Baozi Pet Shop

"Aooooooooooow..." Bai Tuanzi howled wildly at the phone with his butt pouted, and Lin Xia, who was putting food into the automatic feeding machine, was terrified in his ears.

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After Lin Xia fed and washed her hands, she came back and saw Bai Tuanzi pouted, so she couldn't help but patted it.

"Aww!" Dad, An An is so boring!Bai Tuanzi turned his head, looking pitiful.

"Father is playing with you, what do you want to play?" Lin Xia picked up Bai Tuanzi and rubbed his paws.

Wang Ziyu and Meng Zheng had classes, and Liu Shihuan followed them.A few young people spent a day outside, only Bai Tuanzi was bored in the pet shop.

Bai Tuanzi woke up after having lunch and took a nap. After watching the video for a while, Bai Tuanzi couldn't hold back anymore.

"Aww!" An An also wanted to go out to play!Liu Shihuan and the others didn't bring Bai Tuanzi when they went out to play, which made Bai Tuanzi's heart itch.

Lin Xia looked at the time, and there is still half an hour to get off work, or the store should be closed early. "Okay, let's get off work early, but I still have to clean up."

Bai Tuanzi flicked his tail immediately, with a happy expression on his face. "Wow!" Dad, An An helped you clean up!

"Okay." Lin Xia agreed, even though he knew that Bai Tuanzi couldn't help, he let him follow.

Sweep the floor, mop it again, and throw the trash in the trash can outside.After checking it, if there is no problem, take Jasmine and Bai Tuanzi and leave the pet shop.

In no hurry to go home at this point, Lin Xia took Bai Tuanzi and Jasmine to the square to play.This square is the square of the university town, surrounded by many shops and restaurants, as well as a snack street.

The combination of one person, one tiger and one bird is very eye-catching, but Lin Xia and Bai Tuanzi are used to it, and this is not the first time they have come here.Moreover, there are many artists here, and there are many strangers than them, so I don't feel much about it.

"Wow!" Dad, it stinks!The air was filled with the smell of stinky tofu, and Bai Tuanzi couldn't help sniffing it.

"Want to eat?" Lin Xia asked with a smile.Bai Tuanzi had eaten stinky tofu and liked it quite a bit.

"Aww!" Yes!Bai Tuanzi nodded immediately, hooking his paws as if begging for food.

"Okay." Lin Xia took Bai Tuanzi to a stall selling stinky tofu, bought a portion of stinky tofu, and then took Bai Tuanzi and Jasmine to find a place to sit down and eat stinky tofu.

"Wow!" Bai Tuanzi shook his tail and opened his mouth wide.

"Wait until I blow it on before eating, the stinky tofu is hot." Lin Xia picked up a piece of stinky tofu and blew it until it was not so hot before giving it to Bai Tuanzi.

"Brother Lin!"

Lin Xia heard a familiar voice, looked up and saw that it was Meng Zheng and the three of them.

"What a coincidence!" Lin Xia greeted them with a smile.

"Wow..." Bai Tuanzi greeted with food in his mouth.

"Why are you here?" Wang Ziyu leaned in front of them and smelled the fragrant and smelly smell in the air.

"Baby said he wanted to come out to play, so I brought him here." Lin Xia held up the stinky tofu, "Do you want to eat stinky tofu?"

"Yes, we bought sugar snowballs, do you want to eat?" Wang Ziyu raised the sugar snowballs in his hand.

"Aww!" An An wanted to eat candy snowballs!Bai Tuanzi licked his lips and said.

"Ah!" Wang Ziyu had been with Bai Tuanzi for a long time, and he knew that Bai Tuanzi wanted to eat it, so he gave him a candy snowball.

"Aww!" Thank you brother Ziyu!The sugar snowball got into Bai Tuanzi's mouth, and he chewed it with gusto.

Several people sat down and shared stinky tofu and sugar snowballs together.Not satisfied with the food, Meng Zheng ran to buy some more, and he also bought sour plum juice.

"Let's go eat Chuan Chuan Xiang together later, it's not bad to have Chuan Chuan Xiang here." Meng Zheng proposed, and his proposal was unanimously approved by everyone.

"Then let's go shopping first, it's very lively over there, why don't we go and have a look?" Wang Ziyu looked towards a place with a lot of people.

"Okay!" Everyone agreed, and after eating stinky tofu, they went to a crowded place to join in the fun.

There were two layers of people around, there should be performances.Lin Xia and the others circled to the side. The angle of view is not very good, but they can see it.

It turned out that this was a monkey show. An old man who looked over 50 years old led three monkeys to perform.A bowl was placed in front of them with money ranging from one yuan to [-] yuan.

"Let's go!" The old people surrounded by people clapped their hands, and a monkey walked on the steel wire.It walked forward once, and walked backward when it came back.Steady and steady, it attracted applause from the people.

After the performance, the monkey made a curtain call gesture, which was very clever.Several girls couldn't help but cast money.

Then somersaults, ballet, parallel log walking, and mime were performed. The old man and the monkeys had a perfect understanding, and the performance was natural and smooth, which won a lot of applause. The bowl was also filled with money.

"Wow?" Dad, is this also a show?Bai Tuanzi's eyes were shining, and he was already considering whether to go back and try tightrope walking.

"This form of performance is called monkey show, which is a traditional folk performing art in our country. It used to be very popular, but now it is almost invisible." What Lin Xia said is what he read from the book. When he was in college, he I read a lot of books in the library.

"Aww?" Why can't I see it?Bai Tuanzi thought the monkey show was very exciting, and was puzzled by what Lin Xia said.

"Because there are fewer and fewer people watching, and fewer and fewer people acting, the times have changed." Lin Xia remembered a book he once read, "The Last Monkey Man".Times have changed, and "monkey juggling" has become an ancient trade that will die...

At the end of the performance, the old man and the monkeys bowed deeply to the audience.When he looked up again, the old man's eyes flickered.

"Old man, will you come here tomorrow?" A woman asked, she wanted to take her children to watch the performance tomorrow.

"Ah?... I won't be coming, today is the last performance." The old man lost his mind in a daze, raised his hand and touched the monkey's head, "The last performance..."

The woman who asked the question made a disappointed voice, but she didn't lose it for long.Putting the money into the bowl, she hurried away.

After the performance, the onlookers gradually dispersed.Most of them invested money, and the old man held the bowl and kept saying thank you.Lin Xia and the others also invested money, but instead of leaving, they stood aside and watched.

The onlookers dispersed completely, and the old man and the monkeys sat down and packed up the money one by one.From one piece to 100 yuan, there are large and small denominations.

Lin Xia looked at the vicissitudes of the old man's hands to pack up the money, with a knowing smile on his weather-beaten face, feeling sad.The life of monkey entertainers is not easy, and their income only comes from the rewards of the audience. Today's income should be the best time for the elderly during this time.

"Wow!" Dad, performing arts can make a lot of money!Bai Tuanzi flicked his tail, thinking that performing arts was the right choice.He saw that the old man had 100 yuan and 50 yuan, a lot of money.

"It's not so easy to make money. It's hard work. Not only does it take a long time to train, but you also have to travel around." Lin Xia knew Bai Tuanzi's thoughts and wanted to dispel his thoughts.

"Aww?" Why does the entertainer run around?Bai Tuanzi was puzzled, he thought that performing arts was just performing in one place.

"Because the audience will get tired of watching it, and no one will pay at that time, so I will go to perform in different places." Lin Xia said concisely.

"Aww!" Oh, An An understood!Bai Tuanzi has a strong comprehension ability, and he understood as soon as Lin Xia explained it. "Wow!" Then An An stopped performing arts, An An didn't want to leave her father!

"So cute." Lin Xia laughed and patted Bai Tuanzi's head.

"I want to take a photo with the monkeys!" Mengzheng girl's heart is overflowing, and she wants to take pictures and post news when she sees everything.

"Go and ask." Liu Shihuan rolled his eyes and said.

"Okay." After the old man packed up the money, Mengzheng went up to tell the old man, and the old man agreed.With a wave of Meng Zheng's hand, Liu Shihuan and Wang Ziyu both went up.Bai Tuanzi also joined in the fun and asked Lin Xia to hold him to take pictures.

After taking the photo, Meng is helping the old man pack his props.The old man was very happy and chatted with them.

"Master, why is today the last show? Fortunately, I caught up, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it." Meng Zheng said with a smile.

"Ah!" The old man sighed, his eyes were full of sadness. "I'm too old to walk anymore, it's time to go back."

Seeing a few young men listening to him seriously, the old man opened his mouth and spit out the words in his stomach like pouring beans.

"You don't know, our business is getting more and more difficult, and fewer and fewer people are willing to watch monkey shows. Besides, the control is getting stricter, and we can't do it anymore. Come out with me My fellow countrymen went back early, and I was the only one who persisted." The old man opened the mineral water bottle, and the words on the sticker on the bottle were blurred, which seemed to have been used for a long time.After the old man opened the bottle cap, he gave the monkey a drink before drinking it himself. "Our young people, no one is willing to learn this. It's good not to learn, this is too tiring, it's better to go to work."

Buskers have to travel far and wide, running around, earning hard money.Now their children can live well without passing on their craft.

The old man was still babbling, Meng Zheng and the others listened silently while helping the old man to pack the props and put them into the old man's snakeskin bag.

"Then what about your monkey?" Wang Ziyu asked.If the old man wants to send the monkey to the zoo, he can also help.

"They, you want to go home with me, and I will take care of them until they grow old." The old man looked at the monkeys kindly, they were his family members.How could he be willing to sell or give away the monkeys for so many years when they traveled all over the world together?

Only when there is a beginning and an end can there be a good end.

"Thank you!" After collecting the things, the old man thanked Mengzheng and the three monkeys, walking slowly with snakeskin bags on their backs.The farther you go from the square, the dimmer the lights.

The figures of the old man and the monkeys merged into the thick night, as if they had never appeared before.

Several people walked in silence, their hearts were very heavy, because they watched the old man's last monkey show.While this isn't necessarily the last monkey show, they already sense something is slipping away and it's hard to hold on to.

"Don't be melancholy, everything has two sides, and this may be good." Lin Xia felt that the atmosphere was too depressing, so he couldn't help but said, "The entertainers don't have to run around anymore, and the monkeys don't have to be enslaved anymore..."

It is a pity that the monkey show is gradually disappearing, but it gives freedom to the monkey people and monkeys.This kind of freedom is not ordinary freedom, but they are no longer used as performance tools.

"Wow!" Dad, An An is hungry!Lin Xia's little sweetheart, Bai Tuanzi, patted his stomach with his paws. His stomach was deflated, and the stinky tofu had already been digested.

"Let's go eat Chuan Chuan Xiang." Lin Xia smiled and rubbed Bai Tuanzi's head.

Meng Zheng heard that he led Lin Xia and the others to the Chuan Chuan Xiang shop, and came to sit down in the shop, but Lin Xia seemed a little uneasy.

"Aww?" Dad, what's wrong with you?Sitting in his arms, Bai Tuanzi felt Lin Xia's uneasiness.

"I feel like I've forgotten something..." Walking into the store, Lin Xia felt as if he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Wow!" I know what Dad forgot, Dad forgot Dad!Bai Tuanzi flicked his tail with an innocent expression on his face.

"Pfft!" Liu Shihuan smiled unkindly.

"..." Lin Xia couldn't laugh or cry, it turned out that he had forgotten Tang Yinlang.He and Bai Tuanzi were having dinner outside, and he hadn't told Tang Yinlang yet.

Lin Xia was about to call Tang Yinlang when Tang Yinlang called.

"Lin Xia, haven't you come back yet?" Tang Yinlang, who came back from get off work, looked at the empty home with confusion in his eyes...

The author has something to say: Thank you everyone for feeding the nutrient solution during this time (*＾3＾)