Chapter 1: Dunhuang
"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane has landed at Dunhuang Airport, the temperature outside is 23 degrees Celsius, and the plane is taxiing, for your safety and the safety of others...... Thank you for flying with international airlines! See you next time! ”
A woman sitting by the window reached out and took off the blindfold, her slender hands covered her face and rubbed it to wake up, despite this, she could still see that her pure face was full of tiredness, and soon gave the weight of her whole body to the back of the plane seat again, spit out turbidity, and closed her eyes slightly to ease her mind, and waited until the disembarkation announcement sounded before getting up to get the luggage in the baggage compartment, and when the other passengers were still tilting their heads and reaching out for their luggage, she had already carried the pipa bag and got off the plane first.
After going to the check-in office to pick up the suitcase, she went straight out of the airport, stood on the side of the road and put the pipa bag in her hand on the suitcase, yawned and stretched, reached out and grabbed the loose hair, tied it with a hair rope, put on a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses, and took a taxi to a café agreed with others.
Business at the café wasn't good, it was deserted, with only a few people sitting in the spacious guest area, but the sound of the hanging TV muffled the coldness, she ordered a cup of coffee and sat down at random.
"Ah, hurry up, it's too late!" The glass door of the café was pushed open, and a young girl broke in, scurrying around, as if she couldn't find what she was looking for anywhere, she yelled impatiently, "Mom, where is the remote control of the TV, where did you put it?" ”
The proprietress who served coffee to the guests was no longer surprised by this situation, and took a breath of anger: "I know that I watch TV all day long, I don't finish my homework, my grades have improved, and your clothes haven't been dried, and your stinky socks are about to smoke a camel." ”
The girl who found the remote control at the cash register stuck out her tongue mischievously, and immediately changed the channel, and the TV screen suddenly changed from a short TV series for parents to a dance drama played back again by the Central 15th Channel.
"Your daughter is so cute." The woman who came from the airport looked at the girl with her hands on her cheeks, and when she saw the helpless spoiling appearance of the proprietress, she lowered her eyes and said, "I'm very happy to have your mother." ”
"Mothers are not all like this, these children are still annoying us, how can there be any happiness or unhappiness, they all hope that the children will eat well, dress well, live well, and be happy."
After being a mother for more than ten years, the proprietress who was praised for the first time immediately laughed and chatted in Mandarin with a local accent, "She, she was obsessed with a dancer in Beijing two years ago, and said that she volunteered to go to Beijing to take the dance test, so we enrolled her in a dance class, but this is also a good thing, she refused to practice ballet for eight or nine years when she was a child, and her grades were not good, and she was about to be a sophomore in high school in a blink of an eye. Parents can't support it. ”
Then, like all parents, he said with a smile: "If she really wants to look at those playthings, it will be light for me to break her legs." ”
The woman was amused by the proprietress laughed, curiously turned her head to look at the TV on the wall, the dance drama on the TV was replayed by the National Theater Dance Troupe according to the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Taihang Road" and choreography, the playback of this scene is the last of the "Taihang Road" national tour, the tour location is set according to the place where Bai Juyi traveled in this life, and the last one is set in Beijing, which is also the theater of the performance unit, which means "the tree is thousands of feet high, and the fallen leaves return to the roots".
The girl was enthusiastic to introduce all the information of this dance drama to her mother, and the proprietress was also listening carefully to her daughter's chatter while making coffee, and the corners of her mouth were always with a serious listening smile.
Before the dance drama began, the camera swept around the audience of the theater, the first floor of the pool seat and the second floor of the building seat, which can accommodate 1,000 people, are always not seated when there are other performances, and sometimes there are only two or three hundred people, but the audience of this dance drama is full of heads, and the middle-aged and elderly faces on weekdays have also become all young people, most of whom are wearing Tang costumes and Hanfu.
At the beginning of the prologue, the dancers who were on the stage could not speak or groan, they could only tell the story with their bodies, wearing a skirt and half an arm, combing the woman's hair The dancer should be the heroine of this dance drama, she tensed her body and controlled her muscles, just to show the best body lines, and used dance to convey to the audience the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the woman in "Taihang Road", and the changes of her husband after marriage made her try her best to get favor again, and when the movements should be tactful, it is like flowing water. When it's neat, it's as clean as a sword.
The stage is divided into two worlds, on one side is the woman who is struggling to survive in the world because of the likes and dislikes of men; On the other side, the stage is a high-ranking official who is trembling in the face of the emperor and fearing the death of the emperor and the twilight, which shows the deep purpose of the poem, which is to cry out for the suffering of the weaker courtiers in the relationship between the monarch and the minister.
Women and men, rulers and high-ranking officials, each occupying one stage, one light and one dark, "difficult to walk, not in the water, not in the mountains, only in the repetition of human feelings" is interpreted more by their body movements.
Playback always likes to insert some advertisements, but in order not to affect the viewing effect, there are only a few minutes of advertisements between each scene, and in these few minutes, the girl clasped her hands in front of her chest, and her favorite little stars appeared in her eyes, and the current popular rainbow fart was also used very well: "Goddess Chen Qiong is really the daughter of God, I see that there is no amazing thing in the world, so God cut her and sent her down to open the eyes of us mortals, what should I do, I love her more than yesterday." ”
A male guest who was infected by the girl's emotions also curiously picked up his mobile phone and checked Chen Qiong's character Baidu Encyclopedia, and then came out with an exclamation of "This person is so powerful".
The content displayed on the Character Encyclopedia is roughly as follows.
Chen Qiong was born in Suzhou and Hangzhou in an artistic family, her father Chen Jishan and his five generations are famous pipa players, and his mother is devoted to the restoration and protection of Dunhuang art, everyone feels that children born in such a family should always choose a path of life between their parents, but she fell in love with dance, when she was two or three years old, she listened to her father play the pipa and danced, and her father saw her interest in dance, and sent her to learn dance.
At the age of five, she studied under the dance artist Xu Luhua, who was rated as a national first-class actor, graduated from the bachelor's degree in classical dance at the age of 20 and entered the National Song and Dance Theater where her teacher Xu Luhua worked, and became the chief dancer of the dance troupe.
Overseas mainstream media also rarely sent a week-long push article for Chen Qiong, and the title was also the longest ever: "Dunhuang beauties walked towards us and stretched out their hands to invite us to enter Dunhuang for a dance, and those who were absent cannot be forgiven."
"Of course, my goddess has been praised by dance authorities for surpassing her mentor Xu Luhua before the age of thirty." The girl held her head high, her face full of pride, but not long after she said these words proudly, the whole person immediately wilted again, she took a deep breath, clenched her fists and cheered herself on, "I must work hard to be admitted to the Northern Dance!" ”
"But come on, you have been learning ballet for so long when you were a child, and you have given up, and your father and I are going to be angry with you at that time, how much silver is that." The proprietress scoffed and pierced a small hole in her daughter's bulging morale balloon, "This time we spent so much money to let you learn dance again, if you can't persevere, see if I don't peel you off at that time." ”
The girl chewed the spicy strips taken out of her pocket, not discouraged but her morale increased: "I don't like ballet, that's what you forced me to learn while I was still young and ignorant, I'm older now, I don't like ballet anymore, I just want to follow the footsteps of the goddess to go to the Northern Dance to learn our Chinese classical dance, as well as Dunhuang dance." ”
"I'm a Dunhuang person, I can't contribute to our Dunhuang art, Mom, you just wait to be proud of me."
The proprietress neither used hurtful words to break her daughter's dream, nor did she echo it, she just lowered her head and smiled dotingly, probably envious of her daughter's youthful vigor and undefeated vitality for everything.
The door of the café was pushed open again, and it was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy who came in, he looked down at the screen, carefully looked at the few guests, and happily walked towards the corner, it was the woman who was talking to the proprietress in front: "May I ask if it is Teacher Chen Qiong from Beijing, I am Zhang Xiaomao sent by the research institute to pick you up." ”
Chen Qiong nodded, put down the coffee cup and got up to take the suitcase, the suitcase had been taken away by Zhang Xiaomao, who came to pick her up, before she left, she looked at the girl who was looking up at the TV with her hands on her cheeks, thinking of the impassioned speech that she was going to Beijing to learn dance, the corners of her mouth curved into a beautiful arc, and even the tails of her eyes were smeared with a smile.
The glass door was pushed and pulled, a man and a woman went out one after another, and the girl in the store was already immersed in "Taihang Road" on the TV screen, and she didn't realize what she had missed.
The Dunhuang Academy sent to pick up people is an off-road vehicle that can travel through the desert, Chen Qiong, who is sitting in the co-pilot, looks left and right, and there are large areas of Gobi and yellow sand in sight, and after half an hour's drive, she saw a little oasis, which is the destination of her trip, Mogao Grottoes.
Because I had to go through the relevant personnel procedures and settle down by the way, I parked the car in front of the research institute at the foot of Sanwei Mountain.
Chen Qiong jumped off the off-road vehicle with a slightly high chassis with his hands and feet, and went around to the trunk to pick up the suitcase in one step, when Zhang Xiaomao watched Chen Qiong grit his teeth and take down the big box of more than 20 kilograms steadily, he suddenly looked away.
He felt that he was superfluous: "Teacher Chen should not be a hidden Popeye." ”
"Yes, you've found out." Chen Qiong smiled and put the suitcase steady, then straightened up, took out a box of biscuits from the small bag she was carrying and handed it over, "In the car, when you weren't paying attention, I secretly ate spinach." ”
Zhang Xiaomao looked down at the biscuit in his hand, his eyes were wide, it was really a cabbage flavor, he tore open the wrapper, took a big bite in his mouth, and said vaguely, "Thank you, Mr. Chen."
"Mr. Guan." Zhang Xiaomao quickly looked in the direction of Mogao Grottoes and shouted, "Did you just come back from the cave to eat?" ”
Chen Qiong, who was originally holding the pipa bag on the back seat, poked her head out curiously to see that it was a man in blue overalls, with a tall figure, a perfect chin line, and heroic eyebrows, and the shoulders were also good-looking right-angled shoulders, to say a little about 1.85 meters, the man's skin that was neither white nor black was beyond her cognition of here, and she thought that people who worked in this Gobi would have tanned their skin.
Chen Qiong retracted her gaze, which was very attractive to the woman, but it just made her feel familiar, very much like a person she had known a long time ago but had not seen for a long time.
Like who, it's a little bit like the first boyfriend she talked about at the age of eighteen, but compared with the facial features one by one, it's not so similar, that person is a white and energetic college student.
"Well, there's still food in the cafeteria, right?" Seki patted the sand on his body, not caring at all about the gaze that was looking at him in front of him.
Zhang Xiaomao chewed the biscuit given by Chen Qiong and shook his head: "I don't know, I just arrived in the city and picked people up." He looked at his phone, "It's past two o'clock in the afternoon." ”
Guan Ji's gaze swept behind Zhang Xiaomao: "The dance performer from Beijing that Dean Zhao asked you to pick up?" ”
Zhang Xiaomao, who was standing in front of the trunk, turned sideways and glanced at the car door behind: "Yes, I just picked up Mr. Chen." ”
"Treat people well, don't be lazy, and remember to wash the car for me, I haven't washed it for more than half a year." Guan Ji glanced at Chen Qiong, and after laughing, he walked to the cafeteria, "Let's eat." ”
Zhang Xiaomao shouted loudly at Guan Ji's back and shouted dissatisfiedly: "I said Mr. Guan, why did you suddenly come to ask me if I wanted to borrow a car to pick up people, and he also said that the people from Beijing took the shuttle bus too shabby, it turned out that he had the intention of letting me wash the car, and I knew that I would take the shuttle bus of the research institute to pick it up."
"Wash it up." Guan Ji, who was already going far, also dragged his voice back.
Zhang Xiaomao opened his teeth and claws, thinking that Chen Qiong had not settled down yet, so he hurriedly dragged his suitcase back: "Teacher Chen, I'll take you to see the dean first." ”
Chen Qiong, who was holding the pipa in her arms with both hands, responded listlessly, "Okay", and now there was a swarm of flies buzzing in her head, and the whole person became a little demented.
The man...
It's really her first boyfriend and ex-boyfriend!