great importance to this performance, it is his last performance, but it is also the last time he wants to use this opportunity to promote opera for his favorite drama Kang.
"Certainly not."
The three of Ji Yaxin promised that they didn't like dramas, and they agreed to make cameo appearances because they found it interesting.
but.
Ji Yaxin and the others also knew that Ji Renyi was serious about opera, and they didn't go there with a playful temper.
Ji Renyi nodded, he was very reassured by his great-granddaughter and the others. The three children occasionally come back to do volunteer work, which shows that they have good or bad personalities.
"Grandpa, Bingbing and I, let's go buy some water. It's been so long."
Listening to Ji Yaxin's words, Ji Renyi nodded and wanted to give money to his great-granddaughter, "I'll give it to you..."
But before he finished speaking, Ji Yaxin and the three daughters ran away.
"Grandpa, I have money, so I don't need it." Ji Yaxin's voice came from a distance, making Ji Renyi helpless.
"Your great-granddaughter has a heart, so don't let the child's filial piety fail."
Zhang Qingshan laughed at the side.
Hearing this, Ji Renyi shook his head and didn't know what to say.
The next moment he was holding a leaflet and was about to send it out, he saw two men approaching. They were two men who couldn't help but want to take a second look...
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