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Chapter 3 Biography of Xiu Er

After hearing this, the God of Exhibits could not believe his ears. There are still people in this world who do not give him good, but they always think about doing good for others.

The god of Xiandao couldn't figure it out and didn't think much, but agreed.

"Auntie, don't worry, at midnight tonight, I will do it to make all the scared people recover as before. And build a three-mile green stone road for your village from east to west. From then on, you will not wet your feet on rainy days and will not slip on snowy days. I also asked my aunt to put the little god."

When Xiu'er heard this, she nodded and loosened her foot binding.

Then a cold wind suddenly popped up on the flat ground, showing that the gods ran away without a trace.

The next morning, people discovered that the people who were frightened by the God of Exposition were magical overnight. Moreover, those who got up early to work also found that the mud road at the entrance of the village was gone, and there was an extra road made of bluestone slabs, which was clean and there was not even a small stone.

Later, in order to commemorate Xiu'er's bravery and kindness, people named it Xiangxiu Road and erected a monument to commemorate it.

Okay, the folk legend has been told, let’s talk about the story of the god of the Tao in our village.

And this story happened to me.

That was in the 1970s, and the households had not yet been divided into households. At that time, the members still existed in the form of small teams, which was a brigade that had several small teams, and then everyone worked together to work together. Each team had a production team leader and an accountant.

Our village is divided into six squads, each squad has its own land to sow, as well as the livestock assigned to its squad by the brigade and some labor tools. In addition, each squad also has its own yard for harvesting wheat in summer and harvesting corn, millet, beans, etc. in autumn. Each squad has it, but the area is different.

That night, a village projection team came to our village to play the movie "The Snow Field of the Forest Sea".

At that time, rural cultural life was extremely scarce. Although the village had already used electricity at that time, it was abnormal to use electrodes. Sometimes it stopped several times a night, and sometimes it did not call continuously for several days. Therefore, people who worked for a day would close the door and go to bed after dinner early.

At this time, the brigade's speakers suddenly broadcast, and a village projection team came to our village to play the movies tonight, and the small mountain village suddenly became excited.

The adults were busy preparing small stools, and the children were cheering and running around to tell each other, asking their friends to go to the movies together.

The movie was played in the first team of yards, at the southernmost point of the village, while my family belonged to the fifth team, and my family was in the northeast corner of the village, which was a bit far apart. When I heard the brigade radio, my father had already gone to bed for a day. My brother Daliang was already the main laborer in the village at that time. When I was young, I was called by the captain and went to the team's livestock room to process and cut grass, and could earn three centimeters a night.

I was fourteen or fifteen years old at that time. After school, I often worked in the team with my father and brother.

That night, my mother and I were ready to go to bed after packing up.

At this time, the brigade's speaker radio was about to play the movie, "Linhai and snowy fields...the location is in the first team's yard."

This made me very happy. The village doesn’t play a few movies a year, and this time it’s also played Lin Hai Xueyuan, so I must watch it carefully.

"Mom, mom, I'm going to see a movie, are you going?"

"I, I won't go, your father is sleeping too, I have to wait for your brother to come back. You can go and see it. Remember to come back early after reading it, and you have to get up early tomorrow to go to work."

"Oh, ah, who are you going with? Go ahead and call Xiaoqiang, so you have a companion."

I ran out of the yard with my mother's advice, thinking that I had to go quickly, and if I go late, I would look down on the opening.

In the past, rural housing was not as flat as it is now. In the ravine, halfway up the mountain, it was steeped along the slope. On top of this family was the cave of another family, and above the house was the courtyard of another family. On the slightly flat area, no one lived in it because everyone could not afford to build a house, and digging a cave dwelling saved more money and time, and it was warm in winter and cool in summer. Therefore, everyone in the whole village lived in cave dwellings, and the few blue-coded large tiled houses in the village were also from the landlords and rich peasants in the village before the liberation. After liberation, they were also distributed to poor and lower-middle peasants who did not live in a house.

While listening to my mother's advice, I went out to Xiaoqiang's house with cigarettes. Xiaoqiang's house lives south of my house, and the two families are more than 30 meters apart.

"Xiaoqiang, Xiaoqiang, I ran like this and called Xiaoqiang's name loudly."

Hey, no one agreed. I called twice, but no one echoed. I stood outside the fence door of Xiaoqiang's house and looked into the yard. There was no black and oily light at all. There was no one inside the house, and there was a stick in the fence door. Xiaoqiang and his family should have gone to the movies.

I had no companionship, so I could only walk to the screening site alone.

From my house to the first team of the projection site, you have to walk through the east bank where he lives, and then go through a small slope that is slanted and crooked, pass through the third team of the threshing ground, and then come to the center of the village, a relatively flat dirt road.

On the right side of the dirt road is the village's primary school, further ahead is the village's oil mill, and on the left is a blacksmith shop and scattered residents. At that time, there were no street lights in the village, and there were dark areas everywhere. Occasionally, through the fence walls and low courtyard walls, faint lights could be exposed, like stars flashing, and from time to time, one or two dog barking sounds could be heard.

I was born and raised in the village since I was a child. Whether I was in school or working in the team, I was very familiar with the village. I could walk to the team's screening venue with my eyes closed.

At this time, a faint moonlight appeared in the sky, and I walked faster. Turning west, I stepped onto the top of the cave of the landlord Wang Laocai's house before the liberation, then went down a small slope in a rugged area, and then passed through the Machi in the village. It was a team of screening sites, and half a mile could reach the screening sites.

I walked quickly under my feet, and I seemed to hear the sound coming from the movie scene.

Just as I was excitedly thinking, turning west, I suddenly found that there seemed to be someone walking in front of me, about a hundred meters away.

Because it was night and I couldn't see clearly, the man seemed to be carrying a light, and a faint light came out. When I saw this, someone in front accelerated his pace and ran forward, shouting: "Hey, who is ahead? Wait for me, let's keep up."

"You are going to watch a movie, I will go too, let's go together." I shouted, speeding up and chasing forward. The people in front of me didn't seem to hear my shouting, and they still walked slowly with the lantern.
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