moonlight in front of the window

I really want to live a peaceful life for a few days. "

"Alright, you and Xiaoyun are just newlyweds, so you shouldn't be with the theater troupe and live this kind of wandering life." Zhang Xiaochun put down the notebook in his hand, put his cheek on one hand, and teased Tao Xiaoting with a half-smile. After leaving, what do you want to do in the past?"

"Do some small business." Tao Xiaoting lowered his head and smiled, "I don't dare to ask for anything extravagantly in troubled times, I just want to be safe."

It turned out to be a farewell, Tong Xiaoliu suddenly felt a little sad, and in a blink of an eye, they would go their separate ways, if he was still alive...

Unfortunately, looking at his translucent body, Tong Xiaoliu could only sigh regretfully.

"A lot of things have happened in these years" Zhang Xiaochun

He raised his head slightly, as if recalling the past, his expression returned to normal after a few changes, and he even showed a smile, "Fortunately, I have made it through now."

"Neither you nor Xiao Yun have any elder relatives alive, the previous wedding was held in a hurry." Zhang Xiaochun got up, and then took out a wooden box from the cabinet behind him, "However, since you two called me senior brother, I can be regarded as a Half an elder, these should be my dowry gifts."

"Brother, you..."

Zhang Xiaochun waved his hand, and directly interrupted Tao Xiaoting's words, "Take it, you will always need this money, live your daily necessities well."

Tao Xiaoting took the box, looked at Zhang Xiaochun, and couldn't help but ask, "Senior brother, have you ever thought about doing something different?"

It seemed that Tao Xiaoting did not expect such a question. After a moment of silence, Zhang Xiaochun replied, "This theater troupe used to be the most important thing for Master, and I can't leave it alone."

"Brother, is it really worth it?"

Zhang Xiaochun was silent. If it was a few years ago, he would have answered "It's worth it."

And now...

Zhang Xiaochun replied softly, "I don't know."

He didn't know if it was worth it, they had already paid too much in order to keep the troupe, and now, there was no turning back.

and so……

"It can only be worth it..."

Tao Xiaoting knows better than anyone how difficult it is to re-operate the theater troupe that has nothing left.

When he bowed his head in silence, he suddenly saw the pastry on the plate. Is that peach cake?

Tao Xiaoting said tentatively, "Brother, haven't you given up looking for him?"

Zhang Xiaochun didn't say anything, it was a tacit consent.

"Things have passed for such a long time, and there is no news of Little Sixth Brother." Tao Xiaoting hesitated a few times, but still expressed his thoughts, "You should stop getting hopeful."

Is Xiaochun looking for him?

Tong Xiaoliu lost his mind for a moment, and this was the first time he heard news about himself from them after returning to the theater troupe.

Facing the bright moon outside the window, Zhang Xiaochun said softly, "Whether it is life or death, there must be a result."

There will be no results, Tong Xiaoliu murmured, even though no one would hear it.

He sang a church thousands of miles away from them, and then became a cold corpse.

His body was pushed into the fire, turned into smoke and dust, and there was no name anymore.

Zhang Xiaochun's search is destined to have no possibility of getting results.

Tao Xiaoting sighed and said nothing more.

In troubled times, living is not easy at all, he really couldn't understand Zhang Xiaochun's paranoia, whether it was towards the troupe or Tong Xiaoliu.

"The theatrical troupe will leave here tomorrow morning, so let's skip the farewell. Xiaoyun's tears are too shallow, not suitable for that kind of scene." Zhang Xiaochun added with a smile, "It's not like we'll never see each other again, and don't make it look like parting. Like."

"Yes" Tao Xiaoting clasped his fists together and gave a peer salute to Zhang Xiaochun, "The day of reunion will not be far away, senior brother, take care."

This kind of farewell has a bit of a quack air, Tong Xiaoliu secretly thought.

10.0

There are rumors in the market that there is a famous opera singer from Beiping, whose surname is Zhang.

You have to have a voice, you have to have a good appearance, as long as you can tell the scene, no one can do it, the seats are full, and it is hard to get a ticket.

And after the play is over, this boss Zhang always asks the little apprentices in the garden to buy two peach cakes, without exception.

At the same time, this Boss Zhang will not stay in a certain place for too long. He is wandering with the troupe, without a fixed residence, as if he is looking for something.

Tong Xiaoliu followed Zhang Xiaochun's troupe around like this, but he seemed like a complete outsider.

Until one day, Zhang Xiaochun, who revisited his hometown, met another old friend when he visited Tao Xiaoting and Chen Xiaoyun.

Chen Xiaoyun pointed to the distance and asked, "Senior brother, look, isn't that person Luo Yueyue?"

"Luo Yueyue" Zhang Xiaochun couldn't help frowning, "Didn't she become the handsome concubine, how could she be reduced to such a state?"

Tong Xiaoliu looked at the haggard-faced woman not far away, but he really couldn't connect her with the bright and charming top oiran in his memory.

"What's so strange about this? In troubled times and turmoil, the position of an officer is not so safe and easy to sit in." Chen Xiaoyun said casually, "After the commander-in-chief fell, she has no backing."

"She doesn't seem to be doing well?"

"Falling in color but loving, how can life be so easy?" Chen Xiaoyun sighed, but there was no trace of sympathy in her tone, "Oh, senior brother, why are you going?"

Regardless of Chen Xiaoyun's obstruction, Zhang Xiaochun approached Luo Yueyue and asked tentatively, "Miss Luo?"

"Zhang Xiaochun" Luo Yueyue recognized her old friend at a glance, and at the same time she was surprised, she also put on an extremely vigilant look, "What do you want?"

"I have no malice." Zhang Xiaochun hurriedly explained, even though it was not convincing at all, he seemed to think of something, took out a few silver dollars from his pocket and handed them to Luo Yueyue, "Girl, take it."

Luo Yueyue didn't reach out her hand, and said hesitantly, "What do you mean?"

"It's not easy in troubled times, and we are old acquaintances with girls." Zhang Xiaochun said, "I don't have any other intentions."

"You really don't hate me." Luo Yueyue continued to ask.

"The girl fell in love with me at the beginning, it was a precious emotion." Referring to the past, Zhang Xiaochun looked as usual, and his words were sincere, "Even if you don't like it in your heart, you should respect and thank you, and you shouldn't speak rudely. After all, I have something to say." Wrong first."

Occasionally, he would also regret it. If he had treated each other kindly at the beginning, wouldn't there be many entanglements later?

Unfortunately, no if.

"Many, thank you..." Luo Yueyue seemed relieved, but immediately lowered her head after receiving the silver dollar, refusing to say anything more.

"Look, Xiaoyun, what I just said is very clear. I don't blame her, but she still treats me like a snake." Zhang Xiaochun looked at the back of Luo Yueyue leaving in a hurry, and sighed again " She doesn't want to see me."

"It can be seen from this that people really can't do bad things." Zhang Xiaochun concluded solemnly, people who are obviously close to their forties still look childish.

Chen Xiaoyun, who is already a mother, looked at Zhang Xiaochun with a bit of resentment, "Senior Brother, she hurt you so badly before, you must forgive her, right?"

Zhang Xiaochun continued to laugh, neither agreeing nor refuting.

"Anyway, you are penniless now, what should you say as a meeting gift for my child?"

Chen Xiaoyun changed the subject and asked another matter.

"This, why don't you owe it first?"

"Come on less," Chen Xiaoyun directly shook her head and refused, "Who knows when you will come back next time?"

Listening to the two people's quarrel and amusing, Tong Xiaoliu couldn't help showing a smile, just when the two were about to leave, Zhang Xiaochun suddenly turned around and looked at the direction Luo Yueyue left, his eyes were calm and unwavering.

After all, what Luo Yueyue is doing now and what will happen in the future has nothing to do with him, and they may never have any intersection again.

So good.

Tong Xiaoliu watched everything in front of him silently. Of course, he could only be silent.

Today's events made him feel that senior brother Xiao Chun, who had always been willful and reckless, had really grown up, but seeing the daily bickering between him and Xiao Yun, it seemed to be the same as before.

Whether it is him, Zhang Xiaochun, Tao Xiaoting, Chen Xiaoyun, Luo Yueyue, or even that Adjutant Lin who made a deal with him.

Which one of these people is living a life that is truly satisfactory?

In troubled times, who is spared?

It's nothing more than taking one step at a time.

26, the year of Ding Chou, the [-]th year of the Republic of China.

"Donate it." Zhang Xiaochun waved to the guy in charge of the accounts under him. "It just so happens that I also plan to take a break from the theater recently. You keep some to meet the troupe's daily expenses, and donate the rest."

Looking at the gloomy dark clouds in the sky, Zhang Xiaochun slowly said, "In the face of national crisis, we should do our best."

Later, the battle was won, but the civil war began.

After the Civil War ended, the revolution began again.

But fortunately, Zhang Xiaochun just stopped playing for a while because of his previous contribution to supporting the War of Resistance.

In [-], the year of Bingwu.

Zhang Xiaochun, who has passed the age of hearing, handed over the theater troupe to his apprentices, and embarked on a journey alone.

It is not appropriate to say that he was alone. It should be said that he thought he was traveling alone. After all, there was a ghost accompanying him.

It was a journey of searching that was destined to be fruitless.

Tong Xiaoliu saw it clearly, but couldn't

Tell even a few words.

They are so close, yet separated by the furthest distance in the world.

life and death.

Later, later, the real peace and prosperity finally ushered in.

At this time, Zhang Xiaochun was already a gray-haired old man. Although he had never married, he had taught several good apprentices, so he would not be miserable in his later years.

Zhang Xiaochun has stopped searching, or in other words, he can no longer continue, his daily life is nothing more than listening to