In the autumn of 1943, the opera at that time was still tepid, at least in Zhang Daozhi's view, that is, he was a scholar, and his daily task was to go to school, put on a small shoulder bag, step on a bicycle, and embark on the road to school.

At that time, a lot of major events happened in the motherland, and Zhang Daozhi couldn't remember it clearly, but he only remembered that on the way to study, he met a woman, and the clothes she was wearing had long been indistinct. The woman's smile was very sweet, making people feel like spring was coming, and in the cold autumn, Zhang Daozhi's heart felt unprecedented warmth.

The man wears a scarf and holds a bicycle in both hands.

The woman was smiling with a book in her hand.

"What are you looking at me for? Is there something on my face?" the woman asked, and Zhang Daozhi quickly shook his head.

"No, no, nothing. Zhang Daozhi hurriedly vetoed, but the woman approached him at this time, looking at Zhang Daozhi with big eyes, blinking constantly, Zhang Daozhi was a little shy, so he pushed back a few steps, and then asked timidly: "Is there something on my face?"

"No, have you ever said that you are very handsome? are you very good-looking, and your eyes are very bright!" the woman exclaimed excitedly, Zhang Daozhi didn't think there was anything to be excited about. "Someone has said it, what's wrong?"

"Do you like singing?"

"Singing?" Zhang Daozhi shook his head, knowing the name of opera, but he didn't know anything about this industry, the woman let out a laugh like a wind chime, leaving Zhang Daozhi's sight step by step, the long hair behind her flowed, and she suddenly looked back and smiled.

"If you are interested in opera in the future, you can go to the nearest stage here to find me, my name is Lin Yuqing. Zhang Daozhi looked up at the place where Lin Yuqing had gone, and he didn't realize that Zhang Daozhi smiled.

"Lin Yuqing?" Zhang Daozhi started at that time, for the first time in class, he was distracted and was punished by Mr. to stand, Zhang Daozhi did not feel sad, but, full of joy, on the way home, he deliberately went to the only stage here, just in the performance, Zhang Daozhi squeezed, it was all the smell of smoke, and the sound of swallowing melon seeds, but Zhang Daozhi still squeezed in and saw the performance.

The play performed is: Peacock Flying Southeast.

"Okay, unfilial son! I've suffered all my life, and you repay me like this? What kind of sin have I done?"

"I also want the crow to feed the mother, and the lamb to kneel and do its filial piety. But you are fierce and sick, and you have taken root. You shouldn't look down on Laneige's low background, but it is a poor seat. You shouldn't bully Laneige for having no manners, but a model of red cloud sideburns. You shouldn't have expelled Laneige from having no children, maybe it's not yet time! Usually I'm in the yamen, and once a month can't be counted. You have destroyed Laneige, and the woman is overworked and does not get pregnant! Lone and bent on fixing the tiger, who do you say this is the sin?!" This is Jiao Zhongqing, who is determined to resist for his love.

Without anyone at the scene, Jiao Zhongqing's grief could not be felt. Zhang Daozhi watched and was shocked, and then everyone applauded, Zhang Daozhi also applauded, and Lin Yuqing came from the backstage and grabbed Zhang Daozhi's hand.

"Well, interesting. Zhang Daozhi nodded.

"Are you coming?" Lin Yuqing asked, Zhang Daozhi thought for a while, and then nodded.

Subsequently, Zhang Daozhi came here every day, studying and practicing hard alone, and sometimes Lin Yuqing would also guide, and the two would have laughter and laughter almost every day.

"The roles of the opera are: Shengdan is pure and ugly, and Shengdan is pure and ugly, Dan is the heroine, and Shengdan is the male protagonist, repeat. ”

Zhang Daozhi was looking at Lin Yuqing who was talking, and Lin Yuqing said angrily.

"Repeat!"

"Repeat what?"

"What I just said. ”

"Oh, the roles of the opera are: Shengdan Jing......." Zhang Daozhi touched his head, and he really forgot about the back, in fact, he didn't remember, or rather, he didn't listen to it at all.

"Why are you so unserious. What were you looking at just now?" Lin Yuqing asked, very close to Zhang Daozhi.

"I've been watching you. Zhang Daozhi said affectionately, Lin Yuqing's momentum weakened suddenly, his two fingers rubbed, his cheeks turned slightly red, and he turned around and trotted away.

"You're handsome, and you're a scoundrel! ”

"Eh, Yuqing, where are you going, hey!" Zhang Daozhi was confused and followed.

"What are you doing with me?"

"You are my master, I don't follow you, who am I with?"

"Come on, come on, you won't be able to follow for long anyway. ”

"If I could, I would like to follow for the rest of my life. ”

"Flim Flam, ignore you. ”

"Say that every time. ”

"What did you say?"

"Nope. ”

........... A few years have passed, Zhang Daozhi with his handsome face, solid skills, slowly became popular, known as Zhang Da Hongren, at that time he also found some strange things, there is a woman, no matter the wind or rain, cloudless, this woman will always appear in her own special show, silently looking at herself, it seems that she is not coming to see the play, but to see herself, Zhang Daozhi is very curious, once after the performance, found this woman.

The woman is wearing a red cheongsam, holding a long cigarette stick in her hand, skillful movements, it can be seen that the woman's smoking addiction is not small, the red cheongsam she wears, the materials are exquisite, the workmanship is fine, and the wrapped figure is concave and convex, showing the charm and coquettishness of a mature woman, Zhang Daozhi's eyes are bright, as a play, the most important thing is to control his feelings, very coincidentally, Zhang Daozhi has always been ignorant of this.

The two talked, in fact, the woman was also the first time to see Zhang Daozhi's handsome face, quite surprised, the woman's smile was quite amorous, Zhang Daozhi was simply lingering about it, intoxicated, it was like falling into the peach blossom spring, unwilling to leave.

The woman's name Zhang Daozhi has never known, only that her name is Mrs. Xiang.

"Whose perfume smell on your body!" Lin Yuqing asked, Zhang Daozhi was anxious, smelled it himself, and lied: "It's not a big deal if you get it when you sing!" Lin Yuqing was furious and lifted the table.

"It's not a big deal? None of the people in the background can wear perfume, and you must be standing very close to each other with such a strong smell!

"It's Mrs. Xiang, I talked to her for a few words. ”

"Mrs. Xiang, it's that dead vixen!"

"She's not a vixen! she's my friend!" Zhang Daozhi suddenly became angry, slapped his palm, and with a snap, Lin Yuqing covered his face and looked at Zhang Daozhi in disbelief, Zhang Daozhi also looked at his hand in disbelief.

"I'm sorry ......"

"Zhang Daozhi, you actually dare to beat me! I won't get married this time! Whoever loves to marry you, you go and marry!"

Zhang Daozhi hugged Lin Yuqing and kept repenting. "I was wrong, I was wrong, even if it wasn't for our sake, you have to think about the child in your belly, it's all my fault!"

"Then you can't see her again!"

"No promise!"

"Seriously!"

"Naturally, seriously!" Zhang Daozhi swore.

"Hahaha, at that time, I was completely lying, aren't you young people have a saying, a man's mouth, a deceitful ghost? ”

Zhang Daozhi received a letter and was asked to meet in a café, it was Mrs. Xiang, saying that she had not seen her for many days and missed her very much. Zhang Daozhi did a good job of disguise and went secretly.

"What is Mrs. Xiang looking for me?"

"Why, can't I look for you if it's okay? Mrs. Xiang took a puff of cigarette, swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and spit it on Zhang Daozhi's face, Zhang Daozhi waved his hand to disperse the smoke, and asked, "Then what are you looking for me for?" ”

"Do you think I'm a vixen?"

"No!" Zhang Daozhi blurted out instantly, Mrs. Xiang no longer smoked, but looked at Zhang Daozhi in surprise, this handsome face, what she said at the moment, was like a beam of light illuminating Mrs. Xiang's heart.

"Didn't you lie to me?"

"Why did you lie to you?"

"Why don't you think I'm a vixen?"

"Why do you think you are?" Mrs. Xiang was dumbfounded, nodding her head constantly, stretching her waist, constantly laughing, like crazy, like relief, the cigarette stick in her hand was held tightly, and she suddenly looked at Zhang Daozhi with an affectionate face. "Would you like to elope with me and enjoy the beauty of the world. ”

"I'm afraid not, I'm about to get married. ”

"Oh," Mrs. Xiang's Danfeng eyes were dim at this moment, there was no trace of color in her eyes, and she instantly seemed to despair of the world, "Is that so? That's right, a person like you will definitely have a home, how can you like yourself, the stump of the willow." ”

Mrs. Xiang got up and went out directly, Zhang Daozhi didn't stop her, as if she was missing something in her heart, but she didn't know what she was missing at that time.

The picture of the past, once again:

"Zhang Daozhi, you're drunk. Mrs. Xiang said.

"I'm not drunk, I can still sing, I don't believe you, general......." Mrs. Xiang smiled, helped Zhang Daozhi, and walked on the street, under a bright moon.

"The moon is so beautiful!" Mrs. Xiang said with emotion, and the drunk Zhang Daozhi raised his head and waved his hand directly. "Pretty what, not as pretty as you. ”

"Do you like me, then?"

"Like, like. Zhang Daozhi was not drunk lightly, and kept shaking.

"You lie, no one will really like me, they all say that I am a vixen, a female smoker. Zhang Daozhi looked up at Mrs. Xiang, snatched Mrs. Xiang's cigarette stick, raised his head and inhaled sharply, and after swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, he coughed non-stop, and Mrs. Xiang laughed. "Zhang Daozhi, what are you doing here?"

"Don't be afraid, they say you're a vixen, but I don't think so, they say you're a smoker, I'll be a smoker! I smoke too, and I'll always be behind you. I like you, I just like you, it doesn't matter if you're a vixen or a smoker, even if it's true, I still like you!" Zhang Daozhi said, Mrs. Xiang looked at Zhang Daozhi with a surprised face, stopped, pear blossom with tears, and watched Zhang Daozhi staggering away.

That scene, I'm afraid it is still unforgettable, a man who can't smoke, constantly smoking in the moonlight, coughing after smoking, but still insisting, the woman stood behind the man, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and finally couldn't stop it, so she covered her face with her hands, and the pear blossom was in tears.

It's miserable, it's really miserable.

"If you are a smoker, I will become a smoker, I like you, I just like you!" Mrs. Xiang fell on the street, looked at the back of Zhang Daozhi who came out of the café, smiled silently, lit the cigarette stick again, and smoked. Only she knew about that night, but he didn't remember it, he kept saying that he liked himself, but he forgot that he didn't want to disturb his life.

"You like me, and I like you too!" ”

Zhang Dao went to perform in other places before, and returned to his hometown for two months, but he was told that Lin Yuqing was seriously ill, so he hurriedly rushed back, but only Lin Yuqing, who was lifeless, was left alone, lying on the bed, his body cold.

People said that it was Mrs. Xiang's lover, a warlord who came to make trouble, not only dismantled the stage, but also punched and kicked Lin Yuqing, which made a mistake!

"Yuqing, Yuqing, it's okay, I'll take you to a foreign country for treatment, let's go immediately." ”

"No need, I know my own body, that Yuqing, promise me one thing. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Stay with me again and sing a play. The peacock flies southeast, you are Jiao Zhongqing, and I am Liu Lanzhi. ”

The two of them took the stage again, even if it was a huge illness, they couldn't stop Lin Yuqing's brilliance, Zhang Daozhi looked at Liu Lanzhi on the stage, exuding brilliance, and he seemed to have been promoted to a deeper realm. However, the pain was still better, Lin Yuqing fell into Zhang Daozhi's arms, crying silently, and grabbed Zhang Daozhi's sleeve.

"Daozhi, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die, I want to be with you all the time. ”

"I don't want to, I don't want you to die!"

"In the next life, we will be like this Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi, we are willing to be winged birds in heaven and Lian Li Zhi on earth, okay?"

"I, in the next life, I will. ”

"That's good. After Lin Yuqing finished saying this last sentence, he let go of the hand that was holding the sleeve of the nervous Daozhi, lost his vitality, Zhang Daozhi shed tears, even the makeup was spent, and Lin Yuqing was gently lying on the ground, Zhang Daozhi stopped crying.

"Come, watch me sing again. ”

I am a play, the play is like life, sigh, the play is autumnal, the pity is deep but old, the seat is full of old clothes, I want to sing but I am dumb, and I hope to get together with Qing again.

Zhang Daozhi buried Lin Yuqing, knelt silently in front of Lin Yuqing's tomb, looked at the beauty of the past, but as separated by people today, it is really unpredictable, things are wrong, I wanted to burn my costume to Lin Yuqing, but I couldn't help it, because this was sewn out by Lin Yuqing with a needle and a thread, Zhang Daozhi put on a costume, and in front of this tomb, sang a play for Lin Yuqing, it was the peacock flying southeast, and people at that time said that Zhang Daozhi's peacock flying southeast was simply expressive!

Soon after, Zhang Daozhi also received the news that Mrs. Xiang died violently in a small town, and it seemed that her body was thrown there, the reason seemed to be because someone told her that she had a private meeting with her lover and was shot and thrown away by the warlord, and the end was extremely miserable.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. ”

As for those things that Zhang Daozhi said after drinking, he also learned from Mrs. Xiang's letters.

"In my life, I have never seen a second such man, the world says that I am a vixen, he doesn't care, the world says I am a female smoker, he doesn't care, sing alone for me in the moonlight, it is a play that belongs to me, at that moment, the man belongs to me, he said that he wants to become a smoker with me, because he likes me, I like him very much, I am also willing to elope with him, wandering the world, but unfortunately, he has a beautiful woman, I am a stump of the willow, or don't destroy his happiness. Under this letter, there were still tear stains, Zhang Daozhi closed his eyes and shook his head, his eyes were red.

"Why bother, I'm not worth it!"

In his life, Zhang Daozhi has loved two women: Lin Yuqing, Mrs. Xiang, these two daughters also like him very much, and when Zhang Daozhi thinks about it, he often regrets it.

"If I take Yuqing to the show, she won't get sick, if I agree to Mrs. Xiang's elopement, she won't be thrown into the wilderness, all kinds of things, it's all my fault, if I only agree to one, it won't be like this, the two women I love most in my life will all leave me!

"If we had never met each other........."

After listening to Zhang Daozhi's story, I touched my face, I had already shed tears, the house was extremely quiet, I could only hear the sound of firewood burning in the stove, and then, Zhang Daozhi smiled, as if he had seen something, got up and walked to the back room, and appeared in front of me again, wearing a costume.

"Young man, would you like to watch my old bones sing a play?"

"Yes. ”

Next, the peacock flew southeast. ”

Zhang Daozhi's skills have not diminished back then, I can bet that this is the best play I have ever seen, there is no play that can compare to this peacock flying southeast, for a moment, I seemed to feel that I was under the stage, Zhang Daozhi paused, looked around, very empty, but in addition to me, there were two people.

A woman, slim and elegant, like a lotus flower, out of the mud without staining, sat on the seat obediently, looking at Zhang Daozhi intently, with an infatuated face.

A woman, wearing a red cheongsam, wrapped in a concave and convex figure, showing the charm and coquettishness of a mature woman, with a long cigarette stick in her hand, swallowing clouds and spitting fog all the time, stretching her willow waist from time to time, and also looking at Zhang Daozhi intently, extremely affectionate!

"Good, good, good, look, good!" Zhang Daozhi then performed, vividly.

I burst into tears.

"Maybe you're old and hallucinating, but I've always felt that you're still there. ”

"Yuqing, do you remember me? I'm your husband!"

"Mrs. Xiang, do you remember me? That handsome young man back then, sing you another play!"

In the void, there seems to be a response that transcends space and time.

"Remember!"

Suddenly, there were a few crisp sounds, and it was fireworks that rose into the air, blooming in colorful colors in the air, and it looked like two women. The light shone through the window and shone on Zhang Daozhi's face, and I saw it.

Zhang Daozhi smiled and cried!

I am a play, the play is like life, sigh, the play is autumnal, the pity is deep but old, the seat is full of old clothes, I want to sing but I am dumb, and I hope to get together with Qing again. I seemed to hear it again and whispered.

"If we had never met each other....."

A ruined building, a dilapidated stage, two costumes, a cigarette stick, and the tragic story ends here.

The drama is so autumnal, how autumnal, and how sad!