Chapter 648

On screen, on a brightly lit stage, a stunningly beautiful opera singer in blue opera costumes, pinching an orchid finger, was singing:

"When the husband is in a happy place, the wife is at the moment of heartbreak; the aggrieved mood is known only to the moon, meeting is not easy and parting is easy, the abandoned wife now regrets it too late, do you remember the day the phoenix was happy to compare, and do you remember continuing to bear the grace of the other branch..."

"It's the Cantonese opera 'Selling Meat to Raise a Hundred Orphans'!" Among the Guangdong audience, those familiar with Cantonese opera heard it immediately.

On stage, the stunning singer sang.

Off stage, there were many listeners, and cheers rose one after another.

Among them were two children, a boy and a girl.

That boy was Li Qiang, who was ten years old at the time.

This segment was magically adapted by the girl.

Referencing Si Teng singing.

Li Qiang recalled: "Auntie Mei had a miserable childhood. When she was three, she was abandoned by her biological parents outside the opera house. Fortunately, the famous Cantonese opera singer Mr. Chu Xuan had a compassionate heart and adopted Auntie Mei, naming her Chu Renmei and teaching her to sing."

"The time spent learning opera with Mr. Chu Xuan was probably the best time of Auntie Mei's life..."

The scene switched.

A cute little girl was seen learning to read and write, then starting to learn opera... In the process of learning opera, she grew up day by day, eventually becoming graceful and beautiful.

A girl in the opera house had grown up, beautiful enough to topple cities and countries.

The audience had to "painfully" endure Youyue's beauty attack.

Each one was mesmerized.

It's hard to imagine that such a fierce female ghost was so beautiful and stunning in her lifetime.

In fact.

Chu Renmei in the original movie wasn't particularly beautiful, after all, the production cost wasn't high.

But with You Mingyue's beauty, figure, temperament, and acting skills playing Chu Renmei, everyone felt... this is too good-looking, right?

Why do I suddenly want to defect to the fierce ghost camp?

Auntie Mei, kill me!

As long as you're brave enough, Chu Renmei will go on maternity leave!

Regardless of male or female, the audience was lost in thought.

Only the children had pure thoughts.

They only felt that the big sister on the big screen was really good-looking.

In the film, Chu Renmei smiled gracefully, and her sweet smile instantly struck countless female audience members.

The next second.

Her smile froze.

"However, good times didn't last. When Auntie Mei was twenty, Mr. Chu Xuan passed away due to illness, and the opera house also disbanded due to years of turmoil and poor management. Auntie Mei, having nowhere to go, followed a teacher to Huangshan Village."

"That teacher's name was Bu Wantian; all the tragedy originated from this beast!!!" Li Qiang's expression was extremely agitated. Talking about this person, even after nearly a hundred years, he still gritted his teeth, hating him to the bone.

If Bu Wantian hadn't been blinded by greed, there wouldn't have been the Chu Renmei filled with resentment later.

On the big screen, the scene switched.

One day in 1936, after Chu Renmei finished singing, she was teaching Zeng Xiang and Qian'er to sing at a tea shop.

This Qian'er was actually the red-clothed female ghost seen by the four people playing the spirit-calling game at the very beginning of the movie when they closed their eyes.

In the ancestral hall in the desolate village, there was also Qian'er's spirit tablet, right next to Chu Renmei's.

And Zeng Xiang was the foolish old man in the restaurant; after he leaked Chu Renmei's secret in the restaurant, Qian'er subsequently appeared in the elevator and killed Zeng Xiang.

After Zeng Xiang and Qian'er left.

Li Qiang, as a child, ran over, sat on a stool, and asked: "Congratulations, Auntie Mei, what is the name of that theater troupe?"

"Enter My Mirror Theater Troupe."

"Theater troupe?"

Chu Renmei patiently explained: "It's shadow play."

"However, you don't need to understand so much. Xiao Qiang, you must keep it a secret, don't let Wantian know."

Li Qiang said: "You're really bad, Teacher Bu will definitely scold you, a girl performing civilized opera with people..."

Audience:???

Each one instantly perked up.

Could it be that kind of indescribable opera???

Chu Renmei played very openly a hundred years ago.

But thinking about it carefully, it felt wrong; that era couldn't be so open.

In fact, so-called shadow play refers to early movies, and civilized opera refers to a type of spoken drama in early China, using speech and movement as the main performance methods, also known as new drama.

In that era, it broke with tradition, and for those with conservative thoughts at the time, it was lowly.

Chu Renmei performed civilized opera to make money because Bu Wantian was addicted to opium and owed a mountain of debt; she had to earn money to pay it off.

She asked Li Qiang to keep it a secret for her and gave Li Qiang an exquisite safety bracelet, saying she would agree to any of his requests...

The movie played quickly.

Chu Renmei died.

And she was beaten to death!

It turned out that Bu Wantian, in order to marry the rich daughter of Guangdong's number one bank, decided to kill his wife, Chu Renmei.

He conspired with the thug Tian Qi to set a trap.

Framing Chu Renmei as a promiscuous woman who was promiscuous with others; at that time, this ruined the reputation of the entire village and meant she would be beaten to death.

But that woman, infatuated with love, cried to Bu Wantian before she died:

"Tian Qi's money, I hid it under the stairs."

"Take the money and pay it back as soon as possible, and don't smoke opium anymore. Opium is not something we can afford."

"Everything is fate. Let Tian Qi's matter be considered as me committing adultery with her. If you tell people you arranged it, it will only implicate you. You've been so good to me these past two years, consider it me repaying you. You should live a good life in the future and find another good woman to marry..."

Then, Chu Renmei was beaten to death alive.

This silly woman, in the end, was still thinking about her husband.

Little did she know that Bu Wantian was the real mastermind.

Li Qiang said he had a heart of a scorpion and was ruthless, and he wasn't wrong at all.

Seeing this scene, countless audience members clenched their fists, their anger soaring to the sky.

"Chu Renmei is so pitiful."

"No wonder the resentment is so heavy!"

"She simply fed her sincere heart to a dog."

"This Bu Wantian is really not a thing, and those villagers, they deserved it too."

"Beaten to death alive, too pitiful."

"So angry, why do beauties always meet scumbags!!!"

"So cruel."

"Terrible human nature."

"Sometimes people are more terrifying than ghosts!"

"Ironically, in real society, such things are not uncommon... sigh."

"..."

The audience whispered.

On screen, after Chu Renmei died, Zhang San brought a broken mat, wrapped Chu Renmei's corpse, and threw it into the desolate grave on the back mountain.

No one expected that a generation of Cantonese opera stars would meet such a miserable end because she met the wrong person.

In the night sky.

Dark clouds covered the bright moon, and the sky was inexplicably gloomy.

A cold wind blew past.

The air was filled with the smell of decay and blood.

Occasionally, there was the eerie ghost cry of an unknown bird.

At the desolate grave, a straw mat lay quietly on the ground, with a female corpse wrapped inside.

The hair-raising eerie music also played at this time.