Chapter 18
At five o'clock in the morning, Li Zhuiyuan raised his head, sat up, leaned on the chair, and half-opened his eyes.
This posture was maintained until half past five. As the senses gradually recovered, my head began to feel dizzy, my pupils refocused, and my consciousness began to return.
Li Zhuiyuan pressed his forehead with both hands and kneaded it slowly.
He didn't know how he fell asleep, or even when he woke up.
After waiting for another quarter of an hour, Li Zhuiyuan took a deep breath and looked at the desk. He found a pool of blood there, and the homework book he was doing calculations on was also stained red.
Looking across the horizontal bars above, Li Zhuiyuan felt a stabbing pain in his brain and immediately closed and buttoned the homework book.
He gradually recalled that before he lost consciousness, he seemed to be reading his fortune?
It seems that you can't count yourself.
After looking up at the time, Li Zhuiyuan stood up and started cleaning the table. Then he picked up the washbasin and took a bath, washing and drying his blood-stained clothes.
After cleaning up, he did not go back to the house, but sat on the wicker chair on the terrace for reading.
The cool morning breeze kept blowing on his face, making him regain some vitality, although his head still felt a little uncomfortable.
The lights in the bedroom in the east room were on, and through the window, a petite figure could be seen sitting, with an adult figure combing her hair next to her.
It turns out that Ali wakes up so early every day.
As I watched, the figures reflected in the window disappeared, and the sky was in its final gray-dark stage.
The door to the east room was opened, and the girl walked out of the room, holding a small wooden Go box in her arms.
She raised her head and saw Li Zhuiyuan sitting outside the bedroom on the second floor. The two looked at each other.
Soon, Qin Li came to Li Zhuiyuan and sat down on the small bench.
She didn't spread out the oil-paper chessboard like she did in the past, but looked at the boy.
After a while, Li Zhuiyuan found a warm and soft little hand taking the initiative to hold his hand.
Maybe the girl knew that every time he held her little hand, she could feel calm and comforted, so this time she took the initiative to hold his hand, hoping to give him equal treatment.
The boy and the girl just sat holding hands, looking at the rice waves swaying gently in the morning breeze in front of them, and watching the gray in the sky gradually give way to the morning light.
Time passes very slowly, but time passes very quickly.
"A sneeze!"
Li Sanjiang walked out of the bedroom and sneezed.
He turned his head and looked at the boys and girls sitting side by side. He suddenly thought of the boys and girls under the seat of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the New Year paintings.
It’s not that they are similar, but the exquisite appearance of these two children is exactly the same as the rounded lines of the boy and girl in the New Year paintings.
Li Sanjiang sniffed and rubbed it with the back of his hands. He had noticed recent changes in himself. He used to think that it was good to be alone and then walk away in a leisurely manner. Unexpectedly, due to the appearance of Xiao Yuanhou, Lin Lao, It really allowed him to find the happiness of having a grandson in his old age.
Aunt Liu called for breakfast.
Breakfast was extra early today because Li Sanjiang and Li Zhuiyuan were both going out.
Breakfast is not porridge, but boiled instant noodles and three delicacies Yi noodles.
Aunt Liu also nested an egg under each noodle bowl.
The noodles were delicious. Li Zhuiyuan didn't feel hungry at first. After eating a few mouthfuls, he felt as if ice cubes had completely melted in his body. He finished the bowl quickly.
Aunt Liu went to order another bowl for Li Zhuiyuan and brought it over.
After finishing the second bowl of noodles, Li Zhuiyuan felt that he was completely free from the aftereffects of his fortune-telling last night.
"Do you want more?" Aunt Liu asked.
"You're full, Aunt Liu."
Next to her, Qin Li also put down her chopsticks. She ate noodles slowly because she always sucked the same length of noodles, then bit them off, chewed them and swallowed before taking a second bite.
Li Sanjiang also finished eating, smashed the food and said:
"To be honest, this instant noodles is not as delicious as the Yangchun noodles in the restaurant in our town. Add some lard, soy sauce, pepper, and sprinkle with chopped green onions. It will be much more beautiful than this."
Aunt Liu echoed: "That's true."
If other adults say this, they are probably trying to save money by belittling the goodness of instant noodles and not buying them again.
But this does not exist for Li Sanjiang. The destruction of a batch of paper bindings almost broke the cash flow in his hand. This shows that he really does not save any money and spends whatever money he earns on daily life, especially In terms of eating and drinking.
In fact, in today's vast towns and villages, being able to have instant noodles for breakfast is a luxury that can make the children next door cry with envy.
Some provinces and regions have gradually developed instant noodles into local specialty delicacies, such as instant noodles with meatballs and poached eggs.
Li Sanjiang picked up his luggage, stamped his feet, and prepared to set off.
His luggage was extra long because he also put the mahogany sword in it. Since the mahogany sword helped him kill the corpse demon last time, he cherished it even more.
He also went to the village committee to call the manufacturer, thinking of purchasing another batch of goods, but he was not expected to be told that the furniture factory had been converted from state-owned to private, and the mahogany sword production line had been stopped long ago.
Now, the one in his hand has become out of print.
Li Weihan and the others came, each pushing a cart with baskets and tools on top.
"Uncle Sanjiang."
"Uncle."
"Master."
The four uncles all behaved well in front of Li Sanjiang, because Li Sanjiang was not used to them on weekdays. Whenever he saw them, he would directly scold them as white-eyed wolves, which made them have to take a detour when they saw Li Sanjiang in the village.
Pan Zi and Lei Zi happily ran to Li Zhuiyuan right away. Li Zhuiyuan couldn't stay at grandma's house these days, and they also missed many opportunities to get together.
"Let's go!"
Li Sanjiang patted his trouser legs, then took Li Zhuiyuan's hand and followed Li Weihan and others out.
Qin Li watched Li Zhuiyuan leave. She had already known that Li Zhuiyuan was going out today, but after seeing him leave, she slowly lowered her head and her eyes fell on the noodle bowl that Li Zhuiyuan had just finished.
Liu Yumei immediately winked at Aunt Liu, who stepped forward, put away the bowls and chopsticks and washed them.
Immediately, Uncle Qin came back with a large bundle of bamboo, threw it on the dam, and clapped his hands.
Liu Yumei sat next to Qin Li and said with a smile: "Ali, I asked Ali to make you a wicker chair like Xiao Yuanhou's. What do you think?"
Qin Li didn't respond.
Liu Yumei pursed her lips and said to Qin Li: "You should seize the time these two days to make two identical new rattan chairs, suitable for children to sit on."
Qin Li nodded.
Qin Li raised her head,
Not obviously, but she was definitely happy.
……
On the roadside at the entrance of the village, an old-fashioned bus drove over without waiting.
At this time, township buses did not have platforms or fixed stopping points. Although they were managed with licenses, they were generally privately contracted. They would stop when they saw people waiting for the bus on the roadside, and passengers could ask to get off at any time.
Li Sanjiang wanted to give Xiao Yuanhou a few more words, but the car came too fast, so he had to get in the car first. After the car drove away, Li Weihan picked up Li Zhuiyuan and put him in his uncle Li Sheng's cart. Let him sit.
Then, everyone walked along the road together, and within a short time, they caught up with the team from Siyuan Village.
Basically, they are all male laborers of the same age in the village, and there are not many women. This is also because the vigorous river diversion project has come to an end, and the amount of labor and working hours required have been greatly reduced.
In the past few decades, at certain times of the year, almost all rural areas of Jiangsu, men, women, old and young, had to carry tools and be organized to build embankments where there was a river nearby, and reservoirs where there was no river.
Sometimes when we catch up with key project competitions, we will be organized to distant places to work together.
In the middle of winter, the wind was biting, and there weren’t many engineering equipment that year, so we basically relied on manpower.
Everyone within the appropriate age range had to participate; at that time, the construction period was long, and it took a long time to eat and live on the construction site, bring your own dry food, and build your own shed.
I don’t know how many old people have suffered from diseases due to the hardships of carrying rivers in those years.
Uncle Li Sheng smiled and said: "I still remember the hardships when I was a kid, when I went to fetch the river with my parents. At that time, my dad also liked to tell us that if we didn't study hard, we would have to keep fetching the river, haha. ”
The three uncles next to him all laughed.
The second uncle, Li Zheng, said: "In the end, all my father's words were in vain. Our brothers didn't have the brains to study at all, and in the end, only my little sister did it."
The third uncle, Li Xiong, nodded and said: "That's right, my mother was biased when she was giving birth, and all her good brains were left to my sister."
Li Weihan pretended to be angry and laughed and scolded: "What the hell are you guys farting? If you can get into school, can I help you with my teeth?"
Everyone laughed again and exchanged playful jokes.
Everything seems to have returned to a long time ago.
The four people, led by their parents, went to work together to pick up the river. The same thing happened along the way.
This is probably the reason why Li Weihan is so concerned about this river challenge. His sons have already started their own families, and they are also the fathers of several children. They usually take care of their own small families, so some friction and discord are inevitable.
It was only at this time, when everyone was carrying tools and pushing carts, that they were all alone, that we could find those emotional memories from the past.
However, this warm relationship is destined not to last long. Families with many children who are not well-off will basically face the same problem. They can only wait until life is better in the future and everyone is older before they can let go. Those calculations and grudges really brought back the affection and admiration of family.
Of course, it is also possible that they will never let go of each other for the rest of their lives, and the brothers will never interact with each other until they die.
The team kept walking forward, and the uncles kept introducing Li Zhuiyuan and Pan Zileizi to what they saw on the road.
“This embankment was built by us back then. We were still young at that time and could only help transport soil at the back.”
"We also built this reservoir at the beginning. It was so cold at that time that it was frozen."
"We dug this trench too, when Lei Zi and Pan Zi were still young, hahaha."
Following their introduction, Li Zhuiyuan, who was sitting in the car, kept looking around. He was a little touched in his heart. He originally thought that many facilities that should exist as a matter of course turned out not to exist as a matter of course.
Today, the water conservancy facilities in almost every village are the best imprints of the engineering projects of that era, which are coming to an end. They are the crystallization of the sweat and dedication of the vast number of workers carrying them on their shoulders.
The team from Siyuan Village continued to merge with teams from other villages as they marched. The team began to grow larger and larger, and gradually they could no longer see the end or the end.
The village leader will carry a flag with the name of the village written on it, while the township leader will carry a larger flag and hold a loudspeaker.
The flag is old, the words on it have been mottled and peeled off, and even the large, unpowered loudspeaker has long been rusty. However, now they only have some symbolic function. The habits and consciousness developed over decades have long been engraved. into the hearts of generations.
Li Weihan's tools were shared among his sons, and he was able to light up a hookah in a leisurely manner. The smoke gradually made his vision blurred. It may have been caused by the smoke, or it may be that this down-to-earth man suddenly had a sudden thought. Feeling.
He said: "I remember when we were rushing to work, the cultural troupe came to the construction site to perform to encourage everyone. I just remember that paragraph, and I don't know who said it on the stage. Anyway, it was:
If this embankment is not built now, this river is not dug now, and this reservoir is not built now, it will be left to us in the future to build. We have eaten up all this suffering, and we won’t have to suffer this anymore in the future. .
Now it seems that what he said is true.
From now on, Panhou Leihou and the others will no longer have to cross the river. ”
The uncles also agreed that life now is indeed much better than before.
The construction site is relatively far away. Teams from several towns gathered early to set off and did not arrive until noon.
Moreover, there are many simple work sheds near the construction site, including nearby houses, which have also been temporarily requisitioned to provide hot water and dry food.
Hot water can be obtained at any time, and dry food can be collected and distributed in the form of large and small teams in the village.
Everyone in the Li family sat together, eating green onion rolls, while the four uncles took out the salty sauce and pickles they brought at home.
"Xiao Yuanhou, are you used to eating?" Uncle Li Sheng asked.
"Yeah, it's delicious." Li Zhuiyuan broke off the scallion roll and put it into his mouth. The fragrance of the scallion was mixed with the fragrance of the noodles. It was indeed delicious.
"Now we are in charge of the food. In the past, when we went to the river with your grandma, we brought our own dry food. We couldn't even get hot water, so we had to cook it ourselves.
After dinner, there was no time for a lunch break. The cadres from the brigade came down and began to arrange the work sections that everyone was responsible for.
Soon, Li Zhuiyuan saw a dense crowd of people, carrying tools and pushing carts, walking down the muddy ditch from both sides, like a swarm of ants.
But it is not humble at all, but gives people a shock.
Working as a small group, everyone shouted slogans and started working enthusiastically.
Li Zhuiyuan was brought along as a casualty and did not fall into the labor category, so he would not be assigned tasks. There were many young children playing nearby with adults, and some of them were still eating rolls with flower rolls in their hands.
However, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't play with them. He followed Pan Zileizi and others to push the cart and transport the soil.
At this time, a group of young people who looked like college students came over and asked Pan Zi and others to help hold a rope and set up a mark for measurement. Li Zhuiyuan was also assigned a task, holding a wooden awl and standing at the designated location.
Beside him were two college students. One of them was measuring and the other was recording with a pen. Since they called each other by their first names, Li Zhuiyuan knew that the one who measured was called Xue Liangliang and the one who recorded was called Zhao Hequan.
Zhao Hequan said with a smile: "There are fewer and fewer projects like this. In the future, junior students will no longer have to be assigned to construction sites to do this. I really envy them."
After Xue Liangliang reported a number, he lowered his head and continued to measure while retorting:
"No, there will only be more big projects like this in the future, but our country no longer has to mobilize the masses for voluntary labor like in the past. The most difficult period is almost over, and it will only get better and better in the future."
"Xue Liangliang, what are you talking about?"
"What, you don't believe it?" Xue Liangliang smiled, "Then you can wait and see later. Believe me, this kind of project will only be considered small and insignificant in the future."
"Since it's so insignificant, what are we still doing here?"
"I'm talking about being insignificant in the future, and I'm not referring to the past and present. Nantong is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River. So many water conservancy projects were built in the past, one for boat transportation, the other for agricultural irrigation, and the third is the most important The most important thing is to prevent floods and waterlogging.
Without these infrastructures, there would be no future development. ”
"Hehehehe." Zhao Hequan laughed. He felt that the classmate he was in the same group with was a bit silly.
Data measurement completed,
Xue Liangliang stood up straight, and while reporting the last set of data, he stretched himself, looking at the noisy but orderly construction scene in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh:
"The great people are creating great history."
"Wake up, Xue Liangliang, you almost made me think you were taking a politics class. Are you secretly endorsing notes to prepare for the final exam?"
Xue Liangliang smiled and did not respond. He lowered his head and saw Li Zhuiyuan, who was holding a wooden cone next to him, also looking at him and smiling. He reached out and touched Li Zhuiyuan's head and asked:
"Child, you are so young and you are here with your adults?"
"Ang." Li Zhuiyuan responded, "Young people are also people."
"Hahaha!"
Xue Liangliang was so amused by this sentence that he laughed completely. He couldn't help but bend down and hugged Li Zhuiyuan. Then he took out a few pieces of White Rabbit toffee from his pocket and stuffed them into Li Zhuiyuan's pocket.
He thought the child was very interesting, and Li Zhuiyuan also thought the older child was very interesting.
Especially his expression and tone when he said those words just now reminded Li Zhuiyuan of his Grandpa Bei.
At this time, there was some commotion from the construction site in the distance. Someone ran towards here and shouted:
"Dig out something, dig out something!"
In engineering operations, it is normal to dig out things. Although everyone finds it novel, not many people come over to look at it. After all, they all have to hurry up and complete their tasks.
However, these college students who were assigned to the construction site were much freer after completing their tasks. Zhao Hequan immediately pulled Xue Liangliang and urged:
"Let's go, Liangliang, let's go take a look together and see what we dug up."
Gradually, news continued to spread, and everyone probably knew that a small temple had been dug out, which was about the size of an ordinary toilet.
Logically speaking, this is nothing. As an alluvial plain area, the density of ancient tombs and ancient buildings is certainly far inferior to that of the Central Plains. However, during construction operations, ancient small landowner tombs or sacrificial temples will occasionally be excavated.
However, under the special circumstances of the times, the protection of archaeological excavations must be avoided. Everything that blocks the construction route will be dug up and pushed away.
Of course, it is also because the small landowner is not big enough to deserve the attention of relevant parties, and he must at least be a small noble.
However, if it happens in places like Xi'an and Luoyang during construction, the small nobles will have to step aside because it is not too rare.
However, the temple excavated this time is a little unusual. Someone spread the news that the temple is dedicated to a female Bodhisattva. The female Bodhisattva is tied up with a chain, and the other ends of the iron chain are nailed to various corners of the small temple. inside.
The people saw that this appearance was somewhat sinister and did not dare to step forward to deal with it.
Still, two college students from Haihe University used hammers to break the chains and knock down the Bodhisattva statue.
This allowed the project to continue.
By dusk, basically every team and team had already overfulfilled today's tasks. Everyone has experience. After completing the acceptance check earlier, they can go home earlier. At the same time, they can also finish work early and arrange a place to sleep today.
At this time, the advantages of the four sons of the Li family were revealed.
They did not need to build a shed next to the river construction site or sleep on a straw mat on the ground. Instead, they occupied a requisitioned residential dam next to the construction site.
Although there is no wall around the dam, there is a flat piece of land underneath, a well and a toilet next to it, which is already a very good camping condition.
The four uncles were responsible for fetching hot water, receiving dry food, and finding hay to make beds. Li Weihan took Li Zhuiyuan and Pan Zileizi to sit down and rest.
There are several large light bulbs connected to the dam, firstly to provide lighting for the people below, and secondly, as a road sign. It is also a hot water supply point, and there is also a barefoot doctor here.
Li Zhuiyuan saw Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan again. Their group of more than twenty college students, led by a teacher, was also staying here tonight.
However, their conditions are better and they can live in houses.
Several uncles sat on the made beds and educated Li Zhuiyuan, Pan Zi and Lei Zi:
"You guys, take a good look. This is the benefit of reading. You have to study hard."
Li Weihan, who was smoking a hookah next to him, choked and coughed. Wasn't this what he often said to these four brats before?
It's almost the same scene, the same situation, the same words and sincerity.
But, it's of no use.
Li Weihan finally understood and felt relieved: people teach others, but they can't teach, but one can only teach people once. No matter how much others preach about the pitfalls ahead, it is useless. You have to step into them yourself to understand the truth, but what's the point then?
Lei Zi and Pan Zi patiently listened to the sermons from his father and uncles for a while, then couldn't help but get up and yell at some children nearby to play a paper bag game.
They all folded paper bags separately, put them together, and take turns. Whoever can knock over the other person's paper bag will belong to whom.
The older children gathered there and played fiercely, making constant crisp sounds of "papapapa!". A group of small children gathered around to watch carefully and learn the skills.
Li Weihan turned his head and found that his Xiao Yuanhou did not come over to play the game, but was sitting there with a book on his knees and reading carefully.
Li Weihan leaned his head over and took a look. He felt that the words on it were as densely packed as tadpoles. He couldn't help but asked worriedly:
"Xiao Yuanhou, can you see clearly?"
"Master, I couldn't see clearly at first, but now I can see clearly."
Li Zhuiyuan didn't bring a magnifying glass because he has now adapted to the small fonts. To be precise, after getting used to seeing them, he no longer has to distinguish the precise stroke details of these characters, but can recognize them by looking at the general feeling. Know what the word is.
He was also belatedly aware of it. After quickly reciting it with a magnifying glass, he gradually realized the author's original intention of writing such small words.
This is a deliberate exercise of the reader's "eyesight", not the visual sense, but the feeling of seeing things, the feeling of visualizing detailed things.
Li Zhuiyuan vaguely found a breakthrough. The key to the eighth book of "The Essence of Yin and Yang Physiology" is the transformation from concreteness to visualization. First, he must thoroughly understand these concepts and applications through rote memorization and extensive calculations, and then collectively refine them. Refining, the accumulation of quantitative changes leads to qualitative changes, completing the sublimation from science to metaphysics.
He could already feel that the many eyebrows, eyes, mouths, noses, ears and various faces they had memorized in his mind began to gradually distort and merge.
Although the level is still very shallow now, he has found the direction. In the end, there will only be one face left in his mind. Then when he sees the person whose face he needs to read in reality, he will directly imprint his face into his mind. Correspondence is formed.
"Well, be careful not to hurt your eyes." Li Weihan warned and stopped disturbing his grandson's reading.
Look at the grandson here who lowers his head and reads a book seriously, and then look at Leizi Panzi over there who is playing with paper bags and shouting.
Li Weihan only feels that life is a cycle. Isn't this the same feeling as his daughter and his four unfulfilled sons?
In the past, he had wondered why there were both phoenixes and four grass chickens in one nest, since they were all his own cubs.
Now he has a feeling that this story will happen again in his grandchildren.
Uncle Sanjiang once said while drinking that the ancestral grave of the old Li family was burned so that he could give birth to Lanhou. Well, in a few years when Xiao Yuanhou grows up and takes the college entrance examination, he may have to burn it again.
The college students over there were assigned tasks, which were also internships. The energy of young people was always unimaginable. They did not rush back to the house to sleep. Instead, they sat around under a light bulb on the dam and took out some of the things they had brought. After eating, we had a tea party.
Xue Liangliang noticed Li Zhuiyuan and was deeply impressed by the child. He came over with a piece of meat floss bread wrapped in oil paper and placed it in front of Li Zhuiyuan.
Li Zhuiyuan raised his head, saw him, and smiled: "Thank you, brother."
"Kid, are you a local?"
Although he was working on the river and was dirty, the child's clothes and temperament were nothing like the dolls in the countryside. The main reason was the unrestrained and generous attitude that was revealed in his bones.
"Ang, yes, my name is Li Zhuiyuan, this is my grandfather, followed by my uncles."
"Haha, my name is Xue Liangliang. Are you in elementary school? What grade are you in?"
"Well, third grade."
Li Zhuiyuan nodded. In fact, it was sometimes difficult for him to explain to outsiders what grade he was in. He only knew that when he reached the age in his class, he would automatically advance to another grade.
For a while, the old professors were tortured to the point of collapse by each other, and several very young teachers came to teach them. The effect of this mutual torture suddenly increased rapidly, and everyone was extremely happy to tease each other.
Later I found out that these exceptionally young teachers were considered the seniors of their class.
"Study hard and try to get into college in the future."
"I will, brother."
At this time, someone at the tea party over there started shouting: "Xue Liangliang, come and get ready, it's your turn to speak next."
"Coming, coming."
Xue Liangliang turned around and walked back to sit down.
Li Zhuiyuan glanced at the group of college students sitting around there. He often saw similar scenes in school.
Those big brothers and sisters are all students just like me. They like to sit on the campus lawn, play the guitar and read poems. The men also like to grow their hair long to cover their eyes.
The topic of tonight's tea party is about his future prospects. The topic was brought up by a trainee teacher, which is very suitable for his identity.
The one who is giving a speech is Zhao Hequan, a boy who was doing measurements with Xue Liangliang during the day. At this time, he has entered the final conclusion stage:
"The United States is a country where even the air is exceptionally sweet.
And my future is in the United States!
My girlfriend and I are already applying to study in the United States. We will stay in the United States in the future, enjoy our freedom and realize our life ideals in the country of freedom and dreams! ”
As he spoke, his eyes lit up with the lightbulb above his head.
There was an intoxicated look on his face, but also a pious look on his face.
When he finished his speech, the students around him applauded and cheered.
At present, the craze for the West, especially the American Dream, is sweeping the nation's intellectuals, especially young college students.
After the reform, the real gap in material life and the impact of Western pop culture are destroying the self-confidence of this generation with terrifying destructive power.
Going to the United States and staying in the United States are not something unspeakable at the moment. Instead, it is an extremely normal political correctness.
Even the intern teachers didn't think there was anything wrong. After all, there were quite a few teachers from the school who were sent out to teach. Many people were sent out and then left the team and stayed.
"I also hope that everyone will have the opportunity to go to the United States to find the meaning of their lives in the future. My girlfriend and I look forward to meeting you all again on the other side of the ocean."
Li Zhuiyuan raised his head and glanced at Zhao Hequan. He did not use "Fate Deduction Theory" to calculate, but simply used "Yin Yang Physiology Essay" to briefly predict his facial features.
The results obtained in this way will be relatively few and inaccurate, but Zhao Hequan's appearance is relatively standard:
【A rough marriage leads to a life of being alone and widowed. 】
Li Zhuiyuan fell into deep thought: However, it seems that he and his girlfriend should have a good relationship, so is he the opposite?
After Zhao Hequan finished speaking, he walked down. The next person to go up was Xue Liangliang.
Li Zhuiyuan handed the meat floss bread to Lei Zi, who came back sulking after losing all the paper packages.
Then, he closed the book and rested his chin on his hand. He wanted to listen carefully to what this brother said about his own future.
Xue Liangliang walked to the center of his classmates. He did not raise his head, his expression was calm and not excited. The brightness of the light bulb above his head hit his back, creating a halo, like the rising sun.
"My future is in the Southwest.
I majored in water conservancy, and I think that in the future, the Southwest, which has rich water resources, will be the place where I can put what I have learned to use.
The geology there is special and not suitable for the construction of nuclear power plants, but it contains rich prospects for hydropower generation. The country will definitely build hydropower stations there in the future, and energy is an important cornerstone of the country's industrial development.
I believe that in the future, hydropower in the southwest will not only meet the production and living needs of local people, but also supply support to the whole country.
This is a great cause, and I feel it is an honor to be able to integrate my future into it. ”
After he finished speaking, the students in the audience couldn't help but look at each other in confusion, feeling that a strange person had suddenly entered among them.
Some classmates who were familiar with him lowered their heads and smiled. Obviously, they had long been accustomed to Xue Liangliang's behaviors.
However, many nearby villagers who were building floors were also listening to the movements of these college students. After Xue Liangliang finished speaking, many people shouted "Okay!"
At this time, the person who felt most embarrassed was Zhao Hequan. Although his classmates and teachers didn't show anything, he himself felt that Xue Liangliang was deliberately targeting him, and he couldn't help but say something strange:
"Oh, what are you pretending to be? I don't believe that if you were given the opportunity to go to the United States, you would not go. Let alone the United States, even if you had the opportunity to go to Japan and South Korea, you would go."
Xue Liangliang asked: "If you are going to study, why not go?"
"Pfft." Zhao Hequan pointed at him, "Look, tell the truth. If you go there, you won't think about coming back. You don't know how big the gap is between us and them. This This gap can never be caught up.”
Xue Liangliang shook his head: "We will catch up. Under its leadership, we have made great achievements in development and will definitely get better and better in the future."
"But if you are developing, are others not developing? With such a huge gap, even if they stand still and give you a hundred years, you will not be able to catch up!"
Xue Liangliang shook his head again: "It's impossible. This world is materialistic. Unless nuclear fusion can make a breakthrough and achieve commercialization, the market cake in this world is destined to be limited. As long as we continue to develop, this will no longer be a battle. Chase game ”
Zhao Hequan frowned. He didn't understand, and neither did the other students, including the teacher who led the internship, who also looked confused.
"Xue Liangliang, what are you talking about? Aren't we lagging behind?"
"We are chasing, but not chasing. The better we develop and the more developed our industries are, the more cakes and markets we can grab. In the future, not only will they not stand still waiting for us, but they will continue to retreat. Will take the initiative to go both ways with us
I think that in 50 years, our economic aggregate will definitely surpass that of Japan and South Korea. ”
The students looked at Xue Liangliang as if they were looking at a fool, and the teacher couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh.
Xue Liangliang continued:
"Is this weird?
In the future, one day, our shipbuilding industry will surpass South Korea in size, and our automobile manufacturing industry will surpass Japan in size. When they lose these industrial advantages, won't they definitely go backwards?
As for what you said about staying, maybe there are indeed good living conditions there now, but staying is not suitable for me. I hope that what I have learned can have a platform to use.
And I don’t think that in different provinces in China, you may be ostracized when you speak different dialects. After going abroad, people of different races and skin colors will not ostracize you and provide you with a free platform to develop.
This is unreasonable because it is so anti-human. ”
"Okay!" "Okay!" "Okay!"
The nearby villagers cheered even louder, including Li Weihan and four uncles, who also joined in the cheers. Although they did not understand many words, out of the simplest feelings and expectations in their hearts, they felt that this student Speak happily.
Zhao Hequan was a little embarrassed and angry: "You don't understand. It's because you don't understand. You don't understand America at all, and you don't understand the true meaning of freedom."
A student next to him echoed: "Xue Liangliang, since you are so sure, you must know what you can do to make a lot of money in the future, tell me, haha."
"Yes, tell me."
"We will learn from you how to see the future and make money together."
Xue Liangliang thought for a while and replied seriously: "According to the development laws of first-mover economies, when an economy is in a period of rapid growth, its real estate industry is destined to usher in huge development.
Therefore, if you want a relatively stable investment to appreciate, you can buy a house in the core area of a big city, or even get a bank loan to buy it. ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed louder, and many people laughed so hard that tears flowed out.
Xue Liangliang sat down, and the next student came up to give a speech.
However, many students still looked at him with playful eyes while whispering to the classmates around them.
Xue Liangliang did not take it seriously and continued to sit in his seat and applauded the classmates who gave speeches.
Li Zhuiyuan still didn't use the fortune calculation, but silently looked at Xue Liangliang's face,
【Smooth marriage, long life and peace. 】
Li Zhuiyuan blinked. If the result was the opposite this time, he would be really angry.
It was late at night and the tea party had long ended.
The villagers on the dam have all gone to bed, and the group of college students have all rested. However, because there are not enough houses inside and the female classmates avoid suspicion, some boys can only make bunks on the floor outside the house.
Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan were among them.
On the dam, the snoring continued, like a symphony.
However, everyone was tired during the day, so there was no insomnia trouble and everyone slept soundly.
Li Zhuiyuan was lying next to Li Weihan, his head resting on a book as a pillow.
As he fell asleep, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly felt a little cold. Logically speaking, even if he slept outside in this season, it wouldn't be so cold that people would shiver. He was covered with straw brought by his uncles, and his body was covered by his grandfather. The quilt I brought at home.
But soon, Li Zhuiyuan realized what happened.
Probably because I haven't had a transfer ceremony with my grandfather since he was injured, so I haven't had that kind of dream for a long time.
At this time, with this familiar feeling, Li Zhuiyuan knew... that he was dreaming again.
But with experience and theoretical knowledge, he was not as irritable as before. He lay still and quietly opened a little gap in his eyes.
He saw that he was still lying on the same spot, with his grandfather's sleeping breathing beside him, and diagonally in front of him were his uncles and Pan Zileizi.
But he knew that this was not reality, this was a dream, because the strange chill was getting stronger and stronger.
If he hadn't tried so hard to hold it back, he would have curled up and trembled.
At this time, he saw a woman coming up from the steps of Bazi.
The woman was wearing white clothes with a long skirt that stretched to the ground. There were iron chains wrapped around her body.
However, the woman's exposed skin was burnt black and red. When she walked, pieces of flesh kept falling off, making sticky sounds.
After reaching the center of the dam, the woman stopped and started looking around, as if looking for someone.
The others were all asleep and could not see the woman.
When the woman was about to look in his direction, Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes completely.
After a while, when he felt that the time was almost up, Li Zhuiyuan quietly opened his eyes again.
But just at this glance, I found that the woman looked around several times, or just kept looking in this direction. In short, from Li Zhuiyuan's perspective,
He and the woman looked at each other!
In an instant, Li Zhuiyuan's blood seemed to freeze and his heartbeat accelerated.
The woman's face was covered in blood and flesh, as if it had been burned or scraped. In short, it looked like the horror of a spring opening with flesh and blood rolling around in the ground.
The only conspicuous position is the woman's mouth. The lips cannot be seen clearly, only two rows of white teeth can be seen, which makes it even more terrifying!
The woman was still staring here, but Li Zhuiyuan did not dare to close his eyes and make unnecessary movements.
But the woman took steps, step by step, towards her.
It’s over,
Did she realize I could see her?
But even though there were turbulent waves in his heart, Li Zhuiyuan still forced himself to remain motionless, and even his breathing was controlled as before.
As the woman continued to get closer, the tip of her nose smelled the smell of burnt meat, a bit moldy and sour, which was very nauseating.
However, Li Zhuiyuan was still breathing as usual, as if he was still asleep.
The woman walked up to him and slowly squatted down.
Her terrifying face almost touched Li Zhuiyuan's nose.
Li Zhuiyuan could not close his eyes at this time and could only be forced to look at her.
Looking at the rotten meat on her face, one piece after another fell down, and two pieces of meat also fell on her own face, slowly sliding down her cheeks.
Sticky and disgustingly juicy.
At this moment, time seems to be passing extremely slowly, and seconds are like years.
After staring for a while, the woman finally stood up, turned around, and walked step by step towards the central area.
Li Zhuiyuan didn't pay attention to the pieces of flesh still remaining on his face. He remained motionless, even his eyes continued to open slightly.
Suddenly, the woman who was walking was still walking, but her head turned 180 degrees on her neck and looked back at Li Zhuiyuan again.
This scene was so frightening that Li Zhuiyuan broke into a cold sweat on his back. The biting chill brushed from the back of his head all the way down to his tailbone, and then back up again.
Fortunately, I didn't close my eyes.
The woman seemed to confirm that this child was just used to sleeping with his eyes open.
Her head turned 180 degrees again and went back.
"Huh...huh..."
Li Zhuiyuan was deep in his heart and kept breathing out. He felt his head was dizzy and numb.
The woman seemed to have found the person she was looking for. She walked step by step towards the group of college students sleeping on the mat outside the threshold.
In the end, she stood between Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan.
Both of them were sleeping soundly, and neither of them knew what kind of terrifying thing was so close to them.
The woman opened her hands, and the cuffs were retracted, revealing her bones and bones. Not only was there rotten flesh inside, but there were also countless flesh maggots crawling in and out of them.
Li Zhuiyuan still maintained the posture of slightly opening his eyes. He would not change this action until he woke up from the dream.
When he saw this, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but think:
Could it be that the two college students who broke the chains of the Bodhisattva statue with hammers as mentioned during the day were Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan?
The woman slowly squatted down, facing Xue Liangliang's neck on the right side, and reached down with her hands.
However, at the moment when it was about to be pinched, the light bulbs originally hung on the dam above the head suddenly flickered a few times due to poor contact.
The woman's head immediately turned back to the direction of her back, staring at the flashing light bulb.
After the light bulb flickered a few times, it returned to normal.
The woman's head turned forward in the direction it had previously turned toward her back.
But her rotation this time was a bit insufficient, causing Xue Liangliang's face, which was originally facing to the right, to face Zhao Hequan after turning clockwise.
Her hands naturally followed the direction of her head and moved over.
Immediately afterwards,
Aiming at Zhao Hequan’s neck,
Pinch it down!
(End of chapter)