In the autumn of 19XX, I lived in City A on the north bank of the Yangtze River to recuperate due to severe encephalopathy.Just as City A on the border between Jiangnan and Jiangbei has both the warm atmosphere in the south and the dry climate in the north, after autumn, you can only see the high blue sky every day, like a big round curtain in the sky.On the two or three northeastern sides of the hills outside the city, one is covered with emerald green, reflecting the sunshine in the sun, and the cool northwest wind blows, often carrying the aroma of autumn hay.I especially love the hills beside the diamond-shaped lake outside the west city and the Yangtze River.Waking up in the morning, holding a few books I love to read and filling a bag of peanut and fruit cigarettes, I enjoy the quiet air every time I go to the places where no one comes to invade these hills.Tired of reading, I raised my eyes to look at the Yangtze River below the mountain and the flying sails on the river.Sometimes I take a deep breath of cigarettes, put my hands behind my back, lie back, narrow my eyes, and stare blankly at the faint green hills in the south of the Yangtze River, without changing my posture for more than 30 minutes.Sometimes stretching out my limbs, lying on my back in the warm sunshine, looking at the endless blue sunset, I would forget all my thoughts for a while, and I would be like a piece of green smoke, unconsciously aware of my own existence, floating leisurely in the air.After more than a month of lazy swimming like this, my body gradually became stronger.

There are many places to raise brain disease in China, so why don't you live in Lushan Mountain or West Lake, but why do you want to find this city A where the transportation is not very convenient?There is a reason for this.Since the death of the first emperor, my family has been in a poor state, so during my study period, I was entirely dependent on the help of several fathers in Beijing. Although my father was not involved in childbirth and lived in poverty all his life, the few friends he made were all generous and kind. Righteousness, a gentleman who loves his neighbor as himself.So since I left my hometown in my teens, they have provided me with at least five or six hundred yuan a year in tuition fees.This time, there was an uncle who was the most confidant of his father during his lifetime, who was stationed in Province A and held full administrative power.After the summer vacation, I went south from the Beijing-Hanzhou train and went to Shanghai on a Yangtze River ship. Passing through City A, I went ashore to meet him. A salary of two hundred yuan is easy to receive.At that time, I had just graduated from a university in Beijing. Before the summer vacation, I was suffering from a serious disease of insomnia and dizziness due to overwork. Seeing that he was very sincere in his intention to keep me, I just stayed there.

There is a park not far from the north of city A.The park is surrounded by lotus ponds.The houses in the garden are mixed in the fields of water lilies and green lotuses. When the weather is fine, there are rich gentry's daughters who live in the city and Su Yang's prostitutes come here to hang out.Because I am withdrawn by nature and want to recuperate my brain disease, I immediately asked someone to tell me after I lived in land A, and I rented a thatched pavilion in the park as an apartment. However, human beings don’t like monotonous animals and live alone. On the lake, day by day with the breeze and bright moon phase, and sometimes feel heart-wrenching unhappiness.So after living in seclusion in the lake pavilion for a few days, I started to take a sweaty leisurely walk. If I didn’t go to the hills outside the west city to look up at the blue sky of the Yangtze River, I also went to the city in the middle of the city to hang out with those idle residents. , looking for a little joy.

After arriving in City A, one afternoon for nearly two months, the sun was still bright and lovely, and the blue sky was still clear and clear. I was tired from running on the hills outside the west city, so I dragged my feet heavily and walked on I went to the Daguan Pavilion near the west gate. I wanted to rest there, and then went to the restaurant in the city to have dinner.It turns out that this Daguan Pavilion is also a famous place in City A. Below it is the tomb of a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and above it are several high and open pavilions.Looking south, across the flying Yangtze River, you can see the smoke trees in the south of the Yangtze River.Outside the window on the north side, there is the triangular long lake. The four banks of the lake are full of miscellaneous trees and low hills. The sky was very clear that day, and the lake water was extraordinarily quiet and blue.When I went up to the viewing pavilion, the main hall and the guest seats beside the sill were already full, so I had no choice but to go to the side hall with the partition wall and sit by the window.Lying on the recliner for a while, I was tired for half a day, and I fell into a very comfortable doze.After staying there for an indeterminate amount of time, in a realm that seemed like a dream but not a dream, a few girl's voices suddenly came from my ears.Although he couldn't hear what it was, the owner of the voice was indeed not a resident of City A, because the voice was rough, as if it was the accent of the Huaiyang area.

Although I lived in Beijing for many years, I was born timid. I never went to a brothel until I graduated from university.Although I usually like to read novels and draw foreign paintings, the love and romantic history that I often hear in the literary and art circles have nothing to do with me.But my body structure and developmental program are of course the same as those of ordinary youths, with blood flowing in my veins, and my functional organs are not flawed at all.Twenty-six-year-old youth always has unstable images in my mind and muscles. Of course, there is also a desire for women.And before I left Beijing, there were several doctors who blamed my brain disease on the disorder of sexual desire and advised me to make more boyfriends and girlfriends, so as to dissipate the depression accumulated in my chest.What's more, the recovery from a long illness, the improvement of physical strength, and the circulation of blood, is the time when the speed increases to the peak?So at the intersection of fantasy and reality, when I heard the guttural voice of a person of the opposite sex, my nerves became sober and excited.

Standing up from the reclining chair, I wiped my eyes quickly, and when I walked into the main hall with a double door, I saw several young women in strange clothes standing on the threshold of the corridor outside the front door of the hall. . They were facing out of the threshold, looking at the boats in the Yangtze River and the setting sun on the river. Their backs were decorated, and at first glance, they were all similar.They are all about seventeen or eighteen years old, and they are wearing the big-leg trousers that have just become popular. The color seems to be all black, but the clothes on top are different.It was only after I took a second look that I realized that there were three of them in total, one was wearing a round-edged jacket with large purple brocade, the other was wearing dark blue plain satin, and the third was wearing a thin cotton-padded jacket of black Chinese silk. of.The one in the middle, who was wearing blue satin, looked back by chance, and I saw a small oval tender face, a smile that hadn't been restrained after joking with her companion, and she turned her head back inadvertently , but I received a big blow on the forehead.In this cool and cold city A, there are no more than a thousand families. Except for a few prostitutes in brothels, I have never seen such an open-minded woman, such a lovely girl, without restraint, three or five Groups, on this sunny afternoon, come to this unpopular place to enjoy the scenery.I lost my rationality for a while, and without realizing it, I stood behind them in the middle of the main hall for a few minutes.

Dr. Tea came over with a hand towel and asked me if I wanted some snacks. At the same time, they turned to look at me, so I blushed and said to Dr. Cha in a panic: "I want some! I want some! What is there to eat?" Maybe it's because I look too flustered?Dr. Tea laughed with them.I was so anxious that I couldn't help it, so I turned around and walked back to my seat in the hall.Before I left, I took a quick glance at the seats in the main hall, and I saw the remnants of peanuts and melon seeds all over the floor, and a few teapots and tea bowls on a few tables. At this time, many tourists had already dispersed. . "Perhaps these three women and I are the only ones lingering in this pavilion!" After walking to the seat, this thought was the first thing that came to mind in my bewildered mind.Then Dr. Tea followed, with a few handkerchiefs on his hands and shoulders, and when he asked me with a smile if I would like something to eat, I calmed down a bit. I looked out the window and saw that the sun had already gone to the hills. , even shook his head, paid the tea money, and fled downstairs as well.

I walked down the escalator, turned a corner, and walked to the descending stone steps in front of the building. I looked up and saw the three girls, who were already ahead of me, walking down the stone steps while talking, and walking home. .My heart, which had recovered a little bit of peace, was once again turbulent.So he deliberately slowed down his pace, wanting to stay away from them, so as not to be suspected by others. After all, it was sunset, and I didn't meet other pedestrians all the way down the hill of Daguanting.But on the way to the front of the mountain, there is a main street outside the west gate. There are many pedestrians on the street, and there are small shops on both sides. They are all behind the young girls. It is a bit ugly to walk into the city.I wanted to hire a car on the road, but at this time the foreign driver didn't know where he was going, and I didn't see him when I took the car; I wanted to be bold, catch up with them rashly, and overtake them, but when I remembered that I was in Daguan just now The ugliness on the booth is afraid of being recognized by them and causing another joke.Uneasy in my heart, I followed behind them in trepidation. When I walked into the west gate, the originally dark and narrow street was already filled with twilight, and the shops were about to be lit.

The long street inside the west gate leads eastwards to Sanpailou Street, the busiest street in the center of the city, but I don’t want to go to the tavern on the street to have dinner because it’s getting late. After eating some snacks in the tavern, I went out of the city and returned to my apartment. I was thinking about going north to the intersection of Ximen Inner Street. bent over.At this time, because I had been walking with them for a long time, I was a little more courageous than before, and my curiosity was also activated. I had the idea of ​​"following them for a while and seeing where they go".Walked down the slope, entered the old Daotai yamen under the blue sky and white sun, went out through the back door, and turned east from the Yang family. At the door of the hotel on a side street, the three of them raised their heads and stood facing each other. A grandmother in her fifties at the door smiled and said, "Why are you standing here?" This was said by the girl in black, and it was indeed Tianjin dialect.At this time, I was already close to them, so I could hear every sentence of their conversation clearly.The grandma pulled the girl in black and said, "The gong is about to start on stage, and the boss has come to urge you. If you come back a little later, I want to send someone to look for you. Go and have dinner quickly!" "Ah, I didn't know until here that they were fashionable actors on the road, no wonder their costumes are so peculiar and their actions are so open-minded.It was already dark, and the lights in several small shops on the side street had been turned on for a long time.The people on the street gradually became less and less. When I passed by the door of others, I could always smell the smell of fried vegetables and rice, and I also felt a little hungry.

Speaking of theaters, there is a theater in this big city A, but it has very few regular customers. It has never occupied any important position in the life of the citizens of City A. Once, I entered through the north gate. When I came to the city, I heard a few gongs and drums from the clear autumn air in a small alley. I stepped in and saw a dilapidated room. Thirty or forty people gathered in the dark. in front of the stage.The tables and chairs to sit on are of course many white wood strips commensurate with this theater.There was no light in the theatre, and the air was not ventilated. I took a look and was scared in my heart, even if I retreated.Of course, a theater like this cannot hire famous actors.At most, those who come to perform are some traveling miscellaneous troupes or amphibious troupes who usually perform magical dramas.So I have been in City A for more than two months, and I have not paid attention to the characters and plays in this theater.This time I ran into those three girls by chance, but I had a strange feeling in my heart, so after I sat down in a restaurant on the street, I asked the waiter to bring today's newspaper.While waiting for the dishes for dinner, I picked up the newspaper and read the advertisements of the theatre, under the sallow electric light.Sure enough, on the second half of the cover of the second piece of news, with No. 2 movable type, there were lined up the words "Xie Yueying, a super civil and military student, will be on stage today, a leading actress". ", the two supporting roles of "Chen Liankui, the only blackhead in the female world".The play they are performing tonight is the last play of "Second Entry into the Palace".

When I was in Beijing, although I didn't go shopping in Hutongs, I often went to listen to operas.That night, after eating a little wine alone in the restaurant, I suddenly became interested, paid the bill and went downstairs, and decided to sit in the theater.The girls I saw during the day were of course one of the reasons why I had this fantasy.Because I am at the door of the hotel.I heard a sentence or two of their conversation.But are they actresses?I heard that there are a lot of prostitutes staying in the hotel, maybe they are also a joker?And if they were really actresses, were they in the same class as Xie Yueying?If they are really members of Xie Yueying's class, then who is Xie Yueying?These irrelevant and worthless questions would never come to my mind. At this time, it was probably because my life was too monotonous, and there was nothing to think about in my mind. I used toothpicks to keep my teeth alive along the way. I bowed my head and occupied all my thoughts one after another.Walking on the rough and dark street, turning a few turns north to west, in less than ten minutes, I came to the entrance of the unlucky theater that I had been to once. Fortunately, it was night, and the collapse of the left, right, front, and rear was a little obscured by the light of a gasoline lamp.After all, it was the day when well-known celebrities were on the stage, and the ticket gate in front of the gate was actually crowded with many middle-class gentlemen.On the road outside the door, there are still many idlers of the fourth class, who opened their mouths to watch the gasoline lights and the excitement. I bought a ticket, squeezed my way through the crowd and the sound of gongs and drums, and sat down at a frontal table in the third row.The play has been running for a long time, and at this time the fourth play of "Sizhou City" is being performed on the stage.The jumping and beating of those girls is really outrageous.I just bit my melon seeds and watched the surroundings and the guests in the theater.A few yellow lamps were lit in the arena, and the front hall was also packed with two to three hundred people.The hatchback next to the hall is about second-class seats, and there are all soldiers in gray uniforms.Above the hatchback and the back hall, there is a ring building, on which only female relatives sit.In rows 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the main hall, sat some very young, luxuriously dressed, fashionable youths that can be found anywhere in China.They seem to come to this theater often, everyone is greeting and talking, criticizing the actresses, criticizing the guests upstairs, sometimes laughing, sometimes wrestling with each other, sometimes whispering in secret. After "Sizhou City" came off the stage, the gasoline lamp on the stage seemed to add a layer of light, and there was a sudden shout in my ears. As if trying to win glory for their ancestors, after seeing every move of the obscene Huadan, they screamed desperately, and there were many voices of laughter at the same time.It's so funny, I was really unable to sit still by them, I lifted my waist several times, and wanted to stand up and walk, but when I thought about it, there were not many scenes left, and I gritted my teeth and endured it, just waiting It waits! After two hours of hard work, the gongs and drums on the stage were beating hard, and the stage was cold for a while, and the last play of "Second Entry into the Palace" was on the bottom.Sure enough, the girl in dark blue satin during the day played the role of Master Yang. As soon as I saw her come out, I blushed unknowingly, and at the same time, there was a thunderous cry in my ears, which made me even more angry. I got dizzy, her appearance is really not bad, but there is a beard there, the whole face, I can't see clearly, but her charming eyes, the eyes that sweep down the stage from time to time, really make this class The frightening power of a wandering boy.Although her voice is not sonorous, she can distinguish characters very clearly, catch her breath, and her tempo is especially steady.In this small city A, in this ruined theater, of course she can overwhelm everything.Unknowingly, I also received her hypnotic suggestion. Until the end of the show, I poured all my energy into the two of them. The other two supporting roles, I only know how to play Long Guotai , it was the girl in the purple jacket during the day, and the one who played the role of Lord Chitose must be the so-called Chen Liankui in black and black trousers. Among the three of them, Chen Liankui was taller and Li Lanxiang seemed to be too short, neither too long nor too short.It is Xie Yueying who is suitable everywhere, after all, she is a well-deserved super famous actor. I don't know if she noticed me with her sweeping eyes that night.But after the play ended, when I came out of the play garden and walked out of the city on the dark road, these nouns were all in my mind: "Oh! Superstar!" "Oh! Wenwu Xusheng!" "Xie Yueying! Xie Yueying!" "What a Xie Yueying!"