In the last few days of July, Wu Dao visited the leaders and departments of the Hecheng Town Government one by one and said goodbye to them.

Although everyone in the town government knew that Wu Dao had been admitted to graduate school, most did not know when he would leave. The first person he went to see was the secretary Wang Xinhui, and Wang Xinhui said after hearing this:

"Xiao Wang, you have worked well in the past few years, and your achievements are obvious to all. If you go to graduate school, you will definitely have a bright future in the future. Our river town will always be your home, and you will definitely come home often to see it. ”

"Okay." Wu Dao said.

"When you leave, the town will arrange a farewell banquet for you."

Wu Dao understood that what the town leader said was true or false, if you were true, if you were false, if you were false, not to mention that every time he participated in the banquet, it was like going to hell for him, so he didn't want to participate in any farewell banquet at all, so he said:

"Thank you, Secretary Wang, no need, the town is very busy."

Wang Xinhui knew that Wu Dao had always disliked the wine game, so he was no longer reluctant.

Hu Xueshan is the direct leader of Wu Dao, and Wu Dao has published many press releases, which has won Hu Xueshan face, so Hu Xueshan has always valued him. When he proposed the postgraduate entrance examination, Hu Xueshan also fully supported it, so Wu Dao's impression of this leader was quite good. When he said goodbye to Hu Xueshan, Hu Xueshan said:

"Xiao Wu, when you told me to take the postgraduate examination, I knew that you would definitely be able to pass the examination. Why, because I have seen your abilities with my own eyes. You've sent out more press releases in our town this year than you've been in the town in the past three years. Although you left at the end of July, your salary for August is still being paid. You're leaving, should I ask Secretary Wang to give you a farewell banquet? ”

Hu Xueshan's words made Wu Dao feel a little surprised, because he would not come to work in August, but he still received a whole month's salary, which was actually taking advantage of the government. But when he thought that he still had a lot of money to spend on graduate school, and remembered Zhao Wu's words that he "couldn't wait to make a windfall", he felt a little joy in his heart. Of course, he still didn't want the farewell banquet, so he said:

"Thank you, Director Hu. There is no need to hold a farewell banquet, when I said goodbye to Secretary Wang, I already said about it. ”

"Then I won't be reluctant, you will often come back to see our old colleagues at the grassroots level in the future."

"Definitely."

"Mayor Han has been training in the field for the past few days, and it will take some days to come back, you are his secretary, give him a call before leaving."

"Okay."

The relationship between Wu Dao and Han Siming is very delicate, and the two actually look at each other unpleasantly, but they still have to pretend to be harmonious on the surface. When Wu Dao said goodbye to his colleagues, Han Siming happened to be in the field to participate in training, which made Wu Dao feel relieved. Although Han Siming was not there, whether it was out of work or for politeness, he still had to call and say, not to mention that when he said goodbye to Hu Xueshan, the latter also specially instructed him about it, so Wu Dao called Han Siming and said that he had left Hecheng Town to go to graduate school, and he was still a little apprehensive when he spoke. Han Siming said:

"Xiao Wu, you have only been in our river town for one year, but your ability is obvious to all, but your personality is too introverted and unsociable, and you will study for graduate school in the future, and you will make more friends with people. You are welcome to come back to town in the future. ”

Han Siming's words also moved Wu Dao a little, and for the first time, he felt that this leader who worked in the same suite with him was not so terrible and unkind. He said to Han Siming:

"Mayor Han, thank you for saying so much to me, I will remember it."

When Wu Dao said goodbye to other leaders and colleagues, almost everyone praised him for his strong ability and great contribution to Hecheng Town, and everyone will remember it, and the most people say is that if it is developed in the future, don't forget everyone. Only the words of the deputy mayor Yu Ying in the whole town made Wu Dao feel from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't forget it for a long time:

"Xiao Wu, congratulations on being admitted to graduate school, and you are about to leave the Hecheng Town Government. I envy you, if I were as young as you, I would have gone to graduate school, even if I didn't go to graduate school, I would have to leave here and go outside. I was originally a teacher in the school, but I was transferred to the town by chance. At that time, I was very happy, and I felt that I finally didn't have to be the king of children, and I could do something great in the government. Later, I found out that things are far from so simple, in the town, it's not that you can do things if you want to, and in the end you will do nothing all your life, and in the eyes of outsiders you are a leader, but in fact you are nothing, and you can't do anything you want to do. Now that I think about it, I might as well have been a teacher in school, although I can't do big things, but at least I can still teach and educate people, and what I do is practical, unlike here, everything is nothing. In two years, I will be 50 years old, and when the time comes, I will apply for a separate list, stop working, go home to plant flowers, practice calligraphy, and be like this for the rest of my life. When you graduate from graduate school, don't go back to the county, if you still want to work in the government, go to the top, go to the province, go to Beijing. However, if you want me to say, you are really not suitable to work in an institution, it is better to be a teacher, even if you can't stay in the university as a teacher, it is not bad to be a middle school teacher, interpersonal relationships are easy to handle, not as complicated as in the institution. The ancients paid attention to learning and excellence, that is because the scholars at that time had no other way out, but to participate in the imperial examination to become an official, now there are many roads, to find a suitable one, this life is not in vain. ”

"I remember it all, thank you." Wu Dao said.

On the last working day of July, after getting off work in the afternoon, Wu Dao returned to the dormitory, took his luggage and quietly left the Hecheng Town Government. No one noticed his departure, and the doorman only thought he was coming home from work. He suddenly remembered the poem in Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Kangqiao": "Gently I go, just as I come gently; I beckoned softly, and made a cloud of the western sky. He has always disliked Xu Zhimo's works, especially his personality, but now he feels that these poems are very expressive, and they just rightly describe his coming and going.

After returning home, Wu Dao had a full month to prepare for graduate school. He first calculated his income for the year, his monthly salary of more than 800 yuan, plus the bonus for the New Year's holiday, all added up, almost 15,000 yuan, his usual expenses were not much, after the graduate school entrance examination, he intended to be more frugal, a total of less than 3,000 yuan a year, and now there are 12,000 yuan left, in Jeju University graduate school, only need to pay 800 yuan for accommodation every year, there are no other expenses, and there is a living allowance of 150 yuan per month, More than enough of your own savings for graduate school. Thinking that he often had to look up information on the Internet when he was in graduate school, and that he couldn't do without a computer when writing papers, he went to a computer store in the city and bought a low-configuration laptop for 2,300 yuan.

Everything is ready to go, just waiting for the start of school. One day, Wu Dao had a very strange dream. In the dream, he arrived at a very distant and strange place, where there were two countries, one was the kingdom of adults and the other was the kingdom of Lilliputia, and the two countries did not interact with each other. The people of the Great People's Kingdom are very tall, more than two meters tall, and the people of Lilliputians are very short, less than one meter tall. Due to the advantage of height, the people of the Great Kingdom are the rulers there, while the people of the Lilliputian Kingdom can only look up to the Great Kingdom, bow down to the people of the Great Kingdom, and dare not disobey in the slightest.

The number of people in the kingdom of adults is very small, and they all live in high places, and the number of people in the kingdom of Lilliputians is very large, and they all live in low places. Lilliputians can't see what the people of the adult country are doing, but the people of the adult country can see the affairs of the Lilliputian country clearly. There is only one road to go between the Adult Kingdom and the Lilliputian Kingdom, but this road is only allowed for the people of the Adult Kingdom, and the people of the Lilliputian Kingdom cannot walk, and the people of the Adult Kingdom can enter the Lilliputian Kingdom at will, but the people of the Lilliputian Kingdom are forbidden to enter the Adult Kingdom. This route is guarded by the people of the Great People's Kingdom, and they only need to look at their height to determine which people are from the Great People's Kingdom and which are from the Lilliputian Kingdom.

For a long time, the people of Lilliputian have looked forward to one day entering the kingdom of adults to find out, but their height has become their Achilles' heel. Finally one day, Lilliputian gave birth to an adult, he was born bigger than other children, and then grew taller and taller, and finally exceeded two meters, becoming a standard adult countryman. The Lilliputians sent him into the kingdom of adults to see what it was like. Lilliputians don't have names, but because he is so special, and because this task is very difficult, people made an exception to give him a name called Wu Dao.

Wu Dao was still worried about whether he could enter the kingdom of adults at first, worried about whether he would be punished if he was found out. However, when he walked past the guards, no one questioned him, and he entered the kingdom of adults very smoothly.

After entering the Great Kingdom, Wu Dao was surprised to find that everyone he saw in the Great Kingdom was very short. It turns out that the people of the Great People's Kingdom are not tall, they are the same height as the people of the Lilliputian Kingdom, and the reason why they look so tall is because they are fitted with fake limbs. When the adult people are in the adult country, they will not be fitted with prostheses on their bodies, and when they arrive in the Lilliputian country, the prostheses will be installed. He also found out that, except for the guards, the rest of the people in the kingdom of adults did not work every day, just drinking, playing cards, and sleeping.

After Wu Dao returned to Lilliputia, he told the people there what he had seen. However, none of the people of Lilliputian believed him, saying that he was a liar sent by the Lilliputian Kingdom, and drove him out of Lilliputia. He wanted to go to the kingdom of the Lords, but the guards already knew that he was a spy and refused to let him in. He had nowhere to go, and he didn't know where to go. Suddenly, the ground under his feet collapsed, and he fell, waking up from a dream in a strong and real sense of weightlessness.

After waking up from the dream, Wu Dao felt very strange, he could clearly see the people of the Great Kingdom and the Little People's Kingdom in the dream, and that Wu Dao was exactly the same as him. Since there is a Wu Dao in the dream, where does the real self stand and see the world in the dream? What do the big people and the little people represent?