dream village

After getting off the car at Gaotang, he set foot on the trail connecting the village to the outside world.

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, the sky was full of stars, and the moon was like a silver plate, spreading its milky white light without hesitation, as if covering the earth and mountains with a thin veil.

The whole mountain is very quiet and peaceful, only those miscellaneous insects, frogs and so on are still singing their not very pleasant songs tirelessly showing off.

They think they are holding a concert. Although they don't need tickets, they also hope that there will be many audiences and applause.But the uncle of the farmer who has worked hard all day is exhausted. How can he listen to the music that is no different from noise?

Zhang Tao buried his head on the road, and he had already thrown the things of the day to the back of his mind, just like the stone on the side of the road that he kicked and flew to an unknown place in the darkness.Shanchong's night didn't attract him at all, he was thinking about another thing, and his expression was a little restless and melancholy.

The day after tomorrow is the day to get out of the rankings, and I don't know how I did in the exam.Thinking of this, a kind of worry and panic pressed heavily on him, and he trembled for no reason.

"The college entrance examination is really cruel!" There was such a terrifying cry in his heart.It is a war that does not sell cigarettes, and it is a cruel, merciless and bloody war.

After more than ten years of hard study, what is tested is just such an exam; a person's fate is only determined by the scores composed of those few Arabic numerals.Rather than saying that this demonstrates a kind of fairness, it is better to say that it reflects a kind of inhuman cruelty.The college entrance examination is at best a modern version of the imperial examination system.

He has always hated this kind of college entrance examination system. He thinks it is a rigid and backward system, which greatly restricts people's thinking and creativity. Second, the so-called talent.

However, hate turns to hate, and he still went all out in the past few days of the college entrance examination.After ten years of hard work, success or failure depends on one action, can you not be cautious?

Then he recalled the scene when he came out of the examination room.

The three days of the college entrance examination were really three days of suffering.No!Zhang Tao, who came out of the examination room, looked a little tired and lonely, as if he had suffered some huge emotional trauma, or he had just rushed ashore after busy work under the scorching sun.

"Brother Tao!" People kept greeting him on campus, with enthusiasm and joy on their faces, as if they were old acquaintances.

Brother Tao is very famous in school, almost everyone doesn't know him.He bowed his head and walked around the path in the garden, but he still couldn't avoid the inquiring eyes and warm greetings of many fans.

Being a celebrity is fucking hard.

When approaching the school gate, the security guard Liu Quan stood there and greeted Zhang Tao with a smile, "Brother Tao, the exam is over!"

Zhang Tao let out an absent-minded oh.

Liu Quan then said flatteringly: "Brother Tao, your brothers are waiting for you outside." After speaking, he grumbled outside.

"Brother Tao!" The brothers of the Ten Fingers Gang who had already come out and guarded the gate, gathered around when they saw the boss.

"Brother Tao, how did you do in the exam?" Wang Meng shouted carelessly.It was still such a sentence that Zhang Tao hated to answer.

"It's okay!" Zhang Tao replied lightly, with a faint smile on his face.

"That's needless to say! Who is Brother Tao? That's a top [-] character in No. [-] High School. This time, he's at least heavy-duty, and he might even be in the top ten elite schools!" Fatty He Zhiping boasted.

"That's true. As long as Brother Tao performs normally, he should have the strength to attack the top ten famous schools." Stick Lao Li Fan nodded in agreement.

"Go! Go! Go drink!" Meng Zi grabbed Zhang Tao's hand and said enthusiastically, "Congratulations to our boss in advance!"

"No, I have to go back today!" Zhang Tao broke Mengzi's hand and said firmly, "You know, I have to see my uncle." Some time ago he heard that his uncle was terminally ill and dying.

"What?" Everyone looked confused and dissatisfied.

"Brother Tao!" Peng Xiaowen, who is sensitive and experienced, noticed a trace of panic and worry on Zhang Tao's face, and an ominous omen appeared in his heart. Could it be that Brother Tao did not pass the exam well?He didn't say anything further, but just looked at Zhang Tao quietly with an inquiring and concerned look.

Zhang Tao avoided Xiao Wen's gaze, turned his head and asked Gao Zi, "Gao Zi, are you coming back today?"

"Brother Tao, do you have to go back? It's not too late tonight!" Gao Zi said hesitantly, "You see there will be a party in class tonight, so what's the point of you leaving?"

"I have to go back. You know, my uncle was very good to me when I was a child. If I don't see him for the last time, I will regret it for the rest of my life." Zhang Tao's attitude became more determined.

Then he smiled and said, "Either you stay here! You can tell me what's new tonight when you get home." His smile was a bit forced.

"Haha! Brother Tao, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave." The fat man jokingly said, "Your wife Liu Jing is here!"

Zhang Tao looked back, and sure enough, he saw a tall, elegant girl with fair skin chasing them from behind.

"Just say you didn't see me!" Zhang Tao warned.

He glanced at his brothers with some nostalgia and melancholy, then hurriedly walked towards a side alley.Liu Jing was his lover for three years. If he was entangled with her, he might not be able to leave.

"Brother Tao is really too, you don't even have a graduation dinner, why is it so urgent?" Zhang Tao's departure made everyone a little dull, and many people even complained.

Only Xiaowen walked silently without saying a word.He recalled and pondered Zhang Tao's tone and expression, and the ominous omen became stronger and stronger.But he didn't dare to say it out, it would be ridiculed or even hit by his brothers collectively.

"Where's Brother Tao?" Liu Jing asked out of breath.Due to her rush, her fair face was flushed red, covered with fine beads of sweat.Her full breasts trembled rapidly, making her even more charming and dazzling.

Mengzi and Fatty stared straight at Liu Jing's trembling, and forgot to answer.The others glanced at each other, a little dazed, expecting someone else to tell the lie.

"You fat man, what are you looking at!" Liu Jing slapped the fat man's arm and said angrily, "Are you all dumb?"

"Brother Tao?" The fat man who was beaten blushed and said, "Are we waiting for him too?"

"Cut! Did I see him from behind just now?" Liu Jing looked in disbelief.

"Then you should ask them!" the fat man said aggrievedly.

"Brother Wen, where's Brother Tao?" Liu Jing felt that the steady and honest Xiaowen should be able to tell the truth.

"I really didn't see it, we are waiting for him too." Xiaowen said seriously.Although he is two years older than Zhang Tao, he still has to listen to Brother Tao's words. This is a habit developed in the past three years of high school.

"This is really strange. I clearly saw him with you, why did he disappear in the blink of an eye?" Liu Jing searched around suspiciously.

Zhang Tao watched this scene behind an ancient pagoda tree in a small alley, and left with a long sigh.

Thinking of these things, Zhang Tao had mixed feelings in his heart, both warm and sad.He lowered his head and ran forward at a leisurely pace along this rushing path in his hometown.

This trail has left too many footprints for him, and it has also sown too much joy and pain. It has always been engraved in his heart and in his memory of his hometown. to his dream.

The closer he was to his hometown, the more cordial and warm he felt, and many childhood memories and things about his hometown flooded his mind.

However, what followed was a heavier sadness, desolation and helplessness.The spring breeze of reform and opening up has blown across the land of China. Although my hometown has also changed, its poverty and backwardness have not been fundamentally changed.

If it weren't for the fact that there is an underground well nearby, and they can earn some money to subsidize the family, the people in my hometown will probably still live a miserable life on those few acres of thin land.

Thinking of the incident of going down the well, the tragedies of many villagers' mishaps in the coal mine appeared in Zhang Tao's mind one by one, and he couldn't stop feeling inexplicable indignation.

"These shitty coal bosses are all black-hearted cannibals, cruel and ruthless executioners."

These things made him feel even worse. He didn't think about it, and rushed home.

When he arrived at Liujiapu, Zhang Tao saw that the playground in front of the village primary school was brightly lit, and the light from miner's lamps intertwined in the night sky, making the entire Shanchong extraordinarily bright.

There was a lot of people gathered on the playground, everyone was shouting and shouting, and they seemed to be very emotional.Miserable and mournful cries were mixed with the noise.The voice was made by a woman, and it sounded familiar, but Zhang Tao couldn't tell who it was for a while.

"What happened?" Fear and worry seemed to pass through Zhang Tao's heart like lightning, and a shadow of a relative who might suffer misfortune suddenly enveloped him tightly.He fell down and felt depressed, and hurried to the school.