Chapter 38 – I Want to Kiss You 2
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Qingcheng was a little dumbfounded, but under the urging of everyone’s gaze, she could only bite the bullet and walked forward.
“Is she from the acting department?”
“She’s a bit familiar.”
“It’s the senior sister from directing department…”
After Qingcheng came on stage, Tong Anzhi smiled at her, “Since my senior fellow called a girl, then I’ll call a boy. Let’s see what the boy’s sleeve dance can be.”
“Good!” There was a roaring voice from the audience.
Finally, a short and chubby boy with glasses was named. He was very relaxed, with a quick steps, he got on stage amidst the farewells of everyone.
What Su Po teaches is Xiaosheng’s orchid finger. He first made a demonstration, “One finger is connected to one finger, and three fingers turns like this. The fingers must be completely under your command. You can turn it this way this or that way. The hand needs to be turned like this. It’s completely attached to your heart. You can subconsciously move it, and every finger points to it. Just like this, you try. “
If you want to teach, you really need to teach seriously.
After watching the play for such a long time, Qingcheng only felt that it was not easy for the actors. When she started to move her hands, she truly realized how difficult it was. She has played a musical instrument since elementary school and thinks that her fingers are still flexible, but she just can’t do what Su Po said.
“Like this.” Su Po touched her fingertips, slightly helped her adjust her posture.
Qingcheng once again felt the tingling sensation that seemed to be familiar. It keeps drilling from her fingers to her heart.
She thought: This is really intimate.
The whole teaching process is very short. Although the two people sometimes get close to each other, they still behave in a very formal way, but many girls still can’t help screaming. They want to be the person on the stage.
When Su Po’s guidance was over, while the girls’ hearts were still pounding, the chubby boy had already put on the sleeves given by Tong Anzhi.
The first time, he didn’t shake it up; the second time, it hit his face directly; the third time, he barely passed the level, but when he turned around, it still flashed to his waist.
“Are you all right?” Tong Anzhi asked quickly.
“It’s okay…it’s okay, hahaha…” The chubby boy held his waist and asked with a smile, “Teacher Tong, did I do it right?”
“By the way, the last one was really good.” Tong Anzhi hurriedly nodded, for him, it is indeed good.
“Well, they all said I am a flexible fat man.” The chubby boy shouted happily.
There was a lot of laughter in the audience, the atmosphere was quite good.
Qingcheng was also amused by the side. Inadvertently, Su Po leaned into her ear and whispered, “After this event ends, let’s have a dinner together?”
Qingcheng stunned for a while, didn’t expect that he would tell her on stage such personal words. Fortunately, everyone’s eyes were attracted by the boy now, no one really paid attention to their movements.
“I have to go back to Second Uncle’s studio first.” She leaned forward and spoke at the fastest speed in her life, then quickly stood up.
Su Po smiled and mouthing “Okay” to her. Qingcheng felt her heart beating a little fast.
After the interactive session, Qingcheng and the boy went down. She checked the time and then at Su Po who was communicating with the host on stage. After explaining a few words to Lin Yi, she hurried to the Second Uncle’s side.
Later, on the way back, Lin Yi carefully asked Su Po in the front seat, “Brother, did Little Director Xu ever send you a red envelope?”
Su Po was puzzled, “What?”
Lin Yi wondered if he should mention this to his senior brother.
After coming out of the Second Uncle’s studio, Qingcheng waited for Su Po in a nearby bookstore as agreed.
Outside the window, the sun is shining. The window seat in the bookstore is especially suitable for waiting for people. Just as Qingcheng finished contacting Su Po, she found that Tong Anzhi had also sent her a message.
Tong Anzhi: I was so nervous about the speech in the afternoon, but luckily it ended smoothly.
Qingcheng: Today’s speech is great.
Tong Anzhi: Who do you think is better between me and Su Po?
Qingcheng: ... are all great.
Tong Anzhi: Today, Boss Su asked you to be on the stage. I thought you would favor him.
Qingcheng remembered that when she was on stage, Su Po’s hand touched hers intentionally or unintentionally. At that time, she was really grateful to her grandma’s teaching to be ‘brave and calm’ since she was a child.
She replied to Tong Anzhi: I’d rather be an audience.
Tong Anzhi: Haha, Brother Su is a bit strict. He is not as kind as I am, it must be hard for you. Speaking of which, the leader originally wanted to invite me to dinner with Brother Su this evening. I said I had a dinner appointment with my dear. As a result, Brother Su also said, “the same reason.” He was the first person in the group who dared to lead the dinner party in such a nonsense way.
Qingcheng originally wanted to find a chance to talk to Tong Anzhi about her relationship with Su Po, but after considering it for a long time, she couldn’t figure out how to say it. The other party first sent a sentence, “I’ll drive first, let’s talk again later.”
After thinking about it, Qingcheng deleted half of the words and replied, “OK. Drive carefully. “
The sunset has fallen, and a large evening glow appeared in the sky, making the whole world in a rosy color.
Through the glass window, Qingcheng saw Su Po’s car approaching.
After Qingcheng got in the car, Su Po handed her a bottle of juice. Qingcheng’s head still echoed the sentence ‘I have an appointment with a dear one for dinner’.
“You can decide where to eat.” Su Po smiled and said, “After all, you know all the delicious restaurant owners in this city.”
“…I think you think highly of me too much.”
“It’s a compliment. “
Boss Su’s smile became more obvious.
Qingcheng replied “Thank you” in a complicated mood, and then began to show the way. When approaching the restaurant, she simply said, “The specialty of this restaurant is medicated old duck casserole. Old duck is a good tonic. The soup in this restaurant also adds traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing kidneys and preventing cold. It’s just right to eat it in winter.”
After hearing this, Su Po said, “My stomach is good, so does my kidney, but it’s okay to mend it.”
Qingcheng: “…”
Su Po was stunned and said, “I don’t mean anything else.” This is really the truth.
Qingcheng hopes that there will be a hole in the ground where she can bury her head for a while. At this momeny, Su Po reached out, grabbed her hand gently, and said, “You are making me nervous.”
“……”
Qingcheng couldn’t remember how they finished their dinner that day.
She only remembered that when the two of them were eating, the sycamore in the small courtyard of the restaurant blocked most of the sunlight, occasionally leaking a few wisps of light, and reflected them on the floor next to the dining table through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, folded into a kaleidoscope-like bright pattern of colored glaze.
Qingcheng thought: I haven’t found that pattern before. It’s quite beautiful.
Before the start of the ‘Red Mansion Semi-finals’, each troupe reported the repertoire of the selected actors. All participating actors are seizing the last time to practice. In the meantime, Director Xu had a seminar to go to Haishi. Maybe he felt that he had been taking his niece to do Kunqu Opera all the time, which made her “not do her proper work”, so he applied with the Organizing Committee for an extra seat and brought Qingcheng.
After Qingcheng arrived in Haishi, just after check-in at the hotel, she received a message from Su Po: Are you there?
Qingcheng: Just arrived at the hotel.
Su Po: It’s almost six o’clock. Don’t eat dinner too late.
Qingcheng: Second Uncle met an acquaintance and was chatting with each other. It is estimated that it would take a while. I’m not hungry, either. By the way, when I was on the road, Second Uncle talked about you and Boss Yan.
Su Po: What did he say?
Qingcheng: Said you… are very dedicated.
Su Po: Um.
A group of juniors passed in front of Su Po who was smiling. Lin Yi stopped suddenly, looked at him strangely and asked, “Who are Senior Brother talking to that makes you smiled so happily?”
Without looked up, Su Po waved his hand and said, “Go to practice.”
The rest of the people ran away obediently, except for the most daring Lin Yi. He quickly got to Su Po’s side, peeked at his mobile phone and saw the phrase “very dedicated” at a glance.
“Senior Brother.” Lin Yi shrank his neck to prevent being beaten, but couldn’t help but said, “You are the person who often praised the most. Even if Chen Tuan says you are so good, you don’t have much reaction. What’s the situation today?”
Su Po kept his phone, patted Lin Yi on the shoulder, and said with a smile, “Not going yet?”
Lin Yi looked at his smile, suddenly felt a violent spirit coming, and immediately ran away, “I’ll go now!”
Qingcheng spent a few days in Haishi, and only returned to Baizhou with Second Uncle on the day of the ‘Red Mansion Semi-Finals’.
Because it was a semifinal, the number of people who advanced was somewhat hard-working. The actors naturally pay more attention to it.
Su Po never likes to sensationalize, but still chose Hou Fangyu in ‘Peach Blossom Fan’. Yan Yan also knew that the trick could only be used once, so he no longer chose Liu Mengmei in ‘The Peony Pavilion’. Shen Jiajue accidentally collided with Yan Yan’s repertoire this time, both were choose ‘Pick Up’. Moreover, they happened to perform one after another, which made them a rival in the eyes of experts.
When Su Po saw Shen Jiajue stepping down lonely, and since the two knew each other, Su Po didn’t give any comfort because he knew Shen Jiajue didn’t need it. He just reached out and patted Shen Jiajue’s arm.
Shen Jiajue appreciated it and didn’t say much, “You can do it.”
“Okay.”
Then came Zhao Nan.
Zhao Nan didn’t choose Xiaosheng’s play, but chose his own play ‘Tiger’s Bullet Hit the Drunk Mountain Gate’.
This play has nothing to do with Xiaosheng, but it has something to do with ‘Red Mansions’. On Baochai’s birthday, Jia’s mother asked her to order a play. This one is what she ordered. She also recommended the piece of ‘Parasite Grass’ to Baoyu.
Qingcheng guessed, maybe it was because of this origin and the sudden increase of Zhao Nan’s popularity in the preliminary round that the organizing committee would agree to him using this repertoire to participate in the competition.
Qingcheng had heard this one in Zhao Nan’s solo performance, but this time, she always felt that Zhao Nan on the stage seemed to be Lu Zhishen instead of playing Lu Zhishen, especially when he sang the ‘Parasite Grass’. Qingcheng has watched “A Dream of Red Mansions” dozens of times and is very familiar with its lyrics. She knows that it was sung by Lu Zhishen when he said goodbye to his master.
The tears of heroes, separated from the master’s home. Thank you for your kindness, shaving under lotus stage.
Unfavorable, separated in a blink of an eye. Naked, come and go without worry.
Where to ask, smoke and rain hat roll alone? As long as I am, the mans shoes will be broken!
Once the show was over, there was thunderous applause in the audience, and some audiences really cried.
Not surprisingly, Zhao Nan should also be promoted this time.
Su Po’s draw was the last one in the Xiaosheng group.
He looked at the round clock hanging on the wall. There was still some time before he went on the stage, so he sat alone in front of the dressing table silently.
Just then, the staff in charge of instrumental music suddenly came to him in a hurry.
“Teacher Su, Mr. Zhang, who is in charge of the Qin, had gastroenteritis. Just now we had him sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. You see, you will go on stage in a while, or just keep it as it is?”
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