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Looking at the water sign at the entrance of Hongming Teahouse, the drama fans gathered in a circle!

"Today's opera, 'The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty,' Lin Mu will sing Wang Yanling first, and then chase Bao Zheng!"

If we talk about the most popular plays among drama fans, "The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty" must be among the top three.

Although "The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty" is a fictional story, it does not prevent it from being passed down to this day!

Speaking of the origin of this play, it is a very absurd thing in itself!

The prototype of Chen Shimei was named Chen Nian Gu, who was extremely talented and passed the imperial examination in 1655.

This year was the twelfth year of Shunzhi, which was hundreds of years away from the time when Bao Zheng lived!

Because Chen Nian Gu had a successful career, many of his fellow townsmen and classmates came to him, hoping to get a job with him!

However, facing this kind of speculative behavior, Chen Nian Gu chose to avoid it and rejected all those who used this banner!

Among them was a person named Hu Mengdie!

Hu Mengdie was met by Chen Nian Gu when he was taking the exam. At that time, Chen Nian Gu was short of money, and Hu Mengdie gave him a sum of money to help him through the difficult times!

This person can also be considered as Chen Nian Gu’s benefactor!

However, he was still blocked by Chen Nian Gu's steward!

Hu Mengdie was not a broad-minded person, so she wanted to take revenge on Chen Nian Gu.

As a scholar, his methods are naturally sophisticated and he can kill people without shedding blood!

So, Hu Mengdie used her abundant imagination and solid literary skills to combine all the stories of ungratefulness and abandonment of wives and children on the market, and put them on Chen Nian Gu's head, and wrote a big drama called "Qin Xianglian"!

As a result, once the play was released, it deeply touched upon the people's hatred for ungrateful people and their sympathy for orphans and widows, and the theaters were almost full!

Soon, someone linked the play "Qin Xianglian" with Chen Nian Gu!

Because his wife is called Qin Xinlian!

But the two of them respected each other and lived together until old age. There was no such thing as abandoning their wives and children.

However, when the play "Qin Xianglian" was first performed, there was no subsequent plot, after all, Chen Shimei was a person from the Qing Dynasty!

Later, during a performance, the arrogant face of Chen Shimei on the stage aroused the dissatisfaction of the fans below the stage, and they clamored to kill Chen Shimei!

The actors on stage were terrified!

The troupe owner suddenly had an idea and asked the actor who played Bao Zheng to quickly act out the role and go on stage to kill Chen Shimei.

From then on, the play "Qin Xianglian" was changed to "The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty".

However, Chen Nian Gu and his descendants can only bear the title of "scumbag" forever.

As the old saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain!

Of course, no matter what the reason for writing this play back then, the plot is shocking enough, which is why it has been passed down to this day!

After being processed and edited by countless actors, the plot of "The Case of the Chopping of Beauty" is now more full, the characters are more three-dimensional, and it has become a classic!

Although this was Lin Mu's sudden idea, the actors in the troupe had no objection!

This is the norm in the opera industry in this era!

Not to mention performing in the evening and deciding what to sing in the afternoon, even if the show is about to start and you are told that the play will be changed, you have to be able to catch it!

These actors don’t need to rehearse on a daily basis, especially for such an old play, they can perform directly on stage!

If you can't even do this, then I'm sorry, you can't make a living from this!

It’s nothing like the Peking Opera Theater of later generations, which has to rehearse for three to five days, or even a week before performing even an old play.

So unprofessional!

The sound of gongs and drums began, and Hongming Teahouse was full again!

The theater fans lingering at the door stamped their feet and beat their chests. It was another day when they failed to get tickets!

So annoying!

There are actually several theaters around Hongming Teahouse, and there is even a photo studio not far away.