Chapter 4 Twenty-two Years of the Republic of China · Summer · Beiping

Huaiyu's sporadic gossip spread to the north with the wind.It is because of the wind.Everything is like rumors. In late spring and early summer, empty and deserted mounds of empty fields are good places for children to fly kites. Nancheng, kiln towers, and altar roots... "The name of a thousand years is not as good as the joy of youth."Just because of the joy of youth, it will soon pass away with the wind.Seeing Maotou holding the black pot bottom that he made by himself, one approached, the other pulled the thread, picked up the wind and shook the thread, and went up diligently.Sometimes one turns over, loses balance, then falls, and it is too late to take up the line.

I can only hear them clapping their hands and singing: "The bottom of the pot, the bottom of the pot, true love, a tussle to the end—" The rich buddies bought expensive kites, such as Nezha, bangs, humming monsters, catfish, butterflies... But they couldn't fly them themselves, so they asked someone to fly them for them, and watched by themselves. Nancheng passed by two young men, one pointed at the bangs, and said, "I used to release them for others, and earned a lot of money." "What 'once upon a time'? This makes me look old!" Zhigao hurriedly asked:

"What name do you recognize that is?" Dandan raised her head, put her hands on her forehead, and stared into the distance, who knows what it is? "It was 'Liu Hai', he later met a fairy." "and after?" "Later—ah, the line broke, the line broke!" "What happened next?" she asked. Zhigao smiled: "Later? Let me tell you two good news, first, Tianle Theater let me sing." "real?" "It's Master Long. He heard me sing on the street, and he thinks I'm handsome. Eyes are eyes, nose is nose—" "What eyes and nose? I'm not looking for you to play the role of the four beauties!"

Zhigao complacent: "Teaching opera is best to teach 'rough'. I have a good voice, but I have never formally learned it. Master Long said that it is easy to teach. Once you have learned one school, it is difficult to change it. Not only is the singing messy, but it is also very hard. " "Are you a blank? Are you so big or blank?" Zhigao suddenly felt that he had really grown up. "That's tantamount to—ah, Wuhuner, whoever you meet, you will be whoever you are." No soul, whoever you meet, is who... Dandan's heart moved, and he asked inexplicably:

"Brother Cake, don't you have two pieces of good news?" "Yes, yes, the other one is: Huaiyu has a letter." Letters from Shanghai to Peiping were often late, sometimes a month late. Huaiyu's letter only reported his good news.Before the risk occurred, the letter had been sent.So this letter is very out of date.Dandan and Zhigao only know a little bit of words, but after reading it repeatedly, they are still the stage, colorful sound, peace, don't read, take care, Huaiyu——Huaiyu. Dandan was annoyed for no reason, and blamed him: "Why don't you talk about this first?"

I was very flustered in my heart, like I was on two boats, neither of which was implemented, my mouth was smeared with paste, and I couldn't speak, and it was difficult to speak.I don't know how to tell Zhigao: Master Miao has been waiting in Beiping for a long time, and it's time to set off. He will go to Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Hankou... Sitting on the mound of soil, I saw ants crawling among the sand grains. Looking at it, the ants crawled to my heart. Wait, it's so slim, I can't decide on my own.Waiting, holding on alone, if I leave, it seems very unwilling - but, it turns out that it will take a long time to wait just for a letter.If he really left, there would be no hope, not even a letter.

Moreover, she has also heard a little bit about him and the female star.Newspapers are faster, more frank, and more ruthless than letters.Because what the newspaper says is other people's business. Duan Pingting. Zhigao knows that they are planning to set off, and the children of the Jianghu will naturally join the Jianghu, and they may soon forget each other in the Jianghu. Zhigao had never tried to shrink back like this before, so he hurriedly said: "Why don't you stay?" Dandan felt that it was a deaf person listening to the mosquitoes, silent and breathless, and asked: "What did you just say?"

Zhigao felt relieved: "I didn't say anything." In the end, he felt that it would be impossible not to tell the truth, and said again: "I'll go talk to Master Miao, I hope you stay." As soon as he said it, he became more courageous. Dandan's heart skipped a beat, and for some reason, her face turned hot, she couldn't say a word to explain it, she just said: "Why stay? Don't stay!" Zhigao was courageous, so he went all out: "You seem to blame me for not being able to support you?" The natural playfulness is back. "You don't want to? Are you afraid that I will release your water? No, the custodian will let you eat seven meals a day."

Dandan turned around and wanted to run.Zhigao put one foot on the mound and stopped her with both hands. Seeing that she had nowhere to go, he was a little anxious, but seeing Re'er, he couldn't stop: "Hey, don't run away, let me finish. You will have to find a husband's house in the future. My family doesn't have to wait on the mother-in-law—" Dandan didn't listen to it, ran away and didn't, and was terrified.Could it be that she treats Zhigao better in revenge for Huaiyu's treatment of her?She tried too, but it didn't work all at once.Why bother him?It's not fair to him.Zhigao is her best friend.

It's just that he couldn't hear what was in her heart.As long as it comes out of the mouth, it's just to make him feel better.There is no difficulty in the middle, but it is: a heart, Huaiyu takes up half of it, Zhigao takes up the other half, and it is difficult to settle down.His soul is in her hands.He has no soul, and she has no soul-this is concern.Like the string of a kite, when she is pulled and pulled, she is dying. Crazy, it's terrible.Tossing her like this, but he didn't know it. Like a whole nest of ants scatter and scatter all at once, my heart is full of tiny pains of being scratched and eaten.No one can control himself at all.

At the moment when she was in a state of desperation, she suddenly thought of the person who had insight into her present life. "Brother Cake-" "Dandan, look, I've grown so big, why don't you call me Zhigao, and I will use my real name when I sing." "Hey, I can't change it. Brother Cake, let's go to Mrs. Wang—the question is... I don't even know what to ask?" Zhigao recalled those words: "The person you will be in the future is not the person in your heart." He was now in a dilemma. "Ask what? He doesn't work." "I'm going!" Dandan turned around and left.It was only when she arrived at Lama Temple that she really lost her soul. The door is ajar. Before I arrived, I could already smell a bad smell. The originally clear and clear sky was depressed for no reason. Dandan and Zhigao covered their noses and pushed the door open: "Mr. Wang!" It was really dark in the small room, so I simply pushed the door wide open. "Mr. Wang, we see you coming!" No reply. The mahogany box and the soft quilt on the bed are all there, and bamboo sticks are scattered all over the place, like a fortune-telling that has not been settled. "Mr. Wang—ah——" Dandan kicked some hard lumps suddenly, and she didn't know if the hard lumps kicked her.One staggered, half fell, half got up, and saw the white bones, which were Mr. Wang's long nails, and the white hair was still entangled in the dead bones, and the white hair would never die. Zhigao lifted the soft quilt at the foot of the bed abruptly, and dozens of cats escaped with a bang. The quilt was not soft at all, and there was dried blood stains inside, and red ink was splashed messily for a day. Mr. Wang is gone—he is.But is that him?Who knows when he died?Now, he single-handedly cultivated and nurtured his beloved cat, and three generations and four generations have bred reincarnated cats in his nest, devouring all his flesh! I saw the only remaining human figure, crooked, dry bones that can never be cleansed, heart and heart, put into blood, rotten meat and urine, making this small room illusion into Senluo Temple, an underground palace.He came from the palace and went back to the palace. That group of cats, who knows when they will start sharing the same taste?They eat and sleep when they are full, and eat when they are full. This old man has nourished a group of lives he loved in this life and the next.At this moment, the outsider may have ruined the good thing, so more than twenty pairs of green light flashed, and they stared at them without turning their eyes.Looking back, his face remained unchanged.Just keep your ears upright and listen to her panic, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter... The cat failed Mrs. Wang! He loved them so much, but was counterattacked by the backlash. In the end, he ate flesh and bones, never to be reborn.He was simply taken for a ride.Getting nothing in return, his reward was ruthless. The world is ruthless. Suddenly the sound of the flute came, and the flute was heartbroken, and the half-severed intestines could no longer be found on the ground—letting the life of the murderer continue. The sound of the flute is more like a dying dissatisfaction, trying to push away the flies buzzing and fighting for blood... Dandan's face was snow-white, the blood all over his body leaked away, his legs trembled and went limp, he collapsed, and fell into Zhigao's arms. The sound of the flute accompanied her all the way, in a daze, not knowing if she was a guest in her dream.What I remember most is that they turned their heads together and gave a merciless glance. I only know that love is cut off, all thoughts are turned into ashes, and the wind blows away, and I reach out to grab it—— Huaiyu grabbed her hand firmly and called her: "Dandan! Dandan!" she asked: "who's that?" He said: "It's me, I'm back. Shanghai is not my land, they love to play tricks on people, now I'm crooked—" "I would rather die than live, and I don't want you to care about it, just go!" "I do not go." "Don't you have a female star to accompany you?" "I escaped back to accompany you." Huaiyu moved closer to Dandan. Dandan only felt that something was teasing her, and Huaiyu got closer and closer. Suddenly, she thought, it's a Buddha!The yin and yang double cultivation Huanxi Buddha.Limp and weak, distracted, unable to speak, yes, happy—— Confused and presumptuous, she decided to resign herself to fate, with all her worries and hatreds, she couldn't afford him to come back. "Hey, come back—" Huaiyu turned around and saw that it was a woman.As if seen in the photo, Dandan couldn't tell who it was, but she was holding a black cat with red sleeves waving on the colorful building.With one move, Huaiyu suddenly pushed herself away, and walked away without saying a word.Dandan still reached out and grabbed it, shouting: "No, no, you're gone, your soul is in my hands! I won't let you go!" The black cat swooped down from the height of the colorful building, it was it!Her whole body was pitch black, without even a single hair, she stretched out her sharp claws wildly, and the cold sharp teeth tore her flesh and blood, making the sound of fighting, she saw her own bones... "Yeah -" screamed, sitting up suddenly, cold sweat flowing down the stiff neck. Zhigao grabbed her hand and called her. "Dandan! Dandan!" She really didn't want to be Zhigao. Song Zhigao began to sing Tianqiao’s Tianle Theater, and they all sang the opening scene, Lu Bu in “Little Banquet”, Diao Chan poured wine for him, and sang Xipi Shake Ban: "Wen Houwei is famous all over the world, and his boudoirs are often envious and boastful, full of emotions and thoughts, it is difficult to speak..." The two looked at each other, Zhigao, the gentle man, had always been obsessed with her cute smile, telling her that "both cheeks are flushed and there is no answer", and he even forgot to drink. Heroes and beauties, that's just the scenery on the stage, Ye Ta shakes his feathers, and the audience shouts hello, the play is over, Lingzikong is there to bear his thoughts.There is no such thing as a forced pledge of eternal love, and the half-drunk Marquis Wen seems to wake up in the end, but it's unbelievable, Diao Chan is certainly not his.However, Dandan is not his either.The red rabbit and the horse level the world, the painting pole and the halberd shake the universe, invincible, number one in the world, and the wedding is like a dream in the end.What today is 13th, tomorrow is 14th, and the day after tomorrow is 15th... Finally, it was agreed that on the 16th of this month, Wang Yun will send his little daughter to the house to get married--neither Diao Chan nor Dandan belongs to him. It's over.Dandan was walking accompanied by Zhigao. It was a little rainy at night. On the road, he met a woman. Because the child was sick, she said that she had offended the passing gods. call the soul. After walking far away, in the dark and quiet night, a bit of incense burner, like a small, almost imperceptible hole in the heart, it will be broken with a poke, and it will never be repaired. "Brother Cut cake, you do me this favor, I will thank you for the rest of my life!" "It's too dangerous." "It's not dangerous. Give me the address of brother Huaiyu, and I'll find him by myself. Don't worry, I won't be fooled. I'm better than you. I've been running around since I was a few years old." Does he still not understand? Really, he remembered that when she was ten years old, she had already dared to break into Lama Temple—or else, she would never have encountered it. "I'm going to find him! Brother Chee Cake, I told you like this, don't be ashamed of me." Dandan said, his eyes turned red with emotion, "I miss him very much. I've known him since I was ten years old. him." Zhigao felt a pain in his heart: Why didn't he recognize him?How did the general trend go? "Then how did you tell Master Miao?" "I said I was eighteen." "He also took care of you after all, so he left as soon as he said, and didn't go to Shijiazhuang with him?" Dandan gently twisted her long braids: "I'm also reluctant, but I can look for them again in the future. And - I'm not from his family." Zhigao was a little embarrassed—Dandan wasn't his own in the first place.Ugh. "Brother Cutcake, I'm at your house, give me your address." Dandan yelled. Somehow, it was like an arrow on the string, aiming, bowing, and never returning. Zhigao only hates that the time flies too fast, a young man, it will be fine if he doesn't grow up, once he grows up, the happiness will be over.Everything he did was a mistake.It's his, it's his after all; no, why keep it? His heart was turbulent, like a bowl of slowly decocting medicine, the bitter taste slowly boiled out, and then he got old. It was a moonless night. Without the moon, I can't see clearly.He is very relieved. Give Dandan Huaiyu's address.Everything is strange to her, Shanghai?Po Shin Street? ... It's like a small black spot at the ends of the earth.She only firmly believes that as long as she finds him, he will have to take care of her, so why is she still in danger now?Has there ever been a truly secure foothold in the world? ——But her heart has gone so far, she has no choice. Zhigao looked at her boldly.That's great, without the moon, I can't see clearly.He was very relieved: "Dandan—has Huaiyu ever kissed you?" Dandan was dumbfounded, as if a ferocious beast came in out of the silence, and was stunned. "No?" Zhigao probably didn't, "Can you give me a kiss?" For no reason, Dandan was very excited, she was sorry for him, she stepped on the dirt and told him to die without a whole body.She threw herself into Zhigao's arms, wrapped her hands around his neck, and kissed him on the face.It was her first time. Zhigao laughed: "Don't be like a sticky plaster." Dandan had no choice but to kiss him again. Zhigao said sadly, "Let me kiss you too, okay? Just one kiss." What good is a thousand words?Finally she was in his arms too.Zhigao really rascally kissed Dandan.He wasn't very happy to give up, but it was time for the play to end, so he stepped back from the exit door.Dandan thought he was very cute and rubbed his face against his lapel. Zhigao only knew in his heart that he was twisting a rope and trying to tie the wind, how could such a beautiful thing happen.She clearly knew that Dandan would not be able to keep it, really, she knew it when she sent the train to Huaiyu, she waved her hands fiercely in the wind and smoke to catch up, it was too late: "Brother Huaiyu, you want to come back! If you don't come back, I will go find you!" ——It turned out to be an intention early in the morning. At that time, Zhigao's words became less, who knew that he could save a lot of food, but in the end he couldn't save a word, and he said something wrong.I had no choice but to say haha, let go of Dandan, grabbed her shoulders, and smiled hippie: "Okay, you kissed me, and I kissed you again. After all, I am taller than Huaiyu. I will not lose money. How can I lose money in business? Right." Then he stuffed a small cloth bag into Dandan's hand. It was the money he had saved, a few coins, and he had almost saved it, and he exchanged it for another silver dollar.After changing and changing, we will get married in the future and have a bottom line. Now it can't be done, so I have to fulfill her. "You don't have to thank me, anyway, I can't go that far, you can use it for self-defense." "I've got a little money too—" "Why is there too much money? If you can't find it, there will be some travel expenses to come back. But there is an address, and there are people, so you can't find it." Seeing that Dandan was about to say more, he stopped: "Look at you, don't you want to cry? Go to the rivers and lakes like this? After meeting Huaiyu, he remembers our three-year agreement. If you want to treat you well, it's worthwhile to find him." "Brother Cake, you have to sing well." Zhigao was annoyed: "Is there any other good work?" He watched her back, caressing his face, where she had kissed once or twice, the most real moment passed, and it was another day. She left in an ungrateful manner, leaving behind a rambling sentence: "You have to perform well." It had nothing to do with his emotions and desires. Singing, tomorrow he will try his best to seduce Diao Chan on stage again.Unexpectedly, in the audience, he will always suffer a crushing defeat. And it was only later that Zhigao discovered that Huaiyu had sent Dandan a photo, which was his costume.He didn't know what had been said between him and her.Maybe not, he once firmly believed in his buddy's dark order.In this way, it was her intent on him. Well, she's going to be gone soon, and when she's not, what's "in"?Besides thinking about himself, he missed her the most. Zhigao has kept a lot of things—but none of them were given by her. When he has nothing to do, he can't help but calculate.He had one of her red-headed ropes that used to be tightly looped around her long braids.A broken kite.A bowl that she broke at one corner.A red brick used to press the lid of the pot when steaming crabs.A piece of yellow paper wrapped in Changchun Tang Biwensan.A few photos of celebrities—she didn't want them.A cricket scout... and a few pieces of Kanto sugar that have been glued off. These, with traces of being held in her hand, Zhigao played with them one by one, cute and fragile, there is no tomorrow.He misses it alone, and it turns into a bad habit.All movements are a little slower than before. No. Zhigao thought, why does a man have to worry about not having a wife?The most urgent task is to work hard, so everything is collected again.Oh, I have already lost once, do I still lose? On the second day of the play, they sang very well.There were so many colorful voices in the audience, he was a little strange.It seemed that this could be made up again--and it had to be done. When Zhigao gradually rose, it was also when Huaiyu fell day by day.