Circus...Circus!!!

DAY1

10:00AM

1.

The phone alarm rang for the third time, and Li Lang opened his eyes.It was dawn, and the room was brightly lit.The sound of water and singing came from the bathroom in the north corner. Li Lang looked over and saw two high-heeled shoes, a blue tie, and a black skirt scattered on the dark red carpet.The bathroom door was thrown wide open, and more and higher voices poured out.Li Lang could tell that it was a woman singing, but he couldn't make out what it was singing, because the water had more momentum, and the woman's singing was half-buried and rustling, as if it was produced in large numbers when the radio signal was poor. murmur.But soon his attention was caught by some red flashes, the shimmering light of two long red dots between the hours and minutes of the digital clock, which kept beating for a moment.The first time, the second time, the third time, the time moved forward by 1 minute.

9:59.It is 9:59 at the moment.

He stretched out his hand and held the mobile phone in front of the clock. Two soft light blue light beams fell on the back of his hand, and a light pink imprint loomed under the light. It was only as big as his thumb and looked like a A seal with small characters surrounded by a large ring.It literally reads: Revisiting Old Dreams 16 years old, 2004 old man.

Li Lang lay on the bed, staring hard for a while, he felt the phone vibrate suddenly under his palm, he didn't have much reaction, just lifted his finger slightly.He didn't press pause until the alarm went off.

At this moment, a young woman's voice sounded, and she asked Li Lang briskly, "You've woken up. What dream did you have just now? I heard your phone's alarm clock ringing all the time while I was taking a shower in the bathroom."

Li Lang was still lying on his stomach, as if he was listening, but there was neither the sound of water nor singing around, and the blue light shone on his face.He was expressionless and motionless, staring almost coldly at the white wall with nothing.

The woman seemed to be expecting some reply, she leaned out from the bathroom, wrapped in a bath towel, leaning against the door, wiping her hair with a towel.Her eyes met Li Lang.Li Lang laughed, sat up from the bed, pointed and poked the back of his hand, and said loudly, "I'm dreaming of my 16 years old!"

His hair was messed up, and his shirt was wrinkled. He smiled happily, humming and looking for shoes on the ground.He slept without taking off his pants and socks.

The woman also raised her right hand, with the same seal on the back of her hand.While Lilang was putting on her shoes, the woman was blowing her hair with a hair dryer. The noise was so loud that she had to raise her voice an octave: "Old classmate! But we only became classmates when we were 17! What were you doing when you were 16?" Woolen cloth?"

"What were you doing when you were 16?!" the woman repeated.

Li Lang glanced at the digital clock and said: "I'm counting, counting to the first count!" He thought for a while and then said: "But I know, this is not the first count, it's just the first count I saw !"

He raised his head and smiled at the woman. When he smiled, he showed a canine tooth, and he was still making some small movements with his hands, which seemed a bit childish.The woman bit her lip, her eyes slid over, and she turned her ear towards him: "What did you say?"

Li Lang didn't repeat and stopped talking. The woman turned off the hair dryer and shrugged: "Let's have brunch together."

Li Lang agreed, and he went to browse the room service menu, the woman looked at him and smiled: "Will you go out in this suit later?"

Li Lang turned around and made faces at her, the woman's expression became mysterious: "But before I have lunch with you, I have to clarify one thing."

"Is it American breakfast or Asian?" Leland asked.

"Do you still remember my name, old classmate transfer student?"

"Remember." Li Lang smiled and rolled his eyes, "So, what do you want to eat? I'm going to order American style, and the eggs will be made into an omelet. You can order something else and try mine."

The woman raised her head and gestured to Li Lang. She untied the bath towel, put on her underwear, adjusted her bust, and asked, "I'm serious. Tell me, what's my name?"

Li Lang laughed, and the woman said, "You are guilty."

Li Lang spread his hands, his eyes sparkled, like a star: "Oh! How could I have forgotten the name of the flower in our class? I must forget that it was Miao Tongtong, you forgot about a little-known little person like me !"

Miao Tongtong pursed her lips, her serious energy spread out, and she rolled her eyes at Li Lang angrily and amusedly: "What's the matter with you? Last night you said you were going to send me home, why did you suddenly Send it to the hotel?"

When she asked the teacher about the crime, Li Lang had a playful smile and said jokingly, "Do you know this is not my home?"

Miao Tongtong's eyes widened: "Ah? I only knew that your father was in business before, why did he leave you a hotel?" She ran to the desk and found the hotel's note, took a look at it and threw it away. When he got into Li Lang's arms, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and said, "Oh! Forgive me for not knowing Taishan, so you are Hilton's illegitimate child who has been lost in China for many years! But no matter how I look at it, I can't see that you have any foreigner blood? !"

Li Lang giggled, picked up the note and put it back, Miao Tongtong went to bury him again: "After all, he is still an oriental at heart, reserved, it's terrible, this night is over, I think we should go separately later, it's not the slightest thing If it doesn't happen and people will be regarded as a frivolous woman who spends the night with men casually, I won't do it."

Li Lang lowered his head, and said: "I hope something happens. I drank too much last night, but I'm free now. Why don't we take advantage of it now to make up for last night's loss. Miss Miao agrees. How about next?"

"Dirty!"

Miao Tongtong picked up her dress from the sofa and put it on. She asked Li Lang to help pull the zipper on the back.When Li Lang stretched out her hand, she turned her head slightly, and said to him: "You are a hundred people, don't you just sleep with women?"

Li Lang couldn't stop laughing, and lightly brushed Miao Tongtong's shoulders with his fingers. When Miao Tongtong looked at him, he also laughed wildly, and said, "When you transferred to another school, the first time you saw you, you knew You are not a good thing!"

Li Lang yelled at his injustice: "How can you tell? I still remember the class reunion last night. At the dinner table, you even praised me for my sunny smile. Everyone was happy." He looked good and said, "Everyone Well, I am Li Lang, polite Li, cheerful Lang, and I have been transferred here since today."

Miao Tongtong sat down on the bed and said, "I want Asian style, and I want to eat noodles."

Li Lang gave her a military salute, immediately called the room service number, and ordered two meals.

"Tell them to hurry up, I have to go back to the office at eleven o'clock." Miao Tongtong said, took out her phone and fiddled with it.

"Isn't today the weekend? You still have to work on the weekend?" After speaking, Li Lang realized by himself, "There is no accountant in the world who doesn't work overtime."

Miao Tongtong teased him: "Of course you live a chic life. Young investors, heavenly maids scattered flowers, who is not chic when it comes to throwing money all over the world? I don't know what night it is, let alone the suffering of the people. ah."

Li Lang said: "Going to sea next Sunday, will I be rewarded?"

Miao Tongtong scoffed: "Jiuchi Roulin."

She turned on the TV and switched channels at will.

Li Lang folded his arms on the back of the chair, leaned his head on them, and asked again: "Seafood feast, and go fishing by the way, shall we go?"

"Aren't you already married? Let me declare in advance, I swear to God, I really didn't see you wearing a ring last night." Miao Tongtong pointed at the ring on Li Lang's left ring finger: "Drinking with a single man Post-chaotic sex is another matter, it is not my style to step in and be a third party."

Li Lang opened his arms, closed his eyes, and said in a reciting tone: "My body and mind will always belong to all the girls of the right age in the world!"

Miao Tongtong kicked him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "I believe this sentence, what did you call Lulu and Lily when you hugged me last night, they must be girls of the right age!"

Li Lang smiled and rolled his eyes, extremely frivolous, but he spoke sincerely: "You must have misheard, I couldn't sleep all night last night, how could I hug you and call someone else's name."

"Oh, sleep with me, you can't sleep all night, you can't be..." Miao Tongtong stretched out her little finger and smiled maliciously.

Li Lang smiled strangely and leaned over to kiss Miao Tongtong. The two rolled on the bed and fought, and Miao Tongtong didn't bother to change the channel. The TV screen was frozen on the local news station. The female anchor looked solemn and said urgently: "Okay, let's continue to follow up on the Chunming Road incident! According to reports sent back by reporters at the scene, two gunmen, a man and a woman who escaped from the confrontation with the police, have now fled to People's Park and kidnapped a man who was The clown actor who was preparing to perform at the south gate of the People's Park fled the scene! Now let's connect with the reporter..."

Both Miao Tongtong and Li Lang couldn't help but sit up straight and watch TV.After a long time, Miao Tongtong suddenly said: "This clown's eyes are so beautiful... I seem to have seen them somewhere..."

Li Lang didn't answer the call, his phone kept vibrating, and he turned up the volume of the TV.

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2.

"Quick!! Sixth! Get in the car!! You! Drive!! I tell you to drive now!! Believe it or not, I shot you!!"

Hu Fenglan was already hysterical. Her face, hands, and clothes were all covered with blood, and her vision was also stained red by blood.She rubbed her eyes vigorously, but to no avail, there was still a sea of ​​blood in front of her eyes.The red clouds and the red sky are mixed together, the red telephone pole sinks into the red elevated road, the red police car is pushed into the field of vision by the serial collision accident, the red glass fragments wrap the red concrete ground, the red lucky The cat hung red tassels and dangled under the rearview mirror, and its fat pink belly kept hitting the windshield. She was terrified. She was afraid that the beckoning cat would smash the glass in the next second. Flying out of the car, her heart exploded violently—exploded violently in front of her eyes, spurting countless blood.She could see hearts, one by one, the heart of a governess, the hearts of four young men, exploding, bursting, bursting forth countless fragments of souls.She saw the ghost, and jumped out of the sea of ​​blood, surrounding her.

"Damn it!" Hu Fenglan roared, she punched out, and suddenly her eyes were clear, the closest and reddest thing to her was not the freshly baked hot dead soul, but a clown's red nose.

"Damn it!" Hu Fenglan slammed the clown's head with the butt of her gun, grabbed his mobile phone on the coffee table and threw it out of the window, "Look at the fart! Drive!! Go to the small octagonal alley!! Hurry up!! "

The clown glanced at the mobile phone that fell to pieces on the overhead shelf and instantly fell apart, then turned his head quickly, gripped the steering wheel with both hands, and drove the car very fast.A line of blood ran down his forehead, and he said nothing.Hu Fenglan yelled again: "Don't take the elevated!! Get off the elevated!! Take Sichuan Road! Turn Sichuan Road to Gaoping Road! There is no road surveillance there!"

The clown drove off the elevated highway at the next elevated exit, and he whispered, "I can take you to the hospital..."

Hu Fenglan put the muzzle of a gun against his temple, and gritted her teeth: "Shut up."

After the car drove into Sichuan Road, she breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the man in black who was next to her, and carefully pulled off the black woolen hood on his head.The man's face was as white as paper, beaded with sweat.Hu Fenglan couldn't help but shed tears.

"Lao Liu!" Hu Fenglan yelled, "Hold on! Hold on! Do you hear that!!" She pressed the man called Lao Liu hard on the abdomen.The sixth child was injured and lost a lot of blood. The clothes on her abdomen were wet, and blood continued to flow out from between Hu Fenglan's fingers.

"Fuck, fuck!" Hu Fenglan kicked the car door several times.The sixth child's eyes were still half open, and there was a hissing sound from his throat. Hu Fenglan shook, and hit the clown twice: "Quick! Open it quickly!!"

The clown ran through two red lights and drove the car into Gaoping Road.Behind them came countless honking and cursing.

"Sister Lan..." Lao Liu spoke, his voice was dry, his lips were purple, he was trembling up and down, and his tongue was not very sharp, "Tiao... where is Tiaozi?"

"We threw you away! Sixth, don't talk! Save your energy!" Hu Fenglan said, two big tears fell from her eyes and hit the bloodless face of the sixth. The more she cried, the more her expression became Hate, hate anger, fierce.She grabbed Lao Liu's clothes tightly.

Lao Liuqiang insisted: "Sister Lan... don't worry about me, you go to the pier... just follow the original plan, you go by boat..."

"What original plan! There is no fucking original plan for a long time! The original plan was that we robbed the bus and negotiated with Tiaozi, and replaced it with your elder brother! The seven of us went to Thailand together!" Hu Fenglan gritted her teeth, "I didn't expect the third child to become a Tiaozi My eyeliner, I'm a teenage boy! Fuck! Fuck!"

The sixth child looked at Hu Fenglan, his eyes were cloudy and yellow, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot.Hu Fenglan bit her lips tightly, trembling all over.The sixth child said: "Sister Lan, I'm useless... Big brother... Big brother can't be saved... But the child in your belly... that's..."

Before he finished speaking, he was silent.

The sixth child never made any sound again.

Hu Fenglan hugged him, closed her eyes tightly, then opened them immediately, staring at the outside world.She covered Lao Liu's eyes and wiped her face with her bloodstained hands.She calmed down and said, "The third one is not kind, so don't blame me for being unrighteous."

She hit the clown again because she found that the clown was watching her.

"Turn left at the next intersection."

They entered an uninhabited winding path, surrounded by ruins except for abandoned factories, and piles of domestic garbage built a small slope that cannot be underestimated.The sun was shining brightly, the clown avoided the glare of the sun, glanced casually, and slapped Hu Fenglan twice again.

The clown said faintly: "Go to the hospital..." One of his cheeks was swollen, and he said, "Your belly is very big, has it been six months?"

Hu Fenglan didn't hit him this time, she reached out and unscrewed the radio station.

The news was broadcast on the radio: Five gunmen attempted to hijack the kindergarten spring outing bus at the People’s Park station. The three gangsters were shot dead by the police on the spot, and two gangsters, a man and a woman, took advantage of the chaos to take a hostage at the People’s Park. .The police believe that the robbery is related to Zhu Wanquan, who was sentenced to death by the first trial not long ago.

The clown is still driving, the speed of the car is becoming flat, and there is still a bullet hole on his head staring at it.Hu Fenglan moved the sixth body's body over, changed her sitting position to a more comfortable one, and tapped the clown's head: "Where's the certificate?"

"I... didn't bring my driver's license."

"Where's the wallet?"

"It's in my trouser pocket, the left pocket," said the clown.Hu Fenglan took out his wallet and said mockingly, "You call this a wallet?"

It should be said to be a cloth bag with a drawstring, and inside it is a pack of small change, totaling 53 yuan.

"You didn't bring your ID card?" Hu Fenglan made a gesture to hit him, but the clown shook his head and said frankly: "Black household registration..."

Hu Fenglan spat, looked him up and down many times, and tore off his red nose.

According to Hu Fenglan's instructions, the clown parked the car at the gate of a small farmyard.Hu Fenglan got out of the car backwards, she dragged the clown down too, looked around for no one, and searched him thoroughly.In addition to the previous money bag, the clown only has a bunch of keys on him.

"Poor guy." Hu Fenglan pushed him, moved his chin, "Knock on the door."

She said, and she stood along the wall of the small courtyard.There is no third person or car on this deserted road, it is surprisingly quiet, even the wind blows, it is silent.Not far away is the farmland, and a few old people can be vaguely seen walking in the field with their backs on their backs.

"Look at the fart! Let you knock on the door!" Hu Fenglan blew his beard and stared, and waved the pistol. The clown nodded, went to knock on the wooden door twice, and asked, "Is anyone there?"

Hu Fenglan looked around vigilantly.In the distance, it seems that there is a tractor driving towards here.

No one in the courtyard responded, so the clown stood on tiptoe and looked through the wooden door, which was only half a person's height, and said to Hu Fenglan, "There is no one in the courtyard."

Hu Fenglan frowned, took off a pair of handcuffs from the belt, drove the clown into the car, handcuffed him to the seat, and broke into the yard by himself.What the clown said was right, there was no one in the yard, no one in the whole house, and the house was in a mess, as if it had been burglarized.

"Damn it!" Hu Fenglan rushed back into the yard, she saw the clown standing by the door, rolled her eyes, drove the van into the yard, locked the wooden door, then went back into the house, found herself clean After changing his clothes, he took a big bag, looted some food and money, fetched a basin of water, washed his hands and face, wiped the clown's face clean, and threw away his wig.

Hu Fenglan pulled out a trolley from the corner of the yard and threw the bag into it.She uncuffed the clown and asked him to remove the body of the sixth child and put it in the trolley.

"Go get some more hay!"

The clown obediently took a pile of hay from the yard and carefully covered the already stiff body of the sixth child.

"Go, push the cart!" Hu Fenglan puffed out her stomach, supported the waist with one hand, and ordered the clown.She planned to leave through the family's back door.

The clown asked her, "Can I get something from the car?"

He pointed to his battered old minivan.

"Where is there so much nonsense?" Hu Fenglan hid the gun in her pocket, and the gun was still pointed at the clown.

The clown said, "Just one thing..."

His voice had never been high, but now it was even lowered to the ground.

"go!"

Hu Fenglan kicked him and pushed him outside.The clown didn't resist or beg again, he lowered his head, pushed the cart, and walked forward.They are walking towards a mountain.On the way, Hu Fenglan didn't say a word, and the clown didn't make any noise or say anything.

After walking for an hour, Hu Fenglan got into a small forest. She waved her fingers to give orders, and the clown abandoned the sixth child's body here.

Afterwards, they drove back to the city.In the evening, Hu Fenglan took the clown to the basement of an abandoned garbage disposal plant.

The basement was not ventilated and very hot. Hu Fenglan first handcuffed the clown to a chair fixed on the ground, and then found two chains to tie him up firmly.It took her a lot of effort to do this, and she was sweating a lot.After she was done, she sat down in front of the clown panting. There were boxes of mineral water and compressed biscuits in the basement.Hu Fenglan opened a bottle of water, took two sips, stuffed biscuits into her mouth, and swallowed them with water.She looked at the clown, and the clown still didn't say a word, just looked at him, his eyes were undisguised, and he looked at her naked.

Hu Fenglan asked him, "What's your name?"

"I'm a poor man, my parents are gone, and I have no relatives who are willing to pay the ransom for me." The clown said that he also sweated a lot, and his bangs were wet and stuck to his forehead.

Hu Fenglan stood up, walked over and slapped him.The clown's head turned to one side, revealing his snow-white neck.Around his neck was a thin red string.

Hu Fenglan grabbed his chin and poured water into his mouth.

"I asked you, what's your name."

The clown was choking on the water and coughing, and managed to recover, his face and eyes were red from the violent coughing.He said: "The willow of the willow, the dew of the dew."

Hu Fenglan touched her round pregnant belly, and sat back. The only light source in the entire basement was at the clown's feet—a chandelier on the ground with only three light bulbs shining. The crystal decoration was already broken.The fair-skinned clown was shrouded in a dim yellow light, which looked like a crocodile with its mouth wide open.The clown sits on the tip of the crocodile's tongue.

Hu Fenglan took a sip of water in a gentle manner.

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3.

Liu Lu parked the car on the side of the road, and before getting out of the car, he looked in the mirror, and there was a greasy and funny face in the mirror, a face like whitewashed walls, an exaggerated red nose, and two lips like sausages , plus a rainbow-colored curly hair, it is indeed a standard clown image.Liu Lu glanced at the time, and calmly put on a colorful costume over her clothes.He was halfway through when someone called, and a series of numbers popped up on the display, and Liu Lu turned on the speakerphone.

"Where are you?" It was a man who asked, with a strange tone, and a singing voice could be heard vaguely in the background.

"It's People's Park."

"What time is the end of work?" Before Liu Lu could answer, a hoarse voice suddenly came out from the other end of the phone, shouting, "You must come for the hot pot at noon! Teacher Xiao is back from Thailand! Damn, he fixed that Two big waves! Fuck me, Liu Lu, let me tell you..."

"Give me the phone number, come on, I know you're thinking about it and you've got two big troubles, Liu Lu and I have serious business!"

The two men chattered for a while, then there was a sudden silence, Liu Lu looked at the phone screen and yawned.No one spoke on the phone, Liu Lu huddled on the chair, propped her chin up and played with the lucky cat hanging on the rearview mirror boredly.

"Hey, is Liu Lu still there? Is she still there?" Finally, the man with yin and yang eccentricity spoke up again.At this time, there was a lot of silence behind him, and there was no noise at all.

"You said."

"I just came out of the warehouse. I've already fed it. I don't need to feed it today. The water pipe has also been repaired. Next time, don't take a bath by the river."

Liu Lu drooped her eyelids and touched the hem of her trousers, and said after a while: "There's nothing else, then I'll hang up first."

"Hey, come over for lunch! Don't forget!"

Liu Lu looked at the clown in the rearview mirror, blinked, took out a lipstick from the car, wiped it on her lips vigorously, and said, "I'll bring some fruit over there."

"Fruit is fine, bring some herbal tea, pass by Yaoji, bring a bottle of 24 Flavors."

Liu Lu agreed to come down, the phone was turned off, and he rolled down the car window for some ventilation. It was the hot and humid season, and the car was very stuffy.Unexpectedly, a few children at the gate of the park saw him and immediately rushed towards him, crowding at the window to beg for things from him.

"Give me one! Give me one! I want the purple one. Last week you agreed to keep the purple one for me!" A girl stretched her neck and stretched her hand into the car, almost hanging from the window up.Another boy asked him for a puppy folded out of a balloon, but he tugged at his sleeve and refused to let him go, tearing his collar open.Liu Lu pursed her lips, the clown's makeup made him look like he was smiling, and he would give the children whatever they wanted.

An adult rushed over to take his child away, and began to criticize: "Why are you in a hurry, wait until uncle clown gets out of the car, how can anyone ask others for things like this."

Liu Lu made a gesture before getting out of the car. Two gunshots came from a distance, and everyone was startled. Then there were several more gunshots, and a wave of panicked people poured into the park entrance. square.

"Killed! There is a gun!!"

"There are guns!"

"Run away!"

"Help! Help!"

The adult picked up the child and fled quickly, while Liu Lu followed the direction where the crowd was coming. The fleeing people seemed to be running from the bus station.

Liu Lu stared blankly, at this moment, his cell phone alarm rang loudly, and he got out of the car in a clever way.Many people bumped into him, some fled with their heads in their arms, some shouted for help, and some cursed.Liu Lu took a small step forward, and he saw a pregnant woman covered in blood rushing out of the crowd.She had a gun in her hand, and a group of policemen followed her. She was still turning around and shooting, and the police also fired. The scene was extremely chaotic. A young man wearing a black mask blocked a shot for her and fell to the ground instantly.

"Little Six!" the woman shouted, her blood-stained hair was flying in the wind, and her eyes were flying wildly.

Liu Lu was still standing there, the woman's eyes swept over him, flew around in a panic, and finally turned back to him.She saw him, a clown in the crowd standing stiffly or lying on the ground, or running in all directions.The body is colorful and the eyes are dark.

"You! Get in the car!!"