After tossing for a long time, it turned out that you wanted to invite me to watch a movie?

Although I felt a wonderful sense of excitement in my heart, I still said calmly on the surface: "What movie are you going to watch?" Romance films abroad? I don't even know what to put lately. ”

Chen Hong smiled again, her Mona Lisa-like smile was always mesmerizing.

"You'll know when you get there." She said.

We took a bus to the intersection of Yan'an Road and Jiefang Road, which is about one stop east of Xinhua Cinema. Walking two or three hundred meters east from the cinema and then turning south, there is the underground corridor that I will never forget. It was from that underground aisle that my life changed so strongly. It only took one night to wake up and my wife and children were completely lost, and I became someone else's wife and children, and the trajectory of my life returned to a certain point, history was changed, and my personal destiny was also changed.

Is there anything more absurd in the world?

The entrance of the Xinhua Cinema is still the same as I remember, noisy and chaotic, and there is no powerful urban management in this era, so the hawkers are free to set up stalls in front of the cinema to sell some snacks. In the evening, it is even more lively, with almost all local and non-local folk delicacies on a side road to the east of the cinema, and the stall owners shouting loudly and energetically, as if they were holding a traditional folk food festival.

"Is this it?" I poked my head into the bulletin board in the theater.

"Not here." Chen Hong's words shattered my romantic dreams.

"Not here? Isn't it watching a movie?" I asked.

Chen Hong grinned and asked a series of questions: "Did I say I wanted to invite you to a movie?" Or did you say you wanted to invite me to a movie? Hehe, you want to watch a movie so much, don't you want to be with me?"

"Well, I don't have to watch a movie." My mouth is still quite hard.

Chen Hong laughed loudly, raised his neck very wantonly and said, "If you want to see it, admit it." Now, you follow me obediently first, and after you go to that place, I will accompany you wherever you want. ”

As soon as she winked, I really obediently followed behind her ass and walked towards the path behind the Xinhua Cinema.

Across the path, we saw a tree-lined street garden, and the noise around it seemed to suddenly disappear into the trees. In the pavilion in the center of the garden, more than a dozen middle-aged and elderly women stood or sat on the ground and crowded into a pile, and a high-spirited and tactful Yue Opera singing voice came out of it, and we walked over together.

In the corner of the pavilion, a middle-aged man in his forties with eyes is playing an erhu, while a middle-aged woman in a bright red dress is standing there singing a slightly sad Yue Opera song. With my limited knowledge of Yue Opera, I know that she sang an excerpt from the classic Yue Opera "Chasing Fish", a long time ago, in my memory, my mother had sung that paragraph many times.

"Zhang Lang, listen to me and tell the truth,

I am a thousand-year-old cultivator in the silver waves,

Just because Mu Jun's talent is peerless, and his heart is sincere,

and pity me for how desolate it is to live alone in the water,

Therefore I became a peony girl,

With Lang Jun, he flew and knotted mandarin ducks.

Ever since I saw Zhang Lang, I knew that he was affectionate and righteous.

I join hands with him,

I laughed side by side with him-------"

To my ears, the woman sang very well, with a round voice and a full voice, which made people stop. The lingering and sympathetic charm unique to Yue Opera is conveyed in her not gorgeous voice.

In the next century, there may be fewer and fewer people listening to Yue Opera, and it may be more difficult for this ancient and elegant drama to survive, but there will always be people who will insist on performing this naturally sad drama.

I was immersed in a chaotic fantasy, and when I turned my head, I saw Chen Hong standing beside me, listening obsessively, but her eyes didn't seem to see anything, just indulging in her own world.

I said, "I haven't heard Yue Opera for a long time." ”

Chen Hong snorted and said, "This was not a place to sing Yue Opera before. ”

"Oh? That's ------ here."

"In the past, there was a small band here that specialized in rock and pop songs, and they often came to perform, but they didn't sing or did it for fun, to make themselves happy."

"Little band?"

All of a sudden, I felt like someone had been punched hard. Xinhua Cinema, Street Garden, small band, guitarist, look very similar to me, aren't all these exactly what the Zhou Xuan of Hangzhou Normal Academy mentioned?

I am very much like Chen Hong's brother, and Zhou Xu said that he once saw "me" playing the guitar in the garden near the Xinhua Cinema, yes, it was another me, who once appeared in this pavilion, and once played the guitar with his friends for self-amusement, singing popular songs of that era. This scene once really existed, and the other "me" also really showed his talent here.

It wasn't until now that I realized that what Chen Hong really wanted to take me to see was this garden, this pavilion! She treated me as her brother and asked me to "revisit the old place", she wanted to return to the place where she had good memories, and this place, because of my presence, seemed to make it more beautiful and warm.

"You said I should accompany you to a place, and that's it?" I said, my face sinking into a haggard darkness.

"Well, here it is. My brother was the lead singer and guitarist of that small band, and that Zhang Ning was also a guitarist, sometimes playing keyboards or drummer. Chen Hong's eyes flashed with excitement, and he muttered, "You don't know, my brother sings so well." And that Zhang Ning, in fact, he is not a bad person, his hands are so skillful, he can fiddle with any instrument, he is really smart. ”

"It's a pity I didn't get to hear his songs." I said in a dull voice, feeling that the June night had become extremely heavy.

"Alright, my wish has come true." Chen Hong looked around, exhaled deeply, and then said with a relaxed face, "When I used to be in a bad mood, I would come to this small garden, and then sit in the pavilion, no matter what I heard, I didn't care, just sat like this, because there used to be my brother's shadow in this pavilion." I suddenly thought of bringing you here today, thank you Brother Zhou Xu, I'm very happy that you are willing to come. ”

Chen Hong said, suddenly lifting her toes and kissing me on the cheek quickly.

"Sister kisses brother, it doesn't matter." Chen Hong had a smug and satisfied smile on her face.

I hesitated for a long time, and a feeling of fear struck me again, when I looked at this cute little girl in horror, and finally couldn't help asking, "Your brother, where the hell is he?"