For the members of the circus, this is an opportunity, a chance to escape their misery.
Another: Ku Hai's name is Qu Boss.
This insidious, cunning, vicious, and inhuman guy, only in front of his daughter will put on a coat called a loving father, and change from a beast to a beast.
"It's impossible to get out of the sea of misery completely." A teenager who had just returned from the performance sighed, "But as far as the young lady's eyes can see, there is a pure land."
So, the competition begins.
Chen Junyan, the most advantageous in appearance, became the first victim of death. Halfway through the night, he was suddenly covered with a quilt, then slapped his head and covered his face violently, and even greeted his face. The next day, half of his face was swollen, and Boss Qu walked slowly in front of the queue. He knocked on the palm of his left hand, and when he passed by Chen Junyan, he suddenly stopped, the whip lifted his chin slightly, and asked lightly, "Did you beat him?"
Everyone is uneasy, is it difficult for Boss Qu to stand up for him
Boss Qu looked around the crowd and sneered: "You guys are not swollen, and he doesn't look as good as he is swollen."
That night, Chen Junyan was beaten up again. This time everyone learned from the previous failure experience. Instead of focusing on one side of the face, they swelled both sides of the face evenly to ensure that his appearance was lowered to the level of the public. the following.
The next day, seeing this face, Boss Qu smiled, pointed at him with a whip, and said, "It's you, come with me."
cheated! ! Everyone was wailing in their hearts. He deliberately wanted to bring the ugly in front of the young lady, so as to set off his handsomeness and stalwart, right?
"What happened to your face?" Ningning asked curiously in the courtyard.
Chen Junyan glanced at Boss Qu beside her, lowered his head and said, "I accidentally fell last night."
Ning Ning got up from the chair, walked in front of him, slowly circled around him, and when he came to his side, he suddenly reached out and lifted his chin, making him turn his head to look at himself: "You hurt, it doesn't look like you are. Like it fell out."
Boss Qu coughed, Ning Ning retracted his hand as if nothing had happened, and then heard Boss Qu coolly say: "Since you are injured, you should go back and rest first."
... This is not some kind of pure land, this is clearly a sea of suffering and no boat!
Chen Junyan was unwilling to go back like this. He doesn't know when he will come next time. No, judging from the intimacy she showed to him today, he probably won't want to appear in front of her again for the rest of his life.
You must be favored by the young lady, and you must lift the guard of Boss Qu.
Both must be done at the same time! What should he do!
"Don't leave yet!" Boss Qu looked bad.
… Forget it, there is a future only if you have a life, let’s go back first, this matter will be discussed in the long run.
Chen Junyan returned to the circus dejectedly, just as he thought. After that, he was never picked by Boss Qu again. He could only watch the people who lived in the same Chase shop being selected one after another. When he came back, he might gather together. The group, or groups of three or five, discussed things about the young lady.
"Miss is really a bodhisattva, not only asked me if I was tired, but also gave me snacks."
"She doesn't look like the class leader at all... It must not be her own!"
"Blessed by the Bodhisattva, I hope tomorrow will also choose me, and I hope tomorrow's snacks will not be durian flavored."
Chen Junyan felt sad for them, and bought them with a few snacks. He completely forgot who he was because of who got to this point, and what was waiting for them in the future.
After listening to a few more sentences, Chen Junyan couldn't listen anymore. He lifted the quilt, sat up, and sneered at the crowd, "Have you forgotten about Li Xiulan?"
There was silence in the room, and everyone stopped talking and looked at him.
"Don't forget her current fate." Chen Junyan said solemnly, "Her fate is our fate."
Thinking of Li Xiulan's current tragic situation, everyone couldn't help but have lingering fears.
There are eight people here, plus Li Xiulan and another girl, there are ten people in total. They are all circus reservists. Unlike other places, the reservists in other places do everything possible to get on stage, but they are different. They No one wants to be a "big star" in the circus.
"Don't forget that before we were kidnapped, we also had a home." Chen Junyan looked around the crowd, and his eyes fell on one of the teenagers, "I remember you said that your family was in the shipping business and made a lot of money. You have eaten bird's nest and shark fin since you were a child, and you eat one bowl over another. Now? Did a few dim sums make you forget who you are?"
When the boy was talking about the central thing, he lowered his head and started to cry.
The others weren't too well. No one here volunteered to join the circus, they were all kidnapped.
"... What's the use of thinking so much?" The other teenager seemed to be unable to bear the oppressive atmosphere, and said angrily, "I can't go back anyway, it's a day to live, if you want to do something, you go, I Anyway, I don’t want to do it, I don’t want to end up like Li Xiulan. I want to try the way of Miss, even if I’m not a human being, it’s better to be a pet under her feet.”
So the sad atmosphere was swept away, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, all eyes flickered, obviously they all had the same idea.
Life is not easy, especially for these hard-working people. Even if a spider silk falls from the top of their heads, they have to grab it desperately, hoping to climb out of the abyss along it.
So everyone began to discuss "one hundred ways to approach the lady", "estimating the lady's taste from the snacks given every day", "the type of boys that the lady likes"... The last one, everyone thinks that the lady likes her type .
As usual, Chen Junyan did not participate in it. Anyway, he had already found the person he was looking for.
A freckled teenager sat silently in the crowd, tried to talk to others several times, but was ignored by others, and finally could only listen to the others in silence.
Small freckles. Everyone forgot what his original name was. Boss Qu called him that, and everyone called him that.
At dinner time, Chen Junyan took his bowl and sat beside Xiao Freckle, who looked at him and continued to eat with his head down.
"How's it going?" Chen Junyan stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth and asked while chewing, "Do you like your dancing balls, miss?"
Before he opened his mouth, Chen Junyan had already guessed the answer. The freckles were the least skilled and the most ugly one among them. Everyone is guessing behind the scenes that he will be the first person to end the reserve and join the circus and become a "big star", even he himself thinks so.
Sure enough, Little Freckle put down his chopsticks and bowed his head with a pale face: "I don't like it very much..."
"I don't like your ball dancing, or I don't like you?" Chen Junyan asked.
"I don't like my ball dancing scenes, no, she doesn't like me..." Little Freckle lowered her head, her voice choked, "She neither likes my ball dancing scenes nor me."
He was always complaining about himself and felt that others hated him. In fact, most people don't hate him, but directly ignore his existence.
Chen Junyan is neither his enemy nor his friend, approaching him only for his own plan. So he sighed: "Then what do you do? I heard that a person in the circus was injured. After being treated by the doctor, the situation did not improve. The class leader will soon choose a substitute among us."
"What?" Little Freckle exclaimed, "Didn't you just call Li Xiulan over?"
"Shh!" Chen Junyan raised a finger to his lips, and looked around vigilantly, before lowering his voice and saying to him, "Li Xiulan was punished in the past, choosing us in the past was a normal alternation of old and new, can it be the same?"
Little freckles believed his words, her face paled even more, and she asked with trembling lips, "Then, do you know who the class leader is interested in?"
"How do I know this?" Chen Junyan turned his attention to the meal again, "Eat it quickly, just talk, the meal is getting cold."
Where can Xiao Freckles eat? He sat beside Chen Junyan in despair, poking the rice in the bowl with the chopsticks in his hand.
Chen Junyan didn't speak to him anymore, he silently ate the food in his bowl, then washed the bowl and went back to his room to sleep. At night, with little freckles tossing and turning behind him, Chen Junyan opened his eyes and closed them silently.
Days passed, except for Chen Junyan, no one noticed that there was something wrong with the freckles.
First, he has no sense of existence, and secondly, he has no friends, and the most important point is that everyone's attention has been attracted by the lady. Compared with him, everyone is more concerned about who the lady will call tomorrow.
The little freckles just collapsed a little in the indifference of everyone.
Chen Junyan looked at it and wanted to say something several times, but at the last moment, he held back. He knew that Freckle was a very easy-going person, and he didn't even need to say anything to him, just pat him on the shoulder, or give him a slice of vegetables in his bowl while eating, and he would be like grabbing the hole Like dangling spider silk, hold on to this thread of hope.
"But I can't do that." Looking at the other party's hunched back, Chen Junyan murmured to himself in his heart.
The next day, as usual, one person was chosen to perform at the lady's.
"Little freckles!" Boss Qu, "It's your turn today!"
The little freckles in the crowd shuddered, and a little spark had just ignited in their eyes, but they were snuffed out by Boss Qu. Boss Qu walked in front of him: "This is probably the last time, you go and get ready."
Chen Junyan looked at the little freckles, and in a trance, saw that the spider silk on his body was broken.
People can endure when there is a glimmer of hope, but what if there is no such thing as a glimmer of hope
He will take the risk.
"Sorry, I have no grievances with you, but I have to do it." Looking at his leaving back, Chen Junyan said softly in his heart, "If you can come back alive, you can take revenge on me any way you want."
He closed his eyes, opened them again, walked through the stream of people, and walked in the direction of Boss Qu.
The circus is on tour, and there are a lot of things to do, so most of the time, Boss Qu will finish the things at hand, and then go home to watch the trick with Ningning. Having said that, they won't give them a chance to go out alone, they will be followed along the way, they won't leave when they arrive, and they will stay until Boss Qu comes back.
Chen Junyan listened to the chats of the people around him every day, and gradually extracted an important message from it.
That guard... he can't have a bladder. In an hour at most, he would have to go to the toilet, and he would go back and forth for about a minute. He had already divulged this message, and another more important message, to Little Freckles.
Then he came to Boss Qu, lowered his eyebrows and pleaded with his eyes, "Master, Miss is in danger."