Chapter 9 Chapter 5

If you see a beautiful puppet, you must remember, don't be emotional with her! The first time the musician had this feeling was when Huoshaoyun first appeared. Every day before that, he was addicted to sleeping and playing cards, dealing with all kinds of men, gambling money and exchanging different brands with each other. cigarettes, and enjoy it.At that time, he never thought about being a musician, or even any music-related thoughts.He didn't have such talent at all back then, did he?He just thinks every day, if he can win the bicycle of that red-haired kid today, that would be a great thing, or that guy with no front teeth, he has a novelty radio, and he talks every day. Not bad, at least not lonely.He went on like that day by day until he got the feeling that way and he never played cards with them again.He began to lie on the rocking chair anxiously every day, looking forward to the arrival of evening.Because every evening, there will always be a group of happy fire clouds burning in the sky, just like ripe tomatoes, stretching in the velvet sky with infinite glory.This is the perfect weather. At this time, the musician felt that the inspiration in his chest was eagerly spraying out like a flame, as if he could not wait to pierce his thin body and fly to the tip of the pen. go up.

But in fact he still has not written a piece of music.Even though he was diligently lying on the table every day, holding a beautiful quill against his cheeks, pretending to think, like a big-name composer, he still couldn't write a decent piece of music.But he is a musician, and he cannot be discouraged.He could only continue to look at the burning clouds and sit down day by day.Later, for a week, instead of continuing to lie on the chair and watch the burning clouds in the sky, he found many biographies of great musicians and read them carefully. In this way, he finally found an answer that he was satisfied with: There is always a woman beside every great musician, and it is always like this.

It turned out that I also needed a woman who could inspire me.The musician suddenly realized.But right now this matter has brought him a lot of trouble.Floodtown never had a woman, ever.If you ask how he reproduces, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter if outsiders keep moving in, or men can live forever. In short, it continues like this from generation to generation. Everyone in the town This question has not been asked. But he can't go on like this, how much he longs to be a musician, let his pen tip become a wonderful piano, no more, no less, playing the most popular tunes.In fact, he has confidence in his talent, that kind of confidence is strange, as if ever since he saw the hot cloud of fire, he felt that his body was prepared to be a musician.He even firmly believed that he would eventually become a great musician, which God arranged for him to do, but before that, he had to find a woman who inspired him, and everything fell into place, that's all.

The musician spent another month looking for a woman in a nearby town who was willing to accompany him to complete his "mission".He thought it was not a difficult task at first, yes, for a talented musician like him, how many women would want to give themselves to him in their dreams.That's how he took it for granted, but in fact, as you can imagine, no woman would go with him.The reason is simple, he is ugly, too ugly. He was ugly, something he had only recently realized.No one told him this before, a group of men together, who would pay attention to other people's appearance?What's more, even if they realize it, no one will care about it.That's right, in Flood Town, no one would ask for a wife to go home to live, but to find a job or start a small business, no one would take face as a big deal.So when he realized that he would eventually disqualify himself as a musician because of his ugliness, he was devastated.

During the few days when the puppet artist stayed in Hongshui Town, the musicians would always hear his high-pitched voice shouting resonantly beside his room: "Make a puppet! A lifelike puppet, who should make a puppet! Make a puppet! Absolutely It's true! It doesn't look like you don't want money!" The voice was so loud that he couldn't think quietly.One day later, when an artist passed by his house, he couldn't bear it and rushed out. He originally wanted to give him a good lesson, because of him, he had no thoughts for several days.He waved his fist at him furiously, and shouted: "Get out of here, no one wants your puppet, get out of here, don't scream like a rooster!"

But the puppet artist was not angry at all. Instead, he smiled and said to him: "Sir, do you want to make a puppet? The puppets I made are really beautiful. I can make men, women, adults and children, just like the real ones." Yes, I guarantee your satisfaction!" As he spoke, he took out a doll he had made to show him, it was a puppet doll slightly smaller than a human, but for a short man like him, this Already big enough.Her face was beautiful, the color of porcelain, rosy like a cherry.High nose bridge, big eyes, thin lips, all in all she looks like a typical beauty.She would also simply say hello to him and say a few uncomplicated words, which was enough to surprise him.In the end, the entertainer proudly told him that she would become more and more clever, and she would definitely be a best playmate.

He looked at her, and the word "woman" suddenly appeared in his mind. He decided to buy her, even though it was a puppet, but there was no better choice right now.He was always going to be a musician, and apart from her, perhaps there would not be any other woman to accompany him to complete this sacred and glorious mission.Maybe this is God's will.he thought so. The musician later found out that the deal was a steal.She knows everything, she will make water for him, tell jokes, make funny faces, and more importantly, she is very beautiful, so beautiful that he almost forgets that she is a puppet and wants to fall in love with her.When the musician was concentrating on creation, she would move a stool and sit next to him, resting her cheek on her hand and watching him without saying a word. If his clothes were broken, she would sew them up for her.You can't think of it, although the stitches are not so thin, she is already the first person who can sew clothes for him.Sometimes he looked at her and couldn't help feeling elated. It was true that the family had changed a lot after having a woman.

In this way, the musician's first work was finally born.Yes, you must have never imagined that he actually composed the tune.He also bought a piano specially for this piece of music, and practiced it many times until he knew it well.He moved the piece to the town to perform, and it was an immediate sensation.Maybe it was really a good piece of music, maybe people in Hongshui Town had never heard any decent music, so they became very interested in the musician's works.In short, that piece of music made the musician an idol for the people of Hongshui Town. "Dear musician!" People would call him like this respectfully when they met him.

This made him very excited, and he finally became a real musician, not a self-proclaimed one like before, but a real one that everyone recognized.In those days, being a bit cultured was a very cool thing, let alone a famous artist and a great musician?As a result, the musician felt ecstatic, but she still knew quite well that it was all due to his little puppet, without her, he would never have been able to write any inexplicable scores. He showed her around and bought her little things as rewards.On the street, if she meets strangers, she will blush, just like a real girl, two crimson clouds instantly hang on her cheeks.Flood Town does not allow women to exist, so whenever people ask about the musician, he will always say arrogantly, look, this is my puppet, she is by no means a woman, but she is much more well-behaved than a woman.

Afterwards everyone in Flood Town knew that the great musician had a clever puppet who knew everything and was extremely cute.So everyone looked for the puppet artist everywhere, but the artist had already left, and the guy who was used to wandering would never return to a place where he was tired of visiting, so the puppet became the unique treasure of Hongshui Town. Our musicians created many works one after another in the following time, and without exception, they caused some fluctuations in Hongshui Town.A considerable group of people has become the musician's regular audience. Every time he performs, they will carry Maza and sit under the stage, listening to him with fascination.

What about puppets?She has become a musician, and even a memorial archway in the entire Hongshui Town. Outside, whenever someone mentions this puppet, most people will proudly say, look, this belongs to our Hongshui Town. She is so kind, beautiful and smart. .Frankly speaking, even the musician himself admits that she is the baton of his inspiration, without her, it is absolutely impossible for him to become a musician, and he must not be able to write anything. Later, the development of things suddenly reached a new level.He found that he finally began to miss her, and this feeling was different from any kind of missing before.When the neighbors moved away when he was a child, he also shed tears because he missed his puppy.But this time was different, he clearly felt that every time he thought of her, he would involuntarily smile silly.Sometimes he will start counting the time when he goes out, and he will be home in a few minutes, so that he can see her pretty little face again, what a person to look forward to.When he was at home, he sat next to her, looking up at her absent-mindedly.Her back was straight, and her chest bulged slightly under the thin clothes, which made the curves of her body extremely charming, and made his whole body feel as if a burst of electricity had suddenly passed through it, burning hot and being ignited.Sometimes he even wanted to be more intimate with her, treat her as a real woman, he even forgot that she was just a puppet, and wanted to touch her skin and face with his hands.He thought that a woman's skin should be smooth, not as rough as a man's.What a beautiful thing that is in itself.But this can't work, because every time he feels his limbs will be stiff and unable to move.He gradually understood that such thoughts cannot be moved. To fall in love with a woman is treason to the men in Hongshui Town, let alone a puppet who is not a woman.He must have been punished, the god of Flood Town was punishing him, and made him stop thinking about it, so he persuaded himself like this: If you insist on touching her body, you will definitely encounter a pile of wood, so what good is that. But he still couldn't let her go.She was around him, closely related to him, making him excited for a while every time he saw her, and like this, the musician gradually discovered that his body had quietly undergone some changes.His hearing gradually declined, and his reaction became sluggish. Even his fingers became less flexible when writing.At first he thought he was aging, that overthinking made him age prematurely.But he is only thirty years old, thirty years old, how can he be old when he is old?But then the situation became more and more serious. When he turned over at night, he often heard the creaking sound of his joints. On rainy days, his body swelled like a piece of wood soaked in water. One day, when he was taking a bath, he suddenly I found a small mushroom growing on my knee.He tried to tap his leg with his fingers, and the sound of thumping, like a hollow piece of wood, startled him.He finally understood that he was becoming more and more like her.To be exact, not just like her, but like every puppet made by an artist.How terrible. But the puppet became more and more dexterous, and the food he cooked became more delicious. He always fiddled with the qin he used for performances when he was not paying attention, and the tune he played was still smooth.Sometimes I pretended to be a real girl and went to other towns to buy skin cream, rouge, and nail polish for my face.At first he thought it was just her playing tricks, trying to make herself as human as possible.But then he found a pack of sanitary napkins in her closet.At first, he didn't know what this kind of thing was used for. Fortunately, he knew a few words, and he understood it after reading the following explanation.To his great surprise, it had been unpacked and a few pieces were missing.This is really absurd, for a puppet to start menstruating like a human.He began to be afraid that one day he would really become a puppet and she would become a human instead of him.isn't it?His appearance has become more and more ridiculous, his eyeballs have become more and more protruding, his hands and feet have become harder and harder, and his hair has gradually turned mustard green.He knew that it was all because of his fault, that he shouldn't be emotional with her or with a puppet, but he couldn't restrain himself at all.She is already more like a woman, she likes to dress herself up, so she is more beautiful. Whenever he sees her, it seems that he has completely forgotten the fact that he should not be emotional with her.He can only comfort himself by saying that she is mine, and if I buy her, she should take care of me for the rest of my life. As long as she can be taken care of by such a girl for the rest of her life, what's wrong with dragging a puppet's body around all day long? But the puppet didn't think so at all. She felt that it was a mistake for him to buy her home.She had seen the world, and when the artist went about selling his puppets, she followed him from town to town.She has traveled all over the world, what kind of man has she never seen?Handsome, romantic and rich, mature and considerate, whenever she meets such a man, she will blush involuntarily, begging them to buy her quickly.But no matter how good-looking she is, she is still a puppet. Which outstanding man is willing to stay with a puppet?So in the end, only he was willing to take her in. He was a short man with an ugly face, but he was willing to give her master, a puppet artist, a lot of money.So she can only live in his house. The puppet originally thought that her whole life would pass in such a muddle. Maybe one day, when she was old, she would be burned as a handful of firewood, which is nothing unusual.But gradually she found that she no longer looked like a puppet, her skin, or the flexibility of her joints, no matter where she looked, she looked like a real person.One sunny morning, she was pleasantly surprised to find that she had finally got her period, which made her very excited.She quickly put up her skirt and ran to a nearby town to buy a pack of sanitary napkins for herself. The landlady told her how to use like any girl who came to buy sanitary napkins for the first time, and she gave her a friendly pat The shoulder said, the little girl has finally grown up!No longer a child, but a woman! Such a sentence made her alive all of a sudden, as if she had been recognized, she was finally willing to believe that she was no longer that hapless puppet, but a woman, a real woman.Yes, some people have already started to think that way, and more and more people will think so, so finally, no one will turn her away because she is not a woman, how good it is. On a clear moonlit night, the puppet finally decided to elope with the musician's large stack of music scores.She no longer wants to endure the musician's short stature and ugly face, she wants to find a handsome man and live with him.why not?She is already a real person, as long as she doesn't say anything, no one will think that she used to be a puppet before, so there will always be people who like her face, there will always be people. At that time, the musician was lying on the bed and sleeping without knowing it. He must have never imagined that when he woke up the next day, he would be alone.His girl has stolen his music, along with his great musician's mind.He could no longer be a musician, and there was no one to cook and boil her water.In fact, it doesn't matter, he no longer needs to eat and drink, how can a puppet know how to eat?As long as he walks around in the sun every day, let the moisture in his body run away, and save a few pieces of mushrooms, he can live in peace for a lifetime. That night, he dreamed that the town of Hongshui was really flooded, and his body was covered with fungus and mushrooms, and he could not move in bed.The water had covered his bed board and was about to flow over his body.All the people in the town are running for their lives, only he cannot escape.Rumbling footsteps sounded in his ears. It was the sound of people running in a panic. At this moment, he seemed to hear people passing by his bed, and all of them were chanting the same words like spells: If you see a beautiful puppet, you must remember, don't be emotional with her!