Guo Xiaodong's words may be poisonous, talking about good things never works, but saying bad things is accurate.

Gu Nanqiao rehearsed until the end of work, successfully catching up with the progress that fell before, and did not have to work overtime. She was planning to take advantage of the early start of work today to take the time to go to the old city gate to pack some kung pao chicken that Fan Lingchu likes to eat and take it back, and then chat with the old man to comfort Fan Yishan about running away from home.

But when she went to the dressing room to remove her makeup, she picked up her phone casually and looked at it, and she was dumbfounded. After turning on the lock screen button, a bright prompt message appeared on the mobile phone screen, and the more than 20 missed calls were all from Chu Youyou.

Since it is Chu Youyou's call, there is a chance that it will be a matter of spring in the garden.

Chu Youyou is the primary school sister of Gu Nanqiao's opera academy, and she is also Gu Nanqiao's loyal fan sister. She can sing both the role of Dan and the old girl, but she can do everything, but she is not proficient in everything, and she has little stage experience, so she has a spiritual energy, but her singing voice is still a little hot.

When he got to the off-campus internship in his senior year, Chu Youyou came to Gu Nanqiao and wanted to have more opportunities to go on stage, so he came to the Spring Garden by chance, and became the biggest pillar of this wild opera team in addition to the class owner - after all, Chu Youyou was born in a science class, and her basic skills are quite solid, but she is basically okay with all the classic singing segments that the audience can order, and when Fan Lingchu and Gu Nanqiao are not there, she can help calm the scene.

Chu Youyou's character, Gu Nanqiao couldn't understand it anymore, although she was lively and outgoing, she was by no means a person without ideas, so Gu Nanqiao really couldn't imagine for a while that she had encountered something big that could force Chu Youyou to make so many phone calls in a row.

But before Gu Nanqiao could think about it, her mobile phone rang endlessly.

"What's the matter, Youyou," Gu Nanqiao pressed the answer button, "I was just rehearsing, and when I came back, I made more than 20 calls, and you weren't afraid of blowing up my phone?"

"Sister Nanqiao, you can be regarded as answering the phone," on the other side of the phone, Chu Youyou's voice sounded impatient, "I'll tell you, something is wrong." ”

"What's wrong?" Gu Nanqiao asked, "Don't worry, you speak slowly." ”

"Hey, can I not be in a hurry, it's a matter of spring in the garden. Chu Youyou hurriedly began to speak.

"Just now, our troupe came to an audience who is particularly able to find trouble, where did he come to see the play, he is simply going to smash the scene....... You don't know, Sister Nanqiao, after he entered the door, he first picked our stage for being too simple, the chairs were too low-waisted, and the outfit was not decent enough, so he finally sat down, and said that the tea that came with it was unpalatable, and the accompanying refreshments were not on the table...... When he said that, several spectators almost had to refund their tickets on the spot, and it took me a lot of effort to stop them. ”

Gu Nanqiao only listened to half of it, and he had no good impression of this unobtrusive audience, and his tone inevitably became tough: "You tell him, go to the teahouse for tea, go to the restaurant for dinner, and think that the chair is uncomfortable to sit on, go to the furniture city to buy a luxury leather sofa, and lean on it casually, how comfortable and how to come." In the spring garden, it's a play, not a tea tasting, who is used to him?"

"The problem is, he's not just picking on these irrelevant things. Chu Youyou sighed.

"He's still a ticket holder, can't he pick the fault of our play?" Gu Nanqiao asked casually.

"No, he really found fault with the play," Speaking of this, Chu Youyou's tone became even more aggrieved, "Let me tell you, Sister Nan Qiao, this master is like an expert, if you just talk about the artistry of Peking Opera, even I can't talk about him." ”

Hearing this, Gu Nanqiao was a little puzzled, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

In these years, it is not uncommon for idlers who like to touch porcelain and smash the field when they are idle, and it is not uncommon for people who often go to the theater and have some real talent and learning. But when these two things are superimposed, as a senior ticket holder, I don't listen to the performances of well-known theater troupes, and I don't try to find a hard-to-find ticket for a famous role, but comes to this not well-known private theater troupe to find faults, it is difficult for people to understand what kind of operation this is.

Chu Youyou didn't have time to care what Gu Nanqiao was thinking, she sighed faintly, and said in a summary manner: "Sister Nanqiao, I can't bear it anyway, that master just ordered another excerpt, and I have to accept his soul torture in a while...... The rivers and lakes are in emergency, you should come over quickly. ”

Gu Nanqiao retracted his thoughts and responded straightforwardly.

"Okay, I'll go over now, you wait. ”

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The troupe is located in a small theater outside the East Third Ring Road, not far from the former site of the state-owned troupe where Fan Lingchu once worked, and next to the family building of the old courtyard troupe.

Xinguang City, Province B outside the East Third Ring Road once engaged in development left a lot of waste factories, later demolished to be built but has not been too perfect land planning, so the development of this urban area is relatively backward, and because of the many factories, poor air quality, transportation is far from convenient, compared with the other locations of Xinguang City, the housing prices here are much cheaper than elsewhere.

Because of this, although it was very difficult at the beginning, it did not completely discourage Fan Lingchu.

He took out all the savings he had accumulated over the years, scraped together a lot of foreign debts, and finally reluctantly bought a single-story two-story building with a somewhat remote location, which was renovated as a performance venue for the troupe, and now has a private troupe full of spring.

Nominally a small theater, it was originally just a small second floor with a small area, and after a sloppy renovation that was far from luxurious, it was forced to start the rational use of local conditions, forming the current performance venue that is too difficult and simple, and a little unworthy no matter how you look at it.

He opened up the second-floor partition of the house, made the ceiling high, and used one-third of the area to add some tables and chairs to the mirror, and used a few screen partitions to open up the dressing room and the backstage lounge, which became the backstage management area. The front yard and the rest of the area are treated more simply, just adding the lighting and stage equipment that are essential for the performance, and setting up a very simple stage as a performance space. Then, two rows of brocade embroidered peacock chairs and matching solid wood tea tables were placed in the open-air area as seats, and several rows of wooden tables and chairs were placed in the open space behind to form an audience seat.

Because of the limited venue, a performance in the spring garden can only accommodate 50 people at most, coupled with the comprehensive consideration of environmental factors and the quality of the performance, it can only be used in a small amount of marketing, and the ticket price is destined not to be set too high. Even if the tickets are sold out when they are sold out, it is difficult to maintain the normal operation of the troupe, and more often than not, it is beyond their means, and Fan Lingchu needs to pay the staff of the troupe with his own money.

Therefore, increasing publicity and marketing efforts is like a fool's dream.

In the long run, the people who come to watch the performance in the Spring Garden are nothing more than the elderly who have nothing to do around, and the repeat customers who like Fan Lingchu or Chu Youyou's singing and come over, there is not much radiation.

But fortunately, the artistic quality of the troupe in the spring garden is quite passable, and there is also Fan Lingchu, the head of the class and the pillar of the stage, to support the scene, and to keep some old faces back and forth, with a stable fixed income every month, although it can't make a lot of money, and it doesn't have much market competitiveness, but it has been difficult to operate for many years, and it can be regarded as barely holding on to now.

Gu Nanqiao couldn't understand these current situations anymore, so when she arrived at the spring garden, she was obviously stunned.

At the entrance of the theater is a coquettish blue Maserati GC, a stylish roadster that contrasts with its surroundings. If this car is parked in the CBD business district in the center of the city or in front of the major bars and nightclubs, it is not inconsistent, but it is parked in front of the dilapidated wall door with the word "demolition" painted with white paint, and the precious tires are not more than half of the decayed grass everywhere, no matter how you look at it, it looks out of place.

You don't have to guess to know that this car is the car of the ticket holder who kicked the gym.

Gu Nanqiao has always been indifferent to the rich people's flaunting of wealth, and even instinctively feels that most of the rich second generation are unreliable, and there are not a few who sit on the mountain of gold but are idle all day long, but there are very few people who are really willing to do something down-to-earth.

As a rich boy, not only does he like Peking Opera, which is not a mainstream traditional culture, but he also found a little-known private opera troupe in the Spring Garden, which is a bit unbelievable no matter how you think about it.

The more Gu Nanqiao thought about it, the more confused he became, and said in his heart what kind of character did Spring Manyuan provoke this time.

But obviously Chu Youyou didn't leave Gu Nanqiao too much time to think, she felt that the time was almost up, so she waited at the gate early, and watched Gu Nanqiao come over from a distance, so she hurriedly waved her hand to meet her.

"Sister Nanqiao, you are here. ”

"What's the situation, what about people?" Gu Nanqiao walked towards Chu Youyou without being in a hurry or hurry, and asked at the same time, "Didn't you say that he ordered another excerpt, why didn't you go on stage?"

"Why didn't I go on stage, I finished singing. Before Chu Youyou had time to remove the oil paint on his face, he only took off the headdress, which would be asked by Gu Nanqiao, and she couldn't help muttering a little aggrieved, "I told you before that the soul torture was underestimating him, but this time I was just halfway through the singing, and I was directly stopped." ”

"What?" Gu Nanqiao raised his eyebrows in surprise.

The theater is the home of the actors, but as long as the actors are still standing on the stage, it means that the play has not been sung, and the audience with a little quality will respect the stage and wait until the end of the performance to make an evaluation. Like Chu Youyou said, this situation rarely happens, and the lethality to the actor is no less than applauding in public, if it is not really too bad, or the person is simply here to smash the scene, deliberately trying to satirize people.

He said that he sang too badly and was not worthy of selling tickets to the outside world, so he couldn't listen to it anymore. ”

seemed to see Gu Nanqiao's question, and before she could speak, Chu Youyou took the initiative to explain, "It's thanks to this excerpt that he ordered alone, and the other audience left the stage before starting to sing, otherwise I will have the face to face those senior fans in the spring garden in the future." ”

Gu Nanqiao didn't need to ask much about the performance, she could already see from Chu Youyou's appearance that the excerpt she sang today was an excerpt from Tsing Yi "The Legend of the West Chamber", this singing segment Chu Youyou was not too familiar, and it was not a fixed performance repertoire full of spring. But this is a more classic singing segment after all, Chu Youyou's background level is placed there, even if it is not brilliant enough, practice makes perfect after all, and there should not be too many mistakes.

"What's the matter, do you really think you're a big deal?"

Thinking like this, Gu Nanqiao was a little angry, she sneered, and said with some disdain.

"I'll go and meet him, if I really want to make suggestions, of course I will change it if there is a spring garden, and if I don't, I will encourage him, but if he comes to find trouble on purpose, we don't need to be afraid of him. ”