Tang Qianyan

In the early spring of the fourth year of the Republic of China, a heavy snow fell on the ground for a long time, as if to heal the aftermath of Beiping’s upheaval in the Xinhai Year. Xia slowly recovered, and told all creatures in the world in the most natural way.

As a result, insects, birds, snakes, and rats woke up one after another, and Li Shunming was probably the same as these creatures, because his instinct told him that he could come out of the hole!

He quickly changed his school uniform, ignoring the long robe and mandarin jacket, pulled out the old short jacket that was quite old but still clean, put it on, and walked out of the gate of his mansion.

Passing through several alleys, the passers-by gradually became bustling. There was a little boy huddled in a ragged coat, showing his dirty red nose and shouting: "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"

Li Shunming rummaged through his pockets, only to find that he had left the money at home. He stepped forward a few steps, put his arms around the newspaper boy, grabbed his wrist, and pulled the newspaper to his eyes for a quick glance, muttering: "Don't move." Don't move, show your brother a second look."

"Don't you even have the coins to buy the newspaper?" The little boy sneered, turned his head and looked at him again, and asked suspiciously, "Can you read?"

"I don't understand." Li Shunming frowned and smiled lightly.He really couldn't understand the situation more and more.

The boy stared at him without speaking. Li Shunming let go of the boy, thanked him with a smile, turned and walked away. After a while, the sound of selling newspapers sounded behind him again, melting into a corner of Beiping City.

Living at the beginning of the century, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Li Shunming, a young man newly established in the Republic of China, has the biggest ideal in life to be a good playboy.

It's not easy to be a dude.First of all, you have to be rich!Then, you have to be handsome!You have to be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics to understand Western mathematics!You have to be suave and suave to understand the twelve rhythms of the five tones!You have to go to large and small restaurants and taste the eight major cuisines!You have to be able to appreciate calligraphy, painting and antiques, and to raise flowers, birds, insects and fish!

In short, you have to do anything!Except dry!just!through!thing!

Li Shunming couldn't help feeling that there was a long way to go.

People came and went on the street, and most of the pedestrians were in a hurry. No one noticed that the man squatting in the corner and eating cornbread was the young master of a textile family in Peiping.

Hiding in the city, Li Shunming tried to elevate the meaning of his actions. Since he was dressed as a servant, he had to do things that the young master couldn't do.

The tide of the world is overwhelming, and if the tide goes against it, you will perish. No one can avoid it, but almost no one knows where the tide will eventually flow.Although there are a few sages who see the details, they can't control this era of undercurrents.

Li Shunming is not so arrogant that he dares to call himself a wise man. He only knows that if he wants to be a dude safely, he must judge the situation.

If he is still the young master of the Li family, he must be in a state of being too high to be low, so he might as well change into a short jacket and get to know the news he wants to know among the low-level but huge crowd of this era.

Seeing that he was dressed plainly but had handsome features, everyone was more or less willing to chat with him, and after a few words, he became lively and did not hide it.

The coachman roams the streets and alleys all day long, knowing the changes in various places in Beiping, and even knows a little bit about the places where dignitaries and dignitaries hide their beauty; the newsboy sells newspapers all day long, so he can't help but listen to people's comments on various events Li Shunming is willing to listen to him and he is also willing to talk; the peddlers are familiar with the changes in supply and demand of various commodities in the market, they just tell Li Shunming what they know, and Li Shunming guesses the reason...

In May of the third year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai officially abolished the "Temporary Contract".But the opponents were unwilling to be the first birds, and the supporters dared not defend it openly. The group waited and watched the changes, and when they were panicking, the young master of the Li family had already chatted with the porters and traffickers in Peking.

Rather than saying that democracy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is better to say that the spread of democracy has made most people understand what kind of interests are touched by restoration, and only in the face of interests, the choice of everyone is quite clear.

I am afraid that good things will never come true for old Yuan, Li Shunming sighed, planning to know more about Western etiquette in the future, prepare more suits, and read more books about Western systems, talk about democracy and republic, and shut up about guilt. Only socialism can show itself to be a dude with depth and connotation!Dude!son!younger brother!

The young master of the Li family was very satisfied with his conclusion and confident in his goal, but he didn't know that if the ancestors of the Li family knew that Li Shunming had accurately predicted the situation two years later, it was only for the sake of being a good dude. Will they pick him out from the ancestral grave and beat him to death...

After wandering outside for so long, it's almost the west mountain, if he doesn't go back, even if his father spoils him so much, he will inevitably have to lecture him.Thinking of this, Li Shunming patted the ashes off his body, planning to go home.

Fang took a few steps, and when he raised his eyes, his mind moved slightly.

Unknowingly, I came to Jingkou Hutong.

Li Shunming still remembered that when he was a child, there were some accidents in his family. He seemed to have lived with his mother in a courtyard in the alley for a long time.

At that time, he was really too young. The woman whose face was already blurred in his memory seemed to be weak and sick. She was bedridden all the year round, and a scent of medicine always permeated the house and outside. Over time, it even soaked through the windows in the courtyard.

That woman should have treated him very well. She always shed tears alone, but in front of him, there was always a smile on her lips, but there was a lingering lingering feeling in that smile, which disappeared. Sadness that cannot be opened.

He was too young at that time, he never understood where sorrow came from.

Later, his memory probably made a mistake, he couldn't remember where that woman went or what happened, but he only knew that from now on, father and son were together, and Xuantang was nowhere to be seen.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Shunming turned into the alley like a ghost.

The bustling crowd became thinner, turned left and right, and he stopped in front of a courtyard gate.

The courtyard is small in size, with gray walls and red tiles. It is quiet and peaceful amidst the chill left after the end of winter.

The courtyard should have been sold, and the gate had been repainted. The red plum tree in front of the gate was in full bloom, and the trunk was black and twisted. Climbed to the top of the wall, then tiptoed into the courtyard.

Li Shunming was only thinking about revisiting his old place, and he didn't think about whether there was anything wrong with this kind of behavior like a gentleman on the beam.

Li Shunming was a little surprised that there were people singing in the huge courtyard. He hurriedly hid behind the phoenix trees in the courtyard, and listened carefully. The song was about the part where Sun Yujiao and Fu Peng first met in "Picking up the Jade Bracelet", so he couldn't help but curiously leaned out to watch.

The man in the courtyard was dressed in white, and the bright golden red of the setting sun sprinkled in the courtyard, jumping up his hair, making people think of a beautiful woman like jade in the haze.

There are a lot of babbling in this part of the libretto, and it is all based on acting skills. After Sun Yujiao and Fu Peng fell in love at first sight, Fu Peng deliberately left the bracelet and Sun Yujiao picked up the bracelet to confirm their love.

The person in the courtyard sang the role of Sun Yujiao, even if there was no contrast between the characters, it had no effect at all, every frown and smile was full of Mrs. Sun's shyness and conflicts about whether to pick up the bracelet, and finally picked up the bracelet, Zhangkou sang the Xipi rocker:

I saw the young man throwing his jade bracelet away, so that my little servant's family can hang on his heart.I hope he will send a matchmaker to come early, and we will be married.

After a scene, Li Shunming was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but want to see the appearance of the people in the courtyard, he didn't notice that his foot stepped on the ground, fell out, staggered for several steps before stabilizing his figure.

The people in the courtyard turned around when they heard the sound. Against the backdrop of the setting sun, the delicate facial features were like clouds and mist. opened.

"Who?" The people in the courtyard looked at him vigilantly, and they spoke in a clear male voice.

"I was passing by just now, and when I heard someone singing, I climbed over the wall and came in to listen..." Li Shunming gave a reason that he thought was ridiculous.

The people in the courtyard watched him suspiciously and did not speak.

Li Shunming struggled to think about why he had nothing to say when he struck up a conversation with a celebrity before, and tried to speak again: "You..."

Before he finished saying "you", his stomach growled, and Li Shunming's face turned red. He didn't eat anything today except a cornbread.

Seeing Li Shunming's embarrassed appearance, the people in the courtyard slowly opened their mouths: "I still have some food in my room, if you don't mind..."

"I don't dislike it." Li Shunming looked at him in surprise, and smiled brightly: "Excuse me for your honorable name?"

"Stage name, Tang Qianyan."

Good name, Li Shunming silently recited in his heart the dream of "Wuyi Lane" that has been passed down through the ages: In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people.

In the old days, the swallow that lived in the prosperity and was raised by everyone finally saw the collapse of a dynasty. It flew over the broken walls and ruins of the garden, and the broken pavilions. It witnessed the establishment on the devastated land. After another country where blood and tears mingled, he finally lived in an ordinary courtyard in a corner of the capital, waiting for several springs and autumns to pass away.