Chapter 20: Tears of Beauty

The stage was about a meter high, and a curtain made of red silk hung on it, hanging down in layers, looking very luxurious. The pillars around are also delicately painted, and they don't look like anything hastily built in the wild.

Xia Beifeng was taken under the stage by the woman in blue, and immediately a little maid brought a chair and put it behind him.

The workers who had set up the stage had done their job thoroughly, and now they had come out of nowhere to carry a large box and were gathering together to sort out the instruments in the box.

Xia Beifeng sat on the chair, stretched, and tilted his head to look at the few women beside him.

These women can all be called beauties, with fat and thin, each with its own characteristics, which makes people feel better for no reason when they look at it.

When the other women saw the woman in blue returning to the vicinity of the stage, they immediately took her hand and whispered to her that she was not knowing what to say. As he spoke, he secretly looked at Xia Beifeng, as if he was some rare animal.

Xia Beifeng was not afraid of them looking, every time he saw someone's eyes turn to him, he immediately adjusted a just right smile on his face and nodded politely.

The women whispered for a while, and finally a woman wearing a bright yellow cheongsam stood up and took the initiative to say hello to Xia Beifeng.

"This is Mr. Xia, it's really a talent."

As she spoke, the woman picked up a new teacup on the table, took the teapot from the hand of the maid behind her, and personally poured a cup of tea for Xia Beifeng.

"Thank you, girl."

Xia Beifeng took the teacup, thanked him, and looked down at the tea in the cup.

The amber tea was in the blue and white porcelain teacup, bubbling white, and a piece of tea was swirling in the cup.

He lowered his head and sniffed the tea, and a fragrance unique to Longjing came to his nose.

"Good tea."

Xia Beifeng raised his head and smiled and said to the woman who poured the tea.

"Mr. hasn't drunk it yet, how do you know it's a good tea?"

The woman was originally standing on the side looking at Xia Beifeng, but when she heard this, she simply sat on the chair next to Xia Beifeng, supported her chin with one hand, tilted her head and approached Xia Beifeng, looking at him curiously.

She was different from the woman in blue before.

Compared with the woman in blue, she was slightly fatter, with a round face and big eyes, and she looked a little rich. He speaks with a smile and occasionally shows his neat white teeth. His eyes are like water, his breath is like an orchid, and his demeanor is dignified between his gestures.

"Good tea, smell it." Xia Beifeng put the teacup on the small table beside him, nodded to the woman in front of him, and continued: "As for drinking, you don't have to, everyone just meets in Pingshui, and the girl doesn't have to be too demanding." Besides, the girls here, if I just drink the tea you brought, it would be a little unfair to others. But if all of you girls come to pour me tea, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear the kindness of so many beauties. ”

When the woman heard this, she looked Xia Beifeng up and down in surprise, and also lowered her head and covered her mouth and smiled softly.

Xia Beifeng straightened up, looked over the shoulders of the woman in yellow, and winked at the woman in blue behind her.

The woman in blue also blinked, snorted softly, turned her head away from him, and chatted with the woman beside her.

"Since Mr. Xia said so, then forget it." The woman in yellow laughed for a while, then stood up again, bowed her head slightly, and prepared to turn back to where she was supposed to be.

A little girl showed a small face from behind the woman, looking curiously at the summer north wind.

"Yo, little sister, see you again."

Xia Beifeng lowered his head and approached the little girl's face, and greeted her with a smile.

The little girl shrank back in frighten at first, and then slowly poked her head out and continued to observe Xia Beifeng curiously.

Xia Beifeng stretched out a hand towards her, first showed her the palm up, then turned her hand to show her the back of the hand, and then held the hand. When I spread my palm again, a small fruit candy lay in my palm.

The candy wrapper wrapped in fruit candy is very beautiful, and it reflects a little dreamy color in the faint starlight.

"Here you go." Xia Beifeng said to the little girl.

The little girl's eyes widened suddenly, and she stared excitedly at the fruit candy in Xia Beifeng's hand. She was about to reach for it, but suddenly remembered something, and looked up at the woman standing beside her.

The woman in yellow sighed and nodded at her.

The little girl immediately grabbed the fruit candy in her hand and bowed deeply to Xia Beifeng.

"Thank you, big brother."

This little girl is probably missing a tooth, her mouth is leaking, and her speech is a little slurred, but there is a kind of innocence that is unique to children of this age.

Xia Beifeng was so cute by this "big brother" that he almost wanted to reach out and hug her.

After the little girl said this, she looked up at Xia Beifeng again and smiled sweetly. She turned and ran to her little friends, showing them what she had just gotten.

The woman in yellow also followed the little girl back to where she was sitting, picked up the teacup in her hand, took a sip of tea, and sat looking at the stage.

Xia Beifeng raised the teacup, gestured to the women over there, and turned his head to look at the stage.

The group of "people" who had finished the stage and gone to arrange the instruments had now found their own places to sit under the stage, waiting for something.

The women who were originally chatting gradually quieted down, and with a loud gong, the women on the side grabbed their children one after another, and looked up at the empty stage in unison.

The sound of the gong was followed by a rapid sound of blowing and beating. The big red curtain slowly opened, and a few bare branches inserted in the corner of the stage began to slowly bloom a few plum blossoms.

A white-bearded harlequin with a hunched body appeared in the center of the stage first, and after humming and singing a few words, another actor in green clothes walked out with small steps.

They are still singing the Su San Jie last night.

There was a breeze in the mountains, bringing a little clear fragrance of plum blossoms, and it circled around the people watching the drama before sending the fragrance of plum blossoms to a distant place.

On the stage, the woman in Tsing Yi shook her water sleeves, her figure was graceful, her voice was clear, and she babbled and performed a long-term story.

Xia Beifeng stared intently at the woman singing on the stage, and touched his chin thoughtfully.

This singing is the female ghost in red who has just separated from him, when I saw her before, she was still wearing a red wedding dress, with many things hanging on her body, and her face was only slightly powdered. In the short time she got along with Xia Beifeng, although she cried for a while and made trouble for a while, Xia Beifeng always felt that she had an unreal feeling.

It seems to be acting.

At this time, she was wearing a cumbersome costume on the stage, and her face was painted with heavy oil paint, but she could still see her joyful and sincere expression.

It's like standing on the stage and staging other people's stories, she is the real her.

The role of Su San was originally Tsing Yi, dignified and atmospheric. The female ghost in red played this role very well, and even Xia Beifeng, who didn't like to listen to dramas too much, gradually entered the play.

When she sang the most subtle part of the play, Xia Beifeng shouted loudly from the audience, which startled a group of "people" around her.

But he didn't care about this, and after shouting, he stood up and applauded the female ghost singing on the stage.

The female ghost was swinging her sleeves and spinning around on the stage, and when she saw Xia Beifeng applauding from the audience, she glanced at him with a slight sideways face, secretly curled the corners of her mouth, and then continued to sing the lyrics.

Xia Beifeng finished applauding, sat back on the chair, picked up the teacup beside him, and lowered his head to smell it.

The beauty is on the side, there is drama and tea, it can be called enjoyment.

It's just a pity that this tea can't be drunk, and the beauty can't be provoked.

Xia Beifeng took a deep breath, felt the fragrant tea, put the teacup back down in great distress, and looked intently at the woman singing on stage.

The tea in the teacup had been sitting for ten or twenty minutes, and it was still slowly bubbling white, as if it had just been poured out of the teapot.

"Mom, I'm sleepy, can I stop watching."

Before the play was halfway through the song, Xia Beifeng heard a little boy not far away pulling the sleeve of the woman next to him, shaking the woman's arm, and said coquettishly: "Aren't we listening to this every night at home, I can memorize it, why do you still listen to this outside?" ”

The woman picked up her child, put it on her lap, looked at the singing woman above, and smiled bitterly.

"Mom, I don't want to listen to it anymore, I'm tired of hearing it, when will I stop listening to this!" The son of the woman in blue also learned to pull his mother's sleeve and make trouble.

The little girl also looked up at her mother, although she did not speak, and her eyes were full of questions.

"Don't make a fuss, this is the last time." The woman in yellow whispered to the children, "After listening to this play tonight, you don't have to listen to it anymore. ”

"Really?" The little girl's eyes lit up, she climbed on her mother's lap, and asked with a wink.

"Really, Mom promises you, this is the last time." The woman in yellow stroked her daughter's head with one hand, and with the other hand raised her index finger and tapped her on the lips, and said, "So you all have to listen quietly, okay?" ”

The little girl covered her mouth with both hands, nodded obediently, and stopped talking.

Several women calmed down the noisy children, looked at each other a few times, and their eyes were full of reluctance and sadness.

Xia Beifeng watched their series of actions from the side, smiled helplessly and shook his head, and then turned back to watch the play on the stage.

And so it went on for a while, and all that could be heard in the woods was the voice of the female voice singing the lyrics, and the occasional few words of the harlequin.

Just when Xia Beifeng was watching the women on the stage singing, the "people" around him were slowly decreasing.

At first, it was the little maids around, and they didn't know when they put the teapot fan in their hands on the table, but they didn't know where to go; Then there were the musicians under the stage, who, though they had not gone anywhere, but the instrument was still ringing, and the woman who sang on the stage continued the play; Next, the number of women and children sitting in the audience to listen to the play also decreased unconsciously.

When Xia Beifeng noticed this, only the woman in blue was still there by his side.

The child next to the girl didn't know when it disappeared, and she herself had never been a person singing in the stands, but had been watching Xia Beifeng intently.

Xia Beifeng turned his head to look at her and tilted his head suspiciously.

When the woman in blue saw Xia Beifeng looking back at her, she also followed the example of the woman in yellow before, holding her chin with one hand and staring at Xia Beifeng's eyes.

"I'm a little scared, I'm the only one, what does that place look like?" The woman in blue pretended to smile lightly, but she still couldn't hide the worry in her eyes.

"I don't know." Xia Beifeng replied calmly: "I haven't been there either, so I can't answer your question." ”

The woman in blue smiled bitterly, stood up and walked in front of Xia Beifeng, blocking his view of the play.

"Mr. Xia, I'm leaving." The woman leaned down, approached Xia Beifeng's face, and whispered to him.

Xia Beifeng nodded with a smile, indicating that he already knew.

"I'm leaving, Mr. Xia, you haven't even asked me what my name is."

Xia Beifeng leaned back in his chair and looked up at the woman in front of him.

Behind her was the starry sky, countless stars twinkling like her watery eyes.

"Let's not ask." Xia Beifeng turned his head sideways, avoiding her gaze, and looked at a young grass that had just broken through the ground and did not let go.

"If you keep this thought, you will be sad when you leave."

"But sir, you just said you didn't know what that place was like, why do you know it now?"

"I guess."

On the grass hung a small spider, swaying in the breeze.

"Sir, you're really ......"

The woman in blue only said half a sentence before laughing softly.

The little spider hung in mid-air for a while, and finally crawled onto the blades of grass.

Xia Beifeng turned his head to face the woman in front of him and closed his eyes.

He felt a soft touch at the corner of his lips, like a tiny feather brushing lightly, stopping on his lips, and not going any further, just stopping for a moment, and then leaving little by little.

When he opened his eyes again, there was no one blocking the stage in front of him.

Su San's woman on the stage was still babbling and singing, but the teacup in his hand was empty for some time.

Xia Beifeng lowered his head and saw that a transparent drop of water had dropped on the back of his hand at some point, and it was sliding down the back of his hand, as if it was about to fall to the ground at any time.

After a while, the droplet finally fell to the ground, smashed into the dark soil, shattered into several petals, and quickly seeped into the ground, leaving no trace.

The people on the stage were still singing Su San's words in circles, but the harlequin beside her disappeared at some point.

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I'm a little bit square with a collection of money going up today.,Can someone tell me what's going on.

And everyone's opinion of me is that it's not bad

I'm so happy, really [bow]

In the afternoon, I lost more than 100 mahjong games, and all thirteen were the same...... All kinds of were truncated

Then he decided to play it safe, and was caught and shut down

Sure enough, my yellow calendar should say that it is not suitable to gamble in my life

I still drank too much today, but I really woke up at five o'clock

Speaking of which, the second volume is coming to an end, and I think I'll write a summary of the first two volumes at the end

Then I thought that my uncle's extras were still far away, and I couldn't help but want to order a wax for him