After a long time, Zheng Yandu finally came back to his senses from the memories of the past.

"Regarding the background of the Yue family, it was Xihe who was drunk and leaked his mouth, so he inadvertently told me about it, and I don't know more. As for what you asked, why did Brother Han Wen and Xihe come to the old troupe, it seems that Xie Tao and the Yue family once had some relationship, and he relied on a little friendship in the old days to invite the Yue brothers out of the mountain, wanting to fulfill each other...... It's a pity that Xie Tao finally failed the two brothers. ”

With this long sigh, the bitter past of the year came flooding back.

When Xie Tao announced his decision, he was almost unanimously opposed by the members of the troupe.

At that time, none of the big guys in the old troupe agreed to disband the troupe directly. This has nothing to do with the amount of severance pay, after all, this is where everyone's mind lies, they just don't want to cut off this breath - imagine that most of the hard work of these old people has been spent in Peking Opera, what else can they do except sing at the moment?

Among them, the Yue brothers are the most resolute and pay the most tragic price.

Perhaps no one would have imagined that the person who is alone on weekdays and seems to have the least feelings for the old troupe, when it comes to the critical moment of the life and death of the troupe, the attitude he shows is actually the most moving.

The Yue brothers, especially Yue Hanwen, are considered to be the outliers of the old troupe, in a word, they are high.

In the wrong box.

At the beginning, except for Xie Tao, the rest of the old troupe didn't know the true origin of the Yue brothers, but it didn't prevent them from becoming legends of the old troupe. The Yue family in Beiping, just saying four words, is a well-known name, but the two brothers of the Yue family disdain the floating world, and they have always kept silent about these secret pasts.

It's just that no matter how low-key the two of them are, they can't stand the curiosity of the big guys in the troupe.

Especially Li Hetian, who is not very good at dealing with Yue Hanwen, he admits that Yue Hanwen's kung fu is at home and is convinced of his performance level, but he was young and vigorous back then, and Li Hetian has always been a violent temper that can't be hidden, so no matter how convinced this genius luthier is, he can't get used to his eyes on the top of his head, and he always wants to find out something.

There were even a lot of jokes in the process.

"I still remember, Uncle Li and Uncle Han Wen don't seem to deal with each other well, right?"

Gu Nanqiao recalled what happened in the compound when he was a child, and said thoughtfully, "Back then, in the courtyard of the old troupe, the only one who dared to deal with Uncle Han Wen was Uncle Li, but he was also scolded...... Tsk, Uncle Han Wen's hurtful mouth without dirty words, I feel palpitations when I think about it, Uncle Li can stand it, and it is also difficult for him. ”

"Hetian has a big ability, a straight temper, and is arrogant in his bones, he couldn't look down on the pianists of the troupe before, and felt that people didn't play well, and they didn't deserve his drums. ”

Zheng Yandu remembered Li Hetian's stunned appearance in his early twenties, and shook his head with a smile.

"At that time, Hotan was the pillar of our regiment, and he couldn't afford to offend...... Think about it, there were Lao Fan, your mother, and me on the stage at that time, who was missing, and this play would be able to sing..... But on the band's side, almost all relied on Li Hetian, the drummer, and Xie Tao couldn't leave him, so he could only indulge his temper and offer this big Buddha well. ”

"Then Xie Tao invited the brothers of the Yue family to be Li Hetian's partner?" Su Yiyang thought about Zheng Yandu's words, and quickly sorted out the reasons for the year, "Tsk, Xie Tao is really a big face." ”

"Hetian has always looked down on anyone, until he saw Yue Hanwen, he was convinced, and he completely stopped. ”

Zheng Yandu picked up the teacup, took a sip without hurry, and moistened his throat before he continued, "When Hetian was young, he was like a child, he felt that Yue Hanwen had an appetite for him and wanted to have a deep friendship with others. just found the wrong way, did all the disgusting things, and really made a lot of jokes, and Yue Hanwen didn't bother to pay attention to him.

"Hey, I have to touch other people's moldy heads, it's not Uncle Li's own fault. ”

While Gu Nanqiao and Zheng Yandu were reminiscing about the past, Su Yiyang was thinking about something more far-reaching.

Su Dashao has a wide range of knowledge, excellent emotional intelligence, and is the best at speculating and grasping people's hearts. Even if it is a difficult person, in his hands, he can be caught by four or two thousand pounds, and then use the right medicine to take advantage of it.

The qualities that these excellent businessmen must possess are especially evident in Su Yiyang's body.

But after listening to Zheng Yandu say so much, he still didn't find the pain points of the Yue brothers.

For no other reason, these two brothers are too uncannibalistic.

"Teacher Zheng, let me interrupt," Su Yiyang's fingers curled slightly, and lightly buckled on the solid wood tabletop, "What kind of character is Yue Hanwen?"

"Chinese, he ......" Zheng Yandu's tone paused slightly, as if he was looking for a suitable language to summarize.

After a long while, he sighed and spoke as if sorry.

"He was supposed to be a master, and he was proud of that spirit for a lifetime, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time and didn't catch up with the good time. ”

*****

If you have to summarize the Yue brothers, what kind of words should you use?

That's what it should be, the breeze and the moon.

At that time, Yue Hanwen was accustomed to wearing satin gowns, quite a bit of the style of the literati during the Republic of China, and when it was cold, he added a double-sided fur collar outside, and his words and deeds were a bit of chic without entering the WTO.

There are not many pieces of his clothes, they are all timeless classic styles, with more calm colors of black, white and gray, and the material of the clothes is the best Suzhou satin with lifelike double-sided embroidery, even if it is old after many times of pulp washing, it is not difficult to see that it is a good thing, and it is a rare object that cannot be bought on the market today.

No matter what clothes Yue Hanwen was wearing, he had never seen him take off the ancient jade hanging on the placket. The whole body of the jade is white and flawless, warm and delicate, only the center is pure dark red jade lines, and the water head is so good that it seems to be able to drip out, even people who don't understand jade can recognize this as the best in jade at a glance.

This kind of outfit may be pompous in the minds of the literati of the family, but in the hearts of the Jianghu people who play and sing in the old troupe, they are simply full of food and have nothing to do, and they start to pretend to be big cloves of garlic when they are idle.

Li Hetian once doubted how the bourgeois style of Chongyue Hanwen came from that era.

Yue Hanwen doesn't mind the fingers and fingers of the old troupe, they are dressed like a good boy in the turbid world, and his style of action is like a son's brother, upholding a self-satisfied mentality, everything is to be comfortable and happy, and he doesn't care about the opinions of others at all.

The members of the old troupe divided the houses, and the big guys lived in the same courtyard, and they didn't look up all day long, and they moved around very often. Especially in the summer, when every household still has no air conditioning, the old electric fan will not be used after the ambush, and the house is stuffy and unbearable, so I am sweating together. On the contrary, the evening breeze outside the house is gentle, and the cicadas of a tree are accompanied by a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which is very comfortable.

After getting off work, their old buddies will not often set up a table in the yard, sit under the big tree together to enjoy the coolness, play mahjong, drink wine, complain a few words about the troupe leaders, or talk about the trivial life of the Zhang family Li Jia, which is also the greatest fun after dinner.

Of course, Yue Hanwen never attends this kind of event, and the original words of the people are - "boring." ”

Except for rehearsals and stage in the troupe, Yue Hanwen disdains any form of socialization, and is unwilling to get too close to anyone, and the relationship only stays at the level of nodding acquaintances, which is extremely mysterious.

In his free time, he always stays alone in his yard, or reads books or drinks tea, and when he is in good spirits, he will read ancient scores, pull a few new gadgets, and hide in the family building of the old troupe.

In this regard, Li Hetian is very unaccustomed to it.

In all fairness, Li Hetian is a downright rough person, the reason why he can practice that hand drum skills has little to do with hobbies, let alone the so-called family inheritance, the original intention was just to make a living, and later by chance worshiped a good master, and became a well-known figure.

Li Hetian has lived a hard life for many years, and before entering the old troupe, he mixed with major opera troupes, and learned skills in society. In order to beg for a bite to eat in the troubled times, he doesn't know how many sins he has suffered, in order to survive, he has seen all kinds of dirty things, and he doesn't want his life, what style can he pay attention to.

- To put it mildly, counting back hundreds of years, everyone was considered a ninth-rate, and they really thought they were masters.

Of course, the more core reason is that Li Hetian wanted to have a deep friendship with Yue Hanwen several times, but he was quietly rejected by others, and he was not happy. So Li Hetian has always wanted to know who Yue Hanwen's teacher is, and wants to see what kind of character he can teach such a son-in-law who can drag forty, fifty or eighty thousand.

After Xie Tao chatted several times intentionally or unintentionally revealed the far-reaching background of the Yue brothers, Li Hetian's curiosity was aroused to the extreme, and then he simply bought a few bottles of good wine and went to get close to his own leaders in person.

After going back and forth like this, Li Hetian finally made progress.

Although he didn't inquire into the Yue family in Beiping, he could be regarded as having gained something—at least, he knew what the piece of jade that Yue Hanwen often held in his hand was.

"It is said that the ancestors of the Yue family were all musicians in the court, and once performed in front of Cixi Lafayette, and became famous for their skills, and received many valuable rewards. Later, Xihe also told me about these things, his tea set was brought out from the palace by his ancestors earlier, but it was a beautiful workmanship, not as valuable as the jade. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Yandu paused and told those past events as they were.

Later, in the war years, the Yue family became more and more inferior to before, and many things were missing, except for scattered objects, except for the scattered objects, only the pendant of Hetian jade remained, which was passed down from generation to generation - the one that Zheng Hanwen often hung. ”

Gu Nanqiao listened a little distracted, she had never heard of these things, and was about to ask a few more words, but she saw Su Yiyang squinting a pair of smiling eyes, and before Zheng Yandu finished speaking, she took a step forward and opened her mouth lightly.

"That is Yue Jiayu, and it is also the certificate of the head of the Yue family in Beiping. ”

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