Chapter Seventy-Five: Difficult Brothers
"Rich wolf, tiger and leopard?! When he said that, my soul was gone, and I didn't know how to bring this kind of place to people. The boy was very kind, and he didn't look like he was trying to hurt me, so I asked him why he was locking me up.
"The boy said, 'Of course it's not me who locked you up, I'm also a victim, I was the same age as you when I was kidnapped, and now I'm putting them here as a guard.'" Don't cry, it's not going to do you any good. Unless you obey them and listen to them to have a chance to live, they will starve you to death here. It's cheap for Han to buy a child like us, and if he thinks it's too wild to be tamed, he won't spend more money on training. But that doesn't mean you'll be free, you'll be killed by him. ’
"'Who are you?' I asked, 'Why do you know these things so well?' The boy replied that his name was Xiaolong, that he was four years older than me, that he had been in this hellish place for four whole years, and that he knew everything. Back then, he just pretended to become obedient little by little, and only then did he pick up a small life. At that time, it was also the caretaker who came to see him every day, quietly taught him the secret of saving his life, and he also found out the situation of the wolf's den through the caretaker.
"Xiaolong told me not to be afraid, saying that if he was there, he would make sure I was okay. When Ahan sends someone to observe me tomorrow morning, I must show my willingness to stay here. Of course, you can't promise too decisively, otherwise you will be treated as a fraud and still cause death. As long as I can save my life, there will always be hope of escaping, and from then on he will take care of me as an older brother treats his younger brother, and as long as he has a bite to eat, he will not let me go hungry.
"In this way, through a window of the ground, Xiaolong and I became friends of life and death. I did what he said, and sure enough, it was released a week later and brought into the downtown area of Ningxin City. ”
Wedel nodded slightly, Hai Ge didn't understand, but he could hear the mechanism. The boy named Xiaolong, to put it bluntly, was arranged by Han to trick the newly abducted child into "surrendering", and he really became friends with Haige, and later took care of him, which is actually a relationship established in the future.
Sure enough, Hai Ge said: "At the beginning, Xiaolong was not very close to me, but I always stuck to him. He chased me away a few times and didn't drive me away, and I quietly brought him something to eat when he was punished, and his attitude towards me gradually improved, and finally he really treated me like a younger brother. Han wanted to train us to be animal trainers, so Xiaolong secretly taught me all kinds of ways to pretend to be incompetent in order to avoid the fate of being chosen. Although the life of the animal trainer is more comfortable than that of ordinary actors, many people die under the claws and fangs of beasts every year. Xiaolong still said that as long as he lived, there was hope of escaping.
"And so we stayed in the wolf's den for thirteen years. In order to avoid the big shots, we always pretend to be crazy and stupid, so Han and his minions call us Stupid Dragon and Foolish Tiger, thinking that this name suits us best. Xiaolong has had a good voice since he was a child, and after he was transferred back to the circus from the remote countryside, Han praised him as a singer. Although none of the money we earned belonged to him, our brothers didn't have to worry about living in fear anymore. However, when Xiaolong turned thirteen, our real tragedy played out - he entered the period of voice change from boy to man, and his singing voice was no longer as clear and beautiful as before. ”
Haige angrily recounts his upbringing in a circus called "Wolf's Den", and Wedell listens quietly, but his heart is not at all calm.
Benlong's skill kept the little brothers living safely for six years, but when the owner of the wolf's den thought that Benlong's use value had decreased, and he could no longer make a lot of money for him as before, they lived a terrible life that was not even as good as livestock.
Hai Ge continued: "In a special performance for the big guys, Ben Long was knocked off the stage because of his hoarse voice and out of tune when he sang, and another boy immediately took his place and became a little singer touted by the wolf's den. The two of us, from that night onwards, were arranged to clean up the manure of domesticated birds of prey, and often had to work until twelve o'clock in the evening, but had to get up again before four o'clock in the morning.
"The dragon is very clever and always finds a good way to avoid the beasts and clean the cage without them knowing. So even though we got scratched a few times, it was fine. And the people outside the cage are much more vicious than the lions, tigers and leopards used in the performance, smoking, choking, whipping, starving, those torture methods are only you can't think of, and there is nothing they can't do.
"After falling out of favor, the stupid dragon can't protect itself, and it's really unbearable to cover me like before. The only thing he could do was for every time we fell into the hands of the devil and were about to be humiliated, he stood in front of me and took all the blame for all the sins as much as possible. He was very clever, and everyone in the circus knew that Han actually wanted to reuse him, but he was always stopped by the people of Crossbow, Uglymaru, and Chiwu. Especially Chiwu, who thinks he is sorry all day long, his eyes are on his eyebrows, but in fact, he has nothing to do except for a body of pimple meat. He knows how to plan for himself, and he doesn't have any good ideas to dedicate to Han, so he is always worried that the position of being a staff officer next to Han, the biggest threat is the stupid dragon who is wise and foolish. But he didn't dare to blatantly attack us, killing the paparazzi was equivalent to breaking Han's things and destroying his private property, and if he really did that, he would undoubtedly dig his own grave.
"But stupid people have stupid methods, and Chiwu adopted the method of waiting for the rabbit, and finally saw results. One day, he finally waited for a good opportunity to get rid of his henchmen. On that day, I was in charge of cleaning the glass cabinets where Snake Island was placed. That's the job I'm most afraid of, there are more than a dozen poisonous snakes on Snake Island, and a giant python with a diameter of almost half a meter, every time I go in, it's an adventure, and I don't know which one will kill me. The dragon taught me a trick to quietly turn off the air supply system before cleaning and adjust the temperature in the glass cabinet to a low temperature below 8 degrees, so that the snake will enter a state as if it is about to hibernate and lose its aggressiveness.
"I've tried this method no less than seven times, and each time it's been successful, and I've never noticed it. But if you neglect it once, it means something big happens. That time, I quickly cleaned Snake Island with a breath in my breath, and when I came out, I turned up the temperature of the glass cabinet, but forgot to turn on the air supply system. The snakes couldn't breathe air when they came back to life, and soon they were gone.
"Every day after breakfast, Chiwu will wander around. That day he dangled to the glass cabinet and became the first to notice the abnormality. But what he did next was not to quickly turn on the air supply system to save the snake, but to shout in a thick voice, which alarmed the entire circus to rush to watch. ”