Chapter 364

Going out to play with paid vacation is probably the happiest thing for office workers.

If you want to ask what is happier than this, it may be that Liu Lan is paid overtime allowance to go out to play.

Although the show only started in the afternoon, Jiang Qi and the others set off in the morning, and they were still in Liu Lan's mother's car.

Jiang Qi, Liu Lan, Qin Can, and Feng Ling couldn't find a driver's license. Among them, Liu Lan, Qin Can, and Feng Ling hadn't even touched the steering wheel.Jiang Qi was a little better, he had at least touched the steering wheel, after all, he had passed the driver's license test back then but hadn't.

No one can drive, so naturally you have to ask for help from the sidelines.

Jiang Qi originally wanted to ask Jiang Bing to borrow a driver and borrow a car by the way. Jiang Bing’s homestay business is booming now. In order to arrange the pick-up and drop-off of guests, Jiang Bing’s homestay already has many temporary drivers. The driver is not difficult.

And before Jiang Qi called Jiang Bing, Liu Lan's mother heard that the four of them couldn't find a driver, and asked Ying to drive Jiang Qi and the four to Liu Lan's grandfather's house, since she knew the way anyway.

Starting in the morning, you can have a meal at Liu Lan's grandfather's house at noon, and drive back after dinner in the evening. The itinerary for the day is clearly arranged.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Jiang Qi and his party waited for Liu Lan's mother's car at the entrance of the amusement park parking lot.

The red car stopped firmly in front of Jiang Qi, and Liu Lan's mother waved to Jiang Qi from the window downstairs: "Boss Xiao Jiang, here. You take the co-pilot, the co-pilot is more spacious and comfortable."

Because Jiang Qi was still in the script store before, when Liu Lan's mother was sitting at the front desk every day to guard the store, Liu Lan's mother would occasionally come to the store to deliver fruit and milk to Liu Lan, and asked her to get the key, Jiang Qi knew Liu Lan's mother.But not very familiar, Jiang Qi only knows that Liu Lan's mother was a model when she was young, so she is very good at dressing.

The only thing Jiang Qi was impressed with Liu Lan's mother was that this lady liked to wear dark red lipstick very much, which made her complexion very fair and beautiful. Wang Xinghua followed suit and bought a pair of the same lipstick.

Today's Liu Lan's mother is wearing her dark red lipstick as always, and she is very beautifully dressed. She has curly chestnut hair, a black turtleneck sweater, and a khaki coat. She has thin eyebrows with fine lines and light makeup on her face. Even better than Liu Lan, Qin Can and Feng Ling.

After Chong Jiangqi waved her hand, Liu Lan's mother glanced at the big plastic bag in Liu Lan's hand. The full bag looked heavy, and the black plastic bag couldn't tell what was inside.

"Lan Lan, what are you carrying?"

Liu Lan happily ran to the trunk of the car, put the plastic bag in the trunk, and then got in the car, saying: "Jiang Qi gave me an extra batch of lo mei! It's a total of 50 catties, which is a thank you gift for today! I kept it for myself 5 catties, and take the remaining 45 catties to my grandpa and uncle."

Liu Lan's mother was pleasantly surprised, but also a little embarrassed: "Oh, Boss Xiaojiang, I just happened to go back to see Grandpa Liu Lan in advance, so don't be so polite."

"It should be, this time I really need to trouble you and Grandpa Lanlan." Jiang Qi said with a smile.

The three people in the back row were all seated, with Liu Lan sitting in the middle, Feng Ling and Qin Can sitting on the left and right.

drive, let's go.

Liu Lan's mother cut the music into light songs and hummed softly while driving. Seeing that Jiang Qi and the others were silent, she thought it was because they were too reserved, so she took the initiative to start a conversation.

"Boss Xiao Jiang, did you listen to the opera before?"

Jiang Qi shook his head: "I haven't heard it, but I heard a few words sung by the employees of the amusement park."

Wang Xinghua performed on the stage, but it is not a problem to sing a few lines that she is good at. After all, she is an opera lover, and she still has some basic skills.However, this fan has recently been influenced by movies, TV dramas and animations, and he has betrayed opera. Anyway, Jiang Qi only sees Wang Xinghua watching movies, TV dramas and animations on weekdays, but never sees her watching movies.

"Mom, Feng Ling can sing!" Liu Lan Xianbao said, "Feng Ling has been learning opera since she was a child, and has been learning it for more than ten years."

"Oh, what kind of drama did Xiao Feng Ni study?" Liu Lan's mother asked with interest.

Then the two chatted with questions and answers like this, what is up and down, everyone can understand every word, but they can't understand it together.

It was exactly [-]:[-] when the car arrived at the village where Grandpa Liu Lan lived.

It was noon, and it was rare that there was a little sunshine, which made people warm.After getting off the car, everyone couldn't help stretching their waists towards the sky, letting the sun shine evenly on their bodies.

There are not many other things at the entrance of the village during the Chinese New Year, but there are many cars. They all come back to celebrate the New Year. They park wherever there is space. Jiang Qi even saw a prop car modified from a small truck.

"Is that the troupe's prop car?" Jiang Qi asked Liu Lan, pointing to the truck.

Liu Lan squinted her eyes for a while, not sure: "Probably, I remember that they changed clothes and put on makeup in the car, one by one. When I saw them for the first time when I was a child, I thought their clothes were pretty. I'm clamoring for my mother to buy it for me."

"This theater troupe was singing when you were young?" Jiang Qi was a little surprised.

Liu Lan: ?
"I'm only 19, wasn't it ten years ago when I was young? This troupe has been singing in our area for many years!"

"I don't know if there was a change in the middle. Anyway, our village even sings operas on stage during the Chinese New Year. There are several opera troupes nearby, but it is said that this one is the best and the most expensive. Otherwise, why would I put this opera on stage?" recommend it to you?"

"If you are not sure, go and have a look. If they come, they must be setting up a stage now. Every time at this time, there are many children watching."

"Forget it, let's go to your grandfather's house for dinner first, and come over after dinner." Jiang Qi chose to eat first.

Liu Lan's grandfather's house is at the entrance of the village, just two steps away.The house is quite big, and it is a standard old country house. It is a little cold. There is a brazier in the house, and a sweet potato is buried in the brazier, and rice cakes are placed on it. It can be said that there is no waste at all.

Uncle Liu Lan's two grandsons squatted by the brazier and waited eagerly for the rice cakes to be baked.

Liu Lan felt that her two little nephews were too miserable, so she took out the duck neck and gave each of them a small piece. The duck neck was marinated in a spicy pot, it was too spicy for children to eat too much, just eat a piece and taste it.

Then the two children gnawed on the duck neck while squatting by the brazier waiting for the rice cakes.

For the arrival of Jiang Qi and the others, Liu Lan's grandfather extended a warm welcome, and cooked a large table of delicious dishes that were no less than a New Year's Eve dinner, including chicken, duck and fish.It is said that both chickens and ducks were raised at home and killed this morning. The chickens and ducks ordered by Liu Lan’s WeChat video will be killed whichever one he likes.

Liu Lan's grandfather, surnamed Pei, is 87 this year and is a fan of theater.I don't drink, smoke or play cards on weekdays, but I just like listening to operas.When there is no new year or holiday, when there is no play to listen to, I take out the mobile phone and listen to it while sitting in a rocking chair, and use the mobile phone as a radio.

This time Liu Lan brought Jiang Qi and a few people over and didn't say that Jiang Qi was his boss. He just said that friends and colleagues were very interested in hearing that there were opera singers in the countryside.

Liu Lan's grandfather was overjoyed when he heard that there are still young people who love to listen to operas as much as himself, and are willing to come all the way here. Chat with the head teacher, who is his friend.

In this way, it was exactly what Jiang Qi wanted, so he didn't refuse, and happily followed behind Grandpa Liu Lan, and he led everyone to see the stage.

"Old man Pei, are you taking your granddaughter and grandson for a walk after dinner? Hey, is that your grandson? Why doesn't it look like it to me? He's getting younger after getting married." Others in the village saw Liu Lan's grandfather leading With a large number of young people jokingly said.

"I think you are older than me, and you should wear a pair of presbyopic glasses. Presbyopia is not enough, and you have to go to the hospital to see if your memory has declined. I only have one granddaughter. Can these three girls be my granddaughter?" Grandpa Liu Lan scolded with a smile, "My granddaughter's friends heard that there is an opera in the village today, so they came here specially from the city to listen to the opera."

"Yo." The joker was really startled, and looked carefully at Jiang Qi and the three of them, "Hey, it's really rare. Nowadays, young people in the village are not uncommon to listen to operas, and we are the only ones who sing big operas every year. Listen to the old bones most actively, you have to occupy a good position for the young people, so as not to be ignored."

"What do you say? What's the relationship between me and Xiao Feng? My position was fixed before the stage was set up. It must be the best. Xiao Jiang, Xiao Feng, Xiao Qin, go to the left."

Liu Lan was a little curious, and trotted to her grandfather: "Grandpa, what is the relationship between you and the head of this theater troupe?"

"What does it matter? I heard his father when he sang operas, and I also heard him when he sang operas before. It's the relationship between singing and listening to operas." Grandpa Liu Lan said in a loud voice, talking and talking. He joked about himself, and laughed so that he was full of air.

"Then Grandpa Pei, are they regular members picking up jobs around here?" Jiang Qi also leaned forward and asked.

Grandpa Liu Lan waved his hand: "That was the model many years ago. Don't look at how many thousands of people they sing, but it's only a few hundred per person. On weekdays, relying on this alone to eat would starve to death. There is no fixed member, only Xiao Feng, the so-called class leader, is fixed, whoever is free will come."

"So they are all part-time jobs, and they actually have other jobs, right?"

Grandpa Liu Lan was a little deaf, and he heard other jobs before he heard the first half of Jiang Qi's sentence: "There are other jobs. Xiao Feng seems to have opened an opera training class. It is said that few students have closed it. He is still in the city troupe. Meals, the kind that don’t have a budget, I heard that the city’s theater troupe is in a downturn, it’s not as good as the symphony orchestra.”

"Those who don't have a symphony orchestra can get more than 1000 in a month. It's not certain whether their troupe has this number."

Grandpa Liu Lan was talking vigorously when a fat, fair, middle-aged man with a sense of joy walked quickly from the direction of the stage.Before the people arrive, the laughter comes first. Haha's laughter is very penetrating.

"I heard you, Mr. Pei, arranging me behind my back from a long distance away. Next time when you arranging me, can you be a little farther away and keep your voice down so that I don't hear it."

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Qi knew that this chubby and fair middle-aged man was the titular troupe leader, Troupe Leader Feng.

Watching Grandpa Liu Lan bring four young people over, Team Leader Feng also laughed and joked: "Mr. Pei, you really praised me this year. There were not many young people in the audience last year. You actually brought all your juniors this year." , no wonder you called me so late last night and said that I would reserve 4 good seats in the front row for you."

"What are my juniors? This is my granddaughter." Grandpa Liu Lan pointed to Liu Lan. "The rest are his friends. Young people want to see a play, so they drove here from the city for more than an hour."

"Thank you so much everyone." Team leader Feng looked surprised, "Today I will definitely tell them to perform well and not let you down. Come and come with me to have a look, you young people haven't seen how we make up Right? Things haven’t been fully set up here yet, it’s a bit messy, so be careful.”

The backstage was indeed as messy as Team Leader Feng said, probably because it hadn't been tidied up, and all kinds of props and sundries were piled up on the boxes and on the ground waiting to be sorted.However, the clothes are placed in the prop car, probably because they are afraid of getting dirty.

There are so many things.

There are several kinds of musical instruments, such as erhu, suona, pipa, big drum and small drum, and a musical instrument that looks very similar to erhu, but not quite the same, which Jiang Qi doesn't know.

"There are a few good shows today, you usually listen to..." Leader Feng enthusiastically explained the content of today's performance, with strokes and fingers, as if he wanted to pick up a stick and play with it.

"What's that?" Jiang Qi asked Feng Ling in a low voice, pointing to the unknown musical instrument.

"Gaohu is the high-pitched erhu. You can understand it as an instrument similar to the erhu." Feng Ling explained, looking at this familiar scene, wondering whether it was a touching scene or something, and suddenly asked Jiang Qi about the costume she gave her.

"Boss, have you received my costume?"

The three-star gift that Feng Ling gave to Jiang Qi was the costume she wore when she was running, and it was the most expensive of all her assets.

Jiang Qi also received those costumes, all of which were made of silk. Looking at the fabric and the embroidery on them, he knew that they must be expensive.

Originally, it could be very valuable, but the clothes are damaged in some places. It may be that they were not preserved properly when they were fleeing for their lives. It feels like a defective product.

"It's in my office, and I can't wear those clothes, why don't you go to my office and take those clothes back when you go to work tomorrow?"

"It suddenly occurred to me that those clothes might need to be changed by a tailor." Feng Ling smiled awkwardly, "Didn't you notice that the clothes were a little torn?"

Jiang Qi nodded: "I found out, it's quite normal. After all, that dress has been through...um...you understand."

It's not easy for Jiang Qi to directly say that the clothes were brought by Feng Ling when he fled. Liu Lan has sharp ears, so if she hears about it, she must ask.

Ask anything Jiang Qi can guess.

escape?What escape?Feng Ling still escaped?Is there anyone still fleeing this year?Wow, that's amazing, can I say?Tell me what you can say!

Jiang Qi raised his head and looked around cautiously, and found that Liu Lan, Qin Can, Mr. Pei and Team Leader Feng were all gone.There are only three troupe actors and three or four children watching the fun. One of the young actresses is telling the children not to move casually, lest they hit themselves.

What about people?

He asked Gao Hu's kung fu, why did he suddenly disappear?

"That's right." Feng Ling's voice brought Jiang Qi back to the topic just now.

She pointed to the trinkets on a costume worn by one of the actors. "I cut mine like that."

"Those clothes are the best and most valuable. The big pearls inlaid on them are all east pearls, and the small pearls are also top-grade with a particularly good color and uniform size. Not only that, there are many pieces of gold and silver on the clothes." Decorations are all hard currency.”

"In the end, I really ran out of money, so I used scissors to cut out all the valuable decorations, so the clothes became like that."

Jiang Qi: ...

It's really a small coup for escaping, I learned it.

"So now it's..."

"Those clothes are definitely not suitable for wearing on stage now. You need to find a special tailor to change them." Feng Lingdao, "But they are definitely not expensive. I checked on the Internet, and the cultured pearls are much cheaper than ours at that time, and gold and silver pieces can also be used. Gold-plated and silver-plated, agate is cheap, and it doesn’t cost much to deduct from my salary.”

"Lilian can withhold five years' salary, can I also withhold three years' salary for some face?" Feng Ling looked at Jiang Qi expectantly.

Jiang Qi: ...

What kind of employees are these? Is this the way to borrow money to work?

"There is no need to withhold, the costumes and props you need for singing should be provided by the amusement park, just go to the finance department and apply for special money." Jiang Qi sighed deeply.

He suddenly began to worry that in a few days Lili would find out that he wanted to buy 100 dolls, and the money would be deducted from her future salary.

"What are you two doing here? Is there anything interesting about the props?" Liu Lan grabbed Feng Ling, "My grandfather and Team Leader Feng are sitting in the back chatting gossip! I heard two sentences that are wonderful, go and listen!"

Feng Ling heard that there was gossip, his eyes lit up, and he ran away.

"What kind of gossip?" Jiang Qi felt that he had to ask the summary of the previous situation first, so as not to understand it sometimes.

"This year, the city theater troupe can't get any money. They don't get any money if they don't have a staff. Those with a staff only have a basic salary and no bonuses. There are a few unlucky jobs that are not doing well. Recently, I'm thinking about live broadcasting. There are many, many ,Different kinds."

"My grandfather's gossip is like this, one here and one here, all of them are the essence!"

Jiang Qi's eyes lit up, and he ran away following Feng Ling's pace.

Liu Lan shook her head: "I'm not active in listening to gossip, so I need to call."

"Tsk tsk tsk."

 Set up a flag, tomorrow will be bigger

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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