"Master Guan, I want to send this child to you to learn opera!"

The woman looked thin, with a round face and big eyes. She was wearing a pair of eye-catching red embroidered shoes. She was covered in travel dust, but the clothes she wore were quite thin.

The old master sat on the chair and looked at the timid child in her arms. She didn't say much. She had to have a career in singing. She only went to the handsome child and felt her muscles and bones. Waiting for the child's left hand to slip out of her sleeve.

He took it out, and heard a hey from his mouth. He immediately lost interest and said in a neutral tone: "You kid has no chance of singing, so you should go back!"

Saying that, he sat back down again.

All I could see was that there was a small cross on the child's little finger, six fingers.

Master Guan slowly rolled up his sleeves, and then said: "Think about it, when he appears on stage, all the people listening to the show will be scared away!"

"Isn't this a sign to destroy my Guan family class?"

The woman's eyes dimmed, she pulled the child into her arms and rubbed his face. "Master Guan, it's not that I can't support him, but it's because the boy is too old to keep him. That's why he came to join you. At least you have to

Take him—"

When she said this, she squinted her eyes, glanced at the old master, and said with a silly smile: "As long as you can accept him, you can do whatever you want!"

As soon as her legs were bent, the woman knelt down, her eyes were red, and she wiped her nose.

"Don't dislike us!"

Master Guan, who had his white hair combed meticulously, waved his hand in a hurry. "Don't mention it, among the lower classes, you are ranked second, and I am ranked seventh. Who dislikes whom?"

"But if Grandmaster doesn't appreciate this meal, what can you do? You'd better go back!"

Inside the theater shed.

The little man put his hands on the ground and put his feet in the air. He looked at Su Qing who was sweating profusely in pain and laughed. He took a breath and whispered: "Hey, Xiaoqing, you have to be held up even when you poop or pee.

I didn’t even cry out that it hurt, just two words, tough!”

Su Qing closed her eyes.

"Stop talking, you'll be punished if you're careful!"

The little leper shouted: "That's nothing, I've already practiced making incense!"

"Dangdang~"

"Grinding scissors and sharpening kitchen knives——"

In the alley outside the courtyard wall, the dealers shouted vigorously.

Everyone was practicing vigorously, when suddenly.

"ah!"

A heart-rending scream drove away all sounds.

"Oh my God!"

The little leper was about to speak when he suddenly heard such a sound and immediately fell to the ground, frightened.

"What's wrong?"

All the apprentices in the shed were frightened and rushed toward the screams. The little man carried Su Qing on his back and limped over.

When they passed by, they saw that the door of the inner hall was crowded with people. They leaned against the door and looked inside. A handsome child was covering his left hand and screaming miserably. The extra sixth finger,

He was chopped into pieces, and he was bleeding profusely.

The lights were bright, Master Guan took the deed, put the child's bloody left hand on it and pressed it, and a fingerprint was completed.

The woman stood aside, her face pale, her eyes filled with tears, and her body trembling. She took the cotton-padded clothes she was wearing and put it on the child, saluted Master Guan, then turned and left.

"mother!"

When the child looked back, there was no one outside the door, only heavy snowfall was left.

It's night.

Su Qing was lying on the bunk bed, her legs were shaking with pain, and she could only sit against the wall, gently kneading the muscles on her thighs. The fire was burning brightly in the house, and the heavy snow was falling outside, and the little stone was kneeling in the snow and singing.

The song "Running at Night" was shivering from the cold, my voice was also ups and downs, and my teeth were chattering.

"Crunch!"

The door was pushed open, and a child walked in with tears in his eyes, like a fledgling that had been left behind, with resentment and cold eyes.

It's just that the world is difficult, who can he blame?

The noisy disciples in the room immediately looked at him.

The little leper turned over, took off the makeup on his face, and laughed strangely. "Where did he come from the brothel? Go away!"

Everyone burst into laughter immediately, with curiosity in their eyes.

These children were not experienced in the world, and some were sent to theater troupes when they were young. I am afraid that the word "house" was heard through hearsay, so how could anyone know what it meant.

Maybe his mother gave birth to this child in a brothel, and raised him as a daughter. He was young, handsome, and could hide his appearance, but as time went by, a boy was still a boy, and his body and voice changed.

, but it is true that it is too big to keep. Otherwise, if they leave the yard and lose their flesh and blood business, both mother and son will starve to death on the streets.

The world is difficult and troubled, how can it be easy for a woman to drag a half-grown child, let alone a despised and lowly prostitute.

The little leper really lived up to his name, with a bit of a leopard look. Seeing that the child ignored him, he turned over and raised his feet, and the only brocade cotton coat his mother left for him was hooked out of the child's arms.

"Something in the kiln fell to the floor!"

There was another burst of shouting.

In silent determination, the child with ear-length hair picked up these last thoughts without saying a word, threw them into the brazier, and burned them.

When the fire started, all the children didn't want this scene to happen. They all opened their eyes and looked closely without saying anything.

Even the little leper looked at this scene with resentment.

Su Qing sat quietly in the corner, witnessing all this, saying nothing, just rubbing her thighs, silent.

He can't help anyone because even he himself is still struggling.

"Bang!"

There was another noise outside the door. Everyone got into bed one after another when they heard it, and looked around with their heads exposed. They saw Xiao Shitou shrunk, with frost on his eyebrows, and walked in shivering, still slurring in his mouth.

Humming the opera.

Seeing the child standing next to the brazier, he immediately raised his eyebrows.

"Did you bully him?"

"Okay, sleep with me tonight!"

He waved his hand.

Unexpectedly, before he reached his hand out to the other party, he was pushed away and staggered. Looking at the child's vicious look, he was not annoyed and just smiled.

"Haha, that's quite outrageous!"

He breathed hot air into his hand.

"Go, little leper, sleep in the monk's bed!"

"Okay!"

The little leper responded and moved his naked buttocks into the quilt of another child.

"then!"

But he saw Xiao Shitou throwing his quilt over again. When he got into Xiao Laizi's bed, he was still shivering and gasping. He pointed outside and said with a smile: "It's extremely cold outside, Master."

If you pee on a bull's eye, it will turn into ice, almost knocking me over!"

Then he said: "We all have a name, what is your name?"

Tears filled the child's eyes, and he subconsciously reached out to hug the quilt. He was stunned for a long time before becoming speechless.

"Little beans!"

"That's quite a coincidence. From now on, we will all be juniors. My name is Xiao Shitou, his name is Xiao Laizi, your name is Xiao Douzi, and his name is Xiao Qing. He came yesterday!" Xiao Shitou saw that he was willing to speak.

With a smile on his face, he pointed at Su Qing and the others.

He patted the bed next to him.

"Stop holding the fire, come up and squeeze. It will get even colder when the brazier goes out!"

After saying that, he turned over, leaned against the wall, and started practicing the exercises again.

While hesitating, Xiaodouzi moved step by step to the edge of the bed, put on the clothes on his body, and lay down on it in silence.

Outside the house, the north wind howled and the snow drifted heavily.

Su Qing also lay down. As soon as he lay down, an indescribable sleepiness surged through his body, and all the thoughts in his mind disappeared.
Chapter completed!