Chapter 14: Hometown

Zhang Heng has never gone back since he left his hometown, even if he has grown up and has a certain amount of freedom to leave the capital, after leaving the medical university, he still hasn't gone back once, even if it is on his atlas, on the marking point in his hometown, it has long been rubbed to the point that even the handwriting of the name of the village is very blurred, and he still has not gone back once.

Whether it is said that it is cowardice in his hometown, whether it is that he has many scruples, or whether he is ashamed and difficult to return, in short, Zhang Heng does not want to go back to his hometown.

It's just that at this time, he can't help but go back, Hao Qi is a man of action, hearing the wind is rain, after discussing with Zhang Heng, he directly went to buy a large number of supplies with Zhang Heng, and then went to the horse market to buy two healthy horses, a few hours before and after, and then Hao Qi and Zhang Heng set off to Zhang Heng's hometown.

Although Zhang Heng's hometown is remote, but the whole Baicao country is not big, the two of them set off at about noon, and the two stayed in the wild for a night on the way, and arrived at his hometown in the afternoon of the next day, a small village built against the mountains with only a few hundred residents.

The name of this village is Baishan Village, because there is a huge snow-capped mountain towering in the mountains behind the village, so the village is named Baishan Village after this huge mountain, it is a small mountain village with only a few hundred inhabitants, it looks ordinary and has nothing special.

When Hao Qi and Zhang Heng came to the entrance of the small mountain village, Zhang Heng got off the horse and stood at the entrance of the village for a long time, and then looked left and right, as if the small village in front of him and the village in his memory were fused with each other.

The whole village looks very backward, at least Hao Qi has not seen anything with traces of modern technology in the village, you must know that this world has actually begun to use electricity initially, although there is no computer or anything, but there are electric lights or something, and this village has not seen it at all, the same, there is no steam engine, and there are no other scientific and technological creations, it is a very backward earthen house, farmland, villages, cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, etc., this is the most "feudal era" village that Hao Qi has seen with his own eyes.

"It hasn't changed...... Twenty years later, nothing has changed. Zhang Heng muttered as he walked.

Hao Qi said on the side: " Nonsense, the traffic here is very inconvenient, the infrastructure of Baicao Country is not done well, in addition to the capital is a modern city, there is a national medical university built better, other places are quite backward, the main road is only connected to the big towns, small and medium-sized towns are not connected, only some dirt roads and country roads are connected to each other, this is very deadly, as for this village, there are not even country roads, only dilapidated dirt roads, and from time to time, how do you let the goods circulate? If commodities cannot be circulated, then it is only a natural economy of small farmers, and it is strange that it can be developed in this way. ”

Hao Qi talked to himself, talking as he walked, and after a long time, he came back to his senses and there was no footsteps next to him, and when he stopped, he saw Zhang Heng looking at him in surprise not far away, and then saw Zhang Heng hurriedly ran a few steps to his side, and then spoke: "I don't know if you are still proficient in economics...... And it's economics that I've never heard of, didn't you say before that you were born as an orphan? Are you an otaku who only knows how to practice boxing? ”

Hao Qi laughed bitterly, and said as he walked: "Do you know how difficult it is for an orphan to practice boxing? You said that you were nominally adopted by that Sid bachelor since you were a child, and although you were bullied in school, you still have a bite to eat, and it is estimated that you can still eat enough, right? As an orphan, being able to eat enough is the luckiest thing. ”

"You probably know some common sense about boxing, right? If you want to practice boxing, you must eat meat first, even if you don't have enough meat, but you should always know that other foods must be full, right? I started practicing boxing at the age of nine, and it has been ten ......years now," Hao Qi said bitterly while recalling.

"Wait, wait!You're only 19 years old this year!?" Zhang Heng looked at Hao Qidao in surprise.

Hao Qi stopped talking a little embarrassed, in fact, he was indeed 19 years old before the resurrection broke out, but at that time, he was ambushed in the Blue Shadow Republic and had to rely on the system to resurrect the outbreak once, at that time he consumed one-third of his life to successfully fight back, since then, his body and appearance have been growing rapidly, and these days, it has made him look at least twenty-seven or eighteen years old, so he said that he was only 19 years old, Zhang Heng was so unbelievable.

"I, I'm old, can you handle it!?" Hao Qi roared a little annoyed, looking at Zhang Heng's cowardly expression, he apologized and continued: "In short, I have been boxing for ten years, and I have been boxing since I was in an orphanage, by the way, I am from the Blue Shadow Republic, this country you know, it is the country that attaches the most importance to education in the eastern region of the Blue Ocean, so I was fortunate to enter the school, and I was really poor and crazy at that time, so at that time, in order to be able to make up for the nutrition of boxing, I had to get a scholarship every semester. ”

Zhang Heng asked again in surprise: "Every semester, I have heard of the Blue Shadow Republic, which attaches great importance to education, and can get a scholarship there...... Are you a top student?"

"A real scholar!" Hao Qi laughed, and then his expression became bitter again, he continued: "Just like this, it's not enough for me to consume, just eating is actually not enough, this is the consumption of boxing, how much scholarship can there be? That is the so-called bonus, to live, to eat, to buy all kinds of things, especially the consumption of martial arts practitioners, do you think it is enough? Not enough, far from enough, so if there is no buddy, then I will die." ”

"Is that the black buddy you told me on the top of the mountain?" asked Zhang Heng.

"Yes, that's him. Hao Qi nodded and continued: " He began to mix with the black at a very young age, at first as a small follower, then a small pickpocket, and then to a clever guard or something, and then sold some soft drugs, or pimped or something, but you should be able to imagine that he has no martial arts qualifications, almost like an ordinary person, that is, to be smart, to see people better, people who should not be offended must not be offended, as the bottom of the underworld, but also want to make a lot of money, barely enough to eat, most of this food and clothing was given to me, I remember going to see him a few times, he secretly put some black steamed buns, that is, the kind of multigrain steamed buns mixed with a lot of chaff to hide, for fear that I will seeThat's all my buddies, my lifelong brothers...... And you can imagine, I was in that situation, I was as thin as a monkey and boxed every day, and 5,000 punches a day was my minimum goal, and then I practiced for ten years, until I entered college, and then I became an internal force after I entered college. ”

"Ten years of fighting, nineteen-year-old internal force realm, wait, I'll sort out my thoughts......" Zhang Heng hurriedly waved his hand, thought for a long time, and then looked at Hao Qi with a look of looking at aliens: "You fought a set of boxing techniques, right? It took ten years to beat this set of boxing techniques to the peak of the realm?

"Yes, how do you know?" Hao Qi looked at Zhang Hengdao with some inexplicability.

"Innate Dao Body ......" Zhang Heng sighed, read out four words in a very small voice, he didn't explain, but continued: "I understand this, but you are really amazing, while studying, getting a scholarship, and then practicing boxing, you probably don't know, right?" The vast majority of martial arts practitioners, as long as they find good qualifications since childhood, basically practice martial arts wholeheartedly, and rarely go to study, generally after becoming a quasi-internal force realm, they start to read gradually, and even some extreme people, who have practiced for fifty or sixty years with their heads stuffy, either become an internal force realm, or die of old age and weakness, if they become an internal force realm, they start to study slowly, if they die of old age and are weak, they will eat and wait for death, and enjoy the last life, this is the norm, you are really amazing. ”

"Hahaha, I think so myself. Hao Qi grinned and scratched his head with his hand, while Zhang Heng looked at him a little speechlessly.

While talking, the two have come to the original place of residence in Zhang Heng's memory, that is, the old house where he lived with his father at the earliest, and at this moment there is nothing left in this old house, only some broken walls and pillars, most of the building materials are gone, and you can vaguely see that there are traces of the house here.

Zhang Heng stood silently in front of the traces of this house, just like this, without any movement for a long time, and Hao Qi didn't say anything, didn't make any movements, just stood next to Zhang Heng.

After a long time, tears flowed out of Zhang Heng's eyes, the best memories of his childhood, the hometown in his memory, mixed with every insult in the past twenty years, laughing at him, isolating him, beating him, scolding him, stealing his stationery and textbooks, marking his desk with insulting traces and words, stepping him to the ground in the toilet, and peeing on him......

All this was mixed together, the tears in Zhang Heng's eyes couldn't be stopped, they flowed more and more, and finally, he cried out loud and loudly.

"I'm back, Dad...... Mommy ......"

"I'm Zhang Heng! I'm back!"