Crosstalk: Stop playing with your uncle!

Chapter 3 The whole house cheers
After Jin Henan fell down due to laughter, Qi Long pulled him behind the table and started to work while standing outside.

The crosstalk audience here has basically heard it before. It starts with the supporting actor telling a short story and then saying that he has been to their home.

At this time, the funny man doesn't play the supporting role well, and just says "Hmm?" "Hmm!" "Hmm?" "Hmm!" in a listless manner.

The supporting actor couldn't keep up the fun and said the funny actor was deliberately causing trouble.

The funny man said that the supporting actor’s skills were not good enough. If he was really good, the people next to him would be able to go on just saying “Hmm? Hmm!”

The supporting actor didn't believe it, so the two of them swapped positions.

Jin Henan began: "I went to your house that day!"

"Hmm?~~~~~" Qi Long said with a long tone.

"Someone opened the door for me!"

"Hmm!~~~~~" Qi Long continued with a long tone.

Jin Henan turned around, covered Qi Long's mouth, and turned to the audience and said, "Who opened the door when I saw it?"

Qi Long raised his hands like a music conductor, and some audience members immediately followed his rhythm, saying, "Hmm?~~~"

"Your wife, my sister-in-law!"

Qi Long let go of his hand, and this time more audience members cooperated: "Yeah!~~~"

This segment was designed by him and Jin Henan backstage, allowing the audience to participate and have fun, which makes it easier to mobilize emotions.

The two of them only had a short time to perform together, so they only put some effort into the main part. The previous part was all improvisation.

"Uncle Master, this won't work. I have to wait for all the long notes from the audience to finish before I can say the next sentence. The rhythm is wrong. You are just messing with me!"

"Just tell me whether the audience is happy or not?" Qi Long pointed at everyone.

"Happy!" some audience members shouted.

Qi Long looked at the seat in surprise: "When I take a shower later, I'll ask you to make some salt, good brother!"

"You come back first," Jin Henan pulled Qi Long, who was lying on the table chatting with the audience, and said, "I will make you laugh with my jokes later!"

Qi Long stood up and pointed to the front: "Come on, three, two, one, tease!"

"No, Uncle Master, this burden needs to be laid?"

"Oh, there's still a need for foreshadowing? That means it's not funny now!"

"Of course the foreshadowing isn't funny!"

Qi Long raised his hand to the audience: "Come on, friends, he said that it's not funny now, everyone play with your mobile phones!"

Jin Henan immediately became anxious: "Stop playing with your phone!"

"If it's not funny, then why are they playing with their phones? I'll call them when it's funny!"

"No, Uncle Master, without any preparation, there will be no fun just with a joke!"

"You're asking for a lot, so go ahead and lay it out. I'll see if the audience is happy with it!"

When the funny man and the supporting man are performing at the beginning, the segment that must be presented is a relatively boring one among the funny man and the supporting man. Here the funny man repeats it. If the supporting man is the same as him, the audience will know it and have no expectations.

So Qi Long added such a small plot design here to enhance the interactivity of the audience and to liven up the atmosphere again before continuing.

The main purpose is to compete wits and courage between the supporting actor and the supporting actor, so it is not surprising for the supporting actor to do this to disrupt the relationship.

The next part is more traditional. The funny man says he met the supporting man's family. In order to prevent him from being funny, the supporting man says that the family member of the person you mention has died.

"Your father!" "He's been dead for eight years!"

"Your father-in-law!" "He walked with my dad!"

"Your brother!" "My only son."

In short, the relatives mentioned either don’t exist or are dead.

The funny guy who can't stand it will throw out this sentence: "Who is there in your family?"

"I'm telling you this. In order to tell you this crosstalk, all my relatives died!"

If there is nothing, the crosstalk can't go on, right? The funny man discussed with the supporting man that there must be one, and finally said there was a younger brother.

At this time, the supporting actor asked the funny actor to tell him about his brother's physical features, clothing style, etc., otherwise he would not admit that he was my brother. After Jin Henan made a random guess, Qi Long snorted coldly: "Nonsense, let me tell you this, I do have a brother, he is only three months old, what you said does not exist!"

"Ah? Brothers from the same mother?"

"Brothers from the same mother, three months old!"

"Your father has been dead for eight years. Where did your brother come from?"

"Waiting for me here?"

At this point, the crosstalk ended. Jin Henan and Qi Long bowed together, and the audience applauded and cheered.

With this effect, the opening mission was over-fulfilled!
"Oh, uncle master, my back is sweating so much, my brain almost crashed several times!" Jin Henan said to Qi Long after he got off the stage.

Qi Long smiled and said, "Don't worry, I can definitely find a way to handle it if I can tell you. This is a tour, and it's not like a small theater. If there's an accident and the comedian can't catch up on stage, it doesn't matter!"

"Uncle, senior brother, thank you for your hard work!" Guo Qilin shouted as he looked sideways and prepared to go on stage.

"Thank you for your hard work, buddy!" Standing behind Qi Lin was his master Yu Qian.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Qi Long and Jin Henan thanked each other for their hard work and then walked towards the dressing room.

After entering the backstage actors' room, except for Guo Degang and Sun Yue, two of the same generation, all other disciples of Yun Hejiu stood up and said, "Hello, Uncle Master!"

"Junior brother, your year has not been in vain. You have improved a lot!" Guo Degang looked at Qi Long with a smile on his face.

After Qi Long greeted his fellow apprentices, he sat down next to Senior Brother Guo: "Since we are lying down anyway, we might as well listen to some crosstalk, which is a collection of the best of all schools!"

"Good, that's great. In the past, you were too calm and lacked brilliance. It seemed like you were determined to become an old artist!"

Qi Long used to be very formal and traditional when he performed crosstalk. Every performance was almost word for word, and his tone of voice was very comfortable for people to listen to.

But the level of humor is a little bit off.

He is a bit like Gao Feng, the head instructor of Deyun Society. He is good in everything except being funny.

Therefore, the crosstalk club that Qi Long belongs to is not popular either.

"We still have to innovate. There are only so many traditional jokes. As long as the audience is willing to listen, they will basically have heard them all in ten days or half a month. If there is no breakthrough, the audience will not like to listen. I figured it out when I was lying on the hospital bed!" Qi Long replied.

Guo Degang nodded: "Well, I still need to calm down and think about it carefully!"

"I figured out ten words: tradition without being conservative, innovation without forgetting the roots!"

Lao Guo's eyes lit up: "Well said, very insightful! Hey, Brother Qi, I heard that your crosstalk club has been in a downturn recently?"

"It's not just a recession, it's almost closed. After my car accident, Dongqiang and others' mixed performances didn't have much effect. The crosstalk club doesn't have a backer to hold the place, and basically can't sell tickets!"

"Why don't you come to our Deyun Club? Neither you nor your partner lives in Shanxi Province anymore, so it's inconvenient to travel back and forth!" Guo Degang said expectantly.

Qi Long was somewhat tempted. Their makeshift team only had about twenty people at most, and none of them could control the stage, so they wouldn't be able to go far.

And what Lao Guo said is right. Now his parents have returned to Beichun City, and his partner's parents are in the capital, and they are both tired of being outside all the time.

On the contrary, Lao Guo’s Deyun troupe’s home stadium is in the capital, so it is much more convenient for him to go home.

However, Qi Long did not agree: "We need to ask Dong Qiang's opinion. He is the boss. What will happen to the dozen brothers under him if we leave?"

Lao Guo did not hesitate at all: "Come on, I will accept all of them. As long as they are still willing to perform crosstalk, Deyun Club will always have a stage for them to perform!"

Dong Qiang, whose real name is Gao Dong Qiang, is not only Qi Long's partner, but also the owner of their crosstalk club. The crosstalk club was set up by his father, a coal boss who later transformed into a businessman, in order to provide a good place for his grandfather who loved listening to crosstalk.

Qi Long, who was still a child at the time, transferred to a school in Shanxi Province because his parents worked in the province. Later, he met Dong Qiang and often went to his crosstalk club to play together.

Perhaps it was fate, that day Hou asked Mr. Wen and his partner Mr. Shi Fukuan to visit the crosstalk club together. Mr. Hou immediately took a liking to Qi Long, who was muttering "Reporting the Menu" while playing.

I learned that this kid had only played in the crosstalk club a few times and had heard the lines once or twice, but he could speak them so fluently and with very few problems with his breathing.

Mr. Hou knew that this was a child with great talent, so he began to admire his talent.

Not long after, Mr. Hou invited several seniors in the crosstalk circle, and under their witness, he accepted Qi Long as his apprentice, and Dong Qiang was also accepted as a disciple by Mr. Shi Fukuan.

The two brothers followed Mr. Hou to the imperial capital together. They had studied crosstalk seriously from their master and were not ordinary disciples with just a title.

Sun Yue struggled to move the bench over and said with a smile: "Dongqiang? My junior brother has wanted to come for a long time, but he was afraid that you would miss the old garden!"

(End of this chapter)