Not The Sideburns I Know Chapter 1

Ryan Cheng had heard of Ervin Shang's name a long time ago.

Ervin, the owner of Shuiyunlou, is one of the most famous actors of the time, playing the roles of Huadan and Qingyi. His fans are as numerous as the stars, standing side by side, so many that they can circle the city of Peking two hundred times. Therefore, Ervin is praised as a round ice moon on an island - hanging high in the sky, shining with silver light, but out of reach.

If you want to know whether Ervin is really that good at singing, the people of Beiping will definitely remind you of Henry Ning, the Minister of Opera who was appointed by Empress Dowager Cixi. When Ervin first came to Beiping with Shuiyunlou, he became famous after performing three shows. After Henry listened to his performance of Yuzhoufeng, he sighed, returned to the troupe and retired, giving up the title of the first leading actor.

Some people say that Henry was shocked by Ervin's voice and felt inferior to him. As a drama fanatic, he thought that the voice of a young phoenix was clearer than that of an old phoenix, and that the world could not tolerate two beauties, so there was no point for him to go on stage again. Others said that Henry had been out of the palace for more than 20 years and had already saved enough money to retire. He was just looking for a way out by taking advantage of Ervin's popularity. Let's put aside the facts. Henry's abdication completely brought Ervin's reputation. There were all kinds of gossip and life stories about him in the newspapers every day. Fans gathered at the gate of the theater to chase and block him and cheer, making him more glorious than the president. So at the beginning, Ryan's impression of Ervin was that he was a leading actor, a popular actor in the opera world.

But in the mouth of Ryan's sister Lily Cheng, Ervin is a cheap and wanton vixen. Because he is a male vixen, he is ten times more hateful.

No wonder Lily hated Ervin. Ervin had a grudge against her for stealing her husband. At that time, Lily was still the sixth c0ncubine of the Northwest warlord Mark Cao went east to attack the city and broke through the gate of Zhang Dashuai. Ervin wore a gorgeous costume and sang a piece of Farewell My c0ncubine on the city wall. He repeated the words over and over again, and sang emotionally and forgot himself. He was not afraid of bullets. The soldiers looked very surprised and forgot to shoot for a while. They pointed and said that the man was a lunatic, right? He must be a lunatic. Crazy and beautiful.

Commander Cao looked up from the bottom of the tower and saw Ervin singing "Han's army has conquered the land, surrounded by the sound of Chu songs". It sounded like he was singing praises to Commander Cao. It was so fresh and exciting that Commander Cao was immediately fascinated. He pointed his whip at Ervin and said, "Don't hurt him! I want Yu Ji alive!" So his men didn't dare to fire their guns at will, and it took them an extra hour to break open the city gate.

After the city was captured, Ervin did not learn the loyal spirit of Yu Ji before she committed suicide. He was very obedient and was abducted by Commander Cao. He sang and danced with Lily every night under her nose, which made Lily crazy.

Fortunately, Lily won the final battle, squeezed out her rival Ervin, and outlasted Commander Cao's original wife. Now she has achieved her goal and is Mrs. Cao. But when she talks about the past, she still can't let go of the old grudge and is furious.

Lily was born in a Western-style family in Shanghai, but in recent years as a socialite and c0ncubine, her mouth and mind have been tempered to be quite vicious and vulgar. Whenever Ervin was mentioned behind his back, she would make two unpleasant comments and order the men in her family not to associate with him. However, apart from her husband Commander Cao and her brother Ryan, she had no other male relatives to order. Commander Cao was someone Lily tried her best to please, and she dared not say anything against this warlord husband. This order fell on Ryan.

That afternoon, in the spacious and lofty wing room of the Cheng Mansion in Peking, there were several peacock feathers in the large enamel vase, mahogany carved furniture, and several paintings of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum on the wall. All of these were the original furnishings of this old palace. After noon, someone was smoking in the room. The setting sun shone in, and everything was covered by the smoke, like an old, dusty still life painting. Lily rested one elbow on the kang table, holding an ivory pipe in the other hand, staring at Ryan, and admonishing: "You are not allowed to learn from the men in Peking to play actors. Those low-class people who perform on stage are specifically staring at the eyes to seduce rich and powerful men. If you don't learn well, sister will not agree with you, do you hear me?"

This is the strength of Lily. No matter how vicious her heart is, her soft and mellow Jiangnan accent will never change.

Ryan put his hands in the pockets of his costume pants and replied with a perfunctory smile: "I heard it, I heard it. What's so fun about a male actor?"

The point of this sentence seems to be that it is not fun because it is a male actor. If it were a female, she would probably be interested in playing with it.

Lily glanced at her sister-in-law next to her. As expected, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cheng, had noticed. She knocked the slender pipe in her hand into the spittoon, poured out a handful of ashes, and looked at Ryan coldly.

Lily hurriedly said, "Not only actors are not allowed, but also dancers and singers. Your sister-in-law is such a beautiful woman, and she has given birth to two little girls for you. Are you still not satisfied? You can't be a heartless person!"

She forgot that Ryan's biological mother was a singer. Fortunately, Ryan didn't take it seriously. He peeled an orange and handed it to her with a smile: "I know! Sister, you rarely come here, half of the time you scold the actors, and the other half of the time you scold your brother. Your temper is becoming more and more like your brother-in-law." As he spoke, he struck a match to light a cigarette for the second grandmother. A slight smile appeared in the eyes of the second grandmother. She liked her husband doing these small and thoughtful things for her, as if Ryan was bowing his head and flattering her. The second grandmother leaned over the flame to suck the tobacco, but she wanted to say: "I don't know how to use a maid? As a master, you rush to do the work of serving others. You don't know how to respect others."

Lily broke off a slice of orange and put it in her mouth, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you don't understand this. My brother loves his wife."

The second wife glanced at Ryan, indicating that she looked down on him, but the smile on her face did not diminish. Ryan always had a perfunctory smile, but he really felt happy when he laughed. These two women, one with a Shanghai official accent and the other with a Northeastern accent, spoke one sentence after another, as if they were performing a comedy. In the back room, the third sister Chachaer woke up from a nap, rubbed her eyes, lifted the door curtain and walked in. When she saw the eldest sister Lily, she was stunned and wanted to go back. Ryan waved to her and called her: "Chachaer come here."

Chachaer walked up to Ryan reluctantly. She was a solitary girl who had been at odds with her elder sister since she was a child because she looked down on her elder sister's personality and style. Ryan patted his knees, and Chachaer leaned over and sat on them, burying her face in her second brother's chest in a daze, not even looking at Lily. Ryan held her waist and back with both hands and shook them twice, frowning and saying, "Sister is here, why didn't you call someone? Huh?" But there was no blame in his tone. Chachaer snorted, as if she had asked her sister about it.

If this happened in her family in Shanghai, Lily would have started to scold her. But she knew Ryan's temper very well. Although he loved and cared for his sisters, the only one he really cared for was Chachaer. Chachaer lay in Ryan's arms as softly as a little doll, accompanying him through the most depressing and terrifying teenage period of his life. He raised Chachaer, and the two siblings had the deepest feelings. It was okay to criticize Ryan, but criticizing Chachaer was like stabbing Ryan's heart, and he would be furious. Things are different now. Lily didn't want to offend this rich businessman brother, so she scolded in her heart, calling Chachaer a ba5tard girl who didn't know the rules and was a cheap embryo just like her barbarian mother. She smiled as she looked at the two half-siblings hugging each other affectionately, and then thought with contempt: one was raised by a singer, and the other was raised by a barbarian, they are the same kind of people.

Back then, when the Cheng family was still in Shanghai, his father's factory closed down and went bankrupt. His father died of anxiety. The first wife was so worried about this mess that she hanged herself. The four children of the Cheng family were not from the same mother. Lily was the eldest daughter, only 18 years old at the time, with a younger brother and two younger sisters. The mother of the younger brother Ryan was originally a prostitute in Shanghai. After giving birth to her son, she couldn't get used to staying at home, so she ran away to Hong Kong to resume her old business. The Uyghur mother of the third sister Chachar came and went without a trace. Lily almost never saw her. I heard that she went abroad to France. The last one was the fourth c0ncubine who came from a poor family and a fourth sister in swaddling clothes, as well as the servants, nannies, and drivers, a whole family. The bank sent people to move all the valuable things in the house to pay off the debts, including the piano, silverware, electric fans, and even the marble floor basin in the garden. Seeing this, the servants resigned one after another. Lily stopped them at the garden gate and refused to let them go. She shouted at the top of her lungs: "Wouldn't it be better if I paid you on time? Why are you leaving?"

But what other good solutions did Lily have? In order to keep the house and pay the servants, she became a high-class socialite.

Lily was definitely not the most beautiful among the rich ladies in Shanghai, but she had a Western manner, spoke English, wore Western clothes, was cute, enjoyed herself, and had fun. Most importantly, she was the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, a fallen phoenix, and everyone wanted to have a taste of her. Lily still remembered that her first time was with an old friend of her father, an old man whom she always called uncle. She got 6,000 yuan that time - 6,000 yuan, which was just the difference between her mother's playing mahjong for a night in the past, but now she was asked to exchange her virginity for it.

Lily still remembers that night, she suppressed her grief and anger and spent the whole night enjoying s3x. She felt very sore and tired when she woke up in the morning, but she still took a long detour to buy a chestnut cake from Caesar and brought it home. In the past, their family would have milk and cake in the morning, so now they have to eat it, and the whole family has to eat it. This is not out of love for her brothers and sisters, but for herself. It turns out that all the glory and wealth, Lily would be heartbroken if she lost a little bit, and she had to work hard to keep it the same. In comparison, the efforts of this night are nothing.

Lily pushed open the door of the dining room with a cake in her hand. One wall of the dining room was covered with floor-to-ceiling windows. The morning light shone in, shining on her brother Ryan, illuminating his hair and skin, making him look holy and beautiful. Ryan was wearing only a white shirt, sitting at the dining table with his arms around the waist of his nanny, Chachar. His face was nestled in the woman's chest, motionless. The woman seemed to be very comfortable being sucked by him. She kneaded his shoulders with both hands, squinted her eyes and gently masturbated. The scene in front of her was very exciting, which greatly stimulated Lily's body and mind, which had been ravaged last night. She stood there blankly for a long time, looking at them, and suddenly realized that Ryan was not doing that adultery - he was sucking her breasts!

Chachar was still a child at that time. He sat aside with his legs dangling in the air, looking at his second brother and the wet nurse with an expressionless face, then looked back at his eldest sister.

Lily was so angry that her heart was shaking. She was outside, crying and sleeping with the old man. Ryan, her only brother, didn't say anything to share her burden, but was still hugging the wet nurse at home! This shameless and dirty ba5tard! Did she sell her body just to let him continue to live a comfortable life as a young master? But it's not that easy!

The nanny opened her eyes and saw Lily, she screamed and ran away, covering her clothes. Ryan jumped off the table in a daze, feeling embarrassed, blushing, and wiped the milk from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve: Sister......

Lily swallowed her throat, smiled kindly, put the chestnut cake on the table, and called Ryan's English name: Edwin is so naughty, he still fights with his sister for milk at such a big age. Are you hungry? Ask them to burn some sweet oatmeal and come over to eat cake.

At the dinner table, Lily thought about all the ways to sell out her brothers and sisters. The two sisters were too young, no matter how beautiful they were, they couldn't be sold. This brother was very beautiful, prettier than herself - but it was a pity that he was a brother, and she didn't know which rich businessman in Shanghai liked to play with boys. Lily looked through all the wealthy people she knew from all over the country, and finally thought of a person on the northern border, a person who was like a savior.

She held Ryan's hand and said earnestly, "Edwin, I want to... I want to call your fiancée, Miss Fan, from the north, to Shanghai to marry you."

Ryan frowned violently and almost spit out the milk in his mouth. He pulled his hand out and slammed it on the table: Noway!

Lily grabbed him again: "Sister knows that Miss Fan is several years older than you and is a country girl. When father proposed this marriage, sister also stood on your side and opposed it for you, didn't she? But...but it's different now, I have no choice. We still have two younger sisters and this family. If you don't marry her, the whole family will have no way out!"

Ryan screamed: How can I spend my whole life with a girl like that! You know! She...she still has bound feet!

The servants and the fourth c0ncubine saw the quarrel between the brother and sister, and took the children away. Only the brother and sister were left in the restaurant. Lily shed tears silently for a while, thinking that she would have to resort to some extraordinary means. She unbut.toned her chest, revealing the traces of last night's rap3, and said with tears in her eyes: You are already a big child, do you know how this came about? Do you know where your sister was last night, who she was with, and what she did? Oh! My dear, if I hadn't made sacrifices, we would have been homeless. Now it's your turn, right?

Ryan felt a pain in his heart and had nothing to say. The next year, he married the eldest daughter of the Fan family, who became the second wife of Cheng. The Cheng family made a comeback and became richer than his father's generation.

Lily ate the last orange slice and thought to herself, if it weren't for my clever arrangement, how could these two ba5tards have such a good life now? She smiled and said, "Third sister seems to have grown taller. Why isn't she going to school yet?"

Ryan said: "Chachaer is not sociable, so I hired a teacher to teach her at home. After two years, when she is older, she can go to school and go directly to middle school."

The Second Grandma puffed out a puff of smoke and interrupted lazily, "What's so good about foreign schools? Girls and boys hang out together and fight. Even if she graduates, the Cheng family can't let the Third Miss go out to work. What's the point of studying? It's better to save her money."

Ryan disagreed with the second wife's point of view, but it was inconvenient to argue with her, and said: "We'll see when the time comes. If Cha Chaer finds it fun, he can study. If it's not fun, he can come back. It doesn't matter."

Lily smiled at the second grandmother and said, "Second brother still dotes on third sister."

The second grandmother looked at her husband and smiled.