The angry kid stared at him angrily with his eyes wide open.
Gu Qizhou, who was disliked for no reason, was at a loss. He scratched his head, put the pen in his hand behind his ear, bent down and kissed Youyou's face.
"Hey, go and sit over there for a while. Dad will come to you after talking to the other children. If you can't read, you can go to Brother Ding Yao and ask him to read the lines to you."
Yoyo feels like a bulldog with full horsepower, but in Gu Qizhou's eyes, it's just a kitten with not yet fully grown paws.
So the fierce little milk cat was picked up and sat down on the small stool.
"Yo, good boy, Dad will go to work first."
Children's emotions are inherently unpredictable, and their thoughts are so erratic that adults can't understand. Gu Qizhou regarded it as Yoyo's intermittent stupidity, and didn't delve into the meaning of her words.
However, Gu Miaomiao sensitively noticed that Yoyo seemed to be in a low mood, so she came over and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Yoyo lay down in her sister's arms with her mouth flattened.
"I want to go home."
Gu Miaomiao was surprised.
It has been two or three days since they came out to record the show. Unlike other children, Yoyo has always been quite sensible, and has never been arguing to go home.
This sudden, she was a little caught off guard.
"Because you miss your mother?"
Yo Yo shook his head.
"Missing brother?"
She still shook her head.
The child nestled in her arms looked at his father's back from afar with sad little eyes.
Gu Miaomiao finally figured out what she meant.
Children's thoughts are complicated and complicated, and simple and simple.
It can be so complicated that she hates her father for no reason and wants to go home, or it can be so simple that she wants to go home because she doesn't want to be ignored by her busy father.
It's just that most of the time, no one is willing to think about the children's thoughts.
Yoyo was sad for a while, then looked up at her sister again, and whispered:
"...Can't I say that? Am I being ignorant?"
Although she is a little unhappy now, Yoyo still doesn't want to be regarded as an ignorant child.
She is usually very good, and will not cause trouble to her father.
She's just now, really, really unhappy.
"Why do you have to be sensible?"
Gu Miaomiao straightened Yoyo's body and looked firmly at her big foggy eyes.
"Hey, being sensible is an excuse for adults to lie to children. They just like children who don't cause trouble for themselves."
"It's a child's right to be self-willed. If you are not self-willed, it will be too late when you grow up."
Yoyo seemed to understand, but pointed at her and said:
"Sister, you are also a child."
Gu Miaomiao was awakened by her, and suddenly remembered that she still had such a persona.
"Well, of course."
"But sister, you are more sensible than me."
"..."
Yo Yo is a little silly, but it seems that every time you think she doesn't understand anything, you can subtly grasp the key to the matter.
"That's because I'm six years old."
She is three years older than she can be so confident.
Yoyo nodded thoughtfully.
It turns out that when she is six years old, she can be as powerful as her sister.
Break your fingers, uh...
There are two more years!
She can too!
The topic got further and further away, and in the end Yoyo completely forgot why she was unhappy just now, and was yelled at by Tiantian and the others, so she skipped over to rehearse.
Only the audience in front of the screen left with emotion:
[... Miao is always some kind of child philosopher?]
[Is she really only six years old? Why do I feel that I have lived for more than 20 years without being sober as a six-year-old girl?]
[It really makes sense. It’s okay to teach children to be polite, filial, and caring about others, but it’s really distressing for children to go against their nature and be sensible at a young age.]
[Wuuuuuuuuu Miaomiao knows so much must be because she has experienced too much at a young age, Miaomiao occasionally acts like a baby, it makes my mother heartache qaq]
Yoyo, you have a child's heart, so you forget about it when you turn around, but Gu Miaomiao is not a real child, she remembers it clearly in her heart.
Gu Qizhou is indeed not a good father.
But he wasn't bad either.
It's not good enough or bad enough, if you want to like it, you can't like it, and if you want to hate it, it seems to be a little bit worse.
Tsk.
It's not as bad as it is completely bad.
Gu Miaomiao thought secretly.
"... Come on, come on, have you all memorized the lines of the first scene? Remember we will start rehearsing soon—"
Gu Qizhou had no idea that he had been rejected by his two daughters behind his back for a long time.
He counted the number of people, the first scene was in the palace, the main characters were three little girls and Ding Yao.
King Lear, played by Ding Yao, sits on a chair and looks at the three daughters below:
"... I am old, and I have divided the land into three parts. When I am about to give up my dominion and territory, tell me, which one of you loves me the most? I want to see who loves me the most If she deserves a reward, I will give her the greatest favor."
Tian Tian: "I love you more than the most precious thing in the world."
Gu Qizhou nodded, and sure enough, the little girl looked at Ding Yao, and she could praise such words very well.
According to the lines, Ding Yao allocated a piece of rich land to her.
"My second daughter, what about you?"
It was Gu Miaomiao's turn.
"I am the same as my sister, but I am more than her. I despise all the happiness in the world. Only your Majesty's happiness is my happiness."
"..."
Xiaosuo's father and Joe's father whispered to each other.
"Why is Miao Miao so expressionless even when she speaks her lines?"
"Well, she's a cool lady."
If the electrocardiogram is used to describe the emotion in Gu Miaomiao's words, then it is roughly a small wavy line with only slight ups and downs.
Thinking that they were still children, Gu Qizhou was very patient, and at the same time squatted in front of Gu Miaomiao without self-knowledge, and said persuasively:
"Miao Miao, our line is to praise Dad, maybe you are not used to watching Brother Ding Yao, how about trying to say the line to Dad?"
Gu Miaomiao looked at him, her expression seemed to be a little lighter, and she repeated her lines again.
Gu Qizhou: ...
Okay, the small wavy line changed to a straight line, and he heard the long sound of death sentence, with a beep.
Since Gu Miaomiao's emotionless line-reading machine really made it impossible for Gu Qizhou to start, so he decided to skip her for the time being and see what's going on with Yoyo first.
Gu Qizhou looked at Yoyo who was standing and staring at the butterfly flying in a daze, and woke up Yoyo who was in a daze.
"Yo Yo, read the lines."
Yoyo has a face of "who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do".
Gu Qizhou sighed and reminded her:
"What do you want to say to brother Ding Yao in exchange for a more prosperous land?"
With such a reminder, Yoyo's expression lit up.
"I, I have nothing to say!"
Ding Yao followed her lines and asked, "No?"
"No, I love you for nothing more and nothing less."
Yoyo blinked, looked at Ding Yao, unexpectedly, read out the lines smoothly, unexpectedly.
It is also because her usual tone is very sincere, and it actually fits the feelings of the characters quite well.
Ding Yao originally regarded Yoyo as the biggest variable in the scene, but now it seems that she has performed much better than expected.
He was relieved in his heart, but on the surface his face turned cold, and he looked at her with anger but not anger:
"Mend up your words, otherwise your nothing can only be replaced by nothing."
Yoyo originally memorized the lines, but Gu Qizhou's modified lines are all short sentences, which are also very close to the daily expressions, even Yoyo can remember them.
However, seeing Ding Yao's cold face, she panicked immediately.
"... You, don't be angry, brother Ding Yao, you are very good, I like you very much, you look good, really!"
Yoyo seems to be unable to distinguish between acting and reality. In her eyes, the expression on her face is the expression in her heart.
So whenever Ding Yao got angry, she took it seriously.
Seeing Yoyo's sincere praise, Ding Yao suddenly... didn't know whether to be happy or helpless.
Gu Qizhou also had a headache.
His two daughters, one is a line-reading machine with no emotion, and the other is a rainbow fart machine with too much emotion.
Now it's just right to change the roles here, but the characters behind have changed their temperaments, and they are still the same as now.
In the end, Gu Miaomiao and Youyou were pulled out to make up lessons alone.
Gu Qizhou is very patient and persistent about his professional affairs, and his standards are also very high, so he constantly guides Gu Miaomiao to take on the role, even at the expense of himself:
"...Miaomiao, you now imagine yourself as a very unfilial and bad child. Dad is getting old and wants to distribute money to you and your sister. You want to cheat dad's money, so you have to pretend to love dad..."
Yoyo, who was watching with her little face in her hands, noticed that her sister's expression became warmer visible to the naked eye.
"I understand."
Gu Miaomiao read the lines again, full of emotion, very well.
"is that so?"
Gu Qizhou's pupils trembled: "Yes, that's it..."
It reads well, but...
Why did you take it in so quickly when you said you wanted to cheat daddy's money!
The speed of your substitution is terrifying! !
Gu Miaomiao didn't care about Gu Qizhou's thoughts, she turned around and explained to Youyou that they were acting and no one was angry with him anymore.
"... Then, I'm going to quarrel with my sister later, and my sister can't take it seriously."
"I won't take it seriously."
"Sister, I love you! Hehehe~"
"… I know."
Facing Yoyo, even though Gu Miaomiao was not very obvious, the softness wrapped under the calm appearance was easy to be noticed.
And Yoyo's dependence on Gu Miaomiao is also obvious.
Gu Qizhou stood aside and watched silently, and suddenly realized something.
His two daughters, it seemed... didn't need him as much as he thought.
—
After rehearsing all afternoon, the rehearsal of the stage play of the children's version of "King Lear" is almost done.
Gu Qizhou knew that the children's attention was limited, and it was impossible for them to take on a lot of lines, so most of the lines explaining the plot were given to Ding Yao and the fathers who played jesters.
The only biggest variable now is Yoyo who tampers with the lines from time to time.
For example, when Cordelia was hanged and King Lear cried while hugging Cordelia's body—
Ding Yao: "Howl, howl, howl! I will burst the sky with howls and tears, she will never return, she is dead!"
Ding Yao knew very well that he was acting in a children's drama, so he didn't really shed tears, but used the way of drama to perform the lines in the drama exaggeratedly.
Gu Qizhou nodded again and again to show his approval of Ding Yao's acting skills.
It is a very good talent to want to be interesting and not show craftsmanship.
However, for Yoyo, that is obviously a type of person who has no talent for acting.
When Ding Yao was getting absorbed in his performance, Yoyo who lay in his arms opened her eyes tearfully, reached out her short hand to reach his face, and said emotionally:
"Brother Ding Yao, don't cry, I, I'm not dead..."
Ding Yao: ... I know.
Although I am very moved, can you be more professional when you play the corpse
So the biggest problem now is not that the children can't memorize the lines, but because Ding Yao's acting is too realistic, it is easy for Yoyo, who is already easy to deceive, to take it seriously.
Then the scene changed from the king's wail, to the king trying to coax the corpse's daughter.
But Cordelia did not die in Gu Qizhou's script.
A terrible witch was added to the script of the magic reform. She possesses a potion that can bring people back to life. The witch was moved by the king's remorse and gave the potion to him, which saved Cordelia and reunited the father and daughter.
Gu Qizhou originally thought that the role of the witch would be reversed by Joe's father. Although it is a bit hot-eyed, but there is not enough manpower, so he can only make do with it.
Unexpectedly, Gu Miaomiao, who had no interest in acting, read the script and suddenly raised her hand:
"Can I play?"
Gu Qizhou was a little surprised: "Of course."
It’s not so much okay as it is great!
His family Miaomiao is the most reliable!
The rehearsal of the following scenes went very smoothly. When Zhouzhou's father came back with the borrowed costumes, the stage in Zhenkou was almost ready, and everyone changed into costumes and went on stage.
"Yo Yo! Yo Yo!"
Worried elderly father exhorts little daughter before starting.
"Don't cry later! This is acting! Do you know!?"
Yo Yo seemed to understand but half understood, and was soon led onto the stage.
The small audience invited by the program group sat in a row. The youngest among them was a baby of a few months carried by their mother, and the largest was a teenage junior high school student.
There were also many adults who came to watch the fun outside.
Gu Qizhou in the audience focused on the young actors on the stage.
He felt that he had never been so nervous and focused when he was leading a group of actor and actress filming.
The children on stage took their places and the crude stage lights were turned on.
The poor king, wearing a paper crown and a yellow cloth, sits on a chair and is about to divide his kingdom among his three daughters.
From the first person to speak, Gu Qizhou's heart has been tugging, for fear that Yoyo will forget the words, or suddenly become dazed while acting.
Fortunately, probably Ding Yao is also worried about this kind of accident, and has been consciously attracting Yoyo's attention.
The first act was about to end smoothly, Gu Qizhou was slightly relieved.
It's always good to have a good start.
However, before she could rest assured for two seconds, Yoyo, who was standing silently after finishing her lines, began to lose her mind, her big eyes wandered around, and fell on Gu Qizhou's body.
The two met eyes.
Yoyo didn't quite understand the meaning of Ding Yao's lines. She felt a little bored. Seeing her father looking at her with relief, she was also very happy, and then waved.
! ! !
Gu Qizhou's heart jumped into his throat.
What are you doing!
Take your hand back! ! !
Gu Miaomiao was also taken aback, and quickly grabbed her right hand.
YoYo:
Inexplicably held by her sister, Yoyo was a little puzzled, and whispered to her:
"Sister, you can't hold me, we are acting."
… I know what kind of hand you wave when you are acting!
And Yoyo is very double-standard. Just after talking to her sister, her left hand was ready to move again, and she wanted to say hello to her father in the audience with her bright eyes open.
Tian Tian on the other side also held her down.
YoYo:?
Yoyo, with both hands pinned down, looks like a prisoner who is about to be crushed to the execution ground, but she keeps jumping around, just like a wild dog that has run loose.
Gu Qizhou was terrified, afraid that the two sisters would not stop her, so she ran happily on the stage.
However, the audience next to him said:
"That little girl did a great job."
"Knowing that I will be arrested, I will still struggle."
"The appearance is also strange and cute, really watery."
Gu Qizhou: ... Is this okay
In the next few scenes, everyone acted sparingly. After all, it is good for children to memorize a few lines in such a short time. With Ding Yao supporting the whole process, everyone can understand the plot.
As for these less controlled children—
"Oh, kid, I forgot the words, it's so cute!"
"Hahahaha why did you fall while running! Cute!"
"Ah, Brother Ding Yao is so handsome! Even in rags!"
…Under the filter of beauty, Gu Qizhou suspects that if Yoyo farts on the spot now, they will all find it cute.
As the plot progresses, the heroine Cordelia dies after saving her father, and King Lear weeps while hugging Cordelia's body.
Without the bouncing children, King Lear, who was holding his daughter alone, instantly swept away the relaxed atmosphere just now, and a few lines brought the rhythm back.
"...if she lives, there is still a chance of redress for all the pain I caused her..."
One light goes off.
On the somewhat dim stage, a witch in a black robe stepped out.
"King Lear, if you were given another chance, would you listen to other people's flattery and hurt your honest daughter who loves you so much?"
"of course not!"
"Are you willing to be a qualified father who will always trust and love your daughter?"
"If I break my promise, you can pull out my tongue and use my blood to make soup."
"good."
The plot has come to an end, and Ding Yao is ready to take the witch's potion.
However, at this moment, Gu Miaomiao, who was correct once during the rehearsal, suddenly changed her lines.
"But I don't believe that you know how to be a qualified father."
Ding Yao was taken aback.
Gu Qizhou in the audience was also stunned.
This... isn't the line he wrote, right
Gu Miaomiao continued:
"Your love does not exonerate your miss."
"You need to repent, you need to listen to your daughter's inner voice."
"You should lower your head, crawl on the ground, don't look into the distance, look in front of your eyes."
"My medicine is not given to unqualified fathers, but to poor little girls who are neglected."
She spoke a series of lines clearly.
Ding Yao, whose rhythm was suddenly disrupted, looked into the eyes of the six-year-old girl in front of him.
Her eyes were calm, as if she was just reciting lines, and she seemed to be talking to someone through the air through him.
Gu Qizhou in the audience stared blankly at Gu Miaomiao's back.
She is small, but her back is straight.
Youyou, who was lying in Ding Yao's arms, also seemed to sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and quietly opened one eye, but Ding Yao's brother and sister didn't move.
Yoyo, who didn't know why, smiled sweetly at Gu Qizhou who was looking at him from the audience.
In Gu Qizhou's mind, Gu Miaomiao's words echoed again.
—Love does not make your misses immune.
—You need to listen to their inner voice.