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Brother Hu is a well-known "rotten talent" in the village, and his name is also spread in nearby villages.

In the eyes of Wendouzhai people, the serious "Xiucai" is first of all Mr. Feng Shui, and then the teacher. If it's neither, and it's still crepe, then it can only be regarded as a "bad show".

The era of the imperial examination has long been history, but the people of Wendouzhai still evaluate a person's knowledge and talent by the rank of the imperial examination.

After graduating from primary school, Hu Ge also went out to study for a few years, but when he returned home, he became obsessed with "miscellaneous books". In Wendou Village, serious textbooks are considered "books", Mr. Feng Shui's books are also considered "books", and the rest have to be counted as "miscellaneous books".

In my impression, he almost never does farm work, and every morning after dinner he goes to Gaopo to walk the birds, but a martial arts novel is basically always in his hand.

Precisely:

"For men ascended thirteen,

Parents are just playing in front of them.

You don't care about big or small things,

Eat and play on the street every day. ”

After dinner, Brother Hu stuck in the crowd and put a "rotten door". As soon as he arrived, others basically had no right to speak, and they all listened to him "bragging". He talks about the past and the present, and when he blows it, he quotes scriptures, his mouth is like a river, and his head is the Tao.

The most classic thing in his mouth is a couplet. I still remember the second half of the couplet, "If you fall, you will scold, if you don't fall, if you don't fall, you won't fall!" What is ridiculing is a pair of rain-begging couplets in the Yanggong Temple by the river.

Although few people in Wendouzhai are literate, they have always been proud of the reputation of "cultural hometown" created by their ancestors, and they are proud of their exports.

Later, "going to Guangdong" spread like an infectious disease in Wendouzhai.

In those years, many young people in the village seemed to meet overnight to "go to Guangdong". Brother Hu was unwilling to be a "bad showman" on the ground of Wendouzhai for the rest of his life, sold a pig in his family, and after saving enough money for the journey, he also followed the trend to "Guangdong".

Guangdong is very far away, and I heard that it takes three days and three nights to take a car,......

In Wendou Village, in the eyes of every generation, there is a "big place" that they yearn for. First it was "Longli Big Land", then "Hongjiang Big Land", and then it became "Guangdong Big Land".

Guangdong is a big place, and Longli and Hongjiang can't be compared. That's what everyone who came back said.

From the endless reverie that stretches down a river to the beautiful longing that spans thousands of mountains and rivers,...... Times are changing at an unexpected pace. A small Wendou village, it is impossible to close the door of the village, and then "care about his spring, summer and autumn and winter".

This kind of reverie and longing, like a deer, collides with the young and restless hearts in the depths of the mountains, so that they are no longer settled in chopping wood, mowing grass, and plowing fields in Wendou Village, and passing the days day by day.

Of course, Brother Hu is no exception.

I eagerly look forward to growing up soon, and then one day I will get out of Wendou Village and go to the vast world outside the mountain.

The sun and the moon are long in the mountains, and the long days are excited by a kind of hope.

For many years after that, there was no news of Brother Hu. Later, I heard that he had brought back a daughter-in-law and had children. Later, I heard that he had died of a disease.

I've been wondering, if Brother Hu had stayed in Wendouzhai as his "bad showman" and lived a poor but very comfortable life, would he have lived many more years and become an old pedant?

There is no answer. No one could answer.