Chapter 147: A Distant Home
Gu Tie has done many inexplicable things in his life.How to define the word "inexplicable"? is doing one thing, and suddenly found that he didn't know why he did it, for example, when he was thirteen years old, he suddenly wanted to go to the Yongding River to fish for turtles, and forced Lao Zhao to sit by the river and fish for an afternoon, in fact, at half past two in the afternoon, Gu Tie regretted it to death, but for the sake of that face, he could only force his inexplicable actions to continue, and finally only caught two small fish fry with the thickness of two fingers, and the sun on his face and arms were so sunburned that two layers of skin were peeled.
But the most inexplicable thing in this life is the one you are doing now. "Hahaha......" Gu Tie let out a happy laugh, and the laughter turned into a deafening noise from the six large speakers through the microphone in his hand, but the hundreds of rough-skinned Mongolian herdsmen in the audience stared at him expressionlessly, without a trace of laugh lines on their faces. "Hahaha, haha, ha...... Ahem. The Chinese's laughter grew weaker and weaker, and finally turned into an embarrassing dry cough, "Then I'll tell you another joke." ”
He wears a funny green tuxedo with pink sequins, a ridiculously tall top hat, overgrown leather shoes, a short cane in his left hand, and a microphone in his right. The 20-metre-long loess performance arena is enclosed by a simple fence, with a large red tent of the circus overhead, two white curtains acting as curtains behind him, and 280 Mongolian spectators in front of him.
"Knock knock knock......" Hu Bot pressed a black key of the electronic piano, the rapid sound of the snare drum sounded, and the part-time tuner was trying to help Gu Tie mobilize the emotions of the audience. Chinese understand that when the drumming stops, it is when they speak, but now their hearts are blank, and they can't think of a single joke that usually fills their heads.
Gu Tie once thought that the Glorious Circus was just a disguise for the identities of these strange people in the Polish headquarters of the ghost's left hand, but he didn't expect that Eva really set up a big tent in Saiyin Shanda City, claiming to perform for three days in a row, and everyone was extremely excited about it, at least it seemed that they were much more excited than finding him, the "important person who has been looking for". Little Lori asked Gu Tie to also play a role, and the Chinese half-jokingly said that there was still a lack of an active comedian in the troupe, thinking that it would be over when the time came to go up and walk through the scenes to amuse everyone, but he did not expect that what was waiting for him on the first night of the show was a set of colorful dresses and a group of indifferent audiences who were indifferent for some reason.
Sainshanda is the fourth largest city in Mongolia, the capital of East Gobi Province, the largest human settlement on the road from Ulaanbaatar to Erenhot, according to official information, the city has a territory of 4 square kilometers, with a resident population of 4,000, the city has as many as 16 large and small shops, and also has unique transportation advantages: there is a railway station built in the seventies of the last century.
The tent of the Glorious Circus was set up opposite the city hall, and no one bothered them, and the Mongolian people have a natural love for circus and acrobatics, not only welcoming groups from all over the world to exchange performances, but also sending their own acrobatic troupes to achieve good results in the world competitions, and the news of the Monte Carlo International Circus Acrobatics Competition was said on the radio along the way. As soon as the tents were set up, citizens and nearby herders lined up in front of the RV to buy tickets, and unlike the normal situation, not many children came to watch the circus, and most of the audience were adult men. From the expressionless, grayly dressed people can not see any enthusiasm for the circus, Gu Tie hid in the RV and secretly looked at this strange ticket-buying team, thinking that don't look at the same Mongolian face and the same yellow skin, Mongolians and Chinese look completely different at a glance, rough, silent, strong Mongolian men seem to be not interested in anything, as if the passion in his bones was consumed by his ancestor Genghis Khan on the battlefield across Europe and Asia hundreds of years ago.
"The first show is George's Sword Swallowing and Fire Meteor, and you are the second to come on and be in charge of the ten-minute show. ...... Do you have a problem with the dress? Hurry up and put it on! It's going to start at eight o'clock, and there are only fifteen minutes left. Little Lori walked into the RV compartment and found Gu Tie in a daze at the green tuxedo, and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
"If you really want me to tell jokes...... Chinese said with a sad face, "I don't know Mongolian." Do you use Chinese to say a joke?"
Eva left the phrase "You can figure it out yourself" and turned to leave the RV compartment.
Gu Tie, who was chasing the ducks on the shelves, spent a few minutes keeping the RV's satellite link open, confirming that the circus tent was within the range of the WIFI signal, and then simply wrote a Mongolian translation program. Mongolian, which belongs to the Altaic language family, is very strange in pronunciation rules, and it took a while to straighten out his tongue, at this time the performance of the little white-faced George in the tent in front of him had come to an end, and Eva, who had changed into a set of white practice clothes, urged Gu Tie to play again, so the Chinese inexplicably stood under the central spotlight of the stage amid applause, and began an inexplicable experience in front of the audience full of tents.
Anyway, Gu Tie was a person who had seen the world, and after saying hello in a circle with a relaxed expression, he read a joke that he thought was super funny according to the phonetic pronunciation in the text box in the upper right corner of the field of vision. The joke was so humorous, subtle, full of wisdom and philosophy, that it kept coming back and the funnier it became, that as soon as he finished reading it, he couldn't help but laugh, but after half a minute, he suppressed his smile and found that the audience on the other side had serious faces as if they were participating in the National Congress, and there was no knowing smile at all.
A drop of cold sweat flowed from his chin into the collar of the green tuxedo, and the sound of the marching drum made Gu Tie panic in his heart, - he always felt that he was a very humorous person, telling a little joke to make the girl he liked laugh, this was his tried-and-true pick-up trick, but maybe the Mongolian people received it with a different frequency, and they didn't find the joke in the joke at all, or maybe his Mongolian pronunciation was too non-standard so that no one understood the key baggage? So what should I do now? Find a joke that they can resonate with?
The drumming stopped. "Chinese officials visited Mongolia. Gu Tie cleared his throat and said a joke that was quite nationally appropriate: "Chinese officials visited Mongolia, accompanied by Ulaanbaatar officials. The Chinese official saw a luxuriously decorated building and asked, 'What is this building for?' It is very majestic!' and the Mongolian official replied, 'Oh, it's the Admiralty building.' The Chinese officials were surprised: 'You landlocked countries don't have access to the sea, so why do you want the Admiralty?' and the Mongolian officials calmly said, 'Don't you also have the Ministry of Justice and the courts?'...... Hehe, hehe......"
As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped himself in the face, this joke was obviously too subtle, at most it made insiders laugh, and it was not suitable for public performance on such an occasion at all. Sure enough, two hundred and eighty spectators stared at him silently, and the circus was as quiet as a grave, the grave of a sad part-time comedian. Gu Tie stood in the center of the stage with a little weakness, neither standing nor walking, and the hand holding the microphone was trembling slightly.
At this time, Hubot added a few vulgar and funny sound effects such as springs, banana balls, and lasers on the side in time to break the silence in the Glorious Circus tent, but he didn't expect this trick to make several audience members show a rare smile. The Chinese's eyes lit up, and they immediately took a few steps back and forth in a strange look, and pretended to slip to the ground with an "oops", and the large leather shoes flew high.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of laughter in the subfield, the ice melted, and Gu Tie got up from the ground while secretly cursing his emotional intelligence, what kind of ghost jokes did he waste! These Mongolian men with too low laughter are simply hungry and thirsty for fast-food entertainment, and the lower and more vulgar they are, the more effective they will be, okay! He jumped up and deliberately said an old joke with a straight face that no one dared to tell to his friends at the dinner table:
"The chief inspected the troops and said, 'Hello comrades!' and the soldiers replied, 'Hello chief!' and the chief patted one of the soldiers on the chest and complimented, 'Look how well this muscle is trained!' The soldier replied, 'Report to the chief, I'm a female soldier!'"
-- Laughter.
Gu Tie's eyes lowered his body with tears in his eyes, and he began a performance that was even worse than that of the Northeast two. The audience of 280 erupted in laughter and applause, and the Mongolian men were amused by the vulgar and old-fashioned jokes, and their palms snapped red. Ten minutes passed quickly, and the Chinese finished the last joke, bowed off the stage, walked to the curtain and deliberately fell, and the warmest laughter and applause sounded behind them.
Gu Tie plopped down in the background, and said sadly: "It's over, it's over, it's a shame to be lost home today......"
"I think it's a success, huh?" Eva grinned as she passed by him, and the body of a twelve-year-old girl in a white leotard bounced into the arena. Waves of applause came, jiu-jitsu performances were Mongolians' favorite sport, and Gu Tie couldn't help but get up and gather next to the curtain, secretly observing the program of the head of the Glorious Circus. Little Loli's body looks weak and boneless, just a lower waist movement can make the Chinese excited, obviously a thirty-year-old mature woman, but with such appearance and flexibility, Gu Tie hurriedly looked away, for fear that if he saw too much, he couldn't help but want to commit a crime.
Among the chaotic props in the background stood a lonely figure, with a yellow wig, a white face, and a red nose, looking up at a 40-watt incandescent lamp. Gu Tie hadn't spoken to him since Terry the Clown woke up, and he didn't know what this guy with a strange illness was thinking at this time.
"Do you like 'the world'? I like it very much. For me, that's home, a warm home. ”
Terry said suddenly, his gaze following a small insect flying around the lamp, but Gu Tie understood that this was the beginning of an open-minded conversation.