"When you leave the village, don't look back! Go forward with glory and wealth. The desolation of the yellow land makes people sad. How can you make a profit from a few acres of sorghum? A cold kang head, a poor house, a woman who cares about a tiled cave dwelling..."

At the entrance of the village, an old man who often sang Qin opera in the farmland sang a piece for the young people in the village who were about to leave Xiangguan. His voice was loud and his tone was tragic, full of expectations and injustice.

Li Sanyuan looked at the village for a while, and felt mixed emotions in his heart. His roots were buried here. Now, carrying his bookcase and luggage, he left his hometown. Did he plan to go to Shanghai to put down roots?

No, no, Li San's roots will always be rooted in the land here. Not only is his grandfather's grave here, his mother's grave is here, but also his own grave, which will also be here in the future. Fallen leaves return to their roots, and now they leave their hometown

He is not a withered yellow flower of yesterday, but a green leaf in the morning sun. He should fall with the wind and drift with the current, wandering in the vast sea of ​​​​people, wandering to the ends of the earth, until he has had enough drifting, enough waves, and finally, he will return.

My roots are on this piece of yellow earth.

Li San suppressed all her emotions and said softly: "Sister, let's go."

Shen Qingman nodded coldly and got on the tractor parked at the entrance of the village.

The rumbling tractors will carry these young children to the county town to take the bus, to the provincial capital to take the bus, to the provincial capital to take the train, and to take the train to Shanghai.

On this trip, each person received two red tickets, which was enough to cover one month or two months of income for a family in Lijia Village. The tickets they bought were all held in the hands of the country boy. They are still so distressed that their livers are trembling.

I didn't even arrive at the station, but my legs refused to obey and I walked to the ticket refund gate.

However, when they thought of the cakes that Li Tugen drew for them, they were like hungry and thirsty soldiers under the scorching sun. They saw the plum forest. One by one, like wild dogs, they happily rushed into the station and waited for the bus to start.

, no matter how much I wanted to regret it, I was forced to go to the end of the mountain, and I could only follow the car bumping and swaying out of the county.

The mountain road was filled with bumps and bumps, and after twists and turns, we finally got onto a flat highway. The driver said that based on the driving distance, it would take three days and two nights.

At this time, the 27-seater bus was filled with a pungent and choking smell of smoke. Among the 27 people sitting in the bus, two were smoking. One driver and the other brought six people from the same village, Li Tugen. Li Tugen smoked

The cigarettes he bought were Yuxi cigarettes worth more than ten yuan, but he only gave one to the driver and smoked one himself. The rest in the car were all Shaanxi cigarettes respected by the villagers, such as Monkey King.

One after another, neither too much nor too little. Li Tugen held the filter in his hand and happily chatted with his fellow villagers about dropping out of junior high school, going out to work, hanging out in the Shanghai market, etc. Li Tugen talked to himself, and made up his mind about all the mistakes he had made in the past.

The absurd things of the young prodigal are vividly revealed, and the prodigal returns with no money in return.

The people who listened looked at each other in confusion, muttering in their hearts, but on the surface they wanted to be a little less generous. After all, according to him, when he returned to the village this time, he was recruiting workers on behalf of his foreman. When he returned, he would at least be promoted to foreman and take charge of several of their fellow villagers.

people.

"Tugen, you and me are brothers. When we are at the construction site, you have to take care of me." Someone handed me a cigarette and got close to him.

"I've told you several times, don't call me Etugen, call me Etukun, you know?"

Li Tugen had been living outside for several years, and he increasingly disliked the nicknames or nicknames his fellow villagers used to call him, and he also hated this rustic name. For this reason, he spent about thirty minutes correcting the way his fellow villagers treated him.

He was called Li Tukun by the same name. Obviously, after staying in a big city for a long time, he disliked being associated with "locality".

Along the way, the car drove on the asphalt road, and the sun moved from one end to the other. Shen Qingman, who was sitting by the window, had not said a word to Li San yet. His face was as cold as frost, and he repeatedly rejected the dried dates he handed over.

Pancakes.

Li Tugen saw Li San's useless look from the corner of his eye. He gestured to the villagers around him to look at him, and laughed loudly at him: "Guapi, are you from northern Shaanxi? Why don't you know what to do?"

Those who didn’t know better thought he was the son-in-law from Shanghai who loved his wife!”

The villagers all kept silent, and no one dared to make fun of Li San. Their strange silence made the surrounding area quiet for an instant, which made Li Tugen, who was laughing so loudly, seem a bit strange.

"ha"

Li Tugen noticed something was wrong. He looked left and right, dissatisfied and curious about everyone's indifference, "Why don't you laugh? Isn't it possible that the leaders of Lijia Village are feeling guilty after not coming back for a few years?"

"Tu, no, Tu Kun, he is Li San, don't you know him?" Someone saw that Li Tugen had forgotten who Li San was, and kindly reminded him.

Li San? Li Tugen was stunned. After the villagers watched for a few seconds, he suddenly woke up. The cigarette he held in his fingertips shivered and fell to the ground. He didn't have time to stamp out the cigarette, so he held the back of the chair with his hands and rushed away from Li San.

Xiang Fang nodded and bowed, apologizing: "Ha, it turns out to be the third brother Li. Look at my memory, I actually forgot to recruit you. Hehe, do you smoke?"

Li Tugen hurriedly took out the box of Yuxi cigarettes from his pocket, opened the paper cover and wanted to ask someone to pass one around, but then thought something wrong, gritted his teeth and handed over the whole box.

Shen Qingman glanced and took in Li Tugen's arrogant appearance. She said nothing, knowing very well that the reason why they were afraid of Li San was because there was a rumor about him circulating in the village.

There used to be a second-rate man in the village who was idle all day long and did not do his job properly. He was obsessed with cheating and blackmailing his fellow villagers. I don't know why, maybe he was trying to establish his power, but seeing that he was an honest man on all sides, he specifically looked for trouble for him. There was a time when he was caught.

, always blocking Li San at the head of the village and cursing him, and punching and kicking him when he was caught. But Li San was surprisingly good-tempered, and he still smiled and indulged, until the second-rate guy once spoke uncontrollably and started talking.

They actually implicated Aunt Li, and Grandpa was scolded as well.

Since then, the second-rate man has simply disappeared from the world and suddenly disappeared. The village mobilized several searches to find him, but he has never been found. He reported the case, but it took the local police two years to file a case, but they still could not find the man who had not been deregistered.

Missing persons. It is said that the second-rate man came to enlightenment one day and went south to work in a place called Pengcheng. Some say...

But this is not what scares the gangsters who hang out in the county high school all day long. They are worried about another story about Li San coming out of Lijia Village.

According to Li Tiezhu, who went to the mountains to cut firewood during the day, Li San was once hunting in the mountains and was attacked by a 190-kilogram sow wild boar in heat. When he saw it, he was so frightened that he ran away and hid under a rock. He poked his head out.

Then he saw that Li San not only did not run away, but instead attacked him. Like Wu Song fighting a tiger in a play, he beat the wild boar with thick skin and flesh hard, causing the wild boar to scatter all over the ground and run cowardly into the mountains.

Then, Li Tiezhu stared at Li San in amazement as he chased into the deep mountains and old forests. When he saw Li San again, it was already dusk. At that time, the villagers who heard his description stood at the head of the village and looked around, witnessing him carrying the gun and speaking in vain.

Mo's wild boar walked back to the village. Also on that night, gongs and drums were beating in the village, every household was sharpening knives, smoke was rising from the chimneys, and everyone was lighting a fire to eat wild boar in different ways.

Then, Youyou, who was full of oily mouth, described Li San Dou wild boar in a more and more magical way, and even exaggerated it to the point that it almost became a myth. Therefore, those who have heard of it but have never seen it are skeptical and just regard it as a rumor.

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However, Li Tugen still seemed to remember the taste of wild boar meat in his mouth.

"I don't know how to smoke."

As Li San spoke, he noticed that Shen Qingman covered his mouth and nose, showing an expression of disgust with the smell of smoke. He said to Li Tugen: "Tuzi, you should smoke less."

"Okay, okay."

Li Tugen sat back in his seat, immediately took off the cigarette from his ear, put it into the cigarette case, and saw that the cigarette butt he just dropped on the ground was still smoking. He hurriedly put his foot down and crushed it a few times, and breathed out softly.

, carefully looked at Li San again, saw him taking a nap with his eyes closed, turned back angrily, and swallowed.

"Tukun, are you okay?"
Chapter completed!