Chapter 12 Chapter 3 - Circus (2)

Qiu walked leisurely around the campus with two dogs.She walked to the lotus pond for a while, and walked to the blackboard newspaper between the red tile house and the black tile house.We couldn't help but look out as she walked past our classroom door.She walked away, and we still glanced out the door from time to time.When she leads the dog to the town, it will take our eyes far, far away.Autumn is so special.We have never seen such a girl, and we have never imagined that there will be such a girl in the world.An elegant girl in a white dress and holding two dogs—this image later became the eternal memory of all students in Yau Ma Tei Middle School.In the long years to come, this image will suddenly flash in their respective minds; although it is like a firefly in summer, it will always flash at a certain moment.Many years later, when we get together by chance and remember that period of time, there will always be one of us asking: "Do you still remember that autumn?" At this time, we will also mention Xie Baisan by the way.

The circus performance was performed on the second night.Order is unprecedentedly bad.There were so many people that they seemed to grow out of the ground, and they crowded the playground of Yau Ma Tei Middle School to the brim, and they were about to overflow like a basin of water.If the people in the back were shorter, they would not be able to see the stage at all.They were not reconciled, so they pushed out a person who had the courage to show up to lead the call, and they responded together.The one who led the yelling stretched out his arms, then pressed them down as if he was holding something down, and shouted: "The person in front—" The crowd shouted together: "Sit—down!——" So keep shouting.It seemed to have some effect, and the heads in front of them fell down one by one like sinking water.Some of them sat down, some knelt down, and some crouched temporarily.Because the shouting behind is really powerful.Occasionally, a head is still standing upright, and there will be curses: "Whose skull is that? Damn it, bend it down!" Attack of broken shoes.And when the people in front sit down, they will take up more space than standing, so the crowd in front, like dry steamed buns soaked in water, suddenly expands and expands violently to the back.The people behind were so rushed that they couldn't hold on any longer, and another wave naturally formed to press back.People between the two waves are under the greatest pressure, and if they can't hold on, they will cry: "Help!" This kind of commotion has continued, making it impossible for the circus performance to proceed.The head of the circus stood at the entrance, looking anxiously at the chaotic crowd who were not peaceful at this moment.

Qiu looked around at the entrance of the back stage, and the puppy in his hand barked at the crowd, and many people in the audience shouted: "Dog! Dog!" The audience became even more chaotic.When Qiu saw her, she immediately disappeared behind the stage leading the dog.The people sitting in front couldn't bear the impact, they stood up one after another, and squeezed back in retaliation.But they were counterattacked immediately, and the waves behind them pressed over like mountains and seas, squeezing them all the way to the mouth of the platform.That platform was a high earthen platform, and the seawall generally blocked the crowd, but when the wave behind it rushed in fiercely again, the people in the front really seemed to be blocked by the wave, and there were four Fifty people were packed onto the stage.They were relieved all of a sudden, panting on stage.Because they were on stage and in full view, many of them looked awkward and timid.Some of them had never been on stage before, and felt panic and embarrassment. They wanted to go back to the audience, but they could only look around on the stage when they saw boiling water, and their movements seemed very dull.There are also some who show a pure sense of relief, as if after a catastrophe, each one is like a person who has fallen into the sea and suddenly found an island when there is no hope.One of the women also held a child. From the expression on her face, disheveled hair and sweat-soaked blouse, one can imagine how uncomfortable she was in the crowd, how she struggled, and how to protect her son.She was on the point of crying.She hurriedly put down the child who had been tightly held in her arms.The first thing the child did after getting off the ground was to pee at the entrance of the platform, just like peeing in front of the toilet.I don't know if it was out of playboy's mentality, or out of revenge for being squeezed just now, maybe out of joy after being liberated, he pushed his abdomen forward fiercely, bent his knees, and used his hands to support the tender The chick, which was like a bamboo shoot, held back its strength to urinate in a big arc under the bright light, and the people in the audience dodged, causing another big fluctuation.The child shook the chick that was like a tender bamboo shoot, giggling happily.Yu Peizhang, director of the Yau Ma Tei Town Cultural Station, and Qin Qichang, Qin Tuzi, an officer of the Yau Ma Tei Town Militia, took to the stage to maintain order.Yu Peizhang suffered from cavitary tuberculosis for many years, and committed crimes violently. He often stayed up late writing notebooks or rehearsing programs, so his face was as pale as paper and his lips were black.His mouth was big from birth, but when he lost weight, it seemed even bigger.He opened his mouth wide and yelled, as if he wanted to swallow all those people in his stomach.He kept pumping his fists and yelling "fucking x", but his yelling had no effect.Qin Qichang's head shone brightly under the light.He wasn't bald at first, but he got up one night and suddenly became bald.He stood on the ledge, ordering silence as he did during militia training.Usually, he was big (people also called him "Qin Dama"), and his majestic demeanor and the sense of fear that his position aroused were enough to make all the villagers feel a kind of deterrent force.However, the villagers are now caught in a kind of chaos beyond their own control (the chaos of the group is driven by a blind force), and the shouts of Qin Qichang and Qin Dama, the bald son of Qin, are of no help.This severely undermined his sense of authority, and his already long face stretched even longer, making it look like he wanted to run back to the Armed Forces to grab a gun and fire it into the sky above the crowd.Later, he asked two militiamen in the town to snatch away the two boys who were booing with bastards, and locked them in a dark room in Yau Ma Tei Middle School.

The people on the stage were finally knocked down. Qiu, since then, has been standing at the entrance of the backstage watching. The show was too late to start.The group leader, Yu Peizhang, and Qin Qichang all disappeared in the background helplessly to discuss what to do. People got impatient and started throwing straws that were going to be placed under their buttocks. For a while, the straws flew around in the air like migratory locusts. Someone in the audience shouted angrily: "Hurry up and perform! Hurry up and perform!" and someone cursed at Qiu, and the curse was very ugly.

Immediately there are countless grasses throwing headlessly towards Qiu.She shielded her face with her arms as she stepped back.A puppy broke free, rushed to the entrance of the stage like crazy, and barked toward the bottom of the stage.Qiu became anxious, ran up to the stage, and dragged her dog away under the raindrops of grass.We saw that a straw fell on her pretty face, and she was about to cry. Xie Baisan jumped onto the stage.He said loudly to the audience: "All the boys in the second (first) class of junior high school stand on the stage!" After we struggled out of the crowd and came to the stage, Xie Baisan said: "There is no other way, only rely on us!"

Each of us suddenly had a sense of heroism and tragedy. Xie Baisan said: "We stood at the front hand in hand, resisting the crowd and not letting them come to the stage. None of us can let go!" We stand on stage and feel like warriors.Including Qiao An, they all showed a desire to work together. Cho watched us from the dark. We jumped off the stage, then faced the stage, and walked back hand in hand.At this time, we can feel the huge momentum of the crowd even more.We held hands tightly, like a tight rope hooped the crowd.Our move at least ensures that the table will no longer be disturbed.After a while, the crowd within 10 meters behind us also became a little quieter.But it is obviously impossible to quiet the crowd in the whole venue.

The circus, which had postponed the performance for more than an hour, no longer wished for a better order in the audience. The head of the circus said: "Let's begin!" The performance reluctantly began. The waves came in waves like the pains of childbirth.We were sweating in no time.I held Xie Baisan's right hand with my left hand, and felt that his hand was wet.I looked sideways and saw that his hair was soaked with sweat, and beads of sweat were dripping from his chin. "You should loosen your hand a little bit." I felt that my hand was hurt by Xie Baisan's hand.

But Xie Baisan still grabbed me with all his might.He has energy, but his senses are dull, and he doesn't know how big the energy is. I had no choice but to bear it, and imitated Ma Shuiqing's tone and scolded in my heart: "Xie Baisan, you bastard!" We gradually felt overwhelmed.Ma Shuiqing was the first to let go of his hand, and said to Liu Hanlin who grabbed his hand: "Your dog's paws are like crab claws!" Xie Baisan shouted loudly: "Pull it up! Pull it up!" Unscrewed and pulled on several times.When we felt hopeless, the performance of the head of the group made the crowd suddenly quiet.Wearing a top hat and leather boots, he tucked his clothes into his trousers and galloped majestically out of the backstage on that tall horse.Under the light, the horse was as black as lacquer, its eyes were like stars, and its four hooves knocked on the table, making a shocking sound.There are no horses produced or raised in this place, only cattle, and occasionally one or two small donkeys. Few people have actually seen horses.The animal horse is really an advanced animal.It has an awe-inspiring air, a natural and unrestrained air, which is exciting and fascinating.The head of the regiment was very chic, with two long legs, straight and powerful, he dismounted immediately, and steered the horse with great style, making various surprising movements on the stage.The horse galloped like the wind for a while, flew its front hooves into the air for a while, stopped suddenly, and walked leisurely for a while, and walked out of the dance step with the beat of the music.The head of the regiment always had an indifferent expression, and his deep-set eyes shone with a slightly wild light under the top hat that was slightly buttoned forward.

After the horse show, the monkey show was over, and there was another commotion in the venue.The monkey is not as tall as the horse, and the people behind can't see at all. He only hears the people in front laughing, but he doesn't know what they are laughing at.Just now we rested enough, but now we squeezed extremely vigorously, and we saw people leaning forward row by row, and soon they were on top of us. "Resist! Resist!" Xie Baisan yelled, sticking out his buttocks. Ma Shuiqing said: "I can't resist it! I can't resist it!" We were pushed to the front of the stage, so we kicked the stage with our feet and pressed against it.

We didn't see anything on stage. We were panting heavily, our throats were dry, and our eyes were flooded with sweat. "Stop the show first!" On stage, Yu Peizhang said to the director. We relaxed and Ma Shuiqing was the first to let go and climbed onto the stage; other students followed suit.Xie Baisan stood alone for a while, and finally gave up resisting and climbed up sweaty.Afterwards, many audiences who couldn't stand the squeeze climbed up on the stage.We went behind the stage. The backstage is next to the hallway of the classroom.Standing under the porch is Qiu with a puppy.She gave us a grateful look.

"She hasn't performed yet!" Yao Sanchuan said. We are sorry.We all want to see her perform. We sat on the porch exhausted.Compared with the noisy venue, it seems very quiet here.Xie Baisan sat next to me, the smell of sweat was so strong that it was choking.He was so tired that he lay down on the ground. "I can't perform today." Yao Sanchuan said. I suddenly felt disappointed and sighed involuntarily. We were all lying down, and the porch was messed up.Liu Hanlin sat up first, and then said: "You all lie like a group of pigs lying in a pigsty." All indications are that today's show is going to fail. Ma Shuiqing said: "We should go to Wang Qihan and ask him to agree to open the doors of all the classrooms, so that the people behind can stand on the stools and tables, and then they can watch the performance, and there will be no more trouble." Xie Baisan stood up suddenly, "I'll go find him!" I also followed. Wang Qihan estimated that the circus would not be able to perform today, so he went back to his principal's office and was sitting on a wicker chair drinking tea.He understood what Xie Baisan meant, and said to Xie Baisan coldly: "If you lose or damage the table and stool, you are responsible?" Xie Baisan got bored, took my hand and went back to the porch again. "You monitor, you are a bird!" Chang Ma Shuiqing said. "The birds use the birds." Xie Baisan said. "Responsible is responsible!" Ma Shuiqing said, "When the performance is over, we will stand in a row at the intersection to watch the people who leave the show, and no one can bring extra stools." Xie Baisan sat silently. The venue was full of people, and under the light, the air was full of dust.There were endless shouts, "Hurry up and perform!" There were swearing one after another. Ma Shuiqing shouted at Xie Baisan: "If you have the guts, just open the door of our classroom!" Liu Hanlin said: "Xie Baisan didn't grow." I said, "Don't say that Xie Baisan has no seeds." On the field, those rural bastards and hooligans threatened to rush to the stage and make trouble: "Let that bear go!" "Touch that chick!"... Cho looked at us in fear from under the colonnade. The group leader had no idea how brutal the locals were, and said to Yu Peizhang: "Stationmaster Yu, return to chaos, let's act!" Ma Shuiqing whispered a few words to Xie Baisan, and pulled Liu Hanlin and the others towards the crowd. Xie Baisan called me and walked towards the red tile house.He took off the key of the classroom door lock from his trouser belt and opened the classroom door. We walked into the classroom in the dark, each with a desk on his head and walked towards the field. "Ma Shuiqing took Liu Hanlin to ask someone to move the tables and stools. He said that he would go to the other monitors and ask them to open the classroom doors too," Xie Baisan said. "Why don't they do it?" "Ma Shuiqing said that he wanted to tell them that Wang Qihan agreed." "Wang Qihan did not agree." Xie Baisan fell silent.He is always helpless to Ma Shuiqing's boldness and his character of doing whatever he thinks of. He always has no time to make judgments on Ma Shuiqing's ideas that others can't think of or dare to think of. Ma Shuiqing always wants to come up with something, as if it would be too lonely to live without doing something, and too idle to be uncomfortable.He has no strength, lethargy, is always late for the first class in the morning, and always sleeps on the desk after class, but he has a lot of energy to get something done.Sometimes, he's even happy to make things big.When a person felt that it was impossible to end, he used more courage to come up with more terrifying ideas to end the unmanageable situation brought about by the previous idea. Due to Ma Shuiqing's spread and spreading rumors to confuse the public, all the monitors opened the doors of their respective classrooms, people on the field flocked to the red tile houses and black tile houses, and all the desks and stools in the classrooms were removed in a short while.The scene at that time was a bit like a galloping horse and a bit of a group of bandits going down the mountain to rob houses. A stepped viewing site is formed.It eliminates the possibility of unrest by those behind who won't see the show.Coupled with the fact that it was not too early, and the restless people had no intention of making trouble any longer, a good order appeared on the field. Qiu's performance gives people more of a style and a charm.Those two puppies didn't have a difficult show.The desalination of skills, on the contrary, deepened the impression of Qiu on people.She and her puppy form pictures.Strictly speaking, this is not a circus performance.But people don't think so.They stared at Qiu, none of them waiting for the two puppies to do something amazing or interesting.Qiu made the gazes of these country people dumbfounded, with a look of stupidity on their faces. I crouched very close to the stage.The lights on the stage are bright, and the autumn light is clearer than the daytime.Inadvertently, my eyes suddenly noticed her chest, which made me feel very ashamed, my heart was beating wildly, and my breathing became short of breath.I covered my mouth with my hand.I felt that many people were looking at me, so I lowered my head, but the image still appeared in front of my eyes: a small gown that was light pink like a lotus flower was pushed up; it looked like two children were pulling each other on both sides. I glanced at Xie Baisan, only to see that he was sweating profusely. That's the way things are, even if Qiu walks the stage with her puppy, it's enough to make the audience quiet as still water. After the show was all over, we were kind of startled like birds on a branch and flew into the night sky, dazed. When the crowd receded like a tide, the scene in front of us pulled us into a bad mood: the field was in a mess. At that time, the moon was in the sky.Under the moonlight, the tables and benches were rickety, like donkeys, horses, cats and dogs that fell to the ground after the plague. Xie Baisan was dumbfounded. Ma Shuiqing was also stunned. Not to mention loss and damage, it is very difficult to move these tables and stools back to the classroom. Wang Qihan stood on the sidelines and looked around, without saying a word, he threw down a red cigarette butt and left. A group of bastards all went back to the dormitory to "hold the corpse". When Xie Baisan asked them to go to the venue to move the tables and stools, the answer he got was: "We didn't move the tables and stools out." Xie Baisan almost knelt on the ground and begged these bastards. Ma Shuiqing approached the monitors one by one, half reminding and half intimidating: "You opened the doors of these classrooms yourself!" The monitors had no choice but to call a few able-bodied students to the venue.The desks and stools of each class are mixed together, and the first thing to do is to distinguish them.A few flashlights dangled on the field like will-o'-the-wisps, and from time to time they heard: "This is the table of our class!" "This is the stool of our class!" Xie Baisan felt that he had sinned deeply, so he kept carrying it. Ma Shuiqing is also willing to work hard like never before, but the appearance of carrying it is extremely ugly, and his body is bent like a prawn. Liu Hanlin stabbed me, "Who do you think that is?" Autumn is here.She was carrying a small stool and following behind Xie Baisan.Two puppies circled her feet back and forth.Qiu helped us carry it for a long time, and she didn't leave until the group leader repeatedly told her to go back and rest. After Qiu left, we carried it for a while, and each of us felt extremely tired.Ma Shuiqing said: "Go back to the dormitory and rest for a while before moving!" Except for Xie Baisan, we all went back to the dormitory first.It was said to rest for a while, and once I lay down, I couldn't wake up again.We didn't wake up suddenly until Bai Mazi rang the bell to get up.Rubbing our sleepy eyes, we hurried to the venue. As the sun was rising, Xie Baisan was still moving the remaining tables and stools.His movements were slow and he was visibly exhausted.When we walked up to him, we saw that his eyes were red and his face was covered with hoarfrost-like sweat. Qiu woke up and is helping him move together...