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Decades ago, a group of naked farmers carried a load of turnips into the city at night. They took off their clothes for two reasons:
One, because it’s hot.
Second, because of saving cloth.
Those old people who still have some memories of distant events, if they have not completely forgotten the difficult life of the past, can understand the full meaning of the word "province cloth".
This group of naked men saw a strange sight at night: two men in black were wandering down the long street, both wearing long black robes, tall felt hats on their heads, and several pictures on their foreheads.
The yellow paper with the talisman written on it hung down on his face. In front of him was an odd-looking old man, carrying a bamboo basket and shaking a black bell. He was leading the two people behind him and throwing paper money.
"What do they do?" a naked young man asked an old man.
The old man looked frightened and said, "You're going to kill someone."
The young man continued to ask: "What do you mean?"
The old man replied: "It's the corpse removal. The two men in black clothes at the back are the dead people, and the one in front is the corpse removal worker."
One person spoke up and said, "Brother Thu, aren't you very brave? Do you dare to snatch the hat that the corpse is wearing?"
The young man said: "What's wrong with this? Just wait."
This young man is Brother Thumb.
Brother Thumb soon caught up with the three men. He tiptoed and approached from behind. The corpse driver noticed him alertly and immediately rang the bell. The two corpses stood motionless by the wall.
The corpse driver said softly: "If you are traveling in the middle of the night, avoid strangers."
Brother Thumb discovered that there were indeed two dead people leaning against the wall, with sallow faces, closed eyes, and yellow paper with talismans attached to their foreheads. Brother Thumb opened the talisman, and the dead suddenly came to life, and a powerful figure stretched out from under the robe.
His fist hit Brother Thumb right on the lower abdomen.
Brother Thumb bent down in pain, and after a while he stood up and found that they had left.
Brother Thumb thought about it for a long time and found it very strange. A dead person would never be able to walk, let alone hit someone with his fists.
He followed the paper money on the ground and never came back.
After death, it is important for people to return to their hometown and be buried in their hometown. Foreigners who die in a foreign place must have their ancestors buried in their graves as their last wish, and filial sons and grandsons must move back to their hometown for funerals. However, people are very taboo about corpses, so no ships or carriages are willing to transport corpses.
In addition, transportation is not developed, the roads are rugged, and people often have to travel through mountains and rivers. This is why the unique and mysterious profession of corpse removal has emerged.
Corpse driving is actually carrying the corpse. The corpse driving craftsman leads the way, and the apprentice carries the corpse and follows behind. They walk day and night, walking like a ghost on the desert roads or secluded alleys, shaking the bells and throwing paper money.
It's all about being mysterious and creating a sinister atmosphere that makes people afraid to get close to them.
To recruit an apprentice, a corpse exorcist must meet three conditions: short, ugly, and bold.
At dawn, Brother Thumb found them in an inn. The exorcist confessed the secret to Brother Thumb. He claimed that his surname was Meng and he was from Xiangxi. He accepted two dwarfs as his apprentices. These two dwarfs were Ding Busan and Ding Busi.
Big Thumb said he would not tell the truth and would not make things difficult for them.
Brother Thumb became the corpse exorcist’s third apprentice.
Big Thumb has parents, but he is an orphan. His father drinks alcohol all day long, and his mother remarries in another country. Home is no longer a home. At that time, he was just a grass in the field. No one cares about him. Once his childhood is over, his whole life is over.
, just like everything gets dark when it gets dark. He could have been like the neighbor's children, who started lining matchboxes for his family at the age of 14, gluing thousands of matchboxes a day for several years, and then got married and had children.
, Build a house for your child with a lifetime of hard work. When you get old, your child grows up, and your child repeats the endless ordinary life of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
He chose to run away from home and embark on another unknown road.
The corpse removal man had a daughter who weighed 240 kilograms, she was Meng Ni. Later, her weight increased to 350 kilograms. The corpse removal man wanted to recruit Brother Thumb to be his son-in-law, but Brother Thumb refused. He did not dislike her being fat, he was like this
Said: "I hate women."
After the death of the exorcist, Big Thumb, Meng Ni, Ding Busan, and Ding Busi formed an instrumental music group for weddings and funerals. When there were weddings and funerals, they would blow the suona and beat the gongs and drums. In rural areas, there would be weddings or funerals.
There was a group of people like this in ancient times. Because these four people had strange looks - two dwarfs, a woman who was fatter than a pig, and an ugly creature - they were particularly popular. As soon as they appeared, they attracted people's attention.
So much so that the filial son who went to the funeral forgot to cry, and the newlyweds who got married forgot to laugh.
This instrumental troupe was also the predecessor of the circus.
After a while, the instrumental music team accepted a new member. His name was Han Baosan, nicknamed "Sanwen Qian". He could juggle and play the flute to make a cobra dance. He had the experience of traveling around the country and performing arts. In San Wenqian's
At the suggestion, a circus appeared.
Sanwen Qian said this when describing a bright future:
"Earn a lot of money, buy whatever you want, order a table of food and drinks, only have one bite, travel every day, and see all the good places but it's not enough."
As we said before, San Wen Qian looks like a murderer. His small eyes are almost hidden by his unkempt eyebrows, and he always has a fierce look in his eyes. His broad back, bow legs, strong muscles, and big calloused hands show that he
He has endured a lot of hardships. Although Sanwen Qian is very ugly, Thumbs up thinks he is simply a beautiful man.
Thumbs up hates women because he likes men.
In that era, free love between a man and a woman would be considered immoral, and even a couple holding hands on the street would be despised and ridiculed. Homosexuality was undoubtedly a greater sin at that time, and a kind of evil that was despised by everyone.
The behavior that is reviled by thousands of people is a huge secret that can only be buried deep in the heart.
If it is not considered a blasphemy about love, we would say - Thumbs up fell in love with three pennies.
He fell in love with him.
What kind of pain and struggle did they have between them?
What kind of thrilling process did you go through from temptation to rejection to acceptance?
How many dark clouds must a man carry to create and hide the fleeting lightning in another man's heart?
They wandered around the world, where peonies bloomed in foreign lands and apples fell on the ground.
In 1980, they bought a basket of rotten apples, and Big Thumb peeled an apple. Judging from its shape, it was not a very rotten apple in the basket. The apple was placed on the table and kept for three cents.
Starting from that apple in 1980, they remained single until their death and never married, but they had a son. San Wenqian picked up a freak in the trash can and named the abandoned baby Han.
Shaojie, Ding Busan and Ding Busi call him Master Han, Meng Ni calls him Big Tou, Sanwen Qian and Big Thumb call him son.
Young Master Han is withdrawn, introverted and shy. This child's only hobby is to put on a raincoat. Only when it rains, only when he puts on the raincoat can he cover the big tumor on his neck and not be hurt like a normal person.
Watch and not be laughed at. We forgot to mention one thing - on November 21, 2000, that day, he expressed his love for the first and last time. Before he walked into the bun shop, he saw the seller
Before the girl with buns, he had asked the police to put on a raincoat. Since the sun was shining brightly and it did not rain, the police refused this seemingly absurd request.
He had spoken no more than ten sentences to her in total, but each sentence had a fragrance that filled the air in Young Master Han's years behind bars.
There was only one horse in their circus. Of course, all circuses had nothing to do with horses. Horses were used to pull carts, tents and various props. Later, the horse died and they ate it. This grass troupe walked to
At the border, two new members were added: Ma Youzhai and Shan Ya.
Ma Youzhai can do magic tricks, and Shanya is a monkey juggler. The main reason why Thumbs up let him join is that they provide a new means of transportation. Shanya told Thumbs up that there were elephants in the tropical jungle on the nearby mountains, and they waited for an elephant on the mountain.
This week, a baby elephant was captured.
The baby elephant pulls the cart, grows bigger and bigger, and finally grows into an elephant, and eventually dies.
The elephant died and they ate for a whole winter. The elephant became smaller and smaller, and finally only a skeleton was left. They used all their savings to buy a truck that was about to be scrapped. Shanya served as the driver. At that time, he
His legs were still intact, and the truck sometimes got stuck in the mud. He used a jack to fight the storm.
One winter, when they were going up the bridge, the truck stalled. Shan Ya blocked the wheels with rocks, and Ma Youzhai climbed under the truck to check the fault. Because the ground was frozen, the rocks slid, and the truck slowly backed down the slope.
If the truck is not stopped in time, Ma Youzhai under the truck will be crushed to death and the entire truck will fall into the ditch under the bridge.
Everyone shouted, and in the critical moment, Shan Ya stretched his legs under the wheels of the truck. The truck stopped, and Shan Ya became a cripple from then on.
Later, when Shan Ya was arrested, Ma Youzhai asked Paozi to do everything possible to rescue Shan Ya.
The father and son had this conversation:
Paozi said: "Uncle Shanya is in prison. How can we save him? Unless we call the master and go to the prison with guns."
Ma Youzhai said: "Then rob the prison!"
Paozi asked: "Why do you have to save him?"
Ma Youzhai replied: "My life was bought with one of his legs."
Paozi said: "The possibility of success is very small."
Ma Youzhai said: "I just want him to know."
Paozi asked: "What do you know?"
Ma Youzhai said: "You know I am not an ungrateful person."
Shan Ya heard the gunshot in prison and understood everything. He jumped off the building not to escape, but to commit suicide.
During the short period of time when he was in the air before falling to the ground, those disappeared things reappeared one by one. He remembered that they lit a bonfire on the snow outside the tent, and the heavy snow continued to fall. They drank, and Ma Youzhai hugged Shan Ya.
The two are brothers, the other is lovers, and the circus is their home.
Ma Youzhai: "I want to worship you."
Shan Ya: "Aren't we brothers now?"
Ma Youzhai: "We have to hold a ceremony."
Brother Thumb: "When we make money, let's go to my hometown and do fruit business with the Burmese people."
Ma Youzhai: "We have a forest farm there, which is full of red pine trees. We can own a forest farm and go hunting."
Shan Ya: "There is a mine in my hometown. There used to be mines, but now they are gone. Now there are only stones."
Brother Thumb: “My income these days is not as much as before.”
Shan Ya: "What if there is no income? What if no one comes to the circus?"
San Wen Qian: "No big deal, I'll be a beggar."
Thumbs up: "I won't let you be a beggar, I will make you have a lot of money."
Shan Ya: "If we disband, then we won't be able to see each other."
Ma Youzhai: "There is no such thing as a feast that never ends."
Shan Ya: "At that time, only the small cigarette pack was with me, and you didn't know what you were doing."
Now that the story is coming to an end, we can't help but talk about another member of the circus family - Xiao Bao. This drug-addicted monkey was kept in the zoo for several years and was eventually released to a wildlife sanctuary.
Also, we cannot forget the thief, the child who stole a bunch of bananas in the zoo: Balang.
Balang's mother, Gu Li, aged rapidly, which caused her sex business to plummet. Sometimes no client would even look at her for half a month, and she eventually had to take Balang back to her hometown. They grew cotton.
Planting lavender, in order to prevent the child from being naughty, Guli sent him to school. This should be a very bad ending for Balang.
When this happy little elf is wandering in the lavender fields and in a daze in class, he sometimes thinks of his puppy brother. The little boy named Wangwang should be back home!
Let’s talk about Meng Ni’s ending.
Meng Ni felt that she was the happiest woman in the world for a long time. She was loved by two men. The two men were both dwarfs and looked exactly the same. When did their love arise?
What were they thinking while walking with the corpse on their backs?
How did winter pass?
How do rose flowers bloom quietly?
How does the dawn shine on the orange trees in May, and how does the rain and dew wet the sorghum in October?
As long as you have love in your heart, you know all the secrets.
They expressed their lovesickness with the voices of magpies, conveyed letters with flowers in spring and fallen leaves in autumn, and expressed their feelings with the moon and starlight and even the entire universe. When the exorcist decided to marry Meng Ni to Big Thumb, these two dwarfs,
One was crying in the south of the city, and the other was crying in the north.
They gave birth to each other, the elder brother gave birth to hatred, and the younger brother gave birth to love. The passion in their hearts was like fire, but they were like the two poles of the world, cold and ruthless. The elder brother did not talk to Meng Ni for three days, and for him, these three days were already his own.
The limit of endurance. On the fourth day, Ding Busan asked Meng Ni:
"Ni, are you getting married?"
Meng Ni replied: "I want to marry you."
After Ding Busan left, Ding Busi came over and asked Meng Ni:
"I know you want to be Brother Thumb's wife, right?"
Meng Ni replied: "I want to be your wife."
She loved two men, and she could not choose between her elder brother and her younger brother. It was not until later that she realized that it was her younger brother that she really loved. She once took Ding Busi to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and she was responsible for
The person who registered the marriage said, "I want to get married." The person from the Civil Affairs Bureau asked her, "Where is your husband? I mean, where is your fiancé?"
Her husband is under her skirt.
The shy dwarf refused to come out because he refused to hurt his brother.
Many years later, Ding Busan died and Ding Busi was shot. At that time, Meng Ni was already Granny Meng who killed dogs and sold them for meat. Granny Meng took back Ding Busi's body from the execution ground.
In that village where locust trees were in full bloom, Granny Meng lay down on a pile of straw at her neighbor's house and slept for a while. The midday sun in winter was shining warmly. The straw pile was on the roadside, and many passers-by saw her plump and fat body.
Incomparable body. She took a nap without anyone else, snoring loudly. People didn't understand why she slept here, but people clearly remembered that it was the last time they saw her.
A year later, during local road construction and demolition, people found that the door of Granny Meng's house was nailed shut from the inside by wooden bars. Through the dilapidated window that had been eaten by termites, one could see that the plastic flowers on the table inside the house were covered with dust.
, spun into cobwebs. Demolition workers used an ax to open the door - and people found the lonely old man dead. She was lying on the bed, turned into a skeleton, and there was another skeleton lying beside her.
