Chapter 26: The truth is revealed

The story tends to be complete and is close to the end.

We present the unknown content from beginning to end below.

Decades ago, a group of naked farmers carried loads into the city at night, carrying carrots in their loads. There were two reasons why they took off their clothes:

1. Because it is hot.

2. Because it is conservative.

Those old people who still have some memories of distant things, if they have not completely forgotten the miserable life of the past, can understand the full meaning of the word "Sacrifice".

The group of bare-butt men saw a strange scene at night: two men in black walked staggeringly on the long street, both wearing fat black robes, high felt hats, and a few yellow paper with talismans on their foreheads, hanging on their faces. There was an old man in front of him, carrying a bamboo basket and shaking a black bell. While leading the two people behind him forward, he threw paper money.

"What are they doing?" a bare-ass young man asked an older man.

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The young man continued to ask, "What does it mean?"

The elderly replied: "It's just driving the corpse. The two people in black behind are dead people, and the one who walks in front is a corpse-driver."

A man spoke, "Brother Thumb, aren't you very brave? Do you dare to snatch the hat on the body?"

The young man said, "What's the point of not daring to do this? You can wait."

This young man is Big Thumb.

Big Thumb soon caught up with the three people. He tiptoed to approach from behind. The corpse-driver alertly found him, immediately shook the copper bell, and the two corpses stood by the wall without moving.

The corpse-driver said softly: "Hurry at midnight, and strangers avoid it."

Brother Big Thumb found that there were indeed two dead people leaning against the wall, with sallow faces, closed eyes, and yellow paper with talismans on his forehead. Brother Big Thumb opened the talisman, and the dead man suddenly lived. He stretched out a powerful fist from under the robe, which hit Brother Big Thumb's lower abdomen.

Brother Big Thumb bent down in pain. After a while, he stood up and found that they had left.

Brother Big Thumb thought for a long time and felt that it was very strange. It was impossible for a dead person to walk, and he would not hit someone with his fist.

He followed the paper money on the ground and never came back.

After death, people pay attention to returning to their roots and need to go to their hometown for burial. A foreigner who dies in another place must be buried in the ancestral tomb. Filial sons and grandchildren must be moved back to their hometowns. However, people are very taboo about corpses, so there is no boat or carriage willing to transport corpses. In addition, the transportation is not developed and the roads are rugged, so they often have to travel through mountains and rivers, which leads to the unique and mysterious profession of driving corpses.

To drive a corpse is actually to carry a corpse. The corpse maker leads the way in front, and the apprentice follows behind with the corpse on his back, sleeps day and night, walking like a ghost on a deserted path or a secluded alley, shaking copper bells and throwing paper money is actually a mystery, creating a yin and windy atmosphere that makes people dare not approach it.

The corpse-driver must meet three conditions for receiving disciples: short, ugly, and bold.

At dawn, Big Thumb found them in an inn. The corpse-driver confessed the secret to Big Thumb. He claimed that his surname was Meng and from Xiangxi, and accepted two dwarfs as his disciples. These two dwarfs were Ding Busan and Ding Bussi. Big Thumb said that he would not speak out and would not make things difficult for them.

Brother Big Thumb became the third apprentice of the corpse-driver.

Big Thumb has parents, but they are orphans. His father drunk all day long, his mother remarried, and his family was not a home. At that time, he was a grass in the wilderness, no one cared about it, and his whole life was over as soon as the sky turned dark. He could have helped his family to make match boxes at the age of 14, and he had to make thousands of match boxes a day for several years. Then he married and had children, and built a house for his children. When he grew up, his children continued to repeat this endless ordinary life in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

He chose to run away from home and embark on another vast and unknown road.

The corpse-driver has a daughter weighing 240 kilograms, and she is Meng Ni. Later, her weight increased to 350 kilograms. The corpse-driver wanted to recruit Big Thumb as a son-in-law, but Big Thumb refused. He didn't dislike her for being fat, he said this: "I hate girls."

After the death of the corpse-driver, Big Thumb Brother, Meng Ni, Ding Busan and Ding Bussi, they formed a music team of Hong and White wedding events. When they encountered weddings and funerals, they would play the suona and beat the gongs and drums. There was a group of such people in the countryside when they got married or mourning. Because these four people had strange appearances—two dwarfs, one was fatter than pigs, and the other was ugly—they were particularly popular. As soon as they appeared, they attracted people's attention, so that the filial son who was in the funeral forgot to cry, and the newlyweds forgot to laugh.

This instrumental music team is also the predecessor of the circus.

After a while, the instrumental music team accepted a new member, named Han Baosan, nicknamed "Sanjinqian". He could juggle and play the flute to make a cobra dance. He had the experience of traveling around the world and performing arts. At the suggestion of Sanjinqian, a circus appeared.

Salmon coins say this when describing a bright future:

"Make a lot of money, buy whatever you want, order a table of wine and food, eat only one bite, travel every day, and have no time to play all the good scenery."

We have said before that Sanjin looks like a murderer, his small eyes are almost covered by messy eyebrows, and he always shows fierce eyes. His broad back, skeleton legs, strong muscles, and calloused hands show that he has suffered a lot. Although Sanjin is very ugly, Big Thumb thinks he is simply a handsome man.

Big Thumb hates women because he likes men.

In that era, a man and a woman were regarded as an indecent relationship. Even if a couple held hands on the street, they would be despised and ridiculed. At that time, homosexuality was undoubtedly a greater sin, an act of being criticized by thousands of people, and a huge secret that could only be buried in the heart.

If it is not considered blasphemy of love, we have to say that Big Thumb fell in love with three cents.

He fell in love with him.

What kind of pain and struggle have they experienced?

What thrilling process has it gone through from testing to rejection to acceptance?

How many dark clouds does a man have to have in mind to create and hide the fleeting lightning in another man’s heart?

They wander around the world, peonies bloom in foreign lands, and apples fall to the ground in foreign lands.

In 1980, they bought a basket of rotten apples. Big Thumb cut an apple. From the shape, it can be seen that it was not very bad in a basket of rotten apples. The apple was placed on the table and kept for three cents.

From the apple in 1980, they remained single until they died, and they had no wife and got married, but they had a son. Sanjin picked up a freak in the trash can, and he named the abandoned baby Han Shaojie. Ding Busan and Ding Busi called him Young Master Han, Meng Ni called him Datou, Sanjin and Datou brother called him son.

Young Master Han is withdrawn, introverted, and shy. The only hobby of this child is to wear a raincoat. Only when it rains or when it rains, can he cover the big tumor on his neck, and be like a normal person without being watched or ridiculed. We forgot to say one thing - on November 21, 2000, that day, he expressed his love for the first time and the last time. Before he walked into the bun shop, before he saw the girl selling buns, he asked the police to wear a raincoat for himself. Because the sun was shining brightly at the time and it was not raining, the police rejected this ridiculous request.

There were no more than ten sentences he said to her, but each sentence had a fragrance, and the fragrance spreads in the iron windows of Young Master Han after him.

There was only one horse in their circus. Of course, all the circus had nothing to do with horses. Horses were used to pull carts, tents and various props. Later, the horse died and they ate it. When the grass troupe reached the border, two new members were added: Ma Youzhai and Shanya.

Ma Youzhai can make tricks, and Shanya is a monkey artist. The main reason why Big Thumb asked him to join was that they provided new means of transportation. Shanya told Big Thumb that there were elephants in the tropical jungle on the mountain nearby. They waited on the mountain for a week and caught a baby elephant.

The little elephant pulled the cart, and grew bigger and bigger, eventually growing into an elephant and eventually died.

The elephant died and they ate for a whole winter. The elephant became smaller and smaller, and in the end they only had a skeleton left. They took out all their savings to buy a truck that was about to be scrapped. Shanya worked as the driver, and his legs were still intact at that time, and the truck was sometimes stuck in mud. He used a jack to fight the storm.

One winter, when they were on the bridge, the truck was shut down, Shanya blocked the wheels with stones, and Ma Youzhai climbed under the truck for repairs. Because the ground was frozen and the stones slipped, the truck slowly retreated down the slope. If the truck was not stopped in time, Ma Youzhai, who was under the truck, would be crushed to death and the entire truck would fall into the trench under the bridge.

Everyone shouted, in the crisis, Shanya stretched his legs under the wheel of the car, the truck stopped, and Shanya became a cripple from then on.

Later, when Shanya was arrested, Ma Youzhai asked Paozi to do everything possible to rescue Shanya.

The father and son had a conversation like this:

Paozi said: "Uncle Shanya is in prison, how can he save him? Unless he calls someone, he will use a gun to rob the prison."

Ma Youzhai said: "Then let the prison rob you!"

Paozi asked: "Why do you have to save him?"

Ma Youzhai replied: "My life was exchanged for one of his legs."

"The possibility of success is very small," Paozi said.

Ma Youzhai said: "I just want him to know."

Paozi asked: "What do you know?"

Ma Youzhai said, "I know I am not an ungrateful person."

Shanya heard the gunshot in prison and understood everything. He jumped off the building not to escape, but to commit suicide.

In the short time when he had not yet fallen to the ground in the air, the things that disappeared reappeared one by one. He remembered that they were lighting a bonfire in the snow outside the tent, and the heavy snow was still falling. They drank, Ma Youzhai hugged Shanya's neck, Big Thumb Brother hugged the three cents of arms, one was brother, the other was lover, and the circus was their home.

Ma Youzhai: "I want to worship you."

Shanya: "Are you not a brother now?"

Ma Youzhai: "We have to hold a ceremony."

Big Thumb Brother: "If we make money, go to my hometown and do fruit business with Burmese people."

Ma Youzhai: "We have a forest farm, which is full of red pine trees. You can book a forest farm and hunt."

Shanya: "I have a mine in my hometown. I used to have it, but now I don't have it, but now I have only stones."

Big Thumb Brother: "The income in the past few days is not as high as before."

Shanya: "What if there is no income? What if there is no one to watch the circus?"

Three cents: "Big, I'll be a beggar."

Big Thumb Brother: "I won't let you be a beggar, I will let you have a lot of money."

Shanya: "If we disband, then we will not see each other."

Ma Youzhai: "There is no banquet that never ends."

Shanya: "At that time, only Xiaoyanbao was with me, and you didn't know what to do."

Since the story is coming to an end, we must talk about another family member of the circus - Xiaoyanbao. The drug-addicted monkey was locked up in the zoo for several years and was eventually released to a wildlife reserve.

Also, we cannot forget the thief, the child who stole a bunch of bananas in the zoo: Balang.

Balang's mother, Guli, grew old quickly, which made her flesh and blood business plummet. Sometimes, no client looked at her for a long time for a while, and she eventually had to take Balang back to her hometown. They planted cotton and lavender. In order not to make the child naughty, Guli sent him to school. This should be a very bad ending for Balang.

When this happy elf wanders in the lavender field, he sometimes thinks of his puppy brother, the little boy named Wangwang, should have returned home!

Let’s talk about Meng Ni’s ending.

For a long time, Meng Ni felt that she was the happiest woman in the world. She was loved by two men. These two men were dwarfs and looked exactly the same. When did their love come about?

What were they thinking when they were walking with their bodies on their backs?

How does winter pass?

How do roses 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?
To be continued...