Many people in the courtyard of the community are busy in full swing, moving tables and chairs, supporting stoves, and setting up stages, which look similar to the scale and form of the last dinner.

"A thousand! Haobei! ”

Old Gu's voice sounded in the distance, and I turned my head to see that he was walking towards us.

Chen Haobei and I also greeted him, and when he approached, I asked, "Uncle Gu, is this going to have a community dinner?" Lao Gu glanced at Xifeng, and Xifeng immediately said: "Ah, Master Gu, I told Brother Qianqian that I was in for a treat, hehe." ”

Lao Gu shook his head with a helpless smile and said, "This kid is really... What's that, isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival two days ago because of the power outage, I think about it, a thousand you said right, now our people's lives are better than before, and some festivals can also be lived, so I'm ready to make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival, just this is not your friends are also here, let's go together. ”

Chen Haobei suddenly realized: "Oh, so that's what happened, I said, why did this kid say that he wanted to invite us to dinner, this is called... Hey, Qian'er, is there an idiom related to the flower monk that describes this thing? ”

I thought about it for a while and hesitated and said, "Borrow flowers to offer Buddha? Chen Haobei applauded himself and said, "The answer is correct!" That's it! ”

Lao Gu looked at us with a smile, and Li Xiaomeng suddenly said, "Huh? Want to have dinner here? Not quite right? My restaurant is all booked, the first time I ate with Brother Hao, I specially booked..."

"Return, if you can, you can refund, if you can't refund, see how much it costs to tell Uncle Gu, Uncle Gu will make it up for you." Lao Gu interrupted Li Xiaomeng's words, and Xifeng's slightly disdainful slanted eyes snorted at Li Xiaomeng.

Seeing that the old sayings have been said to this point, and the furnishings in the yard have been prepared, Li Xiaomeng, who has always been very discerning, no longer insisted, and said goodbye and called aside.

Then, still like last time, Lao Gu proposed that we call all the friends we want, as many as we want.

After saying goodbye to Lao Gu and going to busy with his business, after Lao Gu left, Xifeng said: "Brother Qian, Brother Haobei, you can play casually, hehe, just wait for dinner, Mengmeng, let's go and see if there is anything we need help with." ”

Meng Meng smiled sweetly, and walked hand in hand with Zephyr towards the busy crowd.

After the two of them left, Brother Chao asked me, "Shall we also go and help?" I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Forget it, Wang Yang and I said that we wanted to help them at the last dinner, but we ran into a gray nose, so let's just wander around for a while and wait for the food." ”

Brother Chao said noncommittally: "Probably people can see that you didn't wash your hands when you went to the toilet." I stretched out my hand in front of Brother Chao and said, "Do you smell it, is there a faint fragrance?" Brother Chao said, "It smells of expired toilet paper." ”

At this time, Li Xiaomeng also came back after making a phone call, and she said directly to Chen Haobei: "Brother Hao, it seems quite ceremonial for the first time for us to eat together, haha." ”

Chen Haobei turned his head to look at her, and suddenly said as if he remembered something: "By the way, I have to call my daughter-in-law and ask her not to run around after work, and to come back for dinner quickly." ”

After speaking, Chen Haobei also went to the side to call, and Li Xiaomeng asked me with a little surprise: "Brother Qian, Brother Hao is married?" I thought for a moment and said, "Pretty much." ”

Li Xiaomeng obviously let out a little lost "oh", I had the intention to squeeze her two sentences, telling her that even if Chen Haobei didn't have a daughter-in-law, he wouldn't look down on her, but after thinking about it carefully, it was better to say less to her.

Chen Haobei naturally went to call Mei Di'er, and after the incident, the four of us discussed it and decided to wander around the community for a while and wait for the banquet to start.

After walking around the community twice, Xiaoxi called and said that she and Wang Yang had gotten off work and were rushing to us. Soon Mei Tianer also called Chen Haobei, the same thing.

Seeing that everyone was coming, and the furnishings in the yard were gradually ready, the four of us stopped near Wufu and chatted.

Stopping near Wufu was purely a coincidence, but since the distance was quite close, I would naturally subconsciously take a second look.

It can be seen that Wufu has been cleaned again, and there is almost no dust on the surface, but it is still dilapidated, and one of them probably can't withstand the wind and sun every day, and even a slight crack has appeared.

Alas, the more I look at it, the more depressed I become.

Brother Chao also seemed to be paying attention to Wufu, and he suddenly said, "These five dolls... I don't think the more I look at it, the more obscure it becomes, and I'm about to catch up with the paper figurines that I burned during the burial before. ”

I said, "Be quiet, they seem to be quite serious about these five things." Li Xiaomeng lowered her voice and said: "Brother Chao is right, such a broken puppet, I feel that the grade of the community has been lowered all of a sudden." ”

Chen Haobei said: "This thing looks like a toy in our hometown, have you seen it?" It's called a matryoshka doll, and the outermost is a big doll, and the inside is one by one, and the size is getting smaller and smaller. ”

After Chen Haobei finished speaking, Brother Chao smiled: "Such a big nesting doll? There can't be a gourd seven brothers in it? I said, "Maybe it's the eighteen arhats?" Brother Chao said: "Why don't you say that one hundred and eight Liangshan heroes?" I said, "Why don't you say that a million heroes have crossed the river?" ”

Brother Chao was just about to continue, when suddenly a piercing buzzing sound sounded, and we all covered our ears, and at the same time looked in the direction where the sound came from, it turned out that the stage was debugging the loudspeaker.

After the voice passed, Chen Haobei said: "You won't be singing again in a while, right?" Don't they have any other tricks? It's good to have a pole dance. Li Xiaomeng smiled and complimented: "Haha, Brother Hao's taste is really enough for a man." ”

Brother Chao and I rolled our eyes helplessly, and no one paid attention to her words.

Gradually, the stage, tables, chairs and benches have been set up, and the new stove has also begun to operate, and the smell of vegetables wafts, which is very warm and peaceful in the world.

Wang Yang Xiaoxi and the Mei sisters arrived on the front and back, this time there was Li Xiaomeng, there were exactly eight of us, and we were just able to get together a table.

Originally, I still wanted to divide it into two tables, because there were still Meng Meng and Zephyr, but I didn't expect Zephyr to just say hello to us and take Meng Meng and another table to sit together, the table people are obviously old acquaintances with Zephyr, and the chat is very lively.

It didn't take long for the food to be served, but this time it was very different from the last time.

The dishes are mainly local seafood, which is not expensive, and the wine is no longer the same liquor as last time, but the most common barrel beer in Marina City, with a barrel next to each table.

Looking at a table of dishes, I suddenly remembered that there was a person, it was Aunt Li next door to my house, Lao Gu just meant that the whole community would come, but I looked around seriously, and there was no Aunt Li at all.

Aunt Chong's previous attitude towards me, she should be quite lonely at home, right? She should love this kind of occasion, right?

It happened that Lao Gu passed by our table, and I hurriedly stopped him to ask about Aunt Li's situation, but Lao Gu said that Aunt Li had been informed, and she was unwilling to participate in this kind of occasion, which was a bit too lively for her.

Since Lao Gu said so, it also saves me a special trip.

I don't know why, Lao Gu with the microphone made me feel like a village cadre, and he did "feed" the microphone twice like a village cadre, before he officially said: "Folks, neighbors, good evening!" ”

There was silence, and Lao Gu said a little embarrassed: "There should be applause here..."

The neighbors applauded warmly in the laughter, and after the applause subsided a little, Lao Gu continued: "The big guys also know that today's dinner is relatively sudden, and the reason is to make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival..."

"Click..."

There was a sound of glass breaking, very loud, directly interrupting Lao Gu's words.

"It's okay! I accidentally dropped a cup! Keep going on stage! ”

I looked at the aunt's table, and she was talking to a young man at her table, as if to persuade the young man.

And that young man, I have seen, not a few years older than me, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, dressed as a Sven white-collar worker, but his eyes are very cold.

This person is from my unit, I have had a relationship in the elevator before, and the deepest impression on me that time is that I found that this person was inexplicably ruthless when I passed by, just like at this moment, he was looking at me viciously, as if I slept with his wife and robbed his child.

And that cup must have been broken by this Sven man. Such a big movement, it shouldn't be accidental, right?

Lao Gu also looked in the direction of Sven Nan, but he didn't say anything, just continued his speech: "That's it, don't say much, the festival is a new festival, but the rules are still the old rules, everyone eat and drink well, and the show will be staged soon!" ”

In a burst of applause, Lao Gu walked off the stage, and then someone moved props, tables and chairs to the stage.

At the moment, I didn't have the heart to watch any shows, because I found that every time I looked at Sven Man, intentionally or unintentionally, he was staring at me viciously, which made me very uncomfortable.

There were four or five tables of eight immortals between me and him, and the lighting equipment at the moment was a few light bulbs lit by improvised wires, which were not particularly bright, so I suspected that I had seen it wrong.

After thinking about it, I whispered to Brother Chao on the side: "Hey, Brother Chao, you can help me see if the man with glasses has been staring at me at the table where the cup was smashed just now?" ”

Brother Chao was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at me for a while as I said, and then said, "No, right?" How do I think he's staring at me? ”

Chen Haobei, who was on the other side of me, saw me and Brother Chao whispering, so he hurriedly came up and asked, "What are you two muttering?" I just wanted to say that I wanted Chen Haobei to take a look at it too, but Brother Chao preemptively said: "It's nothing, nothing, come, drink." ”

Brother Chao's proposal was unanimously responded to by everyone, except for Wang Yang who replaced wine with water, we all served the same glass, and Mei Tianer even made up another glass for herself, according to her words, she knew that Wang Yang couldn't drink beer, so she volunteered to drink it instead of her.

In fact, I think she is gluttonous, this sister really drinks and doesn't dare to say anything else, at least every time she drinks no less than Chen Haobei.

After a cup of belly, Brother Chao whispered in my ear: "Don't tell Chen Haobei, their poor people can't stand others looking at him the most." ”

When Brother Chao said this, I suddenly remembered the "What are you looking at?" "What are you doing?" In fact, don't talk about Chen Haobei, if that Sven man stares at us like this all night, I can't help but want to ask him what he's looking at.

As he spoke, gongs and drums were already sounding on the stage, and there was the sound of accompaniment, and I understood as soon as I heard it, it was a willow voice.

Most of the people in the community seemed to enjoy it, and everyone listened attentively, and for a while, no one moved chopsticks to eat food.

It wasn't until the end of the song that everyone began to eat and drink after the roaring applause.

After I started eating and drinking, the atmosphere became much more lively, and I was still peeking at the strange Sven man from time to time, sometimes he was looking at me, sometimes he was not looking, as long as he was not looking at me, he must be drinking.

Gradually, the two acts of the opera ended, and I asked Wang Yang, who looked a little inexplicably depressed today, on a whim: "Hey, Xiyangyang, last time you were so good that you could guess when they sang willow dialect, what about this time?" The opening scene is willow cavity, can you guess what to sing next? ”

Wang Yang finally squeezed out a smile and said: "I really know this, I know the order of appearance of all the next song genres." ”

I smiled: "Haha, I really mean that you are fat and you are still panting, last time you were blinded to one, is it possible that you can still be blinded again?" ”

Wang Yang said succinctly: "The next one is Anhui Lu Opera." ”

In fact, the difference between the various genres of ancient opera is quite big, and I listened to these various operas once during the last community dinner, so I can still distinguish them based on my impression, mainly in terms of singing habits and accents.

That's right, Wang Yang said it, it is indeed an Anhui Lu opera, the same as the last time I heard it in the community.

"The next one is Hubei Chu Opera." Wang Yang said with certainty.

"The next one is the Hunan Flower Drum Opera."

"The next one should be the last one, it's Sichuan Opera."

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