Gone Water Lane

He couldn't find Fucheng.

The class leader saw that the sixth master of the Ye family was coming, so he quickly called Qian'er, and followed behind with a wry smile, explaining that the second master Cheng held a church meeting today, and asked the entire Jichun class to go by name, there was no reason to refuse, the person he was looking for was natural Also not there.The first troupe in the capital is going to Shanghai, and their operas can’t be heard in Beiping. Cheng Jiacheng, as the number one opera idiot in Sijiucheng, let them sing the last time at his home, so that the whole of Beiping Fanciers heard it all.

"It's a matter of course, and we can't refuse it. It's just that Liu Ye came to the class to find someone in person on this festival. I'm sorry that I missed your business." The class leader apologized beside him.

Ye Xuantang stood in the hall, his anger gradually calmed down.Yes, as it should be.Now that Fucheng has joined the team, he should naturally follow along. Now he is only absent for a while, and it's not like he can't be found again, so why should he be so panicked and angry.

He said to the class teacher: "Please find a piece of paper, I will leave a letter and leave immediately."

At first, the class leader saw Ye Xuantang's menacing approach, and his face was actually not very good-looking. He raised his eyes to see that things had turned around, and was overjoyed. He hurriedly said, "Success, I'll order someone to find it for you right away."

Ye Xuantang only wrote a few lines, folded the paper and handed it to class leader Ji Chun who was waiting at the side, "Fucheng is back, please leave it to him."

The class leader nodded and said yes.The two exchanged a few words of greeting, Ye Xuantang raised his foot to leave, the leader of the class was also a bannerman, had received a lot of support from the Ye family, and wanted to make a solemn old gift to the man in front of him, but he raised his hand to stop him.Ye Xuantang smiled and said, "I might not see you in the future. Just send it here, you can go back."

What he wrote in the letter was the date he agreed to go to Shanghai, which was just three days later, one day earlier than Ji Chunban.In fact, at the beginning, he didn't think of leaving so early, and he didn't even want to leave so decisively, but the sudden marriage contract disrupted his plan, he wanted to escape, but he couldn't find it in Fucheng, so he panicked all of a sudden.

He sat in the car, closed his eyes, inhaled and exhaled long.But I felt that what I inhaled seemed to be turned into lead lumps, sinking straight down from the trachea, blocked in the chest and lungs and unable to breathe out.Finally he couldn't take it anymore and opened his eyes.

This matter cannot be delayed.

That night, Ye Xuantang returned home and went to bed early.Seeing that the lights in Liu Ye's courtyard went out, the little girl who reported the news trotted straight to the front yard, whispered a few words in Niu Hulu's ear, stepped back and closed the door sensibly, and stood guard outside.

Niu Hulu looked at the people standing in the middle of the small hall and slowly laughed.She always smiles before saying anything, making the people who talk to her feel like a spring breeze: "I called you back today because it's not a big deal, so don't be restrained."

Fu Cheng, who had just been passed over, lowered his head, unable to see the expression clearly on his face.He saw Ye Xuantang's letter, and also guessed what the lady in front of him was going to say to him.According to the old rules, he should answer, but he just stood there and didn't say anything.

Niu Hulu was not angry, looked at Fucheng who was wearing a long robe and sighed, "Are you blaming me for sending you into the troupe?"

He will finally speak. "Fucheng didn't dare, if it wasn't for Fujin taking him in, Fucheng would have died on the day, not to mention you said back then that I would join the theater troupe after I finish my studies, it's only natural to do so."

These words did not exceed her expectations, and Niu Hulu nodded: "Yes. I remember that it was the 19th year of the Republic of China, and there was a flood in Anhui, right? You, a child, went from Anhui to Beijing alone, When I found our mansion, he was kneeling at the door, saying that he was defecting to my uncle. I didn’t believe it at first, but Lao Fu personally came to recognize him.”

"The redundant servants were sent away as early as the New Year of the Xinhai, and the only ones left are your uncle Lao Fu and the porter Lao Zhang, both of whom can make a scene. The Ye family loves to sing two songs from the old and the young. In other words, there is a small theater meeting every now and then, and the master will not keep them if they don’t know how to do it. I said at the time that there are no idlers in the house. If you want to stay, you can learn a craft from your uncle and grow up. Even if you are not at our house, you can earn a living by going to an outside theater troupe."

Fucheng still stood there, not moving or speaking, tall and straight like a small poplar tree, or a strong bamboo.People from the opera industry are less fat and less ugly, they should be so beautiful, but it seems that they shouldn't be so beautiful.Niu Hulu stayed silent, and only quietly looked at the silent young man in the hall, thinking in his heart.After all, it is from a humble career, if you don't deceive yourself, you must deceive others.

"At first I wanted to keep you in the mansion, but I didn't expect that you and Lao Liu..."

Niu Hulu finally opened his mouth, sighing slightly in his heart.Saying this is far easier than she imagined. She thought it would be embarrassing, but the respect and sense of responsibility as the mistress made her awe-inspiring, and the rest will come naturally. She said it very happily: "The sixth child looks To be honest, in fact, the mind is so active that it is not easy to worry about. At first, he insisted on going to the theater troupe to sing and act as a role, which made his Ama dizzy for a while, and then said that he would move out of the house to live alone. He is a fourth child who can't control himself. Later I realized that his hysteria is not for others, but for you."

As if being pricked by a needle, Fu Cheng raised his head abruptly, his expression turned ugly.Niu Hulu avoided his sight, did not make trouble as he expected, but took out a few banknotes, put them lightly on the table, and smiled wryly: "In any case, you and our family have been in love for several years. I was actually relieved to be leaving, and I was even more reluctant. You take this little money, and treat it as a little bit of love from the mistress."

"Fucheng dare not accept it." He said almost without thinking.

"I'll take it for you!" Niu Hulu pushed the money to the front of the table, "Life in Shanghai is not easy, it's always better to have more money on hand." Fucheng refused again and again, but still accepted it.He comforted himself in his heart that he didn't care, but Xuan Tang had always had the temperament of a son of a son, and the money in his hand was spent like water, so he should accept it for him.

Niu Hulu looked at him and smiled as if a little sad.She personally sent him out, and sent someone to watch him get on the road to the south, and then came back when he disappeared.She also asked the servant girl to look at Ye Xuantang's yard without any movement for a whole night, to make sure that he really didn't know what happened to Fucheng, so she was a little relieved.

Niu Hulu's family in Fucheng believed that she had exhausted her benevolence, and she was equally confident in Ye Xuantang's side.On the day that Lao Liu and Fucheng had agreed upon, she called him to her yard early in the morning, spoke slowly and at the same time ordered the whole Ye Mansion to be strictly guarded.Master Ye Zhen even went to her ward there, and asked him to contact his friends in the police station to send a team of policemen to supervise the entire departure process of Jichunban. Shanghai, to prevent him from escaping.Ye Xuantang didn't know about this, he didn't even think that Niu Hulu knew about it, and when he came back to his senses, he rushed out and was slapped across the face by her.

Ye Xuantang's body was tilted to one side, and there was a buzzing in his head, but he didn't react for a while.

Niu Hulu pointed at him tremblingly with a handkerchief in his hand: "Have you had enough trouble! Do you want to piss me and your Ama to death before you give up?" She burst out with an astonishing aura, but there were tears in her eyes. Weeping, "I knew about your affairs early on. I didn't break it up just to save face for you. It's nothing more than freshness after thinking about it. You're getting more and more carried away..."

"The son of the dignified Lord of the Town is going to be an actor and elope with a player who plays the violin. Isn't the Yehenala family's face lost enough by your brothers?"

"Even if you go to Shanghai, you and Fucheng will be fine? As long as the above sentence is said, his lives are not enough to lose!"

Hearing this sentence, Ye Xuantang trembled all over, and a chill rushed from the top of his head to his limbs.He knew that Niu Hulu's words were true, his uncle's power was in Shanghai, and with Erni's words, it would be trivial to take down or even kill a luthier in a theater troupe.She has no patience with Fucheng, if she refuses to give in, Fucheng's life may really be lost.He was close to Erni, but he had also seen the cruel methods of this mother.

but……

He looked at Niu Hulu, intending to find her slack, to find room for change, but he only saw her expression as if it was frozen.Niu Hulu said slowly and in a deep voice: "I know I'm not your biological son Erni, you always have a layer of separation in your heart, but I have done my best after all these years. If you want to go, yes, I will immediately Go to Sister Guarja. I will apologize to her in advance."

Guarja was his deceased biological mother.Her words are killer.

how can sheHow dare?Ye Xuantang was angry, sad, and even wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.After being silent for a long time, he had a feeling that he would turn around and leave immediately. The thought became stronger and stronger, and the courage became more and more encouraged, until he saw Niu Hulu really pull out a pair of scissors from the couch Hinged his wrist down.He snatched the scissors from his mother, knelt down, and smashed his knees on the stone floor with a thud.

At that moment, he lost all hope.He knew he would lose in the end.

The maid outside the door rushed in crying when she heard the movement, and she was in a hurry again.Ye Xuantang knelt aside as if listening to a play.A few drops of blood dripped down Niu Hulu's wrist. He watched the blood dripping on the white blanket, and suddenly remembered Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan".All kinds of thoughts were entangled and stirred in his heart, absurd and sad.

He doesn't remember very clearly what happened next.It seemed that he, Ama, knew the truth, but he didn't seem to know, and he didn't pursue it.Niu Hulu's injury was not serious, and she recovered quickly. When she scabbed over, it was the wedding of Ye Xuantang and Chen Hui, the second daughter of the Chen family.The wedding was Western-style, very grand, and did not follow the old customs - Ye Xuantang himself refused.

That unrestrained drama idiot, that sixth master who loved to laugh and make trouble, that Ye Xuantang who liked Fucheng and wanted to go with him, after that kneeling, he was already dead.

Lingshu Suwen couldn't save him.