Undying Body

When he returned to the open space, Xiaohong and Maimai were dismantling the improvised stage. The two young men had their backs to him, and their heads were very close to each other. They were giggling while working, but they didn't see him coming back.

The class leader Wu Shang jumped off the acrobatic car and saw him: "Chang Sheng, you just came back, I'll wait for you..." He stopped talking and looked him up and down: "Why did you get soaked and fell into the water?" ?”

Chang Sheng nodded: "Things fell into the water."

"What? Did you find it?"

"It took me a long time to touch the bottom of the water for an accessory before I touched it downstream. The water was too fast."

Wu Shang nodded: "If it's okay, I'm going to leave."

Chang Sheng seemed a little hesitant, Wu Shang hummed: "You still have something to do? Before you went out, you said you would go to the place where you stayed before and then came back. It seems that you still have something to finish?"

"No, it's fine." Chang Sheng shook his head: "Then let's go."

Over there, Xiaomai and Xiaohong had already finished dismantling the stage. Chang Sheng went over to help carry the shelf back to the car, and Xiaohong walked up to him: "Brother Chang, I'm sorry, I shot you with a knife again."

Wu Shang also came over to lift the shelf, and helped Chang Sheng answer: "It's okay, he has practiced qigong before, such a trivial matter is nothing, as long as he holds his breath, he will be an iron cloth shirt!" Looking at Xiaohong again, he said in a serious tone: "But your kung fu needs to be practiced, it's fine if you hit the stage once, but you can't do it if you are an old performer!"

Xiao Hong sticks out her tongue: "I won't do it next time, next time I will definitely see it before blindfolding."

Mai Mai came over: "I'm in charge of supervising her."

Xiaohong blushed: "Who wants you to supervise."

Wu Shang laughed, and pulled Chang Sheng aside: "Let's stop being young people's light bulbs. By the way, your clothes are so wet. Change to another one. Don't catch a cold. The performance in the next place depends on you." ah."

Chang Sheng stroked his still wet hair: "No, actually I don't know anything."

"Then you are humble, you have practiced qigong for many years." Before Chang Sheng could answer, Wu Shang then said with a smile: "I'm not joking, let's go."

After all the juggling things were placed in the carport, Mai Mai started the car, and Xiao Hong sat aside and arranged the decorative ribbons one by one, looking at the distant mountains that were gradually darkening by the window: "It's really beautiful here, but it's a pity that it's so beautiful." Going to go to the next place soon."

Wu Shang knocked on the back of the chair: "Reluctant?"

"A little bit, but I understand that's how it is in the days of performing arts," Xiao Hong sighed, "It would be great if I can settle down sometime."

The atmosphere in the car became a little sad with her words, and no one spoke for a long time.

Chang Sheng leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep.

Most of the time in the days of the acrobatic troupe, his sense of presence was very low, and he seldom took the initiative to speak. When performing, he was more like a prop or a set, too quiet.

The car was driving on the country road, and the setting sun in the distance gradually sank.

Mai Mai turned on the light in the car, and the face was a little blurred by the dim light. Chang Sheng suddenly patted the back of Xiaohong's chair lightly: "Do you have any extra threads?"

Xiaohong turned her head: "Yes, what are you going to do?"

"It turned out that the thread that tied things was broken, and I wanted to tie it again."

"Oh," Xiaohong pulled out a thin black silk rope from the sewing kit at hand: "Is this okay?"

Chang Sheng took it over: "Okay, thank you."

Mai Mai drove the car and asked, "Angkor said, Brother Chang, you lived in this village before, did you just go to find someone you know?"

"No, I lived near here a long time ago, and it's still some way away from here," Chang Sheng shook his head: "But I don't know anyone anymore." He said and looked out the window.

If it was daytime, he should see the same mountains, rivers and blue sky as before, but now it is night, he can only see the shadow of the blurred scene.

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"Master, I still haven't found it." The servants all went ashore. It was already late. Although there were flashlights and torches, the river surface was still dark and unclear at night. Uncle Ji stepped forward and said, "Come here." I searched back and forth several times, and even searched downstream with boats, but there is really no one, that person must have gotten up and left long ago."

Du Shaoyan's face was cold, he still had a sense of majesty at such a young age, the servants didn't dare to speak anymore.

Xiao Xia persuaded: "It's a good thing you can't find it, it means that uncle is fine."

A servant boldly said: "Yes, even if a person dies, there are still corpses. There are no corpses. He must have swum away long ago. I heard Xiaoxia describe him as a good swimmer. He will be fine. You should hurry back, young master." .”

Du Shaoyan remained silent, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Where does the acrobatic troupe live?"

"Ah?" Xiao Xia was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "It should be the place where the show was performed last night."

"Then hurry up." Du Shaoyan ran away after saying that, and the servants hurriedly followed the young master, holding flashlights before and after running.

A group of people ran to the open space at the entrance of the village, but there was no shadow of the acrobatic troupe, and even the car parked here yesterday was gone.

"The ones who are still here this morning, let's go," the servant said, "The acrobatic troupe will only stay for a day or two before leaving."

Du Shaoyan stared blankly at the empty ground, as if he was frozen, everyone around him looked at him, Xiao Xia pulled his sleeve: "Master..."

"I understand!" Du Shaoyan said suddenly, and the gloom on his face was swept away: "It's impossible for him to drown, firstly, there is no body, and secondly, the acrobatic troupe is gone. Probably just left, so the guy definitely left when we weren't looking, went back to the circus, and then they left, that's it!"

Xiao Xia blinked: "It seems so."

Du Shaoyan beamed with joy: "I knew that nothing would happen, I have my fate to protect him!" The dejected and disheartened look just now was completely gone.

Xiao Xia also became happy: "It's good that it's okay, young master, let's go home, mother-in-law must be waiting impatiently."

"Well, go back quickly, grandma must be dying of anxiety after coming out so late all day." Du Shaoyan turned around and left, Xiao Xia walked beside him, and he reminded after a while: "Don't tell grandma that I fell into the water today .”

"Oh," Xiao Xia nodded, a little surprised: "It turns out that the young master is also afraid of his mother-in-law's worries. I still think that the young master has been heartless..."

"The old woman wants to talk about me again after she finds out. It's so annoying." Du Shaoyan interrupted Xiao Xia: "It's okay if you don't let me go out to play. Anyway, I don't listen to her. If she tells my dad, my dad won't let me go back to the countryside." It's too bad, I'm so bored in the city... Hey, why do you have such an expression?"

Xiao Xia curled her lips and complained in a low voice: "I thought the young master suddenly became sensible, so I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to play."

"Pervert uncle," Du Shaoyan continued from the side, "Kiss me, I haven't...Damn it! Pervert! He didn't say hello to me when he left, I was so worried!" He kept wiping his mouth with his hands: "Bah bah."

Xiao Xia asked curiously: "Kiss you?"

"Hmph, stop talking." Du Shaoyan raised his head, "Let's go!"

When Du Shaoyan returned to the old house, his grandmother was waiting at the gate of the courtyard leaning on crutches. From a distance, he saw his grandson greet him tremblingly: "I came back so late..."

Du Shaoyan ran over to support his grandmother, and coquettishly rubbed against the old man's arm: "Why don't you come back now, go home and go home."

The summer vacation was over soon, and Du Shaoyan returned to his home in the city, and resumed the boring life of going to school, listening to his father's lessons, arguing with his brother, and listening to his tutor's endless nagging.

It's so boring!There are only tulips planted by the stepmother in the yard, and the swimming pool is not as fun as the small pond at the grandmother’s house. Only next year can I go back to the countryside for the summer vacation, and I will see the acrobatic troupe again... Although Young Master Du doesn’t say anything, he still misses it in his heart As for the life and death of that strange man, he did have enough theories to judge that the man was still alive, but as long as he didn't see him with his own eyes, he still couldn't let it go completely.

After school, the driver took him home, and the car stopped immediately behind the gate of the courtyard. Du Shaoyan saw that it was his brother's car from the rearview mirror. Honking the horn desperately, Du Shaobo poked his head out from the rear window: "Hey, hey! Respect yourself!"

"Do you understand after coming and going?" Du Shaoyan also poked his head out.

Du Shaobo is three years older than his younger brother. He is already a high school student. He looks like an adult in a black school uniform with a stand-up collar. He raised his chin in disdain: "Get out of the way, good dogs don't get in the way!"

"What a good parenting, your mother taught you?" Du Shaoyan sarcastically said.

Du Shaobo sneered: "My mother is also your mother."

"My mother is long gone. I don't have your kind of mother." Du Shaoyan got out of the car and walked home with his head held high.

The driver finally drove the car away and let the next car drive in. Du Shaobo got out of the car quickly, and the brothers with the same father and different mother walked into the house one after the other.

Meijie, the housekeeper in charge of chores at home, is a shrewd woman in her 30s. She came over to take the schoolbags of the two young masters, and said, "Master Shaoyan has a letter, and put it in the room."

Du Shaoyan said, "Where did it come from?"

"From the country."

"The soil is dead," Du Shaobo followed and walked in: "There are still people who write letters these days, don't they know how to make phone calls? No wonder they are country people."

"I can still receive letters these days, how lucky I am." Du Shaoyan countered bluntly: "I'm going to read the letters, and I'll come down for dinner later."

He ran up the stairs in a few steps, and ran into his room. Sure enough, there was a letter lying flat on the desk.

In fact, he doesn't need to look at the sender to know who it is. The only person he knows is Xiao Xia who has the patience to sit down and write a letter, and Xiao Xia said she would write to him during the summer vacation.

Du Shaoyan quickly opened the letter with scissors, and a thin sheet of letter paper was neatly folded, with a red maple leaf sandwiched inside.

Xiao Xia's letter was very simple, it was nothing more than a good family, grandma was very nice, she missed the young master and wanted to play together, Du Shaoyan scanned it quickly, and before he left, he specifically asked Xiao Xia to pay attention to the acrobatic troupe, it was impossible for Xiao Xia not to follow his words.He quickly read the letter, Xiaoxia wrote at the end of the letter that the acrobatic troupe did not come again.

Du Shaoyan was a little disappointed.

I don't know what happened to that man.

It's really annoying, and he didn't know how to say hello when he left, he complained angrily, and picked up the maple leaf to look at.

This is the most beautiful maple leaf picked from the mountain that Xiaoxia said in the letter, it is very beautiful, let's make a bookmark.Du Shaoyan casually put Maple Leaf in a dictionary, turned and walked out of the room.