Chapter 5 Chapter 5

After Boss Luo told Wang Xianke about Yu Xuanji's execution, Wang Xianke felt that he was very kind, so he would go to his store every now and then to buy a few things and chat for a while.Boss Luo's shop is a silk shop, which also sells various small items for women, various cosmetics, etc. In modern terms, it should be called a women's goods store.Wang Xianke and Boss Luo got very close and called each other brothers.That's it, he didn't find out anything new, and he didn't see anything in the telescope, and then he moved away.Before leaving, he even apologized to Father Wang An and Boss Hou, saying that he was really confused and thought that Wushuang lived here, but he actually remembered the wrong place.Now he is going to look for Wushuang in other workshops, and if he finds her, he will definitely bring her back to apologize to everyone.After he left, he left a bundle in the room, not to mention small items such as compacts and lipsticks, there were a lot of bras and panties in it.The gentlemen in Xuanyang Fang saw it in surprise and said: So this guy is a pervert!People don't know that he bought these things, and they think he stole them.They were all bought from Boss Luo's store, but Boss Luo didn't explain a few words for him.So these things belonged to Boss Sun who opened the inn, enough for his wife to use for several lifetimes.Everyone thought that he would never come back after he left, but he turned his back on his word and came back after being away for half a year.Not only that, but he also lost his temper, saying that there was a nest of liars living in Xuanyangfang.It turned out that he did not know where to find out that Yu Xuanji had been dead for twenty years, and it was only a few years since he broke up with Wushuang.So he had a strange idea, saying that after Yu Xuanji died, Wushuang's family moved to that yard.Of course, what he said was not completely unreasonable.Because there was a seal from Chang'an County on the gate of the courtyard, and the date of the seal was three years ago.Boss Luo told Wang Xianke that it turned out that Yu Xuanji lived in this yard, but after something happened to her, the yard was sealed off.How can there be any reason to seal a house after killing a person for seventeen years?Therefore, Wang Xianke said that Boss Luo was a liar.But what Boss Luo said made more sense: I only told Wang Xianke that Yu Xuanji lived in the yard, but something happened to Yu Xuanji, and the yard was sealed off.These words are all true.So Boss Luo is not a liar.And he was also secretly happy that it turned out that it was twenty years ago that he had evil thoughts after watching Yu Xuanji being tortured.He was young then.Who didn't have a few ridiculous ideas when they were young?

During the period when Wang Xianke left Xuanyangfang, the rabbits he threw on the house had been bred for three generations.Now every house in Xuanyangfang has more than three rabbits on the roof.Rabbit feces rolled down from the roof and fell everywhere, so chubby that if you step on it, you will fall.This is all because the rabbits can't drink water on the roof of the house, and all they eat is hay, so they all have constipated stools, and the excrement they pull out is extremely hard.In addition, they also drilled holes in the house, so that there was no leak in the house.During the day, these short-tailed rodents bask in the sun on the house, and they do not avoid people and are very rampant.When it got dark, they jumped up and down between the houses, and fluttered through the night sky, as if they were haunted, scaring even the faint of heart to go out.This is the disaster that Wang Xianke brought to everyone, and he should be responsible for compensation.But Wang Xianke didn't pay any money.He said, the rabbit I got ruined your house, and you made it impossible for me to find Wushuang, so everyone will be evened out.

Later those rabbits continued to breed, and some varieties emerged.Some hind legs were twice as long as their bodies, and they could jump over a ten-meter-wide street. People in Chang'an heard a sound above their heads, and when they looked up, they saw rabbits flying in the sky like mortar shells fired.Some have thin membranes between their forelegs and hind legs, which, like bats, can glide from high places to low places.They not only reproduced in Xuanyangfang, but also spread throughout Chang'an City.Regardless of the towers and temples, or the palace, the roofs are covered with these things, as many as maggots in a dung tank.

There are still many things to add about the story of the rabbit disaster in Xuanyangfang in Chang'an City.I have a cousin who is ten years older than me, so he took the college entrance examination before the Cultural Revolution.My cousin is fond of literature and history, and has read a lot of ancient books. He knows that there was a rabbit riot in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province a thousand years ago, and he has a lot of other knowledge.That year when he went to take the university entrance exam, he saw that the composition question was "Say I'm Not Afraid of Rabbits", and thought that the person who asked the question asked to talk about it.He wrote a 2,000-word essay on the matter, emphasizing that animals with three-petal and squishy tails are not scary.But the exam questions that year were not archaeological texts, but temporal texts.That year, a famous writer wrote a famous article called "Don't Be Afraid of Ghosts", which far-fetchedly compared imperialism and all reactionaries to ghosts, and said that we should not be afraid of them.The tester asked the candidates to post some comments on this article, and the test question was not about not being afraid of rabbits, but about not being afraid of ghosts.My cousin has a thousand degrees of myopia and read the questions wrongly, so he was not admitted to university, and spent his whole life soldering semiconductors in the repair department of the street office.My cousin sister-in-law is a pockmarked, bearded elementary school teacher who was fat when she had no children.Although my cousin's myopia is to some extent responsible for this incident, if Wang Xianke hadn't put the rabbit in the house back then, such a thing would not have happened.

Wang Xianke returned to Xuanyangfang, lived in the original room in the inn, and stared at the empty yard through the telescope.In addition to turning the sky and the earth upside down, the telescope will also enlarge the central scene and shrink the edge, so the world in the mirror is a protruding hemisphere, as if there is a big eyeball looking at him .Every day he spends a lot of time looking at the window lattices with peeling paint, cracked floor tiles, and swallow nests under the eaves.Except for some more rabbits on the roof, the scenery I see now is exactly the same as it was half a year ago.Even so, he still retains his original confidence, believing that this is where Wushuang once lived.

Besides staring at the yard, Wang Xianke did other things.He found a brush and ink, intending to draw Wushuang's appearance.Danqing is not the director of Wang Xianke, and he hasn't seen Wushuang's face for many years, so after drawing it, he is not sure that it is Wushuang.Many copies of this painting were printed with woodblocks and posted everywhere in Chang'an City, and many of them were handed down to later generations.On the screen, a little girl stretched out her hand, and a line of words was printed underneath, saying: Did you see me?As far as Wang Xianke is concerned, this meaning is clear enough.But for others, this meaning is not clear.In addition, the painting was poor and the engraving was also poor, so those prints that were handed down to later generations were called "pictures of yakshas reaching out to bite people".I have one on my desk now, and the Wushuang's eyes and mouth are all triangles in the painting. I really don't know how Wang Xianke drew it back then.Wang Xianke's behavior of looking at the empty yard upstairs all day seems stupid, but as far as I know, this behavior is actually not as stupid as it seems.For example, someone thought that since he wanted to know what was going on in the empty courtyard so much, he should jump over the wall and go to the courtyard at night or at any time.Anyone who thinks this way forgets that jumping over a wall is illegal, and that Pop is watching at his door, ready to get him.According to Datang's public security management regulations, anyone who jumps over a wall will be punished with a cane for forty if caught, and his buttocks must be stripped and beaten to prevent plowshares from being caught in his crotch.At that time, the plasterers repaired the walls and never dared to go up to repair them.Moreover, people at that time always walked with their heads down. Once they saw children playing with mud on the ground and building a sand wall, they immediately cursed: Whose little Wangba is this!Is building a wall on the street to kill people?For this reason, Wang Xianke must not jump the wall.It doesn't matter if you take a telescope to look at it. The telescope is a foreign thing.Those old antiques who compiled the regulations had no idea that there was such a thing in the world.

Wang Xianke had his reasons for looking at the empty courtyard upstairs.He said: Although Wu Shuang is his cousin, and the relationship is unusual, but after all, it has been many years since she disappeared, and some things are not so accurate.For example, I can't remember what Wushuang's voice is like now.This is not only because of unreliable memory, but also because Wushuang changed his voice.When I was a child, I had a drake voice, and later it became a round mezzo-soprano.It was still changing until Wang Xianke left, who knows what will become in the end.Wushuang's appearance is also changing, from a young girl to a big girl, from no breasts to breasts, Wang Xianke doesn't know what he will become in the end.These uncertain factors messed up Wang Xianke's memory.All he can be sure of is one thing: Wushuang used to live in this place.So he had to take a closer look at the yard, trying to think of something again.That's what he said, and as far as I know, he wasn't telling the truth.

I am Wang Er, not Wang Xianke, but one thing is exactly the same between us, that is, every time we encounter difficult things, we don’t need to know the ins and outs of it, and we don’t need to wait for the development of the situation to know that it is difficult manage.This is the sixth sense.When Wang Xianke arrived in Xuanyangfang, he immediately knew that Wushuang was hard to find.Because of such mental preparation, he won't be discouraged if he can't find Wushuang for a while.Compared with him, the gentlemen in Xuanyangfang are not mentally prepared for the protracted search for him.