"Hello sir, I want to ask you, is this Dayangtun Village?" At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the first person in the village to see this cyan Tang costume was the owner of a small store near the entrance of the village. At that time, the dress flashed in front of the window of the commissary, and the person wearing it bought a bottle of mineral water for one dollar in a kind and polite tone. He then asked the question with a smile. "Yes, our village is called Dayangtun. The boss replied. "Then I would like to ask, is there a cultural propaganda agency in the village?" "Institution? If you want to say that the institution is ......" "Oh, similar to a cultural station. "Ah, that's there!" the boss pointed in the direction of the village committee, "go over there, in the compound of the village committee." "Oh, village council, thank you. Is there a village official in charge of cultural propaganda?" "Yes, just go into the compound and talk to the communication room, and just look for him." "Okay, thank you, sorry for the excuse. When the man turned to leave, the boss saw that he was walking unhurriedly, steady and graceful, to use a word in the shampoo advertisement posted on his window, it was really "elegant".

The village official in charge of cultural propaganda affairs in the new village committee of Dayangtun is named Li Jinming, and speaking of which, he is also Kong Jinxing's cousin, and Dajinxing is 17 years old. However, despite being close to Jin Xing, he looked down on Chang Jinzhu's family from the bottom of his heart, when he heard that Jin Xing was going to marry, he once said to his parents that this was "sending sheep into the tiger's mouth", but his outsider's opinion could not play a decisive role in this marriage, and his parents did not tell Jin Xing's family what he said.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, when he reached the age of middle school, he went to a key middle school in the city as a boarder. There, he excelled in his grades and made rapid progress, and after the college entrance examination, he was admitted to a university in the south. It can be said that in the ten years between the ages of 15 and 25, he spent several times more time outside than he stayed in Dayangtun. He majored in archaeology in college, but he never found a place for it after graduating. He also tried to do business with acquaintances, but without success. Later, his parents told him that the village primary school needed teachers, so he left the south and returned to his hometown, where he worked for 14 years.

In the past fourteen years, Li Jinming has not had the opportunity to transfer away, Jin Xing's grandfather has entrusted him with a relationship, and Jin Xing's mother, who has entered the officialdom, also had the idea of pulling this cousin into the agency, but in the end, Li Jinming politely refused. After many years of living abroad, his horizons were broader than those of ordinary villagers, and soon after returning to the village, he witnessed the reckless actions of Chang Jinzhu and his henchmen. He saw through the face of their soil emperor, and was quite disdainful of the "emperor" and his "minions", but they had the final say in this village, and he had to close the door and scold him if he was angry. Chang Jinzhu and his gang's long-term control of Dayangtun Village made Li Jinming form an idea: There is no hope for the children of Dayangtun Village to stay in the village, unless you are a close relative or friend of Chang Jinzhu. If we want to let the next generation and even the next generation born and raised in this poor village live a good life, the only way is to let them follow the path of their own, through study, pass the examination to win the opportunity to change their fate, leave Dayangtun Village, break outside, and break into a broader world. This kind of thinking has given him a sense of teaching and helping others, and he is eager to cultivate students' self-motivation, stimulate their enthusiasm for learning, and lay a good foundation for them to practice his ideas in the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination. Such thoughts and complexes are the biggest source of motivation for him to stick to this mountain village primary school.

Indeed, some of the students he taught were admitted to universities and stayed in other places to start a new life. Unfortunately, more children have not completed junior high school, or even dropped out of school just after graduating from the sixth grade of primary school to go out to work. This way of "going out" was completely different from what he envisioned, which caused him to be extremely distressed. What made him even more distressing happened when he was about to start his 15th teaching career: due to financial difficulties and poor facilities, the primary school in Dayangtun Village had to be closed. The closure of the primary school means that for the children in Dayangtun Village who are still willing and able to receive education, it means that they will have to take more detours to study in schools in neighboring villages in the future, and for Li Jinming, it means that they have lost their jobs. He did not have a teaching qualification certificate in Dayangtun, and he taught Chinese, and his major was obviously not right, so he relied on his memory of the knowledge he had in primary and secondary school and his self-"recharge" after teaching to prepare the class. It was these two points that made him turn away from some formal schools when he applied for a job after losing his job. Even if he wanted to pick up his profession to teach history, these schools would not be able to provide him with opportunities, after all, mathematics and English are the focus in primary school, and history, there are already one or two teachers in the school, which is enough.

At this time, Jin Xing's grandfather's health and influence are getting worse and worse, and it is unrealistic to run errands for him again, he also feels that he is old, and it is too troublesome to take this and that certificate, so he simply chose to "play guerrilla" in several nearby schools, become a temporary substitute teacher, do some odd jobs and mix some money to support his family, and the days of a few years will come down like this.

With Chang Jiucheng becoming the secretary of the village party committee, Li Jinming's situation has improved. "Lao Jiu" knew his character, understood that he was one of the few people in the village who did not look at Chang Jinzhu squarely, and sympathized with his plight, so he appointed him to an idle post in charge of the cultural work of the village, which was regarded as allowing him to have a bowl of official rice to eat. However, Li Jinming is not a person who is content with idle meals, he would like to make a career in this professional position, but unfortunately the villagers are not interested in cultural activities other than playing cards. In addition, the "old nine" is not prepared to pay close attention to cultural work at this stage. "'The economic base determines the superstructure,' Marx said. Only when we have enough food and drink can we have the heart to write poems and paintings, so we must first do a good job in economic work to make the villagers rich. Cultural matters can be put off for a while. "Lao Jiu" said like this, and Li Jinming had no choice but to press his ambition for the time being.

Today, the secretary of the "Old Nine" has not come back from going to town, and I heard that he will not go back until five o'clock in the afternoon. For Li Jinming, this seems to be another leisurely day, after lunch, to see if there is nothing wrong, he makes a cup of green tea, sits down and opens a book of "Twenty-five Historical Stories" published by an unknown publishing house. was seeing "Huang Taiji Counter-Murdering Yuan Chonghuan", someone knocked on the door outside, he said "Please come in", but he saw a middle-aged man wearing a shiny Tang costume and a white face. The middle-aged man bowed his head slightly and said, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Li Jinming, who is in charge of cultural work in this village?" "Oh, I'm Li Jinming. Li Jinming sensed that this person's temperament and conversation were extraordinary, so he hurriedly put down the book in his hand and got up to greet him, and observed it in a few seconds. This man is about 1. At 75 meters tall, he has a very short haircut, a standard oval head, a wide forehead, and a long face. His eyebrows were thick and had a look of grace when he was raised lightly, and his bright, eyes hidden behind his gold-rimmed glasses shone with wisdom. He wore a thick moustache above his thick lips, not sure to indicate a certain style or to make it impossible to tell how old he was. His big rough hands naturally crossed in front of his lower abdomen, and with his indifferent expression, he showed an elegant reserve.

"What's the matter with you?" asked Li Jinming. "Oh, there's something I'd like to ask you about the history of the local culture. "That'...... Then please take a seat. Li Jinming invited him to sit opposite him, and took out a disposable paper cup to pour water for him, "What do you call it?" "Oh, the contemptible surname is Ou, and the name is Luochuan." "Ah, you're Ou Luochuan...... Mr. Ou?" "Oh, exactly. Ou Luochuan, who sat down, still crossed his hands in front of his lower abdomen, "Could it be that Mr. Li has heard of it?"

Li Jinming hurriedly took out the bag of green tea from his cabinet, put some tea leaves into the paper cup, and then put the water back into it. "Of course I've heard of it...... It's like thunder. You're a big cultural person. Speaking of this, Li Jinming suddenly stopped, thinking: Ou Luochuan's article is very famous and often published in the media, but I have never seen him appear on TV. Such a big man came to us, don't be a liar pretending to be here, right?

The person who called himself Ou Luochuan seemed to see his doubts, flipped his right hand leisurely, took out a business card from his jacket pocket, and handed it over with both hands: "Oh, Mr. Li has won the award." This is a contemptible business card, please ......" Li Jinming took the business card with both hands, glanced at it, and saw that it not only contained his phone number, MSN and email address, but also the address of his blog, Weibo and personal homepage. The address of the blog and Weibo seemed to match what he saw on the Internet, but there was only text on them, no photos. This is the first time I have known about such a personal homepage.

Li Jinming decided not to show his face. "I've wronged you, Mr. Ou, we don't have any good tea here, this is what I like to drink, you can taste it." "Oh, Mr. Li is polite, in fact, I don't know much about tea. I have read several of your articles on traditional culture, about inscriptions, ceramics, ancient architecture, on the Internet, in newspapers and magazines, and there are ......" "Oh, wait a minute. Mr. Li, I have never studied ceramics, let alone published articles on this subject. The inscriptions and architecture you just mentioned are my main research directions. "Ah, yes, yes, yes, I misremembered, there are no ceramics. Li Jinming took a sip of his cup of tea, which was a little cold, and said, "Mr. Ou, you came here and said that you have something to ask, what is the matter?"

What Li Jinming didn't expect was that Ou Luochuan suddenly changed the dialect of the northwest region of Hebei and said to him: "Oh, Mr. Li, I don't hide it, I came to learn about the local local history and cultural history, because ...... I'm here to find my roots. "Roots?" Li Jinming was taken aback. "That's right. Ou Luochuan waited for the look of surprise on Li Jinming's face to subside slightly, and continued to say calmly in the local dialect, "I told you today, please keep it secret for me." My father told me that our Ou family ancestors lived here, and they had accumulated a certain amount of family business, and they moved to another place to escape the war during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, the written records and physical objects left in the family are not enough to confirm this statement. Therefore, I would like to come here for myself to do a thorough investigation to find out if the roots of my Ou family are here. ”