Chapter Zero: Fun Facts
Although it is late autumn, the sun is still scorching in the village, and more than a dozen strong men in their twenties and thirties are enjoying the shade under a ginkgo tree on the ridge.
They were naked, with only a pair of shorts on them, and from time to time they took out cold water from an ancient well not far away and poured it into their mouths.
A few dogs lay on the ground and stuck out their tongues, looking pitifully at the strong men opposite. A little boy who looked to be in his teens was compassionate, scooped up a ladle of water, and walked towards the dogs without saying a word.
"Xiao Jiao'er, what are you doing here?" A big man grabbed the child.
The big man had a beard on his face and a dirty towel around his neck, looking fierce.
"Village Chief Zhou, I want to feed those puppies some water." The child said timidly.
"Feed water?" Village Chief Zhou shouted. "You hairy boy haven't read a book at first glance, feed them water at this time, and tomorrow their stomachs will rot."
The child was startled by the sudden reprimand, and he turned his head and ran to the corner to wipe away his tears.
"Hey! Lao Zhou, you're not right. "A thin bamboo pole on the side can't stand it." A child just wants to feed the dog saliva, he doesn't know that the dog can't drink water when it's hot, you just say no to him, why do you have to get angry. ”
"I'm angry?" Village Chief Zhou stood up suddenly. "I see Lao Wang, you are healed, and the scar has forgotten the pain. I have forgotten the days when we stole water to drink in the great drought a few years ago, and I have forgotten the days when the crops were not harvested. ”
Lao Wang looked unconvinced, and hurriedly shouted back. "Lao Zhou, isn't this a problem of stealing changes? We're obviously talking about children and dogs, why are you talking about a big drought, and it's not a big drought now! ”
"We must always remember the hard days of the past, and only then can we have a good life."
The two of them quarreled like this, one sentence at a time, until the sun slowly set halfway.
The cool breeze slowly blew in from the mountains, blowing the autumn leaves on the branches like wind chimes.
"Alright, alright! Work started, and everyone planted trees. Village Chief Zhou's loud voice echoed on the ridge.
Planting tea trees, this is the next work to be carried out in this village, looking at the deep pits that have been dug one after another on the ridges, the villagers are at a loss.
"Lao Zhou, do you think we can get rich by planting tea trees? How can ordinary people have the money to drink tea now? ”
Village Chief Zhou picked up a small tea sapling and walked towards the nearest pit. "Our ancestors in the village are tea growers, why do you not understand so much when it comes to your mouth?"
"The time is different, in the past few years, there has been a shortage of wars, and the people can't eat enough, who will drink your tea!" Lao Wang still didn't understand.
Village Chief Zhou laughed helplessly, and when he smiled, the mud hidden in the wrinkles could be seen clearly. "Lao Wang, this is the reason why you can't be the village chief, you are not forward-looking. Now that reunification is about to take place, when everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and you say that everyone will drink tea or not. ”
"Unification?" Lao Wang also laughed, and laughed even more openly. "You don't talk about it, you're having a good time fighting, you say reunification, reunification?"
"If you don't believe it, look at it." Village Chief Zhou waved his hand, and didn't want to make any more unnecessary explanations. "Go to work for Lao Tzu immediately, this is an order!"
Lao Wang hung his head and held a tea sapling and moved to a tree pit in the farthest place, only then did he realize that the previous disputes with the village chief were all self-inflicted humiliation, he was the village chief, he was a small villager, and he had nothing to say about crushing people to death at the official level.
A cool breeze hit his cheeks, and he seemed to want to open it too.
If you want to live a good life, this unrealistic village chief Zhou must not be able to believe it, it is better to worship the gods.
He closed his eyes and meditated, and muttered quietly in his mouth, God forbid, God forbid, let this fucking life go away with the wind!
When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that there was an extra green light in the eastern sky, dragging a long tail.
"It was fulfilled! It was fulfilled! It's a shooting star! ”
The meteor in Lao Wang's mouth seemed to have its set orbit, and it flew straight towards the old well beside him.