Gu Siying nodded and handed the mask in her hand to the old lady's hand.
She squatted patiently in front of the old grandma: "Grandma, this should be something very important to you, right?"
The old lady gently caressed the ugly mask in her hand.
"Yes, it is something very important to me. Unfortunately, this person who is very important to me, I can no longer find him..."
She narrowed her kind and gentle eyes, and then looked at the sun above her head.
When the dazzling and warm sunlight fell on her already somewhat blurry eyes, it seemed like countless rays of light were falling.
Also recalled the past years.
"Back then, I was still a ballet dancer, but I was not very talented and was always a substitute. At that time, I was very depressed and would often hide and cry alone. It was at that time that I met him...
"
He is ugly.
An ugly person who will burst into laughter whenever someone mentions it.
An ugliness that is always unnoticed.
I met him when I was at my saddest and most miserable time.
He is like a beam of light that illuminates all my darkness and sadness.
It's obvious that we've never met each other, it's obvious that we don't know each other.
I still remember his first words to me very clearly to this day.
"If you want to cry, just look at me."
By some strange coincidence, I looked at him.
He is an ugly man with a big painted face.
He performed one funny action after another and exaggerated expressions in front of me.
I was amused.
That time was also the only time I couldn't laugh or cry.
At that time, I forgot all my unhappiness and sadness.
After that, we gradually got to know each other and became very good friends.
I also know that he is a circus clown.
The circus was also a very famous circus in our area at that time.
"This is a ticket to the circus. You must come when the time comes."
I went.
I also saw various wonderful performances in the circus.
However, I have no intention of watching those.
I'm waiting, anxiously waiting for Chou to appear.
Because only ugliness is my happiness.
It's ugly.
His performances, funny movements and exaggerated expressions, and his deliberate falls again and again aroused laughter from everyone present.
However, I felt heartbroken.
Everyone on the stage pointed at him and called him stupid, and many people threw things and trash at Chou, just for entertainment.
Despite this, Chou always has a smiling face.
But I feel very sad.
The ugly one had smashed green cabbage leaves and eggs on it.
Extremely embarrassed.
But the more embarrassed he is, the happier the audience will be.
I don’t know where I got the courage to run onto the stage and stand in front of Chou.
All the spectators present stopped drinking.
That's when we were together.
He gave me an ugly mask that represented his image.
This has become our token of love.
Listening to what the old lady described, Gu Siying couldn't help but feel very beautiful.
True pure love should be this beautiful, right?
"Then what?"
The happiness on the old woman's face was gradually replaced by helplessness and sadness.
"Later, the circus had to perform in places far, far away. It was a big show, and you would get a lot of money after that performance."
"He promised me that after the performance, he would quit the circus and come back to marry me and make me his bride. From now on, we will never be separated again."
As he sat, tears fell down from the corners of his eyes.
"However, he never came back to me. I have been looking for him all my life. I have searched for him on missing persons notices and on the Internet. I have traveled to every place and every city, but I have not been able to find him. Until my
My leg is broken, I have no way to continue looking for him..."
"However, I am still hoping and deceiving him to come to me."
Gu Siying listened and silently took out her mobile phone.
I searched for news about the circus.
However, there is no relevant news at all
It was as if someone had deliberately suppressed the news.
She thought for a while and then sent a text message to Qin Shaoming.
Within five minutes, Qin Shaoming replied to the message.
There is also a document for the returned information.
The title on the document is: Tragedy at the Circus.
Qin Shaoming: Why are you looking for information about the circus? I used the rights of the Nan Group to help you find out. The number of deaths involved in this tragedy was too many, so it was suppressed...
When you click on the document, the first thing you see is some recorded text and a black-and-white photo.
In the black and white photo, you can see that everything was burned to ashes.
There are only some ruins.
Horrible.
It turned out that an accident happened while the circus was performing outside.
The fire spread continuously, and the circus performance that time was grand, and there were too many people sitting inside.
There are thousands of people.
And among thousands of people, not a single person survived.
All were buried in the fire.
Because the death toll was so high, the local magistrate suppressed the incident.
Only a few deaths were reported in the report.
That's why the old lady never found any news about the circus.
Gu Siying fell into silence for a while.
No wonder the old woman couldn't find Chou. It turned out that Chou had already died in the fire.
But the obsession with ugliness remains here and is unwilling to leave.
It was also because even before he died, he tried to climb out of the fire bit by bit.
His obsession was too deep and he remembered it deeply.
There is a woman waiting for him at home.
Waiting for him to go back and get married.
He wants to go back and marry her.
My heart hurts as if it was being pinched.
"What's wrong? Do you know the news about the circus?"
The old lady seemed to see hope, and then she held Gu Siying's hand tightly.
Gu Siying didn't know how to explain it to her.
Explain ugly things, explain accidents that happened at the circus.
After calming down the old lady, Gu Siying carried the unusually quiet wooden box to a corner.
"So, are you the ugly one in the old lady's story?"
Ugly: "...She has been looking for me for so many years, she has been looking for me all her life, she has been waiting for me all her life, how can I be worth it? How can I be worth her waiting for me like this? I don't deserve it, I don't deserve to come back to her."
Gu Siying: "She has been waiting for you and searching for you all her life, and you are worth it. If you don't come back to her now, she will only leave regrets and obsessions. You want to see her become the second one
You?"
"In the following days, my obsession will become crazy. Even if I die, I will still look for you because of my obsession?"
She looked at the old lady in the distance seriously: "You need a good farewell."
Chou seemed to have made up his mind: "I want to see her, please help me."