Chapter 39: Watching the Theater
The two sisters made a calculation like this, and before they finished speaking, Tan Rulin walked in with two women in white robes in the courtyard. At the bottom of the eaves, Tan Rulin immediately laughed and said: "It's a coincidence that my cousin came today, and it happened that the fourth sister was also there, why didn't the two of you sit in the house?" ”
Jin Li was a little disgusted with Tan Rulin at the moment because of Fang Cai Zhongqing's illness and what Wan Chun said, so she took a step faster than Wan Chun and sneered: "It's a coincidence, brother-in-law." If I don't come again, I don't know what will happen to my second sister's illness. ”
Tan Rulin was stunned for a moment, his own brother and sister were injured during the war, and he had few siblings, and after Zhongqing married in Shanghai, Jin Li, as an aunt and cousin, has always come and gone. He watched this young lady of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs grow up, and Jin Li had a lively temperament, loved to play and laugh, which added a lot of fun to their couple, so in his heart he regarded her as his own sister-in-law.
Seeing that Jin Li's attitude was very different from before, he couldn't help but be confused, and he didn't know where he offended her, so he slowly put away the smile on his face, and patrolled the expressions of Jin Li and Wanchun before saying, "I still have something to do, and I can't take care of my two younger sisters." When the two of you arrived at my house, they just treated it as if they were in their own home, and if you needed anything, just ask your subordinates to do it for you, and you must not be polite. ”
Wan Chun was afraid that he would be suspicious and would disrupt tonight's plan, so he smiled on his face, and saw that the two women behind him did not look like Chinese faces, so he asked, "Are these two the midwives invited by my brother-in-law?" ”
Tan Rulin said: "It was the Japanese midwife I invited, the two sisters chatted slowly, and I took them to meet my mother first." ”
Wan Chun nodded his head, avoided his body and let Tan Rulin and them in, Jin Li snorted unconsciously behind him, and said angrily: "He is like a good person, I have seen tonight, what else can he say." ”
"Hurry up and be quiet." Wan Chun smiled and shook her head, wondering if she was inconsiderate of involving Jin Li.
Because of Yu's presence, Zhongqing slept very peacefully during this nap, and woke up in the evening feeling a little hungry, Tan Rulin hurriedly asked someone to prepare some rice porridge and clear side dishes, and recommended the two midwives to her. Zhong Qing was still angry at the moment, and he didn't accept his affection, so he just spoke to Cuizhi and asked her to remake some food and bring it.
Tan Rulin touched a nail, and his heart was naturally uncomfortable, but in front of his mother-in-law, he couldn't be more serious with a sick person, so he had to laugh and comfort him.
Yu Shi looked at the two Japanese midwives since they entered the door, they were standing on the edge of the door very well-behaved, the white burqa was fat and fat on the slender body, and the bottom was half exposed with a piece of delicate clogs painted with vermilion lacquer and gold, and the heels were close to the wall, and it was a serious Western woman, so she smiled and said: "You don't need to be more restrained, you have been here for the past two days, you must take care of my daughter, money is not a problem." ”
When the two Japanese midwives heard this, one of the older men stood up, bowed at 90 degrees, and said in a Chinese dialect that was not fluent: "Don't worry, madam, we will take care of her." ”
Yu snorted in his mouth, and the two Japanese midwives stepped forward to take a closer look at Zhongqing's pulse and belly, muttered a little bit, and then said to Yu again: "This fetus is so lively, he is going to come out early." My wife told someone to prepare what was to be produced, and it will only be in these two days. ”
"Is it fast?"
Yu glanced at Zhong Qing worriedly, and said, "Her body is still a little weak, if she is born prematurely, it won't matter much, right?"
The Japanese midwife smiled: "No, the young grandmother just had fetal gas and was in pain, but her body is still very good, enough to be qualified for premature birth." ”
Yu Shi saw that she was very sure, and the nervous mood that had been relaxed was finally slightly relaxed, and she heard the midwife say a lot of precautions, she was afraid that she would make a mistake when she was old, so she asked Cuizhi to remember it from the side.
Tan Rulin waited on the side for a long time, but he didn't see anything to arrange himself, and he was worried about the evening date in his heart, so he quietly left the house. Because I had seen the two sisters Wanchun and Jin Li in the big living room when I came, I was afraid that I would meet again this time, and it would be difficult to answer, so I turned around and went out through the back glass door of the living room.
But said that Cuizhi was in the house while remembering, while secretly paying attention to Tan Rulin's movements, seeing him go out at this moment, her heart was very anxious, but the Japanese midwife was a strict person, how small the hot water was made clear, she couldn't just walk away, so she had to be patient in the house. Watching the wall clock go straight past four o'clock, the midwife finished speaking, Cuizhi didn't wait for Yu's instructions, so she sent the midwife out, and went to Wanchun's guest room when she was busy.
As soon as he entered the door, he said: "Our uncle has gone out, are the two young ladies going out at this time?" ”
Jin Li and Wan Chun were talking in the bedroom, and when they heard her say that they were busy, they all stood up and said, "Did you just go out?" ”
Cuizhi shook her head and said in annoyance: "It's been a while since I went out, and I remember what the midwife said in the room, so I can't report to the two of you immediately." ”
Jin Li was startled and hurriedly said, "What are you waiting for, let's go." ”
As she spoke, Wan Chun grabbed her sleeve and said, "Don't panic, it's only evening, they couldn't go to the entertainment hall so early, presumably my brother-in-law went over there, let's go to Mom's place first." The soles of her feet turned her steps and went to Zhongqing's room, she didn't say that she was going to grab Tan Rulin's handle, but said: "Jin Li said that the second sister is sick, she is rarely on vacation today, and she wants to take me to see Shanghai, I will ask my mother what she means, can we go out like this?" ”
Yu also thought that she had finally come to visit, although Zhongqing was sick, but since the midwife said that there was nothing to do, there was no need to detain Wanchun by her side, so she nodded and smiled: "It's okay, Jin Li is a native of Shanghai, and I am very relieved to have her to play with you." ”
Zhong Qing ate some porridge and was already able to sit up against the pillow, so he also said: "You guys can play, there are many places to go in Shanghai, and I, the host, can't accompany me." ”
Wanchun and Jin Li both laughed and said that she was polite, so they went out hand in hand, sat in Jin Li's car together, and told the coachman to go straight to the Shanghai Entertainment Hall in the West District.
The former recreation hall was a large hotel that also operated a dance hall, with a total of three floors, the ground floor is a kitchen and storefront, and the second floor is a dance floor and banquet hall. The two-storey ballroom is fully operational, which can accommodate 1,000 people dancing at the same time, and the room is also equipped with air conditioning and heating, and the furnishings are luxurious. The third floor is the hotel, and the top floor is equipped with a huge cylindrical fiberglass tower, when the dancers are ready to leave, the waiter can type the customer's car license plate or other code on the tower, and the driver can see it from a distance, and drive the car to the door of the dance hall.
After the completion of this entertainment hall, it was once leased to the French, because the rental contract stipulated that a commission should be taken according to the number of guests, the French manager immediately stipulated that the dancers should bring their own dance partners, so the fee was extremely expensive, and the entertainment hall suffered huge losses in a few days. In desperation, the takeover of the entertainment hall had to dismiss the French manager, change the management again, and openly recruit dancers from the society, integrating singing, dancing and opera and other entertainment.
Jin Li's father, He Changyuan, because he has an official position, when the entertainment hall was set up, the person who took over did not follow his path, so in order to repay the favor, he allocated some shares under his name and transferred them to He Changyuan's account. Jin Li is the only young lady in the He family, and when she was a teenager, she often followed Li Lanzao and He Changyuan to the Shanghai Entertainment Hall to listen to the play, and the listeners here all recognized her.
When he saw the car coming from a distance, he walked down the steps briskly with a spring breeze on his face, and hurriedly opened the door for Jin Li and said, "Miss Jin Li, what kind of wind blew you here today?" You haven't been with us in over a month. ”
Jin Li saw that they were also very familiar with them, so she said: "I have gone to middle school, and I can't go here as often as I used to." Why, do you have any good things to honor me these days? ”
She naturally joked, and the errands liked her informal Shanghainese style, so they gaged a few words. Wan Chun bent out from the other side, looked up at the three big-character signboards of the golden and shiny entertainment hall hanging on the storefront, and saw that there were two advertisements several meters long and wide on the left and right, on the left is Mei Ruolan, the queen of sweet songs from Kunqu Opera, and on the right is Miss Li Yujun, who is known as the white peony.
Thinking that Lu Jianhao came to cheer today, then there should always be advertisements for people who cheered, so he took a few steps forward and looked around, but he didn't find a third person other than Mei and Li. I couldn't help but be suspicious in my heart, but couldn't it be one of Mei Ruolan and Li Yujun?
With such doubts, when Wanchun looked at the two posters again, she couldn't help but think a few more layers. Mei Ruolan is an authentic Mei lineage disciple of Liyuan, and she can stand as a pillar in the Shanghai Entertainment Hall because she repays her kindness for her teacher, and has little to do with her personal wishes. And Li Yujun is not very innocent, she was originally born to sing small songs, and she met someone with a background by chance, so she recommended her to the entertainment hall. Among the two, if it is suspicious, it must be Li Yujun.
Wan Chun secretly came to a conclusion, and seeing that Jin Li had already walked to her side, he said to her: "You ask them, when did Li Yujun start, let's charter a box and watch." ”
"A private room?" Jin Li didn't think as much as Wanchun thought, but just tilted half of her cheek lightly, and asked in a low voice, "Aren't we here to find my brother-in-law, how can we find it when we enter the box?" ”
Wan Chun smiled and said: "Only when the enemy is in the light and we are in the dark, can it be convenient to find it, if we are in the light, they should see it first, and the first thing is to avoid it, and then our plan will not be in vain?" ”
Jin Li let out a long sigh, and finally understood, so she beckoned, and called the messenger who was talking to her: "Let me ask you, how many are there in the box upstairs?" Go and let them leave me a good sight, we are going to support Boss Li today. ”
Seeing this, they were busy saying that there were some and some of them, and they had been mixing in the sound and lust places for a long time, and their heads were turning faster than anyone else, so how could the business delivered to the door be pushed out? No, what kind of character is Chief He, the young lady of their family wants to come to see a show, even if she is temporarily expelled to make room for her.
led Wanchun and Jin Li all the way to the second floor, and asked a waiter to ask clearly, but there was a good position that someone else had chartered, and he had something to do and retreated, so he asked Wanchun and Jin Li to meet each other. After listening to the errand, he ordered the waiter to not have to bring anyone up, and wrote this box to Jin Li's name, and asked her if there was anything else, so she asked her to bring fruit plates and tea, and then pulled down the green silk curtains of the box, leaving her two to sit in it.