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Xiaoyaojin

Ye Guangqin

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Chapter 2 Xiaoyaojin

>> In his later years Daxiu has no relatives around her, and of course she has no friends at her age. She lives in a dilapidated courtyard, lonely and desolate, and her companions every day are the sparrows jumping up and down on the branches outside the window.

>> Unexpectedly, the big show left that night, quietly. I think she sent flowers to Uncle Qi and the others for me...

>> "Xiaoyaojin" is a tragic play, telling the story of Cao Cao intimidating Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Cao Cao entered the palace with a sword and beat the queen to death with sticks. He also poisoned the emperor's two sons, causing the emperor to tremble behind the dragon case and complain that he was a tiger that had lost its power, a lonely and resentful ghost, and the driver of the Yangtze River. The boat was beaten by wind and waves and could not return.

>> My father, whom I called Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, told me on the way home that this Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty could not sing well and could not pronounce words accurately. He was probably a garlic grower in Baodi County. Listen. The word "sui" in "Cats and mice follow each other" actually smells like JD.com's purple garlic. I asked my father to talk to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and replace the purple garlic with scallions next time. The father said, "It's useless. It was brought from the mother's womb."

>> My father said that the person who sang the Erhuang part of "Xiaoyaojin" the best was Mu Zhai. After Mu Zhai, no one could achieve the "impeccable" level.

>> Uncle Seven is very busy, busy with his birds and insects. The blue indigo chin he raised can call all ten tones, and if other people's can call all seven, it is a treasure.

>> The lying box is a low cabinet along the wall. There are clothes from all seasons in the cabinet, and there are piles of quilts on the cabinet. Northeastern people call it Kangqin.

>> The seventh uncle’s happiness principle is: fish tank, pomegranate tree, husband, fat dog, fat girl. This is actually the well-off life that old Beijingers longed for a hundred years ago. At that time, except for money, Uncle Qi was almost well-off in everything else.

>> Unfortunately, I have no son. She always felt guilty for this seventh uncle, as if she was entirely responsible for not being able to give birth to a son. The seventh uncle said, I don’t care if I have a son or not. Having a son may not necessarily mean you are blessed. Your parents really married you to a dungbag. Even if you raise seven or eight sons, you will still be dragging a bunch of sons around like a beetle. Drying excrement in the dung field outside Dongzhimen?

>> Grandmas also advertise, and there are certain regulations for advertising. A wooden sign is hung at the door, and the content is implicit and precise, "Quick horse and light carriage, × family collects and washes." "Quick horse and light carriage" not only refers to the speed of grandma's visit to the doctor, but also implies that the baby is delivered smoothly and quickly, unlike today's "painless delivery" and "quick abortion" on the telephone pole, which are as direct and so hot-blooded.

>> Grandma Zhuang said in the back room, it’s okay, the child in her belly stretched out one leg.

When the seventh uncle heard this, he panicked and said, this is a situation where the child is born against the will. Is there any way to save it?

? Grandma Zhuang said that it was a common thing. She just sent the child's legs back and recited "Da Sheng Bian" twice. She also asked the seventh uncle to lead the children away so as not to scare them. holding the children.

>> Qingyu has not studied for a day, but he is also proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. His ancient poems are in perfect rhyme, "Beixinqiao Dongzhimen, Jingniang sings in the dusk at dusk", although this kind of poem is by me My father said it was bullshit, but it was poetry after all.

>> The key is that they are not as elegant and graceful as Qingyu. In current literary language, they do not have the artistic sensibility and artistic expression of Qingyu. Not everyone has this kind of ability, most of it comes from innate ability, just like acting, there are many people who can do it, but not everyone can play the role.

>> That was the first time Qingyu showed his talent in our family. Later I found out that he was learning Qingyi from Boss Xing. Qingyu wants to become a disciple, but Boss Xing refuses to accept him. He knows the tempers of these young masters. When he is happy, he can't wait to sing to you all night long; when he is unhappy, he won't open his mouth even if he is hit. Most of the young men learn opera for the sake of fun, getting ahead, and spending money to buy their reputation, but few of them study it seriously. Qingyu, this kid, is said to be in pretty good condition, and he will be a good actor when he is about to make a career. It's a pity that he won't grow up. He is afraid of hardship and has too many ideas to teach him. Sure enough, after trying it a few times, it was awkward.

>> Qingyu said, Master, this is a play, not a painting mounted by a framer. If you say it needs to be dried for three days, it must be dried for three days. One less day for wrapping and one more day for cracks. This play has to be constantly perfected, constantly improved, and can withstand changes, that’s what it’s about!

>>? Boss Xing did not accept Qing Yu as his apprentice after all. He knew very well that the young master was just the young master and could not become an actor.

>> After leaving the capital, Erxiu lived a different kind of life. To put it bluntly, she was the wife of a sailor. However, he followed the local customs, and soon replaced the fried noodles with hot dry noodles, and ate the tofu skin as pancakes. I once took the children back to my parents' home. The children spoke Hubei dialect and could not say "you", but could only say "you". A bunch of little Nanman scared the seventh uncle's blue indigo chin into silence. Put away all the crickets. They don't drink soybean juice, refuse to stir-fry liver, hate fried liver, and curse fried tofu. In short, they are incompatible with Uncle Qi. Uncle Qi knows that these are not children of the Niu family or Beijing. His second show has been completely thrown into the Yangtze River. .

>> The Qiongban people in Beijing have always loved to put on a show. They have nothing to eat but a few plates of pickles.

>> When he learned that the grasshopper was acquired by the father and son in exchange for an acre and a quarter of a cemetery on the outskirts of the city, Daxiu almost lost his temper.

>> Just an ordinary grasshopper!

? Seeing the big show, he was not impressed by the grasshopper in his hand. The seventh uncle said to the big show, this grasshopper is not an ordinary grasshopper. It takes hundreds of years to encounter one. Look at its two big rams. Transparent!

>> Suddenly a question popped up in Qingyu. He said, Ama, the cemetery is sold, where will we be buried when we die in the future?

? The seventh uncle was also stunned. After thinking for a long time, he said, yes, where should we bury it?

>> My father said that it can’t be changed. Young Master Yangzi is Young Master Yangzi. You can’t expect Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to challenge Cao Cao.

>> What my father said about "Young Master Yangzi" makes sense. He didn't show up on time on the first day of work. I went to work at eight o'clock in the morning. It was ten o'clock before Qing Yu walked into the office with a small teapot and shook it step by step. He didn't admit it. He greeted everyone enthusiastically when he came in. "Where are you busy? I'm here. Where do I work?"

>> Uncle Qi said that I am the only one who can fly a kite in the courtyard. Others cannot do this, so they all have to find an empty spot and wait for the wind. That drama writer Kong Shangren, when there was no wind when flying a kite, he cursed the sky, "I hold a clue to scold God, because I owe my kite a five-foot wind." He was incompetent...

>> Uncle Qi said, Look, look, the dragon's big horns turn into honey twists!

? Qingyu said, Ama, we have never looked at the sky like this before.

? Uncle Qi said, God is always watching us from above.

>> Daxiu said, I don’t want to raise birds, it’s enough for me to raise you.

? Uncle Qi asked Daxiu how old he was, and Daxiu said, "Don't you know how old I am? How dare you ask me?"

? Daxiu heard his father say "Oh" and said nothing more...

>> Qingyu's handsome appearance attracted the attention of women, and also attracted the attention of men. In the complicated eyes of everyone, Qing Yu felt a little proud. Boss Xing reminded him to hold himself steady and told him that he was facing a pack of wolves. Qingyu said that he could tell that these wolves liked him.

>> When painting, Uncle Qi bent over his desk and faced the painting paper, concentrating on it, and then he picked up the brush and started to stroke, as if with divine help. Uncle Qi is a straightforward, innocent, carefree and optimistic person. Painting is just like his hobby of Peking Opera, tie-dying of kites, raising birds, playing with insects, and even wearing candied haws. They are all out of interest, a kind of fun, and a way of life.

>> Qingyu said, I am a bannerman, and bannermen are not allowed to be eunuchs.

? Yamaguchi said, your banner emperor is in the northeast, is there any difference from an eunuch?

? Qingyu stopped talking.

>> I imagined that scene, imagining the tragic scene of a helpless and innocent old man being kicked and beaten by the Japanese soldiers; a peaceful old man who loved birds, but he had no choice but to fight on his own territory. Someone who didn't offend someone got a beating for no reason, what's going on!

>> Uncle Qi said, if Japan doesn’t want to pay compensation, why does it want to beat people? He beats old people at a young age? Is this what Japan does? Does he have a father? What did his father teach him? He dared to hit his second uncle at every turn in Japan?

>> The seventh uncle is a man with children. When he dies, his direct blood relatives cannot come forward. Others cannot rush forward. Love returns to love and reason follows reason. The people of Beijing share this. Very clear.

>> He scolded Mr. Jun for his poor management,

? He shouldn’t have teased us good people.

? Emperor Zhengde responded:

? A good family comes to a good family,

? You should not wear begonia flowers on your head.

? Everyone loves it with a twist,

? The romance is in this flower...

> Looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as the sun rising. The morning glow; if you look closely at it, it will shine like a green wave from a flower.

>> You will live a free and easy life, a life worth living. In fact, people should live like you, you are the fairy of heaven. Compared with you, we are ordinary people, ordinary people who make life suffocating and have no future... Fortunately, we have made a friend like you in this life, which can bring some color to our gray days. I think Thinking of you, thinking of Qingyu, we will live comfortably again in the future. You sing "Xiaoyaojin" and I will play the strings for you... Mu Zhai, I let your birds go and let them love them. Go wherever you go!

Chapter 3 Three High Fives

>> My father and Wang Ama are classmates at Tokyo Imperial University in Japan. Both of them went to study abroad with long braids from the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, it is said that it should be sent abroad by the public. Both of them attended the Department of Literature. Wang Ama studied economics and financial management, while my father studied classical studies. They did not attend classes in the same classroom but stayed in the same dormitory.

>> The father did not learn from the Japanese to strip off his son's clothes, but from the Prime Minister Wang Yun of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Yun's daughter Wang Baochuan threw a colored ball and hit Xue Pinggui. Wang Yun disliked the poor and loved the rich, forcing him to When his daughter broke off the engagement, Wang Baochuan refused, so Wang Yun asked his daughter to take off her clothes and never enter the Wang family again. The father and daughter high-fived each other and vowed not to see each other again.

>> Take off the sun and moon dragon and phoenix jacket, and take off the mountain and river geography skirt.

? Two pieces of precious clothing came to Tuoding and were given to those who despised the poor and loved the rich!

>> My father inherited the title of Duke of Zhenguo from his grandfather, and was demoted to the next level. He was named "General Zhenguo", which was actually an empty title. As the son of a "gong", his father was destined to be idle and inactive, and he was destined to have little future in his career.

>> During a trip to France, Wang Limin brought back a head full of new ideas, and our fifth child brought back a set of bayberry sores.

>> Wang Limin likes to speak in a rhetorical tone, like to gesture, and likes to walk around the room while talking without stopping for a moment, like a wolf in a cage. My brothers don't like Wang Limin, saying that he is very smart and his understanding of the world is at the stage where he sees mountains instead of mountains and water instead of water. My father didn't like him either, saying he was too impetuous.

>> The "Internationale" that Lao Qi could not learn was learned by the janitor Lao Zhang. Just as Lao Qi only likes "the flowers bloom all over the field in May", Lao Zhang only likes "The Internationale" "Don't say we are worthless, we want to be the masters of the world."

>> Cheng Junjun said that war is also a profitable business, and you can make a lot of money!

? Wang Guofu said, yes, otherwise why are so many people not interested in doing anything else? He just loves fighting.

Chapter 4 Picking up a Jade Bracelet

>> I understand the loneliness and hardship of the younger generation's existence, and I also know their pressure and anxiety. Being cautious and picky in choosing friends, and rejecting the opposite sex make them choose another life style, which is simple but retrograde.

>> Ganqing is a man who eats tiles.

>> "The truth of the article is revealed in the character, and the storm comes when we are talking and laughing."

>> The jade girl first descended, offering auspiciousness and auspiciousness, the jade liquid flickered and gave off precious light, transcendent Thousands of flowers overwhelmed the crowd, and the old and young in the hall were very happy.

? There are many blessings, all the blessings come to you, and everyone offers auspicious words in unison. I wish her good health, good fortune and a long life.

>> When he is with Fifth Brother, he feels relaxed like a little bird, and carefree and carefree. The fifth brother took him to play, and he met the fifth brother honestly and talked about everything...

>> He is a sensible person, and he knows that he will not be He Hongxuan's "favorite". The beginning of a marriage is the end of another personal relationship. The broken clouds and remaining rain have turned into love on the road thousands of miles away, but what!

>> Popular songs have long replaced tunes and sanxian, and no one is willing to spend time to appreciate "To the east of the green building, the thin willows contain smoke, and the waves are shining; outside the remaining clouds, there are a few trees with the sound of cicadas, A piece of setting sun"

>> Passing through the mountains and forests, the wind is roaring, and the heavy rain is pouring on my head. I see a golden-scaled fisherman rowing his oar in a lonely boat.

Looking at the sky with lightning and thunder and sudden storm, he was so panicked that he went to the middle stream in the wind and rain. I couldn't care less about the fish in the village of Green Willow. I couldn't keep my eyes open. The rain covered my body and my raincoat was soaked through. I could see that the sky was connected to the water, and the clouds were so dense that it was difficult to distinguish the village shop from the forest hills. The wind and rain were blowing, and the smoke and clouds were gathering. We just arrived at the small beach. We hurriedly landed on the beach with fish and cables, and threw poles to tie up the solitary boat. I turned around suddenly, but I saw the little shepherd boy who was eager to take a nap. He was there in the rain, crying and looking for cows.

>> I asked my mother about this later, and she said that your father was so sad and resentful that he almost cried.

Chapter 5 Little Cattle Herding

>> The fishy smell of thousands of miles is like this"

>> The fifth sister said that she had carried out the "Four Cleanups" in Inner Mongolia, Wang Zhaojun Nominally he was buried in Hohhot, but he actually committed suicide by jumping into the river as soon as he reached Baotou. There is also Wang Zhaojun's tomb there. The reason why he jumped into the river was not because he couldn't get used to the mutton!

>> Beijing ridiculed the nouveau riche of the Qing Dynasty's court as "the new painting of a small house is not old, this person must be in the Ministry of Internal Affairs", which means that the upstarts are quick and flamboyant, but they are inferior to the current upstarts

>> Past The nursing homes are now called nursing homes, senior care centers, and "deep in the apricot blossoms." They have become places where only those with money can come. The nursing homes in the past were welfare units funded by the municipal government. As long as there was no one to support the elderly, they were welcome. You can live there without paying a penny, and the state will take care of the food and drinks. For example, the one where Zhang Anda lived, even the money for the coffin was provided by the nursing home.

>> She has a stubborn temper and doesn't feel aggrieved at all. In fact, no one gives her any trouble. It's her own fault.

>> "Anda" is the honorific title given to eunuchs by the people in the palace, and "An" is in it. It is pronounced with a falling tone, and the sound of "da" is pronounced softly. In film and television works, there are titles such as "Little Plum" and "Xiao De Zhang", which are only called by the emperor and the queen mother. The empress herself also had to address the honorable eunuchs as "a certain Anda". "A certain Anda" was similar to "a certain father-in-law". In the Ming Dynasty, "father-in-law" was often called "Anda", which meant a master. < /p>

>> During the winter solstice, the emperor will cook white meat in Kunning Palace to offer sacrifices to the ancestors. After the sacrifice, the white meat will be rewarded to the royal family members, so that everyone will not forget the hardships of the ancestors in war and the difficulty of starting a business.

>> p>

>> Concubine Jingyi lives in Shoukang Palace. The palace is sophisticated and deep. Jingyi has an indifferent nature, does not seek fame or fortune, and does not cause trouble. She has a good reputation in the palace.

>> Puyi once liked to ride around the palace. Once when he passed by Shoukang Palace, he heard playing and singing, and there was constant laughter, so he went in to take a look.

>> Our father said, You can be indifferent to others, but you can't be indifferent to Zhang Anda. Zhang Anda has a special status. He is sensitive and cares about other people's attitudes. You can't hurt his self-esteem.

>> He understood. The hometown with red peach blossoms and green willows that I miss in Shoukang Palace is all an illusion in "Little Herding Cows".

>> Like a potato, it goes in and out

>> When my father painted, Zhang Anda stood by and watched. The changed pens, clothing patterns, rat whiskers, large and small red hairs, etc. were handed over to my father accurately. This is by no means a day's work, not even our seventh child, who specializes in painting, can do it.

>> Mother said that this is the skill of eunuchs.

? My father said that this is understanding.

>> He was grateful for Wanyan's brother-in-law's help back then. If Wanyan Zhantai hadn't been so sincere and sent him money to Jinghai's house, how could his mother have survived and how would she have lived in the future? .

>> Wanyan’s brother-in-law practices qigong, makes elixirs, and takes Five Elements Powder. What he talks about is pure mind and few desires, embracing simplicity and returning to oneness. My fifth sister didn’t recognize this and said he was half crazy. The fifth brother-in-law wants to meditate every night, sitting there until dawn. Under the moonlight, walking towards the Big Dipper is so detached that it doesn't look like a mortal thing.

>> When Zhang Anda came to our house, he made sure to go to the fifth brother-in-law’s house to see if the fifth brother-in-law had any clothes that needed to be changed and bedding that needed to be unpacked and washed. He took them back and asked his wife to wash them. Starched, ironed and sent back. His wife from the countryside in Tianjin always thought of sending some fresh food to her old brother-in-law.

>> But after living the life of the head of the family, you can't break away from the palace routines and the shackles of habits. It's like peeling off a cooked rice dumpling. It still has the shape of a rice dumpling. Same.

>> Tingli is similar to rice but tastes different, and jade is similar but different."

>> The ghost market outside Chongwenmen has been around since before liberation and lasted until the late 1950s. , the location is near the flower market. The stalls are opened at dawn and people leave at dawn. No one can see who is buying or selling. Each stall is lit with a small lamp, and there is a cloth on the ground. It's called the "ghost market", also known as the "dawn market". There are stolen goods from thieves and treasures from down-and-out mansions. If you happen to be lucky enough, you can actually buy something good.

>> Her ex-husband who criticized her is finished. Yan Zhantai was a strange, eccentric, drunken man with no livelihood skills.

>> He took two small broken stones and asked my mother to send them together, saying that the stones came from Louguantai, Shaanxi Province. Guantai is one of the ancestral houses of Taoism. The stones I have heard from Lao Tzu’s teachings are not ordinary stones, but spiritual stones with immortality and Taoism. If you have such stones with your children, they will definitely have immortality and Taoism in the future.

>> He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and was a university student at that time, but his knowledge did not play any role in his life experience. If he eats today, he will never think about tomorrow. He told me that ambiguity is also knowledge!

>> Green vegetables, radish, brown rice, clay pot Tianshui chrysanthemum tea

>> I often think of "a drop of water should be repaid by a spring." "The words come. "Yongquan" seems too strong, too fast and too direct. Zhang Anda's reward is "I can't see the drizzle in the wet clothes, and listen to the silence when the flowers fall to the ground." It's like Xiao Bai Yushuang's slow singing, in the quiet night. There seems to be nothing, and it is like a wisp.

>> The good friend has not been repaid, and the hair on the temples has turned gray.

> > He is so lonely and eccentric, he really has a mentality of leaving the country.

>> Zhang Anda is very popular among people in the nursing home. He is hard-working, discerning and willing to help anyone. In front of others, Zhang Anda always puts himself at the bottom.

>> It seems that the ghost market's rhetoric is false and a cover-up. Zhang Anda is afraid of being exposed in front of outsiders. This is his lifelong purpose.

>> Zhang Anda said that "Little Cowherd" was a dream that he often dreamed about when he was young, but now he is awake all day long, let alone a dream. No more.

>> I noticed that at this moment Zhang Anda called me "girl" and no longer "gege". In other words, I was recognized in his heart. I feel gratified even now when I think about it.

>> My father said that Zhang Anda didn’t just send bowls, he just came here.

>> "Ci Lu" is the traditional rule of the banner people. When the elderly are old, while they can still move around, they go out for the last time to the homes of relatives and friends to reminisce about the past and talk about home affairs without talking about the past. If you say goodbye, avoid making the other person sad. But it implies an apology and a farewell, which means that we have been dating for a lifetime, and if there is anything I can't do, I hope you can understand and bear with me. Both the person who resigned and the person being resigned knew clearly in their hearts that this was the last time, they just didn't want to pierce the window paper.

>> I later learned that what Zhang Anda left in his old brother-in-law’s house was not peanuts or dried tofu, but money, the remainder of his life savings. Half of it was given to Zhang Yuxiu, the girl who was tortured by him without any regrets; the other half was given to my old brother-in-law and poor old friend Wanyan Zhantai from Tianjin.

>> History goes around like this, art goes around like this, life goes around like this, many things have changed, but one thing has not changed - the spirit.