Qiong Yin lingers

Chapter 2

Zhang Shennian took a peek at Meng Huaxiang, who was sitting upright, and begged in a low voice to let his wife go to Sanya with him to set up a stall: This is an era of rapid change, if you stick to your old ways, you will be eliminated by this society.In the early years, Qiongju opera was one of the favorite entertainments of the common people. From ten miles to eight townships, it was "the sound of gongs and drums in the ears, and the audience can be found in the theater". Dang, no longer the glory of the past.Going to Sanya to set up a stall may sound indecent, but the income is real.Meng Huaxiang got up suddenly and went back to the room, and closed the door with a "bang", Huang Simi trembled in fright and sneezed.Zhang Shennian hastily took out the brocade blanket and covered her body. Their singing voices are tools for eating, so they have to be well protected. If they catch a cold and hurt their throats, they will have to suffer.

Huang Simei took the blanket, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help admiring its excellent workmanship.Zhang Shennian secretly showed off to Huang Simi that this was a depiction of "Zhang Wenxiu" given by fans, and the characters in the painting were Zhang Wenxiu and the third sister played by the husband and wife.After hearing this, Huang Simi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: the number of people who like Beautiful Legend and Li Jin is the same as the number of people who like Qiong opera.

Erxian Ridge, also known as Erniang Jiufeng Mountain, has a beautiful legend: the evil crow spirit goes down the mountain every day to devour poultry, make cheap crops, and plunder young girls.After Erniang, a beautiful girl from the Li nationality, was plundered up the mountain, her sweetheart, Agui, went up to the mountain to save her on the third day of the third lunar month, and fought against the crow spirit. Unfortunately, she died in battle; The arrow shoots the crow spirit and eliminates harm for the people.After that, he went down the mountain and never married for life.In order to commemorate Erniang, the Li people named the cave occupied by Crow Jing as Erniang Cave, and Erxian Ridge was named Erniang Jiufeng Mountain for this reason.Every year on March [-]rd, unmarried young men and women of the Li nationality at the foot of the mountain will dress up and come here to gather, singing folk songs to find the person they like.This move gradually spread to other Li compatriot settlements, so "March [-]" became a grand traditional festival for Li compatriots on the island.

Huang Simei is not a native Russian sage, but she listened to her mother humming the little song of March [-]rd since she was a child, and she can also hum a few Russian folk songs casually.Staring thoughtfully at the Erniang Jiufeng Mountain on the Li Brocade, her frowning brows gradually eased: Since the people of Hainan have been fascinated by these folk songs since childhood, will Qiong Opera be more popular if it incorporates the folk songs and legends inherited from the local culture? welcome?For example, the arrangement of "Legend of Russian Xianling", which is dedicated to folklore, and the integration of local folk songs and local songs, will it be more popular with audiences than traditional scripts?
After all, in recent years, the performances of the major Qiong opera troupes have either been stereotyped plots of beauties and talents, family and country righteousness, or eye-catching edge-of-the-line adventures, which are quite far from ordinary people.The more Huang Simei thought about it, the more excited she became: Comrade Xiaoping once said during his southern tour that "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Can't it also become a "good cat"?
Listening to Huang Simimei's words, Zhang Shennian couldn't help nodding, but what he was thinking was: no matter how it is changed, Qiongju is over.Just looking at his beaming wife, he couldn't bear to pour this basin of cold water down.Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Huang Simi raised her eyebrows pretending to be angry: "In the early years, our Qiongju opera was difficult to be elegant, but even the 'Three Fathers' Opera' sung during the ritual activities of the Taoist dojo was not simple. Repetition, on the contrary, according to different rituals, we will continue to innovate when praying to the gods for blessings and thanking the gods. Now we have been to high halls and temples, but we are stuck in our old ways, which is really inappropriate!"

Zhang Shennian nodded perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, yes! Everything Madam says is right!" He already knew what he was thinking, and glared at him angrily: "Don't just think about going to sea. In order to keep the Dongfang Qiong Opera Troupe and the root of the Qiong Opera! Besides setting up a stall, you have to help me think about how to revitalize the Qiong Opera! Did you hear that?!" Huang Simei firmly believes that there is nothing in this world that does not start Ups and downs?The birds that fly in the sky don't always soar in the sky.If you just catch it with nothing, then Qiongju can only become silent day by day; but if you are willing to try to innovate, maybe one day it will be bright.She had thought about it, Meng Huaxiang was over fifty years old, and the group began to be unable to do what she wanted, and there was always one of them who had to stand firm.Right now, it seems that Zhang Shennian's diversion to the sea has achieved initial results, and naturally, she must provoke the mainstay of Qiongju.

Zhang Shennian pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Qiong Opera Troupe, it's good for grandma to guard by herself. You should think about how to persuade her to go to Sanya with me." Stay with the Qiong Opera Troupe.Because after he changed his career and set up a stall in the sea, his income was steadily rising. Not to mention anything else, he earned a total of 850 yuan in just over a month!Not only that, but he also met a good buddy Wang Yunfei. Under his guidance, I have also bought two whole buildings through revolving mortgage loans in the past two years!Meng Huaxiang worked all her life for the Dongfang Qiong Opera Troupe, and lost all her savings in the end. Now the tour in ten miles and eight towns is a loss-making business: the salaries of the troupe's 20 people are waiting to be paid every month, and the troupe's expenses are in deficit year after year .

With the rapid reform and opening up, Zhang Shennian was thinking about how to take Huang Simi out to make money faster, instead of staying at home. In order to impress her, he couldn't help but show off his experience of buying a commercial house and making a lot of money.When Huang Simei heard that he had bought a commercial house, she immediately turned dark: In Erxian Village, there is an unwritten tradition that if a family makes money, they will go home and build a building.The most powerful evidence for praising someone's child is promising is that he went home and built a building.Therefore, commercial housing is an unpleasant thing in the eyes of Orientals, and only fools live in that kind of cubicle.Seeing her nervous appearance, Zhang Shennian quickly sat up straight to appease his wife, and told her a lot of Wang Yunfei's trading experience in obtaining bank loans, mortgage of old houses for new ones, and so on.However, Zhang Shennian also thinks that real estate is really too crazy: the house bought at 1000 yuan per square meter last year has risen to 4000 yuan, and it is still skyrocketing now. Wang Yunfei said that this wave of market prices can reach more than 7000. My heart is also a little empty.

Looking at Zhang Shennian seriously, Huang Simimei couldn't help but speak, and persuaded him to stop quickly: "As sung in the Qiong Opera "Hate and Love", we young people should be down-to-earth, and we can't do things that are eager for quick success. Opportunists, otherwise, in the end, it will be nothing."

Seeing Zhang Shennian's indifferent face, Huang Simi had no choice but to sing an extra verse:
"As the old saying goes, nine deaths out of ten bets is a verdict. Guo Jinbao, he loses everything like a fire, his parents bury his parents in a new grave, and the casino sells his wife to make it shameful! The housekeeper is empty and cold, and only hears the sound of insects. , the flowers look sad to me, and the garden path is full of weeds. Recalling the day before yesterday, there was tea and wine like a cloud, and the four seasons of spring are happy and carefree; look at the present, who has pity on the ruined family, regret is too late and tears are swallowed."

Guo Jinbao in "Love and Love" is addicted to gambling and prodigal, sells his wife to pay off debts, loses real estate and houses, and this passage is about his annoyance after he fell down.Although Zhang Shennian is not a gambler, in Huang Simi's view, speculating in commercial real estate is no different from a big gamble: if you win a gamble, you will get a grand slam; if you lose, it will be too late to regret!
Zhang Chennian pondered for a long time, and nodded thoughtfully in response. He also thought about it, and when he returned to Sanya, he would sell the house first, and then concentrate on the local goods business: Last month, Wang Yunfei helped him find a few business mothers , these business mothers are very interested in the local goods provided by Zhang Shennian. With them joining, the pace of local goods entering the city can be accelerated a lot. The market has opened up, and the future is promising.Huang Simei was extremely stubborn, insisting that her mother-in-law and children could not stay in the country.Zhang Shennian saw that she was not good enough, so he had no choice but to give up persuasion, changed the subject, and chatted with his wife about the future of the Qiong Opera Troupe.

The two were chatting enthusiastically, when the voice of the brown picker came: "Sell brown!" Zhang Wenqian and Zhang Wenxuan ran out, muttering childishly that they wanted to eat zongzi, and Zhang Shennian was pranked. , I took out two food stamps from my pocket and gave them to the children, tricking them into buying zongzi with the food stamps.After a while, the two babies ran back crying, Zhang Shennian laughed and drove Zhang Wenqian to his neck, Huang Simi looked at him who was suffering from childish illness again, shaking his head and was speechless.The brown seller quickly peeled off the rice dumplings, and threw a small spoonful of sugar on the brown. When Zhang Shennian paid the money, he couldn’t help sighing that the price of rice dumplings had risen again. The brown seller began to complain endlessly: "Young people don’t know Firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, so what doesn’t increase in price now? Glutinous rice is expensive, firewood is expensive, sugar is expensive…”

Holding the zongzi covered with sugar in both hands, Zhang Wenqian and Zhang Wenxuan cheered and chased after each other.The oriental zong leaves, the leaves of wild pineapple and pandanus are used for the zong leaves, which have a special fragrance, which penetrates into the brown rice after being boiled for three to five hours: the soft magnetism of the glutinous rice combines the aroma of the zong leaves, plus The oil and water infiltrated by the pork belly, go down in one bite, fragrant, waxy, soft and mellow.Therefore, in the East, in addition to the fact that every family will tie rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are special brown sellers who carry the burden in the morning and evening and patrol the whole village to sell.In the era when 1 cents could buy 30 cassava cakes, rice dumplings sold for 5 cents, which is indeed outrageously expensive.Thinking of his wife and old mother, Zhang Shennian gritted his teeth and bought three more, and asked the rice dumpling seller to add a few spoonfuls of sugar.

Knocking on Meng Huaxiang's door with rice dumplings, Zhang Shennian still wanted to save the country, so he started to settle the accounts after handing over the rice dumplings. It was just that the rice dumplings had increased by another [-] cents, and the price of the black snapper fried at night had also doubled. double.Zhang Shennian repeatedly told Meng Huaxiang that this is an era of rapid change. Under the wave of reform and opening up, if we do not keep pace with the times, we will become like the grandparents in "Double Godson" Ridiculous.After hearing this, Meng Huaxiang threw the zongzi on the table, panting heavily and cursing violently.It's no wonder she was anxious to get angry. After Zhang Shennian became a loser, the Dongfangqiong Troupe now has no raw feet to replace him!His initiation into Qiongju opera was taught by his grandmother Zhang Lujin, and Meng Huaxiang always felt that he was ashamed of his mother's spirit in heaven.

No matter how fiercely Meng Huaxiang scolded, Zhang Shennian listened attentively, and in the end he would give some unreasonable solutions, such as not having raw feet?Just let Meng Huaxiang arrange old dramas, old dramas, and excerpts. For example, no one will watch them?The tour is simply to perform in Erxian Village for free and not to go out to reduce expenses... Hearing his thoughts, Meng Huaxiang became more and more angry, pushed him out of the door and closed the door casually.

Zhang Shennian sighed helplessly, he could only discuss with Huang Simimei, the two soldiers split into two groups, he continued to set up a stall in Sanya as a spoiler, and she stood firm in the east to protect the Dongfang Qiong Opera Troupe.When the rooster crowed the next day, Zhang Shennian hurried to the nearby villages.Zhang Shennian is still at the earliest primitive stage of collecting soil and goods: asking from door to door.The first day I came to the door to ask what was planted, the estimated output, and after negotiating the price, I agreed to send a car to pick it up the next day.Because the east is located in the tropics and has a pleasant climate, the varieties planted in the village are very similar in the season.So after walking for a day, Zhang Shennian can always collect a whole truck full of local goods from various fields.At the same time, you can collect all kinds of conch that the villagers came back from the sea that day.Among them, the anchovy snail won Zhang Shennian's heart because of its long-lasting life, good taste, and large daily digging volume.

On the next day, Zhang Shennian took a small truck and ran around the neighboring villages all day.At dusk, following a truck full of sand melons, pink sweet potatoes, new rice and snails, I went back to Erxian Village in a hurry, waved goodbye to Huang Simei, and rushed to Sanya with the car.Thanks to the Shilu coal mine transportation, there is a green leather train to Sanya in the east, but the comfortable train only runs at [-]:[-] a.m. a day.Although the snails are covered with sea mud, they are resistant to release, but the shorter the time, the fresher they are, so Zhang Shennian chose to hire a truck and rushed to Sanya overnight.

Zhang Wenqian and Zhang Wenxuan watched Zhang Shennian leave reluctantly, and the one yuan they held in their hands suddenly became stale.Zhang Wenqian asked in a childish voice with her mouth flattened, why Dad can't be at home, Huang Simei kissed her daughter on the cheek, and could only tell the child: "Is Dad going to earn a lot of money to buy toys for them and send Anon to study abroad? "Nowadays there is an upsurge of studying abroad, and Huang Simei is thinking about sending her children abroad in the future.Nai Tuanzi didn't know what studying abroad was, so she just took it as a good thing and agreed, "Okay! Studying abroad, singing!"

Huang Simi looked at the truck that was drifting away, and then looked down at the pair of young children, feeling a sense of melancholy spreading in her heart.In order to protect the treasures handed down by the ancestors, not only the husband and wife have to live in different places, but even a pair of children cannot fully enjoy the love of their father.I don't know whether such a choice is right or wrong?The only answer to her was the sound of the wind in her ears, and her hair fluttering in the wind.Perhaps, time will give all the answers.

(End of this chapter)