In the first year of Qin Kaiyao, outside the city of Jingzhou, Hebei Province, there was a small place called Linjiang Town.

The town is not big, there are only 100 households. Most of the people here are merchants who have set up shops, selling grain, clothes, and groceries.

Every once in a while, the town has a fair where a large number of vendors gather to buy some goods. Most of the people who come here are people from nearby villages, and for a long time, the town maintained a considerable amount of prosperity.

The troupe came from the south, and they made their way north and eventually stopped in the town.

The performance must be stopped by a restaurant, and they negotiate with the largest restaurant in the town. Mellow Pavilion invited them to sing in order to attract guests, and finally gave them a share.

This trick was very successful, because the people in the nearby villages had no way to entertain themselves, and listening to the opera became their only spiritual sustenance.

If you want to sit down and listen to the play, you have to order the food in the restaurant. The shopkeeper of the restaurant is also a shrewd person, and he took the opportunity to arrange many more tables, chairs and benches, and the business suddenly became prosperous.

Liang Sheng is an apprentice in the troupe, and he is considered to have the lowest status in the entire troupe. He was only ten years old when he joined the troupe, and he was an orphan with no father and mother to take care of him, so he had to follow the troupe that had been improvised near the village at that time, thinking of mixing and eating.

Every morning, when everyone hasn't woken up, Liang Sheng has to get up. He needs to clean the patio and then prepare breakfast for everyone.

After doing all this, everyone was already awake. Liang Sheng waited until everyone had finished eating, but he still couldn't rest.

Washing dishes and chopsticks, cleaning costumes, and arranging all kinds of decorations at the front desk are all things he has to do.

In the troupe, Liang Sheng is an apprentice who can be called by anyone. If anyone lacks something, they will let Liang Sheng buy it.

Even when he was performing, Liang Sheng had to be busy informing back and forth. This time is the busiest, because there are no idlers in the drama troupe, almost everyone has to go on the stage to sing, and the head of the troupe is no exception, so all the sundries are handled by Liang Sheng.

One scene at noon, one scene at night.

This process would continue until late at night, so Liang Sheng's rest time in the day was only between two scenes.

Often at this time, Liang Sheng went back to the stream to practice his unskilled voice.

People must always have a goal in life.

He couldn't be an apprentice for the rest of his life, and he wanted to be a real actor like everyone else in the troupe.

Among the lower nine streams, it is the drama that ranks first.

In the capital, there are famous opera masters, who often get courtesy when they enter and leave the homes of princes and nobles. Once performed, it is often empty and the audience is full.

That kind of scene, Liang Sheng can only hear about it, but he can't see it in such a small town.

Liang Sheng understands that he still needs a lot of hard work to get to this point.

So every day, he had to run to a small river behind the mellow fragrance pavilion to practice his singing.

The creek is only quiet, in stark contrast to the bustling bazaars of the town, which are rarely passed.

Because no one came, Liang Sheng was not afraid of others laughing at his singing.

The only audience is a flower cat.

He had met the cat when he first came to the town, and it was still very young, hiding in an inconspicuous corner of a mound of dirt.

The little cat didn't know where his father and mother had gone, so Liang Sheng had to pick up the cat and raise it himself.

Every day, some of the daily feedings were deducted from his pitiful rations. But fortunately, the little flower cat didn't eat much, so it gradually recovered.

Since then, the little flower cat has followed Liang Sheng's side.

One is singing, the other is listening, lazily basking in the sun.

Liang Sheng naively regarded the flower cat as his audience, and he gave the little flower cat a name, called Nanshuang. It seems that in this way, it is more like a spectator.

No matter what she sings, Nanshuang will always listen to it.

Such a day is really peaceful.

Two of the most inconspicuous beings in the town, snuggling up to each other.

Liang Sheng has been in the town for ten years, and he has grown from a child to a young man with great energy.

He is very handsome, which is also the first thing that the head of the drama troupe first likes. Otherwise, there were so many children who couldn't eat at that time, and there was no need to let a child eat in the troupe.

Good looking, that's the selling point.

Finally one day, the head of the drama troupe found Liang Sheng.

"Liang Sheng, you are not too young. As for me, I want you to sing a play on stage. As you know, there are some people in the group who have been feeling unwell recently, so you can prepare and let you try it tomorrow. The head of the regiment said earnestly.

This is exactly what Liang Sheng has always wanted, so he agreed.

The opportunity came suddenly, as if something that had been waiting for suddenly came to fruition.

Liang Sheng ran to the river excitedly and sang a day's play beside the cat.

He lived almost the same life every day, but he didn't notice that the lifespan of a cat was only ten years at most. They then grow old and eventually die.

And the flower cat has always maintained such a young form, as if it had never grown up.

Liang Sheng later learned that it turned out that the actor of tomorrow's drama did not come because of illness.

This drama is about a talented man and a rich woman who secretly fall in love with each other, are hindered by the woman's family, and make all kinds of difficulties. Later, Xiucai won the top prize in high school, became famous, and married his beloved woman openly after returning to his hometown.

This kind of drama is the favorite of the people in the town.

Therefore, it cannot be changed.

Coincidentally, the actors who originally played Xiucai and rich girls were unable to go on stage because of illness.

This is an opportunity, Liang Sheng understands. If I want to continue to work as a coolie or be a drama in the second half of my life, I rely on this scene.

For this reason, he did not sleep at all that night. He was by the river, practicing his lines over and over again.

The next day, the head of the troupe found a new actor.

The head of the troupe said: "This is an actor from the next village, who happens to sing your play." You two practice first, and you'll play in the evening! ”

In the evening, there are the most people.

Especially for today's rally, some villages are far away, so they don't leave in a hurry after the market, just listen to a play in this restaurant.

The female actress who cooperated with Liang Sheng came, she was born very beautiful, and that spirituality was like a blue lotus out of the water.

Many men's eyes fell on this woman, and Liang Sheng was young, so naturally he was no exception.

But he restrained his emotions well, and he knew that tonight's scene was about his fate.

"Girl, we're ...... Let's start with some words. Perhaps because he rarely talks to girls, Liang Sheng stumbles when he speaks.

The woman pursed her lips and chuckled, her eyes hooked into a crooked light moon.

The woman said politely, "It doesn't matter, you sing very well, you have to believe in yourself." ”

This sentence gave Liang Sheng great confidence.

This allowed him to show a confidence on stage that a newcomer has never had.