Chapter 12 chapter Ten

August exploded with anger, his seven orifices were filled with smoke, and his face was so red that it was almost purple.Then he rushed away angrily, probably to settle accounts with Uncle Ailan. Malena and I looked at each other, silent, and did not follow up with a tacit understanding. The tent workers left one by one.The animals finally had food and water to spend the night.The despair of the day is gone, replaced by a peaceful atmosphere. Malena and I were alone in the animal tent, passing various foods to Rosy's proboscis who wanted to try everything.Malena chuckled as the oddly soft fleshy fingers took a strand of hay from my hand.Rosie shook her head and smiled, too.

I turned to see Malena staring at me.In the animal tent, there are only the sounds of animals moving their bodies, breathing, and chewing quietly.The sound of a harmonica can be heard from a distance outside, the music is fluttering and flickering, and it can be heard that it is a tune in three time, but it is impossible to tell where it is coming from. Somehow, it was I who opened my arms to her?Or did she reach out to me?Anyway, she was in my arms, and we waltzed, hunched over the low-hanging rope, gliding in circles, and halfway through the turn I caught a glimpse of Rosie holding up her proboscis and smiling all over her face.

Marlena flinched away suddenly. I stood still, my arms still slightly raised, and I lost my mind for a while. "Uh, um, yes, let's go back and wait for August to come back, shall we?" Malena blushed, looking left and right but not at me. I stared at her for a long time.I want to kiss her, the first time I want to kiss someone so much since I was born. "Okay, okay, go back and wait for him." I said after a while. An hour later, August returned to the carriage.He came in furiously and slammed the door.Marina immediately went to the cupboard. "That useless bastard paid two thousand dollars for that useless bastard elephant." He tossed his hat into the corner and took off his coat. "Two thousand damn oceans!" He slumped into the nearest chair, resting his head on his hands.

Marina picks up a bottle of blended whiskey, stops to look at August, puts the wine back and gets a single malt instead. "It's not the worst, it's not," said August, loosening his tie roughly and pulling at his shirt collar. "Want to know what he did? Huh? Come on, guess what." He stared at Marlena, she was calm, without changing her face, pouring whiskey four fingers deep into three large glasses. "I told you to guess!" August roared. "I only know that I don't know anything." Malena said calmly, and put the lid on the wine bottle. "He spent all the rest of the money on a damn elephant carriage."

Marina turned her head and suddenly became focused. "He didn't recruit new artists?" "Of course there is." "But--" "Yes, exactly," said August, interrupting her. Marina handed him a glass of wine, gestured for me to go and fetch it myself, and she sat down. I took a sip and didn't speak until I lost my breath. "Uh, um, you both know what you two are talking about, but I don't understand it. Can you explain it, please?" August puffed out his cheeks, brushed the hair from his forehead, leaned forward, put his elbows on his knees, and looked up into my eyes. "Jacob, what this means is that there are more people in the regiment, but there are no carriages to accommodate them. Jacob, what this means is that Uncle Allan reduced the number of sleeping cars for workers by one, claiming that they are for entertainers. And because he hired two new women, this car has to have a compartment. Jacob, this means that in order to accommodate less than a dozen entertainers, we now have to sleep sixty-four workers in the flatbed car. Under the wagon."

"This is too stupid. In that case, there will be a lot of vacant seats in the sleeping car. He should let everyone who needs a bed live in it." "He can't do that," Marina said. "Why not?" "Because you can't put workers and entertainers together." "Then why can Jinke and me?" "Ha!" August snorted, leaned forward, and smirked with his mouth crooked. "Do tell us, how are you two getting on? I'd really like to know." He tilts his head and smiles. Malena took a deep breath and raised one of her legs.After a while, the red leather shoe began to shake up and down.

I downed the whole glass of whiskey and left. It was a very large glass of whiskey, and the alcohol was beginning to grow between the cabins and the ordinary cars.I'm obviously not the only one who is drinking.Now that the "business" has been done, every member of the Benzini brothers' circus is looking for fun, and there is a scene of fun everywhere.Someone was having a celebratory party, listening to jazz on the radio, and laughing constantly.Some distance from the train, dirty workers are in groups of three or four, shoulder to shoulder and taking turns drinking various alcoholic drinks.I caught a glimpse of Lao Luo, who raised his hand and waved it at me before passing it to someone else.

The long weeds were rustling, and I stopped to look around, and saw a woman with her bare legs spread out, and a man among them.He whimpered like a billy goat in heat.His trousers were down to his knees, and his hairy hips twitched up and down.The woman grabbed his shirt with a fist, moaning as the man twitched.After watching for a while, I didn't realize what I was looking at. I immediately looked away and continued walking staggeringly. Walking to the performance carriage, I saw a lot of people sitting at the open door, and some people were hanging out outside. There are even more people in the compartment.With a bottle of wine, Jinke became the leader of the crowd.He had the friendliness of a drunken man on his face, and as soon as he caught sight of me, he hopped around staggeringly.Everyone helped him up.

"Jacob! My mate!" he cried, his eyes shining brightly, and he wrenched his friend to his feet. "My friends!" he called to a group of thirty or so who occupied the place where Malena's horses were usually housed.He came over and put his arm around my waist and said, "This is my dearest and dearest friend Jacob!" He paused and took a sip of his wine. "Please treat him warmly, and treat him as a betrayal of my favor." His guest whistled and laughed.Jinke laughed until he coughed, let go of my waist, waved his hands in front of the purple face until he stopped coughing, and then put his arms around the waist of the man next to us.They slanted away.

The sheep house was packed, so I walked to the other side of the carriage, where the silver star was originally placed, and sat down leaning against the wooden carriage wall. The dry grass next to it was rustling, I stretched out my hand to poke it, but don't let the mouse come out.Queenie's short white tail flicked before my eyes, then burrowed deep into the dry grass like a crab in the sand. I don't know the order of what happened next.I remember bottles being passed around, and I'm pretty sure I drank almost every one of them.After a while, everything in front of me was drifting away, and a warm feeling rose from the bottom of my heart, pleasing everyone and everything.Some people put my shoulders on my shoulders, and I also put my shoulders on others.We laughed together, but I don't remember what it was, and everything was a mess.

Everyone played the game.You have to take something and throw it at the target, and if you miss it, you will be punished with a drink.I have missed many times.In the end, I seemed to be about to throw up, so I crawled out, and everyone thought I was funny. I sat in a corner, not quite remembering how I got there.With my back against the wall, my head resting on my knees, I wish the world would stop spinning, but the world doesn't stop, so I put my head up against the wall. "Hey, look who it is?" A sexy voice came from very close. I opened my eyes suddenly.Thirty centimeters of tight cleavage right in front of me.I looked up the cleavage until I saw a face.It's Barbara.I blinked hard, hoping to turn the two Barbaras into one.Oh my god, it didn't work at all.Hey, wait, I have normal vision, and instead of two Barbaras, I see two women. "Hey Honey, are you okay?" Barbara stroked my face. "Yeah." I said, trying to nod. With her fingertips lingering under my chin, she turned to the blond crouching beside her and said, "So young, um, so handsome, isn't it, Nell?" Neil took a deep breath and exhaled it from the corner of her mouth. "Exactly. I shouldn't have seen him." "He came to help at the kookie dance a few days ago." After saying that, Barbara turned to me and asked me softly, "What's your name, Honey?" She moved the back of her finger up and down my cheek. "Jacob," I said, avoiding the smoke. "Jacob. Ah, I know who you are. He's the one Walter was talking about," she said to Nell. "He just came out, a rookie, and he did a good job in the kookie scene. " She held my chin in her hand, raised my face, and looked into the depths of my eyes.I tried my best to reciprocate, but my eyes just couldn't focus. "You're such a good man. Well, Jacob, tell me, have you ever been in love with a woman?" "I...uh...uh..." I said. Nell chuckled, and Barbara straightened up, with their hips akimbo. "What do you think? Would you like to give him a nice welcome?" "A rookie and a virgin? We literally have no choice." Neil said, sliding her hand between my legs, covering my crotch, and my head, which was dangling on my neck, jerked straight . "Do you think his hair is red there too?" She pressed her palm against my dick. Barbara leaned in to break away my clenched hands and brought one to her lips.She turned my hand over and ran across my palm with her long nails, and then licked it with her tongue along the route of the nails, while looking straight into my eyes.Then she led my hand to her left breast, where the areola must be. Oh my god, my god, I'm stroking a breast.Although separated by a layer of clothes, but after all—— Barbara stood up for a moment, smoothed her skirts, glanced furtively around, and crouched down.I was still in a mist, so she held my hand again.This time she took my hand inside the skirt and pressed my hand against the hot and humid velvet. I can't breathe.Whiskey, moonshine, gin, God knows what, disappeared in an instant.She took my hand and moved it up and down, stroking the wonderful ditch. Whoa, damn it, I might cum. "Huh?" She murmured, and took my hand again, letting my middle finger go deeper into her.Warm velvet swells around the sides of my fingers, vibrating at my touch.She took my hand out, put it back on my lap, and pinched my crotch to test it out. Her eyes are half closed. "Well, he's ready, Nell. Damn, I love boys that age." The rest of the night that followed was like epileptic fragments.I know those two women are carrying me, but I seem to be down outside the show carriage.At least, I know that my cheek was stuck in the dust.Then I was dragged back up and pushed and pulled in the dark until I sat down on the edge of the bed. Now there were indeed two Barbaras, and the other woman was also split in two.That woman's name is Neil, right? Barbara stepped back, her arms raised, her head thrown back, her hands passed her body, and she danced lightly by the candlelight.I was intrigued, there was absolutely no doubt about it, but I couldn't continue to sit up straight, and fell backwards with a plop. Someone came and ripped my pants.I muttered in my mouth, and I didn't know what I was talking about, but it shouldn't be encouraging them to go further.I suddenly felt uncomfortable. oh my gosh.She was touching me, or should I say that.She touched it tentatively, and I propped up my upper body on my elbows. I looked down and saw that it was limp, like a little pink turtle hidden in its shell, and it seemed to be stuck to my leg.She pulled my dick off her lap, slid her hands into my crotch, parted my closed thighs, then reached for my balls, holding them with one hand, as if juggling two eggs, Also inspect my dick.No matter how she teases her, the words are still hopelessly limp.I couldn't help being stunned when I saw it. As for the other woman, now that she's changed back to one, how should I make it clear?She leaned against me and lay on the bed, took out a thin breast from her clothes, brought it to my lips, and rubbed my whole face.Now her lipsticked mouth was turned towards me like a big bottomless pit with a tongue sticking out.I turned my head to the right where there was no one.Then I felt a mouth enclose the glans. I gasp.The two women giggled, but it was just a low voice, cheering me up, and they never stopped teasing me. Oh my god, my god, she sucks my cock.Suck, for heaven's sake. I have no idea-- oh my gosh i gotta- I turned my head and spit all the unlucky miscellaneous liquor in my stomach onto Nell. I heard a terrible scratching sound, and then a silver light pierced the darkness in front of me. Jinke looked down at me. "Get up, Sunshine Boy, your immediate boss is looking for you." His hand held on to the lid of the wooden box to keep it from falling off.I'm starting to figure things out.As soon as Twitch's aching body realized that his brain was working, he quickly realized that he was stuffed in a wooden box. Jinke left the lid open and left by himself.I struggled to straighten my crooked neck and sit up.The wooden box is in the tent, surrounded by a whole rack of bright show clothes, props and dressing tables with mirrors. "Where is this?" I asked hoarsely.I coughed and cleared my dry throat. "Backstage," Jinko said, fiddling with a jar of paint on the dresser. I raised an arm to shade the light from my eyes, and felt that it was wrapped in silk.To be more specific, it is wearing a red silk nightgown, a red silk nightgown with the front open.I looked down and saw someone had shaved my pubic hair. I closed the front of my nightgown and wondered if Jinke had seen it. God, what did I do last night?I don't have a clue, I just remember a few surviving fragments, and— Oh my gosh, I spit on a woman. I staggered to my feet, tied my nightgown, and wiped my forehead.His forehead was strangely greasy, and his hands had turned white. "What-?" I stared at my hands. Jinke turned around and handed me a mirror.I was shaking so badly, I took the mirror and held it up to my face, only to see a clown looking at me from the mirror. I poked my head out of the tent, looked left and right, and sprinted back to the show carriage, with laughter and boos following me. "Wow, look at that coquettish lady!" "Hey Fred, check out our new Kookie dancer!" "Hey, honey, are you free tonight?" I flashed into the sheep house, slammed the door, leaned against the door to pant, stretched my ears until the laughter outside subsided, then picked up a cloth and wiped my face again.I wiped my face all red before I left the backstage awning, but somehow I couldn't believe it was all wiped off.I don't believe that any part of me can ever be clean again.The worst part is I don't even know what I did.I only remember fragments here and there, and while those were already frightening, I had no idea what happened between the fragments. It occurred to me that I had no idea if I had lost my virginity or not. I reached into my nightgown and scratched my privates, which felt like sandpaper. When Jinke came back to the room a few minutes later, I was lying on the bedding with my arms over my head. "You'd better get out quickly. He's still looking for you," he said. Something is rubbing against my ear.I looked up and hit a wet nose.Queenie bounced back as if thrown from a slingshot.It looked at me from a distance of one meter and sniffed cautiously.Heck, I bet I've got a lot of mixed feelings this morning.I jerk my head down. "Are you trying to get fired?" Jinko said. "Now I really don't care." I murmured. "what?" "Anyway, I'm going to get out of the way." "What are you talking about?" I can't open my mouth.I can't tell that not only was I disgraced at home, unforgivably disgraced, but I also screwed up my first chance at sex, the one I've wanted all the time for the past eight years.Not to mention that I vomited all over the woman who sent me to the door, then passed out, had her pubic hair shaved, painted a big face, and stuffed it into a wooden box.Since he knew where to find me, he must have known something about last night, and probably even followed others to make fun of me. "Don't be a bitch. Do you want to walk down the railroad to town like those poor bums? Now you get out and don't get fired." I am immobile. "I'm talking!" "What the hell do you care about? Stop yelling at me, I have a headache." I muttered. "It's right for you to get up for me, otherwise you will not only have a headache, but your whole body will ache." "Okay, okay! Please stop shouting!" I got up and glared at him viciously.My head was throbbing, and my joints felt like lead.He kept staring at me so I turned to face the wall and didn't take off my dressing gown until I put on my trousers so he wouldn't see that I didn't have hair there.Even so, my face was still hot. "By the way, I'll give you a piece of advice. There's nothing wrong with sending flowers to Barbara. The other one's just a bitch, but Barbara's a friend," Jinko said. I was so ashamed that I was in a daze and almost fell over.When I regained my senses, I stared at the floor, thinking that I would never be able to raise my head to see people again in this life. The Fosse brothers' train has moved off the track, and the elephant carriage that caused the storm is just behind our locomotive, which is the most stable place in the whole train.The elephant carriage is not a ventilated carriage nailed out with wooden strips, but a metal carriage with vents.The staff of the Feitian Brigade were busy dismantling the tents. The big tents were almost flat, and the streets of Joliet were in the distance.A small group of locals gathered to watch our every move. I found August in the animal tent.He stands in front of the elephant. "Go!" he yelled, waving the elephant hook in front of it. It shook its proboscis and blinked. "I tell you to go! Go, dead elephant!" He walked behind the elephant and hit it hard on the back of its legs.He squinted, the elephant's ears flat against his head. August caught a glimpse of me, stood there stunned, threw the elephant hook away, teased me and said, "Did you have a hard time last night?" A red tide ran from the back of my neck across my entire head. "Forget it, get a stick and help me get this stupid elephant onto the train." Peter came up behind him, twisting his hat. "August." August turned away, his lungs exploding. "For God's sake, so what? Can't you see I'm busy, Pete?" "The big cat's meat is here." "That's good, go feed the big cat, hurry up, time is running out." "But what do you want me to do with the meat?" "What do you think I told you to do?" "But Boss—" said Peter, visibly discouraged. "Damn it!" said August, the veins in his temples bulging. "Do I have to do everything? Here." He pushed the elephant hook against me and said, "Teach this bastard how to do it." Anything, anything. In my opinion, it only knows how to shit and pee, and eat and drink for free." I took the elephant hook and watched him storm away from the tent, and as he watched, the elephant's trunk moved in front of me and blew hot air into my ear.I turned sharply to meet an amber eye that blinked at me.My eyes moved from the elephant's eyes to the elephant's hook in my hand. I looked back at that eye and it blinked again.I bent down and put the elephant hook on the ground. Its proboscis swept the ground in front of it, its ears flapped like giant leaves, and it smiled. "Hi Rosie, I'm Jacob." After a moment of hesitation, I stretched out my hand, only a little.The elephant trunk swished and blew.I was so bold that I stretched out my whole arm and put my hand on its shoulder.Its skin was hairy, rough, and surprisingly warm. "Hi," I said again, and patted it to see how it reacted. It flapped one ear back and forth, and retracted its proboscis.I tentatively touched its nose, stroked it, my heart was full of tenderness, and I was intoxicated, until August suddenly stopped in front of me, and I didn't notice that he was back. "Did you guys take the wrong medicine this morning? Pete was lying about his business, and you, you acted out a scene of disappearing for no reason, and then came to make out with an elephant. I should put you short-lived ghosts All dismissed, where is the elephant hook?" I bent down to pick up the elephant hook, August snatched it, and the elephant's ear was attached back. "Hey, Your Royal Highness." Auguste said to me, "I have an errand that you can probably handle. You go to find Marlena and tie her up for a while, so that she doesn't come to the animal tent." "why?" August took a deep breath and held the elephant hook firmly in his hand, his knuckles turned white. "Because I have the final say, okay?" He gritted his teeth. Of course, I obediently got out of the animal tent, intending to see what could not be seen by Marlena.I turned a corner and saw Pete slashing the neck of an old gray horse.The horse neighed, and blood spurted two meters from the cut in its neck. "My God!" I exclaimed, taking a step back. The horse's heartbeat slowed down, and the force of its kicks became less.Finally, his knees gave way, and he fell forward, his front hooves still moving on the ground, until he was completely still, his eyes were wide open, and blood flowed from his neck, turning into a pool of dark red blood. Pete met my gaze, still holding down the still-twitching horse. A thin bay red horse was tied to a stake beside him, eyes full of terror.Its nostrils were wide open, revealing red flesh, its snout pointed straight to the sky, and the rope was pulled tightly by it, as if it would snap at any moment.Peter stepped over the dead horse, put his hand over the bay horse's head, grabbed the tether, and wiped its neck.It spurted out blood, convulsed before dying, and became a collapsed corpse. Peter stood there with his arms hanging limply, his sleeves rolled up to his upper arms, still holding the bloody knife.He watched the horse, and waited for it to die before looking up at me. He wiped his nose, spit, and went on with his errands. "Marlena? Are you here?" I said, knocking on the door of their wing. "Is it Jacob?" came a low voice from inside. "Yes." I said. "come in." She stood in front of an open window, watching the front of the train.As I entered, she turned her head, eyes wide and pale. "Oh, Jacob..." Her voice trembled, and she was about to cry. "What's wrong? What happened?" I said, walking across the wing. Putting her hands to her mouth, she turned back to face the window. August and Rosie were noisily making their way to the front of the train.Their speed was unbearably slow, and everyone in the camp stopped to watch. August slammed hard from behind before Rosie took a few quick steps forward.When August caught up with it, there was another blow, this time it raised its nose and growled in pain, and ran to the side.August cursed endlessly, ran to the elephant, raised the hook, and smashed the point of the hook against its shoulder.Rosie howled sadly, and would not move an inch.Even though it was so far away from us, we could still tell it was shaking. Marina swallowed a sob, and without thinking, I took her hand.By the time I realized what I had done, she had already hurt me. Rosie suffered several times of physical pain. When she caught a glimpse of the elephant carriage in the front of the train, she raised her nose and roared, and flew like thunder.August's figure disappeared into the dust and smoke stirred up by Rosie, and the startled handymen hurriedly gave way to Rosie.It climbed into the car, visibly relieved. The smoke subsided, and August's figure appeared again, shouting and waving his arms.Diamond Joe and Ortiz trotted to the elephant carriage, and slowly and cautiously began to close the door.

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