Wu Mantun didn't know if he was frightened by the excited fans in the audience, or if he saw that the matter had reached the point of no return, he was really willing to admit defeat.

With a disgraced face, he carefully held the tea tray and bent down a little in front of everyone.

"I'm sorry, everything is the master's fault, I apologize to you. ”

Wu Mantun's voice was not loud, but it clearly reached the ears of many people.

Cheng Xiaolou, who was dressed in a red wedding dress, and Duan Lanquan, who was on crutches, glanced at each other, and they both saw an inexplicable pleasure in each other's eyes.

From childhood to adulthood, this titular godfather and master have always scolded them like dogs, and the slightest mistake is a violent beating, either a day of punishment and not allowed to eat, or a punishment of kneeling in the yard, for several hours.

Although I have learned some skills under Wu Mantun over the years, it is no exaggeration to say that these are all exchanged for Cheng Xiaolou and Duan Lanquan as cattle and horses.

Hearing that he still called himself a master at this time, Duan Lanquan only felt a vicious aura surging upwards from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't suppress it.

Cheng Xiaolou also pursed his lips, evoking a sneer.

The moment he forced this body predecessor to death, the master-apprentice relationship between the two had been completely severed.

From today onwards, I will have nothing to do with you!"

Duan Lanquan resisted the urge to slap him hard, his teeth gurgling.

"Senior brother is right, I don't bother to mention the past, all grievances are here today, from today onwards, I and Senior Brother Duan Lanquan officially cut off the master-apprentice relationship with you, and you can do it yourself in the future." ”

Cheng Xiaolou pondered for a moment, and no longer repeated the grievances and grievances between the two, if he lost the play, Wu Mantun and his Taihe Spring Opera Troupe would inevitably pay a great price.

As long as you drink this cup of atonement tea, the grievances will be completely settled, and you will be on the road to the sky in the future, and you will go to one side.

Just as Cheng Xiaolou reached out to serve the tea cup in the tea tray, someone in the audience suddenly shouted: "Kneel down and pour tea." ”

"That's right, since you want to pour tea to make amends, you should kneel!"

"When your ancestors set the rules for the pear orchard, they didn't say that they stood and poured tea to make amends. ”

"Filthy dog, get on your knees!"

……

The four words "kneel down and pour tea" have become the common voice of most theater fans in a blink of an eye.

For the sake of Cheng Xiaolou's face, although those fans who were upset with him no longer shouted and killed, they were not prepared to let Wu Mantun go so easily.

The sudden change was something that Cheng Xiaolou and Duan Lanquan did not expect.

He glanced at the fans who shouted "Kneel down and pour tea", and then looked at Wu Mantun, who was bowing down and holding a tea tray, lowering his head and not seeing his expression, and he was a little hesitant for a while.

Standing and pouring tea to make amends and kneeling to pour tea are two completely different concepts.

And it was witnessed by thousands of people.

Although Cheng Xiaolou couldn't see Wu Mantun's face, he clearly saw that when he shouted "kneel down and pour tea" in the audience, Wu Mantun's hands holding the tea tray were trembling slightly.

Obviously, his heart must not be at peace at this time.

Wu Mantun's hands trembled more and more, even the green tendons burst out, the tea cup shook with a clang, and the tea inside spilled out.

Suddenly, Cheng Xiaolou found that Wu Mantun's hands were no longer trembling, and he looked more and more old and lonely, his knees bent a little bit, and he slowly knelt down to the ground without saying a word.

The voices of the fans gradually stopped, and Zhang Zhihuo, a senior in the pear orchard standing in the first row, glanced at a few people next to him, and his face became extremely serious.

Zhang Zhihuo and two old men who were about the same age as him were all frowning and staring at the stage without blinking at this time, with a thick look of disappointment in their eyes.

The party who loses the drama needs to pour tea to the other party in public to make amends, which is the rule of the pear orchard set by the ancestors.

However, with the progress and development of the times, kneeling to worship tea decades ago has evolved into bowing to tea.

In the eyes of Zhang Zhihuo, the elder people in the pear orchard, no matter how big the grievances of Cheng Xiaolou's brothers and Wu Mantun are, they have now completely ended on the stage, and then force the other party to kneel down to serve tea, that is, Cheng Xiaolou and they are unruly.

For hundreds of years, the servants have always belonged to the lower ninth class of lowly people, no matter how red the horns, they were still looked down upon by those princes, ministers, scholars, and nobles, and the law clearly forbade people in the pear orchard to intermarry with the "Shinong industrial and commercial" class, and could only marry people of the same nationality.

This is the same as the China where Cheng Xiaolou lived in his previous life.

Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang's grandfather Mei Qiaoling married a wife who was an opera, and his father Mei Zhufen's wife was also an opera, and Mei Lanfang's wife Wang Minghua was also born in a Liyuan family.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the marriage of the same nationality that Liyuan can gradually develop and grow, and finally become as it is today.

It is precisely because the people in the pear orchard were lowly in the past, and they were the lower nine ranks who were looked down upon, so the talents in the pear orchard paid more attention to the rules.

It's nothing to be looked down upon by others, but if you look down on yourself, that's the real lowliness.

The so-called extreme must be opposed, and the drama that has been looked down upon for hundreds of years has risen steadily after the advent of the new era, and finally evolved into one of the most sought after and respected professions.

In the eyes of the older generation like Zhang Zhihuo, the fundamental reason why Lingren can have such a low position today is that everything has a rule.

Just when Zhang Zhihuo was about to speak out to stop Wu Mantun from kneeling to pour tea, he saw Cheng Xiaolou suddenly pick up the tea cup before the other party knelt down.

"You don't have to kneel down to pour tea, it's not in order. Although we no longer have anything to do with it, there is no so-called respect and humility, but after all, you are dozens of years older than me, and you can not stand your knees. ”

Cheng Xiaolou glanced at Wu Mantun with a complicated face while holding the teacup, staggered to the side and took a step aside, picked up the teacup and blew it lightly under the gaze of everyone, and took a symbolic sip and put it back on the tray.

Seeing this, Duan Lanquan, who was standing next to him, also took a sip of the teacup with his neck strained, snorted coldly with deep resentment, and put the teacup back heavily.

According to his intentions, I wish Wu Mantun knelt down in public to pour tea and make amends, it would be better to kowtow a few more times.

"Good!"

Zhang Zhihuo's frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and he cheered loudly with approval.

"At a young age, he knows how to abide by the rules left by his ancestors, and this little guy will achieve unlimited things in the future!"

Next to Zhang Zhihuo, an old man wearing a cyan robe and looking polite looked at Cheng Xiaolou's gaze became more and more gentle.

"It's a good one who doesn't distinguish between the old and the young, Wu Mantun is really a mouse, such a good seedling is not carefully trained, and he actually wants him to do that kind of dirty thing, it's really ......"

Another old man with Zhang Zhihuo has a slightly feminine voice, a pale face, and insiders can see at a glance the unique temperament he has cultivated for decades.