Author: Meow and Aow

Yu Hai couldn't stand it after a day of visiting some of the more famous attractions in Xizhou.

There is nothing else, there are really too many people!

And there are more and more trends.

In a simple sentence, everyone is in the sea and everyone is in the sea.

Is this a sightseeing or a person?

Fortunately, his travels are always as he wishes. Since the attractions are not fun, he started to visit places with fewer people.

At this time, his place was Xizhouguan City, an old city.

It mainly uses various historical sites as tourist selling points.

In addition to many classic historical sites that are circled, the streets of this city are also filled with various ancient buildings.

The whole is a quaint feeling.

Yu Hai walked in the opposite direction of the crowd and soon arrived at a very secluded old street.

There are very few people here and it is very quiet. Except for the occasional tourists who accidentally enter this place, most of the people walking on the street are elderly people.

Yu Hai's appearance seems to be incompatible with the place.

He didn't care about being surprised gazes, and just wandered around here slowly.

After being a public figure for a long time, he has learned to ignore everyone's sight.

Besides, he was wearing a mask, which made him much more comfortable in public.

If he encounters something slightly interesting along the way, he will stop and watch for a while before leaving.

As he walked, he came to a long bridge.

When I stepped up, I saw many elderly people sitting on chairs on both sides of the bridge.

They sat facing one side, their eyes all focused, looking very focused.

Yu Hai looked in the direction of their attention and saw a young man standing there, holding a few bamboo sticks in his hands and operating two shadow puppets.

Very flexible.

This is the first time Yu Hai is watching someone fiddling with shadow puppets on the spot.

Although this is not a formal performance, there are no soundtrack lines, and even no curtains, I still find it strange and amazing.

Yu Hai felt that it was much more interesting than many attractions.

He also sat down and watched there.

Unfortunately, after a while, some people called the elderly to have dinner, so the onlookers gradually dispersed.

The young man who was playing the shadow puppet was leaving behind to sway what he had in his hand slowly.

He watched Yu Hai staring at him, and then took the initiative to talk: "Are you a tourist?"

Yu Hai nodded and asked, "Did you make this shadow puppet yourself?"

"Yes, I learned from my grandfather." The young man looked less than 30 years old, and he looked like an office worker, and he didn't look like he was engaged in intangible cultural heritage performances.

"Is there a movie puppetry theater nearby?" Yu Hai thought, if so, he would buy a ticket to watch it.

The young man shook his head: "No, there is a family in the west of the city, but the distance is quite far. If you want to see it, take an hour's drive to the bus."

"I thought you were doing this job." Yu Hai asked, "It looks very professional."

"I can't afford to eat by this." The young man seemed to shook his head helplessly: "I work in a nearby company and come here during the lunch break. The old man and the aunt like to watch it, and I also like to perform for them."

Yu Hai couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Do you come here every day at noon?"

Today is the weekend, and this young man shouldn't have gone to work.

So I came here specially.

Sure enough, he replied: "Everyone will come. If you don't practice it for a day, you will become unfamiliar. You can't lose your family-born skills."

"Then you are so awesome!" Yu Hai was amazed.

The young man smiled: "It's just because I like to do this, so I can't bear to throw it away! If I don't like it, I wouldn't know where to throw it away."

Yu Hai knew it.

Seeing that he was very interested, the young man said, "If you like to watch it, then I'll give you another paragraph!"

As he said that, he remanipulated the shadow play in his hand, but the plot was a little different from the previous one.

He chatted, "Now few young people see this."

"Well, there are few places to see."

"Because no one learned it!" He sighed: "This thing has been eliminated by the times!"

Yu Hai was silent.

For many people, including him, watching shadow puppets, they are just watching novelty. If you really want to listen to the story, you will feel more immersive than this movie.

Thinking of this, the loneliness of this thing seems to be really created by the times.

Yu Hai sighed and gradually stopped along the movements in the young man's hand. He said, "Thank you for performing this for me. I'll treat you to lunch?"

"Ah! No need..." The young man was about to refuse, but Yu Hai said before he could finish his sentence: "You know that our tourists are afraid of being slaughtered. As a local, you should know which restaurant is reliable and delicious. Please be my guide!"

The young man couldn't find a reason to refuse.

Yu Hai and the others packed up their things and walked towards a restaurant introduced by the youth.

Because of Yu Hai's request, he did not take him to the fly restaurant on the side of the road.

Although, many small shops on the roadside often taste no wrong.

When I came to a restaurant that looked very good and tasted very good, Yu Hai asked the waiter for a private room.

Because this place is not a tourist attraction and the flow of people is not large, most of the people who come here to eat are nearby office workers, so they don’t need to queue up and are taken to a private room by the waiter to order food.

After ordering the dishes, the shadow puppet youth, according to his introduction, his name was Jian Jixiu. He started to find topics to chat: "Brother, where did you come from?"

"Linhu, I took more than ten hours of train to get here."

"That's really far away, you...dum!"

Jian Jixiu passed the bowls and chopsticks in his hand over the tea on the table. When he looked up, he saw Yu Hai taking off his mask and burst out with a swear word.

"Whale, whale falls? Damn!"

Yu Hai was a little helpless. Why did this young man become polite just now?

However, he still made a low gesture: "You can't be discovered, otherwise we can't leave!"

Jian Jixiu hurriedly closed his mouth and made a zipper to pull up his mouth, indicating that he would never leak it.

However, this action could not comfort his surging heart at all.

On the contrary, the more suppressed you are, the more difficult it is to suppress yourself.

After his face turned red, he stood up from the chair, waved his hands, lowered his voice, and said excitedly: "Your Highness, I am your fan, I am Xiao Shuidi, I like your Chinese style song the most. I, I am a little excited, I'm sorry, I will control it, control it..."

As he said that, he took a few deep breaths and tried very hard to make himself quieter.

Yu Hai looked at his movements very calmly and raised his eyebrows slightly, but unexpectedly he was still his own fan.

A little misguided.

It turns out that when I was chatting, I felt like a very steady elite man, but my style suddenly changed.

After adjusting my breathing, my heart felt that my pounding speed gradually slowed down.

Jian Jixiu then sat back in his seat and looked at Yu Hai carefully and said, "I didn't expect that you, Your Highness, have really come to us. We were discussing in the group yesterday and thought you might have left. Unexpectedly... Your Highness, please make sure to let me do my best to be a landlord. If the friends in the group know that you are here and I ask you to pay for money, I might be expelled from the fan..."

Yu Hai didn't notice that this guy was such a nagging person.

He gave a suggestion: "You can't just tell them."

"That's not OK. I must show off such things! I can meet you occasionally. My God, I am so lucky. Your Highness, you say, if I go to buy lottery tickets later, will I win the prize? I feel that today is my lucky day..."

"Generally speaking, a person will not be lucky in a row, so there is a high probability that your luck today has been used up."

"That's okay. If you can meet you, the probability of winning the lottery is lower than buying a lottery. There are so many people in the entire Guancheng City and so many small drops of water, but I just encountered it. Today is my lucky day from now on..."

Yu Hai was helpless and changed the topic: "Are you busy with things in the afternoon?"

"No." Jian Jixiu made a decisive railway line: "I have nothing to do on two days on weekends, and I can also ask for leave next week. Your Highness, I tell you that the real fun place in our Guancheng City is not among those attractions. There are too many people in the attractions these two days, so don't go over and squeeze with them. I'll take you to some other places..."

"It's not necessary to ask for leave." Yu Hai saw that he took out his phone and seemed to send a message to the company leader for leave, and hurriedly stopped him: "I'm going to stay here for two days."

"Okay!" Jian Jixiu put down his phone with some regret: "In this case, I'll plan how we will go..."

Yu Hai's scalp was a little numb. This guy wouldn't have a special forces itinerary for him!

He came to travel, not to train.

He hurriedly said, "There is no need to plan your itinerary specifically. Let's do whatever we want and calculate wherever we go."

"It's okay," Jian Jixiu said enthusiastically: "I think you like traditional culture very much. I'll take you to see some intangible cultural heritage. I know some old craftsmen. How about introducing them to you?"

"Yes!" Yu Hai's eyes lit up, and he felt that this idea was a good one.

Because of shadow puppetry, Jian Jixiu has come into contact with many old craftsmen. Some of them were brought to him by his grandfather, while others were only contacted later.

But these people are almost in a state of his condition, and they may be able to barely feed with their own skills, but no matter how many there are, there is no more.

Some people are old but still cannot retire with peace of mind because they have not found a qualified inheritor.

There are few people willing to learn, but many people give up halfway.

This is the current situation of many traditional old crafts.

When he met Jing Luo today, he found that he seemed to be interested in these things. Jian Jixiu inevitably had a hint of luxury.
Chapter completed!