Listening to Yu Ying's words, Wu Dao felt a little creepy. He opened his email and saw that it was full of letters from college classmates, most of which told him that he had changed his mobile phone number, and two of them were sent by Zhao Wu and Jing Like. Zhao Wu wrote: "Brother Wu Dao, I have gone to Zhejiang for graduate studies, and my supervisor is a scholar whom I respect very much. What unit does my brother work in now? ”

Zhao Wu was a year older than Wu Dao and Jing Like, but he would call them "brother" when he wrote to them. Wu Dao was puzzled at first, but when he read Lu Xun's article and knew why Lu Xun called Xu Guangping "brother", he understood the deep meaning.

Mr. Jing said he met a calligrapher in Beijing who admired his handwriting and asked him to work as a calligraphy teacher in his studio. Both of them left their mobile phone numbers and asked Wu Dao if he had bought a mobile phone.

After reading the news sent by Zhao Wu and Jing Like, and thinking of what Deputy Mayor Yu Ying said just now, Wu Dao couldn't help but ask himself: "Wu Dao, do you really want to live in this town government and do nothing for the rest of your life?" Have you forgotten your ambitions? He wrote a few words of congratulations, and briefly wrote that he had gone to work in a town government and had not yet bought a mobile phone, so he sent them to Zhao Wu and Jing Like.

Zhao Wu and Jing Like were Wu Dao's two best friends in college and his lifelong confidants.

Zhao Wu is a native of Jiangxi, born in a scholarly family, his father is a university teacher, and his mother works in a library. When all literate families name their offspring, they will take a more elegant name, but the Zhao family did the opposite and gave the child the word "Wu". The Zhao family has a large collection of books, and his mother works in the library, Zhao Wu has been familiar with ancient and modern classics since he was a child, especially like Lu Xun's articles, because the name is the same as Zhao's orphan, he called himself a Zhao's orphan when he grew up, and vowed to uphold social justice, promote national progress, and be an upright intellectual. After graduating from university, Zhao Wu was admitted to a graduate school in modern literature at a university in Zhejiang.

Jing Like is a native of Shanxi, his parents are ordinary urban workers, and his grandfather loves calligraphy and is quite famous in the local area. When Jing Like was young, his grandfather taught him to learn calligraphy, and told him that the most important thing in calligraphy is to "nourish qi" and form a heroic qi in his chest. Jing Like always remembered his grandfather's teachings, and when he grew up, his calligraphy became more and more sophisticated, and he won many awards in national calligraphy competitions. After graduating from university, Jing Like did not return to Shanxi, but decided to break through the cultural scene in Beijing, and he also gave himself a pen name Jing Ke to show that he wanted to be as indomitable as the assassin Jing Ke and never look back.

When he was studying at Jeju University Maoseong, Wu Dao lived in the same dormitory as Zhao Wu and Jing Like. As soon as they entered the school, Zhao Wu and Jing Like were attracted by each other's talents and learning, and soon became friends. Wu Dao's family was poor since he was a child, and he studied very little, and after entering the dormitory, he listened to Zhao Wu's eloquent conversation in the dormitory, and he felt that the latter was like a god, and he was too lonely compared to him. Whenever Zhao Wu talked about ancient and modern literature, Wu Dao listened silently, and only when Zhao Wu asked him, he would answer.

Their dormitory was a quadruple room, and the last roommate was a video game fan, addicted to online games, often playing games all night in an internet café and sleeping in the dormitory during the day. Wu Dao, Zhao Wu, and Jing Like often ignore his existence. When the exam is approaching, he will get nervous and seize the time to review. Although he rarely attends classes, his memory is so good that he never fails a course. Zhao Wu often ridiculed him for wasting his youth, and Wu Dao and Jing Like did not agree with his living state, but they also had to admire his calmness and calmness.

Zhao Wu is very strict in making friends, and often learns Ruan's "blue and white eyes", adds white eyes to vulgar people, ignores them, and looks at people who are unworldly with black eyes, and is courteous. Seeing Wu Dao talking to vulgar people, Zhao Wu would also say: "This kind of person only knows how to drill camps, and he is full of fame and fortune, what do you do with them?" Jing Like is not as good as Zhao Wu in reading, and he usually doesn't talk much, but he is proficient in calligraphy and has a very deep insight into the theory of "nourishing qi", which coincides with Zhao Wu. Wu Dao knew nothing about calligraphy, in fact, his handwriting was very poor. Wu Dao's family was too poor when he was a child, and he never practiced calligraphy, because he couldn't afford to buy a homework book, so he could only write very small characters when writing, and later the characters became worse and worse. Zhao Wu originally liked to help the poor and the weak, and after entering the university, he saw that Wu Dao was very poor, and every time he ate, he bought the cheapest meals, and his body was very thin, so he deliberately asked Wu Dao to eat with him and Jing Like to help him improve his food. The three of them gradually became best friends. After Wu Dao worked as a "bookworm" in the library for more than a year, he gradually joined Zhao Wu's conversation. Jing Like also often taught Wu Dao and Zhao Wu calligraphy, and the relationship between the three became closer.

Although Zhao Wu often commented on literature and pointed out the country, he rarely started writing. Jing Like is dedicated to studying calligraphy, but he also lacks enthusiasm for creation. In the second semester of his sophomore year, he began to write novels, and spent a year and a half creating the novel "Book Journey", which was about his college life. When considering the pen name, he wanted to use the word "enlightenment" at first, but he thought that these two words were too ordinary, and there was not only one kind of Tao, and it was necessary to understand which one was really suitable for him after continuous selection, and the real Tao was not so much enlightened as it was chosen, so he chose the pen name "Choosing the Dao" for himself. Zhao Wu and Jing Like both felt that this pen name was very good. After the novel was completed, Wu Dao personally sent the manuscript to a literary magazine in Maocheng, but it was not adopted, and he later went to get it back. In the end, the novel was not published, and the only real readers were Zhao Wu and Jing Like. Two friends praised him and encouraged him to continue creating. Later, Wu Dao wrote several more short stories, all of which were not published. Wu Dao knew that his talent was far inferior to Zhao Wu and Jing Like, and his novels could not be published because of their lack of level, and the reason why his two friends praised him was just because they favored him.

When they were in college, the three of them often sat down together and talked about it. Dissatisfied with the gloomy twilight of Jeju University's Maoseong branch, they connected Jeju and Mao, and called the school "Chicken Feather University". They also made a vow to break new ground like Pangu, use the power of culture to promote the progress of the country and society, and live up to what they have learned in their lives. When he graduated from university, Zhao Wu hand-copied a book of selected poems and gave it to Wu Dao, and Jing Like wrote a word to him, the content of which was Qu Yuan's poem: "The road is long, and I will go up and down to seek." Wu Dao didn't know what to give to the two friends, so he wrote an article reminiscing about the campus life of the three and sent it to them.

"Dream of Red Mansions" wrote: "Ten thousand taels of gold are easy to obtain, but it is difficult to find one." Wu Dao felt extremely honored to have two confidants, Zhao Wu and Jing Like.