Chapter 15: Love at First Sight

There are a few sunflowers downstairs, and if it rains, if it rains at dusk, the sunflowers will hang their heads and the big leaves will drip water.

In October 2000, a girl walked past a sunflower, a boy stood downstairs, the girl raised her eyes and looked at the boy, and the eyes of the two of them met.

This boy is Young Master Han, and before that, his gaze never stayed on other people's eyes. He kept his head down, because of a large lump in his neck, and the young ladies often looked back at him curiously when they saw him pass by. He hurriedly avoided it, and was in a very depressed mood, he was ugly, he never smiled, and people couldn't even tell his age, in fact, he was only 17 years old. This withdrawn boy has lived in isolation for many years, and has a ghostly and cautious attitude in everything he does. This time, however, the girl glanced at him, and the gaze struck him like lightning, and he looked extremely shy, and immediately hung his head.

The girl was Master Han's neighbor across the door, her mother died of homicide, and her father died by suicide.

What person's love doesn't start with that first glimpse? Love often begins at the first sight of meeting, love at first sight is the only sincere love, and the slightest hesitation is not.

When Young Master Han returned to the house, he felt that he was very ugly, and the tumor on his neck made him ashamed and inferior. At night, he lay in bed, opened his eyes countless times to look out the window at the night, and he said to himself, she is so beautiful!

A week later, he went to great lengths to create a moment that passed by. He lowered his head and walked slowly in the hallway, listening to the girl's footsteps going upstairs, and felt his heart about to jump out. In this way, little by little, approaching perfection and purity, he smelled a faint fragrance. The girl had just washed her hair, and the dizzying scent was also a refreshing scent, and he felt like a garden was passing by him. He saw that the girl's soles were thick and made of foam, which were very popular at the time. He even thinks that he does not deserve this kind of happiness, from the day he was born and thrown in the garbage can, the repressed heart, unable to expand outward, grows inward, cannot open, so he burrows into the depths, has experienced so much suffering, and lives in a black hole, which is his own heart. He had suffered all the suffering of the world, and the dark depths where the ghost had just disappeared were covered with flowers because of that glimpse.

The building was very old, and there were some nests under the eaves, and large patches of sparrows flew away and flew back.

Young Master Han walked downstairs, for the first time in his life in seventeen years, he heard the sound of birds singing before, and the sound of bird calls could not enter his heart before, and he suddenly found that there were many dewdrops on every fallen leaf reflected by the moonlight, and there was a crystal star in each dewdrop.

People in love can also see the stars in the sky when they lower their heads.

Another week passed, and Young Master Han began to follow his sweetheart. He pretends to take a walk, usually he wears a raincoat on a rainy day to go for a walk, the raincoat can not only cover the tumor on his neck, but also give him a sense of security.

The girl was a bun seller.

Elderly people in the neighborhood can still remember that the lavishly decorated steamed bun shop was a thatched hut in the past, and the owner was a Kaifeng man, and his ancestral soup dumpling making skills made him rich. The roadside steamed bun shop seemed to be sprinkled with blue brilliance to Young Master Han. The further he walked, the slower his steps became, and after a few hesitations, he would lose his courage and suddenly turn around and walk back, not even he himself understood what was going on. Then remorse, and with courage, he felt that he could no longer move forward. That kind of fierce inner struggle was no less than a world war, and finally, he walked into the steamed bun shop, looking particularly shy, he handed the money and said to the girl:

"I buy buns." After saying that, even his ears turned red, and he felt his heart beating uncomfortably.

"It's you," the girl recognized him—the neighbor who had not been here for long, and the girl asked, "how many cages?" ”

He held out four fingers, not daring to look up. The girl wrapped the soup in a plastic bag and handed it to him, and he turned and left.

"You wait." The girl called out to him.

It was like a bolt from the blue, he didn't know what was happening, and his face was as white as a piece of paper.

"Looking for your money." The girl smiled at him.

This smile he will never forget for a long time in the years behind bars.

In the early morning of the next day, Hua Long led a team of armed police officers and soldiers to surround the building where Sanwen Qian was located. He found an excuse to sneak out in the evening, and secretly reported to the headquarters in Beijing on a public telephone, and because Sanwen Qian, Gao Fei and others had already suspected the identity of Hualong's undercover agent, the headquarters ordered the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department to immediately arrest him. The secrecy work was done very well, and the armed policemen who participated in the arrest operation were urgently assembled in their sleep, and some of the armed policemen did not even have time to put on their pants, so they rushed to the designated place with only their underwear and weapons.

The armed policemen who were armed with guns guarded the entrance of the corridor, and the armed police hidden in the corridor quickly rushed into the house, and Sanwen Qian and Young Master Han were arrested. Goofy fired a shot through the door from his room, and the policeman lay down, which bought Goofy a moment to press a desk against the door. The dragon slammed open the door, the room was empty, and Goofy ran away.

As we have said above, the wires between the two buildings are crawling with creepers and grapes, and the dry vines and creeper stems are entangled to form strong ropes. Goofy jumped onto the balcony, leaped, grabbed the vines, slid to the ground, and disappeared into the night.

The command transferred three interrogation experts from all over the country, and for several days in a row, Sanwen Qian answered the interrogation with hundreds of "I don't know." Half a month later, the interrogation expert told Sanwen Qian that the monster had been arrested, and confessed to the crime of drug trafficking in the past few years, whether you said it or not, you had to be shot in the end. The interrogator put a bottle of wine and a roast chicken in front of Sanwen: "This is a friend of yours who bought it to see you off." ”

"Who?" Sanwen Qian asked.

"Draw the dragon." The interrogator answered.

Young Master Han was also silent in the face of interrogation, and finally one day, he couldn't help it anymore and said to the interrogators: "It's okay for me to tell you everything, you have to let me see someone." ”

On 21 November 2000, a young man walked into a steamed bun shop with a large lump in his neck, followed by a group of police officers escorting him. The diners in the restaurant did not understand what was happening and stood up in a panic, the police told them to be quiet, and the young man said to a girl in the restaurant:

"You don't know...... I...... I kind of like you! ”

As of 10 December, the pursuit detachment had arrested 140 people involved in the case in Guangdong, Yunnan, Hainan and other places, and seized a total of 420 kilograms of heroin, 85 kilograms of opium, 130 kilograms of methamphetamine, 200 kilograms of K powder, 64 guns, 7,000 rounds of various bullets, 40 grenades, mines, and bombs, and a total of 30.47 million yuan in stolen money and goods.

In Sanwenqian's residence, the police found an old black and white photo, the background of the photo is a circus, a grass platform team walking the rivers and lakes, seven people standing together, after being identified by Master Han, the seven people are:

Brother Thumb, Ma Youzhai, Ding Busan, Ding Busi, Sanwen Qian, Shanya, Mengni.

Twenty years ago, as soon as this circus appeared, there would be gongs and drums, flutes, children's cheers, even if they set up tents on the dirt floor, the audience would swarm in, they would throw down five cents, and finally take the mud from the ground.

Twenty years ago, five cents could buy a small longbao, a dime could squat at a villain's bookstall and watch all day, two cents could buy a pack of cigarettes, and if you spent five cents, you could watch a circus. In those days, there weren't many ways for people to be entertained, so the circus was almost full when it was performed.

Mennie sells tickets, drums for three pennies, big thumbs dance lions, circus tents are painted with some rare birds and animals, most of the ticket buyers are second-rate people in town, children sneak in from under the canvas, and wait until the audience gathers and the show officially begins.

The first was a lion dance performance, in which Thumb played the role of a lion and twisted his body in a chaotic circle of spectators, baring his teeth and dancing his claws, and jumping onto a bench to the beat of joy. How he loved lion dances at that time, and in his spare time, he practiced, and when the circus camped, he danced in the wheat fields next to him, and on the frozen lake, and he danced from spring to autumn. As the leader of this grass platform, he plays himself - a lion who gives it life.

At the end of the lion dance, Menny appeared, and the tall, fat woman slowly walked to the center of the field, standing with her hands crossed. Her lips were closed, but the audience heard a man's voice say, "Oh mom, there are quite a lot of people." Just as the audience wondered where the voice was coming from, a dwarf rolled out from under Menny's skirt.

He pinched his nose and said, "That's a sass." ”

The audience laughed, the dwarf first introduced himself, and came to an opening sentence in the style of the Northeast duo, gags, humor, and then he performed ventriloquism for everyone.

"You, pout your big belly." The dwarf said to Menny.

The flesh on Menny's face moved, squeezed out a smile, and pouted her ass.

The dwarf burrows into her skirt and "poof", and he imitates the sound of a fart, making the audience laugh.

He sounded the air raid siren under his skirt, and the audience fell silent, and no one spoke loudly. Bombs fell, sheep bleated and ran around, chickens and dogs jumped, children cried, houses crackled, spectators listened attentively, and the footsteps of a team came from far and near. Then, when the basin rang, an old voice shouted, the villagers rushed and beat the devils. Machine guns rang out, mixed with the sound of grenade explosions, and the devils whined and screamed...... The various voices were vividly imitated by the dwarf, and the audience applauded.

Next on the field was a fat-headed and big-eared monk.

The monk claimed to be from Wutai Mountain, and his Dharma name was Youzhai. He took out an oil lamp, asked an audience to light it, he blew it out, and then touched the wick with his finger and it lit up immediately, he blew it out, and then lit the oil lamp with his finger, and so on several times, and the audience praised it. What was even more surprising was that he took out an egg and placed it in the sunlight, and after a while, the egg slowly rose in the air, suspended in the air. The audience all stood up, stretched their necks, and opened their mouths, and the great monk grabbed the egg and knocked it open on the ground, and the egg was empty, without egg whites and yolks. His finale was a magic trick in which the assistant rolled out a large vat into which he let the dwarf who had just performed the ventriloquist get into it, and then poured bucket by bucket of water into the vat until it was full. He circled around the tank, muttering words in his mouth, and suddenly he pointed to the water tank with his hand, and the water in the tank exploded, and a puff of smoke came out, and the water tumbled in the middle, gradually boiling, and slowly regaining calm. Just as the audience wondered if the gnome in the tank would drown, the dwarf opened the curtain from outside the tent and walked in, and the audience applauded loudly.

Finger lighting, eggs levitating, water exploding, these folk witchcraft are not mysterious, and we will reveal the secrets in detail later. The magic of the Great Transformation is actually very simple, the tank is specially made, there is a dark grid at the bottom, the gnome is hidden underneath, and the other dwarf who comes in from the outside is his twin brother.

The twin brothers performed a pantomime for the audience, with two gnomes grabbing a three-legged chair and eliciting bursts of laughter from the audience through falls, exaggerated beatings, and comical body movements. Finally, the background music plays, a sheep enters the arena, and the time belonging to these two clowns ends.

A black goat slowly came out with a cart carrying two little monkeys, followed by the flute of the mountain. The little monkey saluted the audience, and after a week of touring, the audience was amused and the children cheered. Then, the little monkey performed a walk, a handstand, a brick, the goat struck a small drum with his hooves, and finally, to the amazement of the audience, the mountain tooth took a mouse out of his coat pocket, untied the thin iron chain around its neck, and put it on the ground, and the mouse swooped away. Then, with a whistle, the rat sprang out of the background and climbed up his trouser leg, standing motionless on his shoulder! The eyes of the spectators were straight, and the mountain tooth took the mouse from his shoulder, tied a chain around its neck, played with it like a kitten and a puppy, and put it in his pocket. It's just an ordinary gray-black mouse, so well trained, it's an eye-opener for the viewer!

The next show is juggling, where Sanwen throws a few knives into the air and catches them again, skillfully. To the applause of the audience, Sanwen performed a throwing knife, he took out a wooden plank, blindfolded, and stood in the distance and threw the throwing knife, which was firmly inserted into the wooden board and trembled.

The final show is two gnomes pushing out a board cart with a large glass trough with snakes in it and a woman sitting in it.

The audience ended, and all the tragicomedy came to an end.

The circus set up camp, leaving only a small pile of ash blown by the wind. From one place to another, wandering all over the world, wandering the rivers and lakes.

Originally, when the circus was first established, there was an elephant, which was bought by Brother Thumb from Yunnan, and later fell ill and died. In those years, they set out for a strange town, where the dwarf rode an elephant, as if he were a proud prince, and at an altitude of a hundred meters, herded white-headed goshawks.

In 1980, they camped at the foot of a mountain, where the stars were big and hung low over the wilderness, and the wind sounded the sound of millet breaking and the smell of flowers. The gnome picks a large wild chrysanthemum and walks into the tent with a bunch of purple grapes in his right hand. Another dwarf, his twin brother, wore a pair of yellow rubber shoes and caught a lot of fireflies to put in the mosquito net, and when he returned, he heard the sound of crumbling buttons outside the tent. The two gnomes start fighting, and for a woman, the fat woman slaps her ass and cries.

In 1981, they set up camp in an orchard, the river was so clear that the pear blossoms covered the entire mat like snow, and a dwarf sat on it. If a sparrow looks down on the orchard, if the sparrow flies away and lands on a power line in the county town, and the sun shines warmly, the sparrow will see a fat woman holding the hand of a dwarf shopping. The dwarf in the orchard was in a daze, watching how the pear blossoms pressed the branches into beautiful arcs.

Ding Busan and Ding Busi both love Mengni!

The tooth never tamed the white-headed eagle, and one day the eagle flew away and never landed on his shoulder again.

Elephants are tethered to the ground before they are dead. Stick a small stick in the ground and tie a rope, the other end of which is tied to the elephant's right hind foot to prevent the elephant from escaping. We all know the power of the elephant, which can roll up a tree with its proboscis and can even trample a pig to death. Why does it stand there obediently? A child once had a question about this, and he asked the mountain, why don't the elephants run?

Sanya replied that it felt like it couldn't run.

It turned out that when the elephant was first captured, the circus was afraid that it would escape, so they chained its feet and tied it to a large tree, and whenever the baby elephant tried to escape, its feet would be worn by the chains and bleed. After numerous attempts, the baby elephant did not succeed in escaping, so the impression formed in its mind that once a rope was tied to its feet, it would never be able to escape. When it grows up, although it is only a small rope tied to its feet, and a small wooden stick is tied to the other end of the rope, its subconscious tells itself that it cannot escape.

Sanwen Qian, a native of Guangdong, a big brother, a native of Weishan, Yunnan.

Ma Youzhai's family is in Liaoning, his parents are dead, only the swallow flies back to the empty courtyard every year.

Ma Youzhai loves to eat meat, drink, smoke, and gamble, and he is a fake monk. He loved silence, and the silence he understood was a stinking ditch that flowed silently, and where the grass grew, and he sat on the edge of the ditch and smoked. The house behind it was not alone, there were hundreds of identical houses built around it, and there were people sleeping in each room, and he could feel the heat exhaled by the family in their sleep, in fact, he would love to have a home.

While in Hwaseong, Sam Wen Qian picked up a freak from the garbage can, and Ma Youzhai also picked up a woman who died after giving birth to three children for him. In 1990, the circus was disbanded.

When we reminisce about the past, we will remember that afternoon many years ago, the dust was splashed on the ground, people were cheering, gongs, drums and flutes made beautiful music, or the fragrance of acacia flowers, or the diffuse fragrance of osmanthus flowers, or the dilapidated houses, the windows facing north, these things made us remember a circus, and all we remember are the three words circus, and other things that we felt at that time.