"Master, please don't be polite. If Miss Gong and the two heroes hadn't come to our aid today, we might not have been able to escape from those thugs."
Song Che quickly helped Gong Zhen up.
"Hey, Dad, he actually called me Miss Gong. I have never been called Miss in my whole life."
Gong Lingzhi blinked and said "Miss" to make her happy.
"Actually, we are not nobles or officials, we are just ordinary people," Lin Yue pursed her chest and said:
"As for me, I'm just a janitor."
She pointed at Song Che: "He is a trafficker and a pawn."
She then pointed at Shen Wenjun and Qin Ruo: "They two are weavers and embroiders. We are all members of the market, regardless of high or low."
At this time, I heard a woman laugh and say:
"If those who wear brocade and silk are all people from the market, then who are those of us who wear linen and cloth?"
A young woman in green clothes walked out of the pavilion. She was about thirty years old. Although she was not dressed in brocade and silk, she was indeed dressed in silk and satin. Although her appearance was not stunning, her temperament was quite charming. Her every step, every move, every frown, and every smile were all different. style.
Behind the young woman in Tsing Yi followed a young man in Confucian robes. She was twenty-seven or eighty years old, gentle, elegant, and quite mature.
Both the young woman in Tsing Yi and the young man in Confucian shirt are more "fashionable" than other actors.
"Qiao Qin, please pay a visit to some officials."
The young woman in green clothes bowed and asked with a smile: "I wonder where these officials came from? Why did they provoke those thugs?"
Some people are simple-minded, and some people are thoughtful. Gong Lingzhi is simple, but this Qiao Qin is meticulous.
From the perspective of the troupe, Song Che and the others are strangers, and there is no need to make enemies with a group of thugs for a group of strangers.
Song Che said calmly: "We are from Jiangnan. We passed by Jiangning before and accidentally provoked local tyrants and bullies. The thugs just now were the bullies' domestic servants."
Qiao Qin rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "There are too many bad people in this world. You have to be careful about everything, right?"
Song Che smiled and said, "You should be cautious when going out."
"Brother Lin, where are you going?" Gong Lingzhi suddenly asked.
I don't know whether it was because Lin Yue showed off her grace when she fought off the murderer, or because she was very attractive to girls. Gong Lingzhi was particularly fond of her, calling her "Brother Lin" every time, so affectionately.
"Are we?" Lin Yue glanced at Song Che and said, "We are going to the southwest to purchase goods and enjoy the scenery along the way."
"Then we have to go through Ezhou?"
"Yes, Ezhou is a big city. Maybe we will rest there for a day or two."
"That's good. Our team is going to Ezhou to perform. How about we go together?"
Gong Lingzhi invited excitedly.
It's naturally best to go with someone in the same group, lest the scarred face comes back to cause trouble again.
Song Che readily agreed.
Resting for a moment in the pavilion, they continued on their way. Song Che and the others stopped taking the carriage and followed the troupe on foot.
The "Xilai Ren" team is very famous in Hubei and Hunan. There are thirty-two people in the class, the youngest is only eight years old. You can often see them in goulanli and on the street, locking throats with silver guns, crushing rocks on chests, singing, Dancing, playing monkey...
In their words: "There is no job that cannot be done by those who eat this bowl of rice!"
If they lived in modern times, they could just start a live broadcast and do two technical tasks, and they could make a lot of money.
"Monkey, it's actually a monkey..."
But these two young men who had never seen the world were so happy that they kept teasing them around a cage of monkeys.
The status of the troupe may be low in contemporary times, but Song Che believes that their skills and the joy they bring to the audience are the most valuable spiritual wealth.
Gong Lingzhi was not acquainted with life at all, she was a girl who loved to laugh very much. Ever since Song Che and the others joined the troupe, she had been hanging around the four of them, always asking endless questions:
"Are all Jiangnan people as fair and handsome as you, Brother Lin?"
"I heard that you Jiangnan people have cat tongues. If you eat spicy food, it will burn you to death. Is it true?"
"I have followed my father since I was a child, traveling all over the country, but I have never been to the south of the Yangtze River, and I have never seen what the sea looks like..."
She is like a little village girl who came from the countryside and yearns for life in the big city outside.
In fact, businessmen and actors have many similarities. One travels all over the country to do business, and the other travels all over the country to make a living. There is no barrier to communication and they can chat together.
Through chatting on the road, Song Che also learned a lot about the theater troupe from Gong Lingzhi:
Gong Lingzhi started working as a street performer with her parents when she was five years old. She has gone through a lot of hardships from being a street performer to being in a big theatrical troupe today.
The young woman in green, Qiao Qin, whom I met earlier, turned out to be Gong Lingzhi's stepmother. She was a geisha, and later married Gong Zhen and became the boss's wife, managing the entire theater troupe together.
The young man in Confucian shirt is Da Lang. Together with Er Lang and San Lang, he is the adopted son of Gong Zhenshou. Da Lang was trained as a cashier because he was not suitable for practicing martial arts. He is responsible for the cashier of the entire theater troupe. He is the most educated person in the entire troupe. people.
"Brother Lin, you are going to Ezhou in the next few days. You are right... Ezhou City is renovating the 'White Crane Tower'. It will be completed the day after tomorrow. It will also coincide with the 50th birthday of the Ezhou Governor. Mr. Zhang will host a banquet at the White Crane Tower. Dear guests, our 'Xilairen' team has been invited to perform. At that time, all performances including speaking, singing, opera, music, and acrobatics can be watched for free!"
"Really?"
Lin Yue smiled and said: "Why do I feel that you, an entertainer, have more expectations than the spectators?"
Gong Lingzhi brightened his eyes and said with a smile: "That's natural. Being invited by the government to perform on stage is an honor for our troupe. If the performance is good, Mr. Zhang will be happy and we will gain a lot. Reward,"
Speaking of this, a trace of loneliness suddenly flashed in her eyes, but her joy rekindled for a moment, "On the day of the banquet, Dr. Zhang from Ezhou City will definitely be there. I made him happy and got a reward, so I can invite him I went to see a doctor for my father."
"Master Gong's illness is serious?" Song Che asked casually.
Gong Lingzhi nodded, feeling lonely again:
"When I was young, in order to support the family, my parents performed on the street in the wind and rain. They did some hard work that was harmful to the body, and the body suffered a lot of diseases. My mother was poor at the time and had no money to treat her illness. departed,”
She looked up again, full of hope and enthusiasm:
"Now that we have made it through, the income from one performance of the theater troupe is enough for us to have enough food and clothing. When dad's illness is cured by the miracle doctor, I will use the money I saved to buy him a small courtyard so that he can enjoy peace and happiness, hehe. "
A little longing, the most sincere love.
What a true, kind, filial, and beautiful girl!
