On the grain mill in the mountain behind Daxingzhai, it is very lively at this time, and the gongs and drums are proclaiming the sky.

On a makeshift stage, actors playing different roles appeared one after another according to the script written by Xiaoshuang, and together they performed a poignant story in the rhythmic sound of gongs and drums and the bleak strings dominated by erhu.

"Good, well acted."

The little double father, the junior and Aunt Lan sat in the front row, moved to tears, cheered in unison, and took the lead in applauding.

There was also thunderous applause and crying, and all the people in the village who watched the performance here seemed to be touched in their hearts after watching the performance, and after the applause, only crying and sobbing remained.

"Thank you, thank you for coming to our crew's last rehearsal, I hope you all have a good night, thank you again for your support to all our crew, thank you."

On behalf of all the crew, Xiaoshuang expressed his gratitude to the parents and villagers in the village. led the entire crew to bow deeply. Then the curtain was closed.

The villagers in the audience saw that the drama was finished, some were still crying, and some of them lifted the small bench under their buttocks and dispersed in twos and threes.

"Let's disperse too!"

Someone in the crew proposed, which immediately caused everyone to agree.

"yes, the people who watched it are gone."

"Did I let you go?"

Xiaoshuang glared at the actors behind him.

The actors behind him immediately stopped echoing, and instead whispered a little, looking like they still wanted to go back in a hurry, and they were a little dissatisfied with Xiaoshuang's behavior.

"For a song, you can't let go of your voice, your voice is as thick as a cow, and you have no vocal talent. Jump a bamboo row, your feet are swollen, or not, no athletic talent. Go up the knife mountain, go down the oil pot, roll the nail board, you don't have the endurance and skill.

What else do you say, you can get your hands on it at the Huashan meeting. I can't let you go on stage to perform farming and hunting! As long as the old and young masters of the Yue country will do this, the only thing we can do is to act in this drama well, if we act well, the man will marry a good daughter-in-law, and the woman will marry a good family, and everyone will be happy. If the performance is smashed, Daxingzhai may not be able to hold out for two generations, you can understand by looking at the ratio of men and women in your own generation. ”

The whole crew instantly quieted down, bowed their heads and said nothing, as if they were thinking about something.

The number of young people in the village is indeed small, and there are only about 50 people between the ages of 16 and 30 in the village of nearly 300 people, and more than 20 of the more than 50 people are congenitally disabled, and there are some people who are difficult to define, such as Xiao San, and people who look normal, but actually have some part of the defect.

Xiaoshuang picked up nearly 30 people, among which more than a dozen girls have congenital defects, but it is the kind that can be overcome, there should be no problem in participating in the Huashan Club, which is also selected for the queen to stay, because of the disability, so I was not selected, but I can live the rest of my life in peace. Those normal girls, but not so lucky, have to face those unknown futures, there are really some misfortunes and blessings, blessings and misfortunes, the taste.

Xiaoshuang saw that everyone's attitude towards admitting mistakes was better, and people seemed kinder.

"That's it for today's final rehearsal! Go home early to rest, think about it again before going to bed at night, play the role well, and end the meeting. ”

The actors of the crew waited for this moment, and immediately ran away in a hurry, changing the curse just now.

Xiaoshuang shook his head, smiled wryly and packed up his things with his helper Youcai, because he had to leave for the Huashan Club early tomorrow morning!

Xiaoshuang felt that acting in drama was a bit monotonous, so he collected those traditional projects in Yue Guo and chose simple training, but the results were unsatisfactory, so he had to return to drama.

Xiaoshuang had seen the drama back then, but he still didn't know how to get it, thinking that people in this era hadn't seen it, so he used the gongs, drums, and plectrums to chase the beasts in the village, and made his own flute and erhu. It's just that on the surface, it feels fresh and touching with the plot.

What Xiaoshuang didn't expect was that even this kind of rough work of cleaning up things had to make him do everything, which was extremely inconsistent with his identity as the number one director in Vietnam.

However, I was afraid that others would not be able to do well, so I could only patiently pack up my things and grope my way home in the dark.

There were no stars or moon tonight, and the night sky was pitch black, and Xiaoshuang wondered if there could be some other elements added to the drama, and thought while walking along the dirt road in Tongcun.

Suddenly, a dark figure stood upright on the side of the road.

Xiao Shuang instinctively jumped back, palms forward, took an offensive and defensive posture, and asked with some horror.

"Who is it?"

"It's me."

The figure spoke.

"Oh, it's Aunt Lan! Is there something wrong with this late? ”

Xiaoshuang finally guessed the person according to the voice, his mind and body relaxed, and he thought that his brother was coming to kill him again! It seems that in order for Xiaoshuang to take him to marry his daughter-in-law, his brother temporarily let him go, and it will be difficult to say in the future.

"It's something." Aunt Lan replied.

Xiaoshuang saw that he was almost home with a few steps left, so he invited: "Then let's go into the house and talk!" ”

"No, let's talk outside! You're leaving tomorrow, your father has never been far away, and the farthest place is to go to the neighboring Wujiazhai to exchange for some daily necessities, and I can't follow you to take care of you, so you can help me take good care of your father.

I have some money here, all of which your father gave me before, and it is useless for me to keep it, so I will make it up for your brother to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

As he spoke, he took out a small cloth bag from his bosom and stuffed it into his little hands.

Xiaoshuang was a little speechless, his father had been to the neighboring village, in his memory, his second ancestor had never been out of the village, and the farthest place he had been in the village was the back mountain, and that was still to date his old lover Zhen Ruxue, if it was the original goods, he might not know who would take care of whom.

But now he is different, Xiaoshuang thinks that his current knowledge and courage are first-class in this village, and he has this ability.

Xiaoshuang looked at the small bag of silver stuffed in his hand by Aunt Lan, and felt heavy, this is really looking at their brother as a son Wow, Xiaoshuang felt that he should do something for her.

"Aunt Lan, I received it on behalf of my father, but the silver must not be accepted. In fact, for so many years, your heart for my father can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, but my father is afraid of gossip and shyness, so he didn't express it.

Besides, my mother has been dead for so many years, and you have always been taking care of our father and son, and in my heart, you are closer than my own mother.

Don't worry about going out this time, I will definitely bring my father back intact so that he can marry you as soon as possible. ”

"Whoever wants to come into your house! Then I won't send it tomorrow! ”

Aunt Lan didn't take the silver either, she just turned her head shyly and left.

Xiaoshuang looked at the bag of silver in his hand, shook his head, and could only helplessly put it away first, and then walked home.

The mist of the next morning has not yet dissipated, a round of red sun has only just emerged, and the small road out of the village to the north of Daxingzhai has been full of villagers who have come to see them off, chattering to those men and women who are about to set off.

"Alright, everyone is here, let's go!" Little Twin shouted as he rode his horse.

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"Wait, wait." His father stopped.

People looked at the crowd of people who came to see them off at the entrance of the village, as if they were searching for something.

Of course, Xiaoshuang understood what he was looking for, but he just pretended not to know, and said cool things intentionally or unintentionally.

"There are flowers that can be folded straight and must be folded, and there are no flowers and empty branches. I'm afraid Aunt Lan won't be able to come. ”

"Yes! Hehe! Shuang'er is speaking more and more eloquently, the old man is sighing to himself, this Huashan Festival, as a father, I will listen to you. ”

Xiaoshuang looked at his father and talked about him left and right, but he didn't get into the trap, so he had to shake his head and walk forward first.

Three lean horses and six ox carts slowly advanced on the ancient road of this deserted village, pressing the grass along the road and the dead branches buried in the grass, leaving two long parallel lines. From time to time, there is also a "creak, creak" sound of the wheels rubbing against the wheel, which is really a bit of the taste of the ancient road westerly horse.

Xiaoshuang opened his father to him, the owner of the village exclusive, from the ancestors handed down a sheepskin sketch, found that the color on the map has been a little blurred, can only recognize a general direction, fortunately this is in ancient times, the big mountains and rivers road, decades like a day, almost has not changed, do not worry about going the wrong way, really no, you can also go to the map marked in the village to ask.

What makes Xiaoshuang a little strange is that the annotations on the diagram are written in two languages, one is the current common text, and the other is an unknown text.

He once heard his father talk about the language problem in their village, he basically spoke the idiomatic language at home, and spoke the dialect of Yue when he went out, which basically will, because there are really gentlemen in the village, and both languages can be taught. Xiaoshuang doubts that the other script will be the previous Yue Chinese script, so it is understandable that the voices of men and women in the village are generally inferior to those in other villages. Because the voice is different.

Which question arises again, does this mean that the ancestors of the real family were not from Yue Guo before, but moved from other places, but there is no way to verify.

Xiaoshuang looked at the map again, and found a ridiculous problem, which is that Daxingzhai is in the southernmost part of the map, and the water waves drawn below are estimated to be the sea or something, that is to say, Daxingzhai is really a place where birds don't, and it is also a loss to how the ancestors found here, which is really a little speechless.

According to the annotations on the sketch, Xiao Shuang and his entourage, while asking the road, hurried and hurried, and finally arrived at Baihuazhai, the venue of this year's Huashan Festival.