Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 214

In the next few days, the Cui family held a grand banquet at home to celebrate Cui's return home with honor. The county also sent civilians to build memorial archways for the three Jinshi. The whole street was bustling with music and strings and drums day and night. County officials also often came to enjoy the music.

Although Qian'an is a mountainous area with dangerous terrain, the opera troupes are no slower to catch up with the trends than the capital. Ever since the Jinyiwei comic strip came out, the Jinyiwei dramas performed by various troupes have changed their makeup and costumes according to the comic strip. In particular, the play of An Qianhu has asked the artists to add the plot of men dressing up as women without any instruction, which is almost stealing the limelight from the Jinyiwei movie.

Unfortunately, the makeup technology and stage special effects here are not as good as those in Beijing. Many props are made of wood, unlike the wax products used in Beijing, which are cheap, convenient and easy to innovate.

The Cui brothers usually studied and had not seen many plays, but they watched them with full concentration, no matter how good the makeup and special effects were. The two Zhang uncles were worldly-wise people, and they saw that the makeup was not delicate here, and the stage props were not realistic there... While watching, they boasted to their neighbors about the good opera troupes they had seen in Beijing, and called the troupe owner to come and give instructions on how to set up the stage, wishing they could put on the troupe and perform on stage themselves.

Ryan Cui let them dance around like butterflies, and as long as they didn't act like the emperor's uncle and bully their neighbors, he didn't restrict them.