Ni Ping stars in "Ballet for Two"
The story takes place in a small town with unique Chinese Huizhou architectural style and simple folk customs. It has been a custom here since ancient times for men to go out to do business and work. A noble man who went to work in the north married a woman as his wife. People used to call her from the noble family.
A member of the Degui family is naturally beautiful, hard-working, strong-willed and optimistic. However, she does not follow people's wishes. She was unable to give birth to a baby in her thirties. Under the persuasion of her friend Jin Mei, she adopted a girl—— Immortal. Like a local daughter-in-law, she placed a large vat on the floor of the hall, filled it with water, and wished her husband well.
But misfortune struck, Degui fell to his death while working abroad... In grief, Degui's family smashed the big vat with a sledgehammer, and the water in the vat flooded the floor...
In order to take care of the immortals, members of the Degui family quit their jobs and took up jobs such as sweeping the streets, collecting water and sanitation fees, gluing paper boxes, and binding books...
Early in the morning , when the Degui family came to the alley with Xianxian on their backs to sweep the streets, they found that people had already swept in front of their doors. Grandma Meng told her that the adopted fairy was unlucky and had evil spirits, and advised her to send it back. The members of the Degui family believe that the death of their husband has nothing to do with immortals, and that the child is innocent, and they will never regret it since they adopted it. However, the villagers still said that it was okay to sweep the streets, but the couple from the Degui family were not allowed to cross their threshold, for the sake of peace for their relatives who were working abroad.
As time goes by, the Degui family sticks to their promise and never enters the neighbor's house. Since she had no milk, she left white flour to the immortals and ate sweet potatoes and pickles for herself. For this reason, she even had a conflict with Jin Mei. Jinmei angrily wanted to return the child to the orphanage, but was snatched back by the Degui family. Although life is difficult, the Degui family feels that they are living a happy life. She has a wish, hoping that the immortals can dance on their toes (ballet) like fairies. However, because the Degui family always carried their children on their backs to go out to work and did not let them go to the fields, Xianxian could not walk until he was four years old. The doctor said that this was caused by fright, and it might be solved by stimulation.
So the members of the Degui family danced their own dances in front of the immortals every day to "enlighten" their children. Sometimes he would fall heavily to the ground, jump again, and fall again, until the child cried out of fright, but still could not "stimulate" the fairy to walk. The Degui family was discouraged. One day, she entered the house from outside and accidentally fell and suffered a bloody head. When the immortal saw her, she suddenly jumped out of the chair and staggered to her mother... The mother and daughter lay on the ground and laughed happily. From then on, when the Degui family was sweeping the streets, the fairy danced a self-composed fairy dance accompanied by her mother's singing.
Xianxian always believed that she was born to her mother. When she heard the rumors and went home to ask her mother, the Degui family resolutely told the truth about her adoption. Xianxian was moved and shouted, "Just tell me, my mother and I are not afraid of you saying that the one from the Degui family is my mother..." Before dawn the next day, Xianxian got up early and swept the street for her mother. Mother and daughter become more and more affectionate.
The Provincial Dance School came to recruit students. Xianxian impressed and infected the teacher with the dance she learned from her mother and the old song. The Degui family conquered the teacher with her simplicity and persistence, and also won the neighborhood. their respect. When the fairy came back from vacation, every household moved out bed boards, door boards, and the Eight Immortals table, and placed them in the alley, letting her dance a ballet she had never seen before on it, admiring...
What the Degui family saw My daughter danced from the provincial capital to Nanjing and Beijing. Although the distance was getting farther and farther, her heart was beating closer and closer. She couldn't help but dance the fairy dance she had taught her. Although she danced awkwardly, in her daughter's eyes she danced more beautifully than a fairy because her mother was always dancing with her.