Chapter 1: The Wedge

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In the vast land of the Central Plains, there is a small agricultural city called Zhouxiang City, the framework of the city is not large, more than 600,000 people are crowded into an area of more than 50 square kilometers, there is no big enterprise support, the economy is relatively backward, the city appearance looks dirty, a bit like a big bazaar. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Ye Ziqing, 40 years old this year, is one of them, working in a public institution that guarantees income during drought and flood, and lives a life from 9 to 5 in the morning every day. Although he is a worker and cannot be a leading cadre, with his proficient computer skills, he still gets mixed up to work in the bureau of the unit, earning less than 2,000 yuan a month. Although his income is not much, only enough to feed and wear, he is very content with the status quo.

The year before last, his wife who had been together for 10 years divorced him and took his son to another city, the reason was that he was too content with the status quo. Let's see that Ye Ziqing still goes to work in a regular manner, without a penny of extra income, and the family lives a tight life. "The child is almost of school age, and he will definitely go to a lot of cram schools in the future, I don't want him to lose at the starting line, you don't have to live a stable life of commuting to work all day long, find some way to earn some extra money!" As soon as his wife talked about him about earning extra money, Ye Ziqing felt a sense of tiredness from the bottom of his heart, and immediately remembered the more than 10,000 yuan he earned last year by running away and engaging in some commercial marketing under the guise of relationships. As soon as the money arrived, it was taken away by the daughter-in-law on the grounds of seeing the world, and she took the child to Hainan to "fly", and came back after squandering it. Poor Ye Ziqing, who has never been out of the province, stayed at home alone to watch the door, and in the end he only ended up with two packs of coconut cigarettes that the mother and son brought back to him from Hainan.

Thinking of this, Ye Ziqing was furious, and replied without raising his head while sitting in front of the computer: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, don't be far superior for your children and grandchildren, don't worry about it!" My dream has come true! Just have a house, a wife, a son, a computer, that's it. This can make the eye-opening wife angry, "wife, children, hot kang head" such a typical small peasant thought, without a little self-motivation, this kind of life can not live. The wife, who was unwilling to accept the status quo, quarreled and quarreled for more than a month, divorced him, and took his son to the provincial capital to join relatives.

In the past two years, Ye Ziqing, who has become single again, although he still goes to work on time and on time, but his heart has changed a lot, and he doesn't understand why he was still the wife of a poor countryman at the beginning, why after entering the city and having children, he has to compare everything with others, he thinks that the house is small, he has no money to buy a car, he has no money to buy jewelry, but he will look down on himself as a full city person, is money more important than character?

Because Ye Ziqing usually has no bad hobbies and has very little interpersonal communication, in addition to going to work, he basically surfs the Internet at home. In order not to get depression, Ye Ziqing will often read Taoist classics like "Tao Te Ching" when he has nothing to do, wanting to have a spiritual sustenance and be alone every day.

On October 1st, the Golden Week began, most of the colleagues went out to travel, and they had to pay their son child support every month, Ye Ziqing, who was not rich in hand, also wanted to go out for a walk, in order to save some money, he soaked in the donkey club 2 days in advance, and begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother that he finally reported a self-guided tour to Dabie Mountain. The night before departure, I bought a bunch of compressed biscuits, canned food, mineral water and other supplies at the supermarket, and because of myopia, I went to the optical store to buy a pair of disposable contact lenses for backup. Armed with these things, the double tent and sleeping bag I bought a few years ago, I set off at 5 o'clock the next morning with more than 10 travelers in Nanjing Iveco.

High-speed, national highway, provincial highway, trail, dirt road, tossed for nearly 6 hours and finally arrived at a small mountain village called Shiliwa, surrounded by undulating mountains, reclaimed with layers of terraced fields, faintly visible in the distance seems to be planted with green tea trees, the scenery is pleasant. The mountain behind the mountain village looks majestic and majestic, and it is quite magnificent from this side. Just when Ye Ziqing, who had never seen a mountain twice, sighed, the donkey head Xu Jiangang, also known as Xu Tiezhang, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hi! Dude, after this hill is overturned, that mountain is our goal, this hill is only more than 200 meters high, and we want to climb more than 800 meters. Looking in the direction of Xu Donkey's finger, there is a mountain tip on the hill in the distance, because of the angle of the station, the mountain behind is basically blocked by the hill in front.

Although Ye Ziqing said that he had played basketball before, participated in the school team, and went to Taihang Mountain with his colleagues once after getting married, he spent more time riding in the car than climbing the mountain, and this time he was with a serious travel friend. I wanted to play for real, but I didn't know the bottom of my heart, so I hurriedly asked: "Xu Tou, how many days will it take us to climb that mountain?" Xu Donkey replied: "How many days?" We'll be at the bottom of the mountain this afternoon, and we'll be camping on the mountainside in the evening. Now we all went to Lao Su's house for dinner, and we set off after eating. "Xu Tou, let's smoke one!" Let's discuss! My tent zipper is broken, can I rest in a tent with Xu Tou these days? Ye Ziqing smiled and said with a cigarette and Xu Donkey's head. Look like you don't look like someone who exercises regularly, okay! You put your tent in the car and stay in my tent at night. If there's anything too heavy, I'll be able to help you share it. Ha ha! It's been a long time since anyone has shared a tent with me! After Xu Donkey finished speaking, he put the cigarette on his ear, patted Ye Ziqing's shoulder, and happily walked towards a courtyard with a two-story building. Ye Ziqing's small abacus was halfway through, and he was stunned by Xu Donkey's words, "Does this guy have any bad habits?" Or what's wrong。。。。。 With questions, Ye Ziqing also walked towards the courtyard.

When I entered the courtyard of the Su family, I saw two large round tables in the center of the courtyard, and my teammates were sitting around the table. Because every time Xu Donkey led a group to climb the mountain, he was at the front station of the Su family's small courtyard, so their car had not yet arrived, and the Su family had already begun to cook, and the meal was ready after the car arrived, so there was no delay at all. As soon as Ye Ziqing sat down, a girl from the Su family wearing a flower sweater and two big braids brought him a bowl of rice. After thanking him, Ye Ziqing took chopsticks as thick as his little fingers, held the rice in the sea bowl, and looked at the chestnut stewed chicken in the washbasin in the middle of the table, in a daze. "Don't just look at it! Hurry up and eat! We're in a hurry! This chestnut stewed chicken is a famous dish here! The extra pork belly added to it is really enjoyable! Hurry up and eat! Xu said with rice particles spraying rice particles in his mouth. Not to mention the first time I ate with a washbasin, it was really enjoyable, I ate most of the bowl of rice with stew, with a tender cucumber, and the leaves I ate were green and full of burps.

Ye Ziqing stood up and said that she was full, and the girl in the sweater came over to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and when she saw that there was still half a bowl of rice to eat, she rolled her eyes and said, "Such a tall and strong man, why do you eat these points?" I haven't eaten much yet! Ye Ziqing's face turned red, and he didn't know what to do, at this time, Xu Donkey snatched the remaining half of the bowl of rice, and said while picking it up: "It's right, don't waste it, I haven't eaten enough." Ye Ziqing looked at the gobbling up of Xu Donkey's head, his face turned from red to green, and his heart jumped wildly, this guy has already eaten two and a half bowls of rice with this half bowl, and it is still served in a sea bowl! Is this human? If the ears are bigger, it must be the second senior brother!

At half past one o'clock in the afternoon, in front of the small courtyard of the Su family, the donkey friends were ready to go, Xu Donkey stood on the steps of the door, gnawing cucumbers, and began to lecture in the same tone as the director of the unit, saying precautions. The whole team of 5 women and 8 men has a total of 13 people, "13 people, such an unlucky number" Ye Ziqing muttered to himself. There are 8 old travelers in the team, 4 of whom have participated in more than 3 activities, and there is no novice like Ye Ziqing, so Xu Donkey arranged Ye Ziqing in the 4th place of departure, and there are people in front and behind this seat, which can be regarded as taking care of him. With an order, everyone picked up their backpacks and followed the donkey's head to officially start the journey. This corresponds to an old saying: one foot into the road of life and death, and both hands push open the door of right and wrong! Since then, Ye Ziqing's fate has undergone incredible changes with this journey.

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