Not The Sideburns I Know Chapter 39

After Yunxi Troupe had been on tour for only a few days, Ryan had forgotten about the delicate, weak and bullied Xiao Zhouzi. Originally, all his interest in opera was focused on Ervin alone. As for whether their opera industry had a treasure or a scar, he didn't care at all.

It was not until a month later that Ervin made a phone call to Cheng Mansion early in the morning. This was his first call to Ryan, and the call was answered by Lanhua, the maid of the second wife. Ervin said on the phone: "Today is a good day, please ask Mr. Cheng to inspect the goods." Lanhua looked into the next room, and Ryan hadn't gotten up yet, so she asked: "Okay. What's your last name?" Ervin thought for a moment: "My last name is Tian." Lanhua agreed, and for convenience, she whispered to the bedroom on the spot: "Second Master! A Mr. Tian wants you to inspect the goods!" After shouting twice, there was no response, so the little girl disregarded the rules and shouted for the second master again and again, and the louder she shouted, the louder it got. At this moment, the door curtain suddenly lifted, and Yinghua, the maidservant of the Second Madam, rushed in, waving her hands and killing chickens and wiping their necks. Before Lanhua could understand, the Second Madam stepped into the room with an angry look on her face, and with her eyes narrowed, she scolded: "You are becoming more and more unruly! Yelling and shouting! Were you like this in the north?"

Lanhua stood aside holding the receiver, her head down, not daring to breathe heavily, her eyes all red. Ryan couldn't stay in bed any longer because of their noise, so he slid into a pair of slippers and came to answer the phone, his hair was disheveled and his eyes were sleepy, he complained in his heart that he didn't have a friend named Tian, his friends were still sleeping with women at this time! Only those who came to borrow money or urge for goods came. When answering the phone, Ryan smiled at Lanhua to comfort her. Lanhua had been bought from the north for only a few years, and she couldn't change her country girl's hands and feet, so she was a little clumsy, and was often scolded. Ryan was always extra gentle to her. The second wife saw it, her face turned cold, and she simply sat down to do needlework and didn't leave. Lanhua avoided away in fear, not knowing what would happen to her.

Ervin had been waiting for a long time and couldn't stand the loneliness and started to hum opera to entertain himself. He would hum whenever he was free. Then Ryan heard the low voice of opera coming from the other end of the phone, soft and crisp, as if lips were touching people's ears, it was Kunqu opera. Ryan laughed when he heard it, and it was probably a soft and crisp laugh. Afraid of being seen by the second wife, he turned his face away and deliberately shouted in Beijing dialect: "Boss Tian is in a good mood today. He knew to hang up the phone to find me. What can you do for me?"

Ervin exclaimed in surprise: "I haven't said anything yet, how do you know it's me?"