Jiang Sheng handed the rock sugar gourd in his hand to Xi'er, and handed the other string to Hu Xiaomeng, and said, "Senior brother, you can eat it too." ”

"No, you can eat." Hu Xiaomeng hurriedly waved his hand and said.

Jiang Sheng saw the squirming of Hu Xiaomeng's Adam's apple, after all, Hu Xiaomeng was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but he was taller and darker, Jiang Sheng stuffed the rock sugar gourd in Hu Xiaomeng's hand, and said, "I have eaten outside, and I can't eat it." ”

"Then I'll eat it." Hu Xiaomeng said with a blank face, biting a sugar ball wrapped in sugar, his eyes lit up. "It's so sweet."

"Senior brother, haven't you eaten it?" Jiang Sheng asked. ，

Hu Xiaomeng said: "Where have I eaten this thing, when I was a child, my family was poor and almost ate tree bark, and I was content with white rice, my mother didn't come to see me once in three years after sending me to the pear orchard, and now I can't make money on stage at a young age, I just want to grow up quickly and save some of my own money." ”

Jiang Sheng didn't expect Hu Xiaomeng to say something about his past, and just when he didn't know what to say for a while, Xi'er raised his head and said, "Xi'er doesn't have a father and mother, so I forgot how I came here." ”

"By the way, Jiang Sheng, how can you have so much money?" Hu Xiaomeng touched Xi'er's head and asked.

Jiang Sheng said: "It's not much, I went out with Xiao Wu and my sister today to buy some food and have a few dollars left, if the senior brother has any use, I will give it to you." ”

"No, no, no, this can't be done, the disciples of Liyuan can't save private money, otherwise they will be beaten to death by the master." Hu Xiaomeng said. "Fortunately, you only stayed in the pear orchard for three months, and the master didn't seem to beat you, and many brothers and sisters envied you."

"Senior brother, I want to pee." Xi'er said.

So Hu Xiaomeng carried Xi'er down the road, Jiang Sheng followed behind him, and when Xi'er was convenient, Jiang Sheng said, "Senior brother, I'll go back to the house directly." ”

Hu Xiaomeng nodded, carried Xi'er behind his back and said, "You go back first, wash and sleep, tomorrow'er will have morning exercises in the morning, and I will have to go downstairs to take a look later." ”

Jiang Sheng saw Xi'er winking at him, so he waved his hand and went back to the disciple's room.

The brothers in the disciple's room were not in a mess as usual, Jiang Sheng pulled open his quilt and took out a thick paper bag from it, and the paper bag was full of loose sugar balls, only half of them were missing.

"Who ate my candy balls?" Jiang Sheng asked.

The brothers looked at each other and shook their heads.

When Jiang Sheng came back from Liyuan Street, he specially bought a large bag of sugar balls, and hid the sugar balls under the quilt while the brothers were eating, but he didn't expect that half of them would be lost after only a while.

Seeing that everyone didn't dare to admit it, Jiang Sheng said: "If you eat it, you will eat it, these are originally bought for you to eat." ”

Jiang Sheng said that he went from one hair to the other end of the kang and one for each person, and the little shovel took the sugar ball and said sweetly: "Thank you, Senior Brother Jiang Sheng." ”

"Hmph, just now the skin monkey stole three by himself." A child next to the monkey said.

"How can I eat so much, which eye of yours sees me stealing food." Leather Monkey quibbled.

"Not only did you steal it, but you also said bad things about Jiang Sheng, saying that he wouldn't give the sugar balls to everyone!" Another child said.

"Are you looking for a fight?" The monkey pointed at the child and roared.

"Okay, okay, just eat it, I didn't take it to heart, if you like to eat it, there will be two more for you." Jiang Sheng said and put the last two in the paper bag at the head of the leather monkey's bed.

The skin monkey's voice stopped abruptly, he couldn't have imagined that he targeted Jiang Sheng every day and stole Jiang Sheng's things, Jiang Sheng not only didn't blame him, but gave him the remaining two candy balls.

When the brothers stole Jiang Sheng's sugar ball before, they were afraid of being discovered, so they swallowed it in their stomachs before they chewed it, and now they put the sugar ball that Jiang Sheng gave them to their mouths and licked it again and again, and a child immediately cried.

"What are you crying about?" The child on the side asked.

"It's so sweet." The kid said. "In addition to scrambled eggs with stuffy beans in the world, this sugar ball is the most delicious."

A group of children laughed, and Jiang Sheng couldn't help but smile, took off his clothes and took the basin to the courtyard to take a bath.

"Hey......" The leather monkey wanted to talk to Jiang Sheng, but when he saw that Jiang Sheng had already gone out with the basin, he didn't speak again.

After a while, Hu Xiaomeng walked into the disciple's room, said a few words to the junior disciples, saw that the bed where Jiang Sheng was was empty, and turned his head to look at Jiang Sheng who was taking a bath in the courtyard.

Hu Xiaomeng blew out the kerosene lamp and said, "Let's go to bed early, and I have to get up early tomorrow for morning exercises." ”

After Hu Xiaomeng finished speaking, he closed the door and went upstairs, and after a while, Jiang Sheng came back from taking a bath, Hu Xiaomeng happened to go downstairs, holding a clean sweat towel in his hand and handing it to Jiang Sheng: "Senior brother, I took a new sweat towel for you, just after taking a bath just wipe it." ”

Jiang Sheng said: "I have a sweat towel, which I gave out when I first came. ”

Hu Xiaomeng said: "I didn't see that you were dirty, someone must have misused you." ”

Jiang Sheng hummed, took the sweat towel, and Hu Xiaomeng said, "Go to bed early." ”

After Jiang Sheng returned to the disciple's room, the leather monkey got up and kicked a child next to Jiang Sheng, and said, "Go and go, sleep with me tonight." ”

The child didn't dare to refute the leather monkey, so he had to get up and get out of the way, and when Jiang Sheng dried himself and went to bed, the leather monkey suddenly remembered the scene when Master Long scolded them during the day, and saw the scene of the senior brother taking off his pants next to him, so he said: "Hey, hey, junior brothers, did you see the finches in the jar today when you were beaten today?" ”

"So what's there to see, who of us hasn't yet?" A child said.

The monkey said, "It's different. ”

"What's different, he's a few years older than us, and it's normal to be older."

The leather monkey said: "It's dripping, and there are hairs growing on it, and if it weren't for the master to beat me, I would have screamed in fright." ”

"Long hair?" The little shovel said. "I've seen my father's before, and it seems that men grow hair when they grow up."

The leather monkey snorted and said, "No wonder my senior brother hasn't taken a bath with us for half a year, it turned out to be ashamed, I guess this is what kind of word comes from, development, yes, development!." ”

Jiang Sheng listened to the discussion of the senior brothers, and his eyelids gradually couldn't support it.

In the second half of the night, Jiang Sheng woke up with a soft snort, Jiang Sheng opened his eyes and looked at the leather monkey, who bared his teeth and grinned: "My ass was opened, and now I feel like a fire, it hurts me to death." ”

Jiang Sheng frowned and said, "Then I'll go to the kitchen and bring a pot of water, and you can use a towel dipped in hot water to apply it yourself, so it will be better." ”

Jiang Sheng got up and went to the kitchen to carry the kettle as he spoke, and when he walked through the courtyard, he saw that the lights were still on in the upstairs room, so he didn't think much about it and went back to the disciple's room.

The skin monkey was lying on the bed and it was inconvenient to get out of bed, Jiang Sheng wet the skin monkey's sweat towel with hot water, handed it to the skin monkey and said, "You put it on the wound yourself, I'm going to sleep." ”

The leather monkey snorted, put a hot sweat towel on the wound on his buttocks, and he hummed and chirped: "Jiang Sheng, it's not good, it's painful and itchy, or you go to the jar room to get the potion to wipe me, I'm going to die of discomfort." ”

Jiang Sheng nodded, just happened to see the light in Hu Xiaomeng's room, presumably Hu Xiaomeng forgot to turn off the light, so he got up and went upstairs, his steps were very light, for fear of disturbing Hu Xiaomeng and Xi'er who were sleeping in the room.

Because the pear orchard was damaged once during the Japanese attack on Beiping, except for the necessary wall holes and roof renovations, the small problems on the doors and windows were not repaired, Jiang Sheng saw everything inside the door clearly through the door on the second floor.

The light was bright, Xi'er on the bed was already asleep, and on the other side of the partition, Hu Xiaomeng was sitting on the edge of the bed, his right hand shaking constantly.

Jiang Sheng didn't know what Hu Xiaomeng was doing, he didn't dare to breathe, and he didn't look at it again, he stood on the stairs and thought about it for a while before quietly going downstairs.

After returning to the disciple's room, the leather monkey was already asleep on the bed, and Jiang Sheng also lay on the bed and slept.

Early the next morning, Hu Xiaomeng woke up everyone to wash their faces and brush their teeth, walked out of the pear orchard under the leadership of Master Long, and ran along the pear garden street to the suburbs.

Jiang Sheng was not used to it at first, so he had to practice his voice according to the tune shouted by the senior brothers, day after day, until two months later.

In the past two months, I, Xiao Wu, Zhao Dahai and Wang Hu will take a rickshaw to Liyuan every week to see Jiang Sheng, every time Jiang Sheng goes out in front of everyone, the disciples of Liyuan are very envious, not to mention that Xiao Wu and Zhao Dahai will bring some delicious food to Jiang Sheng, even if they run out to hide lazily, it is better than forcibly breaking their legs to the top of their heads, sometimes they turn their heads down continuously, and a few mouthfuls of soup they drink in the morning can squirt out of their stomachs.

Although Master Long never beat Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng is a stubborn temper, and his basic skills of singing and doing fighting have improved extremely quickly in the past two months, and he can do it to a general standard with Hu Xiaomeng, without losing to anyone.

Although Jiang Sheng never cheats and cheats, there are always times when he practices unstandardly, tired and lazy, and when Master Long sees it, he can't help but beat Hu Xiaomeng a few times, so he will be punished on his behalf.

Once Master Long checked the night and found that everyone was already lying in bed, and Jiang Sheng was still taking a bath in the courtyard, so he punished everyone to kneel in the courtyard.

Jiang Sheng was angry, and Master Long had a few words, he never liked to cause trouble to others, Master Long was not forgiving, he was so angry that he burst into tears, he packed up his things and wanted to leave that night, and was hugged by Xi'er crying and not letting him go.

After Xi'er recovered from her serious illness, she moved from Hu Xiaomeng's room to the disciple's room, and since the last time she was sick, Master Long didn't dare to let Xi'er take a cold bath anymore, and boiled a pot of hot water every day for him to wash.

Xi'er was born with a good voice, any syllable intonation is extremely standard, because she was born exquisitely and her voice and expression are relatively in place, so Master Long's training of Xi'er's basic skills is not as strong as others, and she is reluctant to fight when she usually makes mistakes, and she also knocks a few times to show punishment.

At that time, there was more than one theater in Beiping, and there was actually more than one place to teach singing, but Liyuan was the most famous and recruited many disciples.

When they are old, when they teach apprentices in private, those who abide by the ancestral teachings will first go to the pear garden to ask Master Long, although whether Master Long allows people to accept disciples or not, but such a master and apprentice etiquette should go or go.

The doll with a talent for singing led to Master Long to give him a palm and a cup of tea, even if he could worship the teacher.

The already famous Da Jiao'er in the theater is proud of his newly recruited apprentices, so he naturally has to compare with Master Long's last closed disciples, who knows that in such a comparison, none of the martial artists can have the same spirit as Hu Xiaomeng, and the horn of singing Hua Dan, when he saw the looks of Xi'er and Jiang Sheng, he lost his luster before he spoke.

Xi'er's singing skills are astonishing, and every corner who comes to visit praises him for being a natural actor and blessed by his ancestors.

Although Jiang Sheng practiced well in the pear orchard, he had only practiced for two months after all, and the frame had just been handled, and his movements and expression were slightly stiff.

It's not that Jiang Sheng doesn't want to practice well, but Jiang Sheng feels awkward in his heart, the so-called Hua Dan, after all, is a female character, although Jiang Sheng wants to learn to sing, but he wants to work as a small student, not as a worker. When he was in Shanghai before, his family education was very strict, and it was stipulated that men must not orchid fingers, so even if Jiang Sheng sang ** without leaving ten, he was very stiff every time, and he was scolded by Master Long many times.

Xi'er was anxious, but she didn't think that Jiang Sheng was going to grab his position, and privately handed over Jiang Sheng's tricks of moving and pinching his fingers, how to not look stiff, Jiang Sheng didn't say it directly, and learned from Xi'er.

Xi'er was not timid in the face of famous actors, and there were few places to find fault after singing a play, so she was invited by a famous actor to set up a scene at Guanghe Restaurant in Beiping under the leadership of Master Long.

The famous actor didn't expect the performance to be so successful, and there were countless guests who cheered the audience, all of whom asked the little flower dan to sing another song, and Xi'er's reputation spread at this time.

As I said earlier, there are also Japanese people who like to listen to operas, and a small drama was born in Beiping City, whether it is for appreciation or early adoption, Liyuan is required to take Xi'er to the Japanese gendarmerie to perform a play.

And so came a calamity.