On the first night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a famous opera garden in the city is singing a big opera, the protagonist of this play is one of the famous opera artists in the city, Sai Xi Shi, this Sai Xi Shi dances on the stage, a trick, a smile, a cheek are emotional, and his performance won the applause of the audience.

This Sai Xishi, who is famous in the pear orchard world, is Wang Yunqing's brother-in-law. Mrs. Wang has an elder brother above and a younger brother below in her mother's family, and Sai Xishi is her younger brother, named Zhang Liangquan. Mrs. Wang's grandparents were wealthy businessmen, and the average wealthy family despised those who sang operas, why was her little brother an actor? This has to start with a long story.

Mrs. Wang's ancestral home is SX Datong, and their Zhang family was a well-known local merchant in the late Qing Dynasty, and his grandfather operated coal, leather goods, grain stores and other businesses and cooperated with tea merchants in the FJ area to bring the Tieguanyin tea business to Russia. Later, Zhang Liangquan's grandfather died, and after several brothers separated, his father left SX with a lot of silver to do business in City B. Zhang Liangquan's father was also a shrewd businessman, he opened several grain stores, money banks and pawnshops, and the business was very prosperous. In addition to business, his father also has a hobby, which is listening to opera. On weekdays, he has to go to the opera garden every other day to listen to the play, he almost every time he listens to the play, he takes his youngest son Zhang Liangquan, this Zhang Liangquan has been exposed to the ears and eyes since he was a child, and he can sing a few jokes with great taste when he is five or six years old. When Zhang Liangquan was eight or nine years old, he was even more fascinated by opera, and he often drilled into the opera garden not far from his home. It is rare for a little hairy child to sit with a group of old men to listen to the opera in the opera garden, and the child's expression is very focused when listening to the opera, which attracts the attention of a famous opera actor who sings on stage. This famous actor was quite famous in the opera industry back then, and this famous actor was charming and sang tactfully and softly, and was known as a live sable cicada. Seeing that this child loves opera at a young age and has delicate eyebrows, fine skin and tender meat, he thinks that he is a rare good seedling who sings Tsing Yi, so he has the idea of recruiting both as apprentices. Once a live Diao Chan asked someone to call Zhang Liangquan backstage during a break in the performance, and when he asked Zhang Liangquan with a smile if he was willing to learn from him, Zhang Liangquan jumped up happily. Zhang Liangquan told his father about this after returning home, and his father, who was also obsessed with opera, was naturally very happy when he heard that the famous opera actor Live Diao Chan was going to accept his youngest son as an apprentice, and he didn't think that singing was a shameful business, so he couldn't wait to lead his son to the live Diao Chan's house to apprentice and gave the live Diao Chan a generous gift.

Zhang Liangquan is smart and well-behaved, and he is serious and hard working when learning drama, and he is very fond of live Diao Chan. Live Diao Chan is nearly sixty years old, single and has no children and no daughters, he regards Zhang Liangquan as his own son, and Zhang Liangquan also serves the master like his own father. Ten years later, under the careful teaching of the live Diao Chan, Zhang Liang officially sang on stage, because he was born with a woman's likeness, so his dress is more charming and beautiful than a woman, and his style is more delicate than a woman. Zhang Liangquan's master is known as a live sable cicada, so the ticket holders jokingly call Zhang Liangquan a sai Xi Shi. In ancient China, there were four beauties, and two of them were masters and apprentices, which shows how much the master and apprentice are loved among fans.

This Sai Xi Shi has always been distracted when performing on stage, but today he almost forgot the words while singing, it turned out that the front rows of the stage were full of Japanese soldiers and some traitor officials, and his eyes swept down the stage to suddenly find that there was a Japanese officer who was particularly familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere but couldn't remember who he was for a while. After the play, Sai Xi Shi was removing his makeup backstage, and a young man found Sai Xi Shi and said that a Japanese wanted to see him, and as soon as the young man's voice fell, a Japanese officer came to Sai Xi Shih.

The Japanese officer looked at Sai Xi Shi with a smile and asked, "Sai Xi Shi, I haven't seen you for a few years, how are you?" ”

Sai Xishi was stunned when he saw it, "I said that when I saw you on stage, I felt very familiar, it turns out that you are the Zhu Gui who harmed me!" ”

"Zhu Gui is my Chinese name, my real name is Jiro Ono, and I am a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire."

"Zhu Gui, no! Ono, I used to treat you as a good friend, and I trusted you very much, you turned out to be a Japanese devil, I was really blind! You bastard! Tell me, why did you collude with Jin Gege to deceive me! When Sai Xishi knew that this Japanese was Zhu Gui, he was furious and picked up a stool and was about to rush forward desperately, "The boss is angry, he is a Japanese, we can't afford to provoke him!" Several members of the troupe stopped him with all their might.

Ono didn't care about Sai Xishi scolding him, he said with a smile: "I didn't deliberately deceive you, I said that you Chinese are cunning, as a Japanese agent, it is my compulsory course to personally experience your life of intrigue and deceit, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid, stupid beyond my expectations!" Ono threw his head back and laughed.

"Let me ask you, is that Jin Gege also Japanese?"

"Jin Gege is Chinese, but she owes allegiance to the Great Japanese Empire."

Sai Xi Shi thumped his feet and said, "I really didn't expect it! ”

Ono said proudly: "What else did you not expect, the money we cheated from you became the activity fund of our Japanese secret service in Beiping, I want to thank you!" “”

Sai Xi Shi's lungs were about to explode when Ono was angry, and after Ono left, he sat in a chair in a daze for a long time without moving, and he recalled an incident back then.

Sai Xi Shi and Ono, a Japanese man with the pseudonym Zhu Gui, met several years ago, and they met at Yurong's wedding. One day in the summer of that year, he received an invitation to attend Yurong's wedding, Yurong had always been the woman he had been looking for, Yurong was going to marry someone else, and he was in a very uncomfortable mood. Since Sai Xi Shi's sister married Wang Yunqing, Sai Xi Shi often visited his sister at Wang's house, and he was fascinated by Yu Rong after seeing Yu Rong at Wang's house, so he tried every possible way to contact Yu Rong and tried to win Yu Rong's favor towards him, but Yu Rong not only didn't feel a little about him but also didn't like the fat powder on his body very much, and that Sai Xi Shi was just a dead drill horn person, and he had been pestering Yu Rong all the time, no matter who could not persuade him. On the day of Yurong's wedding, he came to the wedding scene full of alcohol and wanted to forcibly pull away Yurong in a wedding dress. Yurong's wedding made Sai Xishi disturbed, the groom official was an officer under Wang Yunqing, he was very annoyed to see his bride being entangled by Sai Xishi, but because Sai Xishi was Wang Yunqing's brother-in-law, he was embarrassed to lose his temper because of his feelings. But Wang Yunqing was furious at this, and he ordered his soldiers to tie up Sai Xishi and lock him in a hut. Although Mrs. Wang was also angry with her younger brother, she couldn't see that her mother's family was wronged, so she quarreled with Wang Yunqing at the wedding, and Wang Yunqing threw her wine glass in anger. Yu Rong took someone to open the room where Sai Xi Shi was locked in order to calm the matter, she personally untied Sai Xi Shi after persuading him with kind words, and entrusted a wedding guest to be responsible for sending Sai Xi Shi home, the person who sent Sai Xi Shi home was called Zhu Gui, Zhu Gui was a friend of Yu Rong in the YMCA.

On the way home, Sai Xishi was sober up a lot, he was bored and wanted to drink and wanted to find someone to talk to, so he begged Zhu Gui, who was accompanying him all the way, to drink with him, so Zhu Gui helped Sai Xishi out of the foreign car and entered the tavern together. Unexpectedly, as soon as these two people raised their wine glasses, they felt speculative in their words, and they hated to see each other late. Since then, the two have been going back and forth, and they have become friends who often drink together and talk about everything.

One day, Zhu Gui went to the troupe to find Sai Xishi, he called Sai Xishi aside and said mysteriously: "Sai Xishi, I found a girl in a brothel called Yichun Yuan, guess what, she is too much like Wang Yurong!" ”

Sai Xi Shi got angry when he heard it, "Nonsense! Who is Yurong, and can she sell herself in a brothel? ”

"Anyway, it looks quite similar, don't believe you to take a look!"

"Is the brothel a place for us serious people to go? I'm not going! ”

"What's wrong with serious people? There's nothing wrong with going to a brothel once in a while when you're thinking about a woman! That girl who looks very much like Wang Yurong is said to have been Gege in the Manchu Qing Dynasty! Let's go, let's see what we know. Zhu Gui couldn't help but say something and pulled Sai Xishi away.

When he arrived at Yichun Courtyard, Sai Xishi was stunned when he saw the prostitute, the girl looked too much like Yurong. Sai Si Shi originally thought that the women in the brothel must be coquettish and vulgar people. But the woman surnamed Jin who called herself Gege had the demeanor of a lady, her speech and demeanor were very decent, and she was proficient in blowing, playing and singing. In particular, her gentle, considerate and empathetic personality is easier to accept than Yurong, and Sai Xishi, who has always been clean and self-conscious, was fascinated by that prostitute at once. Sai Xi Shi is an infatuated man, since he regarded Jin Gege as Yu Rong, he ran to Yichun Courtyard three days later, he put his feelings for Yu Rong completely on Jin Gege, in order to be able to often soak with Jin Gege until the end he didn't even want to sing.

This Jin Gege is the top card of the entire Yichun Courtyard, many rich and powerful prostitutes are rushing to ask Jin Gege to accompany her, she can't tolerate Sai Xi Shi alone, Sai Xi Shi sometimes drags a large stack of silver in his hand and does not have the opportunity to see Jin Gege, but at this time Sai Xi Shi is already inseparable from Jin Gege, if he does not see the woman for a day, it will be like every other three autumns. At the instigation of Zhu Gui, Sai Xishi had the idea of ransomed Jin Gege from the brothel. During a meeting, Sai Xi Shi told Jin Gege the idea of redeeming his life, and Jin Gege was very moved when he heard about it, and she fell into Sai Xi Shi's arms and wept profusely.

"Benefactor, I came from a princely family, I was originally a golden branch and jade leaf, but I fell into the red dust because of the decline of the family road after Xinhai and was framed by bad people. Don't look at me as the top brand in Yichun Courtyard, in fact, those prostitutes who hold me in the palm of their hands are just greedy for my appearance and have fun with me, and none of them really love me. Besides, although I am red and purple now, how many days can the flowers bloom? Who will spoil me after my glory? One day I'll be swept away. Now you want to redeem me out of the fire pit, you are the living bodhisattva who saved my life, and I will repay you for your kindness by being a cow and a horse for the rest of my life. ”

Jin Gege's words put Sai Xishi into the clouds, he hugged the beauty in his heart and said: "Gege, don't worry, I'll talk to the bustard." ”

"I'm the number one in this Yichun courtyard, the bustard still has to rely on me to make a lot of money, what if she doesn't want you to redeem me?" Jin Gege had an embarrassed expression on his face.

"Isn't it just about money, I'll give her more silver!"

"Sir, you redeem me and do what you can, and don't force me. If I'm too worthy, I'll stop you, I don't want you to go bankrupt because of me. ”

"Haha! You don't have to worry about it, what I lack around Sai Xishi is your beauty, and the last thing I lack is money! You wait, I'll redeem you in a day or two. ”

At that time, it was not uncommon for rich people to ransom prostitutes from brothels as concubines, but the fact that the famous Cessishh wanted to find a prostitute to be his wife was a very sensational negative news. Sai Xi Shi's mentor live Diao Chan was already an ancient person who was about to run out of oil lamps at that time, he heard about this and strongly opposed Sai Xi Shi ransom Gege as a wife, he felt that the disciple of the heir to find a prostitute as a wife was insulting to his face as a godfather, despite the persuasion of the live Diao Chan, but the iron-hearted Sai Xi Shi just didn't listen, and the live Diao Chan was bedridden in a fit of anger, and never wanted to see Sai Xi Shi again. Seish's father was furious when he heard about it, and although he was also a frequent visitor to the sound scene, he believed that prostitutes were just men's playthings, and that even if they liked them, they could not be moved by their true feelings. Besides, if a lowly and unclean prostitute enters the house to be her own daughter-in-law, it will not only insult the door, but also make the world laugh off her big teeth! In a fit of rage, he said that if Sai Xi Shi ransom Gege became his wife, he would sever the father-son relationship with Sai Xi Shi. But at this time, Sai Xi Shi couldn't care about the pressure of public opinion and the opposition of his family for Jin Gege, and Sai Xi Shi resolutely ransomed Jin Gege out of Yichun Courtyard. Sai Xi Shi spent 3,000 yuan to redeem Jin Gege, although the black-hearted old bustard knocked him hard, but the obsessed Sai Xi Shi felt that it was worth it. Sai Xishi disowned the relationship with the family, and he bought a property for Jin Gege outside, and the two lived together as husband and wife.

After a period of time, Sai Xishi was invited to sing in TJHeB and other places, and returned to Peking after more than half a month. When he knocked on the door of the courtyard where he lived with Jingege, it was a man he didn't know.

Sai Xi Shi asked in surprise, "Who are you?" ”

The man asked, "Who are you?" ”

Sai Xi Shi asked again: "I am Sai Xi Shi, why are you here?" Where's my Jingege? ”

"Ouch, it turns out that you are the famous Sai Xi Shi! Come in and talk. The man hurriedly and politely let Sai Xishi into the courtyard. When Sai Si Shi entered the courtyard, he saw a woman playing in the courtyard with two children, and several workers looking like people painting the house. Seeing this, he felt even more strange, so he asked the man, "Are you relatives of Jingege?" ”

The man explained, "Oh, we don't know each other, but a few days ago Jin Gege sold this yard to us. ”

Sai Xishi was anxious when he heard this, "I just bought this house for more than three months, why did Gege, who lived well, sell it behind my back?" I don't believe it! ”

The man went back to the house and took out a document to show Sai Xishi, "You see this is a sales contract between us, please take a look." ”

Sai Xishi was dumbfounded when he took the document and saw it, what he held in his hand was indeed a house sale contract, this large courtyard house was bought for 30,000 yuan, the signature of the seller on the contract was Jin Gege, and the third-party witness of the contract turned out to be Zhu Gui.

Who is this Zhu Gui? Is this Zhu Gui the same Zhu Gui I met? Sai Xi Shi had a question in his heart, he asked the new landlord what Zhu Gui looked like and how old he was, and when the new landlord described Zhu Gui's appearance in detail, Sai Xi Shi decided that this Zhu Gui was the Zhu Gui who knew him. The new landlord told Sai Xi Shi that Zhu Gui had brokered the house sale, and it was then that Sai Xi Shi figured out that he had been calculated by Jin Gege and Zhu Gui. His beloved woman and his friend actually teamed up to harm him, Sai Xishi couldn't accept this fact, he shouted in a hurry: "I never thought of it! Then he felt that the world was spinning and he couldn't stand on his feet, and the new landlord hurriedly helped him to rest in the house. After Sai Xishi sobered up a little, he called a foreign car and sent him home.

After returning home, Sai Xi Shi cried bitterly in his parents, and after his parents learned the ins and outs of this incident, they did not complain too much about their son, but thought that it was a good thing to spend money to buy lessons. After that, Sai Xishi fell seriously ill, and for several months he was depressed and didn't think about tea and dinner, so he refused all performances.

Within two days of Sai Xi Shi's affair, it was hyped up by major newspapers as the front page headlines, and the famous Sai Xi Shi became people's after-dinner conversation and joke for a while. Sai Xishi's father named him Zhang Liangquan, hoping that he would grow up to be a person of loyalty and filial piety, but Sai Xishi gave Jin Gege the infamy of being disloyal to his master and unfilial to his father. This incident almost ruined Sai Xishi's reputation.

A few years later, that Zhu Gui appeared in front of Sai Xishi in the face of a Japanese officer, and Zhu Gui, who had killed him, turned out to be a Japanese devil, which made him very shocked and angry. For him, being deceived by the Chinese can only rely on his own stupidity, then by an oriental; The little devil who came to play tricks is a great shame! Sai Xishi knew that his brother-in-law Wang Yunqing was a Japanese expert, and he also knew some high-ranking Japanese officials, so he decided to tell his brother-in-law about it the next day, and implored his brother-in-law to go to the Japanese to seek justice for himself.

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