Chapter 29 Section VIII

On the main street of Lecheng, people were waiting with great anticipation for the clown to appear yesterday, mainly women and little girls.They had all heard about the music clown, and said that the music box he sold was very beautiful, and the rhyme inside sounded like the melody of memories, which warmed people's hearts and even shed tears.Even in a prosperous ancient city like Lecheng, where you can buy all kinds of expensive things, no one has ever seen music boxes as desirable as those sold by clowns. However, tonight, they will be disappointed. A few days ago, Yan Guxing heard people on the street that the karaoke hall was very lively. There was a famous song and dance troupe on stage there, and every night there were no empty seats.He decided to go there and have a look.

The outside of the karaoke hall is crowded with spectators waiting to enter and peddlers, shouting how good their wares are.A beekeeper whose whole head is surrounded by bees sells youthful honey.A Zhu Ru sat on the shoulders of a big silly black bear, hanging down a basket, selling elixir from deep mountains.Floating in front of an old green-haired witch was a stall selling a kind of babe with human-like eyes. "Take a foreign girl back home, girls! The foreign girl will listen to what you have to say, and promise to keep the secret." The old witch said loudly. But Meng Sanchu was in front of the old witch's stall, looking at those foreign girls in a daze.

The old witch could read people's hearts and said to him: "Musician, give one to the girl you like, and she will be moved to tears." But Mengsan blushed, hurriedly paid the money and took away a foreign girl.These foreign girls don't know what they are made of, their big eyes are smarter than human eyes, and they look very understanding of the world.Girls like Yang Nuan, he wants to get one for Lan Yueer, if she has something on her mind, she can tell Yang Nan, she doesn't have to keep everything in her heart. Beibei quietly bought the elixir from the little dwarf, and when she turned around, she happened to see Dan Mengsan taking a foreign girl away.She dragged herself to the old witch, saw her thick, bristly green hair protruding from under her conical hat, and asked her excitedly, "Do you live in a yellow monastery on a green mountain?"

"How do you know?" the old witch asked suspiciously. "A little witch with the same green hair as you has been on our swan boat. Are you a family?" "I know all about it," the old witch replied coldly, but feeling sad from it, she couldn't help saying to Beibei, "I was kicked out." "Why?" Beibei asked with curious eyes. "What else? When a witch falls in love with several people, she will end up like this. In the end, she even loses the ability to fly, so she can only show off some tricks." The old witch said angrily. Beibei's eyes were full of sympathy, and she said to the old witch, "Come to our swan boat for a drink some other day. That boat is parked by the Lecheng River."

"Do you want to hear me tell the truth after drinking? Although I am old, I am not so stupid." The old witch roared, scaring Beibei to turn around and run back to the backstage of the karaoke hall. Yan Guxing stood next to the big black bear and little Baoru, he didn't need to yell loudly, he only needed to open all the music boxes, and it was better than all the advertisements. The green-haired old witch had been paying attention to him for a long time. When there were not so many people outside the karaoke hall, she walked over, and the stall floated behind her.Her face was full of lonely wrinkles, with a fierce expression, she stared at the music boxes, and then picked up each one and put it to her ear to listen to it.

Yan Guxing looked at the witch, and found that whenever she listened to the music of a music box, the expression on her face became more relaxed and warmer, and finally, that face was a little shy. "Clown, I want this...for my foreign girl." The old witch finally chose a music box, said to Yan Guxing, and paid him out of her pocket. "Thank you." Yan Guxing gave her the money he wanted to redeem from behind his ears. This was a trick he learned from the clown magician, and he got used to it, but forgot that the other party was a witch. The old witch looked at him and said, "Clown, be careful of getting sick, you have a chill in your bones."

Yan Guxing was slightly taken aback, and replied to the old witch, "Thank you, I will pay attention." He didn't take what the old witch said to heart. He felt himself stronger than an ox.When the old witch left his stall, she kept the music box close to her ear, and listened raptly.Yan Guxing found it funny, she didn't buy it back for those foreign girls to listen to, but she wanted to listen to it herself. When he turned around, there were two girls standing in front of him, they were exactly the same in appearance, beautiful in appearance, wearing golden dance dresses, shining brightly, staring at his music boxes.

"Did you make these music boxes yourself, clown?" asked one of them. Yan Guxing nodded. The other one puts every music box to her ear and listens, as if as long as she listens alone, the sisters around her can also hear it. When she picked up the octave plate that echoed the bleak melody, she couldn't bear to put it down anymore, and the two said almost at the same time: "We want to buy this one." Then, one of them urged the other, saying, "Come in, the eldest mother will scold you." The audience is all in.The old witch left with her foreign daughter, listening to the music box all the time.The big black bear disappeared into the dark street in the distance with its little master on its back.Outside the karaoke hall, Yan Guxing was the only one left.He was tired, so he put down the small stall on his body, sat down on the steps, quietly listening to the melodious music inside, trying to find some inspiration for making a music box.

Until the last star in the night sky went out, he stood up, hung the small stall on his stomach again, and prepared to go back to the hotel.At this time, he heard a singing voice coming from inside, which was so beautiful, but it seemed familiar, like a kite with a broken string many years ago, which reappeared in the misty mist and came to recognize each other. Trembling all over his body, he walked up, slowly pulled open the red velvet curtains of the karaoke hall, and poked his head in.It was dark inside, only the lights on the stage were bright, and there stood a beautiful figure, wearing a blue singing shirt, singing sweet love songs, with a shining head.

He couldn't see her face clearly, so he walked in quietly with light steps, got closer, and then got closer. Suddenly, he found that what was shining above her head was not light, but blue butterflies dancing lightly.In an instant, the vast world disappeared. The person on the stage glanced at him, as if he knew him, but he didn't know him before. He was distracted for a while, but his sweet singing voice was flawless.He looked at her obsessively, as if he was outside the whole world.The blue butterfly is the wings of their reunion, fluttering like clouds in heaven, but it is also the heavy heart of the man.She has grown up so much, she is heartbreakingly beautiful, she sings, her talent is undisguised, she is a brilliant star on the singing stage, and he is just a poor clown.

He saw the beautiful eyes on the stage searching for him, and he retracted the steps he had taken, and retreated slowly, into the shadow of the red velvet curtain. He was suddenly thankful that his face was covered in paint, cheap paint that was his noble dignity.He turned around dejectedly, and was quietly left the karaoke hall by the withered back full of stars, but the song followed him, lingering in his heart reluctantly, calling back the nostalgia of love. "I'm leaving early tomorrow morning," he told himself.