Chapter 1 Grandchildren
"Elder Xu, please stay, I hope you and Ye Lan can think about it again. After all, the quintessence of art needs to be passed down from generation to generation. Director Niu politely stood at the door and said with a smile to Xu Shu and Ye Lan in the door. The few people in the back also accompanied the smiling faces, and they all looked very cooperative.
"Definitely, go slowly. Xu Shu was also polite, and she couldn't see the slightest fakeness, she turned sideways and let out the light in the room, so that Director Niu and they could go downstairs in the dark corridor.
This is the old dormitory building of the Peking Opera Company in Beijing, the house is still the protected building built with the help of the old Maozi brother, the best house is the high interior and good heat preservation. The bad thing is that the house layout is not very practical. For example, the narrow corridor and the zigzag staircase, even if it is daylight, the staircase in the middle of the corridor still cannot be lit, and the sensor lights in the corridor have long been broken, but the people who live in the Peking Opera Company are all used to installing a lamp at the door of their house. So Xu Shu got used to the habit of opening the door for a while when sending people out, and then closed it when they went downstairs.
Another example is the house, the foyer is the foyer, and when you open the door, there is a place to change shoes, and then there is a narrow passage that leads to the doors. The foyer is usually not lit, and it is as dark as at night. Even if this house is actually not small, but in terms of practicality, it is actually quite poor, and as soon as you enter the door, you feel like you are back in the seventies and eighties.
Ye Lan and the others couldn't see it, so they breathed a sigh of relief and went back to the big room in the living room with Xu Shu.
It's actually like a 78's dΓ©cor, with old-fashioned leather sofas wrapped in towels and old-fashioned coffee tables made of wood and marble polished.
There was an envelope on the coffee table, as well as a couple of old-fashioned glass teacups. The glass is carved in brown color, and it looks like a cold water cup that was popular in the 80s, but it is difficult to see it now.
In this large room, except for an LCD TV hanging on the wall, it is impossible to tell that it is the 21st century and the 20s.
And in this room, there is a lot of empty space in the middle, and where there is a whole wall of mirrors against the wall. There is a handle in front of the mirror, and this is where the old lady teaches, and she usually teaches students to practice here.
Ye Lan took the same glass tray and put the teacup in it, ready to take it to the kitchen to wash. She is very careful, and this tea set is something she also likes, so she treats it very carefully.
"Lan Lan, what do you think?" Xu Shu didn't stop her granddaughter's movements, she also took a rag to wipe the originally clean coffee table, and went to the kitchen with Ye Lan, Ye Lan carefully washed the cups, and she concentrated on washing the rags.
The kitchen is very large, eleven or twelve square meters, here should have been renovated in recent years, the wall has a kitchen cabinet, a sink, and the island can be used as a dining table, and the design is very practical.
"People come to congratulate you on the 60th anniversary of your stage art, and by the way, you have cultivated a good granddaughter, and there is a successor to the Ye family, what can I say?" Ye Lan gently poured the cup into the draining basket and said a little helplessly.
"Don't learn yin and yang from your eldest sister and second sister, people are mainly here for you. Xu Shu wiped her hands and tapped her, "The courtyard has always cared about you all these years, and now that you are so good, the courtyard is actually happy." β
"Yes, I was given 18 years of child support, and now it's not wrong to say that I am a child of the Peking Opera Company. Ye Lan hehe, she is a posthumous son, and her father was posthumously recognized as a martyr, so she has a pension after she was born, which is withdrawn on a monthly basis, and tuition and medical expenses are also reimbursed. Until the age of eighteen, of course, if you are admitted to the university, the college will give a one-time reward, and the envelope just now is, all according to the regulations.
"Lan Lan!" Xu Shu frowned, she didn't like Ye Lan's tone of speech.
"They asked me to apply for the Peking Opera major, can my mother agree to this? Even if my mother can agree, my aunt and sister-in-law can't agree. To be honest, none of our school teachers can say yes. Ye Lan finally finished washing the cup, wiped his hands, and looked at Xu Shu honestly, "What about you, do you want me to inherit the Ye family's inheritance?"
"I promised your mother that I wouldn't teach you the Ye family inheritance. If you study well, I will follow you in any major, I say so, and I have always done so. However, now grandma thinks that there is something wrong with your tone, the leader just cares about you, you are eighteen, no matter what you think in your heart, everyone has to get by. "Xu Shu has always been a strict parent, although her strictness is not needed here for Ye Lan, but she still has to say what she should say.
"Milk, don't I feel tired? I'm tired for you, and I'm tired for them. Ye Lan grabbed Xu Shu's arm, "To be honest, in fact, they don't believe that I can apply for Peking Opera." Besides, it's impossible, I haven't applied for the art exam before, and I haven't taken any of the professional exams, and now I'm running to say that there are successors to the Ye family's inheritance, are they here to be funny?"
"So, you know, they know, but they have to say it. Whether we do it or not, or that, everyone has to get by. Xu Shu didn't think so, it was originally a matter of everyone's hello, hello, everyone's good, the people on the scene, as soon as they talked about the scene, this matter was over. Words don't need to be spoken!
"Grandma, you teach me like this, auntie, do they know?" Ye Lan smiled 'poof', feeling that grandma is really, facing aunts and sisters-in-law, the old lady is the most square, always a group of people's artists. As a result for yourself, it becomes like this.
"Go!" Xu Shu pinched Ye Lan and handed her the envelope, "The reward in the courtyard is the last time." β
"I don't have anything to buy. Ye Lan shook her head, she also took a few of these big envelopes when she went to school during the day, and gave them to her grandmother when she came back, she didn't keep much money on her, and every month the eldest sister and the second sister would transfer some pocket money in her WeChat, except for buying some stationery and reference books, it seemed that there was no use.
"Then I'll still keep it in your little passbook tomorrow?" The old lady didn't force it, put the envelope on the coffee table, turned on the TV with her hand, and said as she opened it, "Oh, you call your mother, she calls home when you go to school during the day." β
"Didn't say anything?" Ye Lan didn't move, she received the letter yesterday and didn't tell her mother, but she absolutely believed that her mother must have known it for the first time, and it was a little difficult to call back now.
"No!" Xu Shu was expressionless, seeing that Ye Lan hadn't left, she gave her a roll of her eyes, "You still need to ask, it must be asking you about your major." β