Lin Jin, who walked out of the study, heard the sound of silk strings coming from the backyard, looked at the sound and asked with a smile: "Which team sent this?" ”

Zihao hurriedly replied: "It is the filial piety of the Li family, a salt merchant." It is said that the horns in it were all taken to several places by the teachers in the opera garden, carefully selected, bought back at a large price, and carefully trained for three years before becoming a teacher.

Not long ago, at the year-end guild of salt merchants, he appeared on the stage for the first time and won a full house. The Li family heard that Mrs. Gu likes to listen to operas, so they specially sent them to Mrs. Gu to sing a few folds. ”

The whole Yangzhou city knows that Aunt Lin not only loves to listen to operas, but also likes the "ventriloquist" performance in a hundred operas. When Jia Min was still there, although Aunt Lin was Lin Ruhai's aunt, because she was still the mother of her second room, these salt merchants still had some scruples, and the action was not too big, but after Jia Min passed away, the flattering action was blatant.

Compared with the unknown preferences of other people in the Lin family, Aunt Lin likes to listen to operas and enjoy ventriloquist performances, which is on the bright side. Therefore, it is easiest for the salt merchants to start from her and please Lin Ruhai, so they send all kinds of opera troupes and various ventriloquist artists to the house in a steady stream.

Watching Lin Jin walk quickly towards Cuiwei Pavilion where Aunt Lin was listening to the play, Zihao behind her looked at her back and showed a more sassy smile, and said secretly in her heart: I knew it would be like this. It is said outside that Mrs. Gu likes to listen to operas and ventriloquist performances, but in fact, her own uncle will not let her much. It's just that it's well hidden, unlike Mrs. Gu, who hasn't been known by outsiders.

Seeing Lin Jin striding over, Aunt Lin, who was listening to the play across the Water Pavilion, beckoned to her and said with a smile: "Come, Brother Jin, come here, now this Hall of Eternal Life is singing to the point of wonderful, you listen, how well the crown student who plays Emperor Tang Ming sings." ”

Lin Jin sat down next to Aunt Lin, picked up a piece of dim sum and ate it, not interested in the performance on the stage. There's no way, she herself is not interested in opera, and she has listened to this fold of "The Palace of Eternal Life" hundreds of times now, and she is about to vomit when she listens to it, so she is really not in the mood to appreciate it.

The little girl next to her, Zihao, didn't see her like this, if she did, she would know that his previous conclusion was wrong, and his uncle actually didn't like to listen to dramas.

The play is over.

Aunt Lin called the two little actors who played Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei over, and while ordering people to give rewards, she asked them about the way they used their voices when singing, the exchange of large and small voices, the conversion of virtual voices, and the tricks of vocal position and luck in the voice.

If the person asking is a peer, it is obviously impossible for these two little actors to answer, but it is Aunt Lin, the wife of a wealthy family, who is asking them, and it is obviously impossible to compete with them for jobs, so they are very detailed, and even some of the secret skills of the ancestors are said.

Aunt Lin was obviously very interested in this aspect, and even tried it herself, according to the method they said, she began to change her voice and learned, although she didn't sing, but Bai Kou could still learn it. After learning and showing it, let the two actors listen to it, point out the shortcomings, and then change them until they are more perfect.

Seeing Aunt Lin's energetic learning to sing, these little actors didn't understand how she had this habit, but after all, it didn't hurt, besides, Aunt Lin gave a relatively generous reward, so they didn't take it seriously, and after explaining it clearly, they bowed to Aunt Lin and Lin Jin and thanked her, and then withdrew.

As soon as the people left, Aunt Lin got up and walked out side by side with Lin Jin, signaling that the people serving did not need to come forward. As she walked, she asked Lin Jin in a low voice, "Do you understand?" ”

Lin Jin hurriedly said: "I understand what I heard, but if I really want to say it according to the method they said, I may have to practice in private, after all, there is still a gap between listening and really knowing." ”

"It's okay, learn slowly." Aunt Lin patted Lin Jin's hand holding her arm to reassure, "Anyway, we have learned a lot before, there are still a few years before your voice changes, and your voice is still enough to speak now." ”

In fact, whether it is Aunt Lin or Lin Jin, they are not lovers of opera and ventriloquism. It's just because Lin Jin dresses up as a man, not only does she have no problems in appearance, but she also has to keep her voice from showing flaws, so Lin Jin, who has to learn from men to speak, came up with a way to find a singing drama or a ventriloquist to learn.

In order not to arouse suspicion, the two had to pretend to be very interested in opera and ventriloquism. is different from Lin Jin, Aunt Lin pretends to be dressed, but she really cultivates a little interest in opera; As for Lin Jin, in her previous life and in this life, she didn't have this cell in her two lives, two opera troupes sang the same play, she was really obsessed with this, she could say several differences, and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages, but as long as she didn't go out of tune, in her opinion, it was the same.

Therefore, this is also why Aunt Lin almost didn't play a single game when she was listening to a play or watching a ventriloquist performance, but she couldn't spread the reputation of loving this like Aunt Lin, because when talking about this with people, unlike Aunt Lin, she couldn't say anything, so she couldn't make a name for herself.

In addition to learning a man's voice, Lin Jin has begun to bind her chest. The "thin horse" type of woman developed because of the salt merchant's hobby is not only the small feet of the three-inch golden lotus, but also the thin waist and pigeon milk. The so-called pigeon milk, in Lin Jin's view, is the flat body of later generations, the kind of A-cup.

Although as Aunt Lin and Lin Jin, it is not good to ask the place where Yangzhou thin horses are raised how to get a flat body, but fortunately, the Lin family has a thin horse sent by a salt merchant.

Of course, the Yangzhou thin horse who "promoted" Yang Wan to marry Lin Ruhai was disposed of afterwards, but he was sent with her, and the companion named "Xie Yu" still stayed in the Lin family. It's just that after Lin Ruhai was designed for that time, she was extremely disgusted with the creature Yangzhou Thin Horse, so she didn't bother to understand it at all, so she was left in the backyard.

was disgusted by the male host, and was not allowed to be treated as a housewife, although the Lin family did not miss a mouthful of food for her, and the Lin family was not as snobbish as the servants of the Jia family, and they were red and white, but this day was still not much better after all.

Now that Aunt Lin thinks of her, she is very interested in her days as a thin horse in Yangzhou, so she naturally wants to seize this opportunity, so she searches her intestines and tells her about how she was trained from childhood to adulthood. Although she didn't know it, she made a lot of effort to shape Lin Jin's flat body.

Chest binding is actually not a comfortable thing, it has no effect if it is not tightened, and it affects breathing. It's okay in winter, but in summer, it's already hot, and the clothes of this era, no matter how light and thin, are not as cool as showing arms and legs in later generations, and she also binds her chest, and because the cloth is less useless, it is not only tightly tied, but also very thick, even if she takes a bath every night and uses prickly heat powder, she still has a thick prickly heat on her chest, which is very sinful.

In order to try to grow taller, Lin Jin took out the books from the library, found out the foods that are helpful for height recorded on them, and ate them without hesitation, whether he liked them or not. For this reason, not only did she cure the picky eating problem that Lin Jin's parents didn't change in her previous life, but also let her get out a lot of delicious food that is not available in this world and has in later life. For example, some of the foods that Daiyu brought to Jia's house, such as milk tea, came from this.

The list goes on and on.

In order to pretend to be a man, Aunt Lin saw all of Lin Jin's efforts. Thinking of her hard work, she sighed, and Aunt Lin said apologetically: "Brother Sumire, it's hard for you." ”

To tell the truth, now Aunt Lin regrets a little, regretting that she shouldn't have said that Lin Jin was a boy in order to stabilize her daughter's position in the backyard. Because as Lin Jin grew up day by day, she found that there were too many things that needed to be disguised by women dressed as men, and if she was not careful, she might be exposed.

It's a pity that now that the wood is in the boat, she, her daughter, and Lin Jin have all been put on the stage, and they can't get down, they can't and dare not expose the truth, so they can only continue to fool around.

Lin Jin could actually feel the trace of remorse in Aunt Lin's words, but she felt that it was all because Jia Min, the housewife, was not there, and she only left a daughter who was no threat to Yang Wan. But even so, if time could turn back and let Aunt Lin make another choice, she felt that she would still make the same choice.

Moreover, Lin Jin doesn't need Aunt Lin's apology, because this is her choice. When she regains her memory, if she doesn't want to hide her identity, she can find a way to expose it. At that time, her body was less than three years old, and the child was not sensible, even if the adults repeatedly told her, what if it was exposed?

At that time, the real gender was exposed, and even if Lin Ruhai was angry, he could only settle accounts with Aunt Lin and Yang Wan, two adults, and he couldn't be angry with Lin Jin. Of course, if Lin Jin is not his bloodline, it will be another matter. Moreover, at that time, the embarrassment was borne by the adults in the family, and she would not be blamed on a child, and when Lin Ruhai was promoted and came to Yangzhou, this matter was covered up. But Lin Jin didn't do that, gave up her identity as a girl, and still became a boy.

Therefore, Lin Jin shook her head and said sincerely: "Grandmother, you don't need to be sorry, I really don't care about pretending to be a man, and even I am very grateful to you, thank you for treating me as a boy back then, so that I would not be locked up in the back house, but have the opportunity to go out." ”

To tell the truth, in the later generations, for women, they are used to living in a free and easy world, Lin Jin really can't imagine that she is like the women of this world, who have been locked up in the back house of the deep house compound all her life, even if she is married, it is just from one back house to another.

Although it is said that "what mountain to sing what song", when the day comes, as long as you don't want to die, you have to force yourself to adapt. But Lin Jin felt that she might be locked up and go crazy. Therefore, she is really grateful to Aunt Lin for giving her another choice in her life.