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I can't wait to meet this old gentleman.

After Huzi gave me the address, I rode over on the big satchel. This old gentleman lives in an alley on the side of Dongzhimen, with a small yard and a ginkgo tree in the middle of the yard.

Since I am here to learn from a teacher, I have to show some sincerity. I bought two bottles of wine, a pack of walnut crisp, a bottle of orange juice, a pack of trough cakes, and two canned hawthorns. I carried it in my net pocket and came.

The door of the courtyard was open, and when I arrived in the courtyard, I opened my throat and shouted, "Wu Dingguo, Teacher Wu, are you at home?" ”

When I shouted, a voice from the low room responded, "Who? ”

The response was a response, but no one came out to greet me.

I could only take a few steps forward and say, "Teacher Wu Dingguo, my name is Chen Yuan." I'm here to see you. ”

"Come in, come in, I'm listening to the box upside down on the kang."

I pushed open the door and went into an outhouse, a water tank, a stove, and a rice cupboard. There are also two barrels on the side, and there is a flat pole on the side of the barrel.

At this time, it was quite hot, and I was sweating as soon as I came in.

After entering the outhouse, I craned my neck to the door of the inner room, and looked inside, a thin old man was sitting on the kang with a puff fan, bare/shirtless, wearing big pants, listening to the drama box.

When he saw me, he was stunned and said, "Who are you?" My cousin Jia Ailian's second son, right? ”

I said, "I'm not, I just heard about your heroic deeds and came to visit you." ”

He looked me up and down, then immediately got off the kang and closed the door. When he came back, he looked at me and said, "You can't have been sent from there." I've been in prison for more than 30 years, and I'm not the same person I used to be. ”

I put things on the kang and I said, "Over there?" Let me be straight, I'm here to learn from you, to learn from a teacher! ”

Only then did he put his mind at ease, sighed, and after turning off the drama box, he sat on the edge of the kang with a fart/strand, and said, "I'll just say, what kind of society is this, it's because I think too much." ”

He then sighed and said, "Actually, I sat a little wronged in this prison, I have never killed anyone, and I have never set fires. I'm just teaching a group of people some skills. It's like a blacksmith, I've made a good batch of kitchen knives, but who knew they were used to kill! I have repeatedly said this with the government, but ......"

I said, "Are you a party member over there?" ”

He nodded and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that." If you want to learn art, what skills do you want to learn? Track, lurk, shoot, fight. These are based on observation, adaptability, learning ability, and discernment. It's a very systematic learning process, and it's very hard. ”

I said, "I'll learn whatever you teach." ”

Wu Dingguo smiled at this time, he moved to the edge of the kang, put on plastic sandals, looked at me from top to bottom and said, "My tuition fee is not low." ”

At this time, I looked at him again, and he was like two people just now. Although he is thin and thin, he has a large skeleton and is definitely not thin. Although he looked haggard, there was a cold light in his eyes, and a murderous aura was still there. It shows that the more than 30 years of prison have not worn out the arrogance in his bones.

His hair was gray and his face was wrinkled, but he did not look old or tired at all, but showed the accumulation of wisdom.

I had a faint feeling in my heart that I had found the right person.

I said, "Cheap is not good, good is not cheap." I'm here for you. ”

Wu Dingguo nodded and said, "Is there anyone else in the family?" ”

I said, "There's no one anymore, there's a mother, but it's been cut off for a long time." Don't move around anymore. ”

"Listen to the accent from Tangshan."

I hummed and said, "Indeed, I am from Changli. ”

"I've been to Changli, and I once had a student who was also from Changli, named Guo Jingsheng. He said he was my student, but he was actually five years older than me. He said, "It should be across the Channel by now." At that time, we had a good relationship, and I took good care of him, and later I heard that he was promoted, and he was a core member of the military command, and his rank was also promoted to colonel. By the way, his family is a big family on your side, and his father's name is Guo Dianwen, and it is said that he runs a leather shoe factory in Shenyang. After liberation, the leather shoe factory was nationalized. ”

As soon as I heard it, I understood, and I said, "Coincidentally, my grandmother's father is the Guo Dianwen you said, and the Guo Jingsheng you said is my uncle." But I didn't give birth to my grandmother from the same mother. You also know that this is not a sibling of the same mother, so they are not very close. My grandfather and this uncle didn't seem to move. ”

"Didn't you want to go over there and seek an opportunity? It's much richer than ours, and if you are a real relative like you, they will settle down for you. ”

As soon as I heard it, I said, "I can't do anything about begging for help, and besides, I'm doing well here, so there's no need to go to my relatives." If you go, it will only make people think that you are miserable, and you will find a job at random, and you will think you are hypocritical if you don't/love to do it. ”

Wu Dingguo nodded and said, "Since the words have come to this, I can accept you as an apprentice." I had accepted a few apprentices before, but they were not very good. This time it's different, I want to take in a closed disciple. Are you interested? ”

I smiled and said, "What kind of disciple is the closed disciple?" ”

Wu Dingguo said: "The closed disciple is very simple, that is, you respect me as if I were your father, and I teach you as if you were my son." Starting today, you're moving here, and once the relationship is confirmed, there's no room for reversal. Do you understand? ”

As soon as I heard the music, my heart said that you want me to give you a current person, I smiled and said, "You have found a maid who pays upside down!" Wu Dingguo, don't bring it to play like this, you keep this thing and enjoy it, and I'll leave. ”

Wu Dingguo smiled and said, "Want to go? ”

As he spoke, he stopped me directly in front of me, and said, "As long as you can make me move my feet, you win." I'll let you go. ”

I immediately laughed and said disdainfully: "Wu Dingguo, what are you kidding?!" Look at me, strong, twenty years old. You have been in prison for more than thirty years, and now you are severely malnourished, with gray hair and slender limbs, are you sure you are not joking? ”

Wu Dingguo said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the old man, besides, I'm not very old, I'm only fifty-nine years old." Gray hair is tired of thinking too much about things, and thin arms and legs do not mean that there is no strength. If you look at those long-distance runners in Ethiopia, which one is not thin arms and legs? Don't talk nonsense, come over and compare, and I'll see if you have the qualifications to be my apprentice. ”

I thought to myself that this old man was crazy, and he really thought that he was still a young man in his twenties. After squatting in prison for more than 30 years, you are an old radish with bran in the core.

I looked at this bare/shirtless, big pants guy and cut it, and I said, "Okay, Wu Dingguo, I've been taught!" ”

With that, I bent down and rushed forward to grab his arm.

He asked me to grab it, and before I could react, he hit me directly on the nose with his head, and immediately I felt that my eyes were shining, and I fell back and fell directly to the ground.

After a long while, I finally saw clearly in front of me, this Wu Dingguo was squatting in front of me and looked at me with a smile, and said, "You kid is not very good!" ”

I wiped my nosebleed and said, "No, come again." I didn't expect you to do this. You're a trick, not a serious way! ”

Saying that, I got up, Wu Dingguo stood up again, he squatted slightly, his body forward, his neck stretched out, like a royal eight.

I said, "Old Wangba, I'm here!" ”

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