Around one in the afternoon.
In the pear garden in the south of the city.
At a table near the window on the second floor, Li Wen looked down at the stage below. Someone was performing Peking opera.
"I say, Master Bull, why did you bring me to the theater to watch a show? Didn't you say that you would bring me to see a painting by Tang Yin?”
Master Bull chuckled." Boss Li, don't be anxious. That person is still on his way. He agreed to come and watch the show. That's why he agreed to bring the painting over."”
"That person isn't selling?"
Li Wen frowned. He still had something to do at night. He had heard from Master Bull that someone wanted to sell Tang Yin's painting, so he had come over.
" Of course," Lord Bull said with a smile." But in the antique calligraphy and painting industry, it can't be called selling. It should be called giving up what you love!"”
"Hehe, I'm willing to part with it…"
Li Wen smiled. He was really picky. He was already going to sell his painting, yet he still had so many tricks up his sleeve.
Seeing that he had not arrived yet, she drank tea with Master Niu while watching the Beijing opera performance on the stage.
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At this moment.
The backstage of the pear garden was very lively.
More than a dozen actors were practicing with knives, spears, sticks, and sticks. Some were wearing costumes and babbling. Some were even putting on makeup. They were all preparing for the next performance.
Beside a dressing table in the corner, there was a young lady who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old.
She held an eyebrow pencil in her hand and looked into a glass mirror. She gently traced her eyebrows and applied blush.
The girl's name was Qiu Hong. She was a slightly famous actress in green in the pear garden in the south of the city.
Although she was young, she was good at singing, reading, acting, and playing. Many seniors in the pear garden praised her.
There were also people who often lamented that Qiu Hong was born in the wrong era.
With the big boss spending a lot of money to support him, he would definitely be famous in the capital and become a famous actor.
"Oh my god, Qiuhong, hurry up. It's your turn soon.”
When the director of Pear Garden saw that Qiu Hong was still putting on makeup, she hurriedly ran over.
"Class Master Li, what's the hurry? I'll finish drawing it immediately."
Qiu Hong raised her head and glanced at Class Master Li before continuing to brush her eyebrows.
"Aiyo, aren't you in a hurry?" Class Master Li slapped her thigh. The people in front are piled up into a mountain. If you don't go out now, I'm afraid someone will smash our team!”
Qiu Hong's lips twitched." The Pear Garden is about to become a People's Theater. Who dares to smash it?"”
The pear garden in the south of the city was once one of the four famous pear gardens in the city.
Recently, some leaders had decided to turn the pear garden into the People's Theater in the south of the city. In addition to the opera troupe, there had to be some other performances to enrich the leisure life of the workers and peasants.
"Alright, alright. I can't win against you. Hurry up.”
Upon hearing this, Class Master Li sighed in embarrassment.
In the 13th year of the Republic of China, he single-handedly established this pear garden in the south of the city.
Although it was not as good as Boss Mei's Chenghua Troupe, it was still one of the four major opera houses in the city.
However, the pear garden in the south of the city had been developing for so many years, but until now, there had not been a single famous actor who had shaken the world.
Until Class Master Li discovered Qiuhong, this child with extraordinary talent.
He felt that this girl had the potential to become a famous actress.
Therefore, Class Master Li had trained Qiu Hong to sing and fight since she was young. She had invited a famous teacher to guide her.
He thought that when he grew up, he would find some big bosses who liked to watch Beijing opera to help him.
Spending a lot of money to make Qiuhong famous, making her the second Mei Lanfang.
But who knew that the heavens would not go as they wished. With the establishment of Xin, although the business of the pear garden was still booming.
However, the prosperous times of the past where rich people spent thousands of dollars to promote famous actors and compete for comparison were gone forever.
Although Qiu Hong had been on the stage for several years now and had some fame in the south of the city, it was still far from the world-shaking fame that Class Master Li wanted.
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Time passed quickly.
Unknowingly, ten minutes had passed.
Li Wen sipped his tea as he watched the Peking opera performance.
Li Wen, like most of the young people in the future, almost never paid attention to Peking opera.
There were two main reasons for this.
Peking opera wasn't very enjoyable to watch. Apart from the older generation, very few young people liked it.
Secondly, in modern society, the entertainment industry was developed. There were movies, television dramas, games, novels...
There were too many forms of entertainment, causing Peking opera to decline further.
However, that would be decades later.
Nowadays, there were countless people who loved opera in the country.
The people of Beijing loved Beijing opera to death.
Almost anyone who had some spare money on hand loved to spend a few cents to come to the pear garden to watch the show.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man in his forties was eating melon seeds and drinking tea. He looked at the Beijing opera performance on the stage and said with dissatisfaction,
"I say, what is this Chengnan Theater doing? Why hasn't Qiu Hong appeared yet?"
"That's right, we're here to see Qiuhong. Hurry up and let her go on stage to sing Farewell My Concubine!”
"I want to see Farewell My Concubine!"
" Farewell, Concubine!!!"
Someone took the lead to cause trouble, and the people below were like a pot of oil that had exploded, boiling all of a sudden.
Li Wen, who was on the second floor, saw this scene and was very surprised. He asked,"Master Bull, what's going on?"
Looking at the commotion on the first floor, Lord Bull chuckled and said,""It's nothing. This group of people are here to see Farewell My Concubine. This theater hasn't been on for so long, so naturally, everyone is dissatisfied.”
"Farewell, Concubine?"
"Yes, Farewell, Concubine."
Lord Bull looked at Li Wen and smiled." Boss Li, you used to live overseas, so you might not know much about the opera garden in 49 City. Farewell My Concubine is the specialty of this theater, especially the Qingyi Qiuhong who plays Concubine Yu. She's a famous actress in the theater.”
Qiu Hong?
Li Wen frowned when he heard this name. It sounded familiar.
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