Chapter 64 Circle Theater

In the late summer evening, I was walking by the moat downstairs of my house, and I met Ganqiu head-on.This sturdy young man is a migrant worker from other places, working on the construction site of the high-end commercial and residential building nearby. When we met, he said that his parents gave him this name because he was born on the day of Liqiu.I said: "In my opinion, besides catching up with autumn, this name also means to drive away autumn quickly so that spring will come soon!" He grinned, showing his neat white teeth.Then one day I saw him walking with a girl whose face was as red as a ripe apple in the twilight.Ah, this kid has a girlfriend!This evening he came to meet me again, so I might as well ask him about having a girlfriend.We were only a few steps away, and I gave him a smile to say hello,

Every time we meet, he always greets me with a sincere smile.But this time, the smile that greeted me was a bit forced.Just as I was wondering, someone suddenly ran past me, rushed to Kanqiu's side in a few steps, and called the police loudly to him: "...Don't stay in this secluded place, hide quickly, they are going to punish you!" Startled at first, I couldn't help stopping my steps, but I was extremely calm, walked up to me and called "Uncle Liu", then turned to my partner who lived in the same work shed and said, "What dare they do? Don't be afraid! You go back first, I want to find a bright place to talk to Uncle Liu."

At the all-night fast food restaurant in the Old Town God’s Temple, I invited Kanqiu to drink beer, and he told me his love story.The girl he fell in love with was Chuntang, who was not from the same province as him, and also came from a remote village. When she first arrived, she worked in a lighting store, and later transferred to the cafeteria at their construction site.Chuntang was brought to Beijing by one of her aunts in the first year. Her aunt has been in Beijing for more than 10 years and has seen a lot. Now she works as a housekeeper in a wealthy family. The crystal chandelier in the living room of the family is worth 100,000 yuan. There are five bathrooms in the house; the lighting store where Chuntang worked part-time is one of the countless businesses of the rich family, and the owner is a cousin of the rich man.What Auntie means is that the capital city is full of opportunities, and Chuntang must not miss them if she looks for them. Parents in her hometown also have great hopes for this.But Chuntang didn't say hello to her aunt half a year ago, so she quit her job in the lighting store and moved to the canteen on the construction site.The reason for this was explained in detail after Chuntang and Qianqiu became friends.On the day of the fall, I stopped at this point and did not relay it to me.I can imagine.Now my aunt has recruited Chuntang's parents to Beijing. The three elders, plus the rich man's wife, are calling Chuntang over that night to do work for the lighting store owner.And just now, a few strangers who smelled of alcohol came to the shed and yelled aggressively to find Kanqiu, so the companions kindly ran to call the police.

When I got home that night, under the cheap fluorescent lamp, I silently recollected the things that Kanqiu told me for a long time.Can this be written as a novel?Or, could a TV series be made out of it?For Kanqiu and Chuntang, it was a thrilling chapter in their life history, but for increasingly discerning readers and audiences, such characters, stories, conflicts and endings—whether lovers get married or rich people Sure enough, it's amazing - it may attract the ridicule of "not mediocre".Are viewers in today's world really only blindly pursuing novelty and excitement and absolutely ignoring the simple eternity?

My thoughts suddenly traveled from the moat in Beijing to the Thames in London.When I came back from my visit to Britain last year, my editors kept asking me to write articles about Shakespeare’s former residence and the Globe Theatre, but I didn’t start writing.It is really because it is no longer a rare thing to visit abroad nowadays, and anyone who visits the UK usually has to visit Shakespeare’s former residence, and it is commonplace to enter the Globe Theater on the banks of the River Thames in London to watch a performance of Shakespeare’s famous plays , the relevant travel notes are published from time to time, what new ideas can I tell?But that night at the Globe Theater in London, I watched a Portuguese troupe perform "Romeo and Juliet" in Portuguese, but I was inspired by the ouster of Qiu Chuntang, and it vividly reappeared in my mind.The first third of the show, I'm not so much watching

A performance is more like watching a theatre. The circular theater with a wooden structure and log tone is deliberately built according to the original shape of Shakespeare’s time. Most of the spectators had to stand.During the third of the performance, I kept exclaiming and marveling at the novelty of the director and the stage design of the play, and so did the other audience—most of the viewers were foreign tourists who could understand Portuguese. Probably very few. Anyway, everyone is very familiar with this play of Shakespeare. If you don't understand it, you can definitely understand it.In the last third of the play, my heart was touched by the simple and sincere love of Romeo and Juliet, and I could no longer be calm. When the tragedy climax came, the small band and chorus composed of supporting actors on the stage played a heart-warming performance. The broken melody, humming a dreamlike tune, my eyes suddenly became hot-and my thoughts jumped back to the present tense, in the hazy background of the moat downstairs, the silhouettes of Gan Qiu and Chuntang holding hands stood out , My eye sockets are also hot.

The nearby high-end commercial and residential building was completed, and when the lights were tested at night, the whole building looked like a shining mountain of diamonds.I happened to come back from Zhejiang that night, took a short rest, and hurried over to find Kanqiu.Where else can I find it?The work sheds were dismantled and the cafeteria disbanded, all overnight.As usual, the builders were exempted from Lou Cheng and went to the new construction site.But I finally found a familiar face. It was the migrant worker who called the police to the police in the evening. He was hired as a guard in the parking lot of the new building.I asked him, but he refused to tell me where Kanqiu went.Finally I asked, "Did Kanqiu go away alone?" He widened his eyes and said angrily, "Why alone? They went away!"

I went home with a smile, and instead of entering the building, I wandered by the moat.I think Shakespeare is never out of date. He told us what is eternal and immortal love through Romeo and Juliet; Cao Xueqin is certainly never out of date. He told us what can be completely surpassed and what is absolute through Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. What cannot be given up... The universe is constantly expanding and rotating, the world is constantly changing, human beings are constantly singing and crying, art is unremittingly unconventional, but the human heart may create constant value.Yes, society and life are a more exciting stage than London’s Globe Theatre. This is a theater around the heart, and we are all participating in performances consciously or unconsciously. How can we break through the darkness of our hearts and gain the light of our hearts?This is an eternal topic, and it is also the subject of ever-changing literature and art that cannot be abandoned.