There are two landlord candidates in the house, but only one mask.
Who will wear the mask at the end
"Unsatisfactory, I didn't get the charm of the original one." The village chief turned the mask over and over in his hand, and after being picky for a long time, he said to Ning Ning, "I'll let him change it again, and you can take advantage of this time to practice more. ."
Saying that, he looked behind Ning Ning: "Be more like her."
Ning Ning was stunned for a while, then turned to look behind him.
A hideous mask.
… no, not a mask.
"... Mom?" Ning Ning shouted in surprise.
Standing in front of her was Ning Yuren. She used bright red lipstick to paint on her face. She painted a big mouth with blood, fangs, and two lines of blood and tears in her eyes. She was exactly like the mask in the hands of the village chief. .
"I'm hungry." She didn't even look at Ning Ning. After saying these three words, she left everyone in the room and sat down at the dining table, with one hand on her cheek, as if there was no one else around.
Ning Ning was inexplicable at first, and then recovered.
Mom's performance begins.
She began to act out the landlord in her mind. As for the effect... Ning Ning peeked at the village chief.
The village that originally only looked at her alone was now taken away by Ning Yuren, who was stunned for a while, and said to the carpenter beside him, "Go and call my daughter-in-law over."
His daughter-in-law came over quickly, instructing a few peasant women behind him, put the prepared dishes in front of Ning Yuren, and opened the lids one by one, which contained roast suckling pig, fish head soup, eel segments, roast duck, etc. Get out the white smoke.
Smelling the aroma in the living room, Cui Hongmei finally came out of the bedroom: "Yo, has dinner already started?"
She walked to the table and was about to sit down when she suddenly turned around and said with strange eyes, "Why are you all standing?"
Ning Ning walked towards the table, halfway there, and looked back at the people in the village.
Including the village chief, men and women, young and old, all looked at them from a distance. The food on the table was like a tribute to the grave, and their eyes were like a black and white reflection after the tribute.
Ning Ning fought a cold war, she turned her head slowly, and finally understood why they looked like this.
Unsmiling, unfriendly, not eating human fireworks, sitting expressionlessly behind a pile of tributes, isn't the Ning Yuren at this moment a mere photo
Even Cui Hongmei, who has always been nervous, couldn't stand it. After eating a few bites of food, she put down her chopsticks and said unhappily, "Can you stop putting on such a stinky face, the food will become unpalatable."
Ning Yuren stared straight at her for a while, then raised her chopsticks, tapped the tip of the chopsticks in each dish, almost only dipped it in soup, put it in her mouth and tasted the taste, then put down the chopsticks.
"It's unpalatable, get another table." She got up and left, glancing coldly at the crowd, looking like another person.
"Stop!" Cui Hongmei slapped her chopsticks on the table, stood up and said, "You have nothing to learn from your father?"
Ning Ning suddenly realized.
Mom's acting, in fact, has been imitating. In the past, she imitated the people in the movie, but now she imitates the former landlord, the grandfather.
In the past, my grandfather did not have a fixed image in Ning Ning's heart, and he always fluttered like smoke. Now, according to Ning Yuren's performance, it has gradually become a real image.
withdrawn, egoistic, difficult to get along with.
This problem is mostly caused by the people in the village, because the village head actually said happily: "Yes, yes, we will change a table immediately."
The others also worked hard and worked hard to cook and bring the dishes. Many people's clothes were wet with sweat. When they looked from behind, the clothes on their backs showed dark marks, but they walked away with a smile on their face. Come here and take back the dish that hasn't been moved.
Only Cui Hongmei was angry, she jumped up and said, "What to take, what to take, I haven't eaten yet!"
No one paid any attention to her at all, and some people even laughed at her. An aunt in her fifties pouted and said sarcastically, "Let's not betray the old, don't think that you entered the Ning family, you are the Ning family, everyone has not forgotten you. Born, I didn't forget that you were the daughter-in-law of the Ning family by what humiliating means you played."
A group of people giggled and went back with their plates. On the way back, they were still discussing how to divide the dishes. It seemed that the dishes that Ning Yuren had touched with chopsticks had some kind of magic power. Eating them for the children at home would make them healthy. Healthier, smarter brains.
The village chief also left. Someone asked him to go over and check the situation of the altar. Before leaving, he patted Ning Ning on the shoulder and said earnestly, meaning: "You have to work harder, don't wander around the village if you have nothing to do. , learn more from your mother, it will be beneficial to learn more... You don't want to be replaced by your mother, do you?"
"What does she know, what do they know?" After they left, Cui Hongmei was left alone, jumping in anger, "I entered the Ning family, of course I am the Ning family, I didn't play tricks! This is the first time I saw Ah When I was young, I didn't know he was the landlord, but I thought he was very good-looking... So I stole a bunch of sauce elbows to please him!"
Later, the villagers brought a table of new dishes, still meat and vegetables, meat and wine, and sauce elbows. Ning Yuren didn't eat sauce elbows, and she ate very little other dishes, but the family cheered whoever she ate, her face was red and she wanted to tell the world, she looked like the most fanatical believer.
"...Please try it." A weak voice sounded at Ning Ning's feet. She looked down and saw a seven- or eight-year-old girl with bright red clothes and red hair, holding a bowl of braised pork in both hands. There was a pair of wooden chopsticks on it, and he looked at her anxiously and expectantly.
Ning Ning couldn't refuse such a look.
She picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks, ate it, and smiled at her: "It's delicious, thank you."
The little girl's eyes widened, not flattered, but rather surprised and blamed, frowned and said to her, "How can you say thank you? You... "
Her mother came over, covered her mouth with her hand, pulled her into her arms, and smiled oddly at Ningning.
The bowl of braised pork was brought to Ning Yuren, who showed Ning Ning the correct way to eat - she didn't eat anything so greasy at all, and skipped the chopsticks directly above the bowl, the mother and daughter in front of her. Instead of blaming her, she showed a sincere expression, as if the two of them had made a mistake.
"Am I going to make myself like this too?" Ningning murmured to herself.
Is the owner like this
No one answered her question, because everyone's eyes were on Ning Yuren, with fanaticism, nostalgia, and greed.
Ning Ning looked at them from a distance, then turned around and walked out of the house, kept walking, and unknowingly walked to the rapeseed flower field next to the village, sat down cross-legged, and stared at the two white butterflies dancing around the flowers in a daze. Waiting for Wen Yu to come.
She didn't eat lunch, and before the evening arrived, her stomach began to growl.
The sky is getting dark, the two butterflies have long since disappeared, the green hills in the distance are like daisies, and a few tired birds have returned to their nests.
Wen Yu still didn't come.
Looking at the time, it was already past six o'clock, and it was almost seven o'clock. I missed lunch and dinner, and Ning Ning was even more hungry.
Looking down at the rapeseed flowers on the ground... Speaking of which, can rapeseed flowers be eaten raw
"Eat, don't eat, eat, don't eat..." Ning Ning pulled a rapeseed flower, beginning to pull it one by one, until the last one, just eat it, if you don't eat it, don't eat it.
"Give."
Ning Ning turned her head and handed a sauce elbow in front of her.
The little brother in Tsing Yi bent over and stood behind her, shaking his elbow in front of her twice, he smiled and said, "I just stole it, help me destroy the evidence?"
"… no problem."
Ning Ning nibbled at Jiang's elbow and peeked at him by the way.
The Tsing Yi was stained with oil, and the fingers were greasy. It was completely immoral and down-to-earth. Ning Ning suspected that he was his grandfather at first, but now he hesitated. Some villagers miss and admire it is far worse.
"If you chew on your teeth again, it will break." Tsing Yi asked with a smile, "Would you like me to go back and get two more?"
Ning Ning took a sip and spat out the clean bones, then raised his hand to wipe his mouth, looking at him hesitantly.
… looking at the mask on his face.
"What's wrong?" Tsing Yi raised his hand and touched the mask on his face, "What are you thinking about?"
If he wasn't grandpa, how could this mask make sense
You must know that the mask on a masked person's face is linked to his life and personality. For example, Shi Zhongtang's mask has peach eyes, and Boss Qu's mask is the one he bought when he was shopping with his daughter.
It's not good to ask him directly. Out of the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the pile of leftovers on the ground. Ning Ning rolled his eyes and asked, "I'm thinking about my grandmother."
"Oh? Let's hear it."
Ning Ning recounted to him what happened at home at noon, then rolled his eyelids, pretended to be a mean aunt, pouted, shook his head and sarcastically said: "Don't be there to rely on the old and sell the old, don't think that you have entered Ning. The family is the Ning family, and everyone has not forgotten your origin, or what humiliating tricks you played..."
"No." Brother Tsing Yi interrupted her with a smile, "Your grandmother did not play any sleazy tricks."
Ning Ning looked up at him.
"Put on the mask is a god, take off the mask is a human." Shanhua was in full bloom, he laughed in the bush, "Everyone loves his face with the mask on, only your grandmother loves his face with the mask off, even if it is coveted Just his beauty is enough to make him happy."
"Who is he?"
"Your grandfather."
"How do you know about my grandfather?"
"Haha, I know everything."
Ning Ning's eyes flickered, and he asked him unintentionally, "Then tell me, how can I become the landlord?"
The little brother in Tsing Yi tilted his head and glanced at her, then turned around and said, "Come with me."
Ning Ning hurriedly got up from the ground and chased after him.
The two walked one after the other for a long time, the road became more and more rugged and difficult to walk. Ning Ning looked back and saw that there was no village or rapeseed field behind him.
"It's here." Brother Tsing Yi's voice came from the front.
Ning Ning turned to look and saw that he raised his finger and pointed to a place in front of him and said, "The thing is there, go and dig it out."
dig it out
Ning Ning looked ahead, what was buried in the grass and leaves? Could it be the missing landlord mask
After recovering this missing mask, she is the landlord
With a trace of doubt and anticipation, Ning Ning walked over.
"Ningning! Stop!!" Wen Yu's voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
But it was too late.
A pair of hands hugged Ning Ning from behind, but the two of them slipped and slid down together.
In the process of sliding down, the sweat on Ning Ning's back came out - what green grass and what leaves? There was a dry well in front of her, and she was deceived!
The sound of a huge fall came from the bottom of the well, and then it returned to tranquility.
"... Wen Yu, how are you, Wen Yu?" After a long time, Ning Ning's voice sounded first, and she called many times, but got no response.
A pair of blue cloth shoes stepped on the fallen leaves on the ground and walked slowly to the well. The blue-clothed brother put his hands behind his back and bent over to look into the well.
The well is not very deep, but the person who falls into it will never be able to climb up on his own. There is no water in it, but there is a layer of fallen leaves. On the fallen leaves are two people. The man is unconscious, and the woman raises her head and yells at him: "Why are you doing this!"
"The mountains and rivers were broken, Emperor Chongzhen was hanged on the coal mountain, and the people were displaced. Some of them fled to the barren mountains in order to avoid the rebels of the Qing army." Qingyi looked down at her, "It is the Ning family who led this group of people. Ancestor, the owner of the Theatre of Life at that time."
There was no sound at the bottom of the well.
"What is the landlord's greatest right? Wherever he goes, he can take the theatre of his life." Brother Tsing Yi said, "Seeing the people who were fleeing with him die one by one, the landlord at that time thought about it. I finally figured out a way, a way to allow more people to survive, and this way is - sacrifice."
Volunteers began to appear among the refugees. In order to allow more people to survive, some volunteered to become masked people, and some volunteered to enter the theater to watch the play, and then use this scene to change the embarrassing fate of everyone at the moment.
This is a noble thing, but also a dangerous thing.
Some people succeed, some fail, some move forward, some retreat, until finally, a group of refugees from all over the world with different surnames, relying on the power of the theater of life, finally arrived at Xanadu and established Ningjia Village.
"...Understand? Ningjia Village is built on sacrifice." The moonlight was dim, and the expression behind the mask was even darker. The little brother in Tsing Yi stood on the edge of the well, and Xiao Xiao Yeluo was swept away from him by the wind. Blowing beside him, he looked down at Ning Ning in the well, and said with a gentle smile, "If you sacrifice him, I will pull you up and teach you how to be the landlord."
Ning Ning was stunned and looked down at Wen Yu in her arms.
... Wen Yu, who bleeds endlessly in order to protect herself.