Two

"I've had a good time, too."

In Yau Ma Tei Temple Street in 1956, it was not the 14-year-old boy Chen Jizong who said this, but the 12-year-old girl Tan Biwei.

She leaned her back on the chaise longue, her ten-finger buckle fork stretched back her feet, her feet in flat shoes were on the ground, her calves stretched out beautiful muscle lines, and the sun sprinkled through the gaps in the canopy on the little girl's thin face, like rubbing a layer of rouge powder, and her whole face was red.

It's afternoon, it's not a good time for Temple Street, Tan Biwei is singing on Temple Street, and she has to wait until the crowd comes in the evening to be her field.

Chen Jizong set up a stall on Temple Street to sell Bodhisattva statues, small idols, and sold them to poor grandmothers who have no hope of pinning their hopes on the next life in this life, Tan Biwei likes to hang around him when she is fine, this sentence "I have also had a good time" is her mantra, Chen Jizong has heard it thousands of times, and he has already had a calloon in his ears.

He knows what Tan Biwei's good time means, Tan Biwei is quite talented in acting, at the age of five with the help of distant relatives on stage in the song hall, the guests are used to seeing plump beautiful women, at first glance when they see such a little angel, the milk voice is quite vocal and quite serious singing, can't help but be refreshed, Tan Biwei has been quite beautiful in the song hall for a few years, until she grows up and is no longer a delicate child, the interest of the guests is fading, and the death of a distant relative, Tan Biwei was politely terminated by the song hall manager, and had to be reduced to Yau Ma Tei.

Even if she is as cute as Xiulan Temple, once she grows up, the audience will immediately dislike her, Tan Biwei is no luckier than Temple, she lamented: "People say that youth is priceless, but my youth is worthless, and the audience only loves to see me naΓ―ve and ignorant." ”

She turned over and asked Chen Jizong, who was sorting out the statue of the Bodhisattva, "What about you?" When is your good time? ”

Chen Jizong shook his head: "I haven't." ”

He really hasn't, he is a native of Bao'an, Guangdong, smuggled to the Gangwan District with his father, and sold small statues on Temple Street to earn food and clothing for a day, it sounds miserable enough, but before he came to the Gangwan District, he was even more miserable.

Tan Biwei asked Chen Jizong: "Why did you come to the Bay Area?" ”

The harbor area is a free port, and every year people from all over the world come to join it, and everyone has their own stories, for love, for political persecution...... And Chen Jizong told Tan Biwei that he came to the Bay Area for no other reason than to be poor.

Tan Biwei shook her head regretfully, what is there to say about poverty, there are thousands of sufferings in this world, but poverty is the most boring and embarrassing, other sufferings such as going down the oil pot and going to the knife mountain, thrilling and exciting, and poverty is the lice on the body, it is difficult to speak.

Chen Jizong snorted and put down the Bodhisattva statue in his hand heavily: "You wait, I will have money sooner or later, I didn't come to the harbor area to sell the Bodhisattva statue!" ”

It got dark, the night market began to get people, Tan Biwei painted inferior makeup on stage, she sang pop songs, sang for many years, and had her own set of postures, I saw her clear her throat, twist her waist and kick her legs, and start singing:

Everyone wants to live a good time, and every family has a scripture that is difficult to read

Some have no money, and some have no feelings

There is no money and feelings, and there is poverty and happiness

Rich and emotionless, rich and sad

It is rare to have money and affection, and some are full of warmth and lust

It is not peaceful to disturb a good family

……

Chen Jizong listened with relish on the side, and when Tan Biwei was tired of singing, the two of them went to eat together, sat down in a small shop on the street, asked for two fish balls and bowl wings, and ate and ate, Chen Jizong suddenly heard a woman's laughter from the oblique side behind him, he turned his head and saw a man and a woman sitting at a table behind him, and couldn't help but be surprised.

It's not like someone who should be in a place like this.

The man looked like he was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, white and clean, wearing a crisp shirt and suit, frowning, the woman next to him was about the same age, but it looked like he was born in Yau Ma Tei, with a face of residual heavy makeup that had not been removed, Chen Jizong felt that she was so familiar, and he opened his eyes wide and tried to identify it, until he was discovered, the woman pointed at Tan Biwei and smiled: "Hey, isn't that the little girl who sang just now?" ”

Tan Biwei was startled and smiled at her shyly.

The woman turned her head and continued to talk to the man: "How about it, Zhang Shao, you know the gap between me and you, I advise you not to waste time on me anymore, or go to a big lady to drive together." ”

The man was a little aggrieved: "I am sincere to you, why do you just refuse to accept me?" β€œ

The woman fished a fish ball and sent it to her mouth, slowly: "Zhang Shao, life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, you are already so rich, you can't be too greedy." Didn't you hear the song that my little sister sang just now? ”

Rich and emotionless, rich and sad, rare to be rich and affectionate, but full of warmth and lust...... At the end of the day, money is mutually exclusive. The man sneered: "I don't believe it, it's just that the poor hate the rich, and they are arranged to slander wealth and comfort themselves, I prefer to be rich and affectionate." β€œ

Hearing his words, Chen Jizong nodded secretly.

The man shouted Tan Biwei: "Little girl, my name is Zhang Mingguang, her name is Chu Yanyan, you remember, ten years later, I will bring her here to see you." ”

After they left, Chen Jizong suddenly had an epiphany: "I know, no wonder it looks familiar, Chu Yanyan, she is the concubine in the movie we watched last time!" ”

Tan Biwei also remembered that in that movie, Chu Yanyan played a demon concubine, and there was a bathing scene, with a fragrant body separated by a pink gauze curtain.

Chu Yanyan is a female star, or even more embarrassing, she is a star, a star from Yau Ma Tei Temple Street.