The two of them slept until noon as usual, and Shang Xirui couldn't stay idle when he woke up, where the carp beat up and was turned into a red wave, until Cheng Fengtai was woken up, and he was shouting: "Second Master! Second Master, get up Play with me! Let's gossip!"
Cheng Fengtai closed his eyes and murmured: "I can't get up, I have to lie down for a while, tell me."
Shang Xirui knew that Cheng Fengtai would stay in bed for a long time, but he couldn't stand hunger, so he took out chocolate-flavored cookies from the bedside and ate them, until the bed was covered in crumbs, then took the sleeve of his pajamas Wiping his mouth, the icing sugar splashed down, and Cheng Fengtai deserved it, took the jar and forcefully opened his eyes to check.
"Boss Shang, what brand of biscuit is this? Did I buy it for you last time? Why are there so many scum?" Shang Xirui was about to speak, but Cheng Fengtai stopped him: "Okay, just swallow it. Spray me in the face…”
Shang Xirui swallowed: "You bought it. Because it wasn't sweet enough, I asked Xiao Lai to pour half a jar of soft white sugar into it, and it really tasted much better."
Cheng Fengtai didn't say anything, he pinched his chin: "Boss Shang, open your mouth and let me see your teeth."
Shang Xirui swallowed the biscuits in his mouth, like a big yawning cat, he opened his mouth wide "ah", and asked Cheng Fengtai to rub his face to check his teeth. His whole body is a work of art carefully carved by the heavens, and this flesh and blood can be included in art textbooks. He is not such a good-looking person, nor can he make such a pleasant voice. Only the upper and lower rows of teeth are small and exquisite, and the quality is like ice jade, which corresponds to the four characters "teeth are like braided shells", without any blemishes or stains.
Cheng Fengtai nodded: "Okay, you... go ahead and eat." I really don't understand that the person who never eats sweets has several molars decayed. Shang Xirui soaked in the sugar bowl all day, his teeth can still be so beautiful. There really is such a blessed person who takes advantage of all the good things.
Shang Xirui groaned and ate the biscuits, gossiping, telling Cheng Fengtai the story about Yu Qing. If he knows something, Cheng Fengtai will definitely know it within a few days, because Cheng Fengtai is "his person" and there is no such thing as keeping it secret. But if others knew that he was like this, they would probably never tell him the secret again.
Cheng Fengtai listened to this and Nala left, and praised: "Yu Qing is really hot."
Shang Xirui nodded: "I like her temper! She is a thoughtful person!"
Cheng Fengtai saw the right moment, wrapped his arms around his waist, and said persuasively: "As you can see, a woman like Yu Qing, who is educated and insightful, meets a man she likes, and she abandons her father and mother, and her six relatives don't recognize her."
Shang Xirui chewed the biscuit and sprayed scum: "Yes! What a joy!"
Cheng Fengtai wanted to smoke a cigarette, but the cigarette fell far away in his coat pocket, so he took a biscuit from Shang Xirui's biscuit jar, shook off the icing sugar and ate it: "Boss Shang, from this example, we can see a What's the point?"
Shang Xirui tilted his head: "En?... What's the point? I don't know."
Cheng Fengtai didn't intend that he would know, so he said slowly to him: "Most women in this world live and die for love, and the most important ideal in this life is love. Everything else is false, fake, no matter how brilliant It can’t satisfy their hearts either. If they can have a husband who loves them, raise a child, and live an ordinary and loving life, there is nothing else they can ask for.”
Shang Xirui interjected: "That's right! That's why the female opera singers in Shuiyun Tower stopped singing when they got married, and they still hoped to get married every day! Could it be for the reason that they put so much effort into learning opera and suffered such a great crime?" To prepare for being a concubine?"
Cheng Fengtai smiled and said: "Isn't it? You've seen those who are running for love and don't want their parents. Other relatives and friends have a career in singing and acting. Compared with the lover who is the best, those are simply... Hey, there are two levels of relationship. There is no way to compare! Just like the junior brother, if you say that you are a child, you can be considered a child. Although there are not many bachelors who don’t want love for the child, I have seen a few. I don’t want love for the child Woman, I have met half of the people in China from south to north. Hey, I really haven’t! Love is a woman’s morality and a woman’s future! Do you understand? Look at Wang Baochuan, Du Liniang, and Huo Xiaoyu in your play , Li Xiangjun... huh? There are also many women who are praised by the ages, aren't they all? Why do you praise them when you are singing, and scold them when you meet yourself after the show?" Cheng Fengtai tightly wrapped his arms around his waist, Looking at him: "In and out of the play, putting aside what anyone would do, can it be called a wrong thing? We are reasonable people, we can't use a promise to kill the nature of a young girl, can we?"
At this point, Shang Xirui understood Cheng Fengtai's intentions. Shang Xirui felt that although these remarks were good, they were very annoying, and women's nature of love first and belonging to the family was even more annoying. He didn't know that in the eyes of women, he was so stupid that he devoted himself to running a low-level business and entertaining people, and didn't plan for his own future at all. What's more important than supporting the people who spend the rest of his life? Not only do the two parties have different ways and do not conspire with each other, they cannot even understand each other.
So even though Cheng Fengtai broke it apart and crushed it to make sense, Shang Xirui's first reaction was: "Of course they can live and die for love, they don't even have younger brothers!"
Cheng Fengtai was stunned for a moment, he had never seen such a slanted logic. Looking at his serious face, it doesn't look like he is playing a rascal with abusive words. Why is it so hard to communicate with him? It's really not a job that ordinary people can do: "Isn't this all said, parents who have been kind to nurturing can even give up, let alone brothers and sisters who are waiting for you?"
Shang Xirui opened his mouth and scolded: "You're the one waiting! You're the one waiting! She and I are bosom friends!" He swallowed a piece of biscuit and snorted coldly: "Love! Low level! Brothers and sisters said yes after changing their voices I'm in love, if the love is not successful, after a while, it will still be called love if you change someone! Love ass!"
Cheng Fengtai glanced at him sideways, and said: "Hey, don't say that. I don't know about others, but the love between your senior sister and Yu Qing must not be low-level. When they fall in love with a man, they must start from their confidant and soul. Besides, I think Looking at your senior sister and Chang Zhixin, they are better friends than you! Think back to yourself, your senior sister usually chatted with you besides coaxing you to play and talk about dramas? I can see that she and Chang Zhixin can The communication was very profound. Originally, one love is enough for you, but love plus a confidant, double bargaining chips, what do you have to keep your senior sister? If you want to keep her, isn’t it because you deliberately wronged her? Can you still treat her well?”
Shang Xirui snorted again, his face full of displeasure, yet irrefutable. Apparently Cheng Fengtai was the one who watched coldly, so he made sure of their past situation. Shang Xirui is such a weak little boy, Jiang Mengping is already a sentimental girl, she won't tell him what's on her mind, let alone "soul communication". Only Shang Xirui unilaterally believed that he was having "soul communication" with Jiang Mengping, and regarded Jiang Mengping as a bosom friend. This unrequited love has nothing to do with love.
Cheng Fengtai used them as an example: "Hey, let's talk about it closer. For example, you and I are getting along so well now, your senior sister quit, and you want us to separate, how about you?"
Shang Xirui looked at him in surprise, and said angrily: "Why didn't she do it! She ran away with her intestines! She still has the face to do it! I'll kill her!"
Cheng Fengtai hastily corrected: "Okay, okay, it's not about now, it's about back then, what if it was like this back then?"
Shang Xirui was even more surprised, he couldn't believe that Cheng Fengtai could ask such an obvious question: "At the beginning when Senior Sister asked us to break up, then I would definitely break up with you! No matter how much I like you, I will break up with you! Why? Maybe I made my sister sad because of a stinky hooligan!"
Cheng Fengtai was stunned when he heard his decisiveness.
Shang Xirui shook his head, refuting the previous argument: "...No, it should be said that when I had a senior sister, I didn't care about other people at all. You want to die or live for me, vomit blood and liver, death is nothing! I only play with my sister, I have no time to talk to you!"
Cheng Fengtai was really about to vomit blood and liver, he spread his arms and legs, turned his back to the sky and smiled wryly, then suddenly turned over, put his trousers on and bit Shang Xirui's descendant root. Shang Xirui cried out in pain, almost smashed Cheng Fengtai to death with a biscuit jar: "Why bite me!"
Cheng Fengtai buried his face in his stomach: "I'm jealous, my heart is sour, I'm going to die of sourness."
Shang Xirui looked at him while eating a biscuit: "Oh, what should I do then? I'm telling the truth."
It is the truth that is hateful. Cheng Fengtai hooked his neck and pulled it down: "Come on, give me a kiss with your candy-eating mouth, give me a sweet and it won't be sour."
Shang Xirui carelessly touched his lips and was about to run, but Cheng Fengtai pressed him on the bed and gnawed him. Sugar and chocolate, and the faint wheat flavor of the biscuit, Shang Xirui became a delicious snack that people couldn't put down. When the two were out of breath after kissing, Cheng Fengtai laughed, pinched Shang Xirui's chin, and looked at him deeply: "Boss Shang is right! A man will always meet a woman he likes, and a woman will always meet a woman." Find a man you like! Everyone will have it, it will happen sooner or later, it’s a fart! Boss Shang’s love is precious! If you don’t go through life and death in Boss Shang’s play, you don’t really understand Boss Shang’s. Hun'er, how can you talk to Boss Shang like that!"
Two like-minded people with distorted views hugged each other and laughed loudly for a while, feeling happy and full of pride. Shang Xirui leaned on Cheng Fengtai's body belly to belly: "You say you understand my soul, then you have to say one, two, three, four."
"Didn't I tell you before?"
"I've said it, and I'll say it again! Let you say it!"
This must have been said two years ago, Cheng Fengtai thought for a while, and said: "At first, I cared about you, but it was actually because of the trouble you made with your senior sister."
Shang Xirui nodded desperately there, except for those rascals in Shuiyunlou, no one had ever affirmed his past deeds, and Cheng Fengtai had always adopted a critical attitude. It was the first time he said that today, Shang Xirui twitched when he was proud, Cheng Fengtai patted his butt, and said: "Boys your age are all eating, drinking, and hanging around with big girls. You are the only one following Senior sister competes, and you don't want to marry her as a wife, I have never seen such a stupid person."
Shang Xirui was about to grit his teeth when he heard that, Cheng Fengtai hurriedly said: "Hey, okay. I've also seen too many people who fight to the death for fame and fortune, and I've never seen someone who puts so much effort into playing with Sister Ziyi .Love and fame are inferior to this love. This love is clean."
This is not bad. Shang Xirui nodded, laying on Cheng Fengtai's belly and playing with his fingers: "What happened next?"
"Later, after watching Boss Shang's "The Palace of Eternal Life", I couldn't help myself!"
Shang Xirui gnawed Cheng Fengtai's finger: "It's been a long time since you praised my play."
Cheng Fengtai let him gnaw on his finger, and it was hot and humid: "The drama of boasting the boss of the merchant is the same as the person who praises the boss of the merchant."
Shang Xirui raised his face: "Then you can boast."
Cheng Fengtai smiled, fell silent for a while, stared at the bed curtains from a distance, and said slowly: "Although Boss Shang hasn't studied much, I think Boss Shang's heart is more transparent than anyone else's. You have the root of wisdom. Look at those emperors, generals, ministers, talented scholars and beauties, the old man on the ferry, and the baby on the back of the green bull. Boss Shang played all of them. It seems that there are many souls living in his heart. Let me use your body as a yang, and sing about the various states of the previous life. After the show, their souls will be scattered, and their stories will still live on you... Boss Shang must be the clearest and lightest to pretend You have to be the deepest and most profound to understand these. I have seen too much beautiful flesh and blood, words and deeds cultivated with heart, talent, and temperament. They are delicate and elegant, advance and retreat properly, be knowledgeable and charming. Just In order to eat well in the upper class, for convenience, and for benefits, in short, there is a purpose. I have never seen Boss Shang like this... Well, this is like a flower, like a ball of fire, just keep it burning. If you like to look at you, you should try your best to show them a good one. If you don’t like to look at you, you will not modify yourself to please them, against your own heart—because flowers always bloom, The fire is always going to burn, no matter whether there are people watching it or not. Such a big horn can still live naturally, which is very rare, very rare, this is really natural... "
Cheng Fengtai's words were stuttering and fragmentary. Shang Xirui sucks one of his fingers, eyes half closed, pondering these words quietly. There are thousands of words in this world, but you and I have two or three sons. Another person would not be able to say it, and another person would not be able to understand it. Shang Xirui knew that all his persistence, stubbornness, misunderstandings and humiliation were all worth it at this moment. Cheng Fengtai filled all the gaps in his heart, every chord and every song he sang was timed with him and harmonized softly.
"Everyone says that a man like Boss Shang needs a good man to match him. But they don't dare to love you. Only your second master is willing to be a good man, even if he goes through fire and water."
Shang Xirui lunged hard, pressed Cheng Fengtai under him and gnawed on his throat and collarbone, causing Cheng Fengtai's neck to squirm, feeling powerless as if he was about to be forced into a bow, and cried out in pain: "Oh! Alright! I appreciate it, Boss Shang! I know Boss Shang is touched! Hiss... ouch, it hurts to bite!" Shang Xirui is not like Cheng Fengtai, who is full of sweet talk, nor like Du Qi He knows how to write and draw, and can weave romantic affairs into dramas. He doesn't know anything. When the feelings are hot, he either punches Cheng Fengtai to make Cheng Fengtai lose his temper, or chews and bites like this. It's like a small animal when you eat it in your stomach.
After such a pure and noble exchange on the bed, both of them felt more intimate than doing that, even when Cheng Fengtai was going to pick up his pants outside the house, Shang Xirui couldn't bear to let him go, just tired of His body was babbling and tired, and he hugged him with one arm between his legs, clamping it firmly.
Cheng Fengtai rubbed his lower body, and said with a smile: "Why do you put everything in your crotch when you catch it? I just said a few words of kindness to you, and I made you happy. Boss Shangda has never been a romantic talent." , still so ignorant?" While patting his butt, he pulled his arm out and braved the cold to go out to pick up his pants. Xiao Lai pasted up the broken window hole with cardboard at some point, presumably because he was afraid of freezing Shang Xirui to sleep, he is really careful. However, Cheng Fengtai's trousers are not so well prepared, they are still a little damp when they are laid flat on the porch. Even if Xiao Lai wanted it in his heart, he would not dry his pants for him.
After returning to the house, he added a few pieces of charcoal to the fire cage, while drying his trousers, he said, "Boss Shang, get dressed soon."
Shang Xirui's heart was still agitated, he knew the bed was rolling.
"I seem to see Xiao Zhouzi coming." Cheng Fengtai said, "It's in Xiaolai's room."
"It must be for the New Year's money! Let Xiao Lai send him away, I have no money, no big red envelope." Shang Xirui suddenly got up and threw himself on Cheng Fengtai's back: "By the way, Second Master, where is my New Year's money!"
In the past two years, because of the fun, Cheng Fengtai had to seal a lucky money for him to put under his pillow during the New Year. After two years, it became a routine, and he still missed it.
"Oh, you don't want to give it to others, so you just ask others for it? I can't see that you are quite a thief." Cheng Fengtai smiled and took out two big bills from his wallet: "Take it, young master."
Shang Xirui glanced at it, but was still not happy: "There is no red envelope, I don't want it, you treat me as my beggar!" Quickly dressed, he dragged Cheng Fengtai: "Second Master, let's go see the little girl together Zhou Zi!"
Cheng Fengtai didn't have the interest to talk to Xiao Zhouzi, he gently pushed him away: "Boss Shang, go by yourself, my pants are not dry yet."
When Shang Xirui went to have a cup of tea, Cheng Fengtai dried his trousers, dressed neatly, went out to stretch with a cigarette in his mouth, and saw Xiao Zhouzi being sent away by Shang Xirui and Xiao Lai wiping his tears. It's only been half a month since we saw each other, and Xiao Zhouzi returned all the bits of meat he raised at Shang Xirui's house, and he was visibly thinner in winter clothes, like a shadow puppet. Xiao Zhouzi didn't notice Cheng Fengtai at all, walked to the door and suddenly turned around and knelt down, kowtowed to Shang Xirui in the snow, sobbing: "I'm afraid I won't see Boss Shang again when I go back today, Boss Shang For my great kindness and virtue, Zhou Xiangyun will repay you in the next life!"
Last year, there seemed to be a Chu Qionghua who said the same thing before parting. Chu Qionghua has always been self-pitying and self-harming, hating the sky and fate, a soft person like Lin Daiyu, saying this kind of farewell only fits his sadness, not necessarily the truth, so no one will take it seriously . Zhou Xiangyun is not this kind of person. Shang Xirui and Xiao Lai's expressions were serious. Xiao Lai picked him up and stuffed money into his hand, Shang Xirui only promised "I'll try my best, you stay a while longer" or something like that.
After sending Zhou Xiangyun away, Cheng Fengtai stepped forward and said, "You've been punished by his master again, right?"
Shang Xirui nodded: "How does Second Master know?"
Cheng Fengtai said: "You don't need to guess! What kind of guy is Si Xi'er? Xiao Zhouzi has made his mark with you, many people have asked him and want to praise him, Si Xi'er can't bear it even more." He said looking at Shang Xi Rui glanced at it and said with a smile: "You came up with the idea of "Zhaojun's Outing of the Fortress", and the play was also staged in your Shuiyun Tower. Does Boss Shang have the heart to let the beauty be trampled to death by the Huns?"
This metaphor made both Shang Xirui and Xiao Lai laugh. Zhou Xiangyun's Wang Zhaojun is at the pinnacle, after three or four scenes, Peipingcheng always thinks of Zhou Xiangyun when mentioning Wang Zhaojun, and Shang Xirui may not be much better than him in this role. In order to hide that smile, Xiao Lai closed the door and hurried back to the house.
Shang Xirui stood heroically with his hands behind his back, looking up to the sky and said: "I am by no means a ungrateful king, I will definitely save my concubine Ming from fire and water."
Cheng Fengtai slapped him on the buttocks, pretending to be appreciative, and said: "How do you say something about singing? If you want to learn it well, you should sleep with the master first. Xiao Zhouzi is such a beauty, Boss Shang didn't beat him for fat water Don't let the outsider Tian's abacus go?"
Shang Xirui glanced at him in disgust: "Vulgar. Too vulgar. You think I'm you!"
Cheng Fengtai put his arms around his waist instead: "All right, I'm vulgar. Boss Shang is going to get dressed, and we're going out to eat meat."
Xirui likes eating the most: "Let's go eat steak!"
"Well, eat steak."
They were about to go out when the door opened by itself. Fan Lian's sleekly combed head poked out from the crack of the door, and looked inside: "Brother Rui! Happy Chinese New Year!" Look again: "Oh! My brother-in-law is here too! You are here for our Rui Happy New Year brother?"
Cheng Fengtai was annoyed by him pretending to be ignorant and winking: "What are you doing here? Two days ago, Chang Zhixin was on a business trip, and you didn't go to see him off, so which girl would you sleep with?"
"Stop talking nonsense, I'm going to discuss business."
"Who does business with you during Chinese New Year? Only foreigners do business with you. Are you cutting nightgowns for the Queen of England, or selling saucers for the President of the United States?"
When Fan Lian was in Pingyang, he was friendly with Shuiyunlou and the others, but after arriving in Peiping, he was a rare visitor to the commercial house. I didn't expect to visit occasionally during the big festival, but it didn't seem very popular. Shang Xirui was still watching the fun with his hands behind his back, and he didn't say hello to him either. He was ridiculed by Cheng Fengtai and snubbed by Shang Xirui.
Fan Lian complained: "Brother Rui, look at my brother-in-law, isn't he very fierce and a jerk?"
Shang Xirui looked at him and said seriously: "Second Master is right!"
Fan Lian was so choked that Cheng Fengtai laughed out loud.
"Come on, you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, why are you looking for Boss Shang, tell me quickly."
Fan Lian thought that you should not be a good old man, but instead be an actor's manager? Glancing at Cheng Fengtai, he leaned in front of Shang Xirui with a flattering smile and said, "Brother Rui, you can make a deal with the theater to get me a box with a little effort?"
Before Shang Xirui could say anything, Cheng Fengtai smiled gloatingly: "No, Erye Fan! I ran out of money just now? Can't afford a box? Ouch, it's too miserable! Come on! Call Dad, I I'll buy it for you."
Fan Lian was also annoyed by his enthusiasm, frowned and said: "Go, go, what do you know that you hold Brother Rui's thigh all day long? Who are the people who will book the box next year? The rich don't fight with the officials. Do you understand? Don’t say that my box can’t be fixed anymore, it’s not sure if yours is available!”
Cheng Fengtai and Shang Xirui couldn't help but look at each other, a little confused about what's going on.
Seeing the expressions of the two, Fan Lian asked in surprise, "Why, you don't know?"
Cheng Fengtai and Shang Xirui both looked at him in confusion.
Fan Lian snorted: "Well, how are you two living these days, ho! Jiuchi Roulin is fascinated! Brother Rui himself doesn't know?"
Shang Xirui shook his head inexplicably: "The opera garden has a manager, and in Shuiyun building there is an accountant and a brother. I just take care of the singing and rehearsal, and nothing else!"
Fan Lian was furious, and said: "Brother Rui, this "The Legend of the Qianlong" is not a joke! It's so popular! It's been heard in Nanjing. This year Nanjing will have a group of new big Officials came to Peiping for inspection, plus the original deputy chief and bureau here, everyone is eager to see Brother Rui's play. I am only a small businessman, so I dare not offend them!"
Shang Xirui stood on tiptoe, shook his head, his pride was palpable.
Fan Lian looked at Shang Xirui in a low voice: "Brother Rui, say hello to the theater, are you accommodating?"
Shang Xirui turned to look at him seriously: "No! Don't do my business."
Before Fan Lian could cry, Shang Xirui ran back into the house: "I'm going out to dinner with Second Master! Goodbye, Second Master Lian!"
Fan Lian turned to Cheng Fengtai and cried, "Brother-in-law, why did I offend him?"
Cheng Fengtai didn't know either: "You have to ask yourself, did you steal his food or did you boo him? Did you speak ill of him behind his back? Anyway, apart from eating, playing and gossip, he doesn't care about anything else. "
Fan Lian recalled in detail the last time he saw Shang Xirui until today, he was teased and teased by others before and after, and did not offend him in any way. The more he thought about it, the more wronged he became, and he was about to howl, Cheng Fengtai hurriedly stopped him: "Stop it! Why don't we just open the box? It's not the same when you sit down, you have to ask for a box?"
Fan Lian had something hard to say: "I... just met a girlfriend."
Cheng Fengtai squinted at him with contempt, and Fan Lian bowed to him. Cheng Fengtai thought for a while: "I'll help you find a way that day. If you don't succeed, you can only wrong your little girlfriend."
Fan Lian was overjoyed: "It's a good thing that brother-in-law is willing to help!"
Cheng Fengtai raised his eyebrows, Shang Xirui had come out of the house in new clothes, seeing why Fan Lian hadn't left, he rolled his eyes.
Cheng Fengtai put his arm around Fan Lian's shoulder: "I helped you, so you should help me too. I didn't drive today, so here are your car keys, and I'll send them back to you tonight."
"Then what should I do?"
"Your name is a rickshaw! You can take a stroll back if you have free time." Cheng Fengtai replied naturally: "Don't you want to please Boss Shang?"
Shang Xirui only worked for a while, he was already getting impatient, he looked at his watch repeatedly, it would be a great sin to delay his meal, he was about to get angry. Fan Lian begged for shortness of breath, so the boss reluctantly handed over the car keys and watched them go away.