Chapter 1: The Last Performance of the Drama "The Last Lesson" (Expanded Version)

In the autumn of 1943, although the summer had passed, the autumn tiger was still making waves. The sun www.biquge.info still shining hot, the petals rolled up, the leaves drooped, and the whole mountain city was hot and humid, like a furnace.

At dusk, the fiery afterglow of the sunset sprinkled on the eaves of the Xihe Grand Theater, and the large wooden billboard at the entrance was written with a large brush with three lines of large cursive characters - "Based on the novel of the same name by the French writer Dude, the three-act soul-shaking drama "The Last Lesson" starring the popular star Feng Tao. A new line of calligraphy lines has been added under the billboard today, "Tonight's performance is the last performance of the crew's ZQ tour, and the opportunity is not to be missed, take a look." At the ticket window next to it, the seven-step stone steps were full of people buying tickets, and there were too many people buying tickets, so they lined up on the flat ground behind the steps.

In the brightly lit dressing room backstage of the theater, the actors are sitting on the dressing table to receive makeup from the makeup artist. In his twenties, the handsome Feng Tao walked out of his one-man lounge, wearing the black tweed dress of Mr. Hammel, the protagonist of the play. Feng Tao's facial features don't look handsome individually, with thin eyebrows, small eyes, single eyelids, small lower ears and lips, slightly upturned lips, and slender cheeks. However, these imperfect facial features are put together, and the overall effect is sporadic to form a unique male god face, which is extremely favored and sought after by the audience, especially female audiences, making Feng Tao quickly popular soon after his debut.

At this moment, Feng Tao just sat down on the dressing table. At this time, the door opened, and the chubby theater manager walked up to Feng Tao with a bouquet of red roses, and said with a smile: "Mr. Feng, a young lady has sent you flowers, obediently, you have received two bouquets of flowers before the play starts." ”

A broom-eyebrow actor next to him glanced at Feng Tao with squinted eyes, and pouted sourly, "Oh, Mr. Feng just recruits women to like it, and someone will send flowers before and after every performance." ”

Several male actors in the adjacent seats also rolled their eyes and looked at Feng Tao at this moment, crooked their mouths with jealousy.

Feng Tao was stunned when he took the flower, it turned out that there was an inconspicuous red silk Nantian bamboo flower sandwiched between the red roses. Feng Tao had already secretly joined the Communist Party, which was an urgent warning signal agreed between him and the organization -- the government had never recognized the legal status of the Communist Party, and in the area ruled by ***, once the identity of the Communist Party members was revealed, they would be arrested and executed without any legal process. At this moment, he tried his best to control his expression, pretending to appreciate the flowers under his nose and sniffing them, then stood up and said to the makeup artist next to him with a smile, "Oh, please wait a minute, I'll send the flowers to the lounge first." ”

Feng Tao walked into his room with flowers, and after closing the door, he reached out and touched the flowers, and sure enough, he found a rolled-up note, he spread out the note, and wrote with a pen, "You have been exposed, please transfer the ...... according to the method said on the paper."

"Bang bang bang", there was a sudden knock on the door outside, Feng Tao was startled, hurriedly covered the note in the palm of his hand, and heard someone outside say impatiently: "Mr. Feng, you should play soon, but why don't you put on makeup yet." ”

Feng Tao heard the director's voice, and hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll come out now." He hurriedly picked up a lighter and lit the flame and burned the note......

Several cars were parked in the open space outside the theater, and in one of the cars, a male spy in a navy blue flannel suit was whispering to several plainclothes agents, "Just before the show started, Miss Bi and Miss Hu pretended to be fans of the theater and called the theater to ask Feng Tao to have supper after the play, and he agreed." When the two ladies trick him into our car, we'll do it. ”

In the theater, a play is being played on the stage. Based on the short story of the same name, the play adds a lot of entanglements between the characters in the first two acts, and is now playing the third act.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in a gray beep suit sitting in the middle of the audience whispered to a girl next to him, "The description of the loss of the country in this play can easily arouse the sympathy and psychological resonance of our Chinese." However, the original work is deliberately distorting history. That place in Alsace was originally the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, which included present-day Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. It was occupied by France after the Chinese New Year's Eve War of 1618-1648 and by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. It was occupied by France after World War I. But until the Franco-Prussian War, the local population was part of a branch of the Germans, and German was always spoken, and there was no question of the conversion of German to German schools after the war, as Dude said. ”

"I'm not interested in foreign history, I'm only interested in Feng Tao's plays." The fashionable girl with long wavy hair and a yellow taffeta dress on a blue background looked impatient, holding a small folding fan sprinkled with perfume.

On the stage, Feng Tao, who was wearing a white wig and a fake beard on his upper lip and chin, stood in front of the blackboard. According to the original description, Han Maier wore a green dress, Feng Tao and the director discussed, considering that the black dress is the most formal dress for Westerners, while the Chinese think that the black dress is a mourning dress, the protagonist wears a black dress at this time, which can make the Chinese audience feel the tragic color and historical heaviness of the last lesson.

Of course, Feng Tao did not know that the so-called ban on the locals to speak French after the German army occupied Alsace was actually a big lie for Dude to fool the people of the world. Moreover, before and after the Franco-Prussian War, the French devils also occupied many countries and regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and in these places, the French devils strictly forbade the local people to use their own national language and only speak French, as described in "The Last Lesson".

At this moment, under the light of several stage spotlights overhead, Feng Tao said to the actors who were sitting opposite the students, "My children, today is the last time I will give you French lessons. Remember, this is my last lesson for you. Speaking of which, he suddenly realized that he was not performing for the last time. The densely packed audience under the stage was mixed with *** plainclothes spies, and the outside of the theater was surrounded by spies. In another thirty minutes, he will face an unpredictable gamble in life.

At this time, he tried his best to restrain his inner tension, faced the audience, and continued to act. "Kids, tomorrow, I'm going to have to get out of here. As a teacher who has worked here for 40 years, I really don't want to leave! However, the enemy who occupied this place did not allow me to continue teaching you French. The thought that I will leave you forever makes me so sad and grieved! ”

When he was here, Feng Tao couldn't tell whether he was acting or fake at the moment, tears came out of his eyes, and under the illumination of the stage lamp, they were like two strings of crystal broken pearls, which were particularly conspicuous. The audience didn't know Feng Tao's true state of mind, and thought that Feng Tao's acting skills were superb and skillful, so they applauded warmly.

Feng Tao suddenly thought at this time that it was not appropriate to expose his true feelings in front of the spies who were eyeing him at this moment, so he quickly took out his handkerchief to wipe his tears, and continued to act casually, "Children, since today is your last lesson. I will do my best to teach you this last lesson, and I also hope that you will learn the last lesson seriously. Can it be done? The children. ”

The actors replied in unison, "Mr. Hummel, we must learn the last lesson." "The broom-eyebrow actor who pretended to be a student noticed that most of the young female soldiers in the front row of the audience were **** young female soldiers wearing yellow Ka Jie cloth uniforms, their green eyes had been staring at Feng Tao, and there were many green eyes flashing in the back, so he couldn't help but mutter." , why aren't the chicks in the audience obsessed with me? ”

This was heard by the people on the stage, and the audience also heard it, and it turned out that there was a microphone in front of him, and his voice was amplified by the microphone and immediately echoed in the theater. The people on the stage pursed their lips and didn't dare to laugh. The audience laughed happily, and the female soldiers leaned forward and backwards. One of the female soldiers sneered, "Boy, you're so handsome!" ”

There were a few young men in the theater who liked to play pranks, probably not satisfied with the green eyes of the audience, who only circled around Feng Tao alone, and wanted to take the opportunity to embarrass Feng Tao, so they deliberately "vomited" and coaxed. Some even deliberately whistle.

The green-eyed men in the front row glanced back angrily at the heckling guys, but still that didn't stop the gagging and whistling.

On the east side of the stage, the big-mouthed director standing behind the curtain was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and shouted in annoyance to the equally anxious little nose stage manager next to him: "This bastard is not enough to succeed and more than to lose, this is ruining all of our jobs!" Just tell him to get out of here tomorrow! ”

Feng Tao secretly complained at this time, he wanted to hurry up to the end of the performance and get out of the place of right and wrong, but he didn't expect that at this time, a roadblock dog and a few coaxing flies popped out. Looking at the thousands of pairs of green, black, and other colored eyes in the audience, he tried his best to control the tension in his heart, and quietly glared at the broom eyebrows with a wicked smile on his face at this time, "Phew! You want to make a fool of me, but I won't let you succeed today. ”

"Quiet, please be quiet." Feng Tao waved his hand calmly, walked over to the microphone, and said loudly, "Children, please listen to me, children, please listen to me now." ”

Feng Tao's words, the audience suddenly fell silent. At this moment, the whole audience - the audience, the actors on stage, the director behind the scenes and others all stared at Feng Tao with wide eyes, seeing how he saved the scene now.

Feng Tao put his hands behind his back, puffed up his chest, cocked his mouth, and looked condescendingly at the thin broom brow sitting in front of him. "My little Philip, my dear child, it has been said that you are not attracted to girls because you are not handsome enough. I don't think so. I think that you are not attractive to girls because you lack three treasures, namely, profound knowledge, dexterous hands, and a loving heart. The absence of these three things makes you ignorant, foolish, selfish, rude, and clumsy. In this way, what girl will still like you? Answer me, dear little Philip, is what I just said right or not? ”

Broombrow was extremely embarrassed, and at this moment he could only follow Feng Tao's words stupidly, "Mr. Hammer, you are right. ”

At this time, Feng Tao noticed that the **** female soldiers in the front row of the audience nodded approvingly with green eyes, and couldn't help but be a little proud. "My children, you come to school with me to lay a solid foundation for your future growth. Unfortunately, since today is your last French lesson, I certainly don't have time to hand over to you all three of the treasures I just mentioned. But before I leave, I would like to say a word of advice to you, that you must have great knowledge, dexterous hands, and a loving heart. With these three things, you will always be invincible on the road of life in the future. Say, "Am I right, children?" ”

The actors suddenly shouted together, "Mr. Hummel, you are right! ”

The audience immediately burst into warm applause, and the director and stage manager who were hiding behind the scenes also nodded happily at this time. A few coaxing young men just now slapped their hands and exclaimed, "The surname Feng is really a big star!" ”

A spy in a gray jacket walked out of the theater, he walked to the car and whispered to the spy in a navy blue suit, "It's almost over, the one surnamed Feng has played the old French teacher to the end, and the audience has been applauding constantly, and we have to applaud along." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the bell rang in the theater.

When the spy in the navy blue suit heard the bell, he waved his hand happily, and several of the spies immediately got out of the car and entered the theater with the spies outside.