Chapter 132: The Show Begins Things are difficult
After a while, the music sounded, the curtain opened, and the play began.
The sudden dimming of the light interrupted Jessica's move of grabbing Lin Xu's wrist and experimenting on his hand to find the pulse gate point. At this time, when she heard the music playing, she couldn't help but be attracted again. Because the soundtrack of the opera is an alternative style of music that she has never heard or come into contact with.
"What kind of music is this, it sounds very unusual and interesting, what instrument is it played on?" Curious, Jessica turned her head to Lin Xu next to her and asked.
Lin Xu explained helplessly: "This is the soundtrack of singing, and the musical instruments played include erhu, suona, flute, sheng, drums, and gongs, all of which are traditional Chinese musical instruments. You grew up in a foreign country, but of course you haven't heard of it. ”
Although he does not like to watch or listen to operas, opera has been integrated into the life of Chinese, and he has been exposed to it since he was a child, and naturally he has been exposed to it. For example, when someone in the village dies and does white things, they will invite the nearby opera troupe to sing the opera, and when they are buried, there will be drummers who follow them all the way to the funeral. So these instruments, he has seen since he was a child. Even he has an erhu at home, which his grandfather will play, and there are also cymbals, gongs, drums, and bangzi, which he has played with since he was a child.
As a foreigner, when you first come into contact with the culture and various aspects of another country, you will inevitably be curious and interested in what you have never seen or experienced. Jessica is like that at the moment, and her curiosity is even stronger. Therefore, she was very interested in this first contact with opera, and after being attracted by the alternative style music she had never heard, she looked at the stage below and watched it with relish.
It's just that she looked at it, but she kept holding Lin Xu's hand. But Lin Xu didn't want to keep this kind of intimate action with her all the time, and seeing that she was curious and interested in watching Peking Opera, he moved lightly and withdrew his hand from Jessica's hand.
"Hey!" Jessica noticed that he withdrew his hand, and was a little surprised for a moment, trying to chase after him and catch it again. But halfway through his hand, he remembered that the two were not intimate after all, so he paused and put down his hand, turned his head and said, "I'll watch it for a while, and then you can teach me later." With that, he turned his head to watch the play again.
Jessica watched with relish and interest under the curiosity of the first contact, but Lin Xu listened with little interest and wanted to yawn.
Tonight is the home singing home of the representative team of the National Peking Opera Company, and there are two repertoire performed, one is "Shilang Visits the Mother", and the other is "Mu Guiying is in charge", both of which are about Yang Jiajiang. The total time of the two scenes is about two hours, and it will not be until more than nine o'clock in the evening after the performance.
At present, the first scene is sung "Shiro Visits His Mother", and the one with Wei Qingyi participating in the later scene is "Mu Guiying Hangs the Teacher", so for this scene without Wei Qingyi, Lin Xu naturally showed a lack of interest. He knows that the protagonist of this "Shilang Visits His Mother", and the one who plays Yang Shilang is Wei Qingyi's father Wei Jianlin. Wei Qingyi told him yesterday that the performance information in the theater hall was also marked. But despite this, this play still didn't make him too interested, and it was still a bit boring to listen to.
Fortunately, he is a person who can sit still, even if he doesn't do anything, he can sit alone for several hours in a motionless daze, so although he is a little lacking in watching the play at this time, it does not affect him to sit steadily, and it seems that he is still watching patiently. But in his mind, he had diverted his attention to something else.
Because of the sudden change, Guan Luoxue sent him an ultimatum, so he must rush to the provincial capital Jinyang tomorrow to see Guan Luoxue, so as to save the relationship that the two are about to break up. Although in fact he is not unable to give up this relationship, even if he breaks up, there will never be anything to die or live, pain and the like, but this is his beautiful first love after all, if possible, he still wants to try to save and maintain. At present, Guan Luoxue asked him to do it, and he didn't fail to do it, so he still had to try his best to complete it.
Since he is leaving tomorrow, what he wants to do in Bincheng now also needs to be planned and arranged, and what is not completed needs to be completed in a hurry. For example, to help Li Feiyan complete her master's task, this matter must be done in advance until tonight, and after finishing it, he can leave the next day with confidence. and promised Wei Qingyi to come to see her performance, and the tickets have been bought in advance, so she is still here now.
However, he also promised Wei Qingyi, saying that he would definitely find an opportunity to invite her to a meal before leaving, and said that he would do what he said. But now it seems that this matter is a little difficult. Originally, in a week's time, he still had enough thought to find a good opportunity. But now that he is leaving tomorrow in advance, the only time and opportunity left to invite Wei Qingyi to dinner is tonight and early tomorrow morning. And at these two points in time, Wei Qingyi may not have the opportunity to withdraw alone.
But since he promised Wei Qingyi and said that he would do what he said, he still had to find a way to complete it as much as possible. Those who have promised cannot be easily discredited.
"After the show, I went backstage to find her and see if I could find a chance. Then when I got back to the hotel, I was going to convince Li Feiyan to act early tonight. is to convince her, I'm afraid I have to tell her about Xiaoxue. Alas!"
Lin Xu thought like this, and sighed with some annoyance. If it wasn't necessary, he really didn't want to tell Li Feiyan about himself and Guan Luoxue. First of all, this is my own love affair, which belongs to my own personal privacy, so I naturally don't want to disclose it casually. Not only Li Feiyan, but also no one he wanted to say. secondly, he said that because of Li Feiyan, his relationship with his girlfriend was so tense that he wanted to break up, and he seemed to blame Li Feiyan a little. He didn't blame her at all, and he didn't want her to bear the guilt. But now it seems that if he doesn't explain the reason for the matter clearly and explain the reason why he has to act in advance, I'm afraid he won't be able to convince Li Feiyan.
"What's the matter, suddenly sighed? Don't you think this play is good?" Jessica's ear power is very good, Lin Xu only sighed lightly, she had already heard it, turned her head and asked.
"I really don't have much interest in watching a play!" Lin Xu glanced at her and replied in a low voice.
"I'm not interested, so why did you buy a ticket to watch it?" Jessica asked puzzled, "I think this play is okay, although I don't understand it, but I think this form of performance is quite interesting!"
Lin Xu shook his head and said, "I didn't buy a ticket to see the play, I came to cheer people on." ”
"You're a girl, aren't you?" asked Jessica, suddenly very sensitively.
Lin Xu smiled and didn't answer, but obviously acquiesced.
"Which one?" Jessica turned her head back to the stage below, searching for a possible candidate.
"This has nothing to do with you, you just leave the performance quickly!" Lin Xu naturally wouldn't explicitly indicate who it was, lest there really be any trouble on this Jessica, which would affect Wei Qingyi. Even this Jessica herself is a potential threat. This little girl has an uncertain temperament and is unpredictable, maybe she will come up with something, and he can just take it by himself if something goes wrong.