Be There Just to Make up the Numbers

2020-04-06季言霞

阅读（快乐英语中年级） 2020年12期

季言霞

Mr Nanguo is a Yu player in the palace. He is going to blow Yu for the Qi Xuan Wang. Is he a clever man or not？南郭先生濫竽充数能得逞吗？请看江苏省响水县实验小学同学们的精彩表演吧！

Actors：

李天烨李定一杨浩然

殷浩然蔡馨蒙李纯等

Sites：

江苏省响水县实验小学

ACT 1

Long long ago， there was a king named Qi Xuan Wang. He liked listening to Yu very much.

Minister A：Your Majesty， our country is so strong. We should have a team to play Yu.

Minister B：Good idea. I think we can form a band of one hundred people to play for you.

Minister A：No. Two hundred at least.

Qi Xuan Wang：Three hundred！ To show how powerful my country is.

All：Smart king！

ACT 2

Nanguo：They call me Nanguo. I am lazy and I never work. I will blow Yu for the king.Thats really a good job. I cant play Yu at all， but I know how to pretend.

Minister A：Why do you come？

Nanguo：To play Yu. Look！

Minister A：OK. You must be very good at it.

Nanguo：Sure！

ACT 3

Minister A：Your Majesty！ Three hundred people are ready. Look！

Qi Xuan Wang：Great！ Let them play right now.

Qi Xuan Wang：Who makes this noise？

Minister B：Its him！ He wants to hurt your ears.

Qi Xuan Wang：How dare you do that？Kill him！

Nanguo：My... my... my king. I have something to say.

Minister A：You cheat the king. You must die！

Qi Xuan Wang：Wait. Lets just listen to him.

Nanguo：Smart king！ Just now I saw a dragon over your head. It means you are the greatest king！ I was too excited. So I blew loudly！ Thats my best wish for you！

Qi Xuan Wang：Really？

Nanguo：My king. How dare I cheat you？

Qi Xuan Wang：Thats good.

ACT 4

Qi Xuan Wang：Mr Nanguo is honest. Give him gold！

All：Smart king！

Nanguo：Music！

Qi Xuan Wang：Great！Wonderful！

ACT 5

A few years later， Qi Xuan Wang passed away. His son Qi Min Wang becomes the new king.

Nanguo：My king！ You want more people to play Yu？ Ill work on it at once.

Qi Xuan Wang：No， I dont like so many people playing. I just like singly playing.