In 1982, the Rongcheng Federation of Trade Unions Art Troupe, also known as the Rongcheng Trade Union Drama Society, was formed by the combination of more than a dozen large and small state-owned enterprise factory amateur art troupes in Rongcheng, with a total number of more than 300 people, including singing teams, dance teams, bands, chorus teams, Sichuan opera teams, etc., which are specially designed to comfort the factory workers.

When it comes to the amateur art troupe of the factory, it was originally established in 1952, when the major factories in Rongcheng specially selected people who could sing, play allegro and sing Sichuan opera from the factory workers in order to activate the amateur cultural life of the employees of various factories in Rongcheng and serve scientific research and production.

Later, with the reform and opening up, people's amateur cultural life has a richer choice, state-owned enterprises and factories also began to slowly dissolve the amateur art troupe, and later under the advice and advocacy of some leaders, the high-quality art troupe performers in each factory were accommodated into the "Rongcheng Federation of Trade Unions Art Troupe" formed by the local government. ”

It has been four years since its establishment, and there are more than 300 members in the troupe, including a singing team, a dance team, a musical instrument performance team, a chorus team, a Sichuan opera team, a drama team and so on. From the First Woolen Factory, 7322 Baiyao Factory, and then to 106 Hongguang Electron Tube Factory, the Federation of Trade Unions Art Troupe will go to the major state-owned enterprises in Chengdu every month to give condolence performances.

For the Rongcheng Art Troupe, Li Yange's memory is quite profound, two years ago, when his grandfather had not yet retired, he often followed his grandfather and ran to play in the Rongcheng Art Troupe, and he was quite familiar with the environment inside. It's just that more than 30 years have passed, and Rongcheng has changed too much, and his memory of the 80s has gradually blurred, and many places can't be named, and he doesn't know how to go.

"Wrong, on the right, didn't you kid come to play a lot in the first two years? How did you forget the road so quickly. Grandpa, who was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, patted Li Yange on the shoulder and pointed to the fork in the road on the right.

Li Yange hurriedly turned around, and after riding on the right road, he smiled awkwardly. "Grandpa, haven't I been busy studying lately, and my brain is a little confused."

Grandpa waved his hand disapprenously, "Okay, you haven't touched the erhu for more than half a year, don't mess up your mind when you pull it later." ”

"That's definitely no problem, it's a simple matter to pull the erhu." Li Yange is not blowing, his current erhu skills are definitely stronger than the old man, and he is also a graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music, not only took a variety of musical instruments, but also taught for more than 20 years.

Grandpa smiled, "Really? Then when I get to the art troupe, I'll see how you pull here. ”

"Look, you're there." Li Yange said a sentence of Beijing dialect coldly.

Grandpa was stunned and said, "Good boy, you still speak the Beijing dialect, where did you learn it?" ”

"That's... I just watched it on TV and just talked about it. ”

Li Yange snorted and perfunctory past, he lived in the capital for more than ten years in his last life, and he spoke the words of the capital in a good way, just now he simply blurted out.

Along the way, the grandfather and grandson talked and laughed, and after a short time, they arrived at the gate of the art troupe.

The land of the Rongcheng Trade Union Art Troupe was the art troupe of the Rongcheng Military Region in the early years, and later the leaders moved out of the city one after another, and lived in the military region below, and the art troupe of the military region also began to move slowly, and by the end of the 70s, they all moved away. With the reform and opening up, the place was empty and empty, and the leaders of Rongcheng made use of this place and handed it over to the trade union art troupe.

Because it used to be a military art troupe, the buildings here, including the entrance and exit gates, are very similar to the architectural style of sixty or seventy years, and the names are registered in the security room, the carts are walked in, and the walls outside the rehearsal rooms are all hung with slogans such as "Unite, workers and peasants".

When Li Yange was still looking around, gradually remembering a little memory of this place in his mind, the grandfather, who was walking in the front first, looked back and urged: "Go quickly Yange, it's not like you haven't been here before, it's like the first time." ”

"It's coming, it's coming." Li Yange pushed the cart and bicycle, and he was still looking at it after three steps and one turn, he was looking for the rehearsal room of Cheng Shaojun's dance team, if I remember correctly, there was a big banyan tree at the door of the dance rehearsal room.

Every summer when it is the hottest, there are often some female comrades of the dance team, in order not to train in the stuffy environment in the rehearsal room, they run to this big banyan tree to stretch their muscles.

After a while, Li Yange followed his grandfather into an old red brick building, which had a lot of space, and at this moment there were dozens of men and women wearing short sleeves training around, some were hanging their voices, singing Sichuan opera, and some were moving their bodies to practice their movements.

At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties wearing glasses, dressed neatly and neatly, looked like a leader, and when he saw Li Yange's grandfather and grandson, he immediately walked over, stretched out his hand and shouted enthusiastically: "Teacher Li is here, welcome, welcome." This time to train newcomers, you will have to trouble getting old. ”

Grandpa shook the man's hand and said with a smile: "Director Tian is polite, the Sichuan Opera team in the troupe can still remember me as an old guy and invite me to come over to train newcomers, and let Director Tian personally receive me early in the morning, this is my honor, no trouble, no trouble at all!" ”

"Where did Mr. Li say, who in the group didn't know that Mr. Li's ability was first-class, and the students who taught him were all good at Sichuan opera, so this time, the leaders of the regiment asked me to personally go to Mr. Li and you out of the mountain to teach these new team members."

After speaking, Director Tian looked at Li Yange, who was holding the erhu box next to him, a little familiar, but he didn't remember where he had seen it, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Teacher Li, who is this?" ”

"This is my grandson Li Yange, didn't Director Tian say that I should come over to teach newcomers? I thought about asking him to help pull an erhu or something. Grandpa introduced with a smile.

Director Tian looked Li Yange up and down, and then remembered that he seemed to have seen this child by Teacher Li's side before, and praised in his mouth: "It's Yange, not bad, it's so big now, it's a talent, this is going to take Teacher Li's class in the future?" ”

"I thought, it's a pity that my grandson has an idea, didn't this just end the college entrance examination two days ago? He applied for the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, but he didn't know if he could pass the exam this time. Grandpa's tone sounded low and disappointed, but his facial expression betrayed him.

"I applied for the Central Conservatory of Music!"

Director Tian was stunned, and glanced at Li Yange, he was not a stupid person, so he naturally heard the pride in his grandfather's words, and made it clear that he had a great chance of being admitted, otherwise it would be impossible to say it directly to his face, and then immediately smiled and congratulated: "I have seen that Yan Ge has grown smart since I was a child, and it is no problem to be admitted to the Conservatory of Music." ”

Long smart... What else can you say? It was the first time for Li Yange to be praised like this, and she couldn't cry or laugh in her heart for a while, but in front of people, she could only pretend to giggle and laugh.

"I hope so." Grandpa smiled and said the next congratulations.

Director Tian looked left and right and said, "Teacher Li, there are people in the team who specialize in playing erhu, so I think it's better to let Yan Ge play around by herself." ”

"That's fine." Grandpa nodded, turned to look at Li Yange and said, "Yange, you just go play by yourself, don't make trouble, do you know?" ”

Hearing that there was no need to stay here, Li Yange was overjoyed, and immediately said, "Knowing grandpa, I promise not to make trouble." ”

Waving his hand and putting down the erhu box in his hand, Li Yange turned around and left, and when he walked out of the rehearsal room of the Sichuan Opera team, he also strode in the direction of turning back and forth when he walked out of the rehearsal room of the Sichuan Opera Team. Just when he was pushing his bicycle all the way over, he found the big banyan tree in his memory at the door of a building.

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