grandfather's daughter-in-law

Chapter 66

I have been thinking for a long time how two people who love each other get along, what is the feeling of intimacy and inseparability from each other, whether there is a heart-to-heart connection, thank you and you are welcome, are you being polite or seeing outsiders? , but these questions seem to have no answers, and they cannot be generalized, and the only constant answer cannot be obtained through simple induction, or even an empirical conclusion can not be reached through the accumulation of things.However, some things couldn't be stopped once they started, so I repeated thank you and you're welcome to her. It seemed that I couldn't go back, and the breath stuck in my throat became tighter and tighter.

In any case, the troupe arranged performances according to the semi-finished analysis book, which became more rational and orderly, avoided some unnecessary busywork, and had more time for rehearsing new plays. After all, "Ask Love" is about the life and death of the entire troupe, and Yu Minxiu has invested a lot of financial and material resources in background layout, projection, hanging steel wire and other stage skills, so this competition is even more meaningful.Fortunately, I'm playing the Green Snake, and I don't have to play with her lovingly and affectionately, so I don't have to worry about panicking and indulging in my dreams on the stage.

In May [-], the "Spring Return to the Earth" large-scale opera competition organized by the Provincial Gezai Opera Association officially kicked off in Taipei.The operas performed are not limited to forms, such as Gezai Opera, puppetry, and even shadow puppetry, etc. As long as they are Taiwanese operas, they are all treated equally. However, Gezai Opera, which originated in Taiwan, seems to be more popular and the competition is more intense.There are quite a few troupes participating in the competition, and a Gezai opera takes at least two or three hours, so the competition is divided into three days, and the unified evaluation will be made after enjoying all the operas.For the sake of fairness, the judges have the right to revise the score for the last time-to avoid the phenomenon of low scores in the early stage or high scores in the later stage.The Folk Music Club's performance was on the second day, which was considered the most suitable time - there was still one day to review and correct the new play, and it also avoided some mistakes in judgment caused by the judges' lack of experience on the first day.

When I started to apply makeup, I saw that Yu Minxiu's hand was a little unsteady, and the hand holding the eyebrow pencil was picked up, put down and wiped off several times, repeatedly.In fact, the first thing for everyone who studies opera is to apply makeup. The makeup of Gezai Opera is fairly simple, but the simpler it is, the more picky the actors are.Yu Minxiu has practiced so well in these years.I know she's nervous.This decision may make the theater troupe thrive from now on, or it may never be restored.This is a worry that every decider has, but before going out, it's not a good thing.

I gently took the pen and said, "I'll help you draw."

Usually, I rarely have such opportunities.The makeup looks of Xiaosheng and Xiaodan are very different, and because they are female students, they need to work harder on makeup, in order to make up for their feminine femininity and more masculine masculinity.But today, she is a white snake, and I am a green snake. Except for the difference between the white paint and the green paint on my face, I can do it easily.

Her eyebrows are sword eyebrows, because she has been playing Xiaosheng all the time, they haven't been trimmed for a long time, and the ends of her eyebrows are very sharp.If I want to draw the feeling of Liu Ye's curved eyebrows, I have to trim the brows, so I can't avoid leaning close to her.Her warm breath puffed on my neck, making it numb for a while.Those bright eyes were covered with the dust of time, and there were fine lines at the corners of the eyes, and the face that had been heavily made up all the year round was no longer as smooth as before, but it was still fair.I glanced at it and hurried away.At such a close distance, I didn't even have the courage to look at each other.There are some fine lines on her forehead, and there seems to be a white thread in the smooth and neatly combed hair under the orange light that dazzles my eyes.I unplugged it.

"White hair," I said.

She took it from my hand, played with it back and forth, and sighed with emotion, "I'm getting old before I know it."

My hand stopped, and for some reason I suddenly had the courage to look at her carefully.The dusty eyes are still beautiful.The nose is still high, and the nostrils are twitching slightly with breathing.The lips are still delicate and charming, with the taste in my memory vaguely.

"No, you're still as good-looking as ever," I said.

She didn't answer any more.I had expected this to be the result.After that confession, as long as it involved emotional and private matters, she responded silently.She is 36 years old, and I am also 33. After that, our hair will turn white and our teeth will fall out.But if growing old together is also counted as graying together, in this world, the people who grow old together with us are the people of the whole era, so why deceive ourselves like this?When I think of the distant future, I can only live with my breath stuck, and the exhaustion, helplessness and absurdity from this journey all hit my throat at once.

"After the game, I want to get out of here," I said.

Her face was lifted up suddenly, because she was too hasty, leaving an abrupt stroke on her face.Her eyes looked at me like a dream.Then Lin Jiaxi's voice came, "It's almost time, it's time to get out."

Time once again hastily urges us to move forward.

The first half of the show was supposed to be a huge success.The elegant demeanor and the flowing eyes, especially the addition of modern dance techniques, made the two spirit snakes coming from the forest to the mortal world meandering, elegant and graceful, and won applause as soon as they appeared on the stage.When White Snake met Xu Xian, the two fell in love at first sight, and they got married. Naturally, the applause continued and the applause was deafening.Then there was the Dragon Boat Festival Xu Xian persuaded a cup of realgar wine, but the white snake showed its original shape.In order to steal the fairy grass and save Xu Xian's life, the White Snake inevitably had to fight a fierce battle with the god who guarded the fairy grass and Monk Fahai.This is a martial arts show.In order to highlight the stage effect and achieve a vivid and vivid effect, this plot has added a link of hanging steel wires.Although the lifting height is not high, but with the double jumping and kicking guns in the air, it is a test of kung fu and skills.As soon as she appeared on the stage, she received thunderous applause, but when the white snake spun around and kicked away the spear deftly following the pull of the steel cable, an accident happened.There was a long gun that probably didn't know the direction, so it flew directly at me.At that time, I was dealing with four samurai students, and I felt a cool feeling go down the corners of my eyes as soon as my eyes flashed.I subconsciously held it down with my hand, only to feel the cold liquid dripping from the back of my hand.Then Yu Minxiu's staggering figure walked towards me quickly, leading me to the end in a hurry.

"We're going to the hospital," she said.He heroically lifted up the hem of the skirt representing the scales of the white snake and put it around his waist.

"You can't go, you can't go on acting if you go."

"If you can't keep acting, you won't act. Your eyes are important." She insisted.

"We have prepared for so long to win the championship in one fell swoop, and we cannot just fall short."

She wants to leave, I want to stay, we are so stalemate.Surrounded by the sound of gongs rising and falling, we seem to be unable to hear anything.My hand was still pressing on the wound and the left eye. One eye was missing, and her figure began to float, unreal, like a dream.It must be a dream, otherwise how could I have heard her say that in her eyes, I am the whole world.I was stunned, but my feet followed her involuntarily.

The injury was not serious, and the eyes were not injured.I was given anesthesia, and I couldn't count how many stitches I had.I just remember a pair of hands quickly threading a needle in the corner of my eye, and all I can think of is the dreamy sentence "In my eyes, you are the whole world."

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see her engrossed in the doctor's stitches.Those thin, beautiful lips were tightly shut.Several times, I couldn't help but want to make sure that she really said that sentence just now.I was so eager to affirm it, and so afraid to prove it, that I was still immersed in the question of how to speak from the hospital back to the hotel.

There is no doubt that the theater troupe failed the election, and everyone's face was full of twilight, as if they were silently accusing me.Even if she was injured, there was no need for Yu Minxiu to send her to the hospital in person. In this case, even if her performance was not outstanding, at least it could be regarded as having a beginning and an end, instead of being like now, a tiger with no tail.Yu Minxiu didn't say anything, but simply explained that the matter was over, and she gave everyone a day off to play to their heart's content, and then disappeared again.I didn't come back until midnight, and I seemed to have been drinking.

After we moved to Yilan, we seldom participated in wild stage performances. Later, Ding Jianye and I got married, and even if there were wild stage performances, we never shared the same room again.She was a little surprised when she opened the door and saw me, she shook her head slightly to wake up, and then walked to the bed and changed her shoes.

"Where have you been?" I asked.

"Apologize to those judges, and discuss whether we can do it again." She let out a long breath, fell asleep on the bed, rubbed her forehead with her hands, as if she was quite drunk.I got up and poured water to soak her feet, and she obediently soaked them.

"Then what do they say?"

"They said that we need to discuss it, and we can have a result tomorrow. If we can do it again, it will be the last one tomorrow."

"Did you drink with them?"

She responded softly, but there was no sound again.This woman has been playing the role of a man for some time, no matter on stage or off stage, she is so responsible and affectionate, I am afraid that she has long been tempered by life and has forgotten that she is just a woman.I picked up a handful of water and slowly poured it down her ankles, massaging the ankles.After running for a day, my ankles should be extremely sore.She sat up suddenly, trying to stop me.

"You lie down, the only things I can do for you are these small things like sesame and mung beans." I said.

"Ah Feng, you must not say that. You have done too much for me."

Probably the water temperature was too hot, I felt the steaming heat made my eyes foggy.

"With you here, I can do other things," she said.The voice is very soft, but the words are clear.I could even hear her breathing getting heavy, probably from the alcohol.If it is only the effect of alcohol, how should we deal with ourselves when we wake up after dawn?

There was no sound for a long time, and I just mechanically repeated applying water to her ankles.Those slender and fair calves were the same as before, but because of the exercise, they looked stronger.The water gradually cooled, and she raised her feet.We did not continue this topic.

Before going to bed, she inspected my wound, her warm breath with a faint smell of alcohol, and the sound of her slightly heavy breathing, it always sounded like a fantasy.But we each went to sleep.With my back to her, her hand carefully crossed the quilt and rested on my stomach, emitting a scalding temperature through the thin clothes.But we each went to sleep.The night was strangely quiet.