Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 87

As soon as the flat drum sounds, the singer comes on stage. One, two, three, four, five, metal, wood, water, fire and earth, cloudy, sunny, wind, thunder and rain, life, death, illness and suffering. One invites the color of the sky and the earth, the second invites the bright light of the sun and the moon, the third invites Confucianism, Taoism and Buddha, the fourth invites the King of Hell of the underworld, the fifth invites the Emperor of Heaven and the Jade Emperor, the sixth invites the Eight Vajras, the seventh invites the Kitchen God of the Earth, the eighth invites the City God, the God of Wealth, the ninth invites the Peach Blossom Empress, and ten Invite all the ancestors.

I sang and looked back at Qiaoqiao, who was walking and picking up tiles, washbasins, dustpans, bowls, plates and rotten iron pots on the ground. She picked up whatever she saw and knocked it in time with my singing. She knocked it a few times, threw it away, and picked up another one to knock. I stopped and said: You knock well, you hit the right spot. Qiaoqiao said: Sing it. I sang again:

Singer, singer, I sing for the dead. I can sing about monsters or gods, about Pangu and chaos, about life and death, about poverty and wealth, about revolution and reform, about people's hearts and God's will.

Suddenly I forgot the words and couldn't sing anymore. Buckwheat said: Sing! I said: I don’t know what to sing anymore? I asked Qiao Qiao to take out a book in my backpack. It was a book of Yin lyrics that I had recorded. Qiao Qiao opened it and said: There are so many words. I said: I can sing three hundred songs, but suddenly I forget them all. This has never happened before. Please give me a hint. As long as you remind me the beginning of a sentence, I can sing them all. So, Qiaoqiao read to me from the first page while tapping the things she picked up. As soon as she read the first two words of a word, I started singing it all at once. I sang "Opening the Five Directions", "Answering the Five Directions", "Song of Flattery", "Song of Regret", "Filial Piety", "Buddha's Persuasion", "Taoist Persuasion", "Twenty-Four Filial Piety", "Tour of the Ten Halls", "Returning to Yang", "Twelve O'clock" ” “Sighing on the Four Seasons” “Talk about Talking” and “Tearing on the Hair”. Also added to "Tearing the Eyes" are "Joining the Guerrillas", "Sing a Folk Song for the Party", "The East Is Red", "Watching the Sky" and "We Enter a New Era". But when I sang those new songs, I didn't sing smoothly and often went out of tune. I ended up singing Luantan that has been passed down in Qinling since ancient times:

After leaving the south gate and walking north, I met a man biting a dog on the way. He picked up the dog and threw it at a brick, but the brick bit his hand. Throwing his hand into the river, it was splashed with dry yellow soil. The grasshopper is suffering from scabies, and the old cow is lying on the chicken stand. The ants stepped on the pot lid, and the mice rode on the cat's neck. He was seventeen years old and his son was eighteen years old. During the month, the child worked on crops and sang vernacular and truthful songs. After the ninth day of the lunar month, it was the eighth day of the lunar month.