far and near

Many opera students are very envious of Bai Maosheng: other people's children follow the tape recorder and TV set and the family of half-hearted fanciers for enlightenment, and she learns from Wang Li, who is almost twice as beautiful before her voice is fully opened.Almost twice, Mena also opened a flower, so as the number one pillar and deputy head of the Municipal Yue Opera Troupe, a representative of the National People's Congress and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Li's plays are well received in the provincial capitals, and are also popular in Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Although everyone is looking for money and drama talents are dying, if you go to Baizhou opera school and troupe to choose carefully, Wang Li, a popular Kunsheng, can still pick good seedlings as students.But unexpectedly, she brought in a six or seven-year-old girl, Bai Maosheng, who taught her in the regiment after get off work in the afternoon.

The little girl was good-looking, and her eyes were watery and sparkling.However, he was cowardly, squatting in the corner of the rehearsal room and not speaking at first.Wang Li picked up the teacup and sipped slowly, then said, "You don't want to learn? That's all, go home and study."

Bai Maosheng stood up, his hands and feet didn't know where to go, and suddenly grabbed the curtain beside him, and sang a piece of "Tonight's Perfect Match of Enyi" in "The West Chamber". When she opened her voice, it was strange that she sang louder and louder. It is clear and melodious, and the articulation still has a hint of sweetness, and the rhythm is subconsciously suppressed when it sings "Lovesickness finally endures bitterness and happiness".Wang Li stared at Bai Maosheng until the end of the song, with no emotion in his eyes.Finally, looking at the curtains that had been half pulled down and started to drag the floor, "What else will you sing?"

"There are also "Purple Jade Hairpin", "Blessings of Love", "Pan Wife Asks Wife"..." Bai Maosheng scratched his face and stretched out his hands to count the jokes. She often listened to her mother Zhao Lan singing various jokes, and her ears were callused. You can come without opening your mouth.Among them, "The Romance of the West Chamber" is the most heard.

"I'm a raw singer, are you willing to learn?"

"Happy." Listening to this momentum, Wang Li felt a little urgent.

Wang Li walked up to the child and looked at it for a moment, "It is indeed a material for singing."

Bai Maosheng began to learn the basics of martial arts from the split of the horse, and slowly learned the tablecloth, body, gestures and eyes, and at the same time followed Wang Li to practice the use of breath and the opening and closing of voice.Experts passing by stopped to look at it for a while, and said after a while, "Old Wang, your teaching is stricter than that in the drama school."

"If you don't have solid basic skills, you will lose your shape sooner or later." Wang Li said lightly.

"Which child?" asked the acquaintance.

"Alan's daughter." Wang Li only smiled at this time, and her eye sockets, which were deeper than ordinary people's, became gentle.

"That's no wonder, your seniors and sisters are from the same school."

But as long as the child made a mistake, she raised the half-meter-long flat ruler in her hand and tapped her arm.The force was not too light, and after a bounce, a red mark was left on Bai Maosheng's arm.

The child was not spanked, and would cry every time he was spanked, and then continued to practice while sniffling.Wang Li likes her in her heart. If she didn't love singing very much, she would have been driven away by her long ago.But she was also afraid of running away the children, so every Friday when they practiced until [-]pm, the master and apprentice turned three streets to the snack street for extra meals.Wang Li ate very little, and almost everything went into Bai Maosheng's stomach.She can eat three steamed buns with crab roe in soup, and even half a bowl of pot-covered noodles when she's done. The remaining half bowl of noodles is just right.

After eating, send Bai Maosheng to the bus stop, "Go back." Bai Maosheng didn't know how many times Wang Li watched her dozing off in the car with the back of her head, and walked a long way before returning to the group dormitory.

Bai Maosheng went home and said to his mother, "Is the tutoring fee we paid Mr. Wang very expensive?"

Mother Zhao Lan's eyes moved, "What's wrong?"

Later, there was no need to ask, as soon as I touched my stomach, I knew that my daughter had eaten too much. "Your master can't make that much money, so you should eat less."

"The master said that she can eat enough for one person and the whole family won't be hungry, so it's enough." Bai Maosheng gradually looked forward to having dinner with the master every Friday, and this ceremony lasted for more than seven years.Wang Li, who has always fed the whole family by herself, is still single, but she understands the truth and keeps quiet about what the teacher should not ask.I'm just curious, how come Wang Li, who can be said to be a master in appearance and figure, is not married?If she gave birth to a daughter, I don't know how beautiful it would be.

No matter how reasonable you are, there will be a day when you slip up.Bai Maosheng, who had just passed his 13th birthday, finished his drama practice that day, and took out the chocolates Liu Maoran gave him from his bag, and gave it to his master, "Master, I see that you are a little tired today, eat some to replenish your energy."

Wang Li took the chocolate with a smile, opened it, broke a piece and put it into her mouth, "Master, I will give you a little blessing." After chewing for a while, Wang Li packed up her clothes and checked the practice room, "Come on, I'll take you to the station .”

"No need, master. I'm already in junior high school. I can go there by myself. Besides, my mother will wait for me there today, and we'll go to my uncle's house for dinner tonight." Bai Maosheng didn't see Wang Li's face froze, and then Said, "Okay, be careful on the road."

It was already dark when the master and apprentice walked out of the theater building, Wang Li held Bai Maosheng's collar, and when his cold fingertips touched the child's neck, Bai Maosheng shrank from the cold immediately.Suddenly remembered that no one was holding the clothes for the master, "Master, why don't you get married? It would be great if you had a child?"

Wang Li has long been calm about such questions, "I married Xi." She was about to turn around and go back to the dormitory, but she still held Bai Maosheng's hand, "Let's go, I'll take you to the station."

In my impression, the master and his mother Zhao Lan only met once.That time Zhao Lan took her daughter to Wang Li's dormitory building to learn from teachers, and the gifts piled up to her knees, "This child... can only be taught by you." Wang Li only asked, "What's her name?"

"Bai Maosheng." Zhao Lan looked at the child, "Everything is not like Lao Bai, and I don't know who he looks like."

When the two walked to the station, Bai Maosheng was still chattering, "The math teacher punished me again, saying that I was dragging down the average score of the class. Yu Ren is the best, saying that I will help me with my homework when I go to her house to play on weekends...

"Master... I have received three more love letters. This time, they are not from Yucai, but from No. [-] Middle School. Two girls and one boy. Girls are not considered love letters... just to be friends..." Bai Maosheng even received it himself. All kinds of love letters will be told to Wang Li, but not to mother Zhao Lan.After reading those letters, Wang Li smiled as much as she should, and she would continue to slap her when she should slap her.Bai Maosheng has an inexplicable trust in his master, maybe it's from feeding countless crab roe buns, or maybe it's from how many times he was beaten with a ruler.

The station at [-]:[-] p.m. in early spring is a crowded time, and the platform is full of thick people, wrapped in red, black, and blue down jackets and big padded jackets, exhaling white breaths and waving them under the street lights.Zhao Lan's long hair was tucked behind her ears casually, and she was wrapped up in a long white down jacket.She was standing at the edge of the crowd with her bag in her hand. When she suddenly turned her head and saw the master and apprentice coming hand in hand, Zhao Lan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled at Wang Li, "I'll let you take the trouble back."

Wang Li said "No trouble", and the two stood at each other for a while, even Bai Maosheng felt strange.At this time, Wang Li took out a gift box from her bag and handed it to Zhao Lan, "Is it going to your brother's house for birthday dinner? I bought this on the way back to Shanghai last time when I participated in the performance. It's a birthday present."

Zhao Lan's face was cramped, "This...you don't have to be so polite."

"I want it." Wang Li insisted on stuffing the gift into Zhao Lan's hands, "In the year of my birth, I chose the red one, just to celebrate it." She rubbed her hands that were prone to freezing, and waved to the mother and daughter. ,"gone."

Bai Maosheng found that the master's back was really called the "long body jade standing" in the play, and it was really lonely, while his mother seemed to tilt her head and wiped her tears.She hasn't seen her mother cry since her father died.That night at the dinner party at his uncle's house, Zhao Lan could barely pull himself together to cope.After returning home, she opened the gift box alone in the bedroom, and only then did she see the gift Wang Li bought along the way, a red LV silk scarf and Dior's red "poison" perfume.

Zhao Lan opened the perfume and sniffed it, and the fragrance of jasmine permeated her heart.She looked up at the locked door, and put the gift in the bedside table.

"Maosheng, go to bed early after finishing your homework." Zhao Lan knew that Bai Maosheng was procrastinating in his homework, but she also understood that the child was already tired after finishing his studies, and it was difficult for her to take care of her studies.So she doesn't have high requirements for her daughter's study, she just wants to get by.

According to Bai Maosheng's junior high school grades, she would not be able to enter Yucai junior high school.Zhao Lan herself is only a member of the Cultural Bureau. Although her husband was a successful businessman before his death, his network of connections has long been useless.Later, Wang Li handed over the back door note for entering a higher school.

Teachers and sisters, partners on stage for three years.How many times have I sung the friendship of "The Romance of the West Chamber", as long as Zhao Lan opens his mouth, Wang Li will definitely do his best.But Zhao Lan only talked about Bai Maosheng learning opera.She went around looking for someone to help manage the child's talent education. Somehow, it got to Wang Li's ears, and the senior sister took care of it without saying a word.

Zhao Lan suffered from insomnia on the night of her natal birthday, and after tossing and turning for several rounds, she finally got up and went to Bai Maosheng's room, and slipped into her daughter's bed.Unexpectedly, the sisters and sisters who had just finished their education and the girl who was the new suitor of the second middle school were also awake. After thinking about the master for a while, she turned and slipped into her mother's arms, "Mom..."

"Master, why don't you get married?" Bai Maosheng knew he shouldn't ask, but Zhao Lan stopped her from asking.

"..." Zhao Lan didn't make a sound, and after hugging her daughter tightly, she said quietly, "Probably...not suitable."

"But the master is so beautiful, and she has a great figure. She is very good to children, and she is the best to me." Bai Maosheng's eyelids began to fight, and after muttering, he gradually fell asleep with his mother's safe embrace.

Zhao Lan looked at the darkness, and Wang Li's expression of speaking more than ten years ago was still vivid in her heart, "Stop singing after getting married?"

"Well, I will be transferred to the Publicity Section of the Cultural Bureau." Zhao Lan was only 23 years old, and she had already seen through the bottleneck of singing at an early age when she became popular. She proposed to leave the troupe and change jobs on the grounds of marriage.Her partner, the senior sister who has been with the troupe for nearly ten years from the opera school, persuaded her to stay, "Or... after singing for a few more years, it will not be too late to get married. You are still so young, and it is a pity to leave as soon as you sing well. "

"Singing for a few more years will we be able to marry you?" Zhao Lan's words shocked Wang Li into silence. "The Story of the West Chamber" has been sung too much, and I don't know if she has fallen into Cui Yingying's dream, or Cui Yingying is attached to her.When left and right got off the stage, they could only face Wang Li, who was not moved at all. Zhao Lan got angry and fell in love.The old white man is good, and he is also a new rich man. It is also very honorable to marry Hua Dan, the new head of the troupe.The combination of the two seems appropriate to others, although the theater troupe is beautiful, but it is too shy.

That year, Wang Li sat in the corner at her wedding banquet, and when she toasted with her husband and wife, she said, "I am the one who is sorry for my junior sister, and punished myself with three cups."

During the game, someone made a fuss, "Junior sister should be punished for three cups. Didn't Alan dance to Wang Li's play? Yes, Lao Bai also wants to drink three cups. You abducted a good seedling from our Baizhou Yue Opera Troupe that hasn't been produced in 50 years." ah……"

Wang Li smiled at her junior sister who wore light makeup, and raised her wine glass ignoring others' booing, "I have not taken good care of my junior sister these years, so I will punish her with a drink." After drinking a glass, her face turned pink.

"I haven't helped Junior Sister win the Plum Blossom Award yet, so I will be fined another cup." Wang Li drank so fast that her pink face was already flushed.

For the third cup, she didn't say the reason, but said, "After all, I'm sorry for you." Then she raised her neck, and when she put down the cup, even her eyes were red.

"Wang Li is really going all out..." Everyone applauded, Zhao Lan looked at the red eyes of the senior sister, and regretted her impulsiveness at that moment.

It was difficult to look back in life in that era. Zhao Lan walked away for more than ten years, hugging the sleeping Bai Maosheng in the dark night, two lines of tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.