"Ouch, young man, tap, tap." An old voice came.

I looked at the uncle, who was about sixty years old, his hair had begun to turn gray, and his facial features were well-defined.

"Where is this?" I asked in a low voice as I let go of my hand slightly.

"It's my house, I saw you on the lawn when I got off work, so I brought you back." The old man's back was a little hunched, so he looked short, and he poured me a glass of water from a table next to him, "This is sugar water, all you need now is sugar." ”

"Thank you." I stretched out my hand to take the cup, and took advantage of the time to drink water to look at the room, the room is not too big, there are not many things, just a desk with a wall occupies half of the space, and there are also two floor-to-ceiling bookcases, this is a study, as a family can have a separate study living conditions should be good.

I sat back on the bed and drank all the water in the cup, looked at the old man and then at the ordinary room, and then slowly said to him, "Thank you for saving me." ”

"You kid still know how to say thank you." The old man shook his arm and sat down beside me, took the cup from my hand and put it on the table, "I saw you when you were beaten by that group. ”

"I have amnesia, I don't know where I came from, I'm going there, but I want to survive, so I have no choice but to steal their wallet, and it's me, so if you don't want to shield a sinner, then I'll leave now." I stood up and waited for the old man's answer, for this kind of person who is over half a hundred years old and has experienced too much, you don't need to hide too much, which will make people feel uncomfortable.

"No, no, no." The old man waved his hand. "I want to know where this mask of yours comes from."

"Masks?" I suddenly thought that there was still a piece of something on my face that was quietly stuck there, as if it was innate, I lowered my head and sighed, "I don't know, I really don't know, I woke up with such a thing on my face." ”

"Is that so?" The old man didn't say much, but just diverted the topic and said to me, "You can recuperate here in peace." I think I've seen this kind of mask of yours somewhere, I'll go to the library and check it out for you. ”

His words were calm without a trace of emotional fluctuations, as if he had made a judgment on a dead object in the ancient tomb, but in my heart it was different, it had set off a monstrous wave, and if the source could be found, then all the unknown could find a lead that extended the clue.

"I," I tried to thank, but a thousand words were choked in my throat, leaving only a whining suff.

"You can rest well." The old man walked to the other side of the bed and opened the curtains, and the sunset outside the window was turning red, and the remnant sun was crying blood.

I was thinking so much before, why can't I start with a mask? Masks are a special field of plastic arts, which first appeared in very distant antiquity. Many tribes and tribal masks often combine sculpture and painting to create wonderful works that, albeit in a bizarre shape, are not an important achievement of the plastic arts.

There are two types of masks, one is a device to protect the face, and the other is a mask. The fifty-second chapter of the most well-known novel "Water Margin" wrote: "The cooked copper mask is like gold, and the iron hob is like a broom." This is to use the mask as a tool to protect the face, most of which is to kill the enemy, and it is recorded in the "Biography of Di Qing in the History of the Song Dynasty": "When facing the enemy, wearing a copper mask, entering and exiting the thieves, they are invincible and dare not be." ”

Then the second is used for masquerade, in "Lanling King's Entrance Song", because of his soft appearance, he deters the enemy in front of the battle, makes a vicious mask and wears it, and is invincible. This is used for masquerade, "Yuefu Miscellaneous Records: Expelling the Void" has: "There are four people with square faces, wearing crowns and masks, and gold is four eyes." ”

Mask is a symbol of people's inner world, it is an important cultural phenomenon that spans the world throughout the ancient and modern times, and it is valued by the academic community with its rich cultural connotation and special external form. China is one of the earliest and longest popular countries where masks were produced, and its prototype and shadow can still be seen to this day, and it continues to play a role in the psychology, folklore, culture and art of our people.

So where did my mask come from? I touched the mask and started to be still cold, never warm, and at the same time to hide my expression, everything I had, I stacked two pillows together, buried my head deep in it, and fell into deep thought, the sky outside the window was completely dark, but my mood was surprisingly good I opened the window, this is the back mountain area of the county, behind the community is a big mountain, this is a separate isolated house, a total of 3 floors, and I seem to live in this compartment.

In the dark night, the moonlight was obscured by the small buildings in the alley, I don't know why there are only a few houses in the opposite side of the house with lights on, and most of those brightly lit houses are equipped with frosted glass, so I can't see the situation inside, as for the few other ordinary glass windows are also empty with a lamp, there is no owner in the house.

I don't know why I went to look at those windows, maybe it was the after-effects of a month of nervous tension, I always felt that some people were watching me secretly, and I thought that the security here was really not very good, and I didn't see a single person who came out to take care of things, whether I was robbing money or being beaten that day.

But in any case, the lighting project and night activities of Jianhe are still doing quite well, thousands of trees and silver flowers, and life is boiling. After taking a breath of the outdoor air, a wave of tiredness gradually came to my heart.

The next morning I woke up very early, opened the window from the middle of the floor to watch the rising sun, foggy Nanshan, watched for more than half an hour, the time was nearly half past seven, I heard the footsteps upstairs, the old man was still kind and walked in with a plate of breakfast, looked at me leaning on the side of the bed and said in surprise, "Your injury is recovering quickly." ”

"yes!" I smiled and covered my mask with my hands, "People without ego have a self-healing function, which is quite powerful!" ”

"Compare yourself to a puppet man without a heart?" Lao Tzu put the plate on the table, and inside was a strip of red thick noodles, on which were placed a few slices of mutton, and the soup rippled in the bowl, "You get more than a puppet." ”

"Huh. Thank you pulling. "I picked up the bowl, "Is this a noodle?" ”

"No, it's pink, it's pink." The old man said, "Eat it!" This is made of sorghum, and it is not eaten much elsewhere. ”

"Hmm." As I ate, I was worried, what should I do next? Just for the sake of a mask, I don't expect this old man to take me in all the time.

After being silent for a long time, I found that the old man's eyes had been staying on my face during this period, ah no, to be exact, on the mask, when he came today, it was not like what he saw when he woke up last night, today he was wearing a blue, gray and dark business casual suit, and the wrinkles on his head when he laughed provided a series of amplitudes, which symbolized the traces of men's experience, the scars given by the years, and it seemed to have more vicissitudes.

"Come with me to the library later!" The old man was the first to speak, "I see that you were good yesterday, you can be a security guard or something." ”

"But so." I suddenly hesitated, my identity may still be wanted, you must know that my appearance is not as simple as the old man sees, not to mention that I don't even have an ID card, plus my mask "But, I can't, you see my embarrassment yesterday, I may have been a student before, I just have some knowledge in my head." ”

"Students? No way? The corners of the old man's mouth curled slightly, "Your skills and your reaction speed, coupled with the first judgment and adaptability to the unfamiliar environment, hehe." ”

"I don't know." I was very calm: "I don't know everything I used to be, I don't have any impression, but no matter what happened before, I just want to be an ordinary person now." ”

"Huh." He smiled and patted me on the shoulder, "I know, wait until you go with me, I won't care about everything about you before." ”

There was a contempt in his smile that saw through everything, yes, contempt, I don't know why I could clearly feel it from his friendly smile, but I couldn't care so much, all the clues about my identity and my mask were in the library.

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