I just want to copy books quietly

Du Caige sighed inwardly.

He actually told Duan Xiaochen that he doesn't need to pay too much attention to Long Jiumei, just respect him as an elder, and he doesn't need to try to curry favor.

But Duan Xiaochen probably felt too insecure, this is really a bit humble.

In love, no one needs to be humble to such an extent.

Because this kind of humbleness cannot be normal. If you stay humble for too long and suppress too many negative emotions in your heart, and one day it will explode, it will have a devastating impact on the relationship between lovers.

never mind.Let's untie her slowly later.

After a meal, Duan Xiaochen was always cautious, and she would immediately laugh at whatever Long Jiumei said, and after everyone put down the dishes, she took the initiative to wash the dishes.

Fortunately, Long Jiumei didn't go too far and forced her to sit down. "No one will let the guests who come to the door for the first time wash the dishes, you sit down."

"Auntie, don't treat me as a guest! I don't think I am a guest either." Duan Xiaochen laughed.

Long Jiumei said: "I don't care about your affairs. How you develop in the future is your own business. No matter what happens in the future, today is your first visit, and that is the guest."

Duan Xiaochen had no choice but to sit down.

After dinner, she stayed to watch TV for a while, and returned to her own place after 9 o'clock, because she also had something to deal with.

As a result, in the middle of the night, she was still sending text messages to Du Yuqi: "Sister-in-law, what is my mother's impression of me? Didn't you say anything about me?"

Pity.

Chapter 496 Xu Qingya's Little Secret

Ever since Duan Xiaochen returned to China, Xu Qingya had never been to Du Caige's home, and it seemed to him that Xiao Xu was avoiding meeting Duan Xiaochen at his home.

Du Caige is also happy to see the success of this.

When he finally edited all Xu Qingya's portrait photos and prepared to pack them up and send them to her, Xu Qingya refused.

"I can't transfer such a large file, and neither can the mailbox."

"Then use a network disk." Du Caige said.

"It's not safe, there will always be traces on the Internet, uncle, you should copy it to the mobile hard disk and give it to me."

When Du Caige thought about it, it was the same reason.

They meet at a coffee shop.

In the past few days, the weather in Shanghai has not been very good. Dark clouds overwhelmed the city, it was raining continuously, and the roads in many places were muddy.

The weather forecast said that there will be rainy days in the next few days, and then there may be light snow on the third and fourth day of junior high school.

But it is destined that there will be no snowball fight this year.

As Chinese New Year approaches, the road surface is much smoother than usual, and many people have already left Shanghai by car.

It went smoothly and brought the meeting place.

Xu Qingya had already arrived early, her face was flushed red from the cold, she was really cute.

After Du Caige gave her the mobile hard disk, she smiled and grabbed Du Caige's hand, "Lend it to me to keep warm, I'm freezing to death."

Du Caige naturally would not object.

After a while, she simply snuggled into Du Caige's arms.

Fragrant and soft.

"What have you been up to lately?" Du Caige asked her.

"It was a final exam before. Then the master asked me to participate in the rehearsal of "The Palace of Eternal Life". This year they will be on the Spring Festival Gala and they will only sing one song. The Spring Festival Gala always has those few traditional plays. This time there is finally a new play, and it is so well written. , the seniors hope that we will be on the show this time. Although in fact we haven’t rehearsed very well, we can only catch the ducks on the shelves.”

Du Caige was a little surprised: "Then you are playing Concubine Yang? You can't act like that."

"Who said I can't act? I can also be very enchanting. Would you like to see it?" Xu Qingya was not convinced.

"Well, I know." Du Caige remembered a few shots when he took photos of her in the hotel.

Perhaps Xu Qingya also thought of those scenes, her face became even redder, until her ears were red.

After a while, she smiled and said, "But I won't participate in performances, not in the past few years. Master said, in the past few years, let me focus on film and television and make more movies. When "The Palace of Eternal Life" went to perform, I will not be allowed to appear on the stage for the time being. But I have to be prepared, and if the lead actor has any accidents or minor accidents, I will be able to stand up at any time."

Du Caige nodded.If Xu Qingya wanted to participate in the performance, she would have gone to the northern border for rehearsal ten and a half months earlier.

"You are the number one Tsing Yi in the world in the future, and you must be able to sing plays like the Palace of Eternal Life."

"Of course." Xu Qingya said arrogantly.

"By the way, uncle, after the new year, I'll take you to a good place."

"What a good place? I'll be very busy after the New Year. If it's convenient for you, go today."

Xu Qingya smiled but said, "Today... is not impossible. Maybe I will kidnap and sell you. Do you dare to come with me?"

"Why don't you dare? Whether you kidnapped me or I kidnapped you is a question."

"Uncle," Xu Qingya lowered her head, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, "Then can you abduct me?"

Du Caige responded speechlessly.

Xu Qingya raised her head and smiled, "Just kidding."

Du Caige breathed a sigh of relief and thought, your expression doesn't look like you're joking...

But since you said it was a joke, then I will take it as a joke, otherwise how can I get away with it.

Before the coffee was finished, the two got up and left.

Xu Qingya asked for the key with her palms outstretched, and Du Caige would naturally satisfy her little request.

"The place is far away, are you sure you want to go?" Xu Qingya asked when getting into the car.

Du Caige actually wanted to stay with her for a while longer. "Let's go. It's the Chinese New Year tomorrow, and there's nothing to do today. By the way, the place you took me to is still open today?"

"You'll know when you go."

Although the traffic conditions were very good today, after driving for more than an hour, Xu Qingya said, "We're almost there."

Under normal traffic conditions, it would take about two hours to drive.

At this time, we have already passed the expressway around the city, and we are approaching Kunshan.

However, there are like-minded people to accompany along the way, and there are Zhong Tiandi's beautiful beauties to admire, which is not boring.

"Didn't you always want to know where my salary is spent? I'll tell you today."

With that said, Xu Qingya drove the car into a toll parking lot.

Du Caige looked out the window.

A sign not far away caught his attention.

"Luming Theater".

Pointing to the signboard, he asked, "Where is it?"

Xu Qingya smiled.

With a little cunning, a little enthusiasm and kindness, like a child who wants to share his beloved toy with a good friend. "I bet you'll like it. Maybe not a lot, but at least a little bit."

She raised her right hand and made a "little bit" with her little finger.

Coupled with the mischievous smile on her lips and the moving light in her eyes, that movement looked extremely cute.

After parking the car, Xu Qingya naturally took Du Caige's hand, strolled over like ordinary couples, and came to an iron gate.

The big iron gate is locked tightly, which is the door for vehicles to enter and exit.

There was a small door at the side, but there was no padlock.It opens with a light push.

Through this small door, they walked into a small yard. There was not much space inside. There were about a dozen parking spaces and two small narrow flower beds. Naturally, all the flowers in the flower beds were withered at this time, but there were still some Bright green struggles to survive.

On the front is a small building with a plaque on it: Luming Theater.

Next to it is a line of small words: Pioneer Experimental Theater.

Xu Qingya gave a brief introduction to Du Caige along the way: "This place is very close to Kunshan. Uncle, you know that Kunshan is the birthplace of Kunqu Opera. The owner and wife of this theater are locals from Kunshan. They liked Kunqu Opera since childhood. Later they all entered I joined the Wudu Kunqu Opera Troupe, where I met and fell in love.”

"They are all young, only in their 20s, a little bit older than me. But they are from the same school as me, their master's master, and my master are senior brothers and sisters. So in terms of seniority, they are all mine. Nephew."

Martial nephew is okay, Xu Qingya's seniority in the opera world is too high, she directly studied under the older master He Tiantian, and now a group of Mesozoic famous actors who are active are 40-60 years old are her senior brothers, and the new generation is 20-30 Most of the younger ones are her nephews.

Xu Qingya continued: "They like opera very much, but their ideas are a bit radical. They want to deeply combine opera with modern popular elements, and wantonly modify the music, libretto, chanting, and even the positioning and movements. They think Only in this way can opera be passed on in the fast-paced modern society and achieve better development.”

"At least the masters and apprentices are not very accepting, thinking that this will lose the traditional beauty and elegant beauty of opera. Some seniors said that if opera has to become like this in order to survive, they would rather disappear from now on."

Speaking of this, Xu Qingya turned her head to look at Du Caige with a smile in her eyes: "Uncle, what do you think?"

Du Caige refused to comment, "I am not in this industry, what I think is not important."

"But it's important to me."

On the topic of art, Du Caige occasionally flickers, sometimes perfunctory.

But once you open your mouth, you will never lie or say anything against your will.

Even if speaking out would make her unhappy, there was nothing she could do.

So he thought about it, and gave a serious answer: "Before I saw it, I heard you describe it like this, and I felt a little repulsed. I was worried that the new opera developed by their theory would lose the essence and the most powerful traditional opera. Something that moves me. But I'm willing to reserve my opinion and watch a few of their performances first."

Xu Qingya smiled: "It's a pity that there is no performance today. After the new year is over, I will take you to watch their performance when I find time."

Du Caige didn't know her answer, whether she liked it or not.

Because Xu Qingya was obviously very supportive of these two nephews, and even invested most of her own income in helping each other.

But judging by her appearance, she should be able to accept her own thoughts.

In terms of art, it is very important to seek common ground while reserving differences, and it cannot be a life-and-death relationship like religion.

When a certain art form can only accommodate one voice, that is when the art dies.

A beautiful branch alone is not spring, and a hundred flowers bloom together to make the garden full of spring.

This is especially true for art.

Because there is no performance today, there is actually nothing to see.

Moreover, the husband of the two bosses was not there, and only the wife did some cleaning up at the end.

Seeing Xu Qingya bring Du Caige to the door, the young girl first said pleasantly, "Xiaoya, have you found a boyfriend?"

Xu Qingya neither admitted nor denied, but just smiled and introduced Du Caige to her.

Xu Qingya's female nephew is from Du Caige's family, also surnamed Du, and has a very common name "Du Juan".

"It's not Du Juan's cuckoo, but the beautiful Juan," she emphasized with a smile, "Brother Du, the "Palace of Eternal Life" you wrote is really a masterpiece. My family has been talking about wanting to meet your real person. Thank you for your contribution to Kunqu Opera." contribution."

Hearing this, Du Caige had a preliminary understanding of the nephew who had never met before—he would thank others for their contributions to Kunqu Opera, which showed that he really regarded Kunqu Opera as a very important thing in his life and promoted it. Kunqu opera is regarded as my life goal.

Du Juan took them to visit the office, costume collection room, musical instrument storage room, etc., and showed them a small theater with 200 seats and a maximum capacity of 300 audiences.

"It's a small and simple place, which makes Brother Du laugh! We just play around and make trouble." Du Juan said.

"It's not easy for you to achieve this level. The cost will definitely not be small, right?"

"Yes, without the support of my aunt, our theater would have closed down a long time ago." Du Juan said frankly.

Du Caige didn't ask how much Xu Qingya funded.

This is a family matter.

"Suddenly I want to invest in theaters. I will invest 50 yuan. Give me 5 shares."

Du Juan flatly refused: "That won't work. We haven't invested much money in this theater, and we haven't been able to make a profit yet. At least 50 yuan will give you 20% of the shares."

Chapter 497 "Old Boy" Was Seen Badly

On the way back, Xu Qingya drove the car and said with a smile: "Uncle, when it comes to money, you have always been generous."

"Is there? Maybe, I don't think so myself."

"But don't think about my nephew. He's already married."

Du Caige said angrily: "How is it possible!"

"Women can't resist the arrogance of a man who spends a lot of money."