Stage [Republic of China]

laugh.Shui Jiu just felt uncomfortable all over, so she could only lower her eyes, feeling resentful in her heart.At this time, he heard the jokes from the crowd and realized that the people sitting at the banquet were all officials, and even if they were not officials, they were all waiting to fill the vacancies. Maybe one day they would become parents.But look what these people are doing!Drunk while exercising orders, belittling beauties recklessly.

Shui Jiu was so angry that the veins on the back of his hands popped.

"My lord," Lin Yan turned his face and cupped his hands at Master Zeng, and said with a smile, "Student is the order tonight, skipping doesn't count. The next one is the first one, but..."

The ball of Lin Yan's right eye was hidden behind the single-piece tea crystal lens, and he stared at Shui Jiu piercingly. "Miss An!"

Everyone laughed.

Shui Jiu lowered her eyelids slightly, and tapped the porcelain white edge of the plate with her chopsticks.

"Are you able to handle it?" Master Zeng looked at him sideways and asked.

Shui Jiu looked calm, with a smile on his lips. "To tell you the truth, my lord, I love to sing operas as a child. Can this opera still make sense?"

- "to make."

- "Forget it, forget it."

When everyone at the banquet saw that he had received a drinking order, Lord Zeng had to ask, and they knew that this person was really in the fancy of Master Zeng. They were afraid that Lin Yan's tricky drinking order would stump him. If he was annoyed, there was no need to let Master Zeng There is no luster on the face.So seeing that he was willing to pick it up, they were a little overjoyed, and they all laughed jokingly.

Shui Jiu spat out slightly from his mouth, and started babbling.He originally became famous by singing "The Legend of the White Snake", but he was afraid of being recognized by others, so he specially changed to "The Peony Pavilion·Zaoluo Robe".

- "Flying in the morning and rolling in the evening, clouds and green pavilions; rain and wind, smoke and waves painting boats-Jiping people really see this time as cheap!"

For the last word "cheap", Shui Jiu exhaled deliberately and put it a lot harder, and glanced sideways at the banquet.During the banquet, everyone felt that he was looking at himself, but felt that Tian Linggai was trembling, his whole body was numb and he couldn't speak for a while.

There was a quiet song, and it was as quiet as entering a deep valley in this bustling scene of joy.

"it is good!"

I don't know who was the first to react and clap and laugh first. "This song is sung wonderfully!"

So everyone applauded and applauded.Even Mr. Zeng, who has always been mature and prudent, twisted his goatee slightly, narrowed his eyes, and smiled slightly.Only the instigator, Lin Yan, laughed awkwardly, raised his wine glass in front of him, and said to Shui Jiu, "Miss An is scolding me!"

Mr. Zeng continued to smile while twirling his gray and white goatee. After hearing this, he only glanced at Lin Yan, and said slowly, "You should be scolded!"

Lin Yan raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp. After finishing the drink, he specially turned the bottom of the wine glass upside down for everyone to see. "Haha, what my lord said is that, besides, it's worth explaining Miss An's song tonight."

After he started, the rest of the people had no choice but to drink a glass of wine in order to cheer them up. While drinking, they laughed and cursed: "You are the one who is used to currying favors!"

Shui Jiu also made a gesture to pick up the wine glass, but the back of his hand was patted lightly. When he looked up, Master Zeng looked at him with a smile and shook his head at him.

"They deliberately teased you tonight, and you still drink along with them, but they're not used to them."

Shui Jiu knew Master Zeng liked him, but he didn't expect to be so happy, so he couldn't help being taken aback.Lulu on the diagonal has already drank a glass of wine, her lipstick is half-stained, her fingers covered in bright red Kodan casually pick up the tall glass, and she winks and smiles at Shuijiu, "Sister An, Zeng My lord really loves you."

Shui Jiu couldn't help the pink color on his cheeks, everyone thought him ashamed, but only he knew that it was actually annoyance.But he can't have a fit, and he can play a full set of plays. Now that the gongs and drums have been beaten at the beginning, he can only hold the wine glass like Lulu, and smile back faintly.

The banquet was lively and lively, until the clock struck eleven, everyone felt that the wine was almost finished, they pushed away the dishes one after another, and went to the cubicle with their lovers to have fun.Some of the guests were a little more elegant, so they put their arms around each other and smoked waterpipes on the couch in the cubicle.

Master Zeng really kept Shui Jiu by his side, but the two of them didn't speak a few words, so Master Zeng leaned on the side of the couch and waved to Shui Jiu. "The little song you sang just now, here are two more verses."

Shui Jiu had no choice but to sing "Garden Tour" again, and just halfway through the song, the sound of snoring suddenly started in her ears.

Mr. Zeng was getting old, and at one o'clock he started snoring like thunder, and Shui Jiu calmly stopped it.He lowered his eyelids to watch, and naturally there was a maid brought by Zeng's mansion who bent down to cover Master Zeng with a quilt, and another little girl stood beside him holding an enamel spittoon to wait for Master Zeng to spit at night.

Shui Jiu raised her eyelids again and looked outside the cubicle.Each compartment is blocked by a screen, although you can't get a glimpse of the whole picture, but if there is a badass, the sound and movement will be transmitted.Every night at the singing place, men and women love each other everywhere.

A pair of snow-white stilettos stepped on the soles of the feet, and the insteps were slightly swollen.

Shui Jiu moved his feet impatiently.The maidservants of the Zeng Mansion who were serving nearby sensed it cleverly, and said to him, "Miss An, if you feel uncomfortable here, can you go to the bed next to you and rest for a while?"

Shui Jiu looked in the direction pointed by the maids, and the so-called couch next to it was just a low footrest placed in Master Zeng's compartment, without even a bed curtain.If he really lies down, no matter who talks about it in the future, it will be that he spent the night with Mr. Zeng.

Shui Jiu doesn't care much about his reputation.There are also Paramount dancers who pay by the hour, or even meet high-ranking guests, and are taken back to the apartment for fun.People like Lulu who only dance with drinks are red dancers.The red dancers can rent an apartment alone, or settle down in an alley. If the luck is higher, they can directly live in the second floor of the small blue brick on Xiafei Road with a box and be promoted to be a concubine.Everyone at the banquet tonight is watching Master Zeng's face. If Shui Jiu is really a new young dancer who wants to fly to the high branches, after serving Master Zeng well tonight, she can easily fly up the branches and become a phoenix.

But Shui Jiu didn't have a good impression of Master Zeng, so he paused and said reservedly, "Don't dare to bother. When Master Zeng falls asleep, I'd better go out and rest."

The maids of the Zeng Mansion all pursed their lips and smiled lightly.Shui Jiu lowered her eyes lightly, her facial features did not move, but she felt extremely absurd in her heart.

At the banquet tonight, Mr. Zeng remained indifferent, Shui Jiu sat beside him, no one else dared to talk to him.It can be seen that Mr. Zeng is indeed the one who gives orders!I also don't know what is the benefit of assassinating Li Daotai.

At three o'clock in the morning, the banquet finally came to an end, and Master Zeng was going back home in a carriage.

Then someone automatically arranged for Shui Jiu: "Miss An, you and Master Zeng go back home together!"

Shui Jiu was noncommittal.

The dancer Lulu immediately came over and bumped him with her elbow. "Anxi, why don't you go back with Mr. Zeng soon?" As he said that, he winked at Shui Jiu, and in a non-obvious way, he gently twisted Shui Jiu's cold white arm that fell outside the purple velvet cheongsam.

"Hiss..." Shui Jiu felt the pain, quickly retracted her arms, lowered her eyelids, and smiled faintly.

Everyone regarded him as the default.Originally, it was a great honor for a Paramount dancer to be served by a master who had been a Beijing official.

If Shui Jiu was really a dancer, she might feel that she had a good face, but he wasn't.Shui Jiu thought to himself mockingly, he is just a man who hangs around in the room where there are so many cups and cups, and there are fragrances on the temples and beautiful faces everywhere, what exactly is he trying to figure out?Ning Jimin told him that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, but his responsibility is to pretend to be a woman to curry favor with a bad old man?

……Ah!

Shui Jiu stepped out of the crowded crowd with a graceful gait, and got into the carriage of the Zeng Manor according to his words.The night wind was very cool, and it brushed against his temples and cheeks, making Shui Jiu's body alternately hot and cold.When I arrived at the mansion of Mr. Zeng, I felt a little uncomfortable at that time.

Mr. Zeng is quite old after all, when he arrived at the mansion, he didn't ask him to wait on him overnight, he waved his hand, and the maids led Shui Jiu down, and placed him in the west wing.That night Shui Jiu tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, his body was hot and cold alternately, he drank wine again, and got up four or five times in the night with his clothes on.The wooden windows and furniture in the wing rooms are all painted with tung oil. In this humid and hot northern city of Hebei, the smell of tung oil hits us in the middle of the night, which is extremely pungent.

It wasn't until dawn that Shui Jiu fell asleep drowsily amidst the sounds of birdsong. He didn't know whether he really fell asleep or just fell asleep for a while. He felt as if he was half asleep and half awake again. Met that annoying Xu Jishan.In the dream, Xu Jishan was smoking a cigarette, leaning against the store with her head down, as if she was talking about him to someone.Shui Jiu also felt unhappy in the dream, and just about to see clearly when she frowned her long eyebrows, Xu Jishan gradually dissipated like mist in front of his eyes.

"Miss An, Miss An is up for dinner." The crisp voices of the maids rang in his ears, and someone kept shaking his arms.

Shui Jiu opened his eyes reluctantly, and found that the sky was bright outside the window.Because he was afraid of revealing his identity, he fell asleep with his clothes on like this last night. He was still wearing the purple velvet cheongsam, and he didn't even take off his high heels.After wearing the high heels all night, I felt a bit swollen on the instep as soon as I stepped off the ground, and it was almost difficult to walk.

"Hurry up, the master is waiting for you to have dinner together in the front hall!"

The maids supported Shui Jiu, they said they were helping, but in fact, two maids supported Shui Jiu's arms, one on the left and one on the right, and ran towards the flower hall almost without touching their feet.

Outside the flower hall, Shui Jiu already had unbearable foot pain.He leaned against the door frame and didn't move. He frowned and waved his hands, "I don't dare to bother you, thank you all sisters."

What did the two maids have to say, Master Zeng who was sitting in the flower hall saw him head-on, and couldn't help laughing, "Miss An is really like a wild goose sinking a fish.