The topography of Hongjia section is different from that of Thrush Village. Thrush Village is surrounded by mountains. Hongjiaduan is a rare small plain in this area, which is much more convenient to cultivate than other places, and the field of vision is much wider than other places.

Therefore, even if you don't walk to the entrance of the village at this time, you should be able to see the house in the Hongjia section.

But there was a plain in front of him, and not a single house was in sight.

He suddenly panicked. Such a familiar road, I have walked thousands of times, and I can find my home with my eyes closed, why do you say that you are lost when you get lost today? He looked ahead, and there was no road that knew where it led. He looked behind him, and there were several forks in the road he had come, and he didn't know which one could go back.

If it is in normal times, there should be three or three people on the road of Hongjia Section. At this time, there was not even a ghost shadow around. He couldn't get someone to ask for directions.

He turned his heart on and simply continued to move forward, he remembered that he had walked forward since he came out of the gambling hall, and felt that the general direction would not be wrong. He hoped to meet someone who could ask for directions and ask for directions to Hongjiaduan.

After walking for two or three miles, two hurried people finally appeared in front of them.

Before he could go up and ask for directions, the two hurried men asked him instead.

"Hey, brother, do you know where the flower drum opera is being sung?" One of the two asked.

He shook his head.

"You can't be unaware, right? The female actors in this flower drum show are all as beautiful as fairies! The waistband of the pants is still loose, give some money and let that. Isn't it? ”

The other of the two immediately said with a squint: "That's it, that's it!" ”

He thought to himself, how could I not know?

The man said, "It is said that you can play dice while watching the play, and you can also play women's play after playing the dice, hahaha, many people have gone." Didn't you go there? ”

At this moment, he heard the faint sound of gongs and cymbals, as if there was also the babbling of the play.

He thought to himself, if there is such a good thing, why not go with them to see it?

The voice was also heard by the two men. One of them pointed in the direction from which the voice came and said, "I heard, I heard!" The voice came from the south, and it should be not far ahead. ”

After saying that, the two hurriedly walked in the direction from which the voice came, walked a few steps, turned back to him and said, "Aren't you going together?" ”

He immediately forgot about getting lost, and hurriedly chased after him in three steps and two steps, and said, "Go, of course!" Let's go together! ”

The three of them walked a long way, and sure enough, they saw a stage made of wood in front of them. Although the stage is simple, it is dressed in red and green, and it is decorated in a decent way, and a large wooden sign is placed next to the stage, and the wooden sign is pasted with red paper, and the name of the opera being performed is written on the red paper. But the name of the opera is as messy as chicken feet, and I can't understand it.

There were two very handsome female actors on the stage, squirming and pinching on it, like girls in the kiln, who wanted to refuse and welcome, scratching their heads and hesitating. There is also a man dressed as an old man in the middle of the two female actors, the man dragged the beauty here for a while, and the beauty over there for a while, I don't know what scene he was playing, and he sang words that he couldn't hear in a daze.

At that time, it was dark, but fortunately, a few red lanterns were hung on the beams in front of the stage, and the people on the stage could barely see clearly. But the audience was a little vague, and there were all kinds of people sitting here and there in an orderly manner. He found that he didn't know anyone.

At that time, singing was a big event, and the average poor family could not afford to invite the troupe, only large families and those who were generous would invite the troupe to come during the red and white celebrations. It is also because of this that if you have the opportunity to listen to the play, people in the surrounding twenty or thirty miles will probably not miss it. After dinner early, the elderly and children would bring their own small chairs, small stools, and small horses to the place where they sang to find a place to sit down. If you're late, there's no good location. Some of the young people would climb trees and listen.

Even in the evening, the audience will not end before the opera ends.

It's the same situation as forty or fifty years later, when people in my mother's time rode their bicycles twenty or thirty miles away to watch movies. It's just that a group of people have changed, the flower drum show has been replaced by a movie, and the stage has been replaced by a curtain.

So when he walked into the crowd, he deliberately looked at the people around him to see if he could meet one or two acquaintances, and it would be good to go back together after a while.

As the two people I met said earlier, there were indeed several gambling tables under the stage, but these gamblers were much more elegant than those in the casino, not shouting loudly, and not scolding their mothers. One person shakes the dice, everyone presses the money on all sides of the table, and then opens the teacup covered with the dice. I was addicted to gambling and watched the flower drum show.

In addition to gambling and acting, there are also a few shrewd hawkers who walk through the crowd, selling cigarettes and snacks.

The hawker also did not shout, so as not to disturb others to watch the play, which was really different from the hawkers he had seen before.

Therefore, he always found it strange. These people are too cooperative, too polite, too orderly, and this card dealer is just like acting.

He sat down at a gambling table, and when he saw that the man who was shaking the dice was not very skillful, he guessed that there was nothing wrong with it, so he joined in and pressed the money.

The result was not unexpected, there were losses and wins. Maybe it's because today's luck is still there, but fortunately, there are more wins and fewer losses.

He has gambled countless times and has rich experience, and knows that if he wins and loses a lot in a strange gambling game, 80% or 90% of it is fraud, and he must stop it in time. Xiao Xiao won some here, he put his mind at ease, devoted himself to it, forgot about everything else for the time being, just hoped to win a little more, and when the opera was over, he went to find the female actors on stage.

What the two said before was true, and the matter of the female drama should also be reliable. That's what he thought.

After playing for an unknown number of games, the gambler next to him touched his arm and asked, "Are you hungry?" Would you like something to eat? ”

When he was asked this, he really felt a little hungry, and his stomach growled, so he asked, "What is there to eat?" I was a little hungry indeed. ”

The gambler pointed to the vendor next to him and said, "There is nothing else to eat, just a little green onion mixed with tofu." Padding your belly. ”

The vendor immediately brought out a bowl of tofu, sprinkled some shallots on top, stirred it with a spoon, and handed it to him.

He paid and hurriedly ate it.

He ate bowl after bowl and gambled game after game.

It was getting late, and he couldn't care about going back.

In the middle of the night, he didn't know what time it was, and the stage suddenly fell silent. Someone next to him said that the play was over, and he was worried about the female actors, so he hurriedly looked in the direction of the stage.

The stage was empty, except for a few red lanterns on the top that were swaying in the wind.

"Where's the play?" He asked the person next to him.

The man next to him said, "It's down." ”

He looked in the direction of the stage again, and sure enough, several female actors came like fairies. One of them walked up to him, grabbed his arm and said, "This son, I drooled when I saw you on the stage." ”

He wasn't sure that what he was staring at was the female actor in front of him before, but since she said so, he pushed the boat along the way. He said, "Yes." me! I don't have my mind at the table, and if it weren't for the good luck today, I'm afraid I'd lose my pants here tonight. ”

The female actor rubbed her incense-spraying body against him, and said while rubbing: "As the saying goes, if you lose to no pants, you can really play cards." If you really lose all your pants, that's awesome! In this dialect, "inside" means connoisseur. This was originally a sentence in a dialect proverb that mocked gamblers, but she used it to flatter others.

He didn't care whether people were really flattering or sarcastic, he hugged the waist of the female actor like a water snake, and said: "I really haven't lost money playing cards to the extent that I take off my pants, and I'm really not very good." But for beautiful women, I often lose money and take off my pants, you see, am I a hand? His hand couldn't help but touch the woman's body. This woman's body is a little cold. He thought it was because the dew was too heavy at night, so he didn't pay attention to it.

What he feared was that it was a plain, and that there were no other houses, not even places to hide, except for a lonely stage. If you want to further develop with this female drama later, do you have to do that thing in front of the public?

The female actor saw him looking around and knew his thoughts, so she took his hand and walked in the direction of the stage.

He hurriedly put away the gambling money and followed her.

If you win money in a gambling hall and run away without waiting for everyone to leave, other losers will stop you and have to drag it out until the end of the game. That's why he came back so late.

The people here were no exception, and several people stopped him.

But instead of keeping him, they said, "I won tonight, so I can't stop coming tomorrow night!" ”

He replied, "Come!" Come! If I don't come, I won't die! He longed to be here, so he didn't hesitate to swear.

"It's okay to have your words." They get out of the way.

He happily followed the female actor forward.

The female actor took him around to the back of the stage. There were a few improvised tents behind the stage.

He was overjoyed, but he was quite sensible, and asked before entering the tent: "I don't know the price here, you tell me first, I'm afraid I won't bring enough money." He thought to himself, this singing opera must be more expensive than the kiln. The woman in the kiln doesn't rap, she doesn't even know a little song. There are differences in people, and there are differences in prices. Besides, there is no one around who knows anyone. If the female drama asks for the price all over the world afterwards and is surrounded if she doesn't give it, then she will be dumb and eat coptis.