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Clang! Clang! Clang!
After three rounds of gongs and drums, the grand performance began.
Troupe Master Luo Shihai truly deserved his reputation as an opera fanatic. Even a play created purely to mock and curse people in veiled ways had been properly structured and crafted with flair.
The story told of a vile scoundrel in Xianyang who tyrannized the people. In the end, he had fathered a foolish son who secretly molested one of his father’s concubines and was crushed to death in a fit of rage by the scoundrel himself. The fool’s resentful spirit then drifted aimlessly before possessing a monkey. Thereafter, it transformed into a demon ape, stirring chaos everywhere and bringing disaster upon the land.
Upon hearing it, a righteous hero climbed the mountain drunk, beat a troop of monkeys until they screeched in agony, and finally slew the demon ape.
The story itself was simple, even somewhat crude. The performers were not famous actors either; some were even newly accepted apprentices. Yet they displayed an impressive number of signature skills.
The youth playing the foolish son had white paint between his brows and across...
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