The two little brothers who talked about cross talk were originally a pair of cousins. Pingping's elder brother is ranked fifth in the clan, and Dou's younger brother is ranked sixth in the family. Their surnames are Ren, and they are called Ren Wu Ren Liu, which is so easy to pronounce that no one remembers their real names. Ren Liu has worked hard in the class for several years, and has a good old-fashioned foundation. He once sang in a famous theater troupe in Tianjin for a while. Before he became famous, he offended a tycoon in the theater world. , As a result, Liyuan Xing couldn't stay any longer. Looking at the big wharf north of the Yangtze River, only Shang Xirui has the courage to take him back on stage without fearing the threat of evil forces. Brother Ren Wu doesn't know how to sing, but he has studied in a private school for a few years, can write and count, he is a scholar, he looks good, and it's worthwhile to play tricks, plus Ren Liu said that he kowtowed and bowed, Shang Xirui also joined him to stay.
Ren Liu looked at Shang Xirui for his kindness, on the first day he joined the troupe, he shyly smiled and asked him to advance his wages, saying: "Team master, you are very kind, first heal my brother's illness, I will be a cow." The horse pays you back slowly."
Ren Wu was very disapproving of his younger brother's aggressiveness, and was about to speak, when he opened his mouth and coughed nauseously. Yuan Lan and Shijiu covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, and said disgustedly: "Hey! This can't be lung disease! Don't get infected!"
Shang Xirui was well-informed, looked at Ren Wu's face, and said: "No, have you forgotten Mr. Wang and Grandma Ding Liu? People with lung disease have red cheekbones, Ren Wu Like Wubai, I think it’s starvation, eat a bowl of stewed stew and put more lung and intestines, and it’s good to replenish.”
It seemed that he was only willing to pay the price of a bowl of stewed soup, Ren Liu immediately became anxious. Cheng Fengtai put down the newspaper at the side and said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense and delay people's illness! Go to Xiehe Hospital tomorrow to take an X-ray photo, hang two bottles of salt water, it's no big deal, come back to work when the illness is cured!" While saying, While taking out a few banknotes from his wallet, Ren Liu thanked him so much, he folded the banknotes and stuffed them into his pocket. Ren Wu bowed his hands towards Cheng Fengtai politely, his face was terribly embarrassed, very ashamed, it could be seen that he was a scholar's temper, not used to receiving favors from others.
Cheng Fengtai said: "I didn't send you this, it will be deducted from your wages in the future. However, there is such a rule in Shuiyun Building that if the medical expenses exceed 20 yuan within a year, the team will give an additional subsidy. Treat the disease with peace of mind. Keep the hospital receipt."
This was the preferential treatment established by Shang Juzhen when she was still alive. With the development of Shuiyun Building, the amount has been increased continuously. Therefore, just for the medical expenses, I don't know how many loopholes have been exploited by the brothers in the past few years, and how much money has been cheated. Nineteen laughed and said, "Second Lord has become the accountant of our Shuiyun Tower now! He even knows this clearly!"
Cheng Fengtai was aggrieved: "Isn't it! Your second master is a big business man, and now he's following your class leader to clean up these petty things."
Shang Xirui chuckled: "Okay, I'm in charge of outsiders, and you are in charge of insiders. The young master is in charge of your food and drink."
Cheng Fengtai didn't refute, but just slapped him on the back. The actors around were all accustomed to their constant love, and all showed ambiguous and deep smiles. Ren Wuren Liu had just arrived here for the first time, so he could see some clues, but he still felt a little surprised, secretly changed his look, and since then he treated Cheng Fengtai very flatteringly, treating him as the second class leader. Ren Wu went to the hospital for a check-up. In fact, there was nothing serious about it. He just suffered from bronchitis after catching a cold. After a few days of anti-inflammatory injections, he recovered. After the two Ren brothers entered Shuiyun Tower, in order to please Shang Xirui, they often had two cross talks in the background. Said: "The two of them were hired by me to sing opera, not to talk about cross talk. There is no reason for them to work for nothing. You have to spend money to listen to music. Do you understand the morals of the world?" Immediately afterwards, he took out the reward money, which allowed Ren Wu Ren Liu to earn a lot of extra money. But Chu Qionghua never tipped them, he never laughed, no matter how happy the cross talk was, he couldn't make him happy.
This day, Ren Wu Ren Liu did some work again, Shang Xirui crossed his legs, held the teapot in one hand, listened intently, while the others only stared at his face. When he burst out laughing, everyone's faces loosened in unison, showing an air of as expected. Yuan Lan slapped Cheng Fengtai and laughed: "Second Master, look, what I said." Cheng Fengtai took a box of matches and threw it at Shang Xirui, gritted his teeth and said with a gritted smile: "A worthless thing!" Shang Xirui hurriedly I reached out and caught it. Nineteen and Dasheng had already bent over laughing there. It turns out that after listening to cross talk a lot, Yuan Lan noticed that their class leader would only laugh when listening to dirty jokes, and at other times they always looked dignified and wandered away. After everyone's collective verification this time, it was found that this is the case. Ren Liu led the burden to Xiasanlu, Shang Xirui smiled when he heard it, and said some serious jokes, but he didn't appreciate it.
Shang Xirui was inexplicably teased by everyone, no one had the guts to tell him the truth. Ren Liu didn't dare to join them in making fun of the class leader, and spoke for Shang Xirui: "However, any man would not like to hear this! To tell you the truth, in the past when we were on the street, eighty cents out of a dollar It's from the fishy work!" After he finished speaking, he didn't notice the look of contempt on the faces of several bosses. Although Ren Liu is also a member of the department, but because she said that she has been dropped in cross talk, she seems to have made a wrong step, and a woman who has taken a dirty path is not considered a serious family anyway. Sensing everyone's attitude, Ren Wu felt very sorry for his younger brother, and silently found a small table to spread out the books and started working. On the third day of his arrival, he started to learn how to do accounts. Cheng Fengtai is willing to let go of these trivial matters, but Ren Wu is in urgent need of a position to gain a firm foothold in Shuiyun Building, and it is not an easy task to learn how to do accounts from scratch, but Cheng Fengtai is very patient with him.
Ren Wuren and Liu felt that although the people in Shuiyun Tower were not all kind, they had the usual habit of being mean and snobbish in this industry.
Yuan Lan and the others who were fond of talking and laughing went on stage to perform The Story of the West Chamber, leaving the men quietly in the background. Cheng Fengtai was there instructing Ren Wu to make the accounts, and the two whispered in whispers, as if they were afraid that the small amount of deposit in Shuiyunlou would be overheard. Shang Xirui was so bored that he was reading a manual, clapped his hands on his knees to beat the time, suddenly listened, and shouted: "Stop talking!" Really startled everyone!
It turned out that the iron-headed general ran out again. This cricket made a home in the background, and hid in the corner every day in midsummer and sang twice. Shang Xirui put down the book and followed the sound, and found the General on one of Yuan Lan's high heels. Ren Liu looked over and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a cricket! Hey! The class leader loves this one. Take a walk in Beihai Park. How much can you catch? Leave it to me!" Dasheng said: "This is not a cricket! Also, this is only a matter of ability, I have never lost before, and I can win five yuan in a fight!" Ren Liu smacked his tongue and became greedy for money, joined hands to fight crickets, but Shang Xirui was right at this time He became interested in those big red high-heeled shoes. In fact, when he saw his senior sister walking like flying in high-heeled shoes, his curiosity stopped for a day or two! It happened to be in his eyes today, he quickly walked over to pick up the leather shoes, startled the general and jumped into the crack of the cabinet again, it was hard to find.
Shang Xirui fiddled with the leather shoes for a while, and said to himself: "How can there be such a high sole." This pair of shoes, the heel can be three inches long, are very fashionable American products, the same style as Hollywood stars. Shang Xirui seemed to want to try it out, but because of face, it's not good for the public to wear what women took off, looked around, and grabbed Yang Baoli: "Little Lizi, come and put it on and take a few steps!"
Yang Baoli pointed at the tip of his nose: "Me?"
Shang Xirui pointed hard at the leather shoes. Yang Baoli had no choice but to come forward, took off his shoes and socks and took two steps. He staggered around, twisted his waist and hips, which was extremely funny, and finally supported the back of the chair and shouted: "Leader! This can't be done, this one! Go straight forward! "
Shang Xirui clasped his hands and said: "Trash!"
Unconvinced, Yang Baoli took off his high heels and pointed at Zhou Xiangyun: "The real class leader! If you don't believe me, let Xiao Zhou try!"
Zhou Xiangyun was also unlucky, she was forced to put on high heels, and after taking two steps, she couldn't stand still, and stood there pitifully and blushing. Afterwards, I tried on three or four actors in a row, and they all said that the shoes were difficult to walk on. Shang Xirui looked at it and shook his head again and again: "I gave back all the work of stepping on the stilts to the patriarch, the lower plates are all empty! Watch me turn around and pick your skin off!"
Yang Baoli was very aggrieved when he heard that the skin was going to be peeled off, and retorted in a low voice: "The shoes and the stilts are not in the same place, you can try it yourself and you will know!" Shang Xirui was waiting for this sentence, and waved his hand "I don't believe it yet! Let me try it!" Yang Baoli quickly squatted on the ground with a smile and took off Shang Xirui's shoes and socks. The shape and color of this pair of shoes are very beautiful, like a small red awning boat. Standing up and walking, he can run and jump like walking on flat ground, which makes him stand tall and tall, with a slender figure. He walked gracefully in front of Cheng Fengtai, stomped his foot on Cheng Fengtai's knee, Cheng Fengtai held his ankle to appreciate it, the shoe was a good shoe, but the foot was not a good one, Shang Xirui had practiced too much, and the veins on the back of his foot were bruised Lifting up, the joints are clanging, it is a pair of iron hooves of a warrior.
Cheng Fengtai nodded and praised: "Looks good, Boss Shang walks like Ingrid Bergman, she can sing on Broadway in the future."
Shang Xirui snorted twice proudly, put his feet down, turned around and said to the children: "Open your eyes and see! Am I walking steadily? As long as you work hard, any kind of shoes will be the same! You haven't worn ceramics yet. The shoes are heavy and slippery, and they don’t follow your feet. So what, the master, I can still jump up and down when I put them on, this is called kung fu! Let’s practice!"
The children all nodded in agreement.
Shang Xirui went to the full-length mirror, turned sideways to take a picture, he also felt that his waist was straight and he was facing the wind. While intoxicated, a visitor came at the door. It was the secretary of the cigarette factory who came to deliver a box of samples and a check to Shang Xirui a while ago, Shang Xirui was confused, so he just walked over to greet the guests in high heels. Mr. Secretary heard the sound of high heels hitting the floor as Shang Xirui walked closer and closer, looked down, smiled in his heart, opened the box calmly, and saw that each pack of cigarettes had a brand name printed on it. Xirui's jade photos are neatly stacked, it's really gratifying. Shang Xirui smiled and said: "That's a lot! I don't smoke!" The secretary said: "Boss Shang can keep it as a gift, how interesting it is!" Saying this, he opened a pack of cigarettes and showed it to Shang Xirui. It turns out that there was a random colored cigarette card included in the cigarette box, which was played by Shang Xirui in Jinling Twelve Beauties, Four Beauties, Qinhuai Eight Beauties, etc. There are also new dramas such as Lianxiang Companion and Zhao Feiyan. To avoid receiving duplicates, the only way to collect all these costumes is to buy more. The narrow ones are Wang Xifeng, Li Xiangjun, etc., there is only one of them in three or five hundred boxes, and Shang Xirui was even surprised: "I haven't taken pictures of Shi Xiangyun, Qin Keqing, Kou Baimen! I haven't sung them either!" Yes!" Mr. Secretary replied with a sly smile on his face: "We have never promised anyone that the twelve beauties, four beauties, and eight beauties are all complete! Right? It all depends on what they think! "Cheng Fengtai came over and took the cigarette in his hand, looked left and right, shook his head and said with a smile: "When the customer buys Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, he naturally looks forward to Shi Xiangyun. Your boss is really good at business!" The backstage actors also sighed again and again, saying that what they bought was not what they sold. Mr. Secretary didn't even dare to say that, but also said that the cigarettes were selling well, and the boss wanted to treat guests to dinner, so he invited Mr. Cheng, the boss of the business, to show him off. Shang Xirui took a quick look at the check, it was a lot of money, he thought that last time the cigarette boss invited him to dinner, but the table called a note, the atmosphere was very bad, which made the second master very unhappy, this time he can't do it again You've been fooled, don't provoke the second master to eat vinegar again, the house will be restless, endless. Then he said: "This time I will be the host, and I will send the invitation tomorrow."
At this time, another voice came from the door: "Okay, it's a coincidence, I invite you today, and you invite someone tomorrow!" Du Qi walked in wearing a straw hat, white shirt and suspenders, looking very suitable. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Shang Xirui's masterpiece, picked up a pack of cigarettes, raised his eyebrows, "Yo! Shanglang brand! I have to try it!" He opened it and lit one, and pulled out the cigarette card inside, it was Wang Xifeng, People repeatedly praised Seventh Young Master for his luck. Du Qi smiled, flicked the cigarette on the table, stuffed the cigarette card into the pocket of his trousers, and said to Mr. Secretary: "The smell of cigarettes is very ordinary, and it smells like uric acid! It's a good idea, thanks to the hue of our boss, Look, save a cigarette factory!" Mr. Secretary knew this cultural celebrity, although his words were not pleasant, he didn't dare to retaliate, admitted that the taste was really mediocre, and then he left embarrassingly. Du Qi giggled and hooked Shang Xirui's neck: "Go out to dinner with me! There is an old friend's treat!" He looked Shang Xirui's clothes up and down, frowned and said: "You don't need to change your clothes... Take off your high heels! What a shame! "
Shang Xirui looked at Cheng Fengtai while changing his shoes, the two of them always go in and out together, not far from each other, but Cheng Fengtai and Du Qi haven't seen each other for a long time, they won't sit together, Cheng Fengtai said : "I'm teaching the fifth accountant here, Boss Shang eats by himself." Shang Xirui didn't force him.
Du Qi took Shang Xirui to a Japanese restaurant, and Shang Xirui's heart sank when he saw the signboard in Japanese characters. People like them go out to eat mainly to talk about things and make friends, only Shang Xirui, he really eats to eat.
Shang Xirui murmured disappointed: "Japanese food! I don't like sashimi, cold rice balls."
Du Qi ignored him. It was a day when a Japanese society was entertaining guests in the restaurant, and the outer hall was bustling with people, and there were also Chinese people wearing long gowns drinking and speaking Japanese during the banquet. Entering the tatami private room, the bamboo door is pulled, but it is quiet amidst the hustle and bustle, and it is extraordinarily clean. Three reeds were inserted into the white stone bonsai on the small table, Shang Xirui and Du Qi could not sit on their knees, they crossed their legs like an old monk meditating. The serving maid bent down and knelt down next to Du Qi's ear and whispered a few words, Du Qi smiled and said, "Not ready yet? Then let's eat first and let him do it slowly." The sashimi and cold rice balls were served quickly. Coming up, because there was no one else around, Shang Xirui acted casually, picked up the bowl and drank the soup with his head up, tossed and turned in the dish with chopsticks, removed the vegetable cores from the sushi and ate them, went to pick up the egg rolls in Du Qi's bowl . Du Qi tapped the back of his hand with a chopstick: "It's better to live in poverty than to look poor. Is it on stage?" Shang Xirui touched the back of his hand: "Who are we waiting for?" A mysterious look appeared on Du Qi's mouth Smile: "You will know after a while!"
After waiting for a meal, Shang Xirui had almost eaten, and chattered to Du Qi: "You think it's strange, I ate rice in Shanghai, and the same kind of rice was kneaded into balls, and I could eat three meals a meal. One. Why put sushi, didn't eat much, so full?"
Two maids came in from the door, Du Qi patted his thigh and said, "Don't talk, it's time to start."
Shang Xirui said: "Maybe it's because Japanese rice is different from ours, it makes my stomach bloated."
Du Qi patted Shang Xirui hard: "Stop talking!" The maid sat on both sides, opened the sliding door of the inner room, and a woman in a gorgeous kimono came out, her face was covered by a paper fan, and her small steps made it hard to walk They all floated up, much like the soul steps in Peking Opera. The woman put down the paper fan, a face covered with thick snow-white putty, with a bit of blood red lips dug out, and two black holes in the eyes, without moving, Shang Xirui was stunned first, a grain caught on the chopsticks The soybeans fell into the crotch, and I didn't know it. After the woman appeared, she danced with the sanxianzi. Du Qi was well-informed and didn't make a fuss, after drinking a cup of tea, he turned to see Shang Xirui's reaction. Shang Xirui stared intently, and said: "This is kabuki, right? I've seen pictorials, and it's the first time I've seen a real person, a Japanese Gandan." Du Qi asked him: "Do you understand?" Shang Xirui looked Without moving away from the woman, he replied: "I understand a little bit, she is probably a kiln sister, seducing men." Du Qi laughed loudly, nodded and said: "Yes, I really understand a little bit! This character is called Yun Zhongjujian Ji." So he told him the story of the fairy seducing the eminent monk. After Shang Xirui heard it, he was indifferent to the plot and the workmanship. Du Qi then asked again: "How's the play?" Shang Xirui raised his eyebrows high and made a very surprised expression: "Can this be called a play?" Du Qi laughed even harder, fingers Pointing at Shang Xirui: "You can be proud!" Shang Xirui also giggled and said: "Isn't that right? Thanks to the delicate frame of the Dongyang boss, he can act like a woman. But his skills are too weak. The force is too strong, and it’s like Wen Zhengming pretending to be a girl, trying to seduce Wang Huhu, it’s not like a fairy." Du Qi was convinced by his comparison, and looked at the actor, and it really happened: "So what do you think? Boss Shang?" Shang Xirui replied without hesitation: "What kind of a fairy is it? Come on, she's delicate but not demonic, if she wears a lighter color, she's pretty much inseparable; you can't act like a spider spirit, the heavenly fairy and the spider spirit are separated by a whole world, it's too different." Du Qi said to No comment here, just a laugh.
Although these two looked down on the Japanese Gandan, the Japanese expatriates in the outer lobby had an unpleasant accent, and took advantage of the opportunity of serving food to block half of the sliding door, secretly peeked in, and took pictures of the actors. Sixian stopped, the play was over. Ji Yunzhong said to Shang Xirui: "Boss Shang! We meet again!"
No matter how bad Shang Xirui's memory is, he only met a few months ago, so he won't forget about him right away, he got up and shook hands with Xue Zhicheng. Du Qi said with a smile: "Yue Zhicheng has to torture me, and I want to give you a surprise. Boss Shang, Xue Zhicheng is not simple, he is the apprentice of a famous Japanese teacher!" For the sake of you, you are not allowed to dismantle the stage in person. But Yukinogi wanted to follow up and ask: "Boss Shang, what do you think of Japanese Kabuki?" Shang Xirui said inwardly, I don't think so much, what the hell! But seeing Du Qi's threatening eyes, he had no choice but to say insincerely: "I think it's not bad." Xue Zhicheng turned his head slightly, stared at Shang Xirui with a white face and black eyes, making his heart shudder. Putting aside the kung fu in the play, this makeup is really unbearable, it's just a grimace!
Xue Zhicheng shook his head and said discouragedly: "Boss Shang, you are lying, I went to the theater with you. When you see a good show, your expression is not like this." Xue Zhicheng was a stupefied person, and Shang Xirui and Du Seven are embarrassed. Du Qi poured a glass of sake, coughed and drank it on his own, not intending to say anything to save the situation. Shang Xirui had no choice but to comfort and said: "Southerners eat rice, northerners eat noodles, tastes and hobbies are different in each place, let alone two countries! You can watch it yourself, love to watch it, and that's it. "Yue Zhicheng shook his head again: "I know in my heart that Japanese operas are far inferior to Chinese operas." Shang Xirui and Du Qi's faces were relaxed, and they said that you know it yourself!
Yukinojo took off his heavy makeup and sat down, the three of them ate and chatted, and Master Sanxian led the team to play Japanese music on the spot. Shang Xirui was full of rice balls, and drank with kelp shredded crab roe, gradually he drank too much, his cheeks turned red from the heat. The chat between the three of them revolved around opera, and Shang Xirui spoke out when he was drunk, and said: "You Japanese women are too stupid, it's hard to be an artist, you can't act well even if you work hard, you're not good at acting With a pick of his chopsticks, he picked out a piece of seaweed: "It's like this piece of seaweed, dry, square and tasteless."
Du Qi squinted at him: "How many Japanese women have you seen before? Talk nonsense."
Shang Xirui counted them seriously, including the two maids just now, he has seen fifteen in total. Du Qi pushed him, "Get out!" Then he smiled and said, "According to what you said, if you were reborn in Japan and became a Japanese actor, you wouldn't be able to become an actor because of the bad mold around you?"
Shang Xirui waved his hand and hiccupped: "I'm different. I'm Boss Shang."
Du Qi was also drunk, and deliberately provoked him: "Boss Shang, do you have horns on your head, or a tail on your butt?"
Shang Xirui suddenly stood up: "If you don't believe me! We might as well try it now!"
When Xue Zhicheng heard this sentence, he felt happy, and crawled over with hands and feet together and asked, "Does Boss Shang want to sing?"
Du Qi smiled and said: "I'm too drunk, it's appropriate to sing Yang Guifei!"
Shang Xirui said: "If you don't sing Concubine Yang, I will sing Concubine Yang, it's a bully."
Du Qi said angrily to Xue Zhicheng: "If I were you, I would beat him up now and make him crazy!" here? sing what?"
Shang Xirui thought for a while: "What was your name just now? Chicken in the cloud?"
Yukinojo bit his big tongue: "Peerless Princess in the Cloud."
Shang Xirui raised his chin: "Just her!"
Shang Xirui went to the back to put on makeup, but in fact he only went to change clothes, wearing the women's kimono that Yukinojo just wore. Because I thought the Japanese "thread tail" was ugly, I didn't want to wear it, and I didn't want a Japanese master to help me make up. I took lead powder rouge and wiped my clear face slightly, closed my eyes and calmed down, and it came out soon. As soon as the door opened, Shang Xirui stood still on the spot, put down the fan, Xue Zhicheng and Du Qi only saw a short-haired Japanese beauty, the beauty danced to the music, her eyes rolled, every bone in her body was alive and rippling With a spring of joy. This performance is not quite the same as Yukinojo's. He remembers as much as Yukinojo's movements, and the rest is improvisation. He borrows a little form from Zhao Sekong, and borrows a little soul from Du Liniang, kneading a Chinese version of Yunzhong Juejian Ji, lithe and delicate, really has a special taste.
Du Qi held the glass of wine to his lips, forgot to drink it for a long time, his fingers gradually froze, and a few drops of wine came out, awakening Du Qi. Du Qi turned his head to see that Xue Zhicheng was propping his hands on the ground, watching the play with his head up, and he was also mad. Once again, the Japanese outside came together to have fun, muttering, "Geisha? With such short hair, are you a man?" Some Chinese recognized him as a business owner from Beiping City, and proudly told his Japanese friends, This made the Japanese friends praise in unison, the camera couldn't take pictures, and when Shang Xirui finished, they clapped their hands in unison. This is not a formal stage after all, Shang Xirui felt shy when he was surrounded by the crowd suddenly, after nodding his head as a signal, he turned around and closed the two doors of the inner room with a bang.
Du Qi patted Yukinoko on the back, and said with a smile: "You see, this is called a play!"
Yukinojo is a hundred sincerely convinced.