Chapter 48 nice

Zhang Henshui loves to listen to Beijing opera. When Mei Lanfang, Yang Xiaolou and Yu Shuyan, the "Three Great Sages of the Republic of China" performed together, Zhang Henshui was still living in poverty at that time, but he used the remaining 1 yuan to buy theater tickets.This "full-pocket feat" was something he cited as his life's pride, and he often mentioned it in his later years. In 1958, Mei Lanfang led a troupe to perform in Beijing, and tickets were hard to come by.His son Zhang Wu managed to buy theater tickets through a trustee. He rushed home excitedly and handed them over to his father.Unexpectedly, Zhang Henshui said he didn't want to go.Zhang Wu told him that the theater ticket was hard-won, and he bought it specially for him.Zhang Henshui replied: "Mei Lanfang is already an old man in his 60s. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to play a little girl again. I want to keep a beautiful Mei Lanfang in my mind, so I don't want to watch it."

Zhang Henshui not only loves to watch operas, but also occasionally goes on stage to experience his addiction. In 1933, the mother of a colleague in the Peking press held a birthday party and held a purely fancier hall party. Zhang Ye came on stage and performed "Oolong Yuan".The master broke the rules of the Liyuan and wrote "Novelist Zhang Henshui" in the center when arranging the cast.When readers heard about it, they came to see Mrs. Zhang's true face. Today, when Zhang Henshui made his debut on stage, the audience burst into laughter, because he played the role of Zhang Wenyuan, a buffoon, limped on stage, had a white nose, opened his mouth and spoke with an Anhui accent.After Danjiao came up, he didn't follow the original lines, and deliberately teased Zhang: "Who is Zhang Xinyuan (Zhang Henshui's original name)?" Zhang replied: "It's my apprentice." Danjiao then asked: "I heard that your My apprentice is a famous novelist, why are you not famous?" The audience was stunned, but Zhang then said, "Yes, there are champion apprentices but no champion masters!" The audience immediately applauded.After Zhang stepped down, someone asked him why he was walking with a limp, and he replied, "I don't know who put a round nail in my boot, which made me suffer so much."

When Zhang Henshui was in the "Nanjing People's Daily", he lived alone in the newspaper office. He often wore a white silk shirt and held a paper fan. He walked with a figure of eight steps, and with a hoarse throat, he sang: "The old man stopped fighting, and the imperial court came to me. Song Jiang..." One evening, after Zhang Gang sang this line, Liu Yuan, a cartoonist, came to deliver the manuscript, wearing a dark green suit and a green tie. Zhang saw it, and immediately switched to Peking opera to read: "The miserable green boy, You are here! Haha!" Everyone laughed.

In September 1947, the Peking Opera was staged in the Republic of China Cinema by the press in Peking. In the play, there were four out-of-the-box school lieutenants, played by Zhang Henshui and the presidents of the three major newspapers in Peking at that time.The other three were all short-sighted and wore glasses. In order to achieve the same effect, Zhang Henshui, who did not wear glasses, also wore glasses.The four school lieutenants stepped onto the stage one by one, lined up, with sixteen eyes shining brightly, just like the "Four Scholars", and the audience roared with laughter.

Zhang Henshui likes to grow flowers. He has a unique way of exercising his body, which is to grow flowers and trees.When I lived in Dashilan, apricot trees, cloves, cherries, and a flower garden were planted in the yard.Tired of writing, Zhang wandered among the flowers, staring at them for a while.When the autumn wind blows, the ground is full of falling flowers. He was writing in his study, and when he heard someone walking in the yard, he stopped writing and said, "Go to the side, don't step on the flowers." Among the flowers, Zhang Henshui loves chrysanthemums the most, and every year he personally plants all kinds of precious chrysanthemums.He recalled: "I often entertain friends, drinking a pot of tea and chatting among the chrysanthemum bushes. Sometimes, I also come here for nothing, and make a pot of chrysanthemums. The petals I eat are cultivated by myself. In the field of heavy frost, through the glass window, the yard is covered with pagoda tree leaves, the sun reflects the shadow of the dead tree on the window screen, the heart is clean and relaxed, a cup in hand, surrounded by fragrance, this mood is so good Yes. Don’t think I’m extravagant, the sum spent on chrysanthemums doesn’t exceed two hundred yuan.”

A friend knew that Zhang Henshui loves chrysanthemums, so he gave him two pots of chrysanthemums, one purple-red and the other snow-white, and put them under the steps. Two butterflies came, hovered for a while, and then flew away.A friend asked: "In this situation, Brother Hean Shui, do you have any poems?" Zhang casually said: "It's strange that the butterfly comes and goes easily, and I think it's too clear in red and white." The friend understood and smiled: "You have been poor for many years. , it’s just that your personality is hard to change.” During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Henshui lived in Chongqing. Although there were no precious flowers such as peonies and crabapples, there were wild apricot flowers in spring, rhododendrons and money chrysanthemums all over the mountains and fields in summer and autumn, as well as radish flowers and pea flowers. Zhang Henshui often picked them and put them in small vases. on the desk.

Zhang Henshui likes to collect antiques, but he doesn't know how to identify antiques, so he never buys real ones, but buys some fake ones for one or two yuan, so as to avoid the trouble of identification and the trouble of being deceived. Every morning when Zhang Henshui wakes up and washes up, he must hold a cup of tea. He doesn't need to eat breakfast, but he must drink morning tea.In Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, he could only drink Tuocha, which was rich in color and flavor, and Zhang Po felt bitter that he could not drink weak tea. In 1927, "The Flower of Love" was screened at the Peking Central Theater. Zhang Qian went to watch it and was deeply impressed by the performance of actress Kroll.A young girl played by Kroll met a teenager on a deserted island. When she returned home, she moved a chair and sat next to her father. With her arms around her knees, she said to her father with a smile, "Isawaman." Then she buried her face in her knees .Zhang said: "When I saw this, my heart was moved. I thought that I had been writing novels for several years, and I only started from line drawing, and I never dreamed of this."

Zhang Henshui is very disgusted with American movies that no matter what the situation is, they will always try to boil it down to kissing or marriage. He published an article saying: "Chen Chen Xiangyin, the taste is the same." Zhang Henshui loves to smoke, and he joked: "Smoke smoked divorce (transliteration of English inspiration, meaning "inspiration"), then the writing must be born from the smoke, how can there be writing without smoke?" Haoyan, when he was in Chongqing, because of the difficult life, he wanted to quit smoking several times, but every time he was tired of writing, he always wanted to take two puffs, so he could only smoke cheap "prodigy" cigarettes. For "shit" smoke.Later, the "shit" cigarettes could not be smoked anymore, so they could only smoke the cheaper "Yellow River" cigarettes. Zhang sighed: "If you don't get to the Yellow River, you can quit smoking." After liberation, Zhang mainly smoked. "Zhonghua" or "Peony", during the three-year natural disaster, supplies were scarce. Fortunately, the eldest daughter-in-law who worked in the Supreme People's Court was able to buy high-priced cigarettes through connections, which resolved his crisis of smoking breaks.