One, two, three, four … Soon, six or seven hundred people came in, filling up the original actor's position, and the dialogue actually continued.
The last person from the previous formation waved goodbye to the audience as he walked out of the arena. At the same time, he said his line, and the new person finally found a chance to speak.
"Speaking of foreign culture, I know a person who particularly admires foreign culture, especially the culture from the Western Continent. He admires it to the extreme!"
The actor who first spoke in the phalanx was also standing in the middle of the crowd. Obviously, his position was extraordinary, and his line was also longer than the average person. However, after that, he returned to the line and stood there with a stupid smile on his face.
Following that, the six to seven hundred people told another joke about Li Si, who was overly respectful of foreign culture. It was also an absurd story, but it was told in a sinister manner. At the end of the story, there was also a large amount of preaching and propaganda. Similarly, there was not a single funny point in the entire story. However, there were two people on the rostrum who were rolling on the floor in laughter.
Xuan Mo couldn't bear it anymore. He got up and walked to Wang Lu's side. After hesitating for a moment, he squatted down and patted him on the shoulder. "Hey, what's so funny about that story?"
At this time, Wang Lu was beating the floor. When he heard Xuan Mo's question, he looked up and replied, "Hahaha, I, hahaha, with you, hahaha, that, hahahaha, just now, hahahahaha, I can't, I have to finish laughing first …"
Xuan Mo froze for a moment. "I know, you can continue laughing."
When she returned to her seat, she felt like she was being played as a fool.
Soon after, the second phalanx finished its story and left the stage. The third phalanx entered the stage in an orderly manner. It was the same size of six or seven hundred people, and they also brought a new long story …
The only difference was, after the story was finished, Wang Lu and Wang Wu's laughter became a lot smaller.
It seemed like for Daoist Master King Pill, laughing for more than four hours in a row was also a great burden. As Xuan Mo thought of this, he glanced at Wang Lu and keenly noticed that Wang Lu seemed to have taken something out of his mustard seed bag and was about to put it into his mouth when he was rolling on the ground.
As a Dixian, Xuan Mo reacted very quickly. With a thought, he reached out his invisible hand and grabbed Wang Lu's hand, forcing him to show the thing in his hand.
Two plump and round elixirs.
"What is this?" Xuan Mo asked as he revealed the answer himself. "Ha, Forget Worries Pill? A pill that can make people fall into extreme joy, forget all their troubles, and laugh non-stop? So, this is what you are laughing at? "
Being caught red-handed in bed, Wang Lu could not deny it and could only get up from the ground. At the same time, he kicked his master who was still laughing non-stop, indicating that she should stop laughing.
"Haha, I, hahaha, just hahaha, have already taken the hahaha, hahaha, hahaha."
"… Okay, then you can laugh slowly," Wang Lu sighed and then said to Xuan Mo, "Actually, this is all a misunderstanding."
Xuan Mo wanted to slap him in the face. "Do you really think you can fool us with this reason?!"
Wang Lu said seriously, "I am not fooling anyone, but I am trying my best to help some people who need help. Those actors who are sweating and performing crosstalk on the stage need our laughter and applause! So, even if I have to take drugs, I will give my laughter to them! Of course, it would be best if I could laugh without taking drugs, but unfortunately … "
"… So you also know that their crosstalk is not funny at all!"
Wang Lu said, "Well, as long as you are not an idiot, you will not find their crosstalk funny. But at least it is full of positive energy, a main theme, and very educational … Listen, they are talking about how to correctly treat foreign culture!"
"Crosstalk is not for preaching, okay!"
Wang Lu said, "This issue can be discussed later, but the problem now is that besides preaching, they don't know any other crosstalk."
"Then don't ask them to perform!"
Wang Lu shrugged and said, "Then they will starve to death. These actors are actually very pitiful. Except for this kind of unfunny crosstalk, they don't know any other kind of crosstalk. Before I found them to participate in the opening ceremony, most of them lived a hard life in their respective art circles. Fortunately, there are some monarchs who like art, so they can still be attached to some places to make a living … But in fact, there are also some crosstalk actors who don't even have the qualification to be attached and are really starving to death. "
"And then?"
"And then, I think this opening ceremony is an opportunity to show their situation in front of people. Believe me, compared with those crosstalk actors who gain both fame and fortune, these talents are more representative of the overall situation of Nine Regions. "
"So what?"
Wang Lu said, "This opening ceremony is our Union of Ten Thousand Immortals showing you all the various things in Nine Regions today. Compared to blindly showing off, I prefer to let you see the real Nine Regions. In fact, don't you think these actors are a bit like us? "
"Oh?"
Wang Lu pointed to an actor who was trying his best to perform his lines on the stage. "Look at him. Although he only has one line, at least at the moment of his performance, that line is his everything. He will do his best."
Xuan Mo glanced at the stage coldly. "His expression is stiff, and he also mispronounced a word of his line. Is that all he can do?"
"Yes, although it's not worth mentioning in our eyes, that's all they have."
While speaking, Wang Lu waved his hand, and the scene in the arena suddenly changed. In addition to hundreds of people's one line of crosstalk, there were many more scenes.
Xuan Mo's heart turned cold.
According to the rules, no one was allowed to interfere with the scene during the show. Wang Lu just waved his hand and brought out a lot of scenes, not because he used some magical spell, but because … he had already calculated the time!
In other words, could it be that he even calculated the dialogue at this moment?!
However, soon she had no time to think about these things, because the scenes in the arena had been extended.
It recorded the daily life of those crosstalk actors.
It was a daily life that she could not bear to look at. In a simple thatched hut, a woman in ragged clothes said in a hoarse voice, "Old Zhang, Second Brother and Sister-in-law came again yesterday."
The man named Old Zhang frowned. "Are they here to ask for money again? I told them that I will definitely pay them back. As long as Zhang Yuanwai holds another crosstalk meeting, I will be able to earn money to pay them back. "
The woman just sighed. "When will Zhang Yuanwai hold another crosstalk meeting? And even if he does, will he invite you? Didn't you say the last performance wasn't funny at all? "
Old Zhang angrily slammed the table. "I secretly learned the jokes from a famous master in the county, how can it not be funny?! Moreover, it's educational through entertainment. Isn't Zhang Yuanwai's young master lawless and needs someone to persuade him to be kind? "
The woman opened her mouth but did not speak.
Old Zhang became even angrier. "I know what you want to say. It's useless to teach through entertainment, right? The jokes I learned aren't funny, right? Just you wait, I will come up with funny jokes in the next two days! "
Then, the scene changed. It was Old Zhang stammering by a deserted river. "Then, then, that young man quickly turned his head. It didn't matter when he turned his head, guess what? He, he saw his wife. "
After saying that, Old Zhang was stunned for a moment. He looked at the gurgling river, scratched his disheveled hair, and repeated himself.
"It didn't matter when he turned his head, guess what? He saw his, his wife."
After a moment of silence, Old Zhang opened his mouth again and repeated that sentence. "He saw his wife …"
At this point, even he himself could clearly feel how boring this line was.
So what if he saw his wife? What's so funny about it? There should be, there should be, right?! But if there really is, why doesn't anyone laugh? Why has no one ever laughed at my crosstalk!
I just want to do a crosstalk, I just want to hear people laugh! Why, why can't I …
"Hahaha!"
Suddenly, he suddenly raised his head and laughed. His laughter echoed in the wilderness, as if he was happy, but there was a sense of desolation in it. Halfway through his laughter, Old Zhang was already sobbing.
"Why, why isn't it funny at all? Why!"
Then, the story ended there. The scene changed, and it was a close-up of an actor who was reading his lines.
It was Old Zhang, but compared to the story, he looked much more energetic now. He was wearing a brand new plain robe without patches, and his beard and hair had been carefully trimmed. He looked ten years younger, and even the wrinkles on his face seemed to have been wiped away.
Although he only had one line, at this moment, he poured all of his energy into it.
"It didn't matter when he turned his head, guess what? He saw his wife, hahahaha! "
The last sentence made the six to seven hundred people in the arena laugh in unison.
— —
On the rostrum, Xuan Mo was already stunned.
Outside the arena, the audience watching the show through the broadcast signboard was also shocked.
What was going on with this shocking reversal?! Why did those clumsy crosstalk actors suddenly light up the light of humanity!?
If the previous group crosstalk performance was just a disgusting farce, then looking at Old Zhang's smiling face, people suddenly felt a sense of warmth and gratification. Some people even couldn't help but smile a little.
Wang Lu said proudly, "See, the audience has already used their expressions to give this show the fairest evaluation!"
"This kind of praise that is completely out of sympathy and pity is something to be proud of!? This … this is simply fraud! "
Wang Lu said, "How could it be fraud? Old Zhang is really just a clumsy craftsman, and I just displayed his clumsiness in a perfect manner."
"This kind of artistic display that is painted up means that it's not real in itself!"
"So you also know that this is a display. This is a big show, a program, not a news interview. Don't you find it ridiculous that you doubt that I shouldn't have used artistic methods of expression?"
Xuan Mo was at a loss for words, especially when she saw that the few simple-minded Earth Immortals around her had been deeply infected and began to laugh along with the laughter of the crosstalk actors on the stage. She really had nothing to say.
"Alright, you win this time."
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