Chapter 55 Fast Knife!

Zhao Haiping, like other freeloading listeners, stood outside the theater, pretending to be absorbed in the play as he nodded and swayed to the music.

Sure enough, after a while, two members of the freeloading aficionados struck up a conversation.

"It's so melodious! This Su Xianjun truly lives up to his reputation as a famous actor renowned throughout Jiangnan Road. Such a singing voice—so delicate and plaintively beautiful that the echoes linger on!"

"Isn't it just? It's like listening to heavenly music altogether beyond compare with ordinary actors."

"It's a pity we can't be inside to experience it fully; we can only catch a gist from out here, which is hardly satisfying. By the way, why has Boss Su's troupe come to our small county town?"

"Don't you know? You're really out of the loop. Mr. Wang Jinhui personally invited them because of his private connection to the troupe."