Chapter Forty-Five: Performing a Drama??
The boy at the front table sat on the seat and looked at the girl at the back table, "Isn't it almost New Year's Day, the school requires each class to have 1~2 programs, and several class committees in our class have unanimously discussed and decided to hand in a drama and a singing program." ”
"And then?" Su Wen opened a pair of ignorant eyes and asked in confusion, "What are you doing with me?" I don't understand. ”
"What," the boy scratched his head unnaturally, "In the drama, we decided to play a few classic scenes of "Dream of Red Mansions", such as Daiyu entering Jiafu, Bao Dai eavesdropping on "The Legend of the West Chamber", Daiyu burying flowers, etc., to pay tribute to the classics!" We discussed it with the teacher who hosted the New Year's Day Gala, and she said that this program is feasible! The script is already ready-made, and now the actors are missing......"
The girl became more and more confused when she heard this, and pointed at herself suspiciously, "Is there not enough actors?" Do you want me to help play a maid? ”
"No, no, no! You misunderstood," the boy's smile contained a hint of shyness, "Are you interested in playing Lin Daiyu?" ”
After hearing this, the girl opened a pair of ignorant eyes wide, and swallowed a mouthful of nervous saliva in her throat, "Ahem, me? ”
The girl pointed at herself again, "Did I hear me right?" ”
"That's right, it's you!" Song Yu smiled, "I think your temperament is quite similar to Lin Daiyu, you are quite suitable to play Daiyu!" ”
"Am I like Lin Daiyu?" Su Wen was shocked and surprised, "Why don't I feel like it?" ”
"This is the so-called 'the authorities are fascinated, the bystanders are clear', you may not think that in my opinion, your smile, frowning and raising your eyes, a tactful or melancholy look, actually give me the feeling of looking like Lin Daiyu."
The boy stared earnestly into the girl's eyes and said word by word.
Su Wen, who had a temperament similar to Lin Daiyu in Song Yu's mouth, stared at the boy without blinking, hearing such praise for the first time in his life, Su Wen's heart couldn't help but thump, just at the age of youth, which flower-like little girl doesn't like to hear praise from the opposite sex? At this time, the girl said that she was not happy at all, and that it must be fake.
"What you said is true?" The girl has a feeling of being like a dream.
"Well, really," the boy raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "I thought ...... when I first met you"
The first time we met, the girl and the boy met in the heavy rain in early autumn.
Through the misty rain, the boy in the blue plaid shirt looked slightly sideways from under the black umbrella to the source of the sound, and the pair of black and white eyes as pure as a dog looked at the strange girl with a slight smile.
That's right, it's eyes as pure as a dog, since they met and became friends, Su Wen felt this metaphor after knowing it. Those black and white eyes have the same pure breath as a dog's eyes.
A thinly dressed girl in a white dress snuggled up to her thin mother, her waist-length hair draped over her shoulders, swept up by the wind of the downpour, dancing with the slanting raindrops. The girl's mist-like eyes were unusually clear in the rain, revealing a little melancholy and sad eyes.
Has it been so long? It's been so long that the memory has become blurry.
"That'...... Who plays Baoyu? Su Wen pursed his lips and asked hesitantly.
"Hehe, you see that the people in our class are obsessed with learning all day long, and not many people care about the program in the class at all, and there are mostly girls in the class committee, in fact, the class committee is not willing to participate in it." The boy said, shyly smiling, "No way, this kind of thankless thing, I have to do it myself!" ”
"You?" The girl's eyes widened in surprise.
The boy opened a pair of big ignorant eyes, "Well, no? Is there something wrong? ”
"No, that's good." Su Wen rolled his eyes and thought for a while, "You said it was thankless, so why should I agree?" ”
"Uh," the boy was speechless until he fainted, drooping his head, and when he looked up, he had a sincere expression, "because I really can't think of a better candidate than you." ”
The girls continued to receive unexpected praise, and when they were flattered, they had to look at the boys with puzzled eyes, "Aren't there a lot of beautiful girls in our class, why don't you let them act?" ”
"Playing Daiyu depends on temperament! Not everyone can play Daiyu, okay?! "The boy is serious," Originally, Xiao Shijie took the initiative to ask Ying to say that she would play Daiyu, but we all felt that it was more suitable for her to play Baochai, and after everyone's unanimous discussion, Xiao Shijie came to play Baochai. ”
"Is that so?" The girl bit her lip, "I've never acted in a drama, what if I can't act well?" ”
Seeing that the girl was relieved, the boy immediately smiled and met the conversation, "Don't make up your mind so early!" It doesn't matter if you haven't acted, it's good to memorize the lines well and rehearse more. ”
"What do the other class committee members think? Will they agree to me acting? Su Wen had to have doubts in this regard, "I'm soft-spoken in the class, I think there may be people who are dissatisfied, right?" ”
"Ha, I mentioned it to them when we discussed the characters before, but it's not a problem for you to think about it! They also think you're a good fit for me! There seemed to be stars twinkling in the boy's bright eyes, "Moreover, our height is actually quite in line with the character settings of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions". ”
"Well, okay, I'll think about it then." Su Wen lowered his eyes, looking at the exercises on the table, but his eyes were dilated, "The final exam is coming soon, I'm afraid I won't be able to balance acting in drama and studying......"
"I can understand your concerns," Song Yu smiled understandingly, but a look of loss could be vaguely seen between his eyebrows, "Then you can think about it, and tell me if you act or not!" It's okay if you don't act! ”
"Hmm."
Su Wen lowered his eyes, but there was a certain excitement in his heart that was fermenting little by little. In fact, when the boy asked "Would you like to play Daiyu", the flattered girl was already moved by this proposal.
Growing up so big, Su Wen has always had nothing other than studying to make girls have any sense of presence in the bustling crowd. She is tired of being an inconsequential outsider outside the crowd, but how eager she is to integrate into the collective around her and be recognized by her peers?
Performing a drama on stage in front of all your classmates at the New Year's Day party? This is something that 16-year-old Su Wen never thought about. It is precisely because she never thought about it, never dared to think about it, that the girl imagined the future scene, and she was so nervous that her heart fluttered. If she performs a drama on stage, then Ji Heming in the audience can not see her performing on stage for the first time? Thinking of this, the girl couldn't help but blush.
Before the start of the evening self-study, Su Wen was pacing the campus alone, and the campus was cold and silent in winter, and the cold wind blew with a whirring sound, stabbing people's faces in pain. Su Wen walked alone in the cold wind, the cold was indeed cold, but she enjoyed the feeling of being blown by the cold wind and clearing her mind, which made her touch the winter up close.
In front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the first floor of the teaching building, Su Wen quietly looked at himself who was blushing from the wind in the dark green glass window. The girl in the mirror image is wearing a bulky winter school uniform, and her originally thin figure is hidden in a heavy winter coat, but she is a little plump. In the glass window, the girl wore a high long ponytail, revealing a smooth forehead, but the small slap face was inlaid with plain facial features. The facial features are the most ordinary facial features, which are not ugly, but they are not very good-looking.
is such an ordinary her, like Lin Daiyu? As soon as Su Wen thought of Song Yu's words of praise, he couldn't help but smile shyly on his face. But the plain self in the mirror made her wonder, how is she like Lin Daiyu? Is it really "the authorities are confused, but the bystanders are clear"?
With doubts in her heart, the girl hesitantly asked the boy during the evening self-study class, "Do you really think I can?" ”
"Of course, I haven't found a more suitable candidate to play Lin Daiyu than you." Song Yu said with a firm gaze.
"Then ......" Su Wen smiled shyly, "Maybe I can give it a try?" ”
Song Yu was overjoyed when he heard this: "Then it's decided?" ”
"Hmm."
"Here, here's our script." The boy turned around and took a stack of bound A4 paper and put it on the girl's desk, "You can take a look first, memorize the lines after class in the past few days, and start rehearsing when the lines are over, do you think it's okay?" ”
Su Wen held the line book in his hand, flipped through it with wide eyes and novelty, and at the same time several classic scenes from the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" appeared in his mind, and his chest seemed to be boiling with blood, which was about to explode once it was ignited.
Life needs some adventure and innovation, so as not to live like a frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant of the richness and vastness of the outside world. For many years, confined to the shackles of books, Su Wen has lived as a frog at the bottom of the well, and has lived as a real nerd, but this nerd has not completely degenerated into a frog at the bottom of the well who does not know the size of the world, and she, the frog at the bottom of the well, keeps trying to jump out of the world at the bottom of the well.
Su Wen happily accepted the invitation to perform a drama at the New Year's Day Gala, and the thought that she would be on stage for the first time in her life, and even played Lin Daiyu, one of the most important roles in "Dream of Red Mansions", the most prestigious of China's four famous novels, Su Wen's heart surged. What a privilege is that? It is precisely because of the importance of the role that Su Wen began to feel anxious in his heart, what if he didn't perform well? Isn't it to be laughed at and generous in front of everyone?
With a pious heart, he turned the first page of the script, and Su Wen marked every place where Daiyu appeared and every line of dialogue with a red pen. The script consists of five acts, namely "Lin Daiyu's First Entry into Jiafu", "Grandma Liu's Entry into the Grand View Garden", "Bao Dai's Reading of "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Bao Chai Fluttering Butterflies", and "Daiyu Funeral Flowers".
The script does not show the grandeur of the whole book, but it uses a few of the most classic scenes to make people relive the classics of the Red Mansion. After reading through it, Su Wen had re-entered "Dream of Red Mansions" with the short and concise script, and couldn't help but linger. The half-written dialogue read unimpeded, and Su Wen began to memorize the lines with longing.
The first time he tried acting in a drama, Su Wen felt that he was full of fighting spirit.