Republic of China drama

Looking down from the best viewing position on the second floor, the lights and shadows are staggered.

Gu Qingying crossed her legs and leaned leisurely on the back of the golden nanmu chair, holding a freshly lit Hardman cigarette between her fingertips.

She wore a bright yellow cheongsam with slits, smooth silk and satin, which slightly reflected light under the light, and a black butterfly collar jacket outside, which was the top-quality foreign goods hung in the most conspicuous position in the shop.

The woman moved the cigarette away from her lips, and exhaled lightly: "The Legend of the White Snake I lit for you cost me three oceans."

"Gu San's business is all calculated in gold, how could it be worth the three oceans?" Xiang Xing, her fiance in name, answered the question.

He was wearing a neatly pressed suit and a foreign watch on his wrist. He was full of the gentleman's smell when he was studying in the West. At first glance, he was contrary to the playboy rumored by the outside world.

Just opening his mouth, the vulgar taste of wealth and years of shrewdness can't deceive anyone.

"I haven't listened to this for years, and you know best."

When Lu Qingying went to study in the UK, she and Xiang Xing were studying in the same school. The two of them didn't communicate much, but because of the baby relationship established by the two families, they always paid attention to each other.

It's just that Xiang Xing admired her attention, while Lu Qingying treated him in a secret competition.In Lu Qingying's eyes, men seem to only have competition, business, and entertainment, but no love.

However, Xiang Xing and Gu Qingying agreed to negotiate a fake marriage contract long before they went abroad.

Xiang's family had been in business for generations before Xiang Dashuai, and his family was well-off. Xiang Xing was the son of his father's second concubine, and it was inevitable that he would stage a traditional drama-fighting with his elder brother for family property.

Nai He was born more than ten years later. When his elder brother married his wife and started running the family, he was squatting in the backyard playing with mud.Seeing that handsome Xiang's body is getting worse year by year, Xiang Xing is still not as full-fledged as his elder brother.

Xiang Xing took a fancy to the Gu family's foreign firm, and got engaged to Gu San, not a woman, but a powerful money bank.

As for Lu Qingying, what is she planning?

He still has no definite answer to this question.

After more than ten years of friendship, Xiang Xing knew that she had only met women.

From Wei Nuo's concubine to prostitute, except for his fake fiancé, the people around Gu San always change and change, they are easy to get excited, but they leave when they get bored.

Perhaps it was to cover up that she was gay. This kind of thing is common in foreign countries. The degree of openness is different, and it will be different when returning to China. Just rumors can drown people.

With a fiancé, "occasionally" unrestrained behavior is called having fun, and without a fiancé, it is called a violation of ethics.

Xiang Xing disagreed: "I listen to Western music all day long, and the piano music is just a few tunes back and forth. It's okay to change the taste once in a while."

"Come to listen to the opera when you are in mourning, spread the word, does the bad reputation belong to you or mine?"

Xiang Xing didn't talk to her too much: "Of course it's your fault."

"It's a shame to be scolded for nothing." Lu Qingying smiled lightly, with the corners of her lips curled up, like a painter's stroke of brush and ink. Her smile seemed to brighten up the room.

"Since you've decided to come, it means that mourning is just a drunkard's intention. If the show is worth it, I'm afraid you will be willing to suffer this scolding."

As a fiancé, Xiang Xing accompanied Gu Qingying to Tongcheng to mourn, just to show his love.He had never heard of the relationship between his fiancée and his aunt, and she hadn't shown any grief these days, so he guessed it in passing.

Their territories are all in Beiping, and Tongcheng has its own unshakable local snakes, and it is unnecessary to spend effort here.

No matter what aspects of Lu Qingying, he has never figured it out from the beginning to the end.

"Oh?" Lu Qingying raised her eyebrows, her long and narrow eyes were particularly agile.She ignored his temptation: "Have you heard?"

"When I was studying in the UK, I watched Chinese people sing Peking Opera, and went to the Grand Theater secretly with my classmates. After listening to a few performances, I personally think that the most popular one is The Legend of the White Snake."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of huqin from the audience, and two people stepped onto the stage slowly, and they had already started singing slowly.

The woman who was singing had a bright and thin voice, and she heard the way out when she opened her mouth. She was wearing a white costume, and her hair seemed to be old.

Lu Qingying had a small headache, it was just a few words, and it lasted for a long time. She couldn't understand a word, and when she got together with her elders to listen to the play, she would rather drink herself and use the excuse of headache as an excuse.

She looked down and saw one blue and one white. After listening carefully for a while, they were all in the same tune, and she couldn't tell which line was sung by which one.

Looking at Xiang Xing shaking his head, he still listened with gusto.

It's one thing not to understand, but another thing to maintain your demeanor.

It was still a long night, so Gu Qingying took a deep puff of the cigarette, rubbed it with impatience, and slowly consumed it.

Xiang Xing listened carefully, and it was the part of Bai Suzhen's Xipi Sanban: "I hate Fahai to tear apart Luanhuang,

Xu Guanren listened to the slander and forgot me,

It caused me to be displaced and return to Qiantang.

West Lake is still the same as it was then,

Look at the broken bridge, the bridge is not broken,

But his heart was broken.

Love between fish and water, mountains and seas oath,

He doesn't want to

Can't help but gritted their teeth and complained to Xu Lang. "

The woman in white raised her sleeves on the stage, and the white silk with three hydrangeas fluttered lightly. The oil paint could not hide the brilliance of that handsome face, she might be a fairy descended from the world.

"The white snake is not bad." Xiang Xing said, "The footwork is more natural than the green snake."

After a pause, he added: "This Xu Xian is also good, with a spirit."

"Is it."

The tone is unpredictable, it seems to be doubtful, but also seems to be sure.

"Why, look down on fans?"

Xiang Xing joked with her.

The sound below was too noisy, the gongs, drums and cymbals were mixed together, and the conversation had to be distinguished. Lu Qingying didn't want to distract himself, so he kept silent.

Xiang Xing didn't make fun of it, so he sat up straight and continued to listen.

After a long time, when it was time to read the words, the audience became quieter.

He moved closer to Gu Qingying, raised his voice and said: "Look at that white lady, she is giving you a sneak peek."

The person posing as the white snake came with a clear intention, and he used all the opportunities to look this way to the extreme, singing non-stop, and his eyes were hooked and haunted.

Lu Qingying replied slowly: "How do you know it's me? You may not be sure if you have a crush on you."

"I'm ashamed, I'm far less compassionate than Miss Gu."

"Do you know what it's called?" Lu Qingying pointed to the winking woman on the stage, and then pointed to the aged wooden fence around the box and the painted dark vermilion pillars.

"what?"

Lu Qingying half-jokingly half-seriously said: "Business is sluggish, actors have turned into prostitutes."

"It doesn't matter if you are a prostitute, the Eight Great Hutongs in Beiping, have you never been there or have I not been there?"

Lu Qingying: "Well, that's true."

Xiang Xing's face gradually showed the kind of smugness in the pile of makeup, "Would you like to try to pack one, it's really good, like that Commander Wang, in the Beiping Grand Theater, half of the troupe is his Yingyingyan Yan, men and women are not taboo, the most important thing in every day is fun."

Lu Qingying looked thoughtful, her eyes fell on the stage for a moment, and she asked in a babbling tone: "Am I like the kind of person who doesn't have fun?"

"Like it." Xiang Xing said.

"There are some things that I just want you to see."

Gu Qingying stood up, took out a heavy amount of gold from her pocket, and threw two ingots towards the stage.

The white lady caught it accurately, she raised her long sleeves, and almost let go of the bag hooked on her finger, but the gold was firmly held in her hand, as if she had caught the hydrangea.

Another ingot of gold was unlucky, and rolled a few times from the feet of the little green snake in blue next to her, and went behind her.

Xiang Xing was still saying: "A person who can hum a few lines is more interesting than ordinary prostitutes."

"Ah."

Lu Qingying suddenly raised her voice and yelled downstairs: "Stop it, it's all stopped, you three come up, come to the box."

It just so happened that it was the turn of the green snake on the stage to sing, the sound of the huqin stopped, Xiaosheng stepped off the stage, and the white snake had already grabbed the costume and walked down, but the green snake stood still as if it had been rooted down, and its crisp voice overwhelmed the audience. There was a sound, reaching the fierce point, like a silver bottle suddenly breaking.

Now Lu Qingying heard clearly which sentence was the green snake, "Return to the south of the Yangtze River for revenge, save my sister, and escape the ordeal."

Hearing the angry voice of the green snake, it really seemed that there was some mortal enemy, and there really was a sister waiting for her to save.

The green snake sang dryly, about three or five lines later, the curtain of the stage was pulled open suddenly, and the woman who rushed over dragged and said something, pulling the green snake to get her off the stage.

Green Snake Yin ran away and trembled, the top flower on her head fell to the ground, and the hanging pearls shook, very desolate.

My sister left, followed Xu Xian, even if it was Leifeng Pagoda, Wuzhi Mountain, or a prison, she left without hesitation.

She was the only one left, standing where she was, refusing to accept, refusing to leave, acting as a lonely hero who single-handedly wanted to save her sister.

Lu Qingying yelled out of nowhere: "You come up first, I'll let you sing later."

This second explanation, this kind of promise, this is the first time Gu San has patiently told someone.

Xiang Xing had never seen it before, so he looked at Lu Qingying in surprise.

Oh, it's the most inappropriate way to judge a person to sing an opera. She clearly knew that The Legend of the White Snake was his favorite to listen to, and what he slapped was an actor's face, so why not inquire about an opera actor's face.

She couldn't bear to listen to this play, he could understand, but he promised to let people go back to sing... What is this for?

Gu Qingying looked down condescendingly, she was taller than ordinary women, about the same height as the yellow tassel tail of the low-hanging carved lantern, and the yellow tassel complemented the bright yellow cheongsam.

A generation of beauties.

Vaguely, the green snake raised its head towards this side, and the harsh singing finally calmed down, and finally fell silent.

Dou Xingui saw that Jiang Wanwan's momentum was weakening, so he took advantage of the opportunity to quickly pull him down, and he didn't stop teaching and harsh words, and Jiang Wanwan didn't listen to a word.

On the second floor, Gu Qingying didn't know anything about these things. He just looked at the green snake's eyes under the light. Gu Qingying guessed that it must be the pair of clear eyes. Otherwise, how could there be no impurities at this moment? Woolen cloth.