Beiping City includes the outer city, the inner city and the Forbidden City, and the time of the day is definitely not finished, and the troupe of the Nine Emperor Society actually only walks around a few nearby towns, and even then at the end of the day, everyone is so tired that they can't lift their feet, and the people carrying the sedan chair and boxes are even more tired and collapse to the ground.

Jiang Sheng has been sitting on the sedan chair but not tired, but on the road dry and irritable drinking a lot of water, passing by Qiantang Town, many people ran to the street to watch, Qiantang Town Primary School people also secretly ran out, which naturally included Xiao Wu, Zhao Dahai and me.

Jiang Sheng seemed to hear us, his face was red from the sun, his lips were white, and he smiled at us.

After that, Jiang Sheng was carried away, gradually out of sight, and when he came back after school, the pastel on his face had been washed away.

"Didn't you take us to something delicious when you were done?" Xiao Wu asked.

Jiang Sheng said: "It's late for you to go to Liyuan after school, let's go home after eating meat buns today, I'm in for a treat, let's go together again if we don't have classes tomorrow, I told the master, he said to pick us up tomorrow." ”

Xiao Wu was naturally happy to hear that there were meat buns to eat, and the four of us sat in the bun shop and ate happily, each of us asked for two baskets of steamed buns and a bowl of porridge, and then walked towards Sanlitun when we had a full stomach.

Early the next morning, Master Long took Hu Xiaomeng to Mr. Zhang's house early, Master Long first talked to Mr. Zhang about bringing Jiang Sheng to the opera garden to learn opera, Mr. Zhang has always liked to listen to Peking Opera, but he has no objection to this, anyway, Jiang Sheng will not delay in his studies.

Mr. Zhang said: "If Jiang Sheng can enter the pear orchard, I will naturally be happy, but I am not his elder after all, so you have to ask his parents and his own wishes." ”

"It's nature." Master Long said. "I thought that I would bring Mr. Zhang's students to my pear orchard to say hello in advance, and I would communicate with his parents, but I don't know what their family background is?"

Mr. Zhang said: "I don't know the specifics, but their family lives in Sanlitun, so it must not be very good, and Brother Long has to go and see it himself." ”

Master Long said goodbye to Mr. Zhang, rented a few cars and went to Sanlitun, his mother heard the movement and walked out of the door, saw an old man and a young man at the door, and a few rickshaws, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Master Long said: "I am the owner of the opera garden in Liyuan Town, my surname is Long, and you are Jiang Sheng's mother?" ”

The mother nodded and said, "Oh, it's Master Long, Jiang Sheng told me about him in the opera garden last night, do you want to take him as an apprentice?" ”

"It seems that you are a person who understands, so I'll be straight to the point." Master Long said. "Our Liyuan is recruiting a new team, Jiang Sheng's appearance and figure are all in line, he also sang two sentences last night, his voice is passable, now the world is chaotic, it is not easy to eat and eat, how many families want to send their children in, in order to get ahead, as Jiang Sheng's mother, what are your wishes?"

Mother said: "Master Long is blessed to fall in love with our Jiangsheng, but his father and I are happy to see our children study, and it is not impossible to learn opera, but I have heard my father say before that Liyuan singing opera is generally from poor children, and it is necessary to sign a deed of sale. Our children can't eat, I don't want Jiang Sheng to be a special case, that breaks the rules of the pear orchard, I just want Jiang Sheng to be an observer, learn for a month, if he is willing to stay, he will naturally follow your rules, if he is not willing to stay, he can leave at any time, what do you think? ”

Mother said very thoughtfully, but Hu Xiaomeng frowned when he heard it, and said: "Ten years of work on the stage for one minute and off the stage, although Jiang Sheng is a good embryo, he can't become a material without training, master, although I want this Jiang Sheng to be a junior brother, but if the rules of the pear orchard are broken, you don't make an exception, our family Xi'er is weak, and she can't afford to be sick." ”

Master Long hesitated for a long time, and said: "It's not an exception, if he doesn't want to eat this line of food, we can't force it, then according to the sister-in-law's meaning, take three months as the time limit, if he is willing to stay in this line after three months, I will accept him as an apprentice, if he is unwilling, let him come back, it means that we have no master-apprentice fate, I also said hello to Mr. Zhang from the school, from today Jiang Sheng can pack up his things and live in the pear orchard." ”

Mother beckoned Master Long and Hu Xiaomeng into the house, and the two chatted for a long time, after which the mother packed Jiang Sheng's luggage and let Jiang Sheng take it.

On the same day, Zhao Dahai and I rushed to the town with Jiang Sheng in a rickshaw, Jiang Sheng wanted to pick up Xiao Wu, and Master Long had to agree, and took Xiao Wu to Liyuan for a meal of eating and drinking.

When I was about to leave in the afternoon, I pulled Jiang Sheng and asked, "Brother, won't you go home with me?" ”

Jiang Sheng whispered: "Jiang Rong, I have to stay here for a while, in fact, I have long wanted to come to learn singing, the rules of the pear garden are so strict that I can't go out, if you miss me, come and see me with Xiao Wu." ”

I nodded in agreement, very reluctant in my heart, and got into the rickshaw with Zhao Dahai and looked back at Jiang Sheng who gave me a few times.

After Zhao Dahai and Xiao Wu and I left, Master Long asked Hu Xiaomeng to arrange Jiang Sheng's residence, and soon after Master Long returned to the room, the housekeeper of Liyuan knocked on the door and entered the room, and said, "I found out, this child is really not an ordinary person." ”

"What else is going on?" Master Long asked in a little surprise.

The housekeeper of Liyuan said: "Ten years ago, Chen Gongbo fled to Beiping, and the youngest son he gave birth to was Jiang Sheng, who was surnamed Chen, and he had only been in Beiping for less than a year. ”

Master Long frowned and said, "No wonder this child is only in the first grade, I don't think it's easy to observe in the past few days, how can a farmer's family still raise a young master with an extraordinary temperament." ”

"What do you think this kid should do?" The pear orchard housekeeper asked.

Master Long said: "What else can be done, the children of the rich and noble families can't beat and scold, in case there is a problem with the muscles and bones, they must not come to demolish our garden, just like the little Baylor in the capital and Qin Changqing in the hall, just want to have fun, and blame me for recruiting him without inquiring carefully, let him come to listen for a few months, and the punishment will be punished, if you don't beat him." ”

"I'm not afraid of breaking the rules and being talked about by other children." The pear orchard housekeeper said.

"Isn't that just right, people's lives are inherently noble and cheap, some people are born as relatives of the emperor and the country, and some people are born as a litter of pigs and dogs, let them know that only when they become the pear garden Dana can they become noble and become a human being!" Master Long said with a challenging brow.

Master Long and the housekeeper of the pear garden had a long talk in the house, and now with the last class of opera garden apprentices, it is time to walk down the curtain of history after bringing this session, and I can't help but sigh a little with emotion.

In the disciple's room, a group of children had just finished the Nine Emperor Society and were trained by the Liyuan housekeeper for a day, and they were so tired that their backs hurt, and they all took off their sweaty clothes and threw them on the kang at will, and went to the courtyard to take a cold shower with the bathtub.

Jiang Sheng is not very suitable for group life, in the past, someone took care of the bath, put hot and cold water, and adjusted the temperature before letting him wash, even if Sanlitun bathed in summer, it was either warm water in the big tank in the yard, or he and Zhao Dahai and Xiao Wu, two familiar playmates, went to the river to bathe for a day, and never saw such a group of noisy boys competing for well water bathing.

After a group of children came in from outside bare-chested, and saw that Jiang Sheng was still sitting on the kang and didn't take off his clothes, someone asked, "Nine Emperor Gods, why don't you take off your clothes yet?" ”

"Eighty percent can't get off, if you don't sit quietly on the sedan chair, it's really like a fairy, don't offend." The other child said in a strange voice.

"Let's let, let's go." When the leather monkey heard everyone's noise, he pushed away the crowd and squeezed in front of Jiang Sheng with a wicked smile on his face: "Yo, this is the Nine Emperor Gods in the sky, and the little master of the rich family on the ground, and he is ten times cleaner than us when he doesn't take off his clothes when he sleeps at night, brothers, do you think he looks down on us?" ”

"Yes!" A group of children responded and laughed around Jiang Sheng.

The skin monkey continued: "You see that the Nine Emperor Gods are going to be angry, they beat me up yesterday, I can't say that there are too many rules in our drama garden, and today we are here again, isn't this just to rob us of Xi'er's position?" ”

A group of children continued to coax, Jiang Sheng looked at the leather monkey and asked, "What the hell do you want to do, I didn't mess with you." ”

The leather monkey said: "Hey, I'll just say two words, and I didn't mess with you, all of us have bare butts, and you are a civilized person, do you say you don't have this thing?" ”

The leather monkey said, flicked his fingers, and the children around him suddenly burst into laughter, and the leather monkey also opened his mouth to laugh.

Jiang Sheng was angry, so he had to take off his clothes, and walked to the courtyard with the basin in a huff.

"I thought he didn't." Leather Monkey said. "Grandma has a leg, I will take so many people to eat and drink in the pear orchard today, and I won't leave some ...... for grandpa."