Director of the Centre

Chapter 241 Practice Daily
At two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Tao Tao woke up after taking a nap, washed and dressed, and the three former team members, Lao Liu, Li Jie, and Ouyang Jin, three retirees, had already arrived.

Qi Qi gathered in the living room of her home, staring intently at Song Xiuyan standing there.

They have been here for a long time without speaking.

Tao Tao: "Everyone has seen it, this is my apprentice, you know him."

Old Liu: "I don't know any of the sons of Song Tian's family. He played in the group since he was a child. But..."

"I know your concerns. I passed the test yesterday. I have boy skills, but there are still areas that need to be strengthened. I came to you to figure out how to train children." Tao Tao looked at Lao Liu again: " Your face has turned darker recently, do you have liver cancer?"

Boss Tao's words were harsh, and Lao Liu was almost speechless due to choking.It took a long time to realize that my body was fine. I swallowed the sun every day and got tanned.

Tao Tao: "Don't teach Xiuyan how to swallow the rising sun. He will be an actor in the future. He wants to play Bai Suzhen, Qin Xianglian and Yang Guifei. If he is too tanned, he can only sing Kunlun slaves and black bear spirits. Isn't that right? Is it ruined? From now on, from 04:30 to [-]:[-] every afternoon, you all come to me and teach me this closed disciple."

Others didn't say anything, Ouyang Jin was a little embarrassed: "Boss, I still have to take my grandson to buy and cook for my family. It's okay once or twice. I'll be scolded by my mother-in-law for doing this every day."

"What do you mean, you don't want to?" Tao Tao snorted.

"That was not what I meant."

"Xiao Han promised me that once Song Xiuyan completes his studies, he can participate in the center's performance. I see that you are also bored, and as a team member, you can follow along on stage. Of course, keep it a secret from Song Tian for the time being. After finishing speaking, Tao Tao pointed to Song Xiuyan: "Teach me well, and he will be your boss from now on."

After retiring, everyone was very uncomfortable. After singing for a lifetime, they suddenly stopped being on stage, and they felt very itchy.

Hearing that there is such an opportunity, everyone is happy, and they all said, Boss Tao, don't worry, we will teach you everything and carve this baby out.If the baby is disobedient and makes others look like ghosts or ghosts, then you will be optimistic!

The two-hour practice in the afternoon is just some basic skills.The first thing is to make the voice, and then the body, body, eyes and steps must be in place.

Then it started with the most basic arias. In order to teach Song Xiuyan, Tao Tao specially dug out the textbooks of the drama school this morning and formulated a one-year study plan.

You just need to teach step by step.

After teaching, Tao Tao asked the others how they were doing.Ouyang Jin said that the child's foundation is still good, the key is good talent.Standing there, that demeanor is simply a peerless beauty, which will bring disaster to the country and the people.In fact, it doesn't matter if you have poor skills, you can get it out of long-term practice.But this kind of stage feeling, this kind of expressiveness to the characters, was born.Boss Tao, you are a good teacher, but it is useless without good students.Now there is such a good seedling, it is really hard to come by, but...

"But what?" Tao Tao asked.

Ouyang Jin: "His body is not good enough, his figure and steps seem stiff, he needs to practice. The child is delicate now, I'm afraid he won't be able to bear the hardship. And...the child has a personality problem, I'm afraid..."

When it comes to physical training, everyone has a look of unbearable looking back.

Tao Tao: "Then practice, set aside an hour every day. If Song Xiuyan can't bear hardships, I don't want this apprentice."

When Ouyang Jin said that Song Xiuyan's body was stiff, he actually meant that his ligaments had not been stretched and his movements were uncoordinated.

After Tao Tao thought about it, she decided to ask Song Xiuyan to come to her home at 01:30 every afternoon one hour earlier.To this end, she also gave the doll a key to her own house.

Don't look at Song Xiuyan's weird temper, but this time he came to learn opera, but he seemed very excited and well-behaved.

Every day after lunch, he would take the bus to Han Lu's home to kick his legs, bend his waist, and practice blanket exercises.An hour later, Master Tao woke up to take a nap, and Xiao Song hurriedly handed over the brewed tea to let Master clean his mouth.

Another hot towel was twisted on for Master Tao to wipe his face.

Xiao Song's ability to take care of himself is poor. When making tea, he often knocks over the tea pots and gets his hands burned by the water dispenser.When twisting the towel, the bathroom and body were full of water.

Han Guoqing couldn't see it, and said, don't embarrass the child.

Tao Tao: "Let him do it. The coordination of hands, eyes, body, and body is the basic skill of an actor. Housework is also a kind of training. If the house is dirty, we just clean it."

Old Han murmured: "We clean, when did you do it, didn't this housework fall to me and my son in the end?"

Tao Tao is almost 40 years old, and her hands are white and delicate, like a girl.

On the contrary, Han Lu's hands were rough.Because the underwear can't go into the washing machine, he washes it by hand, and it even cracked in winter.

Lao Han felt sorry for his son and thought: It is a blessing to have an ugly wife in a family. If this man marries a beautiful woman, he will suffer for the rest of his life.My dead old woman was so confused, she just took a fancy to Tao Tao's good looks.Does it look good as a meal, my son is poor!

Song Xiuyan was working, while Tao Tao was watching, and said patiently: "Xiuyan, when making tea, you should first open the tea pot, use a spoon to scoop a spoonful of tea into the cup. Master drinks lightly, you put a penny Tea leaves are fine. Then, with the teacup in your right hand, go to the water dispenser tap and press the water switch. Instead of pressing the switch first, it will burn your hands."

"Xiuyan. When twisting the towel, first fold the towel into strips. Grasp the two ends of the towel strip with your left and right hands, and use force in opposite directions. Don't knead into a ball and squeeze the water. If you do, the water will not be squeezed clean. Don't rush, it's okay to slow down. You can think through all the steps in advance before doing it, the teacher is not in a hurry."

Han Guoqing couldn't help shaking his head while watching: This kid can't even twist a towel, isn't he stupid?Unlike my younger sister, she knows everything at a glance, she can cook and wash clothes at the age of four, she can play tricks with her parents and grandpa, and she is a monkey with fur... Hey, Tao Tao didn't care about it One day, sister, she cares so much about other people's children, you bastard!
After Song Xiuyan finished serving Tao Tao, Tao Tao dictated and sang, and asked him to memorize the libretto.There is no shortcut to this thing of drama, it all depends on rote memorization.Fortunately, although he has poor self-care ability, he has a good memory.

After memorizing a piece of libretto, I have to continue to practice my body and stretch my ligaments.Tao Tao puts one foot on the bench, bows her legs, then puts Song Xiuyan's waist on her legs, presses the apprentice's knee with one hand, and presses the chest with the other hand, and makes the apprentice's head and feet close together. .

Song Xiuyan was a little old, his body was hard, the pain was unbearable, and he broke out in cold sweats.

After a while, he finally finished practicing, and his eyes were full of tears.

Tao Tao threw a tissue over and comforted her: "Three minutes on stage, ten years off the stage, that's how everyone came here."

"Well, I know, I'm not afraid of pain." Despite saying this, Song Xiuyan's tears still fell.

In addition to barring the waist, Lajin is also quite scary. After only a few days of practice, Song Xiuyan could walk with a limp.

After practicing the body, Lao Liu, Sister Li, and Ouyang also came, and continued to practice with music.

Seeing that Song Xiuyan was in pain all over, everyone smiled wryly and said to Tao Tao: "Boss, I thought that Xiao Song was the son of a colleague after all, and coming to you to learn opera is just a class. Seeing your posture, you are a close apprentice!"

The so-called sit-office and hand-handle are two ways of saying that the owner of the Liyuan accepted apprentices in the early years.

To put it simply, sitting in a department is a big class. The brothers and sisters get together to study at the same time. They all have their own stage names. They go home after studying every day, and the master doesn't care about them.

Handlebar is one-on-one private education, which means that the master accepts apprentices at home and carries out individual teaching.Apprenticeship requires written evidence and a seven-year contract, which is not much different from a prostitution contract.During the period of learning art, the apprentice can be beaten and scolded by the teacher, and the teacher will not be responsible for birth, old age, sickness and death.Once the students are able to perform on stage, all income from the performance will belong to the master within seven years.In addition to learning art, I also help the teacher with housework.If the hand-holding apprentice wants to worship another teacher, the master must agree, otherwise he will be despised and excluded by his peers for the rest of his life.

Since the apprentices have to pay for food, clothing and housing during their apprenticeship, and all the income from performances after the completion of their studies will belong to the master. For the apprentices, the master always hopes that the apprentices can appear on stage as soon as possible and make money for him as soon as possible.Therefore, the master has many opponents and has very strict requirements on his apprentices, and he is also very ruthless in practicing Kung Fu.

In the old days, it happened that masters beat apprentices to death.

But because the teaching is strict, the master does not hide his secrets, so he can really learn the real skills.

In the new society, feudalism does not prevail, but traditional culture pays attention to inheritance, and some things remain.

Tao Tao was spotted by a teacher when she was studying in an opera school, she was strictly controlled at ordinary times, and even lived in her own house during holidays.

She is now using all those tricks on Song Xiuyan, of course beating people is not acceptable.

Not to mention, after a period of violent teaching, great changes have taken place in Song Xiuyan.

Regardless of singing, but in terms of shape.His tendons were stretched, and his back, which was a bit rickety in the past, was also stretched. He was a centimeter taller out of thin air, and his whole body looked tall and graceful.

When he used to walk, his upper body didn't move, only his legs kept moving forward, but now the whole movement is stretched and natural.

But Tao Tao was still dissatisfied, and said: "Xiuyan, when you are singing and talking to people, you just raise your head and look at the audience. You are an actor, you have to use your demeanor and eyes to impress people's hearts. Once you appear and speak, you are The people in the play, you are no longer yourself, so what are you embarrassed about?"

"Beautiful, yes, yes, just like this, you are a beauty, you look like a fairy, you gather the aura of heaven and earth into one, you gather thousands of pets into one body, you are the center of the world, all eyes are admiring for you, for you You're upside down."

Tao Tao kept applauding, her expression full of encouragement and appreciation.

And Song Xiuyan's eyes gradually brightened, fluctuated, and opened up, as if there were colorful clouds inside.

Ouyang Jin, Lao Liu, Sister Li and the others were astonished: If you want Song Tian to find out that you treat other people's children as beauties, you will have to burn your house down.We... seem to have done a very bad thing.

Old Liu whispered to Tao Tao: "Boss, I think it's better to teach the baby to swallow the sun, so as to get some masculinity?"

Tao Tao: "No, what we want is madness."

By the way, Song Xiuyan has to go out for a run at six o'clock every morning.

When an actor sings in an opera, he depends entirely on his breath. To put it bluntly, it is endurance.

Tao Tao went to accompany her to supervise, and the two made an appointment to meet at the park in Shizhong District, and then started running laps around the stadium.One lap, two laps, three laps, four laps...

Song Xiuyan's body coordination is poor, and he doesn't exercise much at ordinary times, and falls to the ground exhausted after running for two laps.

Tao Tao was not angry, she stood beside him and encouraged him in a low voice: "Xiuyan, Master knows that you are very sad and tired, but in order to be on stage and for your ideals, you have to stand up. Don't worry, if you can't die, we will die even if you die." Don’t be afraid. You can do it, get up! Master is really disappointed with you like this.”

Song Xiuyan stood up, shook her body and continued to run, crying while running.

Gradually, he became full of energy, and his slender body became more contoured, but his face was still fair, because the master did not let him bask in the sun.

Song Xiuyan wanted to play Concubine Yang Gui, the peony in Yun Xiang's clothes and flowery clothes, and she became Dong Shi when it got dark. Do you want an artistic life?

(End of this chapter)