husband in another world

Chapter 78 The Man in the Troupe

"Old troupe master, what is the origin of Zhou's family this week? It looks like a very rich family in the village. It looks like the family's population is not as good as that of a landlord. How can this food be so good for us!" It was a young student in the troupe who spoke. , excellent singing and writing, top pillars.As he spoke, he stuffed a large piece of fat and thin meat into his mouth.

The dishes the Zhou family prepared for them were not only not the best, they were not even as good as the two women in the family. They were about the same as the villagers in the village, but they were full of oil and water.

Now, just in time for the Chinese New Year, the family bought a wild boar. Although it is not fat, the oil produced is useless at all.The two women gave the troupe a small jar and told them to use it casually.The two children who went up to the old class teacher and went down to the class clapped their hands and jumped up happily.

The dishes provided to them every day are not special, they are all seasonal dishes such as Chinese cabbage, radishes and potatoes stored by farmers in winter.But just fry it with enough meat oil, and the whole plate of vegetable oil is full of meat flavor, eating it in your mouth is like eating meat and stir-frying vegetables.If you are lucky, you can still eat minced meat.

The Zhou family's New Year's dishes are so rich that they are frozen if they can't eat them.Let alone Zhou Jing, Shen Mo and Zhou Yu, the two women are tired of eating, and they are so bloated that they only want to eat two bites of vegetables fried in rapeseed oil. The lighter the better.So those leftovers were sent to the troupe on two large plates every meal, and everyone in the troupe was so fragrant that they wanted to swallow their tongues.

However, there are less meat and more wolves, and many people can't get it. Only the old class leader and a few pillars can eat.

The old team leader set aside half of each plate of the two meat dishes sent by Zhou's family. The team cooked it by himself, but only took a few bites of each dish, and prepared to serve it to Hua Dan who was resting in the dormitory.

Hearing this, she raised her eyelids and said: "It doesn't matter to us, we just need to do our duty, An Anxin sang for three days, and got the big money we deserved. If we sing well, we will get a few rewards. That's enough."

That Xiaosheng was the old class leader's favorite kid, and he didn't care what the old class leader said, he laughed, and then continued to extend his chopsticks to the meat dishes.

Two meat dishes, half of the old class master and Hua Dan, and the remaining half was divided into two portions, one portion belonged to Xiaosheng alone, and the other portion was distributed to the other dan roles, as for the others, there was no more.

The old class leader walked quickly to the door of the dormitory with the dishes and rice, "Xiao He, open the door for daddy, daddy is bringing you meat."

It turned out that Hua Dan of the Han's class was the old class leader's biological daughter. When she was seven years old, her mother was suddenly seriously ill on the way to the theater. Due to lack of money for medicine, she only left for three or four days.Xiaohe and the old boss, father and daughter, are left to depend on each other. Because of her mother's death, the old boss always thinks that she is incompetent and can't make money, which makes her mother-in-law unable to afford the good medicine for medical treatment. Li felt ashamed of their mother and daughter, and treated Xiaohe even better.

Xiao He got up from the common bunk, opened the door for the old class leader, took some of the dishes from him and put them on the table.

The old class leader said: "I'm tired of singing today, you sang almost all day, and it's so cold this day, isn't it?"

Xiao He shook her head, and said sensiblely: "Fortunately, Dad, Xiaoyuan usually sings, but this winter I only sang for two days."

The old team leader still had a big piece of meat between his chopsticks. The fat meat was as wide as two fingers, and it was very attractive just by looking at it.But suddenly he lost his appetite and stopped chopsticks.After a long while, he sighed heavily, and put the meat slices into his daughter's bowl, but he put down his chopsticks.

Seeing him like this, Xiao He stopped eating and stopped her chopsticks.

"Father, what's the matter with you? From my point of view, the master of the Zhou family is not bad. Maybe we can get a lot of rewards when we leave."

The old class leader stared at Xiao He, and suddenly said in an unprecedentedly serious tone: "Daughter, although there are some things that Dad didn't say clearly, you should understand what Dad means, right?"

Xiao He bit her lower lip tightly and stopped talking.The old class leader looked at his daughter, the age of the cardamom, the clear water exudes a lotus-like temperament, even though the face has been heavily made up for a day, after removing the makeup, she does not feel haggard, but has a simple beauty.The skin is even fairer and softer, without the chapped appearance of running outside all the year round.The old class leader knows how much a girl like this attracts men.

"Daughter, it's just us father and daughter tonight, and it's about your happiness for the rest of your life, so we father and daughter don't go round and round, open the skylight to explain, and don't be shy, lest father misunderstand your meaning and delay you. "

After a long time, Xiao He said softly: "Father, tell me, Xiao He will never say what he means."

The old class leader then said: "Daughter, whenever I go to those rich and noble people's houses, I never ask you to sing in operas, but let Xiaoyuan take the stage. Do you know what father means?"

Xiao He replied: "Father is afraid that those masters will take a fancy to my daughter."

"You can resent your father for blocking your happiness. After all, if you are favored by those masters and stay in their house, you will be able to eat well and drink spicy food."

Xiao He hurriedly shook her head: "Why would I think that way? With a daughter of such a background, would it be better if she stays? It's better to run the show with her father. What's more, Xiao Yuan's lesson from the past is there, and the daughter also saw it. It's not that there is no master. I fell in love with her, but what happened in the end, but I kept it for a few days and sent it back."

"It's good that you can think clearly, and it won't be in vain for Dad's painstaking efforts." The old class leader said, "I think you already know what Dad suddenly told you today. If you only came to Zhou's house to perform such a scene, Father wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to bring the whole theater troupe from south to north to come here without hesitating, so a few opera money can be earned anywhere. It is the master of the Zhou family that father really came to the Zhou family."

In fact, Xiao He had guessed it a long time ago, not only her but even the whole theater troupe had guessed it in private. They had discussed that this should be Xiao He's last play.Although the old team leader kept telling the outside world that he came here just to make money.

"Don't look at Mr. Zhou, he is extraordinary, calm and calm, and has a great reputation for doing business. In fact, he is only 23 years old this year. He can be regarded as a "boy" of a hero. He is a good match for you in terms of age. What fascinates me the most is that, I heard from the two southern masters that Mr. Zhou was very kind to his husband. He was very gentle and tender, and he was a rare good master. Father doesn't ask for anything else, only that you can be so pampered by your husband's family in the future. Today When I got here, I found that the Zhou Mansion was not extravagant and luxurious, and there were not many servants. I told those two lords that he was so rich and honored. One thing is true.”

"Actually, the situation in the Zhou Mansion today makes me feel more at ease. If there are really gold and silver mountains, I would not dare to keep you, and I have to think about it. Right now, his family is just an ordinary rich family with a few pockets of money, so I can afford it." Two wives serve you, so you can be reassured that you can't be considered rich or poor. Such a family can't afford to support such a woman, at most there are only one or two. And this Mr. Zhou's main wife is a twin , I heard that after being married for several years, you can't have children. I think you can't have children. If you marry in, even if you become a concubine, as long as you can have a son, you will be able to rely on you, and you will be able to gain a firm foothold in the Zhou family. But even After giving birth to a son, we can't count against Zhou Fulang. We must be conscientious to be a man, and we will take good care of him in his later years, so that we will have no worries about food and clothing. Even if Mr. Zhou earns some more money in the future, at worst, he will take a concubine. None of you will suffer from the gentleness of the person next to your pillow. In this way, your daughter will be at ease, and the stone in my father's heart will also fall to the ground."

Xiao He had burst into tears a long time ago, her father did everything for her.

Xiao He cried and said: "Dad, don't worry, I won't let you run around again in the future, I will save the monthly routine given to me by the Zhou family to support your theater troupe. If I am the first child, I can give birth to a boy , I begged the master to build you a house in the village, and then the troupe would have shelter from the wind and rain."

But the old troupe master shook his head and said: "No, scholars, farmers, businessmen, merchants are at the bottom of the ranks, and we opera actors are at the bottom of the ranks. Having a Yue family like me will only embarrass Mr. Zhou. If you continue to subsidize my bottomless pit every day, you will end up with me." One day, Master Zhou will dislike him."

"Then... what are you going to do, Dad?"

The old troupe master gently wiped away his daughter's tears, and said with a smile: "Hello, father has been content in this life. From now on, father will lead the troupe to sing well. If he can hold a role and sing some famous tricks, father will be complete. If If you can’t sing, you’ll be just like your mother, wherever you die, you’ll be buried, and the past will be gone!”

"Father!" Xiao He cried out of breath, "Then my daughter will never see you again in this life!"

"My dear daughter, you will have your own children in the future. Take good care of the master and your children. That is your life. Don't always think about your father. Dad has been running around like this all his life. There is nothing wrong with it." of."

For a while, the father and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly. After crying for a long time, the crying gradually stopped.

The old class leader said: "Tomorrow, I will arrange a play. You don't need to put on heavy makeup, just come on stage and sing refreshingly. Remember to sing well and don't need to express yourself. With your appearance, you are a woman, and you are more beautiful than his wife. Fu Lang is too beautiful, Master Zhou will definitely be attracted to you."

Zhou Jing changed a towel for Shen Mo, and gently rolled two peeled eggs on Shen Mo's eyes.

"That was lied to by the old class leader. Don't take it to heart. If you are being pitiful, your husband, I can make up hundreds of miserable life experiences for you in an instant."

Shen Mo said: "Brother Jing, I just listened to the story and moved my heart. Whether the story is true or not, it has nothing to do with me. If there is Chen Huihui, I will learn a lesson, and I will not mess with my good intentions again."

Chen Huihui really made Shen Mo terrified. This is because he discovered it early. If he discovered it late, a good child would have no idea what Chen Huihui would do to him, and his mind would probably be darkened.

However, the story of the old class leader still entered Shen Mo's heart. In the middle of the night, Shen Mo suddenly cried in his dream, muttering something pitiful and asking for justice.Zhou Jing knew that this was a nightmare, so he didn't wake him up. Instead, he whispered a few words of coaxing, gradually coaxing him back to sleep.However, Zhou Jing didn't go back to sleep, instead he got up and put on his cotton robe, he was going to watch the night.Ever since the theater troupe moved into Zhou's house, Zhou Jing didn't get to know him too well at night, and he would go out to make a tour no matter what time of day he woke up.

It was dark outside the window, and the willows were on the moon. Because it was winter, there was no sound of insects, birds and cicadas, only the deathly silence.Stepping on the road cleaned by the two women, there was no sound.

Zhou Jing got up, first pushed the doors of the houses in the backyard to inspect carefully, and then took a look around the yard with a lantern.Finally, I walked to the front workshop.He doesn't know how to check the bedrooms, nor does the kitchen, which is mainly a workshop where workers work.

He had just arrived at the last factory building when he heard a slight noise inside.Zhou Jing forgot all about, but there was no one who released the wind, so he blew out the lantern in his hand, picked up a long wooden stick stuck in the corner, and walked softly to the window.

Cut the window paper, and by the moonlight, Zhou Jing could clearly see the moonlit place in the workshop, where two people, one big and one small, were sitting.There are several broken bowls on the ground, and the contents of the bowls cannot be seen clearly.The child held the bowl up to the man's eyes.

"Let's eat, Xiaobao. Uncle is not hungry. Uncle will follow the team to eat enough to support himself."

Although Xiao Bao can't speak, he doesn't know much about what he should know than others.Mr. Zhou's wife brought over two large plates of meat and vegetables, but he and his uncle were not qualified to eat at all.Those good things must first stick to the pillars of the troupe.

Xiaobao refused to eat, put down his chopsticks, and turned his back to the man.The man knew that he was angry, and he felt very warm in his heart. He picked up the child and coaxed him, "Okay, you can eat two bites, uncle, one bite, okay?"

The child just bit off the big piece of meat that the man gave him, and narrowed his eyes with a smile.Then he also gave his uncle a bite.

After watching for a while, Zhou Jing guessed what was going on.I think this kid should be the kid who acted on the stage during the daytime. He vividly acted out the misery of the little boy in the story of the old troupe master, and won a lot of sympathy. I think the ones eating now should be those girls in the village who have not left the court. It was estimated that half of the stuffed food was given to him, and the other half was kept secretly. He didn't dare to eat it under the eyes of everyone, so he sneaked out to eat it in the middle of the night.

It's just a stuttering, Zhou Jing won't embarrass them, he intends to turn around and leave quietly, pretending not to know.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he stepped on something and made a slight sound.He didn't even care about it himself, but the man in the room turned his eyes suddenly, his eyes were full of cruelty, and the tenderness towards the little boy just now disappeared.He came to the window in three or two steps, opened the window, and stretched out his hand to squeeze in the man who was about to slip away from the window.

Zhou Jing was caught off guard by the man. He reacted when he jumped into the window, and turned around to catch the man's slap in the air.In an instant, the two men fought together.

Zhou Jing knows some kung fu. In his previous life, although bodyguards followed him when he went out, there were too many enemies, so he didn’t feel at ease. Six guys are fine.

Coming here without such a big crisis as in the previous life, Zhou Jing's hands were exhausted and he was a little stuck, but he slowly regained his feeling after playing and fighting. After twenty or thirty moves, he narrowly won, and caught the man in his arms on the ground.

Seeing that his uncle was caught by the gangsters, the child frantically raised the plate and threw it at Zhou Jing's head. Zhou Jing had to let the man go in order not to hurt the child, and turned around.

The man quickly got up from the ground, hugged the rushing little boy, and held him in his arms.He had already discovered that the man had no malicious intentions, otherwise he would not let him go when his nephew rushed over, but kicked the child away.

"Who are you, why did you break into Zhou Mansion at night?" the man asked him in a low voice.

Zhou Jing slowly walked out of the shadows and stood under the moonlight.

"Ye Chuang can't talk about it, after all, I'm in my own home."

"Master Zhou?" The man had heard Zhou Jing talking to the old class leader during the day and remembered his voice, so he recognized him immediately.

This time it was Zhou Jing's turn to be surprised, "You have good hearing and hand skills. You are a Lianjiazi, why do you hang out with the theater troupe?"

The man slowly turned his left face, and Zhou Jing saw that his left face had been tattooed. The light was too dim, so he couldn't make out the exact words.

Zhou Jing's heart shuddered, the old class leader's story turned out to be true!

Waking up early the next morning, Shen Mo saw Zhou Jing's padded robe thrown on the ground in a mess, full of vegetable stains.

He was stunned for a moment and said, "You were hungry last night, and you accidentally knocked over the dishes when you went to the kitchen to look for food, but why didn't you spill it on the hem of your robe, but instead spilled it on your upper body?"

For the first time, Zhou Jing never got up early before Shen Mo, he lay on the bed and pointed to his shoulder, "Come and see, your husband was beaten by the bad guys, and his back is blue."

Shen Mo originally thought that Zhou Jing knew him, so he poked his head over the shoulder that Zhou Jing had shown him, and saw four green finger prints on his shoulder, so he ran over nervously.

"What's going on, when did you get hurt, why don't I know?" Shen Mo immediately lifted his nightgown to check other parts of Zhou Jing.There are still a few bruises on the waist.

Zhou Jing turned over, hugged the little husband in his arms, and coaxed: "It's okay, listen to me..."

"The old class leader's story is actually true? Is that man really tattooed on his face? No wonder I think his eyes are very scary."

"That's because I really have hatred in my heart. But Xiaomo, I want to discuss something with you. I plan to keep this person."

"Ah?" Shen Mo's eyes widened in surprise.

Zhou Jing explained: "Actually, I have long planned to buy a man with good skills to come back. Our business is getting bigger and bigger, and people are more and more jealous. If there is an enemy with evil intentions to plot against us, then, our family will only Of the five people, two wives and a child, wouldn't they become chickens under the eagle's claws and be slaughtered by others?"

"So I plan to train some professional nurses and skilled servants to protect the family. Although I know some kung fu, I can teach it, but I don't have time. After all, our business is in the development period. If I let go, I'm afraid it will fall short. I have to ask someone for help. I have tried that guy, he is good at skills, and he has also served in the army, so he can just train the nursing home and servants for our family."

Shen Mo worried: "But his identity?"

"In fact, it is because of his identity that we can control it better. First of all, this kind of man is bloody, and he must have clear grievances and grievances. We will buy him and help him raise his nephew. This kindness is enough for him. What's more, because of his status as a criminal slave, we have complete control over him. Because without our leadership, he couldn't even get out of Liu Town, so naturally he couldn't get out of Hualang."

"However, we need to find out the man's attitude before making a decision." Zhou Jingdao: "It just happens that the first month is out, I will let Fan Xin go to the south, and let him go to the man's hometown to inquire about it. For such a big matter, as long as it is Really, you will know if you ask. If his identity is true, we can use him with confidence in the future, if it is not true, this kind of criminal slave, just send it back to the Yamen for resale."

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