moonlight in front of the window

Telling someone else's story.

"When I was eight years old, the plague was raging, and my father wanted to drive up the price of medicine. A man who killed his wife and children broke into my house, killed my father, my servants, and lit a fire to burn everything clean. net."

"I was not at home, so I escaped a catastrophe." Tong Xiaoliu rubbed the edge of the plate lightly, with a bit of relief on his face, "This is the first time I tell you these things, and it will also be the last time. After you listen, Just forget it, it’s not that you don’t want to tell it, it’s just that the stories in troubled times mostly look the same, and if you tell them too much, it will be boring, do you understand?”

"Didn't you think about taking revenge?" Zhang Xiaochun asked, his voice hoarse because he hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Revenge? To whom? That person also died in that fire." Tong Xiaoliu repeated Zhang Xiaochun's words, and the gentle eyes in the past revealed a trace of confusion at this moment. "Sometimes I also thought, if that person didn't It's good to die, I can find someone to hate, have a goal, and I won't live so helpless."

Zhang Xiaochun frowned, but didn't speak.

"You know almost everything that happened after that. I was wandering alone, and you brought me back to the theater troupe. I learned my skills from my master. I came out of the shadow of the past little by little, and slowly started a new life." Tong Xiaoliu sighed,

Continue to say, "I just want to tell you that the master passed away due to illness. We have done our best, but the destiny is like this, and we can't blame others. You can be sad, or you can be sad, but you still have to look forward."

For a moment, the atmosphere between the two was too silent.

Tong Xiaoliu put the packed peach blossom cake aside, then forcefully pulled Zhang Xiaochun closer to him, and pressed his head on his shoulder.

Zhang Xiaochun didn't even have time to make a move, and when he realized it, he and Tong Xiaoliu were already hugging each other, so naturally there was no need to resist.

After a while, Tong Xiaoliu felt that his shoulders were wet, he hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his hand to rub Zhang Xiaochun's head.

He had drifted for so long before he finally escaped from the scarlet sea of ​​flames in his dream. Now that Xiaochun is in it, everyone in the theater troupe is an inducement to fall in love with the scene, so why...

"Come with me, leave here, go to Tianjin" Tong Xiaoliu said in a mysterious way, "When you arrive in Tianjin, I will support you by singing."

"Don't go." Zhang Xiaochun's voice was muffled, but he refused simply and neatly. "This troupe is left by Master, so we must guard it."

"Okay." Tong Xiaoliu replied without the slightest hesitation, "Then I will stay with you forever."

Forever and forever, such words are too beautiful, but also too illusory, and all he can grasp is the present moment.

So, his companionship promises 'always', to do the best he can.

The next day.

Encoffining, awakening the spirit.

Funeral, road sacrifice.

buried.

Backstage of the troupe.

Tong Xiaoliu was busy arranging things for the opera, when he looked up, he saw Tao Xiaoting approaching.

"Where's the elder brother?"

"Xiaochun?" Tong Xiaoliu thought about it for a while, and then answered, "I should be in the room now, why, can I ask him for something?"

"Yesterday..." Tao Xiaoting hesitated several times, but still opened his mouth to explain, "I heard what you said yesterday when you and your elder brother were keeping watch."

"Oh." Tong Xiaoliu understood, but he didn't stop what he was doing. He glanced sideways at him and asked, "So, is it surprising?"

"Not really." Tao Xiaoting replied with the same smile, "The people in our theater troupe, except Senior Brother Xiaochun, who was picked up by Master and raised by his side since he was a child, none of the rest of us have an old story. ?”

Tong Xiaoliu nodded in agreement.

Tao Xiaoting suddenly withdrew her smile, looked at Tong Xiaoliu and said very seriously, "I want to talk about another thing."

Tong Xiaoliu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Tao Xiaoting, finally put down the object in his hand, suddenly laughed happily twice, and said in a low voice, "Did you see it?"

The words were a bit thoughtless, but the people who spoke and the people who listened knew it clearly.

Tao Xiaoting looked at Tong Xiaoliu who was smiling gently, and couldn't help frowning and asked, "Brother Xiaochun, when did you have such thoughts?"

"It was a long time ago." Tong Xiaoliu raised his head, as if he was recalling something, "It was long before you and Xiao Yun entered the troupe."

In fact, even now, Tong Xiaoliu himself can't tell what his feelings for Zhang Xiaochun are, so it's hard to describe them in words.

The baptism of the years is enough to make all emotions blur its original boundaries.

"Brother?" Tao Xiaoting hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Are you serious?"

"Nature is serious."

"That's good"

Tao Xiaoting breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had finally let go of the big stone in his heart, "I was worried before, if you two were hurt because of this, and if you broke up completely, who should Xiao Yun and I go to help? It's reassuring."

Tong Xiaoliu couldn't help joking, "You kid thinks long-term."

"That's right, it's useless to think too much, let's take one step at a time." Tao Xiaoting turned his head to look at the black clouds in the sky, and said worriedly, "

Look at the weather, it's going to rain again. "

"

It will always be sunny," Tong Xiaoliu replied, not knowing whether he was talking about the weather or the days after the theater troupe.

In short, no matter the troupe's life in the future or their future, we must always look forward.

No matter how many times the day will be overcast and how long it will be dark, there will be a sunny day.

He, they, will always wait until that day.

5.0

In 18, the year of Jisi, the [-]th year of the Republic of China.

But after a few years of hard work, Zhang Xiaochun can be regarded as a real actor now, picking up a class and singing, and others have to call him Boss Zhang.

Theater backstage.

Zhang Xiaochun, who was still putting on makeup for the show, had a cold expression, with a displeased expression, "This is the backstage, and idlers are not allowed to enter."

Manager Xiaowan smiled and explained to Zhang Xiaochun in a low voice, "Jiaoer, this is a guest from Peiping, a wealthy businessman in the jewelry business, Boss Lin."

Zhang Xiaochun frowned, although he didn't get angry again, he still spoke with dissatisfaction, "If you want to listen to the play, there is a private seat at the front, what are you doing backstage?"

"Boss Zhang" Wu Fushang snatched Xiao Wan's words and said with a smile, "When I was in Peiping a few years ago, I heard your song "A Dream in the Garden". I can listen to it one more time."

"That's really not a coincidence." Zhang Xiaochun turned his head with a smile that was not a smile, and looked at the two of them. Half of the makeup and half of the face seemed to have a strange sense of beauty. ", I pretended to be Concubine Yu, and I couldn't sing Du Liniang."

"The two masters are laughing at you, let's invite you outside." Xiao Wan helped to laugh, and led the two of them out of the backstage.

"At first, I wanted to invite Boss Zhang to sing a concert, but now it seems..."

Hearing the regret in Wu Fushang's words, Xiao Wan hurriedly helped to smooth things over, "You can't say that, come to this small garden to listen to the opera, it's more lively than the hall at home, don't you think so?"

"You two, please, please."

Boss Lin, who had never spoken all this time, suddenly pointed to the person walking out from the side curtain, and asked, "Who is that?"

Xiaowan glanced at it, and quickly explained, "That one is also a well-known singer in Beiping, named Tong Xiaoliu. If Mr. Lin also wants to invite someone to sing, you might as well consider inviting him."

Boss Lin nodded knowingly, but smiled without saying a word.

After the show.

Zhang Xiaochun washed off her make-up, and finally saw Tong Xiaoliu who hadn't seen him all night in the background, and asked, "I didn't play with you today, where did you go crazy?"

"One family hired a daughter and invited me to sing at the church, and gave me a lot of money." Tong Xiaoliu replied with a smile.

Zhang Xiaochun frowned after hearing this, and said dissatisfiedly, "No, you won't do anything else?"

"I can still choose cakes, this is the peach blossom cake bought in the newly opened store." Tong Xiaoliu handed Zhang Xiaochun an oiled paper bag, and joked with a smile, "Brother Xiaochun has worked hard, come and try it. "

"You are simply..." As if he had punched the cotton directly, Zhang Xiaochun didn't know how to get angry when he saw the smiling face of the person in front of him.

Xiao Wan, who pushed the door open, eased the embarrassing situation.

"Jiao'er, this is Mrs. Kuo who invited you to sing, Miss Gui, come and take a look." Xiao Wan handed him a stack of photos "Not to mention, this Miss Luo is really persistent, but she keeps asking I have been with you for seven days."

"Let's say no."

"Zha..." Xiao Wan readily agreed, and didn't try to persuade him much, as if he was not surprised.

After Xiao Wan left, Zhang Xiaochun continued to quarrel with Tong Xiaoliu which was impossible.

No matter what Zhang Xiaochun said, Tong Xiaoliu answered with a smile, as if coaxing a coquettish child.

In the end, it was Tao Xiaoting who tried to smooth things over with a smile, trying to quell this one-sided war, "You are a senior brother, you have to let him go."

Chen Xiaoyun also hurriedly chimed in, "Yes."

"Always let him, when will he grow up?"

When Tong Xiaoliu heard this sentence, he just laughed out loud, and after getting Zhang Xiaochun's eyes, he quickly restrained his expression.In my heart, I silently slandered, "I don't know who the one who didn't grow up is."

Fortunately, this bickering is over.

In the end, I still have to talk about business.

Tong Xiaoliu warned, "This Xiaowan doesn't seem to be a kind person, will it be a bit..." to cooperate with him

"We haven't established a firm foothold here yet. Although this Xiaowan is not a good person, he still has some business contacts. If he is around, some things will be easier to do." Zhang Xiaochun put down the tea in his hand and explained to Tong Xiaoliu. interests" and