Chapter 21 Meme Lufang

Always turn into a penguin before you know it. This is a very old town with many houses with red brick walls on the street and dark green plants on the brick walls.There is a large circle of gravel in the town, which is the central square.Where the square leans forty-five degrees to the setting sun is a dilapidated clock tower.The busiest place in the town is probably the bar with pumpkin lanterns.Brown wooden walls, faded purple roof, open from five o'clock in the evening to seven o'clock in the morning. I don't know when, a person lived in the unremarkable hut behind the bar.

A strange man with a black gown and a hood covering his face.The townspeople couldn't speak to him, because he just kept coughing and making weird coughing noises.The weirdo would go to the hotel every day to buy a bottle of ouzo, plus a large soda, and often coughed and babbled. "Take a piece of dog's tail grass and go to Momolufang..." Or "Lemon soda orange ice, please change a few bottles of Lucao..." Where is Meme Lufang?What is Meme Road Grass? The adults shrugged their shoulders, curled their lips into a smile and then forgot.The children are curious about these.But they didn't dare to ask this strange man any questions. They just quietly leaned near his hut while playing, and a game was played.They took the dogtail grass and drew a grid on the ground, and put some small bottles in the grid.The children sang happily, "Lemon soda and orange ice, put the dog's tail grass in exchange for a bottle of Molufang..." They jumped around in the grid according to a self-made rule, sometimes bending over to take Pick up the bottle, and sometimes put the dogtail grass in the bottle into the bottle.

After being so popular for a while, the children's game attracted the attention of eccentrics.One morning, when the jack-o-lantern in the bar had just gone out, he took the initiative to wave to the early children and told them that he would like to tell the story of Lu Fang. So he sat on a stone bench by the side of the square, surrounded by a few children.The conversation started with the child's question. "What is road grass?" "The dog's tail grass is called Memolucao in Memolufang." The man coughed a few times. "Then what is Lufang?" "A—" he thought for a long time, "a strange place."

"Is it weird?" "Maybe it's wonderful," he began to babble.The children also began to imagine, and as his story continued, they seemed to have walked into Momo Lufang. "There's a world as big as a kingdom— Surrounded by brightly colored houses and various buildings, colorful flags are flying on the square, and there are two rows of guards in uniform and blowing horns.Here, like the most central metropolis in the country, there are also all kinds of shops, gift shops, bookstores, tailor shops, hat shops and so on.There were many people on the street, dressed in western dresses and formal dresses, the men were holding small walking sticks in the shape of strawberries, and the women were holding small umbrellas with short strawberries hanging from the side of the umbrellas.

The floor of the city is a colorful and generous grid, which is very eye-catching. What's even more surprising is that people in the city walked and walked, not knowing whether they stepped on the illuminated grid or the grid lit up after they stepped on it.That's what you see-- The grid lights up, and the person walking on the grid turns into a penguin. The city is like a wonderful playground, walking a group of people who turn into penguins in a flash. " When—when— The bell tower of the town rang out eight deep chimes, and the birds fluttered across the square and landed at his feet.Stranger's story paused for a moment.He coughed.The children sighed softly, whispered, and looked at him expectantly.Maybe because they were facing the sun, they felt as if the expression under the strange man's hood lit up.

The story of the strange guest continued, "I can't remember how I got there, it seems that at that time, I also heard such a bell—— Meme Lufang.correct.At that moment, a guard with a horn came over. He told me, 'This is Meme Lufang. ' 'Everyone in Momo Lufang must first meet the owner of the workshop before deciding whether to stay or not. 'He said. Then he took me to a place like a palace.We first walked a long carpet road, the carpet is the same colorful and generous grid as the city floor.The palace seems to be quite busy.I saw many city dwellers going in and out of the rooms of the palace, led by some sort of servant.I followed him through many rooms, and one of the large rooms contained many such things as looms and sewing machines, and servants who were in charge of the operation of these machines.

In the innermost garden, the owner is an elderly woman sitting on a stool.She looked a little intimidating, but she nodded to me, beckoning me to sit down, and smiled a little, dignified but kind. She talked to me a lot—” It seemed that he had said too much in one breath, and the strange man coughed, and then he stopped for a long time as if he suddenly forgot where he said it.It is also possible that the picture of talking with Fangzhu at that time has appeared in his mind—— The owner of the workshop told him that Meme Road Workshop is actually just a workshop, a rather special tailor workshop.They weave special floor tiles, carpets, and are also responsible for sewing them into pieces.She said, "People are always in a daze without knowing it, wasting their lives and time. In Memolufang, this is called mind wandering. People who wander here will become penguins, but the special floor tiles in this place can save them. The time of fugue. The workshop regularly sends people to collect their respective fugue time, and sew those grids together."

... Because the strange man stopped for too long, a child asked anxiously, "What did she say?" Stranger thought for a moment and said, "She asked me if I wanted to stay." "Can you think about it?" the child asked again. "Yes. I think that's fine." The strange man replied again. "Great. Do you really not want any conditions? I really want to go." The child found the question that the strange man had missed again, "So what exactly is Lufang?" "A fun place, a place where you can turn into a penguin." The weirdo coughed again.It seems that whenever he coughs, he will pause a little bit like a fugue. "As long as you live a good life obediently, listen to your parents and do what you need to do, you can go."

"Wow! I'm going too! Are you lying to us? Are you actually going to take the dog's tail grass? Isn't it?" There was still a child who was smarter and was not completely coaxed, she asked wisely. "Yes, we need the dogtail grass." The strange man replied. "You're lying!" Another child said, "We haven't seen it with the dog's tail grass. Do you have any secret methods?" This time the strange man pondered for a long time. The children waited with bated breath. "Perhaps there is still luck," said the strange man at last.

"Oh." "Luck..." The children were a little disappointed, there was no direction for them to work hard. At last the story was finished and the children dispersed.The weirdo stood up and walked back in the direction of the bar.The morning sun passed by, and the strange man's short shadow was printed on the ground. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew away, and his hood was lifted a little.Probably because the sun was too dazzling, a child seemed to see the strange man's head resembling a penguin for a moment. "Did you see it?" "what?" "He seems to have turned into a penguin..." The child pointed in the direction of the stranger.

"You start to fantasize after hearing the story." The older child responded affirmatively. The strange guest who went away began to ramble again, "Bad luck...bad luck..." "I always turn into a penguin before I know it..." "...I'm going to have to make a soda pop, in an anisette bottle..." He went so far that no one heard his mutterings, that the story didn't get a truly complete version until much later.That was also after the strange man moved out. It is said that Stranger left because his secret of being Penguin was discovered. Some people also said that he went back to Meme Lufang. Because they heard a rumor - Memolufang is a wizard's workshop, people who are often in a daze have a certain chance of wandering there, especially those who are dazed with the dog's tail grass.And staying in Momolufang, the owner of the workshop can stitch together the time spent in a daze.As wonderful as it sounds, life is no longer wasted. But Bozu really loves a strange drink, homemade lemonade bottled in anisette.She also loves orange ice.If she wasn't offered enough lemonade and orange ice, she'd keep those stitching hours for herself.Therefore, many people who lost their time escaped from Momolufang.Just people who escaped— Always turn into a penguin before you know it. But the credibility of this rumor about Meme Lufang is really impossible to verify.Some people also said that the strange man was too strange to meet people, so Lu Fang was just a story he made up because of the penguin's appearance. So, is there any Lufang? A wonderful place where you can stitch the time of fugue. It is good or bad to be able to go there.