"Little sparrow, what's wrong with you?" In the courtyard, Ning Ning looked at the boy in front of him curiously.
The other party was silent for a while, then muttered: "I'm not called Little Sparrow, I'm Little Freckles."
Ning Ning felt a little embarrassed. She didn't mean to call the other party's name by mistake. It was because too many people came to her to perform tricks, and the other party came too few times... The most important thing was that he didn't have any sense of existence.
"Cough! Sit down, little freckles." Ning Ning used a cough to cover up her embarrassment, "Don't rush to perform, let's watch it together when my dad comes back."
Wang Ma brought snacks and tea, Ning Ning, little freckles, and the guards all got a share. The guards refused the tea and only accepted the snacks. However, he couldn't control his bladder. After an hour, his body began to show Strange jitter frequency...
"...Go if you want." Ning Ning said.
"I'm sorry, just come when you go." The guard twisted his legs and left with a shudder.
After he left, Ning Ning was distracted while eating snacks. If it hadn't happened with Li Xiulan at the beginning, she would have almost thought it was a documentary about the daily life of the circus. The outline was probably written like this - Boss Qu, Liu Qian-style magic genius , led his group of disciples and grandchildren to forge a world in the Republic of China. During this period, members of the circus Chen Junyan and Li Xiulan fell in love and gradually became a pair... I always felt that something was wrong!
"En?" Ning Ning suddenly came back to his senses and stared at the boy opposite, "Little freckles, what's wrong with you?"
Small freckles look very wrong. He lowered his head and stared at Ning Ning from the bottom to the top. His breathing was rapid, his cheeks were flushed, and the hands hanging on both sides of his body were even tighter and looser. Finally, he suddenly rushed up with a stride and reached out to grab the face on Ningning's face. mask.
No one thought he would do it, or that he would dare to do it.
"What do you want to do?" Wang Ma broke into a cold sweat and rushed over without thinking.
Little Freckles was already prepared. The jumping pills in his hand were packed in a small sack. They said they were jumping pills, but they were actually small rounded stones with some paint on them. During the performance, the six were together. Throwing it into the sky, and tossing it back and forth with the left and right hands, the little freckles are not skilled enough.
But this operation does not require too much finesse.
Because he turned the sack on which the stone was placed, and smashed it hard on Wang Ma's face, which immediately turned white and red, and smashed a big dye shop on her face.
Taking advantage of Wang Ma's scream and falling to the ground, Little Freckle took a deep breath, turned her head, and walked towards Ningning.
At the moment when his hand grabbed the mask on Ning Ning's face, Ning Ning asked him, "Do you know what happens when you do this?"
"There are only two people who can see your appearance, one is Boss Qu, and the other is your husband." Little Freckle's fingers were shaking, and his voice was shaking, he murmured the news that Chen Junyan told him, "I see you It looks like I'm your husband."
"No." A dark muzzle sticked out from behind him and touched the back of his head. With a sound of loading, Boss Qu's voice sounded coldly behind him, "There will be one less man in this world."
The little freckles froze.
In a flash, he made a decision.
With just a tear, he pulled the mask off Ning Ning's face with such force that she turned half a circle in place.
"I saw it! I saw it! I, I..." Little freckled raised the mask in his hand, like a champion holding a gold medal. Halfway through his laugh, he suddenly saw Ning Ning's face, and the laughter stopped abruptly. He suddenly widened his eyes and blurted out, "... so ugly?"
With a bang, the little freckles fell into a pool of blood, his eyes were wide open, and the mouth shape remained on the last ugly word.
Unsatisfied, Boss Qu continued to shoot at his body a few times, banging his body to the ground, until the last bullet in the gun was shot before putting the pistol to his waist. Turning around to block Ning Ning's gaze, he put his hands on her shoulders to comfort him: "Don't listen to his nonsense, you are not ugly, you are not ugly at all, you are the most beautiful girl in the world."
Ning Ning's face was blank, her shoulders trembled slightly under his hands.
The corpse that was still twitching on the ground, and the indifferent murderer in front of her told her that the film she was in was definitely not a documentary about the daily life of the circus. so cruel.
"... Dad." Ning Ning finally couldn't bear to look directly, closed his eyes, and whispered in his arms, "Don't lie to me again."
A few days later, inside the circus.
Chen Junyan came to the door of Boss Qu's resting room, hesitated for a while, and was about to raise his hand to knock on the door when he heard a voice from inside: "Come in."
"Yes." Chen Junyan took a deep breath.
The moment he pushed in the door, he doubted his eyes.
Is the person sitting across from Mr. Qu
He had never seen him so decadent and helpless...
Boss Qu looks very bad now. His hair, which is always neatly combed back, is now piled up on his head like a mess of grass. Even his proud mustache has lost half of his moustache. The faint bloodstain on his face showed that he was too absent-minded when he was trimming his beard, which caused a bloody disaster on his face.
He was sitting behind a wooden table, with his hands interlaced in front of his lips, thinking deeply about something, when Chen Junyan came over, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked at him: "There is one less person in the circus now, I plan to choose you to go up. ."
At that moment, Chen Junyan almost thought that he had been exposed, and Boss Qu already knew that he encouraged Xiao Freckles to do this.
Especially when he pulled his right hand down, pulled out a drawer, took out something, and threw it on the table with a bang.
It was an old wooden box.
With a grunt, Chen Junyan swallowed.
Boss Qu took the change in his expression into his eyes, raised his hand and touched the only remaining mustache, and said lightly, "However, I can give you another choice."
Chen Junyan moved his eyes from the box to his face, and his voice was dry: "What choice?"
"My daughter... Ning'er." When the name was mentioned, the expression on Boss Qu's face softened a lot, almost making Chen Junyan think that he was also a person with flesh and blood, "She is sick."
Chen Junyan listened quietly.
"Sick people always look haggard." Boss Qu said softly, "That's why I never let her go out, and I don't put mirrors at home. Even the servants who serve her are carefully selected. I won't tell her she's sick, I'll just tell her that she is the most beautiful girl in the world. This is not a lie. When I find a doctor to cure her, she must be the most beautiful girl in the world. . The problem is, there was an accident today... "
Chen Junyan asked cautiously, "Did the little freckles do something?"
Boss Qu sneered: "It's already a dead freckle. He actually tore off the mask on Ning'er's face and even called her ugly."
Based on Chen Junyan's understanding of the little freckles, he said that he was ugly, then he was probably really ugly... If Boss Qu insists that ugly be a disease, that's barely reasonable, right
Suppressing the guilt in his heart, Chen Junyan began to recommend himself: "Can I do something for you?"
Boss Qu glanced at him, suddenly put his legs on the table, and grabbed a few wood carvings from the box and played with them, until Chen Junyan's temples were sweating, he said slowly: "If you are a little freckled. It's a big blow to Ning'er, and now she can't listen to what I say and what the servants say, and thinks we are lying."
"You didn't lie, the person who lied is Xiaofan." Chen Junyan lowered his head and said, "Don't worry, I will explain it clearly to Miss. She doesn't want to listen to the people around her, maybe she would like to listen to me as an outsider."
Boss Qu nodded slowly, suddenly put his legs down, threw the two wooden carvings in his hands into the box, then picked up the box and walked towards Chen Junyan.
"Go." He stopped beside Chen Junyan.
Chen Junyan hurriedly followed behind him.
It's morning, and most people are still sleeping in the warm blankets at this time, but the reservists in the circus have already got up to practice, and word has spread that there is one less official actor, and everyone doesn't want to be the worst one, Because the worst one will "graduate" and then take the stage as an official actor.
Fire-spitting stilts, top-bowl steel wire, just as he was practicing in full swing, he suddenly saw Boss Qu, more specifically the wooden box in his hand, everyone's expressions changed drastically, the one on stilts even stumbled, left He stepped on his right foot and fell to the ground with a bang. Although he fell, he didn't dare to cry out in pain. He hurriedly got up from the ground, stepped on stilts again, and practiced in front of Boss Qu. up.
"Don't choose me."
"I beg you."
"I'm still useful."
Almost everyone has such a message.
"Chen Junyan." Boss Qu looked at them, slowly raising his right hand upwards, dragging the old wooden box in his palm.
"Yes." Chen Junyan respectfully stood behind him.
"You want to be one of them." Boss Qu turned his head slowly and smiled at him, "Or do you want to be the person who holds the box like me?"
With a swipe, all eyes in the yard were focused on Chen Junyan.
Envy, jealousy, hatred, incredible, why is he...
Even if Chen Junyan never thought of becoming a person like Boss Qu, under such gaze, he couldn't help but flutter for a while, almost thinking that he was no longer a member of this group of pitiful worms, but became. Another kind of person... a kind of person who can easily control their life and death.
"Good job." Boss Qu patted him on the shoulder with a smile, suddenly leaned his head, put his lips to his ear, lowered his voice, and said to him in a volume that only two people could hear, "I know you can do it well. Yes, since you can convince Little Freckle to die for you, you must be able to convince the lady to make her believe you, right?"
Chen Junyan woke up from the illusion in an instant, he turned his head, and Boss Qu's smile came into his eyes, but made him cool from the bottom of his eyes to the bottom of his heart, making him realize one thing again.
His fate has never been in his own hands, but has always been in the hands of Boss Qu...
... no, it's in the hands of the lady now...