Chapter 2 I Want My Father
The convoy entered Xunyang. This Xunyang is a town, if you want to say that the place is small, in fact, it is bigger than a county. From Beiping to Tianjin is connected to the train line, here is just a little light, the status is higher than a city, small merchants and hawkers, neighbors and neighbors greet each other, pickpockets, homeless people, rich businessmen, flower girls... There should be a lot of excitement on the street, but after the excitement has turned all this into normal, at this time there is such a long convoy of horses on the street immediately attracts the attention of this half of the street.
"Yo, such a big show, it's been a long time since so many people have come to Xunyang, what kind of character is coming?"
"Hey! I don't know if it's a famous actor invited by Beiping, and I don't know what wind is blowing to us."
"The young officials and men of Peking are used to serving, come to our small town to enjoy something different, what else can it be."
"Ouch! Do you see if that's the car of Manager Li, the lame man in Liyuan? I'm going to pick them up by car!"
A car that was dark and shiny, with two awkward headlights dangling in front of it, was driving towards this group of people, Xu Ruliang, who was sitting on the horse, was the first to detect this situation, and hurriedly shouted to the carriage behind him: "Master, Manager Li is here to pick us up."
shouted, the hot-tempered young man in the car behind him got out of his head, and shouted at Xu Ruliang's carriage in front of him with a little doubt: "What."
They didn't hear it clearly, and Xu Ruliang shouted again without temper: "Chunheyuan... Manager Li is here to pick us up", Xu Ruliang sang Xiaosheng in the troupe, and he didn't shout loudly, so he shouted again and again word by word with all his strength, so that even passers-by near the carriage could hear it.
When the young man heard the news, he hurriedly got back into the carriage to report, and after a while, the group of carriages stopped again, and the windows on the carriages poked out a few heads again, and the young man got out of the car again with Shen Yeling.
Manager Li, the owner of the car, also got out of the car and walked towards them, he always likes to skim out with one leg when he walks, and he can't always walk steadily, he is very ugly like a lame, his appearance is not good-looking, and he slightly reveals a little obscene, like a person who is full of oil and water and wants to take advantage of it, in short, the first impression makes the young man next to Shen Yeling not like it when he sees it, and even he doesn't understand why his master chose the theater taken over by this person surnamed Li.
Manager Li and Shen Yeling approached each other with steps, as excited as friends who had reunited after a long absence, of course, the former was even more excited, both eyes were shining, and they were firmly locked on Shen Yeling from the moment they got out of the car.
"Boss Shen".
"Manager Li".
The young man knew that this Manager Li was not only obscene, but also a chatterbox, and after the face-to-face, all that was left was for him to speak, and Shen Yeling just echoed and laughed dryly.
However, all he said were some words of praise from Shen Yeling, and his honey-wiping mouth was not as sweet as his, and the young man was even more disgusted with him in his heart, pulling Shen Yeling's sleeve and taking a small step back.
Knowing that the young man hated him, Manager Li suddenly felt a little embarrassed, Shen Yeling also frowned slightly, and taught the young man in a somewhat tough tone: "Shang Zhi is not allowed to be rude."
"Forget it, forget it" Manager Li pretended to be a good person who didn't care, and waved his hand at Shen Yeling, showing his generosity. But the young man didn't buy it, and shouted loudly with a child's temper: "I don't like it here, it's so troublesome to enter the city, there must be a lot of rules here, it's not fun, I want to go back to Beiping."
"Ruliang", Shen Yeling didn't comfort him, but instead called up the senior brother Xu Ruliang who had been snooping in the car, Xu Ruliang got off the carriage within a moment after receiving the response, Shen Yeling continued: "Take him to the car for me, it's really becoming more and more disobedient."
"I don't care, I want to go back to Beiping, I want to find my father", the young man was dragged by Xu Ruliang, and he still shouted a few words in his mouth in disobedience, dragged into the carriage and quarreled for a few words and was silent.
"His father is 。。。。。。" Manager Li asked.
Shen Ye's heart was like water, and he said lightly: "My senior brother", senior brother Zhang Changxin.
Manager Li suddenly realized that the child left by Zhang Changxin before his death was adopted by Shen Yeling, not to mention that his hot temper was really similar to Zhang Changxin. said that he wanted to die of his father, it is understandable that Zhang Shangzhi has not been relieved for a month, but Shen Yeling's expression is still calm, no matter how much Zhang Shangzhi cries, he will not touch his defense, and it is a little weird.
When he was thinking, Shen Yeling woke him up and said, "Manager Li, we have been on the street for a long time, and if we don't leave, we will be driven away", Shen Yeling laughed twice with a little embarrassment.
They chatted for most of the day, and this group of cars and horses parked on the street was indeed a little unpleasant, and half of the eyes of the whole street were not locked by them, and there was a whispering gossip: "Whose son is this, so handsome."
Of course you have to be handsome, how can you come to his theater to watch the play with satisfaction, Manager Li thought so, and said goodbye to Shen Yeling and returned to the car to continue the journey.
Before Shen Yeling came, he asked Manager Li to find a house that could accommodate more than 40 of them, regardless of the price. Manager Li felt that this Shen Yeling was also generous to his troupe, and asked him to say that in the past and present, only the leading actor in the troupe has the ability to move out and live, and the rest can only go back to live in the theater with him, regardless of the accommodation conditions.
Sure enough, in order to meet Shen Yeling's conditions, Manager Li helped him find it as soon as he finished explaining, and he really found a house with an excellent north-south transparent view and not far from the pear orchard in the vast sea of people.
It's just that the house is said to be the Luo family, and it was suddenly mixed, to say that the Luo family's house is carved with beams and paintings, red makeup and gray tiles, and each piece is genuine. But I'm also worried that their hearts are dark, and it would be bad if the house sold to him had ever been dead and haunted.
But he couldn't manage it so much, so he hired a feng shui master to measure feng shui, and there was no problem for them to move in. The people of the convoy came down and stood at the door waiting to move things, Shen Yeling also came over and said words of satisfaction and thanks, and looked at a group of people, some with the huqin and costumes in their hands, some carrying big knives and red tassel guns, some ran to the room to watch, some came out to make comments, you chased me, walked carefully, twisted the body as a daughter pseudo-girl, and there were also tall and mighty men like Zhang Fei and Li Kui, in short, gathered at the door of this house, and only here is the most lively in the city.
Manager Li looked for Shen Yeling's figure everywhere in the relocation team, and when he saw that he was still next to the carriage, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and carefully wiped Zhang Shangzhi's tears. He was unreasonable just now, why did he cry this time, Shen Yeling was really surprisingly patient, helping him wipe his tears and say something calmly, thinking about it, it should be some comforting words.
Zhang Shangzhi was crying, and Manager Li was even more embarrassed to disturb. There was another woman in the carriage, he didn't dare to look closer, and speculated from a distance that the women were all short, and their bodies were extremely thin, as if the wind blew away, and the skin was indeed bloodless and pale, and the pair of black circles under the eyelids were black and a little blue, and the whole head was only a skull wrapped in green skin, which made people look a little creepy.
In Beiping, I heard that Shen Yeling was a surprisingly good husband, and his wife was sick for many years and still never gave up. Seeing the scene where the woman was about to get out of the car and the two of them stretched out their hands to support them while being nervous, they were also sure that it was Shen Yeling's wife Xu Man.
He took his wife by the hand, and also noticed that Manager Li was watching him next to the car not far away, just now he just said thank you and left people there It was always a little rude, so he asked Zhang Shangzhi, who was rarely filial and sensible, to help his wife go in to rest.
Manager Li saw Shen Yeling coming over and just explained some unfinished things to him: "Boss Shen, the theater has been fine these days, you can play more in Xunyang, and I will pick you up to discuss the start of the play when I am free."
Shen Yeling nodded, still bowed his head and said, "I'm tired."
Manager Li bumped his feet twice, wanted to get into the car, and reminded again: "It's going to get dark soon, there is a curfew here, Boss Shen won't come out at night."
Shen Yeling nodded, watched Manager Li leave, and then returned to the house in a huff.
No one came out that night, so the troupe unloaded the carriage and began to look for their bedrooms, and then familiarize themselves with the environment, and it was enough for them to live in this house, and they slept all night.
The next day, the old mother who came with the troupe continued to work, but a group of children in the troupe rarely got the permission of the master not to practice, so they took the money from Shen Ye's spiritual reward and went out for a stroll.
Shen Yeling found a clean place to make a study, the desk was against the window, and there was a couch opposite the table, and after the collapse, there was a sofa full of books beyond the bookshelf. The most satisfying thing about this pattern is the vermilion window frame and white curtain window, a push of the window, the outside panorama can be seen clearly, but in autumn, there is no scene outside, only a dry pool overgrown with weeds.
Shen Yeling sat on the desk and saw a desolate scene in front of him, his mood was like an eye-catching dry pool, holding a book in his hand, turning a page every few minutes.
The sensible Xu Ruliang came over with a pot of tea, placed it squarely beside his master's table, and asked with concern: "Didn't Master really want to come to Xunyang before, why didn't you come here to go shopping?"
Shen Yeling put down the book, shook his head and said softly: "No, you go and play."
Xu Ruliang rolled his eyes, thought for a while and continued: "Master, it's okay, you are worried about Shiniang, Shiniang has me watching, I heard that Xunyang's West Street is as fun and lively as our flyover in Beiping, Master can go there to have a look, nostalgic."
Shen Yeling smiled a little embarrassedly, and was a little curious, and closed the book on the table: "I used to live in Xunyang, but I really haven't been to West Street."
Xu Ruliang touched the tip of his nose and frowned to help him find an excuse: "Then you have to go and see, the junior brothers have gone there to play."
Shen Yeling watched Xu Ru kindly persuade herself to play, and she was also curious, so she got up and changed into a set of clean clothes and went out.