Chapter 492 - Voices of everyone! (1/2)

Chapter 492: Voices of everyone!

They looked at each other.

b.u.mping into and also knowing one another, it would be awkward to not say anything at all.

Yao Jiancai greeted, ”Master Xu.”

Xu Wenxiang looked at him, ”Oh, Little Yao.”

”You still remember me?” Yao Jiancai asked, ”How's your health been lately?”

Xu Wenxiang nodded, ”It's just as it is. I can't compare to young people like you.”

Yao Jiancai laughed, ”I've already past forty, how can I still be considered young?”

Xu Wenxiang spoke with hidden meanings, ”From your crosstalk performance. I wouldn’t have guessed your age. The work was like that of a child's, speaking however you wanted. That doesn't reflect well on your teacher, don't you think?”

Yao Jiancai did not answer that as this old man was fellow disciples with his late teacher. They had both learned under an old master in crosstalks before, so it wasn't appropriate for him to say too much. He could only change the topic as he turned to Zhang Ye to introduce him, ”Old bro, let me him introduce to you. This is Master Xu Wenxiang, the Mount Tai and the Big Dipper of the crosstalk world.”

Zhang Ye replied without pressure, ”How are you doing, Master?”

”This is......” Yao Jiancai was about to introduce Zhang Ye.

But Xu Wenxiang gave a wave of his hands and spoke directly, ”You don't need to introduce us, I know him. The two of you have really caused a ruckus this time. It's time to take a step back.”

Zhang Ye smiled and said, ”We, a ruckus?”

You must be kidding!

You people are causing a ruckus even more than us!

Xu Wenxiang looked at him, ”Crosstalk isn't as you said it is. What you're doing will not glorify crosstalk, but destroy it. Crosstalk is a heritage that must be carried forward one generation after another. If crosstalk is as you said it is, then what difference does it have from a punk on the streets? For crosstalk to get to where it is today hasn't been easy. After pa.s.sing it down for so many generations, it has to be conserved and have some meaning to it.”

Yao Jiancai said, ”Little Zhang and I are both doing this very seriously. We feel that crosstalk has many ways to it and doesn’t only have to have an educational aspect to it.....”

”Do you know better or do I?” Xu Wenxiang interrupted.

Yao Jiancai was beginning to dislike what he heard. Heh.

Xu Wenxiang glanced at them as an artist and said, ”Stop speaking with less tawdriness and add more content that would let others reflect on after listening. You should put more positive energy into in it rather than scolding this or that. What's the use of that? Even if you scold, you won't be able to scold the folk arts world. Every job has its rules, so since you're in the folk arts circle now, you'd have to follow the rules here. You can't just go about doing anything you wanted.”

Zhang Ye started to speak up, ”I can't pretend I never heard what you just said.”

”Little Zhang.” Yao Jiancai made a pa.s.s at him to signal to him to stop.

But Zhang Ye did not listen and instead spoke to Xu Wenxiang as an equal, ”We're just two small time actors who like to do crosstalk, talking about topics that we like and doing the things we feel are right. That has nothing to do with the folk arts world at all, so whether the people up there recognize us as crosstalk actors or not, it does not matter to us. We do not need their recognition. I know very well whether or not I know how to do crosstalk, and so does the audience. We do not need others to waste their energy to validate us. Master Xu, I respect you as an elder, as a veteran of crosstalking, and your contributions to the crosstalk world, but the issue here is that all of you should not have stepped on me first. Why is it that anyone that sees me must step on me once or twice? They just gather everyone together to scold me for no reason? I won't take that lying down! If they want to step on me, then I will step back on them! If they scold me? Then I will scold them back as well! I don't give a d.a.m.n about anything! This is my temper!”

”OK, you're great!” Xu Wenxiang was clearly irritated by this, ”Who is your teacher?”

Was this an interrogation?

He was going to use seniority to pressure me?

Zhang Ye smiled, ”I don't have a teacher. I'm a self taught master myself. Master Xu, don't try to scare me. My guts are really small.”

Xu Wenxiang saw that he was not giving him any face at all and was even getting disrespectful, so his anger also rose. He took a breather and nodded, ”OK, since you've said that, the two of you may do whatever you want. Don't look down on the crosstalk world. If they want to fix the two of you, they'd find a way for sure.”

Zhang Ye said, ”Yo, then I would like to find out for myself what they can do.”

Xu Wenxiang made a gesture with his hand and turned to leave, ”There will be a conference for the crosstalk world members tonight in which they would discuss this matter.” As he said that, he disappeared into the walkway. Then, a loud 'pu tong' was heard followed by Xu Wenxiang furiously scolding, ”Who threw that banana peel!”

Yao Jiancai, ”.........”

Zhang Ye knew that it was the Difficulty Adjustment Die helping him out once again.

”There's going to be a conference for the crosstalk world members again?” Yao Jiancai said, ”And it's to discuss about how to handle us?”

Zhang Ye said, ”Surely they did not have to go that far for us? Are the two of us really so influential?”

Yao Jiancai replied, ”That may be somewhat true. The two of us have really caused a big ruckus today and offended a majority of them.”

On their way out, they heard many people exchanging whispers. They overheard some of them and through it, they found out that the crosstalk conference was organized some time ago and would be attended, not only by the heavyweights of the crosstalk world, but also some of the rookies who were partic.i.p.ating in the crosstalk compet.i.tion were invited, except for Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai. Clearly, even if the conference was not about denouncing them, they would still allocate a fair amount of time to discuss about how to 'kill' Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai.

Regarding this, Zhang Ye only laughed it off.

As for Yao Jiancai, he also took it as it was. There was no other choice since he had already boarded Zhang Ye's pirate s.h.i.+p. Having already reached this stage, there was no point in holding back!

Just scold on!

Let's see who can scold better!

......

That night.