Chapter 20: Zhuankou Village (I)
Zhang Nifeng took me to the small broken bungalow he rented, although Luo Xiaoxiao and Dawei were extremely uneasy, but they were still coaxed back to the dormitory by me, I was uncomfortable alone, how could I let them squeeze in this small broken house with me, there was no place to sleep.
I don't know how I survived that night, and although smoking incense relieved the pain, the irritability that was transmitted directly to my brain kept me on the edge of my seat.
Especially at night, the effect is getting worse and worse, in Zhang Nifeng's words, the yin qi is strong, and at midnight even the incense can't suppress the painful feeling, so I can only grit my teeth and stiffen.
But after fifteen and eleven years, that feeling slowly disappeared, and the day tossed me to exhaustion, lying on Zhang Nifeng's bed and falling asleep, in fact, it was said that I was asleep, but it was better to say that I was tired and fainted.
The next day, I didn't wake up until noon, I barely sat up on the edge of the bed, and felt every cell in my body feel as if I had just finished a triathlon, and it took about ten minutes to feel better.
At this moment, I was the only one left in the room, Zhang Nifeng was not there, I looked at the mobile phone and there were several missed calls, all of which were called by the head teacher, I don't have to think about it, it must be that I haven't gone to class in the past few days to ask the teacher to ask for guilt.
Next, I have to go to Hebei, and it seems that I have to find a way to solve the problem on the school's side.
I dialed the teacher's phone while thinking about it, and sure enough, I was greeted by an endless grumbling, and I apologized repeatedly, saying that I had some emergencies at home these days, and I didn't bother to ask you for leave, so I spared me this time.
I was on the phone here, and there was a knock on the door, and when I opened the door, I found that Zhang Nifeng had bought lunch and came back, I didn't have time to pay attention to him, and I said all the good things, and finally confused the head teacher.
When I hung up the phone, Zhang Nifeng was already sitting at the table and eating, and he asked me while eating.
"It's hard to ask for leave?"
"Yes, there are so many courses, and I have missed a lot of classes recently, and I have a hard time with the final exam." I threw my phone down on the bed, and the man lay down with him.
"Do you want me to help you?" He didn't raise his head, and asked while mixing the cold skin in the disposable lunch box.
That's right, he knows people in the top of the government so well, and he should know people in the Education Bureau, so I hurriedly asked him if you can do it.
"Okay, look at what you said, what's not to do with a cold skin." As he spoke, he picked up another bowl of cold skin next to him and mixed it.
I was full of black lines, snatched the cool skin from his hand, and said angrily: "I thought you asked me for leave!" Who uses you to mix cold skin. ”
He gave me a blank look, and said that when you are in the government, you are all selling vegetables in the vegetable market, you can see if you want to see it, and you can trust the relationship if you want to, as for your big fart matter, don't you find Lin Qian and her father to do it for you.
As soon as I thought that what he said was right, I took out my mobile phone and called Lin Qian's father, and the phone was connected after a long time, and the other party was silent for a long time after I explained my intention, I thought that this matter was yellow, and I just wanted to say that if it was inconvenient, forget it, but I didn't expect him to suddenly say let me wait for his news.
After hanging up the phone and sitting on the bed and taking a few puffs of cold skin, I asked Zhang Nifeng, "Do you think this can be done?" ”
Zhang Nifeng was still eating his bowl of cold skin, and said to me: "Wait, don't underestimate these people in the yamen." ”
Sure enough, after waiting for less than an hour, Lin Qian's father's phone called, he said that he asked me for a place in the Education Bureau, I asked him what the quota was, and he told me that it was the quota of the research group of "Research on the Relationship between Contemporary Pharmacy and Ancient Chinese Medicine Theory".
I listened to this messy name and asked him which mentor led the group, a total of several members, but I didn't expect him to say that there was no mentor, just me.
Zhang Nifeng looked at me with a smile and hung up the phone, and said with a smile: "How about it, I said don't underestimate politicians, what are the things in contemporary pharmacy and ancient Chinese medicine?" ”
I gave him a thumb on the arm to tell him to stop laughing at me, but then I couldn't hold back my laughter, and I couldn't sit up on the bed, which was probably the happiest laugh I've had since the library incident.
Although I had already done the work, I still went to class in the afternoon, and told Luo Xiaoxiao and Dawei about the leave, and the two of them also laughed back and forth, and bluntly said that it was better to be an official.
After feeling the pain caused by the attack of the evil star, and thinking that I would have to experience it again in another fifteen days, I didn't want to delay for a minute or a second, and after explaining it to my family, I couldn't wait to book a direct flight ticket to Shijiazhuang with Zhang Nifeng that night.
My dad was very happy to hear that I was selected by the research team of the Education Bureau, and kept saying on the phone that I was out of breath, and the women didn't let me shave my eyebrows or anything, and praised me so much that I was about to commit embarrassment.
According to the address given to me by Dawei, as soon as we got off the plane, the two of us boarded the train from Shijiazhuang to Bazhou City, Hebei Province, and an hour later, we boarded a bus from Bazhou Railway Station to the destination.
It's the first time I've been out of the door so far this when I've grown so big, and it's still with a man. It was a tiring journey along the way, and it was only at this time that I got on the bus and had time to take a good look at the surrounding scenery.
Our car departed from the train station and ended at a small village called Zhuankou.
Different from the south, Hebei is located in the North China Plain, where the terrain is flat and open, along the way I sat by the window and looked curiously at the scenery outside the car, Zhang Nifeng closed his eyes slightly to recuperate, not to laugh at me for not seeing the world. I didn't bother to pay attention to him, and watched with great interest.
"Big sister, the first time you came back to us, right? Look at you, who is it? A balding brother in his forties sitting behind me smiled at me.
I saw that he was very enthusiastic, so I replied, "Yes, big brother, I am from the south, and this is the first time I have come here." ”
He wiped his bald skull with his hand and said, "No wonder, no wonder, but there is nothing interesting in this poor place, except for trees and crops." ”
"The crops are good! I love crop fields! "I grew up in the city and was very new to everything in the countryside.
I thought that the terminal of this car was the village of Zhuankou where we were going, so I took out the biscuits I brought with me from my bag, handed them to the bald brother and asked, "Big brother, are you also from Zhuankou Village?" ”
He reached out and took the biscuits, but he was too embarrassed to eat them, and replied to me: "Yes, most of our cars are from the mouth, you two are new faces, you are here to be our relatives, right?" Which one are you looking for? ”
I shook my head and said, "We are studying history, and I heard that our Zhuankou Village has a long history, so I came here to collect wind and see if there are any old buildings." ”
"Look, you people in the city are all talking about terms, is it just the meaning of coming to find things, but you may have to come in vain, a few years ago, all the old houses were renovated." The bald brother finally couldn't hold back, stuffed the biscuit into his mouth and said.
I watched and chatted, handed him another biscuit, and said, "Yes, that's what it means, big brother, I heard that there seem to be two archways in our village that are quite old, right? ”
He waved his hand, said nothing to pick up the cookies I handed over, and said while refusing: "Don't eat, don't eat, that's not demolished, the two archways are very evil, older than my father, the ancestors have made a rule that no one is allowed to demolish, a few years ago there was an accident in the renovation of the house, if it weren't for this, it would have been gone a long time ago." ”
I shoved all the remaining biscuits into his hand and said, "Big brother, tell me about it." ”
He was quite embarrassed to hold most of the bag of biscuits, and when he saw that I was interested in the two archways, he nodded and said yes.
Then he told me again about the origin of these two archways, which I had heard from Dawei, so I didn't listen carefully until he talked about the renovation of the house.
According to him, the origin of the name Zhuankou Village is because there is a big river behind the village, which is called the Zhuanhe River, and the location of the village is at the mouth of the river. The houses of the villagers were built next to the Zhuan River, so most of the materials used by the ancestors to build their houses were mud and sand from the mouth of the Zhuan River.
As the days went by, the old houses built of river mud and sand were far inferior to those made of red bricks and cement in terms of aesthetics and reliability, so the village committee decided to rebuild the houses in the village in batches and in stages.
Although the housing renovation plan has a lot of investment and a large amount of work, it has still won the support of the people in the village, after all, seeing that the people in the county are all living in the two-story small western-style buildings built of bricks and tiles, which can not be blushing, not to mention that the village committee also promised to give subsidies to each family.
Therefore, this activity can be described as a response, and soon the demolition pilot area was divided, and the old archway at the west end of the village happened to be divided within the scope of the pilot.
The two arches are so old that even the village committee can't find out when they were built, and because of disrepair, the archways that looked glamorous and bright now look a little dilapidated.
Moreover, now the village has paved asphalt roads and opened to cars, and these two arches standing at the entrance of the village are really a bit of an obstacle to traffic, so the village committee decided to dismantle the archway first.
This decision was also opposed by many old people in the village at that time, because the ancestors of the village had established rules, and these two archways could not be demolished for any reason, otherwise disaster would happen.
However, the leadership of the village committee is all young people, all of them are educated materialists, and they don't believe in these ghosts and gods at all, so in the end, they still overcame public opinion and organized a construction team to demolish the memorial arch at the west entrance of the village.
What the leaders of the village committee did not expect was that the archway at the west entrance of the village had just been demolished for a day, and something big happened in the village.