Chen Zikun woke up from a coma, felt that his eyelids were extremely heavy, his head was dizzy, and his whole body was hot, and he vaguely saw a familiar back busy not far away, stretched out his hand and shouted in a low voice: "Xiaoqing."

The man turned around, took a towel and rested it on Chen Zikun's forehead, and his movements were extremely gentle.

"Xiaoqing, where is this, how many days have I been asleep?" Chen Zikun asked in a daze.

The man didn't speak, and helped him tighten the corners of the quilt, but Chen Zikun pinched his hand, was stunned for a moment, broke free gently, and said, "This is the ship of the Qi family's class, and you have slept for three days and three nights." ”

This is not Xia Xiaoqing's voice, Chen Zikun woke up suddenly, sat up straight suddenly, and found that his body was naked, covered with a bed of patched broken quilts, and there was a squeaky wooden boat shaking sound in his ears, and then looked at the woman in front of him, in her thirties, with a long body, slightly shorter than Xia Xiaoqing, wearing a short training uniform, looking at herself expressionlessly.

"You are?" Chen Zikun hesitated.

"As I said just now, we are singing, you are on the boat of the opera troupe, my name is Bai Yufang, who are you?" The woman asked rhetorically.

"I ......" Chen Zikun hesitated for a while, and decided to make up a lie, the other party is a ninth-rate singer, and he can do everything, so it is better to be wary.

"I was hunting and accidentally fell into the river, thank you Sister Bai for saving your life."

Bai Yufang sneered: "You are not hunting, how can there be so many gunshot wounds on the body of hunting, four or five scars from the old and new, you are a bandit!" I don't care what you've done before, you have to do your part when you get to my ship, now that you're awake, get up and go to work, the troupe doesn't raise idlers. ”

Chen Zikun smiled bitterly: "Where are my clothes? ”

"Throw it away, wear this." Bai Yufang threw over a set of coarse cloth clothes and a pair of cloth shoes.

"Where's my tiger skin and pistol?"

"What tiger skin pistol, I don't know what you say, this is the only thing left on you." Bai Yufang threw the jade cigarette pouch over, turned his head and left the cabin, and dropped another sentence at the door: "Seeing that you are recovering from a serious illness and can't do heavy work, go and help cook on the fire." ”

Chen Zikun was helpless, put on his clothes and got out of bed, he still felt lightheaded, and the wound on his body that was shot by the 38 shots had been coated with herbs, and there was nothing serious, but he had been lying down for several days in a row, and his body was a little weak.

Out of the cabin, the river breeze was cold, and the two sides of the strait were bleak, Chen Zikun put his hand on the pergola and looked around, and said to himself: "Where is this going?" ”

"When I go to Chongqing, my mother said that there are many rich people in Chongqing, and there are many people who watch Peking Opera, so you can make a fortune if you go there." The voice came from above, and Chen Zikun looked up to see that it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl sitting on the ceiling, with two long legs swinging around, wearing a blue-colored practice uniform, with a very slender waist and two ponytails hanging down, if it weren't for a trace of wind and dust, she really looked like a female student at Jiangdong University.

"You're also a troupe?" Chen Zikun had nothing to say.

"That's right, I sing Dao Ma Dan, uncle, I see that you have good muscles and bones, put on a big back, and it is very suitable to play a flower face, but it's a pity that you haven't practiced, you have to practice from a young age in the singing industry, come on, you can be a trick with me next time you go on stage."

Chen Zikun looked at himself, and the dignified army general was a trick? It's too chilling, isn't it?

This girl is very cute, Chen Zikun was about to say two more sentences, when suddenly a handsome descendant came over and shouted, "Xiu'er, the class master is looking for you." ”

"Hey, come on." The maiden came down from the shed, and her body was as light as a swallow.

"Your name is Xiu'er, Bai Xiu'er?" Chan asked.

The girl giggled: "Fool, this is the Qi family class, of course my surname is Qi, and besides, my mother's surname is not Bai, Bai Yufang is her stage name, you know no, uncle." ”

Xiu'er jumped away, and the latter came over and glared at Chen Zikun fiercely: "New here, go to the back to help cook." ”

Chen Zikun walked to the stern of the boat, helped the master wash vegetables and wash rice, chatted by the way, knew that this opera troupe is from Anhui, in the past, they used to go to Beijing and Tianjin to perform, now North China has fallen, business is not good, can only rent a boat into Sichuan to beg for a living, the head of the class is Bai Yufang, originally also Dao Ma Dan, after the death of her husband to support a team, there are two pillars in the team, Qi Xiu who sings Dao Ma Dan, and Luo Xiaolou who sings Wusheng, is the young man just now, other violin, there are more than 30 people in a mess.

There is no special cook in the troupe, but everyone takes turns to cook, the team does not raise idlers, and if you want to stay, you have to work, Chen Zikun can't sing, so he has to cook in a pot, but this is his old job, when he was in the cooking class of the third division of Beiyang, he practiced the ability to chop wood, burn fire, steam steamed buns, and make dumplings, and finally came in handy after 18 years.

Chen Zikun used to be the leader of the gang, and he was not good at making exquisite stir-frying, but he definitely had a hand in the big pot dishes, and he had all the food for the twenty or thirty people in the team, and the taste was passable, and he soon became a full-time cook in the troupe, and he wandered around when he had nothing to do, and soon he found that the core characters of the Qi family class were Bai Yufang's mother and daughter, and they all liked to go to Qi Xiu's side in their later years, and the middle-aged people liked to be close to Bai Yufang.

"The troupe is really messy." Chen Zikun sighed inexplicably, lowered his head to wash vegetables, looked at his reflection in the water, his hair was long, his beard was unkempt, and he was extremely depressed.

The assistant cook is the daughter-in-law of the Huqin master in the team, a nagging aunt, who was soon blinded by Chen Zikun's rhetoric and told all the secrets in the team.

"Xiaolou likes Xiu'er, these two young people are really a match made in heaven, the class owner said that they will get married during the New Year."

"Our Qi family class is good at martial arts, and we have been to Sichuan in the past ten years, and we have made a lot of money by performing in one county after another."

"The class master has a knife mouth and a tofu heart, don't look at her fierce, it's good for us, the set of clothes on your body is still left by the old class master, how about it, does it fit?"

Chen Zikun looked down at the coarse cloth trousers on his body, although it has been a little older, but the pulp is clean and clean, and it is well preserved.

There was a dry cough outside the cabin, and the aunt quickly stopped talking.

"That man, come out for a moment." It was the voice of Bai Yufang.

Chen Zikun got out of the cabin and said with a smile: "Class master, are you looking for me?" ”

"I'm going to Wanxian soon, the team is going to go out of the church, so I won't keep you, this is a little entanglement, you take it." Bai Yufang handed over a few fiat coins.

Chen Zikun took the money and hugged his fists: "Class master, you are too polite, you saved my life, not to mention, but also sent a coil of entanglement, I will repay this love." ”

Bai Yufang said: "You can't see death without saving when you go to the rivers and lakes, these twenty yuan should be your reward for cooking, you don't have to be so polite, then again, these days, I don't look like a bandit." ”

"And what am I like?"

"You should be a deserter."

……

The boat arrived at the Wanxian wharf, the troupe was busy unloading, clothesboxes, weapon racks, moving back and forth more than a dozen times, Chen Zikun was tall and strong, and the heavy suitcase could be carried by one person, Qi Xiu saw it and said to Bai Yufang with a smile: "Mother, the uncle is very capable, and he makes a good dish, so it's better to leave him." ”

Bai Yufang said: "The troupe can't keep people of unknown origin. "One sentence blocked my daughter back.

The Qi family class gave the Yang family, a big family in Wanxian County, to do a church meeting, at least ten days and a half a month, Chen Zikun helped the troupe move things to the vicinity of the Yang family ancestral hall, and was busy setting up the stage, and finally settled down, it was already dark, Bai Yufang found him and threw over a package: "Take it, your things." ”

Chen Zikun took a closer look, and the package was his tiger skin coat and a tattered military uniform that had been washed, and two guns were wrapped in the military uniform.

"Let's change your clothes." Bai Yufang said.

Chen Zikun went into the house to change his clothes, and the military uniform was crawling and rolling, it had already been ragged and faded, the collar badge had also fallen off, and the badge was gone, ** had been finely sewn with needles and threads, presumably from the hands of Bai Yufang.

When he went out, Luo Xiaolou, Qi Xiu and others were standing outside and came to say goodbye to him.

"Everyone, the green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, we will have a period later." Chen Zikun gave up his hand, picked up the package and left.

"Uncle, come and play with us when you have time." Qi Xiu shouted from behind.

Chen Zikun waved his hand without looking back.

Came to the wharf, wanted to find a boat to go up to Chongqing, but it was late, the boat stopped, and it was tomorrow to leave, in desperation, Chen Zikun had to carry the package to wander around Wanxian, and unconsciously returned to the vicinity of the Yang family ancestral hall, and heard the sound of gongs and drums from afar, and the big drama was being staged.

Leaning over to take a look, there is a big "longevity" word posted on the stage, presumably the elders of the Yang family are celebrating their birthdays today, no wonder they are so festive, the three layers in front of the stage and the three layers outside, the drama of the Qi family class is mainly martial arts, and it is lively, the people love to watch it, the stage is "Zhan Jinshan", and Liang Hongyu who beats the drum is played by Bai Yufang, in the end, the class owner himself went into battle, and the dragon sets are also working hard, and the fight is called a lively, and the audience applauds one Lang after another.

After playing Jinshan, he played "Mu Kezhai", Qi Xiu played Mu Guiying, Luo Xiaolou played Yang Zongbao, and Bai Yufang played She Taijun, and the mother and daughter played on the same stage, which was even more exciting.

I only heard a ** shout: "The old lady rewards." ”

Then the family went up with a plate of ocean, and the actors of the Qi family class came up to the stage together to bow and thank them.

The old lady was wearing a big jacket of Fushou Tuanhua, sitting under the stage with a red face, and said a few words to the housekeeper, and the housekeeper came to the stage and said: "The old lady has something to ask, is Liang Hongyu powerful, or Mu Guiying is powerful?" ”

Bai Yufang said: "Back to you, these two people are not the same play, and there is a difference of more than ten years in the middle." ”

The housekeeper said: "That's not good, the old lady will watch this one and let Liang Hongyu and Mu Guiying fight." ”

Bai Yufang smiled bitterly: "Housekeeper, without this scene, you can't act." ”

The housekeeper sneered: "Let you act, act well, the old lady will be rewarded, don't act, hum, take a machine gun and make you all sudden." ”

Bai Yufang had no choice but to agree, and when he went back to the backstage to say that all the nests were blown up, Liang Hongyu vs. Mu Guiying, which one of these songs was sung, and it was not allowed to let the peers laugh to death.

"Act, as long as you give money, you can play anything." Bai Yufang said.

During the intermission, there was a shout outside: "Master Yang has arrived." A pot-bellied officer came in one after another, saluted the old lady first, sat on the chair of the master beside him, took off his military hat to reveal his shiny head, unbuttoned the discipline button, took the big smoking gun from the hand of the guard, and smoked it with taste.

It didn't take much effort, the gongs and drums sounded densely, and Liang Hongyu and Mu Guiying came on the stage one after another, because it was a temporary book, and there were no lines, just playing around to make a scene.

Master Yang rubbed his big head, stared at the two swords and horses on the stage, and suddenly applauded and shouted: "Okay!" ”