The tricycle finally squeezed through the flow of people, and then there was a human wall with three circles inside and three circles outside, not to mention a tricycle, even children couldn't get in, Han Tuo and they had to stand on the tricycle and stretch their necks to look inside, Zhao Yunfei put Xiao Ji on his shoulders and looked inside.

I saw a young man playing the flute in the center of the circle, and a yellow-haired monkey squatting on his shoulder, a girl with an extremely slender figure wearing a performance costume made of red gauze, dancing and singing, with a string of small bells on her wrist, shaking to make a crisp sound, the girl's singing voice was very pleasant to the ear under the accompaniment of flutes and bells, only to hear her sing:

Yellow River with yellow sand,

Rushing to the ends of the earth,

Loved ones will travel far away,

Tears fall under the sun; ――

The faint sound of bamboo flute,

Cold Moon Reflection Ancient Temple,

To whom does homesickness complain,

Where is my home? ――

The wind of the wilderness rises,

fluttering my long hair,

Waving goodbye to the sunset,

Tears wet cheeks; ――

the voice and appearance of relatives,

Forever in my heart,

Waving goodbye to the sunset,

Tears wet his cheeks

Zhao Yunfei had never heard such a beautiful song, and when he carefully understood the meaning of the lyrics, he had a very sad feeling in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of his deceased father and his mother, who had never heard from him.

The strong resonance of the mood and singing made Zhao Yunfei, who has always been strong, have the urge to cry.

Zhao Yunfei had already recognized that the brother and sister who were performing were the two people he saw in the old room of the production team this morning, and he knew that the girl's cold had not completely healed, so she struggled to come out to perform, it must be because the brother and sister's dinner had not yet settled, and they could earn a few dollars to buy a bite of food.

When the girl had finished singing, she bowed politely, and the boy stopped the bamboo flute, picked up a gong and handed it to the monkey standing on his shoulder, who was also well trained, jumped down from the ground with his paws on the gong, limped like a man and walked on both feet to the crowd of onlookers, raised the gong high, and looked left and right with innocent eyes.

When the onlookers saw the monkey walking, they at first thought it was very novel, and let out a noisy laugh, but when they thought that the monkey had come to ask for money with the gong, they scattered away with a loud noise, leaving only the inexplicable monkey standing there, and then looking back at his master.

At this time, there were a few clinking, which startled the monkey, and when he turned his head, he saw that there were already a few more coins in the gong, and the monkey knew money, and knew that although these jingle things could not be eaten, they could be exchanged for food, and he grinned, pretended to be happy, and held the gong high.

It was Li Lanfang who threw money into the gong, she saw that no one gave money after everyone watched the performance, she couldn't bear it, took out a few coins of one or five cents from her pocket and threw them on the gong, after throwing it, she saw that the monkey raised the gong again, and looked at her with a reverent face, although the appearance was funny, but it made people feel very pitiful, Li Lanfang hesitated, and still took out the only twenty yuan denomination money in her pocket, which was given to her by her father when she went out, so that she could buy something when she saw what she liked in the temple, Twenty yuan is not a small amount for Li Lanfang, but this is good, more than twenty yuan was given to this monkey.

The monkey turned to Ji, shrugged his nose and sniffed, sniffing out the smell of sugar, sticking out his tongue and licking the lollipop twice, then biting the plastic handle of the lollipop with his teeth, and then looking at Ji.

Xiao Ji clapped his little hands and said, "No! ”

Han Tuo had already taken out a piece of money from his pocket, and when he saw that Li Lanfang had given more than 20 yuan at once, he planned to put this yuan back again, but he didn't expect to be seen by Li Lanfang, grabbed it in his hand, raised his hand and threw it on the gong, and said, "Pick the door, is the performance for nothing?" I have more than 20 yuan out, and you are still reluctant to take out this dollar? ”

"No," Han Tuo defended anxiously, "I didn't spend this money for myself, I was going to buy you some spiced melon seeds later......

"Save it, how many melon seeds can you buy for one dollar?" Li Lanfang gave him an angry look.

Zhao Yunfei had already walked up to the monkey at this time, took out fifty yuan from his pocket, and put it in the gong casually.

There were a few people nearby who had not dispersed when they saw Zhao Yunfei and their generosity, showing a look of disdain, and one of them said: "The children in the village have never seen the world, and they will give money to whoever is pitiful, as if the family is rich, but in fact, they are so poor that they can't even wear pants!" ”

The other said, "But don't you, you sympathize with them, who sympathizes with you, although money is like dung, but money is hard to earn, dung is hard to eat!" ”

……

The brothers and sisters who are performing arts see that it is Zhao Yunfei, and they don't seem to be so surprised, walking in the rivers and lakes, miserable wind and rain, the brothers and sisters who are selling artists are used to seeing white eyes and indifference, of course, they have also met a lot of kind-hearted people like Zhao Yunfei and them.

The brother and sister were silent and bowed to Zhao Yunfei, and then the boy began to clean up the things on the ground.

The monkey was very busy, holding the gong with both paws, and the lollipop in his mouth, limping to the girl, holding the gong in his arms, and freeing one paw to take the lollipop from his mouth and hand it to the girl, the girl smiled, and did not take the lollipop, but bent down her slender waist and stretched out her tongue to lick it, and then patted the top of the monkey's head, and the monkey took the lollipop with one paw and ate it with relish, and walked towards the boy with the gong with one paw.

The boy was about to pick up the money in the gong, when suddenly a hand stretched out from the side, and copied all the fifty and twenty zhi coins in the gong in his hand, leaving only a few coins in change.

The boy was stunned for a moment, turned his head and saw a few people standing next to him, the person who took the money was a young man in his twenties, and there were two companions standing behind him, all with dyed yellow hair, with dragons and tigers tattooed on their arms, although the word "gangster" was not written on his face, but his image and temperament were their labels, and he knew at a glance that he was an out-and-out gangster.

"What are you doing?" The boy asked in surprise.

"You're outsiders, aren't you?" The yellow hair who grabbed the money had a cigarette in his mouth, and he looked invincible, "Outsiders have to pay protection fees to earn money in our Wulongshan Town, and this money is the protection fee, and the rest is all yours." ”

The boy looked angry, but he dared not speak angrily, this was not the first time he had encountered such a thing, and he knew that he could not provoke these local thugs at all, and any more words would definitely attract a beating.

The girl was expressionless, looking at the yellow hairs coldly, and her clear eyes seemed to have seen through the ugliness and dirtiness of this world.