The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

Fang Qingming is in command of Huguang, and this year he is celebrating his fiftieth birthday, so his birthday banquet is naturally different.

It was not yet full light in the morning, and the whole of Hankou was already immersed in a beaming atmosphere.Before the tour, Fang sent a message that on the day of the birthday, a small box of birthday cakes will be distributed to all the people who come to celebrate the birthday. Children under the age of 12 and elderly people over the age of 50 can each receive a birthday coin.

For those who can get by, this is just happiness, but for those from poor families, it is a big windfall.

The specially hired cooks made pastries all night, got up early and set up a shed outside the inspector's mansion to distribute them. Everyone who was free in the city came to join in the fun, because the pastries were not expensive, and there were soldiers to maintain order, so everyone They all obeyed the order and only got one box. Occasionally, a few vagrants who couldn't eat enough to eat quietly queued up again to get another box. The cook recognized them and passed by with a blind eye.

As for the sling of money distributed to the elderly and children, it will not be released until after the show starts at night.

It is said that Fang Xunxu not only invited the No. 1 Danbai Luoqiu Dechun troupe in Beijing for this birthday banquet, but also specially set up a temporary stage outside the mansion downstairs in the east building of Xunxuan Mansion, and hung dozens of gasoline lamps Guaranteed lighting, when the time comes, the Dechun troupe will sing operas outside the mansion, patrols and guests will watch in the east building, and ordinary people can also watch operas outside the mansion.

Who is Bai Luoqiu?That is the most famous and powerful Peking Opera actor in the world today!

According to the current world, it is a superstar who not only has traffic but also has top performance at a young age, with both virtues and skills, good looks and strength!

The people of Hankou have already known the news of Bai Luoqiu in Hankou from various gossips. Although Boss Bai's tickets are not cheap, but those who can afford a few tickets are ready to grab tickets and listen to the show. There are even some enthusiasts who are obsessed with Bai Luoqiu after hearing the news, and traveled thousands of miles from Shanghai and even Sichuan to Hankou by boat along the river, just to see Bai Luoqiu's play with their own eyes.

However, although Bai Luoqiu arrived in Hankou, he didn't come out to sing for some reason, and he seldom heard the news. The most famous thing was the assassination of foreigners a few days ago.

Whether the assassination was true or not is uncertain, but with so many rumors, Bai Luoqiu has long been on the opposite side of foreigners in the hearts of the public.

Could it be that the foreigners at the racetrack were afraid that Boss Bai would steal their business after he came to Hankou, so they suppressed them everywhere, so that Boss Bai didn't come out to sing? !

The audience who were looking forward to enjoying Bai Luoqiu's opera, under repeated disappointment, inevitably felt dissatisfied with the racetrack. However, they were used to going to the racetrack for entertainment, so their dissatisfaction was just dissatisfaction, and they still had to go to play.

In the midst of such undercurrents, Bai Luoqiu finally announced the start of the play, and he opened his voice at Fang Xunxu's birthday banquet, and the whole city could see it!

After the news spread, and under the momentum of the previous period, countless people suddenly wanted to see Bai Luoqiu's demeanor on the birthday party night. Naturally, the common people went to the front of the mansion early to grab the front place, but the big family couldn't hold it down. With this face, they wanted to go upstairs to watch the show.

Originally, Fang Qingming was on a tour of Huguang. Before his birthday, these big families had already prepared birthday gifts, and they waited for the birthday party to send one or two people who had the right to speak in the family to celebrate his birthday.

But after the news that Bai Luoqiu was finally going to play, other people who normally would not go to the birthday banquet also wanted to go. There were more people celebrating birthdays. Prepare some.

The birthday banquet is just around the corner, and there is no time for the fans to prepare new rare treasures, so they can only bluntly give money directly. As a result, the amount of white silver dollars in birthday gifts received by the inspector's mansion this year is nearly double that of before.

The housekeepers told Fang Qingming about this. Fang Qingming saw that Bai Luoqiu's singing could cause such a big effect before he actually started singing. He was glad that he had chosen the right person, and he was not greedy for the money. In the hand of autumn.

"Master Xunhuan said that this is all the ticket money for Boss Bai, so he will return it to the original owner."

Bai Luoqiu was in the waiting room that was cleaned up in the inspector's mansion, watching the guys in the Dechun class pack up the costumes for the evening. After listening to the housekeeper's words, he handed over the stack of silver tickets to Xie Yan.

"Give it to me?" Xie Yan came to inspect the mansion as Bai Luoqiu's apprentice to help.

"Aren't you going to rebuild the theater? Let's use it as a supplement."

Xie Yan intends to renovate the interior decoration of Tiansheng Theater, which is now the present theater, to make it more attractive, but the current planned remodeling is only to replace tables, chairs and benches, and buy some custom-made curtains, which will not cost much money.

Judging from what Bai Luoqiu said, it seemed that he wanted to renovate the theater from the inside to the outside, and such a large stack of hundred-yuan silver notes was only enough to make a difference.

After Xie Yan and Bai Luoqiu met their eyes, they instantly understood each other's intentions.

Compared with giving Xie Yan money, Bai Luoqiu's move was more to tell everyone that Xie Yan is the owner of the present theater.

A few days ago, after the news that Xie Yan bought Tiansheng Theater and became the owner, many people in the Dechun class were very unconvinced.

Ah Yan is a picked-up little mute, where did he get the ability to buy a theater?It must be the money given by Bai Luoqiu!Why did Bai Luoqiu value this kid so much and give him such a big advantage?

A group of people who didn't like Bai Luoqiu were indignant. Rumors quickly spread in Dechun's class. There is an old saying in Liyuan that the worst people are in the troupe. Before Xie Yan could react, he Has become a treacherous little boy who "definitely has an affair with Bai Luoqiu".

Xie Yan overheard a few people talking about him that day, and was quite speechless. With the young marshal Luo who is said to have tortured Li Tianwei to such an extent, it would not be his turn to arrange Bai Luoqiu's handsome face. ?

Xie Yan had heard these rumors, and Bai Luoqiu, who was the leader of the Dechun squad, certainly wouldn't be unclear. He read the news that Li Fu handed over, and put it aside casually.

"Write down the leading ones, outsiders who frequently deal with them, invite Fang Xunxuan to send someone to follow them, and see if they can find out something behind them. People, they are always greedy, since they handed me the knife Don't blame me for taking the opportunity to clean up the door."

"Yes!" Li Fu thought that he could finally get those disgusting things out of the Dechun class, and his tone of agreement became much lighter.

And Xie Yan believed in Bai Luoqiu's control over the Dechun class, so he ignored the rumors and left the matter to Bai Luoqiu to handle.

At this time in the lounge, Bai Luoqiu made such a statement in front of everyone, and also told those who had evil intentions, no matter how unconvinced they were, Xie Yan was the real boss of the present theater.

Knowing what Bai Luoqiu meant, Xie Yan of course would not shirk it, and after receiving the money, he specially ordered the thorny characters in the troupe to go out of the house immediately to follow him and the Awen and Awu brothers borrowed by Wen Heng to Hankou I picked up a batch of tables and chairs I ordered outside the city, and then sent them to the theater to set them up. I guess I couldn’t come back to the patrol mansion after dark, and the rewards that the spectators were happy to give at night were destined to miss them.

Those few people were still reluctant to go at first, wanting to beg with Bai Luoqiu, but Bai Luoqiu didn't care about them with all his heart, Xie Yan thought these people were really funny, and took out his identity as the theater owner to suppress them a little , They walked away with a disgruntled look on their faces.

When the handymen packed up their things and left one after another, Bai Luoqiu looked at Xie Yan with a half-smile.

"Why, Boss Xie has already learned how to avenge private revenge?"

"These people's words are too harsh. I know Master has other plans, but it's okay to give me a little lesson." Xie Yan put down the set of Diancui she was studying, "And I sent them away because I was afraid that they would make trouble at night. , how can it be regarded as public revenge?"

Bai Luoqiu wanted to say that he had already made arrangements, and he wasn't afraid that these things would trick him, but there was always an emergency, Xie Yan's worry was not unreasonable, it was much safer to send people away, so he let him go.

Time flies by in the busyness. After finishing the lunch brought by the servants of the inspector's mansion, the people celebrating the birthday came to the door one after another. Xie Yan did not choose to come with the Wen family today, and was thinking about confessing his love to Wen Heng He made several mistakes when packing things, causing Bai Luoqiu to look at him strangely.

"Ayan, why don't you go outside for a walk, you're not familiar with these things, just leave it to me." After Xie Yan knocked over the water shavings used in Baotou again, Li Fu silently issued an order to evict the guests.

"Uh..." Xie Yan rubbed her nose, feeling a little guilty.

Isn't he, isn't he ready to meet Wen Heng?

"What did Mr. Xie do? It seems a little unpopular." Just as Xie Yan was embarrassed, a familiar voice came from outside the window.

"Miss An."

Xie Yan turned her head and saw An Yujing in a plaid dress standing outside the window, and quickly opened the door to let her in.

"Why don't you talk in front, come here, don't you come to chase stars?"

An Yujing listened to Xie Yan's teasing, and quickly glanced at Bai Luoqiu who was sitting inside, his cheeks were flushed, and he pretended to be calm, "Hey, it was Mr. Wen who asked me to come to you. Today's birthday banquet is here. Many of his friends and disciples, Mr. Wen wants to introduce you to them."

An Yujing has been studying with Mr. Wen these days. Mr. Wen likes this girl who has her own thoughts and dares to put them into action. An Yujing also uses Mr. Wen's name to get rid of the harassment of her uncle and aunt's family. The more comfortable it is.

"Mr. Wen didn't mention my pen name, did he?" Of course Xie Yan would not be unhappy to expand his social circle, but there was one more thing he had to confirm.

"Don't worry, Mr. Wen knows that you still don't want to reveal your identity. He just told his friends that you are a junior he is very optimistic about."

"That's good."

Xie Yan could always hide in the lounge to pretend to be quails before, but now that Mr. Wen is invited, he definitely can't continue to hide, so he had to say hello to Bai Luoqiu and walk towards the front hall.

Before leaving, An Yujing quietly glanced at Bai Luoqiu several times, Xie Yan felt a little embarrassed for her, Bai Luoqiu finally turned his head and nodded slightly at her.

"..." Xie Yan swore that she definitely heard the sound of an arrow being shot in An Yujing's heart.

No matter what era, star chasing fans are really scary.

Fang Qingming holds great power in Huguang. Apart from the local aristocratic family, his birthday banquet has countless people from other places to celebrate his birthday. The huge patrol mansion has never been so lively in a year. This time they were abroad and couldn't come back, but it didn't affect the festive atmosphere of the whole government at all.

Xie Yan and An Yujing walked along the way, and met countless people who were well-dressed and did not know each other to celebrate their birthday. Fortunately, the other party could not possibly know them. When they met each other, they only knew that the other party was also here to celebrate their birthday.

"Where is Mr. Wen now?" Xie Yan asked as he walked.

"In the greenhouse next to the front hall, people from Mr. Wen's faction are resting here. Don't worry, there are many people but the place is big."

Taoist Xie Yan has nothing to worry about, he has participated in similar rich and powerful banquets at least a hundred times in his previous life, but it was just socializing.

There was only one person who really disturbed him.

"Miss An, do you know that Wen, Wen's family is here? Where are they now?" Xie Yan finally couldn't help asking.

"Wen's family?" Unexpectedly, An Yujing also froze when he heard these two words, and said to him from left to right, "How could I know about Wen's family... Who knows whether Wen's family is here..."

"..." Xie Yan just remembered that he is not the only one who is "afraid" of meeting Wen's family, and the toothache is that there may be no essential difference between his and An Yujing's reasons for being afraid.

Xie Yan glanced at An Yujing, who was suddenly flustered, and decided that it would be better not to let this future "sister-in-law" know what he thought of Wen Heng, otherwise, if something happened to An Yujing, Wen Rui would be sure. They will make trouble for him, and then he and Wen Heng will be on the verge of breaking up.

"I'm just asking casually. It's normal for Ms. An not to know. Let's go quickly. Don't make Mr. Wen wait for a long time."

"Okay, we—" An Yujing nodded, and was about to figure out how to take the next road, when his voice suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Xie Yan turned her head to look, but also froze in place.

Not far away, under a frame of early-blooming tender yellow winter jasmine flowers, the two brothers of the Wen family were standing there. Under the sunlight, two slender shadows were cast on the tiled wall behind the flower frame, which looked like sharp knives sheathed. , a harmonious blend of gentleness and sharpness.

Xie Yan's eyes skipped over Wen Rui, and naturally all focused on Wen Heng.

The young man seemed to have dressed up very carefully for today, although it was only a slight change, but Xie Yan could tell the difference in him at a glance, from the handkerchief showing a corner of his chest, to the shiny leather shoes, and even the hair ends were slightly Different degrees of curvature, and seeing his eyes suddenly light up.

Knowing that not only he was looking forward to today's arrival, Xie Yan suddenly smiled.

This smile woke up An Yujing who was beside her, she didn't know why Xie Yan was laughing, but she didn't have time to explore it at the moment.

Because Wen Rui, who was still in military uniform, saw them, he raised his legs and walked towards An Yujing, and stretched out his right hand, "Can you go for a walk in the garden with me, Yujing?"

"...Why, go to the garden?" An Yujing's face turned red, which was many times worse than seeing Bai Luoqiu just now.

Wen Rui looked at his younger brother behind him, and then at Xie Yan who was full of eyes on his younger brother, "Give full play to the role of brother and sister-in-law and make room for young people."

"Huh?" An Yujing's eyes widened. Before he could figure out the huge amount of information, he was dragged away by Wen Rui in a daze.

At this time, Xie Yan and Wen Heng finally came to their senses.

"Let's... also find a place for a walk?" Xie Yan couldn't help but chuckle halfway through.

Now this situation is indeed very funny-if his heart is not beating so violently that he can hardly hear his own voice.