The thin Zhang Xiaolei struggled to put the big wooden box onto the stage. After finally putting it down, he leaned against the box exhaustedly, panting heavily.
"No, get a whip!"
After breathing for a few breaths, he suddenly realized that he had done something wrong, and quickly turned around to look at Lian He, the deputy head of the circus.
The tall and burly Lian He sat on the bench with a whip in his hand. His face was pale and his forehead was covered with fine sweat.
He glanced at Zhang Xiaolei, his voice was soft and weak: "Continue to move the second one."
Zhang Xiaolei breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Lian He's appearance today, it seemed that he was not feeling well, and he did not have the desire to whip him.
So Zhang Xiaolei limped to the stage, planning to move the second box.
His leg wasn't lame, but was pumped by Lian He with a board two days ago, and he is still bruised.
The two boxes are Lian He's unique skills and are always used to make the opening atmosphere.
When he was performing, he would get into one of the boxes, and someone would pierce a knife into the box, but the result was that Lian He would eventually appear in the other box unscathed.
This unique skill is called a turnaround. Whenever he performs this, the audience will always get a group of applause, and the spectators are willing to give some money.
He never teaches people in this unique skill, it is his own housekeeping skill.
Whenever someone asked about it, he said that his own magic power was boundless and he changed his body.
Zhang Xiaolei is convinced of this.
Zhang Xiaolei, who had just moved the box just once, was too tired. He only felt that the second box was even heavier. After he was exhausted to lift both boxes, Lian He finally said, "Go and ask the girl, ask. What is her life today."
Zhang Xiaolei wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked obediently to the temporary tent nearby.
The girl sitting in the tent nibbling on melon seeds, she cross-legged carelessly, in front of a few cubs from the circus, squatting on the ground waiting for orders.
Zhang Xiaolei also sat on the ground opposite the yongzi. The yongzi sipped the melon seed shells at them and said: "There are rich in the village. We have checked it out. Go to the village and see. There is a soot mark on the left corner of the house. , Is today's goal."
The boys nodded again and again, and the girl continued: "When the performance starts in the evening, don't touch the ones with the lights on, and go to the ones that don't have the lights. There are gold and silver for gold and silver, and no gold and silver for clothes. Don’t let the pots and pans fall. Take them away if you have children, not girls."
This is the business of the circus.
After the performance in one village, he left overnight to dump goods in the next village.
Keep what you need.
What is not needed is replaced with cash.
Come out and walk around the world, relying on the spare money given by the master spectator, and the small change obtained by selling Dali Jingang pills, to feed the people in the underprivileged group.
Zhang Xiaolei secretly thought that he had already traveled two states and was really farther and farther away from home, but he didn't know if he could go back in the future.
He himself couldn't remember how old he was abducted when he was abducted. He only remembers that he was still very young. An acrobatics troupe came to the village that year. The adults all went to join in the fun, but the children were locked at home. This seems to be the rule of every village, not to let too young children get close to the acrobatic troupe.
His parents also locked him at home at the time, but they forgot to lock the window. Zhang Xiaolei had been very persuaded since he was a child. He dared not stay at home alone, so he ran out of the window.
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The sound of the acrobatic troupe was very loud at that time, and the gongs and drums were walking down the street, telling people that there was a performance tonight.
He remembered that his parents had gone to see the acrobatic troupe, and he blamed himself for being clever at the time, and followed this group of people.
People in the circus occasionally looked back at him, and he walked slowly, so he kept following along.
When they reached a place where there was no one, the group of people suddenly stopped, came back to hug him, and touched his head. Then someone ran with him in his arms.
Zhang Xiaolei was abducted in this way. He didn't cry or make trouble. He thought he would see his parents.
The circus originally wanted to sell him, but no one wanted to. Buyers would take off his clothes and tear him for inspection. In the end, they all thought he was not smart, and thought he was silly and stupid, and not worth buying.
In fact, he is not stupid, he just doesn't want to talk, and he is very timid.
From then on, he stayed in the acrobatic troupe, training every day, and was given a whip when he was disobedient.
If you pump hard, you can even bleed.
At the beginning, Zhang Xiaolei dreamed of going back too.
But as ten years passed, he looked down on it.
I haven't read a book, and apart from somersaulting and walking a tightrope, I don't know how to make a living, at most I only learned how to open a lock.
The world is so big, but there is no place for him. He doesn't want to leave the circus or make a living by stealing.
Staying in the circus to beg for food is the only thing he can do.
The same goes for the other cubs.
After the maiden had finished speaking, the boys dispersed and followed the team to beat the gongs and drums.
After dinner, more and more people came to see the circus.
Zhang Xiaolei was sitting behind the stage, and a kid suddenly came and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Lei, will you hold the baby tonight?"
"Don't hold..." Zhang Xiaolei shook his head and said, "The clothes can be taken, but the children don't hold them."
The kid laughed: "You never take the child back every time. The last time you went with Crane, you didn't hold it. He almost broke your leg. Now your scars are not healed, so you forget the pain. ."
Zhang Xiaolei said casually: "You and I were all abducted, how did you succeed?"
The little boy snorted: "My parents are unhappy, and I must make other people's parents unhappy; if I get the whip, I must let others get the whip too, otherwise, how can I feel comfortable in my heart?"
Zhang Xiaolei didn't say a word, and didn't argue with the kid.
In this circus, there is no one he likes to talk to.
There was another round of beating the gongs and drums, and Lianhe came on stage and said to the magistrates: "Dear fathers and villagers, we have been out for more than 20 years. We can eat this bowl of rice. It is the face of friends from all over the world. Today I am Don’t beg everyone to show your face, I will show you some real skills and give everyone a hot spot first, okay!"
"it is good!"
The people in the audience were all booing, and even He walked to a wooden box and laughed: "Everyone is optimistic, you don't have any real skills, but you will be cut here!"
But he saw him open a box and got in, and then a girl took a few knives and pierced the box.
The people off the court were all looking breathlessly.
"It's going to be out of the box in a while, so it would be a sensation in the audience..." Zhang Xiaolei said to the little cubs behind him, "When you leave, don't hold the doll if you can. It's better to bring some gold and silver back, and lose the gold. The silver can be earned back, and the person who loses the flesh and blood will no longer be a human being. I don't know if you will listen. Anyway, I hope you will listen more."
The cubs either sneered or were silent.
At this moment, the girl reached out and grabbed the handle of the box and pulled it out.
The original lively scene suddenly became silent.
Zhang Xiaolei and the others were also dumbfounded, staring blankly at this scene.
But inside that box, there was a headless corpse, nailed to the box by those knives!
The girl was so frightened that Hua Rong was eclipsed, and she stumbled back a few steps, just hitting another box.
Another box opened, and people were even more dumbfounded.
Lian He's head actually rolled out of the box!
Zhang Xiaolei opened his eyes wide and murmured: "Turn things around... Mana has failed? Why did he move his head!?" (End of this chapter)