Chapter 44 eight

After the opening of Anle Township, the business was booming. After a week, it was full almost every day.The birds in the old nest in the park are eager to grow two pairs of wings and fly straight to the new nest in Anle Township, and they have added many new characters that were afraid to show up in the park before.In the park, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and there are dangers everywhere. Without the courage of a rogue, I really dare not rush into our dark kingdom rashly.For example, the group of junior college students who have never seen their hands and feet in battle, the group of children from good families, some did not even step through the gate of the park, and some slipped in, but only concealed themselves, hiding in the clump of camphor trees Just take a look.But our new nest has become a paradise for this group of children from good families. They come in swaggeringly, very safe and sure.The tone of amber lights, melodious electronic organ, and white foaming beer just suits the appetite of this group of teenagers looking for romance.They seem to come to our Anle Township to hold a junior college fellowship party; two are from Tamkang, two are from Soochow, several are from Furen, and a large group of cultures. One is strong and wears tight blue jeans and white Eddie The one who got the sneakers was a high-achieving student of the Physical Education College and the captain of the Golden Dragon basketball team.The one with curly hair and mustaches is a talented singer from the Music Department of the Art Academy.He wrote a song called "Your Burning Eyes".Sometimes at night, when we were closing, the group of college students refused to leave, and the talented singer sat on the keyboard and began to play and sing:

your burning eyes burned my heart your burning eyes burned my soul i raised my hands But holding a handful of ashes of love The sky is running out old mountain has collapsed the sea has fallen but yo my love why always Can't figure it out Indestructible The talented singer's voice was intense and mournful. He tilted his head, his long hair was thrown to one side, his eyes were closed, and his brows were tightly frowned. His cheeks were flushed red, as if he was in unbearable pain. A group of college students surrounded him, looking up. He opened his mouth, fascinated.And Xiaoyu and I, each with a broom, swept up a wave of dust from the ground.Xiaoyu kept cursing inwardly, scolding the group of college students for not going home yet, so we can close up and rest.Those college students were all paired up, and the few who were left alone probably just lost their love.The talented singer of the Academy of Arts, his lover left him for Singapore last month, he is an overseas Chinese student in the Department of Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University, it is said that he is very beautiful, and he really has a pair of burning eyes.

There is another kind of new guests, who have social status and face, and they also have wives and children.The murders and extortion in the park, and the horrors happening in the dark, frighten them back.But in our Anle Township, under the gentle amber light, these chairman, general manager, and doctoral professors feel like fish in water and feel at home, leaving behind their worries about career and housework during the day. In the new nest, temporarily intoxicated for a while.These middle-aged people with full wallets are our best customers. The master told us to be more flattering. As for those college students, three people will share a bottle of beer. Put it there, just look at it as a vase.The master laughed from ear to ear these days, and bought a Longines gold-plated lighter for Xiaoyu and me.Those wealthy guests took out a three 5, we quickly clicked the ground, lit the fire, and the golden Longines were delivered to the guests, which was courteous and dignified.So we took advantage of their indifference, and secretly filled a glass of the most expensive Napoleon for them, while listening to them pour out many complaints that we didn't understand.It turns out that these middle-aged people who are successful, wealthy, and have a wallet full of hundred-dollar bills will reveal their astonishing troubles after drinking two glasses of wine.A bald man with a big belly who opened two acrylic factories in Banqiao, He Jinfa, chairman of the board, drank half a bottle of brandy and took out most of the pack of red custard. He clasped my wrist and babbled all night: Of his three sons, one is a gambler, the other specializes in chasing singers, and the youngest has just been expelled from school.If the three sons don't know anything, they will spend the old man's hard-earned money poorly.The bald chairman was so excited that he grinded his teeth, and said angrily: "Three prodigal sons, you are evil!"I kept pouring brandy and lighting cigarettes for him, until the bald chairman finished talking about his family tragedy, rewarded me with a tip of 100 yuan, and praised me a few words in front of the master, saying that I was considerate in service.Xiaoyu is particularly active these days.Because the master entrusted him with an important guest and asked him to serve him carefully. The guest was the captain of the Cuihua of Yongxing Shipping Company.Captain Long was about fifty, about six feet tall, with broad shoulders and a big chest. When he stood in the room, it looked like a large door panel was erected.Probably blown by the sea wind for many years, the whole body is black and shiny, as if wearing iron armor, extremely mighty.The first night he came, Xiaoyu smiled softly: "The Dragon Lord is here!"Captain Dragon's head is also surprisingly big, with a bumpy face, high forehead and big nose, a pair of copper bell eyes, and a mouth with two rows of white teeth. It is indeed a dragon's head and a dragon's face.But Captain Long's men were very forthright and enthusiastic, grabbing Xiaoyu's cheeks and screaming, "Little honey!"His accent has a thick Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, very similar to how Xiaoyu's old householder, Lao Zhou, spoke Mandarin.The Cuihua is a cargo ship, mainly transporting oil, and it only takes the route from the Persian Gulf to Japan.Captain Long has just returned to Taiwan for vacation from Japan, so every night he has time to come to our Anle Township to get drunk.The master had ordered that Captain Long should give enough whiskey to drink, and all the food and drinks would be given away, and no money was allowed.The master sees that Captain Long is a priceless treasure, which is closely related to the prosperity and decline of our Anle Township.Because in the future, all the foreign wines in Anle Township can be imported by Captain Tuolong.A bottle of Red Label whiskey can save 200 yuan, and a bottle of Napoleon can earn 380 yuan. I don't know how many glasses of wine will be sold to cover this expense.Our business in Anle Township is made from these foreign wines.So the master said to Xiaoyu:

Yuzai, this person is important, please watch out for me, don't let this big fish slip away. Master rest assured, Xiaoyu smiled and said: I just hold on to the dragon egg of the Dragon Lord. Among the many old friends and new acquaintances in Anle Township, there is only one person who does not like our new nest. He misses our hometown, the eternal life pool in the park where the lotus has been pulled out, and the tangled green corals. , miss that deep darkness, a pair of eyes full of desire, like fireflies flying high and low.The art master said that our old den is full of primitive atmosphere and wild vitality, it is a thrilling and fascinating ghost zone.He concluded: Our dark kingdom is still exciting enough!The master thinks our new nest is too artificial, too vulgar, and too comfortable.The master doesn't like the shadow of the glasses under the amber lamp in the soft voice.He criticized those college students: hypocritical, complacent.The master could not find a trace of inspiration in them who had been baptized by civilization.He missed the group of wild children who fled to the park from Huaxi Street, from Sanchongpu, and from the stormy Hengchun fishing port.They are the source of his artistic creation.Master told me.He once traveled around Europe and America, and lived in Paris and New York for many years, but he finally returned to Taiwan, back to his old den in the park, because only the group of wild children in the lotus pond can arouse his desire for life , Raw frenzy.He made portraits of them and recorded a youthful rhapsody.Behind the electronic piano stand on the right side of the entrance to Anle Township, there is a white wall. The Shengmei Decoration Company that decorated Anle Township had originally hung an export oil painting on that wall, depicting a vase of red and green dahlias.The master frowned when he saw it, and said, "Vulgar!"So our master begged the master to present a piece of his own work for us to hang up, adding to the artistic atmosphere of Anle Township.The master said that his paintings were never presented as gifts, but in order to improve the atmosphere of Anle Township, he made an exception and lent us a piece of work to hang for a month.But we did not expect that the master would lend his masterpiece The Call of the Wild to Anle Township.It was a huge oil painting, a portrait of a person six feet high and three feet wide. The background of the painting was a blur of dilapidated houses, stalls, streets and alleys, and a corner of the temple cornices was inserted, a bit like the scene in the area of ​​Longshan Temple on Huaxi Street. , the time is dusk, a blood-red sunset on the cornices of the temples, painting those dirty houses, streets and alleys in dark red.In the painting, there is a boy in black clothes and black trousers standing at the street corner. The boy's body is stretched long, his hair is messed up like a lion's mane, covering his entire forehead, his eyebrows are twisted into a pair, his eyes , those strange eyes also seem to be struggling and jumping in the painting, like two flickering black fires, an inverted triangle face, and the thin lips are tightly closed.The boy was barefoot, his black clothes were open, and there was a tattoo of a strange beast on his chest.The boy in the painting has such a vigorous expression, as if he is about to jump off at any time.When I saw this painting for the first time, I couldn't help but exclaimed:

It's him! It's him.The master replied, the face of the master's mountains and rivers suddenly became sad and solemn. The first time I saw him was on the steps of the lotus pond in the park, he swaggered past as if no one was around.I suddenly remembered the wildfire that burned the mountain. It was so powerful that it burned for thousands of miles and couldn't be extinguished!I knew I had to draw him quickly, and I had a hunch that the wildfire couldn't last long, and after it burned, it would be nothing but ashes.He was very straightforward, and he agreed without asking for any reward. There was only one condition: the Longshan Temple on Huaxi Street should be included in the painting.That's where he was born, he said.That painting is one of my favorite works.

The master's proud work was finally hung on the white wall of Anle Township. The twinkling eyes in the painting, like two balls of dancing black fire, looked down on all the living beings in Anle Township with resentment.So under the amber's confused light, in the sound of Yang Sanlang's electronic piano suddenly raised, in the whispers in every corner, the ancient and vicissitudes of the myth of the wild phoenix in the park started again, in our new town of Anle In the nest, the transmission of the makeover continued.