Trinh Phuong Dai is Not Thuong Te Nhi.

Chapter 3

At the mahjong table, Trinh Phuong Dai and his brother-in-law Pham Lien sit opposite, the other two being Thai Thai, a wealthy woman. In the two living rooms, magnificent torch lights are arranged in a total of six tables. They are the people of this class, when it is dark, crowded, birthdays, invitations, reciprocal gathering, getting married, having children, getting together, being frank, borrowing the opportunity to gather and eat, he said, there are no empty days.

Cheng Fengtai was playing cards, Zhuo was wearing a red Western gown, sitting next to her peeling wine, peeling and eating by herself, in a noisy and frenzied area, but it was very quiet. Cheng Fengtai sometimes tilted his head to ask for Zhuo Zhu's wine to eat, teasing him, Zhuo Zhu also did not notice, sometimes unable to bear the abuse, putting the fruit into his mouth.

Pham Lien said with a laugh, forgetting the rules, lighting a cigarette. When he closed his mouth and still could not take a sip, Cheng Fengtai glared at him: "Turn off immediately. My sister's here, she's gonna cough."

Pham Lien was so attached to her cigarette that she complained: “Sister-in-law —— I didn't say you, but we were playing cards, why did you bring Miss Ba out? It's late, the kids have to sleep."

Tra Tra heard someone say he, immediately stopped eating wine, under a bright light like snow, a pair of large transparent brown eyes stared straight at Pham Lien, two cold eyes, and a pair of bright, dark brown eyes, the red clothes on the body also became frightening, dazzling. Pham Lien was looked at by him very unnaturally, she immediately felt that this child was rather evil, gloomy, never saying a word. Eyelids and five senses are beautiful, but beautiful, in that beauty, there is also the aura and sharpness of the killer, I do not know how to lift it. It is said that her mother was a girl from the Nam Cuong tribe, not Miao? Is it poisonous then ...

The women next to them were filled with hatred and immediately lamented: "That's right, Second family, bring the children here, they won't even allow us to smoke, we'll suffocate."

"Just bring his sister, Nhi's family take him everywhere. The last time I spoke to the old man, I also brought him."

“I told this Second Family, is Miss Tam really your real sister? The two brothers are not at all similar. After all, if there is a brother who loves his sister like that, don't lie to us."

When it comes to this place, everyone has a different meaning to laugh. Cheng Fengtai was ridiculed like this by them, smiled, and swept his gaze at them: "No nonsense is allowed! This joke is too immoral.” Just pull Tra Tra Tra's shoulder: "Come, sister, touch me the card."

Zhuo forehand took out a sheet, the grape juice in his hand was stuck on the card, dirty, Cheng Fengtai rubbed his clothes, opened it and looked at it, "drunk". He lowered his head and raised Tra Tra's face to kiss her.

“Aha! Know why I took it, it's my Lucky Star!"

Pham Lien risked the money, angrily saying: "Don't be complacent! I also have a sister, next time bring Kim Linh from my house."

Trinh Phuong Dai said: "Talking about my aunt, Lien, I asked you, why is my wife Pham Du's name, Pham Lien's name, only a little aunt's name has one word Kim? Isn't that a misspelled word?"

(Pham Du Pham Lien Pham Kim Linh: in addition to the word Kim, other words, including the surname, have the set Thuy)

Pham Lien said: “When Ba was born, my prairie was full of grasshoppers, the harvest was not good, and I lost a lot of money. The fortune teller said this because there was too much water in our name, and a lot of money (needles) sank, so my father panicked and named him Ba with Kim on his behalf."

Everyone also woke up to understand oh the long voice. Trivial matters in this well-known spread topic will be of great interest to the listener.

The woman on the right asked: "Does the northern part of the Pham Nhi family still have pastures?"

The opposing Thai immediately looked at Pham Lien, smiled and said to the woman: "Not only the meadows, there are also some mountains with our own guards. That Pham Gia Bao (1), the King of Borders! Whoever married her, it was the princess!"

(1) Pham Gia Bao: Bao means village, city.

The young woman was told that her heart was red, she could not see the modern and friendly appearance of Pham Lien, the family had a very primitive business.

Pham Lien smiled and said: "Whatever Bian Cuong Vuong, it was a name from a long time ago, now it no longer exists! The Japanese came one day, taking a large village from my family, the children of the soldiers at home fought with them every day. I am an educated person, most afraid of this weapon, bringing my brothers and sisters to Bac Binh, looking for my sister to take shelter.”

Cheng Fengtai inhaled a cigarette deeply, narrowed his eyes and spouted smoke: "You still have the face to say this, coward! I don't take care of my house, I just know how to give it to the people below! Change to me, the Japanese dare to move a blade of grass? Don't even poke their bowels!"

Pham Lien nodded and smiled: "That's natural. Who does not know the temperament of Cheng Er, the bandits are alive."

The empress and the young lady were not interested in national war, knowing their background immediately teased: "Tonight Mr. Lien has not won the match, it is difficult to blame her for crying poor. Don't trust him. Those soldiers of the Pham family could fight with the Japanese, could they be worse off? He has studied outside for several years, the prosperous world looks familiar, back to the wild Pham Gia Bao is not like asking for life, running to Bac Binh just for happiness."

The talkative Cheng Fengtai raised his eyebrows and refused to admit it.

Pham Lien's words caused a lot of speculation and curiosity, everyone in the room sharpened their ears to wait for him to say the result, even the sound of playing cards was slower. But Pham Lien was speechless, not speaking, there seemed to be some things inside that were uncomfortable to say.

Cheng Fengtai could not bear it yet, Luc's son, surnamed Thinh Thinh Tu Van, was the younger brother of his old classmate, going to Beijing to study, he was in charge of his guardianship: "How's Thinh's family kid?"

Pham Lien said: "Thinh Gia's son... Haizz, don't tell me my sister hates him, even if she respects him, we can't have a daughter-in-law like that."

“Ai yo you make me want to die! How did Young Master Van end up?"

Pham Lien played the cards, looked around, and asked in surprise: "Why, don't you all know? Thinh Tu Van chanting and singing."

Everyone was sobbing, admiring the learned man who did not study well.

Cheng Fengtai said: "Singing of peaches? Such a young boy was singing and singing?"

Pham Lien regrets: "Ha! Then sing it! Do you know who to sing? Chan is Thuong Te Nhui! Running to the theater every day, writing essays and stories in newspapers for Thuong Te Nhuy, I've gone crazy!"

Everyone was crying again. Falling into the hands of the leading Thuong Te Nhui, this child was considered completely destroyed.

Cheng Fengtai said: "Thuong Te Nhui? It's y again!"

Pham Lien said: "Does his brother-in-law know him even though he doesn't listen to me?"

The person next to him smiled and said, "So, the second family can tell us a little?" "The Cheng Er family heard many buzzing words."

Cheng Fengtai shook his head: "Some people say he's To Dat Ky, some people say he's Ma Van Tai. Say no well. Zhuo Zhu, touch me one more photo."

Liu Tai Tai next to him smacked Cheng Fengtai's hand slightly: "Don't let Miss San touch her again, she will definitely win if she touches Second Grandpa."

Cheng Fengtai rolled his eyes at him and smiled: "So, Liu Tai Tai touched me?"

He deliberately uttered this sentence with another meaning, making the people around him smile, they all knew that Cheng Fengtai this person rarely spoke seriously, no one spoke to him and thought him right. Liu Thai blushed at him. Master Liu, who was far away, also hated to laugh, walked over and pushed Cheng Fengtai: "Cheng Erjia! I don't know if this is so heavy, be careful, I'll tell Aunt Hai."

Pham Lien laughed and said: "There's no point in talking, my sister can't handle it!"

Joking for a while, pulling back the story to the scandal between Thinh Tu Van and Thuong Te Nhuy, but no one noticed Miss Pham Kim Linh.

Trinh Phuong Dai said: "Thinh Tu Van came to Bac Binh to study, he is very good at it, will praise and sing! It takes more money than going to a brothel. If he found out, he would definitely blame me for ruining it. The last time he sent me a letter asking me how much Bac Binh was worth, his brother must always be asking for rent, he was hesitant - Lien, tell me, is this Thuong Te Nhui really To Dat Ky? Tai's? Very bad luck.”

Others say Thuong Te Nhui, all of them carry a lot of legendary nuances, let alone mostly just rumors, whose authenticity remains to be seen. Pham Lien said Thuong Te Nhuy, his credibility is very high. Because that year when these things happened, he was right at Binh Duong. In addition, she was the half-sister of Aunt Hai, who was also a relative of Thuong Chi Tan, who had no blood relation.

Pham Lien said: "As I said, Thuong Te Nhuy is To Dat Ky and Ma Van Tai. That year, at Binh Duong, Ha! Very busy! Thuong Te Nhuy and my cousin-in-law separated, so noisy that the entire theater industry at Binh Duong stopped acting. Binh Duong is not like your Shanghai, full of people who love drama! The current president changes who does it, people sometimes don't know; what drama the famous singer sings, they count more smoothly than genealogy. The singers say they can't sing, they don't sing, hurting Binh Duong's people was like falling into a century of cigarette addiction -- at that time there were fights on the street every day -- there were no neighbors to listen to, he said, their anger instantly became hot, having to fight to put out the fire."

The story of that year at Binh Duong has been repeated and discussed many times by them, but every time it is mentioned, everyone is still very interested.

Someone immediately asked: "They split up, why should they stop performing as a group?"

Pham Lien said: “Think about that, top two characters, everyone has supporters. The two of them were at odds, the team that sided with the person, turned around, and the commotion boiled over! Especially on the floor of Thuy Van, they were divided into two factions at that time, the internal conflict was terrifying. That day, when his brother-in-law and cousin left Binh Duong, Thuong Te Nhuy did not understand, ran upstairs and sang a high-pitched bell one day and one night. The high sound of the Leap, can be thought of as a long-term drought with rain, saving the lives of Binh Duong people. The people in the city all stood under the bell tower listening to him praise him, crowding the streets, the shops on the city streets also stopped trading, he said, and then warned General Truong with his troops and dispersed the crowd. Thuong Te Nhui sang, coughing up blood, still reluctantly singing, telling her down and then walking along the edge, as if she was about to jump off the floor, scaring people. In the end, General Truong himself went upstairs and coaxed him down like a cat - Marshal Truong predicted that that that was when he saw him."

Cheng Fengtai thought in his heart, first General Truong, then Commander Cao. This Thuong Te Nhui whenever standing on a high chant can attract followers from one side, not knowing whose turn is coming next.

"I heard that Thuong Te Nhui was crazy at that time, is that true?"

Pham Lien said: "Crazy or not crazy is hard to say, I see enough. Marshal Truong hugged her from the bell tower and took her to the residence of the great marshal. After that, I also left Binh Duong, never to see him again."

Although the main characters in this story are two men, they are very romantic and heartwarming, and the female guests present here have a hint of feisty expression on their faces. But there were also unkind people, hating the unusual charm of Thuong Te Nhui, enviously saying: "The Marshal Truong has met the White Tiger star! Suffering caused by yourself. Otherwise, you said, why did Commander Zhang lose to Commander Cao?"

Cheng Fengtai was very interested: "Tell me a little about Han Thai Thai, how can I lose to my brother-in-law?"

Only when Han Thai Thai remembered that there was Commander Cao's brother-in-law did he immediately lower his voice and laugh: "I just listened to people say, The second family did not tell the Commander, I said, what do we women understand? ——Listen, there was not much difference in the military strength of both sides back then. But when the Great Marshal Truong fell in love with Thuong Te Nhui, Thuong Te Nhui did not know what to play but gave him medicine to eat, his mind blurred, lying in bed unable to get up. At this moment, the dragon had no head, and the soldiers were defeated like mountains. Did you not see Commander Cao disarming thirty thousand soldiers from the great commander Zhang? If the marshal is conscious, can't he fight with his army and surrender?"

Cheng Fengtai was startled and asked: "Is there still this problem! This complicated Thuong Te Nhui, did not give up on Dat Ky (2) no less than Bao Tu (3) a!"

(2) Dat Ky: Dat Ji, surnamed Ji, the letter Da, also transliterated as Dak Ji, is a well-known figure in Chinese legends of the Shang Dynasty. She is known as Empress Di Tan, the last king of the Shang Dynasty in Chinese history. Dat Ky's most popular image is probably the fox legend.

(3) Bao Tu, or Tu Tu, surnamed Xu, was the second empress of King Zhou You, the last Heavenly Son of the Western Zhou period in Chinese history.

Han Thai Thai glared: "What an effort, sowing disaster! Men, like to enjoy new things. Thuong Te Nhuy's clothes knew how to act, once the concubine Vuong Bao Chuan (4) and Yang Quy (5), changed and changed, how new."

(4) Vuong Bao Xuyen, an ancient character in opera. Legend has it that during the reign of Tang Yizong, three daughters of Prime Minister Vuong Duan in court, ignoring what their parents said, married poor Tiet Binh Quy as a wife. Kicked from home by his parents, after he enlisted in the army, Vuong Bao Xuyen lived alone in Han Dieu and lived a miserable life for 18 years. Afterwards, Tiet Binh Quy became the god of the palace, receiving Vuong Bao Xuyen to the palace, the couple reunited.

(5) Consort Duong Quy, also known as Duong Ngoc Hoan or Duong Thai Chan, is Duong Huyen Tong's favorite concubine Ly Long Co. In Chinese culture, it is classified as one of the four great beauties in Chinese history, whose beauty is likened to Tu Hoa, causing the flower to shrink in shame.

Cheng Fengtai smiled and glanced at Han Thai Thai, listening attentively. Han Thai Thai was seen by him and forgot what he was going to say next, his eyes involuntarily entangled with him. That was precisely Cheng Fengtai, often not paying attention to time and place, but he turned his gaze to the relaxed woman, making outsiders sweat for her.

Pham Lien looked at Trinh Phuong Dai with wide eyes, coughed twice, meaning your brother-in-law had to shrink a little, in front of so many people, sooner or later she would be beaten to death by someone else's husband.

Pham Lien and Trinh Phuong Dai have just met, but they seem to have known each other for a long time, their temperaments match, and they are closer than their own sisters. Outside, Cheng Phuong Dai had some rich stories, he also helped deceive her, so noisy that Aunt Hai did not trust this little brother anymore, either, think of it as an accomplice to colluding with him to do bad things. .

Someone took the opportunity to ask Pham Lien: "So now, Chiang Mong Binh is not singing anymore?"

Pham Lien said: “He really doesn't sing anymore. Chang Chi Tan usually had a piece of food, which would let her sister-in-law show up first. Not to mention, the sister-in-law did not dare to come out, afraid that Thuong Te Nhui would find trouble."

Cheng Fengtai laughed: "It has been a few years since that incident, is Thuong Te Rui so powerful, still wondering? Let alone the little singer daring to make trouble for your Pham family relatives? Do you have this ability?"

Pham Lien said: "Don't know, right? Dao sings softly but has many abilities. Something happened that year, the two sisters were at odds, and the brother-in-law was also cold, recalling the old love that gave Thuy Van the floor to him, thinking that he was afraid he would compensate him. Then one day, Thuong Chi Tan and I protected his sister-in-law and went back to the back of the station to pick up some stuff. When the children saw him, they shouted happily, and this voice was hurt by Thuong Te Nhui The outside was not easy to stick to. Thuong Chi Tan would rather leave Binh Duong and not need my help. Moreover, Thuong Te Nhui--this is a hateful and pitiful person, I cannot take action!"

Pham Lien's rule as a person is to keep himself calm, just in case to watch the market, even a singer will not arbitrarily offend, his personality is different from Trinh Phuong Dai.

Cheng Fengtai laughed out loud, about the poor Thuong Te Nhui expressing doubt, listening from beginning to end, only hearing Thuong Te Nhui being angry, cruel, sad, sad, there is no trace of what is called poor. If he thought that he was pitiful towards his sister, the falling water and the accidentally flowing water were also considered pitiful, then there are too many miserable people in the world——everyone has sad things that are not satisfactory. At that time, Trinh Phuong Dai did not have a good impression on Thuong Te Nhui, although it was not to the extent of hating evil like the enemy.

Thuong Te Nhui was an insider of rumors, everything he said and did was legendary, as if far away from Cheng Phuong Dai.