RBCT Chapter 230
Chapter 230
Now.
The light came on, those lights were hazy, as if it was the kind of light mask descending, faintly shining a hazy light flying in dust, and blurrily you could see that there were figures, scenes, and sounds echoing, reflecting Zhang Dao’s eyes and echoing in Zhang Dao’s ears.
It was as if Zhang Wei had returned to the past, to Grandpa Tang’s past.
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pictured.
There was a dilapidated house, and as the doorway opened, a group of people entered.
There were quite a few of them, seven or eight people, it was raining outside, they came in with some boxes, as if they were afraid that the rain would wet the contents of the boxes, and as soon as they entered, they hurriedly opened the boxes and went to check the contents.
It was some shadow puppets, and the instruments that shadow puppets played.
As if these people were a group of shadow puppet circuses who made a living by performing shadow puppets, Zhang Yuan set his eyes on one of the boxes, although the boxes were a little different, but the shape and lock pattern made him recognize, this was the shadow box.
Also at this time.
A cry interrupted the shadow puppet circus crowd to wipe the rain on the shadow.
Entering the corner of the house, they were horrified to find that there was a woman there, she was so scrawny that she was no longer breathing, but the tear marks in the corners of her eyes all spoke of her sadness before she died.
The shadow puppet circus walked over and saw a woman holding a swaddle in her arms, and the cry came from inside, it was a newborn baby.
This scene made them sigh.
Now in the years of famine, there are years of war, they have seen too many such scenes, this is another starving mother, if there is no one to take care of the baby, it will not be long before the baby will die because it is not fed.
Maybe it’s sympathy, maybe it’s the hope that there will be someone in the troupe.
The head of the troupe picked up the child.
“Just call you Tangpi, Shadow Pi.”
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With the voice fell.
The picture has changed when it reappears.
It’s that shadow puppet troupe again, only compared to the last time, this time the shadow puppet troupe has an extra five or six-year-old boy.
They stayed in a ruined temple.
The regiment leader held the little boy, showed him the shadow in his hand, and told him:
“Pizi, now you are also sensible, the children of the poor have long been in charge, today I will teach you a skill, you must give me serious study, you know!” Because if we’re gone, you can still support yourself on this ability.
The little boy nodded ignorantly.
Seeing this, the regiment commander smiled and pointed to the shadow puppet:
“Do you know what this is?” Remember, this is called shadow puppets, and it is a craft handed down from generation to generation by our ancestors, passed down for hundreds of years, nearly a thousand years. ”
Gradually.
The head of the group told the little boy about the history of shadow puppets, from the shadow puppet by an ancient emperor, because of the longing for the dead concubine, one day saw the child playing with the doll, saw the puppet illuminated by the vivid shadow, so that the emperor made the same paper-cut shadow as the concubine, and since then the shadow has begun to circulate.
Shadow puppets are the treasures left by the ancestors to future generations, which is not only a thing for people to play and enjoy, but also a inheritance of wisdom and beauty.
It was also from that day.
Zhang saw it.
Under the guidance of the regiment leader, the little boy touched the shadow puppet for the first time, and there was a light called love in his eyes, and he couldn’t put it down when he touched the shadow.
It was also from that day.
The little boy followed the group leaders to the south and north, learning shadow puppetry, and also experienced all kinds of things along the way.
He saw those who watched shadow puppets, under the performance of shadow puppets, both men and women, old and young, smiled and bloomed happy, even if there was war in that era, but even in the war years, shadow puppets also became the only beauty that poor people could see with their own eyes in that era.
Looking at the shadow puppet performance, the myths and history such as “Journey to the West” and “Yangmen Female General” displayed, looking at the beauty in front of them, let people no longer remember only the war, but also have the beauty in their hearts to be preserved.
Even in the war years, the famine era, their shadow puppet circus also lived a hard life, hunger is a common thing, there is no upper meal and no next meal, but at least they will not live on the streets and starve to death.
It’s also this experience again and again.
Let the little boy understand why shadow puppets can be passed down by the ancestors, it is not only a inheritance, but also a beautiful inheritance.
It was the shadow puppets that gave him the day he is now.
It was the shadow puppet that kept him from starving to death in that broken house.
It was the shadow puppet that allowed him to see the people in the midst of war and burst into a smile that he would never forget.
Meantime.
It was also the shadow puppets that allowed him to have relatives, the head of the shadow puppet troupe.
In such a picture.
In such edification.
The little boy arrived at the age of 12, he was taller, his skin was also walking south and north all year round, and he was tanned with wheat, but he didn’t care about any of this, and at the moment he was standing on a small mound of earth that could not be considered a grave, crying.
The small mound rose high and had a wooden plaque cut from a branch, which was used as a tombstone, and a shadow was hung on it.
Looking at his side again, there is already one less person in the shadow puppet play.
The little boy lay on the small mound, crying sadly, the one who told him stories every night in the group, and left him with something good to eat every time there was something delicious, and now he could no longer eat the food he left for himself.
“Uncle, you come back, say that you want to accompany me to eat sugar gourd again, you lie to me, Uncle, I don’t eat sugar gourd, are you good when you come back.”
He cried heartbreakingly.
It was his first experience of parting from life and death.
The regiment leader handed Ah Shu’s shadow to the little boy, which was Ah Shu’s favorite shadow to manipulate, and then told the little boy the phrase he often hung on his lips:
“Although old things are in the past, they carry people’s feelings.”
“Pizi, Ah Shu asked me to give you this shadow, he asked me to tell you that although Ah Shu died, but he used the shadow to bring everyone happiness, and he still kept it, Ah Shu said let you perform a shadow puppet and show him again.”
That was the first time he cried and performed shadow puppets.
In front of Ah Shu’s grave, tears and snot are wet with shadow puppets, but it is also his most memorable shadow puppet performance since he was born.
The shadow box light is still stirring.
The picture is still changing.
The shadow puppet troupe did not dissipate because of the lack of Ah Shu, and the little boy continued to follow the leader of the troupe and they traveled all over the country.
In the meantime.
The number of people in the shadow puppet troupe is gradually decreasing, and in the years of war, even the squires and tycoons are dying, not to mention the little boys, some people in the troupe have died one after another, and the little boys have experienced life and death again and again.
Finally….
Even the regiment commander left.
At that time, the little boy had grown into a big boy, and under the leadership of the regiment commander, the two accompanied the army together, they were a member of the literary troupe, responsible for performing shadow puppets for people in the army, so that the soldiers could at least have a trace of laughter in addition to fighting.
However, a shell fell.
In order to protect the shadow puppets in the shadow box, the regiment commander did not hesitate to rush into the fire, even if he was ignited by the flames, he also rushed in and brought the shadow box out.
The boy will never forget that scene.
The regiment leader burned all over his body, his skin was burned, he didn’t breathe a breath, the boy experienced too many partings of life and death, he didn’t understand, shadow puppets are important, but life is more important.
To this.
The regiment commander just used his last strength, clutched the boy tightly and said:
“Leather, the shadow can’t be missing, it was handed down by the ancestors, the war is still going on, but after the war, I don’t want to ah, I don’t want to go to Daxia, and when the war is over, the inheritance of the ancestors can only be seen in the book.”
“Promise me, leather, to pass on the shadow play.”
The regimental commander died.
The regimental commander who brought the brightest light in his life, who accompanied him on his journey, died, covered in blood, holding a blood-stained shadow.
That time the boy cried the most heartbreakingly.
That time the boy was no longer with him, and only shadow puppets remained around him.
The years go by.
When the war was over, the boy took the box of shadow puppets and continued to travel south and north, alone, continuing to bring joy to the people after the war.
Although he also thought about forming a group and recruiting people during this period, in the end, only he was left, and the people in the group either got married and had children, or died of illness, or learned other crafts for a better life.
The post-war days are gradually becoming brighter, in the face of beauty, and there are many more beautiful things, there are too many things better than shadow puppets, and shadow puppets are gradually disappearing.
Nevertheless.
The boy still carried the shadow box and insisted on performing, and he did so until he was old.
The picture stops abruptly here.
It stopped when the boy was in his seventies, and he was so old that he couldn’t walk.
Then the picture changed.
When it reappears.
It was a room where a boy in his seventies lay a corpse in front of him, it was the first time he killed someone, and the first time he used the five elements he inadvertently got when he went south and north.
He knelt in front of the corpse, crying and crying:
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I have to do this, I tried my best, but I can’t find a successor, no one wants to learn, I can’t die.”
“I’m sorry for borrowing your life.”
“I’m sorry, I will definitely pay it back, and when I find the heir, I will come back to atone for my sins.”
In a sound of sorry.
On the corpse, the old man drew a soul calming talisman:
“When I find the heir, I will come back to atone for my sins, I will go and wipe off the soul calming talisman on your body, and I will go to a place where no one found it to die.”
Whisper.
He also drew a soul calming talisman on himself.
He intended to find a place where no one could find it, to keep himself there, to atone for his sins by never being born beyond his life, and to atone for his sins for eternity.
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