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Chapter 29 Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe

Lin Zixuan's words were quite like a domineering president, which made Meng Xiaodong complain.

Although she is not old, she has her own opinions.

She is the eldest daughter of the family. In the family, she is in charge of her father Meng Hongqun, and no one else dares to object.

Meng Hongqun is a part-time civil and military veteran in Wujing.

The so-called Wujing is also called "striking and beating a flower face". This kind of flower face only focuses on martial arts, not on singing and reciting.

The task on stage is to fight. If you want to be successful on stage, you have to make a lot of effort to get the audience's recognition.

This requires real kung fu and is easily injured.

As we grow older, the sequelae caused by hard work in our youth gradually emerged.

Meng Hongqun had a physical problem and became ill. The performance gradually decreased. The burden on his family was getting worse. He had to rely on Meng Xiaodong's continuous performance to subsidize his family.

The poor children are early on becoming a family.

The Meng family is not a poor person, but still has surplus, but it is gradually declining. The burden of the family is on Meng Xiaodong, which also increases her voice at home.

However, this matter is too big.

The Meng family has always been an opera singer, and the span of changing careers and singing is quite large. It is related to her future prospects and livelihoods. She cannot make decisions by herself and she has to go home to discuss.

But before that, she wanted to try her best to fight for her own interests and test Lin Zixuan's sincerity.

"I still want to continue singing the opera." Meng Xiaodong insisted.

"Okay, you can sing when you want to sing, and there is no conflict between singing and singing." Lin Zixuan said indifferently.

This made Meng Xiaodong feel relieved. She has been practicing opera for so many years and doesn't want to just let it go.

She is still very affectionate about opera singing. After all, she is from the Liyuan family. The opera factor has been integrated into her bones and she will never be able to get rid of it in her life.

"I only sing, not doing anything else." Meng Xiaodong asked.

"What else?" Lin Zixuan asked in confusion.

"It's just to accompany the guests to eat and drink, and..." Meng Xiaodong stammered.

"Wait!" Lin Zixuan interrupted her, "I just said in vain. Since I have joined the music training class, if someone asks you for trouble in the future, I will tell me and I will solve it for you."

I'm afraid you'll cause trouble for me.

Meng Xiaodong said in his heart.

It is inevitable to encounter various social engagements in a opera troupe, especially when you arrive at the house of a nobleman, you can’t help but sing a party.

In Shanghai during the Republic of China period, the hall became an important form for the upstarts and powerful people in the foreign market to pursue a happy life and show off their wealth. In Shanghai, the residences of officials, businessmen, famous people at sea, feudal old men, and bureaucrats, the halls performed dramas one after another, and became more and more intense.

Meng Xiaodong was deeply touched by this.

She is still young and has not encountered any trouble. When she is in her prime, she may become the target of harassment.

"I understand." Meng Xiaodong said in a deep voice, making the last request, "My father is sick and needs money to treat the disease, and his younger brother and sister..."

"Don't worry, I won't treat you badly. At least I'll make several times more profitable than you do in operas." Lin Zixuan promised.

Do you look like Zhou Bapi?

Lin Zixuan looked at Meng Xiaodong with an extremely serious look and was speechless.

He did not put himself in his heart and think from the perspective of others.

For him, he was just recruiting an employee, but for Meng Xiaodong, this was a huge change in her life, and it involved the future of her family and he had to be treated with caution.

A few days later, Li Jinhui came up with a plan for the music training class, and all students who come to study will receive a subsidy of two yuan per month.

You read that right, you don’t have to pay for learning music, and you can get subsidies.

Li Jinhui is very business-minded. He does not intend to start a formal music school, but rather to form a singing and dancing troupe that can perform everywhere after short-term training.

When Meng Xiaodong's record was launched and popular songs began to sweep across the country, he led the singing and dancing troupe to perform everywhere.

With Meng Xiaodong's golden signboard, I'm not afraid of not making money.

He used the funds obtained from the performance to expand the training class. As the singing and dancing troupe had more staff, he continued to perform until the scale became larger and larger, forming a virtuous cycle.

In this way, you can get huge profits without investing too much in the early stage.

Therefore, the courses he listed can be quickly completed, and actors can perform on stage after two or three months of training.

The students he recruits now are equivalent to apprentices, so he is given a living allowance. After he can perform, these actors will receive salary.

This plan gives Lin Zixuan a feeling of being a wild group that travels everywhere in later generations, of course this is just a preliminary plan.

After accumulating enough funds, Li Jinhui prepared to run a regular singing and dancing school to promote new music.

This music training class is the predecessor of the singing and dancing school.

Lin Zixuan had no objection to this plan, he just needed to provide start-up funds.

Meng Xiaodong also agreed that as a pillar of the music training class, she did not have to receive subsidies, but directly shared the share, and she would receive one-fifth of the performance rewards in the future.

Next, she will learn vocal music with Li Jinhui and train newly admitted students.

These students are all girls from poor families. No one who can live a little will send their children to learn to sing, let alone boys.

Meng Xiaodong has been studying opera since childhood and has suffered a lot. Now he has finally got the opportunity to train others and is very motivated.

No one expected that the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, which became popular all over the country, would start the training course in a simple yard, and the first batch of students had only eight girls.

One of them is Li Jinhui's daughter, Li Minghui, who is just twelve years old.

Lin Zixuan looked at these eight girls ranging from ten to sixteen years old and sighed that this is the future of pop music.

Meng Xiaodong's record has not yet been released, and Feng Chengcheng has returned from Peking.

She graduated from high school and was about to go to college, but she had not chosen a good school yet.

With the call of many scholars and women's groups, last year, Peking University and Southeast University began to recruit female students and implement co-education, setting a historical precedent.

Peking University recruited nine girls last year, Southeast University was eight, of which six were foreign language departments and two were education departments.

Although the number of people is small, it gives women hope to go to college, which is also the reason why Feng Chengcheng wants to study in Peking.

This year, some universities have gradually relaxed their policies and allowed women to enroll, and Shanghai Hujiang University is preparing to recruit female students.

Shanghai Hujiang University is a Christian university founded by Americans. After 1917, it was awarded a degree certificate from Virginia, USA, and is common abroad.

That is, Shanghai University of Technology in later generations.

Feng Jingyao took great pains to keep his daughter in Shanghai and found a relationship through the French, giving Feng Chengcheng an opportunity to interview.
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