Chapter01.

In the air-conditioned first-class cabin, Zhuang Qin curled up to sleep. He was wearing a sweater, covered with a down jacket and blanket. Xiao Lian, the assistant sitting next to him, turned his head to look at him from time to time, and whispered to the flight attendant for another blanket.

During the long journey, the aircraft's energy consumption was minimized, and the cabin was black and covered him with a small movement.

The big star who fell asleep was very different from the dazzling him on the stage. His sick face was pale and bloodless, and his eyelashes hung tiredly like crow feathers, breathing so light that he couldn't hear it.

"Brother Zhuang, we'll be here soon."

The radio reminded him that Zhuang Qin seemed to have been woken up. Xiao Lian unscrewed the thermos cup and poured hot water into the lid of the cup.

"Has it arrived?" Zhuang Qin slowly opened his eyes and could feel that he was descent.

"Just just now, the flight attendant reminded him that there are still forty minutes, so drink some water." Xiao Lian handed him the cup, and at the same time reached out to open the porthole. It was the day outside, and the sun was dazzling and the plane was shaking. Zhuang Qin squinted his eyes. His pale face could see tiny fluff under the golden light outside the window.

"Thank you." He got used to the light, sat up and drank water, but hadn't had enough sleep, and his voice was a little hoarse.

When the flight landed, Xiao Lian quickly took all the hat, mask, sunglasses to his artists. Zhuang Qin laughed: "This is the United States, no one knows me."

"Brother Zhuang, you are too underestimating your energy. You are a top star. As the Spring Festival approaches, how many international students have returned to China! Will they not know you?" Xiao Lian ignored it and put a scarf around his neck to cover his chin.

Zhuang Qinran was silent. For a long time, he was an ordinary person. He appeared cleanly anywhere and no one would recognize him.

Suddenly, he returned to his peak and was still very uncomfortable.

It was so heavy snow in Minneapolis, and a snow covered everything, and it was covered in white.

"Master!" Zhuang Qin walked out of the airport, asked on the phone for a long time, and finally saw someone.

"Hi!" Zhuang Xuejiu shouted, "Little bell!"

The rustling wind whistled in my ears with snowflakes.

Zhuang Qin looked up. When his master adopted him, he was already forty years old. He was almost sixty years old. He had been worried about his own opera troupe for most of his life. He had white hair on his head, but because he had to practice basic skills in opera, he was not convinced of his old age and was full of energy. He did not see his old age later.

Zhuang Qin's emotions that had been tense for a long time were in a mess when he saw him. He rushed over and hugged Zhuang Xuejiu with a crying voice: "Master, I miss you so much, miss your master's wife."

Zhuang Xuejiu laughed and patted him on the back and said, "Master misses you too! A little brat, I was still thinking about you a few days ago, and you suddenly called me, "You said, is it a father and son who is in love?"

"Yes, yes." He was filled with mixed feelings, and there was a blur of water before his eyes.

When he was young, he was abandoned on the steps outside the senior show troupe. Master Zhuang Xuejiu and his pregnant wife picked him up and named him Zhuang Qin. He had two senior sisters on his head and a junior brother below, both of whom were the master’s wife’s flesh and blood, and he formed a home entertainment troupe with several apprentices.

After the reform and opening up, the senior high school comedy troupe also ushered in a spring. The class master Zhuang Xue had been glorious for a long time, but the good times did not last long. The senior high school's celebration declined again.

Zhuang Qin learned opera as a child and got up to practice at 5:30 every day. After many years, he grew up and the opera troupe collapsed and he really couldn't continue to operate. Zhuang Xuejiu knew that this industry might starve the child to death, so he sent the child to school. Later, another senior brother in the United States wrote to him, and his senior brother became rich in the United States, so he asked him to go there.

When Zhuang Qin was a child, she liked watching movies, singing operas, acting, and wanted to be an actor.

Zhuang Xuejiu didn't expect that he would be admitted to the film school, so he did not agree, but the child was surprisingly determined in this matter. Zhuang Xuejiu could not, so he let him go. When the child went to college, Zhuang Xuejiu went to the United States to join his senior brother. Now he has settled there for several years.

When Zhuang Qin called him, he was a little surprised. He thought that the Chinese New Year was coming and he hadn't seen each other for several years. He was very happy. He asked for leave and drove over to pick him up early in the morning.

Xiao hurriedly greeted Zhuang Xuejiu, who was elegant and extraordinary. Zhuang Xuejiu noticed that there was still someone else.

Zhuang Qin introduced: "Master, this is my friend, Lian Sansi."

Zhuang Xuejiu shook hands with him: "I am lucky to meet you, I am Zhuang Xuejiu."

"Hello Uncle Zhuang... My name is Lian Sansi, just call me Xiaolian. I am Brother Zhuang's assistant."

"That's you taking care of him, right? Thank you." He smiled angrily.

"If it's not the case, it should be, it should be." Xiao Lian discovered that Brother Zhuang was kind and polite. It was a family tradition. Master Zhuang is 1.8 meters tall, about the same height as Brother Zhuang, with a straight facial features and a tall figure. I think he must have been a handsome opera master when he was young.

"You must have worked hard along the way. Have you had a meal?" Zhuang Xuejiu opened the trunk of the red Chevrolet. Xiaolian put his and Zhuang Qin's luggage on. Several people got into the car. Zhuang Qin said he didn't eat it. Zhuang Xuejiu reversed: "Do you eat hamburgers? You like to eat that when you were a child. The Americans can't do anything else. The hamburgers are very solid and there is a lot of meat."

Just as Xiao Lian was about to remind him not to eat fast food, he heard Zhuang Qin say "Hmm" heavily: "I will eat whatever the master says is delicious."

To him, the master and his wife were his closest relatives and his parents. In his life, Zhuang Qin had never quarreled with them except for going to the film school and insisting on being an actor.

"If you don't want to eat fast food, just go to the Chinese restaurant. You have to drive home for a few hours."

"So far?"

"Your uncle set up a camping resort and organized a lot of outdoor activities. Your master's wife and I live there, and there is a small snowfield. Your master's wife works there. There are not many people, little bells, how long will it last?"

When I heard the title of "Little Bell" frequently, Xiao Lian raised his ears. This is Brother Zhuang's nickname? Isn't it too cute?

"I'll go back after the New Year." Zhuang Qin asked, "My teacher's wife works in the ski resort? Why is she working and how is she in good health?"

"She is in good health. And she can't stay idle, so your uncle found her a free errand to activate the snow card in the snow resort, work and rest for a day. The salary is high and the person is not tired. And when she is indoors, let's go with her." Zhuang Xuejiu looked at him in the rearview mirror, "Aren't you very busy at work?"

"It's busy," Zhuang Qin knew that his master and his wife didn't go online much, and didn't know that he fainted when he filmed the show. "The company specially gave me a fake and asked me to go home for a reunion dinner. I want to... spend more time with you two elders."

Zhuang Qin thought that four months later, the news would be heard that his master's wife was seriously ill, and he felt a thrill in his heart, saying, "Master, have you ever had regular physical examinations?"

"What are you doing with a physical examination? If you don't go, it's expensive to die in the United States."

"That won't work. You have to go. You have to prevent anything. I'll pay for the money. When we arrive later, we'll go to the hospital for a physical examination."

Zhuang Xuejiu really couldn't resist it. The two of them had a fight for a long time. He said helplessly: "Okay, okay, physical examination, physical examination chief, right?"

"Yeah!" He then laughed.

Xiao Lian was reporting his itinerary to Sister Wen, but when he saw him laughing, he was stunned.

Brother Zhuang is so beautiful, with his face and peach blossom eyes, and his eyes that are clearly distinguished from black and white seem to be able to speak. This is the benefit of learning opera. His eyes are particularly bright and clear, and very vivid. When he smiles, he melts like winter snow, and a shallow dimples under the corner of his mouth blooms.

Even those black fans who were jumping up and down could only use words like "varnish" to humiliate him.

It’s just a pity that an accident occurred when filming a variety show last week. Brother Zhuang seemed to have a broken brain, did a big thing, and had a stumble with the company. Xiao Lian followed him, one to watch him, and the other to persuade him to return to the wrong path.

The car became more and more remote as it drove, and it was an uninhabited area. The scenery on both sides was charming. Zhuang Qin stared at it for a while and saw someone skiing in a ski suit on the road.

Soon he fell asleep, and Xiao Lian took the initiative to lend him his shoulders. Brother Zhuang had a problem. He was too tired to sleep on the sofa and leaned against the sofa. He fell asleep in one second. He leaned his head directly on the shoulder of another male actor. He didn't know that the male star was reluctant to wake him up, so he hugged Zhuang Qin as a human pillow for an hour.

Someone took a secret photo, but it didn't spread it, but the agent Sister Wen was still furious and told Zhuang Qin not to do this anymore.

Seeing that he was asleep, Zhuang Xuejiu turned off the radio. This highway leads to the large rural area where he lives. On the map is a very straight long road. The gray areas on both sides of the road are snow-covered primeval forests, and the small dot at the end of the road is home.

The red Chevrolet was driving on the road like a small dot.

When the car stopped, Zhuang Qin woke up and asked Xiaolian: "Is your shoulders sour?"

Xiao Lian shook his head.

Zhuang Qin rubbed his shoulders twice and said, "Next time you go to bed, lean on my shoulders."

Xiao Lian was flattered and thought that Zhuang Qin had no airs and was so gentle that he could arrange to be his assistant. He was really lucky.

"Master's wife? Why isn't my master's wife at home?"

Zhuang Xuejiu parked his car in the parking space. The house he was here was a small villa with a yard, which was second-hand. Some were born in the year. The floor would creak when he entered, and the furniture was all old items.

Zhuang Xuejiu took off his coat and hung it on the hanger in the entrance hall, took off his leather gloves: "Your master's wife will be back soon, she will get off work at half past four."

At four o'clock, it was dark here.

"Are you used to it here?" Zhuang Qin carried his bag, Xiao Lian followed behind him, looking at the old house with a strong sense of life, and vaguely saw ham and bacon hanging in the ventilated kitchen.

"I've gotten used to it,"

Zhuang Qin immediately said, "Master, I think...whether you and your master's wife want to go back to China? I have made a lot of money and can buy you a new house."

Zhuang Xuejiu smiled and said, "Actually, your master's wife and I just came here, and we are not used to it. We have never seen such heavy snow. There is a popular sport here called ice climbing. The waterfall is frozen like rock climbing. I am not afraid of freezing to death! I know the reason why there are few foreigners, haha... Now I have finally understood the language. Your master's wife has made new friends and your junior brother is studying here, so I can't go back for the time being. And where does the master use you to pay for buying a house? How big is our opera troupe? Do you know how much is it now?"

Zhuang Qin was speechless, and the master greeted, "Come on, go upstairs, this house is not as big as our opera troupe, but there are rooms for you two to make do with."

There is a guest bedroom and a loft, and Xiaolian takes the initiative to say that he sleeps in the loft.

Zhuang Qin found the bathroom to take a shower and changed his clothes. He heard the movement of his master's wife coming back, and he put on his coat and went downstairs.

"Master's wife!Master's wife!" He was too anxious to go down the stairs, and he almost fell down with one foot. The maid was quick to walk, and he hugged him with a "ouch" sound. Hua Dan said in a soft and gentle voice: "Little bell, why are you still frivolous?"

Zhuang Qin hugged her back and choked and said, "Master's wife..."

The master's wife is older than the master. She was a beautiful actress who was fascinated by the whole city. Now she is old, and you can still vaguely see her beauty when she was young.

"Let the master's wife see if she has changed a lot. Oh, why have she lost a lot of weight?"

"The company doesn't let me eat too much. The food I eat every day is prescribed recipes, so I lose weight."

"What your company boss asks for? It's really not human! How can you not let you eat more..."

The master was strict with him. If he could not recite the opera well, he would be punished by kneeling, and punishing him to go hungry. The master's wife was like a mother, treating him well and reluctant to accept the punishment.

At the dinner table, they chatted like in the past. The master's wife said that junior brother Xiaodao would be back in a few days, and the family would be reunited and celebrate the Spring Festival.

"Your junior brother was the most attached to you when he was a child. When he heard your master say that you were here, he bought a plane ticket and came back immediately. It was really uneasy."

Xiao Lian listened silently to the family talk about the past of the opera troupe, and found it very interesting.

It was almost time to rest in the evening, and he secretly asked Zhuang Qin: "Brother Zhuang, your senior sister and junior brother, the nickname you gave is really interesting."

Zhuang Qin smiled and said, "Xiaoming was arrested by Zhou. The master's wife said that when the eldest senior sister was arresting Zhou for the full moon, she caught a purse, so she called Xiaowubao, the second senior sister was Xiaoyuanbao, and the younger brother was Xiaodao."

Xiao Lian suddenly realized: "Are you a little bell?"

"When my junior brother was arresting Zhou for the Month, my master asked me to take one too, and I would like one." He couldn't remember what happened at that time, nor did he remember why he grabbed a bell.

But it is a blessing to hear the teacher's wife calling herself like this.

It was late at night, and Zhuang Qin went back to his room to sleep, took out the clothes in his suitcase one by one and hung them in his wardrobe. Then he saw a wrinkled script copied on A4 paper, with two bold characters on the cover, and a circle of marks left by a coffee cup.
To be continued...