Undying Body

Chang Sheng looked at the backs of the two teenagers until they disappeared, then turned around and went back to the car of the acrobatic troupe to continue tidying up. The troupe leader Wu Shang handed him a cigarette from behind: "Do you want to smoke?"

Chang Sheng shook his head: "You don't usually smoke."

"The group is about to break up, so I'm a bit emotional." Wu Shang smiled, pointed at the back of Little Red Wheat who was cleaning up together not far away with a cigarette between his fingers: "These two little bastards are going to leave when they get better. He has been with me for less than three years."

Chang Sheng also looked over: "It's good that they can be together, there is no banquet in the world that never ends."

"I'm just kidding," Wu Shang said with a puff of smoke, "I've been doing this for sixteen or seventeen years. From apprentice to class leader, I've changed seven or eight groups of people back and forth. How many times I've gone, I'm used to it."

Chang Sheng looked at him with a smile: "When should you settle down?"

"I also have plans to break up this time. I haven't been back to my hometown for more than ten years. It's time to go home and have a look," Wu Shang asked, "What about you?"

Chang Sheng said naturally: "I want to go to a bigger place with a lot of people."

Wu Shang nodded: "That's right, you don't want others to notice you, it's inconvenient for a small place with few people."

Chang Sheng was startled, and Wu Shang went on to say, "I'm not wrong, am I?"

"you……"

"Don't hide it from me, I have known you for ten years," Wu Shang squinted his eyes: "Ten years ago I was a young guy and you looked like this. Ten years later, I will be in my [-]s and you will still look like this. There is no change at all." No, the people around us have switched back and forth, but I have been watching you."

Chang Sheng didn't know how to answer.

"It's okay. I've met many people over the years. China is so big and so many people have strange things. People like me have long been familiar with strange things. No one has any secrets." The man smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "I won't ask."

"..." Chang Sheng was silent, and whispered for a while, "Thank you."

"Why are you being polite, old man?" Wu Shang asked while smoking a cigarette: "Who is the kid who talked to you just now? Do you still have acquaintances here?"

"Not an acquaintance," Chang Sheng shook his head: "I met you last year, have you forgotten?"

"Last year... oh! I remembered!" Wu Shang exclaimed suddenly: "I said, why does the child look familiar? The child looks different every year. The child has grown a lot. I didn't recognize it for a while. It turned out that he almost smashed it last year." That kid in Changzi has sharp eyebrows and is not cute at all, he looks mean at first glance!"

"Don't talk about children like that." Chang Sheng thought for a while: "He said his name is Du Shaoyan, so I just returned the watch to him."

"What watch?"

"He gave it."

Chang Sheng took out the watch and showed it to Wu Shang, and Wu Shang exclaimed, "Rely on SWATCH, no matter how old a child wears this kind of watch, he must be in his teens. Hey, why did he give you such an expensive watch?"

"He said he didn't want to owe me." Chang Sheng didn't want to say more: "I won't get paid for nothing."

-

Du Shaoyan hadn't been rejected by anyone yet, so he held his breath. Unexpectedly, the watch that was given out the next day came back, and Uncle Ji returned it to him: "Someone outside said it was a young master's watch."

"Who is here again!" Du Shaoyan was about to get angry again.

"A man so tall, he's quite thin." Uncle Ji gestured, and then said, "Young master lost your watch?"

"No more!" Du Shaoyan grabbed the watch and threw it into the lotus pond.

Who is it, I don't know it anyway!Fortunately, he still thought about whether he was dead or alive for a year.

Two days later, the city called to pick him up, and Du Shaoyan felt bored and agreed. At noon the next day, the family driver drove to the door of grandma's house, and Young Master Du got into the car after packing up and said goodbye to grandma.

"Be careful on the road." The old man leaned on a cane and looked at his grandson behind the car window.

"Got it, grandma, go home, I'll come to see you next year." Du Shaoyan put his hand next to his ear: "I'll call you when I get back."

Xiao Xia kept waving at him: "Master, I will write to you."

"I know, I know, I'll write back to you."

The car drove quickly, and a cloud of dust rose up behind the car, and soon Du Shaoyan could no longer see his grandmother's house. The roads in the country are not too wide, with lush trees on both sides and undulating mountains in the distance.

The driver said while driving: "The scenery here is so beautiful, no wonder the young master comes back every year for summer vacation."

Du Shaoyan sat in the back seat of the car and said with pride: "Of course, this is my mother's home!"

The driver laughed, and Du Shaoyan said again: "This time, my dad wants me to go home and study, right?"

"It seems that the madam wants the young master to come back, saying that she has enrolled in a French improvement class, and wants the young master and the young master to attend together..."

"What madam, hmph, that kind of woman." Du Shaoyan angrily interrupted the driver: "You've only married into my family for a few years and you're treating her as your wife? What the hell is she!"

The driver shook his head: "Young master, what you said is a bit indifferent, no matter what, she is always your mother in name..."

"Damn, that kind of woman is not worthy of being my mother! It's so disgusting to be double-faced and three-faced in front of my father!"

Just as he was talking, the car drove past a man.

From the rearview mirror, Du Shaoyan saw the man's face clearly, it was Chang Sheng.

What is he doing here?Du Shaoyan thought about patting the front driver on the shoulder: "Stop."

The driver stopped the car with an ooh, and Du Shaoyan looked out, but Chang Sheng was walking with his head down and didn't see him.

This road is very remote, and there are very few passing cars passing by. I am afraid that he will have to walk a long, long way to get a ride. In fact, he can give him a ride along the way...Why should he be picked up!Du Shaoyan turned around: "Drive."

"Oh." The driver restarted the car.

Chang Sheng's figure in the rearview mirror is getting further and further away.

It seems that I am a little ungrateful, that man saved my life...

"parking."

But he refused his kindness in front of Xiaoxia, he was too ignorant, and even exchanged the watch back, and it was too shameful to take back the things he gave away!

"drive."

But the watch was voluntarily paid for by myself, and I broke the rope of other people's pendants first...

"parking."

"Master, what exactly do you want..."

But he is really ungrateful, forget it, how can I care about a country acrobat!

"I said stop!" Du Shaoyan opened the car door and stood out, shouting loudly, "Hey, Chang Sheng!"

Chang Sheng raised his head and saw him, he was stunned for a moment, then walked over quickly: "It's you."

"Where are you going, I will take you."

"Don't worry, I'll be there in a while."

Look, look, ignorance came again, Du Shaoyan pointed to the empty road ahead: "I can't see any destination in front of me at all."

Chang Sheng was a little embarrassed: "There are still a few miles, I'm afraid it will trouble you too much."

"It's not me driving, so why bother." Du Shaoyan got into the car and looked up at him: "Are you coming or not?"

Chang Sheng thought about it, got into the car, and kept saying, "Thank you, thank you, I'm really bothering you."

The driver turned around and said, "It's not troublesome to take you, but it's a little troublesome for my young master to ask to stop and drive."

Du Shaoyan scolded: "What nonsense are you talking in front of outsiders, you don't understand any rules!"

Chang Sheng vaguely guessed something, and was even more embarrassed. The driver didn't dare to say anything, and kept his eyes on the front of the car.

Du Shaoyan also felt a little lost, coughed twice as if to cover up, and turned his head to look out the car window.

The car was driving fast, and the thick shade of summer trees was reflected on the car window and receded quickly. The road on the left was surrounded by gurgling streams, and the road on the right was surrounded by small hills with many lush summer flowers blooming.

"The environment here is really good," Du Shaoyan said suddenly: "It's a good place to live here when I'm old."

Chang Sheng sat on the seat beside him and looked out of the car window: "Yes, I have lived here before."

"Have you lived here?" Du Shaoyan looked at him, "No wonder you knew the depth of the river, so you didn't tell me earlier."

Chang Sheng smiled: "I live near here, I can't see where it is now, it has changed a lot."

"There is no change in this kind of rural place. I am the same every year." Du Shaoyan shook his head: "The changes in the city are the biggest, and it looks the same every few years. Have you ever been to the city?"

"Stayed for a while, but it doesn't seem to be suitable for me." Chang Sheng said.

Du Shaoyan asked back: "Then you said before that you wanted to go to a bigger place?"

Chang Sheng nodded: "You have to adapt slowly."

The two had nothing to say when they said this, so they were silent. The driver suddenly turned around and asked, "Where are you going?"

Chang Sheng sighed: "I'm going to the town ahead, about ten miles away, the bamboo factory over there is now recruiting workers, I plan to try it." He explained to Du Shaoyan: "Thank you for your kindness about the tea garden."

Du Shaoyan shook his hand, and said in the old fashioned way: "Forget it, forget it, everyone has his own ambition."

Seeing that he spoke like an adult at such a young age, Chang Sheng wanted to laugh a little, and then held back and said, "Did your servant give you the watch?"

As soon as he mentioned Du Shaoyan, he remembered it, and said angrily, "I lost it."

"lost?"

"I can't take back what I gave away."

"Ah?" Chang Sheng was regretful: "The watch is very good, so expensive."

Du Shaoyan didn't bother to talk to him, Chang Sheng said again: "Oh, it's not easy to make money, why do you lose it, even if your parents buy it for you, you can't lose it, because your parents..."

"You're so wordy." Du Shaoyan interrupted him: "I don't think you're so old-fashioned and so rigid. If you give it to me, it's mine. I can do whatever I want with mine, and it's all your fault. You take it away." It still works, and you send it back."

When Chang Sheng was robbed by him, he didn't refute, but only laughed. In his opinion, Du Shaoyan was really too young, and he wouldn't care about him.

The car turned a corner and drove onto a stone bridge. The water flowing under the bridge was rushing, and the scenery on both sides was moving, like changing color photos.The bridge deck was uneven, and the car was a little bumpy. After a while, Du Shaoyan said, "How did you get on the road last year? Why didn't I see you."

"I lost something and was in a hurry to find it, so I groped under the water and walked away without knowing it," Chang Sheng explained: "The current is so fast that I didn't have time to say hello to you. I didn't think about it."

"Forget it, what happened in the past." Du Shaoyan thought about it and said, "But you are also very good at swimming. I will look for you later and you will not be there, and I didn't see you on the river."

Chang Sheng waved his hand: "The water quality is average, but it can hold the breath for a long time."

"I remembered...you seem to have practiced Qigong." Du Shaoyan didn't really believe in strange people and strange things, so he said half-jokingly, "Could it be true?"

Chang Sheng seemed a little at a loss, and nodded after a long time.

Du Shaoyan felt that this man looked a little shy, so he smiled: "How old are you?"

Chang Sheng seemed startled: "Huh?"

"I think you are at least 30 years old, but it seems timid to ask you a question for fear of answering wrong..."

Du Shaoyan's words were suddenly interrupted, and the car suddenly turned sharply aside, and the huge centrifugal force caused his body to slam into the door.

From the gap in the front seat, he saw the oncoming large truck approaching rapidly without slowing down at all.

He didn't have time to say anything, only to hear a violent impact.

Then came the bottomless darkness.

The car rushing out of the road lost its center of gravity, rolled and rolled down the road slope. It kept hitting the ground, and every sound was loud and heavy.

-

At the moment of the car accident, Chang Sheng didn't know what happened, but he instinctively rushed over to protect the young man who hit the car door with his momentum, and used his body to block him from the successive impacts.

He was also frightened. He closed his eyes and hugged the boy tightly, and covered the boy's head with his hands. He knew that it was a vital organ of a person and could not take a heavy blow.

The world was spinning, but it didn't last too long, maybe only a few dozen seconds.

Everything calms down.

Chang Sheng slowly opened his eyes, feeling a sharp pain in his back.He turned his head and looked at his back. The steel rod protruding from the front seat pierced the vest. He felt warm liquid flow out, and the dull pain in his chest seemed familiar. It seemed to be a broken rib. Resisting the pain in his lips, he hurriedly looked at the boy he was protecting in his arms.

Du Shaoyan closed his eyes, as if he had lost consciousness.

Chang Sheng found that there were large bruises on the palm of his hand protecting his head. The impact when the car rolled over was too heavy, and the palm did not play a good role in cushioning.

Chang moved his arms vividly and called him in a low voice: "How are you?"

The boy remained motionless and did not answer, Chang Sheng carefully stretched out his hand to test his breathing, and heaved a sigh of relief.

It seemed that he passed out, and Chang Sheng crawled to the other side of the seat. The car door was severely deformed, and he pushed the door with all his strength. Whenever he pushed hard, his chest became more painful, and the broken rib seemed to pierce his chest.He gritted his teeth and endured the pain, tried to grab the boy's arm, and pulled him out of the ruined car with his back on his back.

The bottom of the slope was soft grass. Chang Sheng leveled the unconscious boy, and then he threw himself at the driver's door, ready to pull the driver out.

With just one look, he knew it was futile.

The person who was talking and laughing just now has become an empty body that has lost its life.

Chang Sheng felt his heart sink. He has lived for many years and has seen countless bodies that have lost their bodies, but he still cannot remain indifferent.

He covered his mouth and took a few steps back. He still wanted to save the boy before he was sad.