In Xiaohuangzhuang, Hecheng Town, Qicheng County, most of the people in the village are surnamed Huang, and only one family is surnamed Wu, and the head of the household is named Wuhe. When he was a child, Wu He didn't like his name, he didn't understand why his parents gave him this name, so he asked his father Wu Youliang:

"Dad, why am I called Wu He?"

"Do you think it's a bad name?" Wu Youliang said.

"It's not good at all."

"Do you know why your mother and I used the word river as your name?"

"I don't know."

"Then did you know that we have a big river here?"

"You know, it's the Yellow River."

"You were born on the edge of the Yellow River. Our family's two acres of land are not far from the Yellow River, and every time the Yellow River floods, our land will be flooded, and when the land is flooded, we will have no food to eat, so we can only ask for food. We hope that the Yellow River will never overflow and never flood our land again. We give you this name, one is that you were born by the river, and the other is that we hope that the river will no longer flood, and the Wu River is that there is no river, and without the river, our land will not be flooded. ”

"Then your name is Wu Youliang, why does our family still have no food and can't eat enough?"

"The name of our poor family is to be auspicious, which is a good wish. There is no poor man in this world who has enough to eat. Now that there is another war and chaos, it will not be easy for us to live. The poor are born to suffer. In the next life, if you are born in a peaceful year and in a rich family, you will not have to worry about food and clothing. ”

"In this life, people are born to suffer." Wu He has always remembered his father's words, and he has become more and more fond of his name.

Wu He did not live in Qicheng County, and during the war years before liberation, his mother and father died in poverty. After the death of his parents, Wu He had to leave home, went through many difficulties and dangers, begged all the way, and came to the house of relatives in Xiaohuangzhuang, Hecheng Town, Qicheng County, and settled down. At this time, he realized that his fate seemed to have been predestined when his father gave him a name, his name was "River", and he finally came to River Town. And the river town used to have a river, but now there is no river, just no river.

The experience of begging along the road gave Wu He endless imagination. Later, he often talked about that past with others, and every time he said it, he would add new content, and every time he said it, it would be more exciting than before, so that even Wu He himself couldn't tell which of the things he said were true and which ones he made up himself. Since then, Wu He has become more and more able to say and wants to say more and more.

Xiao Huangzhuang's relatives are husband and wife, and when Wu He went, both of them were almost fifty years old and had no children and no daughters in their lives. When they saw Wu He, who was just fifteen years old, they liked it very much, and felt that God had taken pity on them and sent them a child. Wu He also treats them as if they were his own parents.

Two years later, the People's Republic of China was founded. Wu He finally lived the life of food that his father was looking forward to.

At the age of twenty-two, Wu He married Yang Xiuxiu of Yangjiazhuang, Yang Xiuxiu was three years older than Wu He, which was in line with the meaning of "female junior, hugging gold bricks". Yang Xiuxiu is not as able to speak as Wu He, but she has a bad temper, so Wu He often dare not say anything.

During the three-year natural disaster, two elderly people in Wu He's family died one after another.

After Wu He and Yang Xiuxiu got married, they first gave birth to a son, because he was born on a big sunny day, Wu He named him Wu Yang. Two years later, Yang Xiuxiu gave birth to another daughter, because she was born on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the bright moon was in the sky, Wu He named her Wu Yue. The people in the village praised Wuhe for giving their children a good name:

"Your children, one called the sun and the other the moon, have taken up both day and night, and will surely prosper in the future."

Wu He originally liked to say, but after hearing such words, his heart was extremely useful, and since then he has another problem of loving to name people. No matter which family in the village gave birth, he had to run over to "send names", but none of the names he came up with later were satisfied.

When Wu Yang grew up, he married Li Mei of Lijiazhuang, and Wu Yue married Yang Xiuxiu's maiden family, Yangjiazhuang, and her husband's name was Yang Chengzhi.

There is nothing dissatisfaction with Li Mei and Wu He. This daughter-in-law is strong, able to endure hardships, and is a good hand at doing crop work, and working in the fields is no worse than male labor. Although Li Mei is not good at housework, she can handle it all. The dealer should be looking for such a daughter-in-law.

Wu He didn't look down on Yang Chengzhi as his uncle at first. Yang Chengzhi was often idle in the commune, neither could he write or martial arts, and every time he worked, he was left behind by others. Not only that, but when he was a teenager, he did speculative things and was arrested by the commune. Although Yang Chengzhi has so many bad, he has a characteristic that he has a very good appetite for Wu He, that is, he can speak. When he met Wu He, he often talked about it for a long time. Others say that Yang Chengzhi is a braggart king who doesn't speak in tune, but Wu He thinks that this young man is ambitious and regards him as a confidant. After Yang Chengzhi saw Wu Yang, he felt good, so he came to the door to propose marriage, crackled for a long time, and drew a beautiful blueprint. Wu He and Yang Xiuxiu couldn't help nodding their heads from him, and happily agreed to the marriage.

The spring breeze of reform and opening up blew to Qicheng County, and Yang Chengzhi soon changed careers and started a business selling fruits and vegetables. At the beginning, the Wu family and the Yang family were still worried about him, afraid that he would lose his capital, and that he would be arrested as a speculator again. No one thought that Yang Chengzhi had a flexible mind and knew how to operate, and he quickly made money, and his business became bigger and bigger, and he became the first batch of people to get rich in several surrounding villages. In the 90s, Yang Chengzhi gave up doing small business again and began to work as a contractor, recruiting a group of small workers to build houses everywhere, and making more and more money. When he had money, he wanted to be an official, and later he became the village director of Yangjiazhuang. At this time, Wu He felt more and more that he had found a good uncle, and he bragged a lot in the village. Every time Yang Chengzhi brought him good cigarettes and wine, he would take a box of cigarettes to the road to smoke, and he would take the initiative to hand cigarettes to others, and while taking the cigarettes, he said:

"This was given by my aunt Cheng Zhi, who is now a contractor and village director, and has money in his hands."

When others hear him say this, eighty percent of them will say:

"Yes, you found a good uncle, and our family won't have such good luck."

"This is all because I knew the hero with my eyes at the beginning, and I put others aside, and I still can't look down on him."

"You're a good smoker, it's a good cigarette."

"Not only did he have good cigarettes, but he also brought good wine and had time to drink a few glasses at home."

"I will definitely go when I have time."

Yang Chengzhi, who used to be idle, was very prosperous in wealth and official luck, and his living standard was getting higher and higher. However, Wu Yang and Li Mei, who have always been honest and hard-working, still eat in the soil and live a hard life every day. Seeing that life was difficult, Wu Yang had no choice but to go to Yang Chengzhi as a small worker to earn money.

After Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue got married, Wu Yue's first child was a daughter. Yang Chengzhi wanted his son very much, so he named his daughter Yang Zhaodi, hoping to recruit a younger brother. Later, as he wished, the second child was a son, and he named him Yang Zaixing, hoping that he would be able to do everything when he grew up.

Wu Yang and Li Mei only gave birth to a son, who was born on the way to the hospital, and at that time, there were no words in the vocabulary of Qicheng County, halfway, halfway, and halfway, and there were no corresponding four words: halfway, on the road, halfway, and on the way, instead of halfway, halfway, and road. Wu He named him Wu Dao, firstly because he was born on the Dao, and secondly, he hoped that his future life path would be wider and wider, and he would be able to make a great difference.

Wu Dao is older than Yang Zhaodi and Yang Zaixing. As soon as he was born, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his skin was also very white. Wu He liked him very much when he looked at him, and said to Wu Yang and Li Mei:

"This child doesn't look like a child from a farmer's family, he will definitely have a future when he grows up, and he may be able to be admitted to university."

No one in the Wu family would have thought that what Wu He said would later become true. Since elementary school, Wu Dao has always been the top student in his class. Every time the school held a parent-teacher meeting, Wu He had to take the initiative to participate, and he was extremely proud to hear the teacher say that Wu Dao had taken the first place in the exam again, and he was extremely proud of the perfect score in several courses. When he returned, he showed off to the people in the village, saying how good his grandson was, and he would definitely be a pillar of the country in the future.

Later, Wu Dao was admitted to Jeju University Maoseong Branch and became the first undergraduate student in Xiaohuangzhuang. Wu He took the admission letter and exhibited it in the village for several days, and finally made it known to several surrounding villages.

Although Jeju University is not a top university in the country, it is the best in the province. Wu Daoshang's school is the branch of Jeju University in Maocheng, which is actually much worse than Jeju University, but the people of Xiaohuangzhuang and many people in Qicheng do not know the difference between the two schools, and when the Wu family talks about Wu Dao to others, they never mention the words Maocheng branch, and the people of Xiaohuangzhuang think that Wu Dao is studying at Jeju University.

Before Wu Dao went to college, relatives and friends invited him to eat at home, especially Yang Chengzhi, who also ordered a large table of dishes in the restaurant. On the day of school, Wu He went to say goodbye with great fanfare. Wu Yang and Li Mei finally raised their heads in front of Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue, although they themselves made little money, they cultivated a college student, and if their son is good, it is really good.

From elementary school to high school, Wu Dao was dissatisfied with his name, because Wu and Wu have no homonyms, Wu Dao is no way, that is, there is no road, there is no way to go, and it is easy to remind people of the four words Wudao faint king.

After going to college, Wu Dao began to like his name instead. Wang Wei's word Maha, the number of Mahajushi, according to the original meaning of the understanding, is the name of nothing, the word dust, the number of dust layman. Wang Wei may not know the original meaning of the name, even if he didn't know it when he was young, he later read a lot of books and became famous all over the world, he must have known, but he did not change his name, and he could "sit alone in the secluded fence, play the piano and howl." "This is the unencumbered mind, the real Vimalaya. His name is Wu Dao, that is, Wu Dao is good, and there may be no Tao if there is really a Dao.