The story of Kuaishou Liu

Everyone is a rich man of time in childhood, and even squandering it will not make him use it up. Sometimes I feel bored staying at home, or my father thinks I'm too noisy and sends me out to play, so I can't help but go to the street corner close to home to watch Kuaishou Liu perform tricks.

Kuaishou Liu is a fat man who sells candy at a stall. He has a small wooden box painted green that he carries on his back, and he puts the wooden box there wherever he sets up a stall. There was a horizontal wooden board with holes on it, and rows of cheap, red-yellow lollipops stuck in the holes. He does tricks to attract children to buy candy. The tricks are very simple and are commonly known as "small bowl spiking". A piece of silk-like yellow cloth was spread on the ground, two small white porcelain tea bowls, and four dripping red glass balls. These three ordinary props made him become elusive. He holds a tea bowl in each hand. You clearly see two red balls under each bowl, but you don't even blink your eyelids. Hey! All four balls actually ran under a tea bowl. Did the balls get through the ground? He turned the two bowls over like this, shouting to the sky and the earth, pointing his hand to the east, and blowing a breath to the west, as if there were some invisible gods as his helpers. The four little balls came and went without a trace. Can't guess where they are. This kind of magic is more difficult to perform than the magic on the stage. Only one side of the stage faces the audience. In the street magic, there is a circle of people around, and people's eyes are shooting from all directions, so it is easy to see the flaws. Once, I saw with my own eyes that he quickly moved his fingers to stuff a ball under the bowl and clasp it. I couldn't help shouting: "I saw it under the bowl on the right!" "Did you see it?" Kuaishou Liu Mingliang His big eyes flashed at me in surprise, and then he said to me in a serious manner, "No way! You have to be right. If you guess wrong, you have to buy my candy." "Okay! I said That’s right!” I saw it with my own eyes, so I firmly believe it. Confidence makes my voice very loud.

Unexpectedly, Kuaishou Liu laughed and suddenly turned the tea bowl on his right over: "Look, where is it?" Hey, why is there nothing under the bowl? Only the mouth of the bowl made a round mark on the yellow cloth.

Did the ball get under the bowl on the left from the ground? Kuaishou Liu seemed to know what I guessed. He reached out and opened the tea bowl on the left again, but there was nothing! Did the ball fly away? I saw him put two empty bowls together, held them above his head, and shouted: "Come on!" He shook the tea bowl with both hands, and there was a rattle inside. When he opened the bowl, all four balls appeared again. Inside the bowl. Weird, weird, weird!

The people watching on all sides let out a cry of surprise.

"Well, you lose! But if you lose here, you won't be fined. Just buy a piece of candy and eat it. This candy is made from pure sugar, so you won't suffer any loss if you eat it alone." I My face was so hot with shame that I bought a lollipop amidst the laughter of everyone and stood behind the circle of people. From then on, I only stood at the back and watched, and no longer dared to push my way to the front to talk too much. His tricks are truly amazing in my eyes. This is also someone I truly admired as a child.

He was only in his 40s at that time. He was still in his prime, full of energy, heavy in muscles, white teeth, red lips, and black eyebrows that seemed to have been painted with a brush. He squatted there like a standing white elephant. While performing tricks and selling sweets, his bright and protruding eyes looked around, taking care of all directions; he kept telling funny jokes; his chubby hands, with round fingertips, moved flexibly, and the four small balls moved quickly. Flickering in and out of these hands. I had a strange idea at the time: his hands seemed to be double-layered, and the ball was always hidden in the sandwich. Alas, the thoughts I had as a child will no longer exist.

This pair of extremely agile hands is probably the origin of his nickname "Kuaishou Liu". He also called himself this name, so that no one in the area where we lived knew his great name. A lot of my childhood was wasted in this simplest and never tire of folk tricks, in this mystery that has never been solved, and in his magical and unpredictable fast hands. dropped. What joy of curiosity he gave me!

Those people and things that accompany childhood will always go away with the passing of childhood. I haven’t seen Kuaishou Liu very often since I entered middle school. I just ran into him occasionally when passing by that street corner. He still performed the "small bowl spike" with such excitement, and there was a small green wooden box filled with lollipops beside him. At this time, I was already a sensible middle school student, and I no longer imagined his hands as double-layered, but I still couldn't see any flaws, so I couldn't help but stand there, watching with interest for a while.

I dare say that no matter how good the repertoire is in the world, even Ibsen and Shakespeare, it cannot make me watch it hundreds or thousands of times without getting enough.

I went to high school out of town. Once a person leaves, the childhood and youth left behind in his hometown are like a closed book. The beautiful stories of the past, the friendly characters, and the sweet and drunken scenes are like fresh petals caught in the pages of a book, and they turn into withered memories when you open them again. Who can resurrect the past? The deceased grandmother, the missing best friend, the mother’s black curly hair, the long-lost beautiful books, the lost little white cat with blue eyes... and Kuaishou Liu.

In the summer of my sophomore year in high school, I went home for vacation. One day, I saw more than ten children shouting and yelling around something at a street corner not far from my home. When I took a closer look, my heart skipped a beat. It was Kuaishou Liu! He still sells candy and performs tricks, but his appearance has changed drastically. After not seeing him for 10 years, it seemed like 20 years had passed. The appearance is close to that of an old man. Just the wooden box next to him gave him a sad look. It was badly damaged, black and sticky, and no trace of the pleasant green color it had previously had. The holes in the horizontal board for inserting candies have been enlarged by the bamboo sticks used for lollipops over the years, and the lollipops inserted in them are tilted here and there. Look at him again, where has all the flesh on his shoulders, back, belly, and arms gone? The full curves are gone, and sharp bone shapes are protruding under his clothes; his face seems to be smaller. The eyes were dull, and they lacked the spirit of looking around and shining in all directions. These hands particularly moved me - he had obviously changed his hands!

The back of the hand was streaked with veins, and there were circles of wrinkles on the dirty fingers, like an old silkworm that had shrunk after spinning out all its silk... As a result, all the mysterious atmosphere and peerless skills of that year were gone. disappeared from these hands. He grabbed two tea bowls that had been damaged by the collision, and turned them over awkwardly; the four little red balls bumped against the edge of the bowls aimlessly for a while, and fell from his hands for a while. His hands are not working! The children shouted: "Where is the ball!" "It's in your hand!" "It's between your fingers!" In the midst of these shouts, he panicked, his hands became more and more ineffective, and he was shaking so hard that he I don’t know where the balls are. No wonder there were only a few children around.

"It's in his hand, that's right! It's definitely not under the bowl!" shouted a fat boy with a bald head.

I also clearly saw that when Kuaishou Liu dunked the tea bowl, he took the ball on the ground in his hand.

This movement is slow and sluggish, and the mistakes are very obvious. The children clamored for Kuaishou Liu to open his hands, but Kuaishou Liu held his hands tightly and smiled awkwardly at the children. With this smile, all the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, like a ball of crumpled paper. He almost said in a pleading tone: "It's in the bowl! I don't have anything in my hand..." How could Kuaishou Liu, who was so proud back then, speak in this tone? These childish and serious children refused to let go and had to ask Kuaishou Liu to open his hand. How could he open his hand? If he opened his hand, everything would be over. I really don't want to see Kuaishou Liu in this embarrassed, confused and helpless state. How I wish he could be like that time because of my cleverness, I exposed his background and forced him to show an unpredictable trick, and the ball suddenly disappeared and came at the last call. It would be great if he used that trick again to let these ignorant children experience the real Kuaishou Liu! But he is old and will no longer have those beautiful years.

I walked into the middle of the children, pointed at the wooden box next to Kuaishou Liu, and said, "You are all wrong. The ball is on this box!" The children were confused by my sudden words. It's baffling. I was all looking at the wooden box. At this moment, from the corner of my eye, I saw Kuaishou Liu stuffing the ball in his hand under the bowl as quickly as possible.

"Where is the ball?" the children asked me.

Kuaishou Liu Xiaohe opened the tea bowl on the ground and said: "Look, it's right here! What, you are wrong, buy a piece of sugar. This sugar is made from pure sugar. Eat it alone. You won’t suffer any loss from the candy.” The children were fooled and stopped making noise. One or two children paid for candy, and the rest left in a hurry.

Then only me and Kuaishou Liu, who had escaped from the predicament, were left. I turned around and he was looking at me. He definitely doesn't know me. His gray eyebrows were wrinkled, his weather-beaten face and gray eyes were full of questions. It was obvious that he didn't understand why a strange young man like me wanted to help him.

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