Chapter 29 Chapter Ten The Circus

Who doesn't know the East Wind Circus on Peachtree Street. This circus has been infinitely beautiful for thirty years.Their domesticated steeds love to challenge raging fire, and are good at running through rings of fire of all calibers.Their domesticated monkeys love labor and are good at imitating construction workers. They put a flowered towel on their shoulders and willingly pull the heaviest cart.The tiger they tamed is known as a musician and has a rare artistic quality. Not only welcome the tiger trainer to stand on the tiger's back and play the reed flute horizontally, but also use its tiger teeth to hold the reed flute, playing the basic melody of "Learn from Lei Feng's Good Example".The elephants they domesticate are very fond of sports. The elephant trainer uses its body to exercise its body. The long trunk is the horizontal bar of the elephant trainer. The elephant trainer hangs on it and can do a hundred pull-ups in a row .

Liu Sheng remembered watching a TV show before, in which a tiger and a female animal trainer in the Dongfeng Circus, representing animals and actors respectively, were interviewed by the host.He remembered clearly that the tiger's name was Huanhuan, and the female trainer's stage name was Lele.What impressed me the most was that Lele recalled her association with an African president and a Southeast Asian king. Between words, she revealed that those two distinguished guests were once her super fans.The host asked about a piece of legendary pornographic news, Ms. Lele, can you tell us whether the African president ever wanted to bring you back to Africa?Liu Sheng listened, and Liu Sheng believed that all the people in the city were listening, but the female animal trainer was evasive, neither clarifying nor proving anything.On the contrary, the performance of the tiger made people happy. The host asked the tiger to say something to the audience all over the country. The tiger opened its mouth and spit out a horizontal axis. Big characters: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Liu Sheng didn't know the man named Qu Ying, but Ah Liu was obsessed with the circus and had seen Qu Ying on the stage.Ah Liu told him that Qu Ying was the horse trainer who performed the white horse crossing the volcano. He was the first-class horse trainer in the country, and he also had a handsome appearance. He was once very popular back then.After the Dongfeng Circus was disbanded, Ah Liu also met Qu Ying, saying that he took the circus horses to the playground in the western suburbs to teach people how to ride them. What fire circle, Qu Ying actually charged him eighty yuan and killed him mercilessly.

Going to the circus to collect debts for others was a bit weird, and Liu Sheng didn't know what to do.He originally wanted to invite seven or eight elite soldiers to create the necessary momentum, but the final result was not satisfactory, only Ah Liu and Chun Geng came.Ah Liu wanted a reward of two cigarettes, but Chun Geng had a bigger appetite and said that I don't want cigarettes, but this time when I get the money, you can take me to Hong Kong for a trip. They were looking for the circus on Peachtree Street, walking up and down, wasting a lot of time, and the memory of the majestic arch of the circus seemed to have evaporated.The red house to the east of the original circus site was remodeled and opened a game hall, where many children played games, making a shrill buzzing noise.The house to the west is occupied by a silk distribution department, the windows are full of colorful silks, a man stands in the shop, and shouts to them with an electric loudspeaker, the cheapest silk in the world, pass by, don’t Miss it, come in and take a look!Liu Sheng walked into the shop and said to the man, are you a vulture selling silk here?We don't buy silk, we look for circuses, how could such a big arch disappear?The man put down the electric horn in disappointment, and pointed to the outside of the store. Where is there a big arch?To find a circus, look around the corner.

They turned back, and sure enough, they found the door of the circus in the corner.It was already a small door, to be precise, it was a side door, which opened on the west wall of the game hall.There were arrears notices from the power supply bureau pasted on the door, as well as small advertisements for old military doctors treating syphilis, one on top of the other.Liu Sheng pushed open the door, and saw a narrow alley-like passage. At the end of the passage, a big tree with dense shade was visible, and a checkered quilt was hanging on the tree.Ah Liu had a good nose, and he smelled the smell of horse dung first. He ran in and studied a pile of dark things in the corridor, and said, "It's horse dung, it must be a circus here."

They walked through the passage, all sniffing subconsciously.The air in the circus is different, a little fishy, ​​smelly, and a little spicy, which is the smell left by the animals.Approaching the big tree, Ah Liu immediately recognized it as the background of the stage, and he called it the Tiger Tree.Liu Sheng asked him why he called it the Tiger Tree, Ah Liu explained embarrassingly that I called it that when I was a child, because as soon as the tree was put out, the tiger would appear on the scene.Sitting under the tiger tree is a woman in her fifties, she may be a concierge or a past actress, lazily peeling broad beans, and throwing the beans into a bowl with a loud clatter, throwing all the empty pods aside In the gong.Her eyes fell on Liu Sheng's briefcase, and she asked, where did you come from?What to buy?

Do not buy anything.Liu Sheng said, we came to find someone. I know you are looking for someone, what are you looking for? Isn't it a circus here?Liu Sheng became curious, what can you sell in your circus? sell everything.Sell ​​things to pay wages.The woman said that the lions were sold, the tigers were sold, the monkeys were sold, and even the animal cages were sold. Ah Liu interjected, how much does a tiger cost? The woman looked Ah Liu from head to toe, pouted and said, the tiger is full of treasures, it costs hundreds of thousands, and most people can't afford it. What about monkeys?Ah Liu asked again, should monkeys be cheaper?How much is a monkey that can pull a cart?

The woman looked towards an office opposite, but Xiao Zhang was not there.She said that you have to ask Xiao Zhang for the price of the monkey, and he is in charge of the monkey. Liu Sheng pushed Ah Liu away in time, and said to the woman, don't listen to him, he can't even afford a monkey.Let's talk to Qu Ying about something, does Qu Ying live here? Looking for Qu Ying?So you are here to buy horses?The woman said that there were only a few of his horses left, and he might not sell them. He heard that he wanted to open a riding club and start a business.If you want to find Qu Ying, follow the horse manure, he lives in a stable.

The circus was empty.They passed the large rehearsal hall, the doors and windows were still open, the floor was full of messy cardboard boxes and wooden boxes, there were flies flying around a few fast food boxes, and a bright red exercise uniform was somehow thrown on a wooden table. The box is on.The former glory and splendor of the circus were struggling on the wall, and they saw red pennants of various sizes and shapes hanging on the wall, as well as colorful performance posters from all ages.A bronze drum was abandoned under the window, and the drumsticks were thrown on the window sill. Ah Liu picked up the drumsticks, leaned in to beat the drum, boom boom boom, the rehearsal hall echoed the sound of the drum.A mouse came out of nowhere, jumped onto a cardboard box, and carefully observed the three uninvited guests outside the window.Ah Liu threw down the drumstick and said, "Damn it, this place used to be so bullish, how can it be said that it is now barren?"When I was a child, I climbed over the wall to watch their rehearsal, but the old gatekeeper knocked out the door with his ear. The old man said that their Dongfeng Circus rehearsal is also a state secret and cannot be peeked at.

They followed the horse manure, the horse manure on the ground disappeared, and they arrived at the stable.The stable is dark and damp, with a smell of hay mixed with horse manure. Through the iron gate, one can vaguely see the three magical drillers. They are tied to concrete piles and stand sideways at forty-five degrees. , The posture is unified, and the horse's eyes are shining.In the corner of the stable was a weird hut, the roof was covered with a tarpaulin, and the four walls were surrounded by iron fences and plywood panels. It was full of plastic bags and clothes, and one of the silver dresses with gold trim was ceremoniously Put it on the hanger for a luxurious and unobtrusive aura.It can be seen that the iron house should have been a tiger cage or a lion cage in the past, but now it has been changed to Qu Ying's bedroom.

The bed in the animal cage was wriggling, and someone slowly got out of it, staggering to the iron gate.A man in his forties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, broad shoulders and narrow hips, a stylish ponytail on his head, and a pair of red bloomers. His face is a little puffy, but his eyes are bright, with a certain rejection anger.Not for sale, not for sale.He yelled, exhaling a strong smell of alcohol, let's go, I don't sell horses! We don't buy horses.Liu Sheng said, are you Qu Ying?We are Miss Bai's friends, I want to talk to you about something, you should know what to talk about, right? Not sure.Qu Ying looked at Liu Sheng, which of her friends are you?Friends from the underworld? We can't talk about gangsters, nor can we talk about white ways. We don't care about gangsters and white ways, we just collect debts for Miss Bai.Liu Sheng thought about it, and took out a business card from the briefcase with his fingers. He said, my company is not big, and the scope of business is very large. . Qu Ying didn't take Liu Sheng's business card.He glanced at the three people outside the iron gate, the disdainful expression on his face quickly turned into anger, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and flashed the screen of the mobile phone to Liu Sheng, just look at it, you will understand, What is my relationship with Miss Bai?I was separated because of her wife, and I was homeless because of her. It is not clear who owes whom between us. What kind of debt are you here to collect?You go, don't mind our business, I will settle accounts with her. Liu Sheng saw the phone screen clearly, it was a standard photo of lovers.Miss Bai and Qu Ying were riding together on the same horse, and Qu Ying was holding her waist from behind. She was turning her face to kiss Qu Ying. At that moment, she must be happy, her eyes were shining brightly, her lips, It looks blood red and full of desire for love.Liu Sheng said, yes, very romantic.Then he pushed Qu Ying's cell phone away. It's all from the past, right?It's useless to show me this, not to mention a mobile phone photo, it's useless even if you take pictures of a bunch of beds, we don't care about emotional entanglements, just ask for debts.He took out a paper bag from his briefcase and stuffed it into the grille of the iron gate. I'll show you one more thing, what we do, you'll know after a look. The paper bag opened slowly, and a pig's trotter lay limp and bloodshot at Qu Ying's feet.Do you like to eat this stuff?Take it, braised stew is fine.Liu Sheng made a gesture of chopping his hands and said, to tell you the truth, that's what I do. Qu Ying sneered, are you chopping pigs' hands or people's hands?Please make it clear. Chopping pig hands is professional, but chopping hands are unskilled.Liu Sheng said, there are not many opportunities to chop people's hands, and I have to practice to see if you will give me a chance. Here, give you a chance!Without hesitation, Qu Ying stretched out his hand out of the iron gate, and shook it up and down towards Liu Sheng, here, I will chop it up for you, if you don't chop it up, you are not raised by humans!You don't have a knife?Come to me to chop off my hand, and you want me to find you a knife? Ah Liu squeezed forward, tried to push Qu Ying's hand back, and comforted him at the same time, we don't bring a knife, it means we want to solve the problem, we are not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?Qu Ying turned his hand in a different direction, and stuck it up in front of Ah Liu stubbornly. Come on, he doesn't have the guts to chop it up. Wouldn't the problem be solved after chopping it up?If you chop it up, get out, go back to your Toon Tree Street.Liu Sheng couldn't get off the stage for a while, so he gave Chun Geng a wink, Chun Geng came over and grabbed the hand, flicked the palm, don't panic, let me show you the palmistry first, we can discuss whether to chop it or not.Chun Geng squinted his eyes and looked at Qu Ying's palm prints, and said contemptuously, this is the most unlucky ghost in the world, a hundred times more unlucky than me, no wonder you are so confused, your hands should really be chopped off!The career line is so short, the love line is blocked, the money line is blocked, and everything that should be connected doesn't work. How dare you borrow 300,000 yuan to start a business?How dare you talk about love with Miss Bai? Strangely, the palmistry made a mistake, and Qu Ying seemed to have taken a sedative, and his anger gradually eased.It seemed that Qu Ying was aware of his own bad luck. He wiped his hands on his knickerbockers, faced the light outside, studied his palm prints, and asked Chun Geng, which one is the career line?Which is the line of love?Which is the money line?Damn, why can't I always remember. Liu Sheng said to Chun Geng, don't tell him, take out 300,000 yuan, and tell him again. Qu Ying gave up his palmistry, put his hand in the waistband of his bloomers, stared at Liu Sheng with piercing eyes, and let out a belch, don't scare me with three hundred thousand, three hundred thousand is nothing, I am If you are unlucky, you will meet a liar, otherwise you will get all three million back.As he said this, he groped in the dark for a while, and suddenly he swept his leg and kicked out a can of luncheon meat. He swept his foot again and kicked out a bottle of white wine. Qu Ying said that there were 800 yuan in the can of luncheon meat , There is a thousand dollars in the wine bottle.I only have so much now, you can do whatever you want, I drank too much at noon, and I have to go to sleep for a while, you can do whatever you want. The canned luncheon meat rolled to Ah Liu's feet, and the wine bottle, which was bigger, failed to get through the gap under the door and stopped inside the iron gate.Ah Liu picked up the can, counted the roll of money inside, and said, yes, it is really eight hundred.Chun Geng squatted down to pick at the wine bottle in the crack of the door, and was slapped by Liu Sheng. Liu Sheng said, what are you doing picking it up?This is to send beggars. I don't even bother to bend down to take this little money.Chun Geng said, how much is accumulated, you are too lazy to bend down and I will bend down, I will take it first, can't I? They tried to break down the iron gate, but they couldn't. Everything in the stable was surprisingly solid except its owner.Qu Ying seemed to be still drunk, he grabbed a few handfuls of fodder in the trough, staggered to the corner of the stable, urinated in some kind of container, and then got back into the animal cage in bed.The animal cage creaked for a while, and suddenly there was a strange sound in the darkness. They could all tell that it was the kind of forced crying that belonged to men.Qu Ying cried.Qu Ying hid in the cage and cried.Qu Ying's suppressed cry gradually became unrestrained and smooth. He shook the cage with his hands, and the cage made a loud noise. Qu Ying's cry was mixed with vague murmurs. At first they thought he was cursing something. , I heard it clearly later, Qu Ying said he regretted it, he said he regretted it, regretted it, regretted it, regretted it, and died. The three people outside looked at each other.regret.regret.Who doesn't regret it?Their respective lives were filled with remorse, so they listened quietly, and no one laughed at his cries.However, the three white horses in the stable were frightened.The three white horses turned their heads, and their necks were turned at forty-five degrees, listening to their master. The horses had never heard their master cry. The strange sound was not the tame order they remembered, the discipline of the horses Hence the loophole.The first horse barely kept still, the second horse was restless, its left front hoof tentatively stretched into the air, and its tail swung from side to side, waiting for more clear instructions from the owner. The third horse seemed to have misunderstood the owner's meaning and thought About to set off on the stage, it suddenly raised its head, lifted its front hooves, and let out a sharp and long neigh. The commotion of the horses stopped Qu Ying's crying, and he staggered out of the animal cage to comfort the three white horses in turn.He stroked the mane of the first horse, and he said to the horse, Victory, be good.He stroked the back of the second horse, and said to the horse, "Dawn, be more honest."The third horse was a bit special. He pinched the horse's genitals and said to the horse, "Hero, stop making trouble. I'm upset. If you make trouble again, I'll kill you." The afternoon sun was slightly pale, and with compassion, a piece of pale sunlight escaped from the nearby roof and squeezed into the iron gate of the stable, trying to outline the outlines of Qu Ying and the three horses. Pale.They noticed that the sunlight was beating on Qu Ying's thin cheeks, and there was a teardrop in the corner of his eye.Ah Liu whispered to Liu Sheng, he was crying, he was crying.Liu Sheng said calmly, it doesn't have to be true crying, and he must beware of tricks, those who eat literature and art are very good at acting.Chun Geng was already discouraged by the business. He pulled Liu Sheng aside, picked up the baijiu bottle on the ground, shook it, and said, This kind of wine costs three yuan a bottle. People who drink this kind of wine, you ask him for 300,000 yuan?Where did the three hundred thousand come from?Liu Sheng was unwilling to give up, and tried his best to boost the morale of his friends. Don’t be discouraged. Persistence is victory. Isn’t he an eagle? Tens of thousands are fast, and it's an explanation to Miss Bai. Later, the stable door was opened from the inside. Qu Ying came out leading a white horse, with a very calm expression on his face. The shiny silver dress was draped on the horse's back, like an over-dressed saddle, you put on this dress.Qu Ying brought up the gown and said to Liu Sheng, put on the gown, the horse will listen to you, you can take the horse away. Liu Sheng understood Qu Ying's intention at once, and shouted, who wants your horse?We are here to collect debts, not to lead horses. I have no money, only horses, victory is the best horse, you take victory away.Qu Ying shoved the reins of the horse into Liu Sheng's hands, and he said, I won't lie to you, this horse is worth more than 300,000 yuan, please tell Miss Bai that I have lost everything, and she has won.