In and out of the play
Chu Tao hadn't seen Xue Congjia for a few days, but he followed Shi Li to play a big circle in Xinyang City, Shi Li explained, his undercover work has ended, and now it depends on how much useful information the three kings can dig up in the Xie family. Shi Li didn't say a word, he could have returned to Jinling, but for some reason, he stayed again.
Chu Tao likes to play with Shi Li, don't look at Shi Li's shyness, but in fact, he is careful and humorous, like a big brother to Chu Tao's meticulous care, and within two days, Chu Tao called Shi Li Brother Shi. The two are young and love street food and toys, so they go out on the street from time to time.
Seeing that the two were getting closer and closer, Xiaohong couldn't help but ask Xiaozi: "Did Miss change her mind when she went out?" ”
Xiaozi said: "Xue Congjia is very good, but when Nuwa pinched him, she should have forgotten to let the love between men and women in, his kind of person, I really don't know what kind of girl can enter his eyes." It's good that the young lady has changed her mind, and she doesn't have to suffer from this kind of unrequited love anymore. ”
Although Chu Tao was born beautifully, but Sun Yihao is really the only one who dares to propose marriage, Chu Tao's status is quite high, but she is notoriously willful, and many people respect her. Just like Xue Ziyong said before, the first peach is beautiful, and it is absolutely impossible to marry home, what is the use of marrying a vase home at a great price. Men have their own calculations and are shrewd.
In a word, Jiang Chutao is the kind of person who plays a good deck of cards to a pulp.
The three kings looked at Shi Li's eyes and became more and more wrong, and they looked sorry for Shi Li for getting on the thief ship. Because he hadn't seen Xue Congjia for a few days, Chu Tao could only say to Shi Li: "Brother Shi, let's go to Mingfeng Tower tomorrow to listen to the play, you can ask who is going to go or not." ”
Shi Li looked at Chu Tao's cowardly appearance, and immediately understood what Chu Tao meant, he had also carefully observed in the past few days, Di Gongzi really didn't mean anything to her, she was very cold, and she deliberately avoided Jiang Chutao these days, leaving early and returning late.
Shi Li looked at Chu Tao's expectant eyes, so he had to bite the bullet and invite him to listen to the play. Not surprisingly, he refused, and said that he had no interest in Kunqu Opera.
Chu Tao was lost for a while, and said to Shi Li: "Kunqu Opera is so good, he doesn't listen to it, he doesn't have any ability to appreciate it, Brother Shi, let's listen to it and ignore him." ”
Chu Tao and Shi Li are both natives of Jinling, and they both like to watch the life in the play. Chu Tao loves to listen to the gongs and drums day and night, loves to listen to the beads on the head of the play, and especially likes the thick powder and ink dyed on the streets of the city tower and the reverberation of a song after singing.
Kunqu opera originated in the south of the Yangtze River, the tone is soft and glutinous and delicate, like the glutinous rice dumplings eaten by Jiangnan people, sometimes people also call it "water mill tune", in the past two years, the north has gradually raised a few good pear orchard teams, Kunqu opera has also gained a bunch of ticket friends in Xinyang, this Mingfeng Lou is a good place to listen to the opera.
Shi Li said to Chu Tao: "Sing "Peony Pavilion" today, let's find a good position." ”
Singing Du Liniang is Zheng Qianqian, the head of the red pear orchard, with a sweet voice, smooth tone, and elegant figure. Chu Tao and Shi Li were followed by several servants, and at this time they didn't care about any masters and servants, they were all crowded together to listen to the play, just after the end of the play, many people threw things at the play, throwing flowers and throwing copper plates, Chu Tao took down a jade bracelet with excellent water color from his wrist, and threw it down, only to hear a crisp sound, the bracelet was broken.
Shi Li smiled and said: "It's easy for you to reward that play, just throw the silver down, why waste a bracelet in vain." ”
Chu Tao's eyes stared at the stage, and after a while, he whispered, "If it's broken, it's broken." ”
Hua Dan came on the stage, her eyes were as affectionate as silk, Liu Mengmei who entangled her, Liu Mengmei also went to help her, the tenderness of the two was like honey in the middle of this, Hua Dan sang very well, even Shi Li couldn't help but praise Lian Lian, was on the rise, suddenly saw Chu Tao hanging his head, his mood was very low, Shi Li pressed his heart unhappy, he naturally knew why Chu Tao was unhappy, but he didn't mention it, he could only talk to Chu Tao with a match.
Coincidentally, Chu Tao turned over a cup of tea on Shi Li in a trance, Shi Li had to change his clothes first, and when he came back, he only saw a crowd of people under the stage, and a large number of people were pressed down, and he separated himself from Chu Tao by a distance of the Milky Way.
At this time, Zheng Qianqian's voice was singing from the soles of Shi Li's feet to his throat, and it was like a warm spring pouring from head to foot, which only made people numb, but after an instant, Shi Li felt that he had fallen into an ice cave.
Chu Tao sat there quietly, like a beam of light tearing apart the old dream, it simply burned Shi Li's eyes, and he was about to cry bitterly. Only in this trance, Chu Tao and the others disappeared.
Chu Tao Mingfeng Lou walked out, just came out of the dim and hidden stage, the bright sun hung high overhead, and her eyes couldn't stand such stimulation for a while, Chu Tao subconsciously covered her eyes with her hands, she couldn't listen to it anymore, as if she couldn't lie to herself, she couldn't come here to catch Xue Congjia back, and even, it was difficult for her and Xue Congjia to see each other again.
Chu Tao was at a loss, and there were a few more tears on his face. She stood on the street, and looked back at Mingfeng Tower, under the dazzling sun, the whole building seemed to be wrapped in a layer of light curtain, Xue Congjia's body was dark, like the most colorful stroke in Danqing's painting, and it was also shrouded in light and shadow.
Chu Tao pinched herself, suspecting that she was hallucinating, how could Xue Congjia appear outside Mingfeng Tower. Chu Tao thought nonsense, let's go back today, and then explain to Brother Shi when I go back.
But before she could take two steps, the ink color really came towards her, Chu Tao's eyes widened, staring at Xue Congjia stupidly, still a little unable to believe that he would appear here.
"You...... How did you end up here? Hatsu Tao asked.
Xue Congjia clasped his hands in front of his chest, glanced at Mingfeng Tower, and said, "I happened to pass by, and I heard that there was a singing inside, and the place was sold out, so I stood outside and listened." ”
Chu Tao thought that he had come here on purpose, so he was even more disappointed, and said in a muffled voice: "I see, do you think it sounds good?" ”
Xue Congjia shook his head: "It's weird inside." ”
Chu Tao hadn't seen Xue Congjia for a few days, and she wanted to ask him why he was suddenly so cold to herself again, but the words came to her mouth and swallowed again, to be honest, the words that came out of Xue Congjia's mouth were not as good as what she liked to hear.
"Why are you crying?" Xue Congjia had been waiting outside the building, witnessing the first peach with tears on his face swaying out of it. There are too many people in the play every day, and the restaurant is no longer strange, and when she sees Chu Tao crying, she only thinks she is too deep in the play.
Chu Tao said: "I don't really want to watch this scene. A dream in the garden, waking up from a dream is also a dream. ”
"Dreams are good dreams." Xue Congjia didn't tell Chu Tao that he flipped through the script of the play all night yesterday, and he probably knew what story "The Peony Pavilion" was about.
"It's because it's a good dream, so I have to cry. The dream is so beautiful, but when I wake up and find that there is nothing, nothing, this feeling of gaining and losing is too uncomfortable, so I don't want to watch it. Chu Tao said it in a hurry, but felt a sense of relief.
Xue Congjia was silent for a while, and he said, "Are you with Shi Li?" Where is he. ”
"Still inside, I didn't tell him I was out." Hatsu Tao replied. "What about you, do you want to continue the investigation?"
Xue Congjia said: "Don't check, let's go, let's go back together." ”
It was rare to hear Xue Congjia say this sentence, Chu Tao suddenly became a lot happier again, and the resentment accumulated by Xue Congjia for ignoring him in the past few days immediately disappeared, she said: "Why are you avoiding me these days, I haven't done anything to you." ”
"I didn't hide from you." The two said as they walked, and Xue Congjia denied it very quickly.
Shi Li, who chased him out of Mingfeng Tower, saw the backs of Xue Congjia and Chu Tao, and stood in place.
Chu Tao said: "You lie, I got up so early in the morning to look for you, but the next person told me that you had already gone out." If you don't hide from me, are you hiding from Brother Shi? ”
When Xue Congjia heard the words "Brother Shi", he felt uncomfortable for no reason, and he said, "I have something to hide." ”
Chu Tao said: "That's it, I went to Xinyang to find you with wishful thinking, and I didn't expect you to give me any good looks, what about me, it's pretty good to eat and drink with Brother Shi every day, anyway, I'm thick-skinned, and I'm quite happy while chasing my husband." You don't know how many people hold that Hua Dan Zheng Qianqian, it's hard to get a ticket, and I don't know what Big Brother Shi thought of to get the ticket. ”
Xue Congjia listened to Chu Tao talking to himself, but his face was getting worse and worse, listening to Chu Tao's mouth and Brother Shi was very intimate, he was not very happy, and he didn't know what the reason was, and said impatiently: "Why are you embarrassed to say that you got up early in the morning and came to me, and you sleep until the end of the day every day, it's strange that you can find me." ”
Chu Tao cheekily said, "Even if I can't get up in the morning, I can't find you at night." ”
"You girl, can you not run to me in the middle of the night." Xue Congjia was about to be mad by Chu Tao.
"What's wrong with that? The two of us are innocent, and I used to look for you often in Jichang Garden. Chu Tao's eyes flickered, and she looked cunning: "Oh? Are you so evasive of me because we were on the peach tree last time, I said, you really don't have to care so much, it's all a misunderstanding, and it's not that I deliberately want to trivialize you. ”
Xue Congjia saw Chu Tao turn the incident out again and said, the first one became two bigger: "......" He has really never seen such a thick-skinned girl in his life.
Chu Tao was bored with herself, she saw that there was a purple rice steamed cake selling across the street, pulled Xue Congjia's sleeve and said, "I want to eat that, I don't have a money bag." ”