For a whole night, more than 100 young people from the village gathered near the hills and mountains, and the bonfires made the surroundings look like they never sleeped.

Liu Rui, Wang Shaozhang and other young people who knew each other gathered in front of a bonfire, roasting some corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes and the like, eating and chatting at the same time, but they were also happy.

At the beginning, Liu Rui was still thinking in his heart that if the vigil was like this every day, it would be quite good.

However, when the wild boar was found in the lower mountains, the joyful and peaceful atmosphere was immediately broken, and the sound of shouts, firecrackers, gongs and drums rang out, turning the quiet depths of the mountain into a place of noise.

After going back and forth like this several times, in the second half of the night, Liu Rui was already tired and sleepy, sitting on the grass and dozing off.

"Brother Shaojun, shouldn't it be like this every day? Who can afford it? Drooping his eyelids, Liu Rui lamented weakly.

"How can this be? We still have to work during the day. Wang Shaojun shook his head and said, "Today is the first day, so many people in the village have come, and people will be arranged to take turns on duty from tomorrow night." Oh, by the way, what did Uncle Hua Guo do with you just now? ”

"I don't know, so I just said, 'Let me wait for him at the village office in the morning' and sent me away" Liu Rui was also at a loss, and he didn't know what Wang Huaguo was looking for him for.

"Now there is a lack of a league secretary in the village, I guess he wants you to be the secretary of the league and follow him." Looking left and right, Wang Shaojun said to Liu Rui a little mysteriously.

"Can't you? I've only been back for a few days, so let me be the secretary of the league? Liu Rui was a little unconvinced, but looking at Wang Shaojun's sworn appearance, and thinking about Wang Huaguo's abnormal behavior just now, he was really a little confused.

However, before Liu Rui and the others could say more, the person in charge of the sentry over there began to beat the gongs and drums again, and Liu Rui and the others reflexively jumped up and ran towards the place where the sound came from.

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Tossed for most of the night, until more than four o'clock, when the sky was bright and Wang Huaguo decided that the wild boar would not come again, Liu Rui dragged his tired body and returned with the villagers.

Liu Rui, who returned home, only had time to explain that his mother who opened the door woke him up at eight o'clock, and he was so sleepy that he had already fallen asleep and snored loudly.

When Liu Rui was woken up by Tongtong, he felt as if he had only been lying down for a while, his eyes were sleepy, and he really didn't want to get up.

However, thinking of Wang Huaguo's words, Liu Rui felt a thrill in his heart, hurriedly got up, and rushed to the well to take a cold shower to be sober.

"Rui'er, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Looking at his son's slightly bloodshot eyes, Zhang Guizhi was a little distressed.

"No, Uncle Hua Guo asked me to wait for him at the village office, and I will go into the city to do some errands later." Liu Rui said vaguely while putting rice in his mouth.

"Really?!" Hearing his son's words, Zhang Guizhi's joy was beyond words.

Since her son was forced to go home, Zhang Guizhi has been worried about her son's future, and she feels guilty that she and her husband's bodies have dragged down her son. Although her husband is still reluctant to admit it, Zhang Guizhi understands in her heart that her husband, whose legs were broken and broken, is unlikely to become the pillar of the family again, even if he recovers well.

Supporting this crumbling home and supporting two young students to study, I am afraid that it will take seven or eight years for the family to recover, and the future of the eldest son will probably be trapped in this small mountain village.

Some time ago, the United Primary School in the village wanted Liu Rui to be a substitute teacher, but considering the extremely low salary of private teachers and the amount of time they need to spend every day, Zhang Guizhi and Liu Rui refused.

A few days ago, the eldest brother sent a message, saying that he was going to let Liu Rui go to the village committee of Xialiang Village to help with things, but the old man was still a little unhappy in his heart, so he didn't nod his head and agreed.

Now, Wang Huaguo, the leading figure in the village, asked Liu Rui to follow him into the city to do errands, making it clear that he wanted to train him to join the village committee, how could this not make Zhang Guizhi happy?

His eldest brother has worked in the village committee for decades, and Zhang Guizhi naturally knows what it means for the whole family to join the village committee?

Perhaps, this is the best future for the son who was forced to return home to farm.

If the son can enter the village committee of Shangliang Village, probably the husband will be very happy, but the eldest brother's heart may not be so happy.

Zhang Guizhi, who was sandwiched between her husband and eldest brother, thought that the two people closest to her had been fighting each other for most of their lives, and they were still unwilling to stop when they were old, which was really a bit of a headache.

After breakfast, Liu Rui changed into a shirt and trousers, put on leather shoes, and dressed up a little, but he became much more energetic and had a touch of maturity.

This set of clothes was brought back by his second uncle Zhang Zhenzong in the provincial capital during the Spring Festival, and it is one of Liu Rui's only few sets of good clothes. Today, for the first time I went to the city with the old branch secretary to do business, I had to clean up my ropes, and I couldn't lose face.

"Big brother, are you dressed so handsomely today? Are you going on a blind date? The little girl's head came in from the door, looked Liu Rui up and down, and said.

"At a young age, do you know what a blind date is?" Liu Rui sighed lightly on the little guy's head and smiled bitterly.

"I'm fourteen years old!" The little girl stretched out her hand to gessy, emphasized the facts, and pouted: "I heard my grandmother say that she married her grandfather at the age of fourteen." ”

"You little girl, where did you hear all this nonsense?" Liu Rui couldn't cry or laugh a little, rubbed her head and said, "Read a good book at home, my brother has entered the city!" I'll be back and bring you something delicious! ”

"Yay! Talking counts! The last sentence was obviously what the little girl wanted to hear the most, and she cheered and rushed into her room with a thud.

Looking at his sister's youthful and energetic back, Liu Rui smiled, said hello to his father, turned around and walked out of the house.

The early morning mountain village is not quiet, in the treetops and in the grass, the early birds are constantly chirping, as if they are enjoying a hearty breakfast. In the pond and creek in front of the house and behind the house, the cries of frogs and toads were extremely loud, breaking through the boundaries of time and space, and enveloping the whole village in a bustle.

The village office is the current seat of the village committee, but the name has been inherited since the time of the people's commune, and the villagers have become accustomed to it.

Standing under the two marble pillars of the village office, which are slightly Russian architectural, Liu Rui stared with interest at the somewhat mottled exterior wall. The lime plaster on the wall has peeled off and grown moss under the erosion of decades of wind and rain, and the slogan of 'Daqing of Industry, Dazhai of Agriculture' has been blurred, as if bidding farewell to that crazy era.

"Rui is here!" Just when Liu Rui was still looking around, a sound of motorcycle brakes sounded beside him.

"Uncle Huaguo, I'm here!" Seeing Wang Huaguo coming on a motorcycle, Liu Rui hurriedly greeted him.

"Not bad, not bad!" After examining Liu Rui from top to bottom, Wang Huaguo nodded and said, "Can you drive?" ”

Seeing Liu Rui nodded, he didn't be verbose, and directly gave up his position and let Liu Rui drive.

Although Liu Rui does not have a motorcycle at home, when he is usually at home during the holidays, he does not practice his brother-in-law Zhang Zhenzu's Jialing Dog, and after a long time, although he does not have a driver's license, his skills are also practiced.

Wang Huaguo didn't say what he was doing in the city today, and Liu Rui didn't talk much, just silently drove a motorcycle on the dusty gravel road.