20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2708, The Yard after Thirty-Six Years

At this point, Zheng Wen Zheng's face showed regret. "So it is said that God is watching every action. Sometimes, there are some things that cannot be said or done carelessly. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Xi thought that my hometown was in Runing Prefecture, so she was particularly enthusiastic about Wang Ying, saying that she and she were from the same hometown and had a connection. An evil fate!"

His words made the whole atmosphere heavy.

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The car kept driving along the riverside. Some roads were easy to drive on, while others were difficult. It was not until around three o'clock in the afternoon that we finally arrived at the place Zheng Wenzhen mentioned.

Not far from the river, there is a dilapidated courtyard. The wall of the courtyard must have collapsed before. Now it is just bricks stacked on top of each other, and thick wooden sticks are used to prop up the wall to prevent it from collapsing.

The courtyard wall was filled with a row of broken pots and tattered clay jars, which were filled with cacti with red and yellow flowers. Some of the cacti were bearing fruits, some of which were ripe and bright red.

You can hear the barking of dogs and the clucking of chickens inside.

"It's been 30 or 40 years. Although it's dilapidated, the house and yard are still the same as before."

Zheng Wenzhen glanced at the hillside opposite. It was still covered with fragrant grass and old trees, which formed huge umbrellas of treetops. Even at this time in the afternoon, the sun was bright and warm, but it still felt eerie.

"How dare they open the door of this courtyard like this? I wonder if the Sun family invited the Yin-Yang Fairy when they built the house."

Zheng Wenzheng smacked his lips and said, "Or maybe he offended someone and got cheated."

"Master, you won't realize it now?"

Zhao Changan asked in surprise.

"Yes, I have always refused to think about things here before. Besides, this is a little different from my previous impression. It has been several decades, so how can I have such a good memory."

As they were talking, the three of them walked to the gate of the yard. The tattered gate was ajar, and Zheng Wenzhen pushed it open and walked in.

Tang Shuang was about to follow, but Zhao Changan gently pulled her hand, shook his head slightly at her, and led her out of the dilapidated gatehouse.

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Zheng Wen Zheng walked into the yard with mixed feelings. A local dog was curled up at the feet of an old woman sitting on a chair. When it heard the sound, it stood up vigilantly and looked at Zheng Wen Zheng, the uninvited guest.

A protesting roar came from his throat.

At this time, the old woman also saw an old man who looked like a cadre walking into the yard, and she thought it was an old cadre who was helping the poor and providing warmth.

He quickly took the cane beside the chair and tapped the dog gently: "Stop barking, a distinguished guest is coming! If you bark again, I will kill you and use your dog meat to treat the distinguished guest!"

He stood up with a flattering smile on his face, which was full of wrinkles of old age, and smiled straight at Zheng Wen.

Especially when she saw Zheng Wen was empty-handed, the old woman smiled even happier, because this meant that after asking her a lot of questions, the old poverty alleviation cadre would give her corresponding money based on the degree of tragedy of her story.

—— Zhao Changan asked Tang Shuang to go back to the car to play, and repeatedly reminded her not to go near the river. Tang Shuang laughed and said that she had participated in the Parrot Island Swimming Across the Yangtze River when she was in high school, and she had also swum in winter in the northeast, and worked as a volunteer for seaside rescue at the beach in Qinhuangdao in summer.

Life is not only colorful, but also full of positive energy, which is conducive to social progress and harmony.

Hearing this, Zhao Changan also sighed in his heart. It was like when he was in high school, he would occasionally eat some barbecued skewers and drink two bottles of cold beer with a cigarette of Henan Tobacco King in his mouth. He would feel that he was extremely awesome. He would stand on the side of the road and look at those honest people who only knew how to study hard. He would feel that he was superior to them and was a winner in life.

However, at this moment, after hearing Tang Shuang's casual words, Zhao Changan had to admit that he was so ignorant at that time that he was as pitiful, ridiculous and insignificant as a frog in a well.

A life like hers is what young people today should have!

Work hard, be self-disciplined, go out bravely, broaden your horizons, cultivate your sentiments, develop good habits and mentality, and have positive ambitions from an early age.

Just like Ma Ge in the summer of 80, when he was 15 years old and still a middle school student, he often went to the West Lake whenever he had time to practice English, and took the initiative to serve as a tour guide for foreign tourists visiting the West Lake.

You have to know that people like Zhao Changan, Zheng Chi, and Wu Yue, when they were 15 years old, spent their summer vacation either thinking about getting money to play in the game hall, or swimming in Taohua River, or watching their favorite TV series and being obsessed with them.

Otherwise, he would save money by renting martial arts novels to read. It was at that time that Zhao Changan fell in love with The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, The Deer and the Cauldron, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and The Twins of Red Lotus. He often discussed the moves in martial arts novels with Wu Yue and others, and was fascinated and envious of the adventures, martial arts, and romantic encounters of the protagonists.

There is no idea in my mind that I can help and serve foreign friends and improve my own learning level at the same time.

And to put it bluntly, if any of them suddenly had such a strange idea, Zhao Changan and the others would think that this guy was stupid and pretending to be cool!

And some of what they knew were also there, such as Xia Wenzhuo went to the Cultural Palace to learn dancing every day during the summer vacation, Chang Youli's daughter was learning piano, and Wu Yue's mother wanted him to learn painting, but Wu Yue refused to obey.

In 85, at the age of 21, Ma Ge, who had taken the college entrance examination three times, was admitted to the Foreign Languages ​​Department of the Normal College as a college student because of his outstanding English performance. The Australian friend wrote to him and invited him to Australia to see a different world and broaden his horizons.

So Ma Ge failed in his visa application seven times, but his persistence also shows that this is the quality of a successful person.

At the same time, in order to help Marco broaden his horizons in Australia, Old Molly sent telegrams to the city of Newcastle and the Australian Embassy in China. Finally, Marco had this trip to Australia across thousands of miles and across the ocean.

Zhao Changan reached out and touched Tang Shuang's butt lovingly, receiving a smiling eye roll from Tang Shuang. He then walked towards the cemetery on the desolate hillside dotted with ancient cypresses.

As I walked over and climbed the hillside, I suddenly felt cooler. The tall treetops blocked the sunlight.

After being washed by water for a long time, these ancient tombs have collapsed. Even the place where Zhao Changan walked by looked like a depression, but it was actually the collapse of the tomb.

However, as Zheng Wenzhen said, the writings on many of the tombstones in these ancient tombs are indeed very elegant, or simple, or slender and sharp like swords and guns.

Zhao Changan walked casually, and soon he stood in front of a pit filled with accumulated wormwood.

This pit faces the Sun family's yard opposite.

He looked to the side again, and saw the pure Duan inkstone stele carved with coiled dragons, crouching tigers and cloud patterns, and knew that this was the place where the teacher had mentioned that night thirty-eight years ago.