Chapter 37: The Puppet
According to Mr. Dagrober's recollection, when the girl's mahogany box was brought out, it immediately attracted the attention of the members of the missions of the countries present. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Through the translation, everyone quickly knew what this beautiful girl was doing, so while they were all interested, they all stretched their necks, looking forward to the little thing in the mahogany box being taken out.
Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the girl and the eunuch opened the lid of the mahogany box, which was more than half a person high. Followed by...... The sand inside leaked out.
...... Hearing this, I suddenly yelled at the shopkeeper Tong and interrupted, "Wait!
My sudden shouting startled the shopkeeper Tong, and almost made the tea in his hand spill his arm.
Then our old shopkeeper nodded at me with a confused look and said, "No...... What's wrong?"
There is no doubt that the words of the shopkeeper naturally reminded me of my hotel and the sights of the landlord, Mrs. Gao.
On the night when the Dongguan couple were installing wires in the basement, didn't Mrs. Gao dig out a box from the basement floor?
After that, Mrs. Gao removed the sand with her hands, and then released a "ghost", and then the daughter of the Dongguan couple disappeared for no reason, and then there was a series of things about the haunting of my hotel and the exorcism of the heavenly group.
And more than 100 years ago, on the birthday of the Queen Mother, such an incident also happened? This clock also happened to record these things, I am afraid ...... It's not a simple coincidence, is it?
With the astonishing overlap of history, it often becomes a certain inevitability in the dark, and because of this sense of inevitability, my buddies and I are shocked by this cruel reality.
In this surprised silence, our old shopkeeper Tong looked very puzzled.
Curious and surprised, the shopkeeper Tong reached out and pulled my cuffs and asked, "What do you mean, brother? Do you know the craft of burying soil in a box?"
Hearing this, I smiled bitterly, and secretly said in my heart: Why don't you stop...... You know?
Although I had a thousand words to say in my heart, and although I wanted to ask the old shopkeeper how he got this eunuch clock, I still resisted those questions after thinking about it.
I feel that the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better, because the haunting of my hotel was originally a storm in Heihu Street, and if I talked to the shopkeeper Tong, I was afraid that the influence would be expanded.
After all, Shopkeeper Tong's mouth is not very tight.
Moreover, the record of this translation of the shopkeeper Tong is much more detailed than what I know, and it may be able to help me unravel the truth about Mrs. Gao's back then, so why not listen to him continue to talk about it?
All in all, in the face of the incomprehension of the shopkeeper Tong, I didn't answer anything, and even stopped my subordinates' rhetorical questions.
Eventually, I just told Mr. Tong that we had indeed heard of similar designs, but not in depth.
After listening to my words, Shopkeeper Tong nodded, and continued: "Since you know a little, then you can listen to it, I promise to subvert your imagination with the content here." ”
Subsequently, the shopkeeper Tong continued to tell us that when he saw the sand placed in the lid of the box, the ministers of various countries present were puzzled, because through the introduction just now, all of them knew that the girl should be a puppet or other villain, how could it be a box full of sand?
The ministers of various countries were puzzled, and neither were the Empress Dowager Taxi and Xiao Lizi, so Chief Manager Li, who had been standing beside the little girl, twisted his eyebrows and asked the little girl, "Didn't you say that there is a puppet here?
When asked, the little girl raised her forehead and smiled, and respectfully, and boldly replied to him and Lafayette: "Lafayette, our puppet is made of gloomy wood, and it is a serious handicraft of the good people of Xiangshan, and this wood is precious and can be raised." The soil grows the wood, so it must be placed in the soil so that it will not crack. ”
After the little girl said all these things, she stretched out her hand and got the sand out little by little.
Gradually, in the blood-red wooden box, the outline of a small figure was cut out. has a head, a brain and a body, and finally dug out a red and yellow dress.
As the "stuff" in the sand is getting out little by little. Galeries Lafayette's wrinkles, which had been folded into figures-of-eight, gradually stretched.
Because at this time, the little girl completely got out the things buried in the mahogany box, and everyone saw that it was a lively little monkey.
The monkey is half a man tall, the length of the body is no different from that of a normal two-year-old child, the hands and feet are covered with monkey hair, the face is pointed and the cheeks are scratched, and the monkey face of Peking Opera is painted.
The Queen Mother of the West likes monkeys, and in addition to the approaching birthday, she likes to be lively and lively, so the monkey design of this puppet can be said to have earned the appetite of Lafayette, and the eunuch table clock of that type of thunder has the same effect.
Such a flattering thing may not have much technical content, but in front of Galeries Lafayette, this is a really good "thing".
As the saying goes, a happy one, a smile is smooth. The Queen Mother looked at the little monkey in the little girl's hand, and immediately smiled, even praised the wooden monkey for being well-behaved, and praised the girl with the monkey for being cute, and said that Zhang Zhidong had a heart, and said that we had a long face in the Qing Dynasty.
Of course, Galeries Lafayette boasts about himself, but in the hearts of those foreigners, this is not a decent thing, or even ...... It's hard to call it mechanical.
In this regard, Da Grob wrote: "The puppet looked shabby and embarrassing, like a seventeenth-century gypsy, painted with heavy paint, dressed in exaggerated clothes, and devoid of any technical content." ”
Although this evaluation is not unbiased, it is basically in line with the judgment of all the envoys at that time, and even the style of the Leimen people who were ordered to accompany him, couldn't help shaking his head and muttering, "A bunch of waste in Xiangshan, what kind of fun do you want to make a wood carving?!"
Maybe Mr. Li also realized that the atmosphere on this face was gradually wrong, so after the girl took out the puppet completely, he smiled and ordered, "This universal machine will not be a shadow show, only the things that can move can be considered machines!
In this regard, the little girl grinned and said: "Yes, I don't need to lead it with my hands, it will sing and dance!"
The little girl spoke clearly and crisply, so as soon as she spoke, the envoys of various countries knew the meaning of her words through the mouth of the interpreter.
After that, there was a loud commotion.