The Translation of Lin Huiyin's Complete Works into Poetry and Drama

Chapter 6 Drama Volume (2)

Qi looking for him?Zhongwei?Ghost girl, you have a lot of ideas!I don't know that Zhongviken won't.

Why wouldn't Mei? (Laughing and going to the table to re-peel peanuts to eat)

Qi (follows her to eat peanuts, then suddenly leans over and looks up at Mei Zhen and asks) Brother Tang Jiayuan—Tang Yuanlan and Huang—Huang Zhongwei, who do you think is better?
Mei (laughing provocatively) Fourth Miss, tell me yourself, why do you ask me? !
Qi (sorry) Damn it!I must beat you! (reaches out and hits Mei's back)

Mei Zhen screamed and nearly overturned the table. The table tilted and peanuts fell all over the floor. The two chased and beat the room.

Rong Sheng frowned silently when he opened the door, but dared not laugh.

Rong, Miss Fourth, Mr. Tang is here.

Fourth Miss and Mei Zhen ignored it, and continued to chase after each other.Rong (embarrassed, coughing) Eldest Miss, Third Miss Guan Mo didn't come back, right?Fourth Miss and Mei Zhen still ignored it.

Rong (letting Tang Yuanlan in, hesitating) Mr. Tang, please sit down, the young lady hasn't come back yet. (back out)
Tang Yuanlan is already in his thirties, tall and thin, mature and dignified, but full of humor.He finds Wei Wei amused by everything, but wants to frown.The sharp corners of the mouth moved a little, then stopped; always seemed to have something to say, but didn't want to say it, just smiled and pulled it down.He was a thoughtful man, but he had a good temper, so he looked a little older than his years.The clothes on his body are a little "famous", but they are not tattered or dirty.There are books and newspapers in the pocket, and when you put your hand in it, it seems that some pieces of paper will be brought out.

Tang Yuanlan smiled and looked at Fourth Miss and Mei Zhen, who seemed to be about to talk but stopped. He took out a cigarette case from his pocket, started to smoke, and then stopped.

Qi (blushes and shakes her hair and looks at Tang) Brother Yuan, they are not at home, only me and Mei Zhen are left.

Tang (looks at Mei Zhen and turns to Wen Qi) Wen Qi, why are you playing so lively?
Qi (laughs embarrassedly with Mei Zhen. Qi points to Mei Zhen) Ask her!

Don, let me ask when your second brother will be home?

Mei Zhen leaned over to buckle the shoes because her shoes fell off, then stood up and walked towards the door embarrassingly, and turned back to be busy when she heard the words.

The second brother Qi didn't arrive until the day after tomorrow because he stopped in Tianjin for a day. (Xiang Mei) That bad girl!What are you stunned for?
Mei, you said that the second young master will not come back until the day after tomorrow? ...I think... I'll pour tea for Mr. Tang first.

Don't be too polite, I don't drink much tea. (frowns and sees the peanuts on the ground) Oh, where did this come from? (Bending over to pick up the peanuts on the ground, peeling them and putting them in his mouth)

Mei (with a silly smile) Look, Mr. Tang is hungry, I'll make some snacks for you! (Turns back again) Miss Si, what do you eat?
Qi casual, you give it!Oh, bring the cake you made, (seeing that Mei is about to come out and calling her back) wait, Mei Zhen, (reaching into the drawer and taking out a few dime tickets for Mei) Oh, take it away, I forgot later , you should bet again.

Mei (laughs happily and mischievously) Miss, my memory is not bad, I will fail to gamble in New Year's Eve, maybe I will hang myself, how unfair it is!

Tang (watching Mei go out) You guys are so lively!

Qimei is really naughty, she can do anything!

Tang smart people are not naughty?Wen Qi, I don't know why your family doesn't send her to school now?
I don't know much about Qi, anyway, I haven't sent her to school for a long time.When grandma was around, she used to say that mom used to her, but now the uncles and uncles and even the elder sister don't like her, saying that she has gone to school, can't get in, can't get in, don't know what it is!Didn't we go to elementary school together at that time?In a school, the eldest sister always felt that it was inappropriate,...

The students in Tang School all know that she is...

Qi naturally knew, which made everyone very awkward.Later, my mother sent her to another middle school, and most of them didn't go again when they reached the second year of junior high school...

Don why?

Qi felt that she was too offended, once she was a little bit wronged - a stimulus, (pause) don't say it, (look back) who came in after a while, it's hard to hear. (Pause)...Brother Yuan, do you think the eldest sister has changed from before?
Tang has changed a lot... In fact, everyone has changed a lot. In the past six years, everything has been different... Everyone - very modern.

Qi, especially the eldest sister, don't look at the three sisters who are confused, but they are actually more modern, a bit pro-style, but very contradictory, she said so herself, (laughs) and mother, Brother Yuan, do you think mother is a Really modern? (speaking urgently) Strictly speaking, my eldest sister is not modern, I mean, her thinking...

Tang (interrupting Wen Qi with a wry smile) Let me smoke a cigarette, okay? (takes out the cigarette)

Qi Of course, - you smoked!
Tang Yuanlan lit a matchstick, walked to the window with a cigarette in his mouth and carried it on his back.

Qi (sitting down on the sofa as usual, bending her legs up, boredly) I——can I smoke a cigarette too?
Don (turning around and smiling) Of course—you're done!
Qi, I don't have a cigarette!

Don I'm sorry. (Amusingly, he took out the cigarette case from his bag, drove it and passed it to Wen Qi, and asked her to take the cigarette by herself)
Qi (takes a cigarette and asks Tang to light it) Brother Yuan, shouldn't all writers know how to smoke?

Tang (to tease the fourth child) Of course!To really become a literary giant, you have to learn how to smoke cigars!

Qi (learning to blow smoke rings) Brother Yuan, are you a little awkward with your elder sister?You are not good with her, are you?

Tang (laughs without answering, picks up the novel on the sofa to read, surprised) Are you reading this? (satisfied) Do you like it?nice, isn't it?

Qi is great! (reaches out to take the book back) Brother Yuan, it turns out that when you were enthusiastic, at first I thought you were not enthusiastic about anything, that you didn’t love anything in the world!

Don why am I not enthusiastic?(speaking slowly) beautiful things in the world...beautiful books...beautiful people...I also know how to love!Why do you make me look like a dead man!
No, Qi, I think it's weird that you talk so little, (again hastily) Mei Zhen and I often say you're weird!
Tang (voice is different than before, but very low) You and Mei Zhen?Mei Zhen also said I was strange?

Qi, no, no, we are just saying—I can’t understand your temper... (Extremely embarrassed, flipping through the novel and showing Tang) You read this book or you sent it to your elder sister. If your elder sister doesn’t like it, I will pick it up and read it...

Sister Tang doesn't like novels, does she?I didn't plan that she would watch it, I thought maybe someone else would like to watch it!

Qi (honestly) Who? (guessing again)

Tang (silently, just smoking a cigarette and walking to the low couch, ready to sit down comfortably, suddenly touched the woolen fabric, jumped up, turned around and removed many needles and threads) Good guy, there are so many creations here!

Qi (startled, laughs, gets up and walks over) I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this is all my sisters' creations, and it was thrown here!Let me tidy it up for you. (Tang takes off the half-knit sweater from his hand and lifts it up high.) Look, it belongs to the third sister. She knits it and wears it for skating. Even though she is an ordinary person, she still has to wear the sweater. ! (Comparing to himself) Look, this color can't be considered too "bourgeois", can it? (naughty and happy)
Tang Yuanlan picked up another big red velvet thing.

Qi (grabbing it in her hand) This is my elder sister’s treasure, something that is in the limelight, look, (putting a red dress on her shoulders, spinning in the room) Let me look in the mirror...

Miss Wenjuan and Zhang Aizhu walked in together lively.Wenjuan is a beautiful young lady, tall and tall, very good-looking when she walks, with neat eyebrows, but for some reason, she always seems to be impatient with someone, so she is used to locking the tip of her eyebrows, making people a little afraid of her, and I don't know when I offended her, it's so sad.

Zhang Aizhu has a lot of attention in her squinted eyes, she can laugh very much, but she always laughs so unnecessarily, now she is obviously laughing lively, chattering some happy things in her voice.

Juan (silently, looking at Wen Qi coldly) What is this for?

Qi (smiling and saying indifferently) Who told you to let go of all your work and leave?Brother Yuan has no place to sit, so I came to clean up for you.

Mr. Zhu. Don’t be in a hurry, don’t blame Wenjuan, it’s all my fault...
wipe lips)
Don (embarrassed) I just got here too. (to warm the fire)
Juan (looks coldly again) Just here? (looks at the peanuts on the ground and is slightly angry) Who made the peanuts all over the ground like this? ! (to the fourth child) The house is messy, why don't you ask Mei Zhen to clean it up?You spoiled her even more!
Qi (with a good-natured smile) Don't get angry, don't get angry, I'll be a girl. (To pick up the bits and pieces)

Juan, who is angry again?Not to mention you being a girl! (rings the bell) Aizhu, I'm sorry, the house is such a mess!
Zhu, you really like to be refreshing, and you want to look good. She likes to look good in everything. (Smiling to Tang) Isn't it?

Mei Zhen entered.

Miss Mei is back?

If Juan is back, she won't come back, you can also clean up this house!Do you see what this house looks like?
Mei (surreptitiously making faces with the fourth child, who covers his mouth with his smiling hands) I just came here, and when I saw Mr. Tang coming, I was in a hurry to get some snacks.

Juan, I said that cleaning up the house is cleaning up the house, don't bring it to the snacks.

Mei (pouring her lips) That's right, that's right. (stretches forward) Can you take off your coat?If you want to take it off, just give it to me, so I can hang it up, and it’s not refreshing to pile it up on the chair, isn’t it?

Juan (takes off her coat angrily and hands over) Take it, have some snacks!

Mei (walking in front of Aizhu without paying attention) Miss Zhang, take off yours too, so I can hang them up together.

[Ai Joo takes off her coat and pays plums
Mei (to the fourth child half-playfully) Fourth Miss, you are tired, let me pick it up later. (Winks with the fourth child again, then goes out with a pile of coats)
Tang (comes from the stove and rubs his hands together, laughing loudly) This girl is amazing!

Juan (angrily) How can I say this!
Don didn't say much, I just said she was amazing.

What's so funny about Juan?Originally, it was the good look that the fourth sister was used to, but when guests came, Mei Zhen still behaved like this.

Don't blame the fourth younger sister, let alone Mei Zhen. It was a bit embarrassing. In this day and age, people are still called maids, and it's embarrassing to be the master. Since you have let her go to school and get a good education since she was a child, you can't treat her like a subordinate. Just like a mother!
Juan (ashamed and angry) Who treats her like an old lady?Since she is a girl, even if she has entered school and studied a little, she should still do something at home, and her mother has already paid her a monthly fee.

Don's problem is not in doing things, she will do things, the problem is how do you tell her to do things... tone, attitude, how do you make her not...don't feel...

Zhu (to Wenjuan amusedly) Mr. Tang is full of complaints from scholars... She doesn't know how embarrassing people are, you Meizhen is really angry sometimes... Mr. Tang, you just came back from a foreign country and you have a lot of thoughts , are too ideal, in China it is not suitable.

Juan (coldly after a long silence) Is it not good that people are enthusiastic about the oppressed in society? ...But I really don't know who can oppress Meizhen?It's cheap for us not to be bullied and oppressed by her, that guy... just uses her status to impress the sympathy of many people!Meeting Wen Xia, our enthusiastic third lady, is even more incredible...

In fact, Zhu is still a girl with a temper, and now she has reached her age——they used to say that a girl is going to be married when she reaches the age of marriage, and she will be very difficult to control, so it turns out that there is something like that!My mom said... (chuckles)
Qi (interrupting suddenly from the side) Don't be wicked!

Juan, how strange it is for you to see, Fourth Sister is so protective of the girl!
[When the door opens, Huang Zhongwei enters with a large tray of refreshments with a smile, Mei Zhen follows behind helplessly.Huang is young, lively and mischievous, dressed in a foreign suit lined with a flowered sweater, healthy as an athlete, but with a little more fluffy hair, a pair of particularly sensitive eyes, and the active expression on his face shows that he is not completely good-tempered and in a bad mood Sometimes you can lose your temper, and you can regret it after you lose your temper.Because of this, many girls who could fall in love with him are a little afraid of him, and this also protects him from becoming a model lover.At this moment, he happily romped into the small study that he was quite familiar with.

Huang is here to bring you snacks! (looks around) Eldest Miss, Fourth Miss, Miss Zhang, Mr. Tang, how are you all? (Ask Mei Zhen with a cross-examination in his hands) Where do you put this?

Mei, look, you don't know how to do things but rush to do them? (pointing to the small round table) Oh, put it here!

Juan (frowned at Mei) Mei Zhen behaved, okay?

Mei (pushes her lips, disapprovingly) Mr. Huang is willing to take it, so what's the point of playing around?
Zhu (acting as if she hates Meizhen, turns to Huang) Zhongwei, what a coincidence you came, we are discussing the issue of improving society and liberating maidservants.

What is Huang talking about? (puts down the tea tray) What's the problem?
Zhu liberates the handmaid problem.

Mei (as if being stabbed to ask Zhang) Miss Zhang, wait a moment, such a good topic, let's discuss it after I leave, I am here, I will hinder your thinking later! (Turns around quickly)

Tang Yuanlan coughed and wanted to speak but didn't.

Huang (disturbed, exchanging frowns) Meizhen is angry.

Qi can you blame her?
Juan is angry, let her be angry.

What does it matter what I say, "the issue of liberating the maidservant", so what if the maidservant heard it?Don't we still say "liberate women"?Should we as women be angry when we hear this?
Qi (ignores Zhang) Let's eat dim sum!Zhongwei, it's all your fault, causing trouble for no reason!

I'm so sorry Huang! (Looking at the eldest lady, angrily) Who would have thought that you have such rules here?
Big? !I see, I see, (anxiously) Mei Zhen is really... down...

Qi (holding Huang's words) Don't talk about it, of course it's bad luck to be a girl!
Huang Na, don't you want her to be a girl?

Don't talk childishly, Qi—let's have some snacks!
Juan (sneeringly) You decide!
Huang (ignore the eldest lady, Xiang Wenqi) Why are you talking like a child?

Tang (adjusting his voice, in a low voice) Wen Qi means: It's not a question of letting her be a girl.The problem is: as long as Mei Zhen is in their house, even if she is not treated as a girl, she is still a girl, because in name and in reality, she is nothing else!Not a lady, not a guest, not a relative...

Qi (looks at Yuan Lan in amazement, remembering what she said to Mei Zhen) Brother Yuan, since you know so clearly, what do you think Mei Zhen can do?
What can Don do? (Pause.) Maybe there's only one way, let her go, get out of your house, forget about you, go to school, get her to do something else—you'll help her a little at most—anything, just go.

Juan is another one who knows how to make decisions—this meeting even has a solution, I think you can simply entrust Meizhen to your care, Yuan Lan, you can also ask her to set up a social service department for your newspaper.

Qi, eat some snacks, don't argue! (Pouring tea) Zhongwei, give this cup to Aizhu, and this cup to Eldest Sister.

Let's eat dim sum.

Tang (still talking to Juan calmly) She can't make decisions for you, anyway, sooner or later you still have to do that, you still have to let her go, she can't stay with you forever.

Of course Juan can't!

Brother Qi Yuan, you know that Mei Zhen thinks the same way herself, and so do I...

Fourth Juan, did Mei Zhen tell you that she was leaving?
Qi didn't say she was going to leave, but she thought she should leave after talking.

Juan, I knew she had no conscience. We treated her really well. She lived and dressed like us when she was young. She was too young and didn’t do anything. She went to school later. Get paid!Yuan Lan didn't know about these situations at all. ... Yuan Lan, you can ask Aunt Liu, and you still ask her, when grandma was around, Mei Zhen made the old lady angry a lot, Aunt Liu knew.

Don't these are irrelevant, a person always has the pride of being a human being.Who wants to do it, do it... Then, what Aizhu said just now: "Handmaiden"!No matter how much you pay!

Zhu (picking up the unfinished sweater, standing up without speaking) Wenjuan, stop arguing, let me ask you, where is the fabric from yesterday?Go and show it to me, okay?

Juan is good, after I finish this tea, you come to my room to compare, I really want to replace it.

Zhu (smiling again with squinted eyes) Don't change it, if it's too late to do it, Xiao Lu will invite you to dance next week, right?Don't change it.

Juan, you don't know, it's just that it's not fashionable, it's not right.Xiao Lu's eyes were extremely sharp.

Huang (sitting on the sofa and reading a magazine after eating, interrupted suddenly) What is fashionable or not, how is it right, how is it not right?
(End of this chapter)