Chapter 405 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
After chatting with Teacher Cai about Wang Erya's liberal arts department, Jiang Qi and Wang Erya happily took Qi Si's car back to the amusement park.
The driver was the same driver who took Qi Si and Qi Si's grandma to the amusement park last time. He was already familiar with the road. He followed the principle of silence is golden and remained silent all the way. He was as cold as a man wearing sunglasses. An emotionless bodyguard in a suit.
"Qinghe, can you live with me in the snow village these days? You must have winter clothes in the amusement park. My grandma went to the Magic City to visit my aunt and won't come back until the new play is released in the theater. My parents I have to wait until the weekend to be free. I must be bored living in such a big house by myself." Qi Si said that she must be bored, but she was as excited as Lala who learned that she could eat fifty pieces of meatloaf. I wish I could dance in the car.
Wang Erya first glanced at Jiang Qi and asked for his opinion. After Jiang Qi nodded in agreement, he nodded slowly: "Okay, but I may not have much time to play with you. Didn't Teacher Cai and the others assign a lot of papers? , I plan to finish writing the papers in the first month, and then write the tutorial book I bought next month."
Qi Si looked at Wang Erya in shock: "You actually plan to write all of such a thick stack of papers yourself?!"
"if not?"
"Write the multiple-choice questions casually, they are all ABCD anyway, fill in a few random numbers for the fill-in-the-blank questions, and I don't know how to solve the application questions." Qi Si blurted out.
Jiang Qi:......
You are too lazy to even copy it.
Jiang Qi said that when he was fooling around with homework during the winter and summer vacations, he would borrow copies from his classmates. He always thought that this was the limit, but he didn't expect that Qi Si's performance would reach a new level.
It was already past 7 pm when the group arrived at the amusement park, and the haunted house was still open. Wang Erya dragged her suitcase to the snow village with Qi Si. Jiang Qi went with the two of them because he was going to a pub for dinner in the evening.
When they walked near the theater, the three of them met Wang Xinghua, who was wandering around with a bag of potato chips because Kawen couldn't write.
Wang Xinghua has not written a single sentence these days, but she has eaten a lot of potato chips. The trash can in the staff area of the theater is full of her leftover potato chip bags. It is said that in order to please Wang Xinghua, the theater manager, some interns have begun to send a bag of potato chips to her office every morning.
"Xinghua, haven't you written it yet?" Jiang Qi looked at the empty potato chip bag, "Why don't you go back and get a bag of new flavored potato chips?"
Wang Xinghua’s face looked like “Who am I?” where am I? Where do I come from? Where to go? Thinking philosophically, he shook his head mechanically: "It's useless. If you can't write it, you can't write it. You can't write a word."
Qi Si didn’t know Wang Xinghua, but that didn’t stop her from asking: “What can’t you write?”
"Lyrics." Wang Xinghua's face was full of sadness.
Qi Si:?
"The play "The Princess" that you heard before was written by her. Wang Xinghua, the manager of the theater, although she can't sing, she is very good at writing." Jiang Qi introduced.
"Wow." Qi Si looked at Wang Xinghua with a more admiring look, "So is the theater going to rehearse a new play? Then I have to call my grandma as soon as possible!"
Jiang Qi waved his hand: "Isn't this official? It will take some time for the new drama to be released, and it is not now that "The Legend of the Princess" is in full swing. But the "The Legend of the Princess" that is being performed now is better than the premiere you watched that day. Some contents have been changed. If you are interested, you can find time to read it again."
"Okay, okay!" Qi Si nodded frantically, "You can watch it three more times! I won't get tired of watching the part where the dog emperor abdicates a hundred times!"
It can be seen that Qi Si really likes the plot of Shuangwen.
"By the way, Brother Qinghe, can you tell us a little bit about the plot of the new play?" Qi Si asked curiously.
This is not something that cannot be said. Jiang Qi briefly introduced the plot of "The Mulberry Picking Girl" in concise language.
Although "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is essentially a counter-attack novel in the Shuangwen genre, the overall plot is much duller than the standard Shuangwen "The Legend of the Princess".
Jiang Qi also went to see Feng Ling when he was practicing before.
can't read.
It’s not that I don’t understand the plot, it’s that I don’t understand the lyrics.
Except for the lyrics that involve allusions that don't exist in this world, Jiang Qi couldn't understand many normal lyrics. The original author of "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is definitely a first-rate literati with outstanding literary talent. The direct consequence of being too talented is that you must have a certain degree of cultural accomplishment to understand the lyrics. This cultural accomplishment is still based on Wang Xinghua's world.
You know, Wang Xinghua can curse people in classical Chinese.
In fact, although "The Mulberry Picking Girl" was a famous first-class opera in Wang Xinghua's original world, it was not widely sung among the people. Instead, it was very popular among dignitaries and wealthy wives. The direct reason for this result is that "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is too literate, and many ordinary people with flat heads who are willing to spend a few pennies to listen to the opera and have fun simply cannot understand it.
According to Jiang Qi's analysis, even if Wang Xinghua modified "The Mulberry Picking Girl", the actual performance would not be very good.
Wang Xinghua and Feng Ling thought so too.
If "The Princess" is a standard commercial film, then "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is an artistic film. Compared with the box office, the latter is definitely a sure loser.
Despite this, Wang Xinghua, who has completely caught the eye of money, is still willing to endure the pain of not being able to write lyrics and wandering around in the amusement park eating potato chips every day thinking about lyrics. This is probably the true love Wang Xinghua, an opera lover, has for "The Mulberry Picking Girl" performance.
When Jiang Qi stepped into the door of the tavern, Jiang Cha was sitting at the bar listening to Lilian's story.
Lillian's failed magic water cup has not been very popular so far. Since it was not popular, Lillian simply launched it on the market, stopped selling wine and drinks, and left all these tasks to the bartenders in the pub.
Now Lilian doesn't go to work during the day and finds a corner to study the magic circle. He waited until 7 o'clock to come to the tavern to clean glasses and chat with the guests, turning himself into a tavern NPC with a limited appearance.
Such changes have caused the pub's business to explode every 7 o'clock, and the seats near the bar are basically up for grabs. After all, Lillian has been a teacher for so many years and is very eloquent. She can talk about everything.
Lilian told the truth before at the goblin stall, but now in the tavern Lilian has started to make up lies. Werewolves versus vampires, ghosts versus demons, wood elves and light elves had to talk about the millennium past, and who was the most powerful king in the magic continent. It was like a storyteller, and the guests were reluctant to leave.
It is said that some guests in Xuecun deliberately extended their stay just to listen to the love history of a certain country's Duke for one more day.
Jiang Qi, the other guest, didn't know, but Han Guishan and his family went to the tavern to listen to books at 7 o'clock anyway, and everyone listened with gusto.
"If she were 30-year-old Princess Leia, she would definitely not be fooled by such a little trick. But Princess Leia was only 13 years old at that time. She ran away from home for the first time and had never seen the world. She had not even left the royal city for twenty miles. I was defrauded of all my money by a liar who pretended to be a curse magician."
A little girl sitting on her mother's lap, holding the bar with her two little hands and squeezing to the front with two braids, asked in a sweet voice: "Sister Lilian, how can an ordinary person pretend to be a magician? "
Lillian has always been patient with children, otherwise she would not have given priority to flying all the origami paper to the children during the magic show.
Lilian smiled and said: "I remember that this little guest saw my magic show in the tavern last night. So, would you like to ask this little guest, do you know the most intuitive difference between us magicians and you ordinary people?"
"I know." the little girl shouted loudly, "Sister Lillian can take out a lot of things from her sleeves!"
"Yes, we magicians usually carry a lot of magic pockets with us. So -" The next second, Lillian took out the cursed crystal ball from her magic pocket that she originally wanted to give to Jiang Qi, but Jiang Qi didn't want it. .
A large crystal ball suddenly appeared out of thin air. No one in the tavern was surprised. Instead, they applauded.
The impression of having an established magician is convenient. As long as Lilian doesn't use outrageous magic in the tavern, everyone will assume that she is performing magic.
"Wow!" Qisi's eyes widened at the sight, wishing she could stand and watch Lilian's storytelling and magic show all the time without eating.
They arrived a little late, the good seats were already taken, and the remaining empty tables were all out of sight of the bar.
"Let's go eat first." Jiang Qi advised, "You still have a month, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to listen to Lilian's story."
Qi Si could only reluctantly be pulled by Wang Erya to sit down in the corner.
"Hey, why doesn't Manager Wang sit at the same table as us?" Qi Si asked, pointing to Wang Xinghua at the next table.
"Because the table is too small to hold her food."
Qi Si:?
Twenty minutes later, Qi Si finally understood what Jiang Qi meant.
When two full orc barbecue set meals without cutting any corners were served, Qi Si suddenly understood what it means to have someone else's meal last three days.
At that moment, Qi Si felt that the storyteller Lillian was not as attractive as the gluttonous Wang Xinghua.
It's so shocking that people can't take their eyes away.
"Sister Xinghua is born with a big appetite, we all know this. In fact, she doesn't eat like this on weekdays. She probably can't write lyrics these days and feels irritable, so she overeats to vent her emotions." Wang Erya did not forget to explain the reason to Qi Si thoughtfully.
Jiang Qi nodded in agreement, indicating that this was the case.
Wang Xinghua usually eats so much in secret, but recently it was really because she was depressed that she ate and drank so much in public.
Wang Erya thought for a moment and then added: "At last year's annual meeting, Sister Xinghua's performance was two bites of a burger, and she ate 5 hamburgers in a row."
Qi Si's mouth has grown into an o-shape.
"Wow." Qi Si sighed with difficulty and glanced at Wang Xinghua who had already finished a large bowl of mashed potatoes. "Brother Qinghe, your amusement park employees are too crouching tigers, hidden dragons."
Jiang Qi smiled modestly: "No, no, they are just normal little talents."