With this question with a casual smile, those old memories hidden in Zheng Yandu's heart were hooked up defenselessly, and then he narrowed his eyes slightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Zheng Yandu likes to drink tea, and attaches great importance to the ritual sense of drinking tea. Although he has limited funds on weekdays and can't afford to drink hundreds of thousands of precious teas, the tea sets and tea leaves he bought are not low-grade goods, such as the cake and flower tea that he is now used to receive Gu Nanqiao and Su Yiyang, which is the product of his careful selection.

The fragrance of tea that fills the house is mixed with a faint jasmine aroma, and the entrance is sweet and elegant.

"Grievances don't count...... It's just that the old troupe couldn't stand the two brothers too much. ”

When the old troupe announced its restructuring, there was a turmoil in the troupe, which made people panic.

In recent years, the performance market has been sluggish, with the renewal of the audience, the development of local opera has entered a bottleneck stage, and the audience's tastes have become more and more picky.

What's more, in the early years, most of the large and small theater troupes in various places ate public jobs, there was not enough market stimulation, the staff were too comfortable, and the artistic level was stagnant in the long run, and gradually could not keep up with the development of the times.

It's just that in the face of the restructuring, the reaction of the old head back then was a little chilling.

The original intention of the so-called restructuring of the theater troupe is nothing more than to let the major theater troupes face the market, and the larger theater troupes choose to face the difficulties, take the initiative to seek new market opportunities, and gradually develop, such as the Peking Opera Troupe in Province B.

There are also some theater troupes, because of the limitations of scale and personnel, they feel that they cannot adapt to the market, and even if they try blindly, they will inevitably be eliminated by the market, so they simply give up the opportunity to try, and choose the severance pay that seemed decent at the time, and directly disbanded the theater troupe completely and took the road of layoff.

For example, the old courtyard group used to be.

"Our leader back then was named Xie Tao, he was an actor who sang Xiaosheng in his early years, he sang very well, his mind was also bright, he was very good at doing things, and he managed the old courtyard troupe well at the beginning. It's a pity that when you get used to being a leader, you will inevitably become worldly, and he ....."

After all, Zheng Yandu is a reserved and introverted person, he has a gentle temper and restrained words, unlike Li Hetian, who will say whatever he catches, and there is no one to put a door on his lips. Zheng Yandu was unwilling to judge others in vain, and he was not good at discussing the rights and wrongs of others behind his back, so his thousands of words only turned into a meaningful sigh.

"Xie Tao, he is good at everything, but he attaches too much importance to the immediate interests, and he says that he should seek stability, and this choice is good for the big guys, but in fact, it is nothing more than reluctance to pay the severance pay at that time, and his eyes are open when he sees the money. If the old troupe hadn't dispersed back then, and the big guys were still together, they would have survived any difficulties if they couldn't have done it, and now it would have developed better than the Peking Opera Troupe in Province B. ”

Zheng Yandu squinted slightly, and said to himself, Su Yiyang and Gu Nanqiao sat on the side, no one interjected, and he didn't need a so-called response at all.

After a long while, Zheng Yandu sighed lightly before finally speaking.

"Hey, forget it, it's all over......"

The atmosphere fell silent again, and then Su Yiyang thought about Zheng Yandu's words, and asked bluntly: "So, did Xie Tao offend the Yue brothers by choosing to disband the old troupe back then?"

"If it's just that, it's nothing," Zheng Yandu smiled bitterly and said with emotion, "Xie Tao really can't stand Brother Hanwen and Xihe, hey...... It's a pity that the heir of the dignified Beiping Yue family has fallen to that point. ”

"What, Beiping Yue's family?" Before Gu Nanqiao could say anything, Su Yiyang raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, "Is it the Beiping Yue's family of Yue's pianist Sun's drum?"

Zheng Yandu glanced at Su Yiyang meaningfully, he was a little surprised that the young man in front of him, who obviously seemed to be just a cynical son, why did he know all about these secrets that even the old people in the Peking Opera circle might not be able to explain clearly.

But soon, he withdrew his gaze and nodded faintly.

"Yes, apart from the Yue family in Beiping, which Yue family can there be. ”

After receiving Zheng Yandu's confirmation, Su Yiyang narrowed his smiling eyes slightly, looking thoughtful.

Su Yiyang has always known a lot about Peking Opera, coupled with the relationship behind his mother, Su Dashao has also heard of these so-called Peking Opera families.

For example, the Yue family in Beiping.

Each industry has its own rules, and for the Peking Opera industry, the most important thing is inheritance and origin, which is a common rule in the Peking Opera circle. The children of the Peking Opera family have a teacher, and they are born to learn the most orthodox skills, and no matter where they go, they will make people feel unclear, and they can also make real connoisseurs look at them. And Ye Luzi wants to sing it, all by hard work and talent, unless he can meet the great creation, or reach a height that others can't reach, he can't take off this hat for the rest of his life.

There used to be four unwritten slips of the tongue in the Peking Opera circle, which said that when Peking Opera was at its most prosperous a hundred years ago, several famous Peking Opera families and their specialties were unique.

- "The Ji family is a young student and Feng Jiadan, the Yue family is a violinist and Sun is drumming, the Mei family is full of water sleeves, and the Guo family clown is the leader." ”

Many of the characters mentioned here are now nowhere to be found. Whether it is the descendants of those masters of the family who began to hide in the city, and after experiencing a lot of suppression, they are unwilling to go out of the mountain easily, or they have long stopped relying on Peking Opera skills to eat, and changed careers to make other livelihoods, no one has said anything.

The prosperity and scenery of the year have faded, many things have been sealed by time, and the rumors and deeds about those masters can only be occasionally heard from the oral tradition of the older generation, and scattered fragments can be spied through the long years.

In Su Yiyang's generation, almost only the descendants of the orthodox Peking Opera circle can completely say the names of these great families. Laymen no longer know these four sentences, they only know that the excellent theater troupes in various provinces can be called those hard-to-find famous actors, but they don't know the former major Peking Opera families.

Today's Peking Opera family, the best mix is the Ji family and the Mei family.

Ji Jiasheng is the Ji family who has flourished in the Peking Opera circle, and Ji Guangfan, the director of Jingyao Grand Theater, has become famous step by step since he was a child, climbed to the management of Jingyao Grand Theater, and reached the current height. In addition to running the independent theater troupe Liyuantang, Ji Munan is also a very good actor.

And the Mei family has not wasted their efforts for so many years, and the elders have even taught in the Academy of Opera, and they have widely recruited disciples, and almost every generation will produce a few well-known characters. Especially this generation of Tsing Yi Mei Hanqiu, she is a benchmark figure in today's Danjiao, and she alone is enough to support the façade of the Mei family.

As for the Yue family in Beiping and the Sun family in Jiangnan, they are all big bulls in the Peking Opera band, they are one in the south and one in the north, one piano and one drum, all of them have been in the local scenery. The Feng family's Danjiao is soft and tactful, and the former elders of the Feng family are well-deserved to be the first person in the Danjiao. Unlike the Mei family's peach and plum all over the world, the ancestral exercises of the Feng family are never passed on, and the children of foreign surnames want to learn these kung fu is simply a dream, so Feng Jiadan is not well-known to the outside world, but it is particularly rare in the eyes of insiders.

And the most powerful thing here is the clown of the Guo family. As the saying goes, "no ugliness is not a play", as long as there is a clown of the Guo family, even if there is nothing in this play, it can be regarded as a success, and it is enough to afford the criticism of being the leader.

It's just that in the past hundred years, after experiencing wars and famines, as well as particularly turbulent years, the development of Peking Opera has encountered great twists and turns, and these inheritances have also been affected by force majeure, and many things have been crushed in the long river of history, and gradually become undocumented.

However, no matter how many of these families disappear, after all, they are also legendary figures, and the housekeeping skills handed down by the ancestors are constantly extinct, and they will never fall to the point where they can't get along.

Thinking like this, Su Yiyang barely thought about it, and then asked again: "Since the Yue family brothers are the descendants of the Yue family in Beiping, isn't it the big Buddha that the major theater troupes are vying for, how can they be detained in the small temple of the old theater troupe?"

"I don't know the reason for this, Xihe didn't tell me in detail. Zheng Yandu did not shy away from answering Su Yiyang's question very directly, "At that time, when I was in the old courtyard group, Brother Han Wen was not close to anyone, and he was mysterious, but Xihe had a good relationship with me, and occasionally said a few words of self-consideration...... Xihe also likes tea, but he is much more particular than me, we drink tea, people are tasting tea, and the realm is different. ”

"Xihe has a set of jade tea sets of mutton fat jade, it is said that it was brought from the Yue family mansion in Beiping, the water head of the jade cup is particularly good, even if I don't understand jade, I know that it is definitely a valuable thing. The inner wall of the cup is embossed with ink landscapes, which is nothing special if you don't look carefully on weekdays, but every time you brew tea, the outline of the landscape will emerge with it, I remember, it seems to be the clouds and mist of Yellow Mountain...... Tea is good tea, the cup is a good cup, a sip is like drinking into a sea of clouds, indescribably enjoyable. ”

When he said this, Zheng Yandu also took a sip of the teacup, what he drank was obviously an ordinary flower tea, but it was like tasting the cup of Shifeng Longjing that Yuexi River poured for him back then, which meant a long time.

"In the most difficult years, Xihe would separate the best tea leaves in small cloth bags, and only put a few tea tips when brewing, so that the tea taste was particularly light, almost no tea taste, and boiled water was no different. It's not that I didn't persuade him to drink something else, and the lower grades are not so bad, but he just smiled and shook his head. Later, when the special tea was drunk, he buried the jade tea set under the withered willows of the old courtyard group, and never drank tea again. ”

Su Yiyang listened quietly, he didn't know anything about the Yue brothers, and at this moment a clear and arrogant figure suddenly appeared in his mind, he was self-conscious under the June osmanthus in Province B, with a clear height of knowing the world but not the world, he didn't know how to take a step back and open the sky, but the stubbornness and persistence in his bones couldn't allow him to compromise at all.

Therefore, it is not surprising that it will end up like that.

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