knife wind town

Chapter 3 The stage play has begun

Huang Daming poked his head in from the gate of the courtyard, glanced at the direction Li Fei's feet were pointing at, turned back and leaned against the gate, flicked the brim of his red top hat with his hand and put it on his head, saying to Chen Ruyi and his wife Chen Lisong and the three said: "Chen Ruyi, are you going to dig it out? Or should I ask my brothers to dig it out?"

Chen Ruyi became anxious and said, "Captain Huang, Captain Huang, those are the grain seeds reserved for next year..."

"Grain seeds? No need, that land will grow rice by itself! Li Feijiao, let's do it!"

"Yes!" In front of Huang Daming, Li Feijiao could only carry out orders.

Chen Ruyi and his wife knelt down to Huang Daming, hugged Huang Daming's leg and begged: "Please Captain Huang, this kind of seed is our family's life this year!"

Chen Lisong knew that begging Huang Daming was useless, so he went to pull his parents and said, "Father, mother, don't beg, who in Daofeng Town doesn't know Captain Huang?"

"Old man Ruyi, it's your son who is enlightened!" Huang Daming took a few steps back in disgust, breaking away from Chen Ruyi.

Li Fei took a hoe from the corner of the wall, and dug up the loose soil beside the well, and sure enough, he dug out half a bag of millet.

Zhao Dacai brought the half bag of millet to Huang Daming, and said, "I...we confiscated...half...half...half...bag of millet!"

"No more? That's all?" Huang Daming seemed dissatisfied.

Zhao Dacai said: "Look...look, the house...there is nothing... nothing in the house!"

Huang Daming asked: "Chen Ruyi, you harvested so much millet last year, where did you hide it?"

"Didn't you pay the grain during the harvest last year? There are so many people in the family, and the child is going to be married. The only half bag of millet left for planting was also found by you. Captain Huang, I beg you, old man. Leave the grain seeds behind!"

"Li Feijiao, bring it up!" Huang Daming told Li Feijiao to take away half a bag of millet, and said, "Didn't you borrow the grain seeds from Chen Tianfu last year? Borrow from him again this year!"

Li Fei was still looking left and right: "I don't think their family should just hide this half bag of millet, I have to look for it again!"

Chen Lisong complained: "Can I borrow it from him? If you borrow one bucket of grain, you can repay five buckets of grain!"

"This is out of my control, you discuss it with him!"

Huang Daming saw that Li Fei was still looking at this and that, and shouted: "What are you looking for? Are you the captain or am I the captain? The play is about to start, don't miss me watching the play! Bring it on!"

After finishing speaking, Huang Daming asked Li Fei to carry the half bag of millet, and walked away singing operas all the way.

When Chen Lisong saw that Li Fei was about to leave, he still looked back at their yard from time to time, and hurriedly closed the door with his parents and rushed to the ancestral hall.The bride is still waiting to worship him in the ancestral hall!
Chen Ruyi's daughter-in-law said as she walked, "Songer, this time I have to thank Lin Sancai. Will Li Fei come back later?"

"Don't worry, Li Feijiao doesn't have to worry even if he comes back, we don't hide at home."

Chen Ruyi said: "Song'er is still alert. If they don't let them find out this half bag, I'm afraid the house will have to be demolished."

The three of them entered the ancestral hall again, but Chen Tianfu was nowhere to be seen.

The bride, Lin Jinzhu, was still standing in the hall, she was leaning on the matron and fell asleep.After all the guests went through Huang Daming's tossing around, few of them were left waiting there.

The 13-year-old apprentice Li Tiezhu was in a daze. When he saw his master and senior brothers, he immediately got up from the corner and ran to Chen Ruyi and said, "Master, after you left, Master Chen also left quietly. I dare not keep him."

Chen Ruyi nodded, and said to Chen Lisong: "This time Tie Zhu won't be able to invite you anymore, you have to go and invite him. Do you know where he will be?"

"I know, it must be in the theater."

The only stage in the town, the stage is crowded with people, some are sitting at the front table, some are sitting on the stools they bring, some are sitting on the stone pier wall, and some are standing far away...

In the first month of the lunar year, when the farming is slack, and it’s the New Year’s Eve, women are packing up offerings and worshiping fruit at home, and almost all the men in Daofeng Town who like to go to theaters have come.

It is said that it is the whole town, but in fact, most of them are from Chenzhuang and Huangzhuang.

Zhengjiazhai, Wangjiazhai, Lijiazhai and Linjiazhai are a little far from the town.

During the Chinese New Year, young people have their own Pai Gow and mahjong they play, but some middle-aged and elderly people, holding a hookah, walked for more than ten miles, some even walked 20 miles, along the winding mountain road. Dory's trip came to town.

"Boom, clang, boom, clang..." It was already past noon, and the gongs, drums, cymbals and chimes on the stage began to sound in unison.

The opera troupe is an authentic Confucian troupe invited from Tiancheng, and the performance is "Hundred Discs of Fragrant Wood Fans".

"The festive season is worth Shangyuan, and the lanterns will make people busy; accompany the neighbors, watch the lanterns, and go to the neighborhood together. Looking up, the three streets and six alleys are like a cloud of ladies and gentlemen; oh, it's really lively, and the daughter-in-law is ashamed to go out..."

With the sound of gongs and drums, the play has begun.

"Give it up!" Huang Xiaoming squeezed through the crowd in a black gown.

When he squeezed in front of Chen Tianfu, Chen Tianfu grabbed him and said, "The show on the stage has already begun! Captain Huang, you just came back from the Chen family to search for food, and where are you anxious to go? Compared with Zheng Yizuo, who plays Lin Ying, how far is it?"

Huang Xiaoming reached out to brush Chen Tianfu's hand away, pointed to Huang Daming who was not far away from them, and said with a smile: "Chen Tianfu, thank you for knowing me for so long, I am Huang Xiaoming! Oh! Captain Huang you are looking for, he likes to wear clothes. Hua Yishan, leaning against the pillar. Take your time, take a look. I don’t have the time for you two, I have to go to school!”

After speaking, Huang Xiaoming put on his long gown and continued to squeeze through the crowd.

"Today is the New Year's Lantern Festival. Whose children will come to the school to listen to your lectures?"

Huang Xiaoming just smiled and did not respond, and left the theater with great strides.

Huang Daming, who was wearing a blue shirt and a green jacket, flashed ghostly from the wooden pillars of the stage to Chen Tianfu, put his hand on Chen Tianfu's shoulder and asked, "Chen Tianfu, are you looking for me?"

"I said Captain Huang. The police captain also needs to look like a police captain. Can you change into police clothes? You two twins, if you don't talk about each other, who can tell which is the brother and which is the brother?" Where's brother? How much did you plunder at Chen Ruyi's house just now?"

"Chen Ruyi's family has no money! My younger brother is me, and I am my younger brother. Who made me and him twins?"

Huang Daming didn't care whether Chen Tianfu would ask him to sit down. After putting his hand off Chen Tianfu's shoulder, he pulled a stool over and sat down by the Eight Immortals table. .

"You are too rude! But this Daofeng Town belongs to the Huang family, so you are right to be arrogant."

Huang Daming spit out a few orange cores from his mouth, and said: "Don't talk nonsense, you have to let Mayor Wang hear it, I have no good fruit to eat. Didn't you want to chat with me just now? Why are you eating you?" Can't bear an orange?"

"I mean the way you push your way through the crowd is rude!"

"Could it be possible that I have to be like my brother, squeezing all the way, and apologizing to people all the way to 'give way'? If these people don't let me go, I will arrest them all and take them to the police station! Watch a show, watch a show!"

Chen Tianfu seemed a little helpless towards Huang Daming, and said, "Watch a play, watch a play!"

"Brother Tianfu! Brother Tianfu!" When the two were about to concentrate on watching the play, there was a cry from the crowd, as if they were competing with the gongs, drums, cymbals and chimes on the stage.

Huang Daming recognized that it was Chen Lisong's voice, and said: "The show on this stage has already started, does this kid come to you to sue me? How dare you disturb me watching the show?! Li Feijiao!"

"Hey!" Li Fei nimbly squeezed through the crowd and stood in front of Huang Daming.

"You bring me over here!"

(End of this chapter)