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"Hey, Lin Xu!"

Not long after breakfast, Lin Xu felt a little urinating, came out of the thatched house, and as soon as he came out of the gate, he saw Guan Wentao, a friend and good friend who had grown up together, walked in the alley facing the gate. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Guan Wentao has been fat since he was a child, and he is still very fat. The chubby, round body is connected by a short neck with a round head, and the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose on a small round face with a good complexion and a healthy flush always look like a group of smiles.

However, although he is fat, he does not look bloated, but gives people a very solid feeling. It's not fat, it's sturdy fat. People who know him more know that although this little guy is fat, his body is very flexible, especially he jumps rope very well, and he won the first place in the school in the primary school competition.

Lin Xu often thinks that his figure should have a lot to do with the profession he runs at home. His father, Guan Yufu, was a pig butcher in the village, and his family never lacked meat, and Guan Wentao also loved meat since he was a child. In fact, not only his father, but also his grandfather and great-grandfather were also butchers, from his father's generation, to three generations. It can be said that it is a family of butchers, passed down from generation to generation, and has a family history.

Guan Wentao himself often said that if he can't learn anything in the future, he will inherit this family business sooner or later. However, with his grades that have been at the bottom since the sixth grade of primary school, this is almost certain in the future.

Lin Xu's grades have been among the best since elementary school, and he has never been in the top three in primary school exams. Even after entering middle school, there were more top students, and he was always in the top ten in his class. So it's often hard for people to understand why two people like them become close friends.

Speaking of which, there are many reasons. The most important thing is that Lin Xu has been very introverted since he was a child, he doesn't like to talk, he is not good at communicating with people, and he never takes the initiative to interact with people. To make friends with him, you have to deliberately reach out to him and talk to him before he responds passively. But he won't talk to you hotly, and he won't take the initiative to find any topics, and he prefers to be quiet, and he doesn't like to get together and play with many people.

Therefore, with his character, playful and active children don't like him. Sometimes take the initiative to contact him, and he will reply to you with a few words such as "um, ah, good, I don't know", and people will not be interested in talking to him if they can't say a few words.

Only this Guan Wentao is very patient, and he doesn't care if you answer or not, he just likes to talk to you endlessly. In his free time after school, weekends, and holidays, he often comes to Lin Xu to play. After a long time of going back and forth like this, by the time they graduated from elementary school, the two had become good friends who talked about everything.

Although among the peers of this generation in the village, Lin Xu has a good relationship with many elementary school classmates, but when it comes to the best friend, Guan Wentao is the best friend. Even after he met many new classmates in middle school, he didn't make any friends like Guan Wentao.

There is also a more important relationship between the two, that is, their fathers are also of the same generation, not only elementary school classmates, middle school classmates, but also good friends in the village who are close to each other. Even Guan Wentao's name was given by Lin Xu's father, Lin Lang.

Their village is called Guan Village, and nine adults in the village are surnamed Guan, and legend has it that they are a descendant of the famous Guan Gong. However, it is unknown whether it is true or not, and there has never been any specific research. However, they are also in Hedong here, and they are not particularly far from Guan Yu's hometown.

But Lin Xu often thinks that this is just a statement that future generations tend to be attached to the flames and like to set up a famous ancestor, and feel that there is light on his face like this, and he satisfies his vanity. Just like his grandfather often said that their old Lin family was the descendant of Lin Zexu, Lin Xu had long been skeptical of this statement.

However, their family is indeed an out-of-town household, and it was his great-grandfather's generation who moved to settle in this village, and they are a unique family in the village. As for where the specific ancestral hometown is, because in those war-torn years, their family moved back and forth for generations, but it is long gone.

Lin Xu's father, Lin Lang, has also studied very well since he was a child, and he studied until high school. But the reality was cruel, and he had to end his studies gloomily and return to the village after graduating from high school to help his parents run the family business.

But even so, his level of education is very high in the village. Therefore, under the relationship of his father, Lin Xu's grandfather, he became the village accountant. Lin Xu's grandfather is an old party member, and he also served as the village head, so he still has this connection. What's more, the village is not big, and it is not a particularly important location, and Lin Lang is fully capable of doing this.

has been doing it until now, and it has been doing it for more than ten years. With Lin Lang's high school education, in this small village, he is a high-level intellectual, a cultured and knowledgeable person. And he is popular in the village on weekdays, gets along with everyone, and has been an accountant for more than ten years, so he can be regarded as a virtuous person. Therefore, some families in the village have children, and many of them will ask him to name the child.

Guan Wentao was just one of them, and it was Lin Lang who helped him get it at the four requests of his father Guan Yufu. These four requirements, one is to be good-sounding, the second is to be not rustic, the third is to be promising, and the fourth is to make people feel that this person is literate when they hear it. The name "Wen Tao" still made Guan Yufu more satisfied, but Guan Wentao, the son he had high hopes for, made him very dissatisfied. Because Guan Wentao did not study well and his grades were too poor, he often scolded Guan Wentao in one sentence, "Ah, boy, are you worthy of your name!"

Even his classmates and teachers at school often used Guan Wentao's name to make fun of him and ridicule him. But Guan Wentao is really a natural optimist, and if you beat and scold him, say that he laughs at him, it can't affect his good mood. When he was a child, he was often beaten by his father and cried, and sometimes he ran to Lin Xu's house to hide, but now he has already been beaten and treated as commonplace. It didn't hurt for long, and it was giggling again.

But Lin Xu never made fun of him with his name or body type, and even when the relationship between the two was particularly good in elementary school, the teacher openly taught his mother to secretly dissuade Lin Xu from associating with backward classmates and bad children like Guan Wentao, for fear that he would be taken seriously by him, he also turned a deaf ear, and often helped Guan Wentao study. This is a point that makes Guan Wentao very moved, so he also cares about Lin Xu's friend.

Lin Xu smiled at Guan Wentao, watched him approach, pointed to the thatched house in the southwest corner, and said, "You go in first, I'll go to the thatch." In the local vernacular, the "thatched house" is called "thatched".

Guan Wentao was still holding a roll of red paper in his hand, and Lin Xu knew that he had used it to ask his father to write Spring Festival couplets. His father wrote a good calligraphy, and every Spring Festival he would help every family in the village to write Spring Festival couplets. It's free, but you'll have to bring your own red paper. Although it is said to be "twenty-four, write big characters", his father usually started after everyone swept the house after twenty-five, and everyone in the village also knew this habit over the years, and they all brought a few pieces of big red paper after twenty-five.

However, there are also some who came earlier, such as the first two nights of this year, when someone brought paper. Yesterday afternoon, when Lin Xu was practicing on the roof of the bungalow, someone also came, and Guan Wentao was the third this year. He nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll go in first!" He was already familiar with the way, and he was not polite. walked to the door, staggered past Lin Xu, and asked again, "Have you eaten?"

"Eat. Lin Qiuxu replied, nodded and turned around to go to the thatched house first, but did not ask Guan Wentao if he had eaten. This is what makes him different from others, and it is also a portrayal of his introversion and lack of talking. On weekdays, when people greet him like this, he will only reply, but never ask back. Then you say something, and he will leave if it's okay.

Guan Wentao knows him very well, so naturally he won't blame him. But many people don't know and don't understand, so they don't like him, think that he doesn't know how to be polite, and therefore don't associate with him.

Guan Wentao smiled again and walked straight into the door.

When Lin Xu returned home after going to the thatched house, Guan Wentao was helping his father Lin Lang to cut paper with thread.

The paper used to write couplets is very long, and it is not very convenient to cut it with a knife or scissors, so a thin wire is usually used. Fold the paper, untie it from the ball of thread, thread it through it, and fold it tightly against the seams. One person holds down one end, and one person holds down the paper and pulls it from the other end, and it is cut with a long sound, which is fast and convenient.

Every year when his father writes Spring Festival couplets, Lin Xu and his sister will help his father cut paper, and they will take the written Spring Festival couplets everywhere and spread them out to dry the ink. If there is someone who comes to write the Spring Festival couplets, there will be many people who will automatically help, and when there is no one, they will use their brother and sister.

Sometimes many people can't wait, so many people will leave the paper and go to another house first, estimating the time to wait for a while or the next day to pick it up. Sometimes someone forgets to pick it up or comes too late to make people think he forgot, at this time he and his sister have another job, which is to send the Spring Festival couplets written by each family to the door.

However, he is mainly responsible for riding a bicycle to take his sister and the Spring Festival couplets, and to accompany his sister, and it is his sister who talks to the door. Compared with the introverted him, his sister Lin Tong's personality is much more extroverted, cheerful, lively and active, loves to talk and laugh, loves to cry and make trouble, can talk, and has a sweet mouth.

The huge contrast in the personalities of the two often makes parents jokingly complain that the two are reversed, if the two can be reversed, the elder brother's personality is as cheerful as his sister, and his sister's personality is as quiet as his brother, then it would be really good.

Sometimes my father will go, sometimes my mother will go, and sometimes my sister will go alone, but there has never been a time when Lin Xu went alone. And when dealing with people like this, his parents would never send him because he couldn't speak. He didn't want to go himself, his parents and grandfather, grandma, grandpa, grandma and others had told him how many times he wanted him to communicate with people more and practice talking more.

But it never worked, and he didn't want to say it. Sometimes I want to try, but often when it comes to the end, I will back down, and I just can't say the words. There is also that he thinks that many people talk nonsense, and when they come to do things, they don't talk about it, they have to say a lot of nonsense first, and it will take a while to get to the point.

He didn't understand it before, but now that he has read more books, he has gradually understood that this is actually a way of communication between people. The communication and friendship between many people actually rely on these nonsense, some insignificant greetings, some insincere greetings, some inconsistent care, and some trivial gossip.

But although he understands it, he still doesn't like this way of communicating and doesn't like to talk nonsense. In fact, he is a bit autistic, thinking and thinking in his own world, enjoying himself or seeking troubles, but he never communicates with others.

Although he is a good friend like Guan Wentao who has a good relationship and talks about everything, he will not say some things to Guan Wentao, and he doesn't know how to say it, let alone what he can do.

The young man's mind is wild, cranky, and chaotic.