A young man like Shang Xirui sometimes holds grudges very much, he will keep silent in his heart for several years if he treats him coldly. Sometimes forgetfulness is particularly great. For example, yesterday I was still sulking about Cheng Fengtai's visit to a brothel two years ago, after a full sleep, I forgot everything the next day. In the morning, he practiced all morning, and he ate eight-treasure porridge for lunch, and because he couldn't wait for Cheng Fengtai to come to pay his respects when the time came, he said unhappily to Xiao: "Second Master lied again, and agreed to come to pay his respects at noon every day. I won’t come again today! This is the eighth time this year!” Xiaolai added a spoonful of white sugar to his porridge bowl, and said with a sneer, “You can believe what he says! Just trust him! Didn’t he say that there will be no time again? Just slap him? This person..." Shang Xirui's own complaints about Cheng Fengtai seemed to be taken for granted, but when others criticized Cheng Fengtai, even if that person was Xiao Lai, he didn't listen to it. Silently, Huluhulu drank porridge, ran back to the house to get dressed, and then went to Liyuan Guild Hall to talk to Yu Qingduqi and the others about a new play.
Cheng Fengtai slept in the quilt of the dancer girl for an hour, rushed to the commercial house and sat with Xiao Lai speechlessly. Xiao Lai sewed and mended, and ignored Cheng Fengtai at all. Cheng Fengtai asked Xiao Lai tenderly with half-drowned eyelids in a lingering tiredness: "Girl, Boss Shang isn't here? Where did you go? Why didn't you follow?"
Xiao Lai secretly glanced at him angrily, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time before saying, "I don't know where he went, and he didn't ask me to follow."
Cheng Fengtai knew that Shang Xirui would definitely say hello to Xiao Lai when he went out, and if he didn't say hello, Xiao Lai would follow up and ask - she refused to tell him on purpose! Don't tell if you don't tell, Shang Xirui's whereabouts are actually easy to guess, if you go to Shuiyun Tower, Xiao Lai will definitely accompany you. Then 80% went to Liyuan Guild Hall. A troupe of actors in the Liyuan Guild Hall sang and made noise, and they might have to drink, and they would not be on time when they came back. Cheng Fengtai and Xiao Lai sat stiffly for a while, yawning one after another, and finally couldn't help laughing and said: "Miss Xiao Lai, I'll borrow the owner's bed to take a nap!" The bedroom is gone. Xiao Lai glared at him, angrily threw the sewing scissors into the basket and took them away, why did she bother him so much.
Cheng Fengtai sat on Shang Xirui's bed, kicked off his leather shoes, took off his coat and fell on his back, seeing two big painted masks hanging on the bed curtain. Cheng Fengtai casually took one off and covered his face, and rested his hand behind his head. The quilt has the scent of lead powder used by actors to put on makeup, and also has a sweet smell like pastries, as if a child has hidden candy under the pillow. This is very similar to what Shang Xirui did. Cheng Fengtai reached out his hand to fish under the pillow, but there was nothing there, he smiled, and soon fell asleep.
This one dozed off until sunset. In the evening, when the actors were at their most active, the bustle of the Liyuan Guild Hall also dissipated, so that each of them could be busy with their own plays. Shang Xirui came home with heavy steps, the room was half dark, he sat on Cheng Fengtai's arm. Cheng Fengtai screamed in pain and sat up. Shang Xirui turned his head secretly, also yelled in fright: "Cheng Pu?!"
Cheng Fengtai took off his mask: "Cheng what? Me!"
Shang Xirui said with a smile: "You got it right! This is the hero of your old Cheng family! Maybe it's your fellow!" It turned out that the painted face mask was painted on the Three Kingdoms era general Cheng Pu, the Eastern Wu camp of.
Cheng Fengtai wrapped his arms around Shang Xirui's waist, pillowed it on his lap, and asked sleepily: "How did you have a good day today? Did you play with Xiao Yudian?"
At the mention of light rain, Shang Xirui let out a series of deafening wails. Xiao Lai heard it through two walls, thought Cheng Fengtai was bullying his business owner, ran in without thinking and turned on the light, saw Shang Xirui's nose was slightly red, looking like he had nowhere to complain, so he became vicious Turning to stare at Cheng Fengtai. Cheng Fengtai spread his hands and made a helpless expression, then hugged Shang Xirui's slender waist: "Boss Shang, what's wrong? Who bullied you?"
Shang Xirui punched him in the chest: "It's not all about you!" Cheng Fengtai was a little hurt from his beating, he grinned and rubbed his lips. Xiao Lai saw that her boss Shang was still able to beat people, and he beat people like this, so she retreated with peace of mind. Xiao Lai left, Shang Xirui gritted his teeth and said: "It's all because of you! Yu Qing was given the nickname Xiao Yu Dian Er!"
Cheng Fengtai didn't understand: "What's wrong with the nickname Xiaoyudianer? How playful!"
Shang Xirui howled again, and said: "I... I drank two extra glasses of wine, so I called her that! In front of so many people, I called her Xiaoyu! Now everyone You know I'm calling people nicknames!"
Cheng Fengtai was stunned for two seconds, threw Shang Xirui onto the bed and laughed. Thinking of what happened in the afternoon, Shang Xirui blushed with shame, and punched Cheng Fengtai twice: "It's all your fault!" Cheng Fengtai said with a smile: "Hey! Boss Shang, you are not wronged. I will take mine. Nickname, what do you call it? Besides, you are very good at giving people nicknames. How did you call him Mr. Chang?"
Mentioning Chang Zhixin, Shang Xirui lost face: "It's not my fault, it's his father who didn't give him a good name. His intestines are fishy..."
Cheng Fengtai patted him on the back twice as if scolding a child: "Okay, okay, stop talking, Second Master doesn't like to hear this. You gave Yu Qing a nickname, is Yu Qing angry with you?"
Shang Xirui thought for a while: "She's not a narrow-minded person - she smiles more than anyone else! She also said that the name Xiao Yu Dian'er sounds nice." Yu Qing started talking about them since Xiao Yu Dian'er Several talented actors were discussing about rehearsing a new play. The playbook is quite mature, the accent is settled, and the role assignment is in place, it is already at the point where it has to be released.
Shang Xirui wants to rehearse a new play, it's no different from looking for trouble. Those who splashed boiling water on stage, those who wrote newspapers to ridicule and abuse, and those who secretly isolated them, these were all sufferings that had already been suffered, but they failed to scare him away. Shang Xirui's enthusiasm for making new plays is in the nature of young people, not a little threat can stop it.
Cheng Fengtai knew very well that those who sang operas were lunatics, and those who listened to operas were idiots. Nowadays, if a new play is launched with such a large amount of money and grandly, if the production is not satisfactory, it is a trivial matter to be criticized by the public and lose face, and it will make fans go crazy and do some stupid things that kill people, that would be too much. Not worth it. He is an outsider who doesn't know the inside story. In fact, fanciers are only crazy about old drama scripts that have been falsified arbitrarily, but they have limited experience in the success or failure of new dramas.
Cheng Fengtai patted Shang Xirui's ass, after thinking about it, he said slowly: "On the day you sing a new play, I'll ask my brother-in-law to borrow some soldiers to guard the theater garden as your guards. Anyone who dares to move, A beating on the spot will send you to the police. There are two times, and you are honest."
Shang Xirui looked up at him, as if a little surprised: "How did this happen! Singing with soldiers! There's never been such a rule!"
"Then there is a rule of pouring boiling water? They just yell and scold, I really don't bother to meddle in the affairs of your actors. If something happens later, I will die. I won't pour boiling water. I will get you a bottle of nitrate." Water splashed over." Cheng Fengtai pinched Shang Xirui's cheek: "I can't bear to part with such a pretty little face."
Shang Xirui also went with him.
In the following days, Shang Xirui was not only busy rehearsing new plays, but also taught Xiao Zhouzi to sing "Zhaojun's Out of the Fortress" part-time for the performance of Shuiyun Tower. He was going to make Xiao Zhouzi's official debut on the backstage of his new play, and he had to be well prepared to be a hit. Shang Xirui never believed in the truth of slowly becoming famous, he thought it was all due to friendship. If you are really capable, you should be fascinated as soon as you take the stage.
Because the performance of the new play is getting closer, Shang Xirui walks around lazily, the courtyard door is often opened at home, attracting colleagues to sing, chant and sit down. In the courtyard of the commercial house, there are no miscellaneous objects such as ceiling fish tanks from other people's houses. There is only one plum tree, and the space is reserved for practicing exercises. And there is no concern from the family members, a young girl is the best at serving opera singers, making tea with mangosteen and fat sea for the guests, knowing to put less salt in cooking, and not serving cold food, lest it hurt her throat. There is no more suitable gathering place than commercial houses. Jiao'er was practicing here, and the children around him climbed up on the wall to peek, and when they saw the beauty, they forgot that they were peeking, and applauded by pulling their necks.
With the help of Yuan Lan and the others, Xiao Zhouzi resigned from Si Xi'er and temporarily lived at Shang Xirui's house to study opera. Shang Xirui was busy with too many things, he rarely had time to take care of Xiao Zhouzi, so Xiao Zhouzi could only ask him for advice. But Shang Xirui is obviously impatient, sometimes he is irritable when asked, his tone will be very bad, or he will throw it in a concise sentence, or let him wait by the side until he finishes packing the things at hand. Teach him, this wait is a long time. Shang Xirui is too busy. The biggest thing he did for Xiao Zhouzi was to push open the door of Xiao Zhouzi's room at four o'clock every morning, leaning on the door panel with sleepy eyes half drooped, staring at Xiao Zhouzi, as if a bird appeared in the early morning and was about to lose its soul of wronged spirits. Until he woke up alive and went to the Temple of Heaven to shout his voice, he fell asleep again by himself. In addition, he helped Xiao Zhouzi build a special bed. This bed only had two wooden boards at the head and feet supported on two square stools, and the middle was suspended in the air. According to Shang Xirui, this is a good way to exercise the waist. But he is also an actor, but his bed is covered with two thick mattresses. Cheng Fengtai saw it by chance, and said with a smile that he was bullying a child. Shang Xirui snorted: "What do you know! My waist has been trained, he is still young and his waist is not strong!"
Hearing this, Cheng Fengtai pinched Shang Xirui's waist with one hand, and wanted to strip him naked and try the strength of the little actor's waist. But there is definitely no chance recently. He is so busy that no one can do without him, and he has not been able to give birth to other men and women's leisurely mind recently. Cheng Fengtai hoped that they would hurry up and finish singing the show, and stop occupying Shang Xirui all day long and messing with them. Of course Cheng Fengtai will not avoid seeing Shang Xirui in order to avoid suspicion, he still runs to the business house every day. The actors had long heard that Second Master Cheng had a close friendship with Boss Shang, and this was commonplace, so it was natural to be polite to Cheng Fengtai, and there was nothing unusual about it. Yu Qing herself is troubled by love, so she is more sensitive to this relationship. Although there was nothing special about it, in every word and smile, Cheng Fengtai always felt that she knew them very clearly, even their own ignorant thoughts, she had already understood. Du Qi saw that Cheng Fengtai was still extremely displeasing to the eye, not fighting or swearing was considered a way of saving face, and he asked Xiao Lai behind his back: "Brother Rui, why is he with this kind of person, I think this person is a rich gangster, A cunning person is not a good person." Xiao Lai deeply agreed.
The day is getting closer and closer to the day when the new play will be staged. A group of actors turned their backs on their backs, and the sky was dark. Although Shang Xirui is a rare soldier, not a general. Give him a role, and he can play to the point of penetrating the woods and reach the pinnacle. But if you teach him to plan a situation as a whole, he must be confused, just look at the state of Shuiyun Building. If it weren't for Yu Qing and Du Qi, I wouldn't know how to line up this play, Shang Xirui would stand there pointing fingers and criticizing, just talking about idealized standards that ordinary people can't meet, if you don't follow him, it won't work, saying : "You don't take me seriously at all! You want to ask my opinion again, but you don't listen to me. Everything I say is right..." Yu Qing couldn't laugh or cry, she almost wanted to call his ancestor, and cast a pitiful look at Cheng Fengtai wind. Cheng Fengtai smiled and put Shang Xirui's shoulders on his shoulders: "Boss Shang, you have such a temper! I know you are hungry. Let's go to have supper right now. Eat the almond tofu made by foreigners in Liuguo Hotel!" while hugging Bringing hugs, at least to put Shang Xirui away, so that the rehearsal of the play can continue in a normal order. Later, they reached an agreement in secret, Yu Qing and Du Qi were in charge of settling the play, Cheng Fengtai was in charge of settling Shang Xirui, Shang Xirui's chaos alone could almost take care of the trouble of a play, worthy of it He is the head of Shuiyun Tower.
Until three days before the official performance, Cheng Fengtai really went to Commander Cao to borrow soldiers. He usually uses Commander Cao's elite soldiers for his goods, which is equivalent to hiring an escort agency, and the firearms are more sophisticated than the escort divisions, and they have more actual combat experience. It's cheap and safe to go back with the goods and then share the bill with Commander Cao. But this time he borrowed troops but didn't use them for serious purposes, and it was really hard to tell in front of his sister Cheng Meixin. After having a meal with Cao's mansion, they talked nonsense, and only said that they had business to discuss with their brother-in-law, so Cheng Meixin listened quite easily.
Uncle Lang and his uncle entered the study room. Commander Cao looked at him with a toothpick, took out a cigar in a silver-plated box from the drawer with a smile on his face, and threw it in front of him with disdain: "Take it! British products! I can't get used to smoking!"
Cheng Fengtai didn't thank you either, he pulled out a stick from the box on the spot and took two deep breaths, raised his eyebrows intoxicated: "It's really good, authentic. Hey, my brother-in-law loves a foreign product!" On the tea table was a plate of diced fruit, Cheng Fengtai Take a toothpick and eat it with a cigar.
Commander Cao picked his teeth and clicked his tongue: "I don't like foreign goods! Foreigners' things, except for guns and women, I am not used to!" Cheng Fengtai smiled obscenely when he heard this. Commander Cao understood and smiled back at him. So the two lustful hungry ghosts had a superficial but heated discussion about foreign women, and when the atmosphere was almost over, Cheng Fengtai said suddenly: "Brother-in-law, I asked you to borrow a group of soldiers."
Commander Cao raised his chin: "Where are we going this time?"
Cheng Fengtai waved his hand holding the cigar: "I won't leave the goods. I won't leave Beiping City. Don't ask too many questions. Do you want to borrow it?"
Commander Cao half-closed his eyes, looking at this handsome young man. He just ate his sumptuous lunch, drank his treasured white wine, and now he is smoking his imported cigarettes, eating his fruit, borrowing soldiers from him, and still not allowing him to intervene—this bastard is almost spoiled Become a son! He has never spoiled his son so much!
Commander Cao let out a mouthful of spitting air: "You motherfucker! You use my soldiers to kill people and set fire to them, and you still won't let me ask you!"
Cheng Fengtai laughed quickly and said: "Murder and set fire anywhere! Can I do it? If I don't cause trouble for you, I'll use it as a show." He brought the plate of fruit in front of Commander Cao and borrowed flowers to offer Buddha: "Brother-in-law, it's quite sweet."
Commander Cao waved him away again and again: "Go, go! Get out and eat!" Cheng Fengtai took the fruit plate away and enjoyed it for himself.
For a dude of Cheng Fengtai's age, Commander Cao knows it well after seeing him a lot. I think it's probably because of a fight with some Xiaokai or a master, or jealousy over a dancing girl. Cheng Fengtai is a well-measured person through the world, so he won't do evil, which is quite trustworthy. Look at him sitting there smoking two cigarettes and eating two mouthfuls of fruit, with his tie loosened and his sleeve buttons unbuttoned, leisurely and self-satisfied. Commander Cao really felt that this was his son, and seeing it made people feel both hateful and happy, so he wanted to curse at him, and at the same time pampered him with whatever he asked for—the two of them were only ten years apart.
"Twenty people for you! If I get into trouble later, I will kill you with one shot!"