It turned out that Wu Dalang was standing on the iron ladder and stretching his neck, and after listening for a long time, he finally heard the sound of "click, click" from the small iron gate above his head, which seemed to be made by raindrops hitting the iron door.

The reason why Wu Dalang was ecstatic in his heart. It's because he thinks that if it really rains, then even if there are people above, they will find a place to hide from the rain, and he can really slip away generously.

However, he still did not open the small iron door above him quickly. Because over the years, he has developed a habit of being cautious. This is inseparable from Wu Dalang's experience when he was a child. It turned out that when Wu Dalang was in elementary school, he often missed class, did not listen carefully, made trouble in class, etc., which led to his poor academic performance. And his father in the single-parent family has to commute to and from work every day, and he doesn't want to see this disabled son at all, so he rarely cares about him, but just brings some food back from the canteen of the unit every night and puts it in the refrigerator, so that the child can eat it hot the next day. Because Wu Dalang has been taking care of himself since he was very young, although he is short in stature, his mental age is older than that of children of the same age.

He has no mother since he was a child, and his father himself is a lathe worker who succeeded his son into the factory, and he has no education. can't tutor Wu Dalang to study at all. Moreover, this father goes to work every day, in addition to work, he plays chess and poker with his co-workers. Even after returning home in the evening, they often invite a few idle people to play poker at home, and sometimes even hang some lottery heads, so they can't sleep all night when they can't play.

However, Wu Dalang didn't even learn his father's chess and poker skills. Because his father didn't want his disabled son to dangle in front of those card friends and buddies and embarrass him. Therefore, he sent Xiao Wu Dalang to set up a small bed and sleep in the already small kitchen.

Therefore, in addition to basically not starving, Xiao Wu Dalang lived and studied very bleakly throughout his childhood, and there were no bright spots.

Children in this state are usually easy to go out and do some unruly things, so Xiao Wu Dalang did not escape this rule. Under the leadership and instigation of his friend and "kung fu teacher" Lu Wazi, he often does some things outside that steal chickens and dogs or harm others and benefit himself. And his prudence stems mainly from the lessons learned from doing those bad things.

For example, once, Xiao Wu Dalang went to the farmer's field to steal sweet potatoes under the leadership of Lu Wazi. Both of them wore rings of green leafy grass tied with branches on their heads, and took advantage of the twilight to sneak into the earth. The two people skillfully dug out more than ten catties of sweet potato heads that had just grown to the size of eggs from the ground with tools, and then put them into a plastic bag prepared in advance. They were about to leave quietly, but at this moment, they heard a voice not far away. Xiao Wu Dalang and Lu Wazi hurriedly lay down and crawled forward to climb into the bushes and grass on the side of the road. After a while, two people, a man and a woman, appeared in the sweet potato field, and they began to pull the skin pipe to water the one-third of the acre of sweet potato field.

Lu Wazi quietly told Wu Dalang that he should not be in a hurry to leave now, he must calm down, otherwise if they find out, the sweet potatoes will not be able to be taken away. At that time, Lu Wazi was Wu Dalang's idol, and Wu Dalang obeyed Lu Wazi's words.

However, it takes some time to water a large sweet potato field. The two children lay on the ground and waited patiently for a full hour before they finished pouring and left.

When the two people left, Xiao Wu Dalang wanted to stand up, only to find that both legs were numb. But in the end, they used this way of watching and stealing, and took the bag of small sweet potatoes away.

Another time, it was when Wu Dalang was in the fourth grade of elementary school. Because Sister Erya hopes that Wu Dalang can learn and progress, she proposed a reward plan - as long as Wu Dalang can pass the final exams of Chinese and mathematics, he will be rewarded with a reward for going to Erya's house for dinner for a week.

In order to be able to play with Sister Erya, and go to her house to have a few decent meals, Wu Dalang is determined to get good grades in the exam. However, he also knew that his learning foundation was too poor, and it was impossible to pass the exam at all. So, he found Lu Wazi and asked him to help him come up with ideas.

Lu Wazi has the most ghost ideas, he instigated Wu Dalang to go to the night before the final exam, go to the window to enter the office where the papers are stored in the school to steal two test papers, and then go home and do the papers according to the book in advance, so that the next day's exam can not only pass, maybe also get a good score to show off.

Wu Dalang listened to Lu Wazi's instructions. So, Lu Wazi lent him a set of small tools for prying windows into the house and taught him how to use them.

On the dark and windy night before the final exam, Xiao Wu Dalang silently came out of the house and left the noisy house where a group of people were shouting and playing cards. Climbed over the wall to enter the school alone, and then lurked outside the back window on the first floor of the school office building.

At this time, a small cold wind was blowing. In the distance, there are occasionally one or two firecrackers in the wax moon before the Chinese New Year.

Xiao Wu Dalang spotted the back window of the office on the first floor where the exam papers were stored that he had learned about it during the day. Because he was small in stature, he managed to get into the fence through the gap between the two wide iron railings of the safety railing. He took out the window prying gadget from his broken backpack, and after some trial and effort, he finally pried open a glass window leading to the house. After Xiao Wu Dalang entered this office, he first closed the window, and then used the moonlight projected through the window to look around with his eyes. He finally found the stacks of papers for tomorrow's exam lying on the table. So, he only chose Chinese and mathematics and stole one each, then folded it and put it in his pocket. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in the corridor outside this office, and the footsteps came in a hurry, and they reached the door in a blink of an eye. Xiao Wu Dalang knew that it would take a lot of effort to get out of the iron fence outside the window, so it would definitely be too late to escape now.

So, he looked around with a pair of small triangular eyes, and finally found a large, square empty cardboard box in the corner. It was probably used to load the whole school's rolls when the rolls came. Because he was so thin, when he jumped into the cardboard box and shrunk into a ball, he couldn't see the whole person. As soon as he pulled the lid of the cardboard box half-covered, the door to his office opened.

Soon, Xiao Wu Dalang, who was hiding in the big cardboard box, heard the sound of two people talking in the room, first an older elder's voice said: "Today's exam is very strict, and no mistakes are allowed." Let's check the examination papers overnight before the exam, it is very necessary to have a logarithmic number, do you say it is Director Liu?" Then a middle-aged woman's voice replied: "Principal, you are right, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." ”

Xiao Wu Dalang shrank in the box, nervous and his heart pounding. He thought to himself, "Why am I so unlucky? The first time I stole the papers, I caught up with the principal and the director to check it!"