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

Chapter 8 Drama Volume (4)

Mei (watching Song walk out, talking to herself) This guy!This kind of stubbornness is really terrible, it is really unfair to use it on me, (he continued to rub the copper utensil) Seeing that he hates it is a bit pitiful! (Sighs) It's wrong to use your heart on me!I was destined to endure hardship, hang myself, and jump into the river!How to be the shopkeeper's lady of the electrical material store, (smiling silly) the shopkeeper's lady of the electrical material store! (Suddenly falls on the table and cries)
When the door opened, the eldest lady walked in coughing.She was a short, thin woman in her fifties, with small eyes looking around, her appearance was neither dignified, and she always spoke in a whispered tone.

Mei (looks up in surprise, then stands up hastily) It's you, the eldest lady, come to see the fun?The house is not finished yet.

Mrs. (looks at the screen) What is this - is this weird?
Mei is the screen.

Ma'am, why does the screen look so weird?
Mei (laughs) I don't know either.

Ma'am, I think the second wife is really used to children, one and two are so crazy when they grow up!The second master is no longer alive, who can say anything about them!How many guests are invited tonight, exactly?
I don't know about Mei, anyway, they are classmates of the girls.

Is Mrs. (curiously) dancing in the big living room?
Mei (amusing and impatient) That's right!
Where does Madam eat?

Mei (laughing) is in the big dining room!

Can the lady sit down with those people?
Mei eats it three times, and those who don't sit down stand up...

Ma'am, what is new, I really don't understand these things, (I mentioned this and that) the girl's family is crazy and makes many friends, and the students will have a meeting, a petition, and go out and let the police beat you to death. !After a while, I invite friends and dance again. How ugly are couples of men and women dancing with their arms around each other like this?No wonder the old man is angry and often says that the second wife doesn't take good care of the children!Mei Zhen, let me tell you, we remember that we are a girl, don't follow their example!Hurry up tomorrow to find my mother-in-law's house.

Mei (teasing the eldest wife funny and angrily) Don't worry, I won't marry, I'll just be an old girl in this family for the rest of my life!
Madam (coming closer, furtively) Don't worry, come to my courtyard more often, and I'll find a way for you. (Comparing hands) That day, Mrs. Chen, she came to ask me about you.I don't know about the other family, but the Chen family can't hide their money from me! ... Not to mention the wealth of Mrs. Chen, whose maiden name is Ding!

Mei (face is a little blue with anger) Tell me what the Chen family Ding's family does with money?
Ma'am, think for yourself.Silly boy, Mrs. Chen might have taken a fancy to you!
Mei (extremely angry and trying to endure) Mrs. Chen, she—why did she fall in love with me? !
Mrs. (closer, acting mysteriously) Let me tell you...

Mei (retreats unwillingly) Madam, don't—don't tell me anything...

Mrs. (closer) Listen, Mrs. Chen told me that her brother, the third master of the Ding family, often mentions hello, and the third grandma has no boys, so the third master is very anxious...

Mei (runs back to the door) Madam, don't say these words, I can't listen...

Zhong Wei and Wen Qi came in with a smile, and bumped into Mei Zhen.

Qi (strangely) What's wrong with Mei Zhen, what's the matter, so busy?

May I - I went to the dining room to get something...

Mei hurried off.

Qi (still inexplicably) Auntie, what are you doing here?

Mrs. (difficult) I have nothing to do,... just look for Mei Zhen... just come here to have a look.

Qi (pointing to Zhongwei) this is Mr. Huang, (pointing to the eldest wife) Zhongwei, this is my aunt.

Huang (greetings) We met at dinner that day.

Ma'am, I don't know her very well, now the ladies have so many friends, coming and going...

Qi (grimacing to Huang, then to the eldest lady) No wonder you don't recognize her! (pretending to be serious) My friends, especially boyfriends, are enough for twenty or thirty!To and fro,—today this one comes, and tomorrow that one comes! ...

Huang (also grimacing, pointing at Qi with his back behind his back) But your aunt must recognize me, because every time your friends line up, I'm the leader, I'm like a captain!
How does the lady (inexplicably) line up for a solution?I don't remember who lined up to come!
Huang (holding back a laugh at the same time) Haven't you seen it?

Qi next time, I will ask them to pass by your window... so that the uncle can also see the excitement.

Madam (shakes her hand anxiously) Don't.Fourth brother, don't you know your uncle's temper?
Huang and Qi couldn't help smiling at each other.

Ma'am, what are you laughing at?
Qi has nothing.

Ma'am (sighs) I'm leaving, you have all kinds of strange things here, I can't see anything interesting!I don’t know who took down the pair of Hunan embroidery landscape mirror frames in the living room this morning. Your mother said that I would put them away... I, I will put them away, and I will marry my eldest sister tomorrow. That was originally your grandma. s things!

Huang (holding back his laughter again) Those two landscapes have the same sides, one hanging on one side, what a wonderful thing!
By the way, Qi, you can put it away and build a new house for your elder sister. The scenery of the West Lake is full of moon and water. It is so beautiful. It is a pity that we ruined it later!
Rong Sheng entered.

Is Mrs. Rong in this room?

Madam is in this room.What's up?

Mrs. Chen, who is at the door opposite Rong, has come over and is sitting in your room. Please come over.

Mrs. (panic) Oh, I’m coming, I’m coming...

Huang Tongqi laughed loudly when the eldest lady came down.

Rong (half talking to himself) I said that the eldest wife Xu is in this room, and when I asked Mei Zhen, she always refused to agree, and she just said she didn't know, which made me so hard-working! ...

Honored.

Qi is facing Mrs. Chen, what is she doing here?That guy must have some crazy idea!

Huang Xu came to see your excitement out of curiosity.Who asked you to dance, this is too new, you can't blame people for not being curious, wanting to see what kind of weird methods we all have!
Qi (suspiciously) Maybe... Maybe it's because of Mei Zhen, have you heard from Auntie?Hey! ...Come on, let's not talk, let's hang the picture first.I must tell my mother later!

Huang is right, let's hang up. (Picks up the painting on the ground, and moves the ladder to spread the legs of the ladder frame) Wen Qi, I'm going up, you help me a little, this ladder doesn't seem very strong. (slowly up the ladder)
Qi (holding the ladder, looking up) Have you brought any nails?

It’s yellow, (comparing the painting to the wall) Do you think it’s okay to hang it here?

Qi, wait a minute, I'll take a look over there. (walks to one side) All right, no, no... a little lower... okay, that's it. (Runs to the bottom of the ladder again)

Huang (just hitting the nail with a hammer) I'm nailing it!
Qi, wait! (Runs to the side again) No, no, higher!
Huang will be low for a while, and high for a while, you can make up your mind!

Qi, you are capable of anything, but your impatience really makes people afraid of you!

Huang (nail painting, laughing) Are you afraid of me?
Qi (urgent) I'm not afraid of you!

Huang (turning back from the ladder after nailing the painting) Why?

Ki because I think I know you.

Huang (turns around happily and sits on the ladder) Really?
Qi (laughing with her face up) Okay, do you still think that you are such a difficult person?

Zhongwei stared at Qi silently, did not speak, only whistled.

Qi (lightly shakes the ladder body) What are you doing?

Yellow don't shake, don't shake, wait for me to tell you.

Qi said quickly, or come down quickly!
Since Huang created the so-called New School paintings, or Cubist paintings, what is their most important contribution?
Chi I don't know! (grunting) I don't study history, and I don't know how to draw!
Don't talk about Huang, let me tell you, the most important contribution of three-dimensional painting is probably the discovery of new angles!The perspective of this new angle really expands our original square world—or the universe—to several times larger.

What are you talking about?

Huang (laughs) I'm talking about the perspective of angles.It generalizes our everyday world several times!You know, modern painting—and even modern photography—start from this new angle!A thing can not only be viewed from one side, but also viewed from above, below, obliquely, lying down or upside down!
Qi, what are you going to say?

Huang, I will say this!Perspective from new angles.Because of this new perspective, our world, and even the universe, suddenly expanded, becoming many worlds, many universes.

Qi Many Universes seems a bit unreasonable!
Huang At this moment, there is another universe outside my universe, another world outside my world, and another you besides the you I know!

Qi (suddenly realizes that Huang is talking about her) Come on, stop talking nonsense!
What I mean by Huang is: besides the you I know, I know another you—the Li Wenqi who I saw from the ladder and looked up from the ladder!

Qi (sorry) Don't talk nonsense like crazy!
Huang (Wang Qi) I speak seriously, why don't you believe me!

What if I believe it? (Playfully) You know that outside of this universe, there is no way to afford another one, what Li Wenqi sees from the ladder, what Li Wenqi sees from the ladder, and Huang Zhongwei who sits on the top of the ladder and talks crazy ! (laughs up)
Huang, look, look, I really hope you can see yourself from here at this moment, (excited) Someday I will draw a picture of you like this!

Qi, have you finished drawing?What's the fuss?come down.

Huang is easier said than done.My eyes are high and my hands are low, so I don't have the ability to draw such a picture of you!If I had this ability, I would no longer be such a dreamy little lunatic!

Qi, are you supposed to be a big lunatic?

Huang is not it?For the universe, for my own many worlds, I am a big madman who can really take a little responsibility!

Come down Qi, madman Huang, otherwise, I won't hold the ladder up for you!
Huang (turning around to get down, but speaking softly) Wen Qi, if I insist on the symbolic meaning of your words, what would you say? (Go down to the ground and look at Qi)
Qi what symbolic meaning?
Huang (holds Wen Qi's hands and looks at her opposite) No matter if I'm a madman or a little madman, dreaming of creating some kind of world on the top of the ladder, you hold the ladder for me and don't let me fall, okay?
Ki (good-natured and ironic at the same time) When did you become a poet?
Huang (sitting on the bottom step of the ladder with his hands down) Don't make fun of me, okay? ... You are a smart man, the cruelest thing in the world is a smart man laughing at a stupid man! (Looks up and smiles wryly at Wen Qi) Sometimes, you make me really feel like I'm worthless! (Takes out a cigarette from his pocket and sighs)

Qi (moved, approached Huang reluctantly, half-kneeling on the side of the ladder and asked Huang softly) Zhongwei, you, do you think I am a mean person?

Huang (scratches his head in confusion) You?You, a mean person?Wen Qi, why do you ask this?Don't embarrass me like this, miss!You know I can't... can't talk... literally can't talk!
Qi (stands up) Can’t speak, so stop it, okay?

Huang (also stands up, grabs Wen Qi by the shoulder and shakes her) You man!It really pissed me off!You...you don't know what I'm going to tell you?
Qi (playing yellow and a little scared) I, I don't know! (Get rid of Huang grabbing her hand)

Huang (chasing Qi) You... you bring your ear here, I must tell you—today!
Qi (twitching her ears playfully) Oh... I'm a little deaf!

Huang (grabs Qi's face and speaks loudly into her ear) I love you, do you know, Wen Qi?you know i can't talk...

Qi (pulls her lips and blushes, unable to speak for a long time) Then——how about it? (hides face with hands and smiles, wants to run)

Huang (grabs Qi and wants to put her hands down) How about it?Look at me...Qi look at me, let me ask you...don't be so awkward! (Embracing Wen Qi from behind) Let me ask your fourth child, you... how about you?
Qi (puts down her hands and turns to look at Huang, shakes her hair and smiles) I——I'm just a little confused!

Huang (happily) Fourth!I really... really... oh, (hides Qi's face in front of his chest and kisses Wen Qi's hair sentimentally) You, how can you make me more than a little confused?Little four!

Qi (leaning on Huang's chest with a naive smile) Zhongwei, I feel like crying a little bit. (Sobbing and laughing again) Tang Yuanlan suddenly broke into the room when the door opened.

What happened to Tang today? ! (Suddenly sees Huang and Qi, startled) Sorry, I was so happy that I forgot to open the door!

Zhong Wei and Wen Qi turned to look at Tang at the same time, and smiled at each other embarrassingly.

Qi (shakes her hair playfully and stubbornly) What does it matter whether you open the door or not?So what is the foreign school doing?

Tang (playing Wenqi) I don't know who was so foreign just now?Fortunately, it's me, not your uncle!
Qi (smiling) Brother Yuan, you are getting worse and worse! (looks yellow and smiles)

Isn't it Don? (Suddenly serious) The worst is yet to come, just wait and see!Wen Qi, when will your second brother arrive?

Huang (looking at his watch) A quarter past eleven.

Why did Tang make another trip late?

Qi, I also wondered. In the past, he was always in a hurry to come home when he was on vacation. Why has he changed in the past six months?

Tang (looks at the painting on the wall and the screen): Zhongwei, when did you paint these?
Painted by Huang?It's a scribble, I didn't sleep until midnight yesterday!

Tang Na is sweet hard work, the more you do it, the less tired you are, isn't it?

Mei Zhen entered, still returning to her usual vivacity.

Mei (looking at the painting, looking at Huang Tongqi) You just hung up such a painting?

Qi can not?How many more are there?
It would be great if Huang hung a picture!

Don, you don't know, Mei Zhen, you don't know how hard it is to hang a painting! (Wang Qi)

Mei (looks at everyone) Mr. Tang, you came so early!Didn't you say come early to help?

Tang, who can be as diligent as Mr. Huang, who wakes up in the middle of the night to do hard work!
Huang Laotang, be careful of me from today on!

Mei (hope they don't understand) Got it, stop arguing, Mr. Tang, now it's your turn to do some work, (holding up a bunch of little white films in your hand) Look, these films were originally for you to give Write it down. (put it on a small table)

Tang (looks at the small table) Isn't this all written?Mei, can't you? (Naughty) If we have to wait for someone, when will these things be over?Miss Si, do you see how nice this room is?
The third lady, Wenxia, ​​ran in. Wenxia was wearing a blue cloth jacket. She looked as clean as her mother, but she was stronger and taller than her mother.Although she is a woman and masculine, her innocence and childishness are no less than Wen Qi.Beauty-loving heart, stubborn ambition, and lofty ideals all seem to overflow from the brow.She thinks she loves human beings and is willing to serve the victims for human beings. In fact, she is a good child full of enthusiasm and ideals.She stretched the front antenna very far and far, but in fact she was still a child at school and at home.

Xia (excitedly) Who put the flowers in the dining room?Simply wonderful!

Everyone looked at each other.

Mei Zhen turned to tidy up the house in embarrassment.

Qi must be Mei Zhen! (mouths to Menu)

Xia, I thought it might be my mother—who would have thought of putting plum blossoms in that bottle!
Qi that black gall bottle?Not what Mei Zhen did. (to Mei) Mei Zhen, listen to our enthusiastic third lady!how?Is Mei Zhen "burning the plate"?

Huang Mei really looks like a director today!

Hey Xia, Mei Zhen, your organizational skills are very good, you can help our theater troupe tomorrow!
Come on May, come on, you are all joking!What kind of director is it, and the ability to organize it. After organizing for a long time and directing for a long time, I still can't get a star to do something serious in the morning!

Hello Huang, if I painted all night, does that count?Did you hang a famous painting this morning?

By the way, Mei, these two celebrities (referring to Huang Tongqi) almost didn't take up the entire scene in the time it takes to hang a picture! (Pointing to Tang again) That one over there, okay, I didn’t arrive until the end of the play!

Everyone laughed.

Tang, your swearing is really a bit like the tone of a great director. I really should go to Shanghai Film Company... Director Mei's fourth miss's love novel, third miss's masterpiece promoting humanity...

Xiameizhen, no matter how naughty you are, I won’t help you at night. I won’t talk to you about any social and economic issues you ask, lest you ridicule me to promote humanity!
Song Xiong came in, carrying many small colorful lanterns in his hand.

Miss Song Si, a row of lights are installed in the dining room, come and take a look!

Is Chian all right?So soon, let me see...

Qixia.

Huang, I will also go to see...

Exit Huang Suiqi.

Xia Songxiong!You are here, how is your shop?
Miss Song San, I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that you are always busy!Didn't you promise to visit my shop?You still have to look at what the apprentices eat, where they sleep, and how well I treat them. Why don't you come here all the time?

Xia (laughs) I'm sure to come in two days. If you mistreat the apprentice, I won't promise you!

(End of this chapter)