At the entrance of this small town that few people know except the locals, there is a bicycle repair stall, and it is a show bicycle, a very old kind, pushing a small car, and there is a sign with a key hanging next to it. This kind of bicycle is in the east
The roadside stalls that are almost extinct in big cities are naturally not doing very well here. Such small shops in the east have usually been converted into charging stations for electric vehicles. Pure bicycle repair points are becoming more and more popular.
They are becoming more and more rare, especially in mountainous areas like this. Riding a bicycle bumpy is really unbearable. Some people don’t even have one, so how can they repair it?
The car repairman is an old man of about sixty years old. He is not tall and has a thin body. He has jet black hair on his head with few white hairs rippling in it. People who don't know him will definitely doubt that he has black hair on his head.
Was it dyed?
In fact, hair also reflects a person's health from the side. Although this old man looks a bit wretched, no matter from his eyes or appearance, it has to be said that he is still very healthy. If you know that he never bothers to use any skin care products to cover it up
As for your own appearance.
There is a primary school in a mountain col a few kilometers away from the town. The Hope Project noticed this small place a few years ago and built the Hope Primary School. The teachers there change all the year round, and most of them are volunteer teachers from the eastern coastal areas. Naturally, everyone
I came here to be gilded for a year and a half and then returned. As for the quality of education, it is unlikely to be any better. After all, not many people will take root in such a remote place for a lifetime, and their families with average ambitions will not agree.
In today's society, who doesn't want their children to be rich, and who doesn't want their descendants to suffer here? For most people, those in the poor class still want to let them fend for themselves, and occasionally feel compassion.
It is impossible to get them to help them wholeheartedly.
So the children here have either gone out, because their parents know that only by leaving here can they find the future and have a future.
And those who stay are generally believed to live here forever in the future, just like their parents, who will never leave this small place, marry wives and have children, repeating the life of the previous generation, isolated from the world, as if they had never been there before.
Walking through this world is the same.
For these children, the biggest joy every day is not going to school. Most of them don’t know that going to school can change their lives. They will occasionally envy the colorful world described by the foreign volunteer teachers, but only occasionally. What they prefer is,
On the contrary, it was this car repair stall, and the one I wanted to follow even more was this little old man who looked wretched but was very energetic.
In their opinion, the things mentioned by the teachers in those schools are too ordinary, far less exciting than what this old man said. It seems that he knows everything, as if he has experienced a lot and seen a lot. At least in their opinion, it is better than what the old man said.
Those young teachers want to know a lot more, and what they say is much more exciting than what those young teachers say about the prosperity of the city.
Generations of children grow up slowly, but as long as they are of that age group, they will gather here. Even when they grow up and chat with each other, they will occasionally recall their life with the old man and mention him.
Everyone would laugh involuntarily, and greet him readily when they saw him. In this way, this little old man inadvertently became the most popular person in the town.
They would be very proud to say that what they knew about the outside world and what they knew outside of books was taught by this little old man, and they even did not hesitate to argue with school teachers over this, which ultimately made the young support teachers feel disrespected.
At first, I hoped that the principal of the primary school would still take care of this matter, but after understanding the actual situation, he didn’t say anything more. He just reminded every volunteer teacher who came to have a sense of superiority in front of them.
, but don’t express it in language.
When this sentence reached the old man's ears, he said to these children, your principal is reminding them not to show off.
They didn't understand the principal's words at first, but they laughed instantly after hearing the old man's explanation. They laughed very happily. In this small town, in their lives, no one except the old man can do this, and no one can let him do this.
They are so happy.
The principal may have felt the influence of this little old man on these children, so he specially came to invite him to the school as a janitor. He was said to be a janitor, but his role was actually to chat with the children, and the salary offered to him was no better than that of the support teachers.
Gao had a lifetime guarantee, but without any hesitation or even room to negotiate terms, he refused directly. He said that he just wanted to live at the entrance of the town watching people come and go, watching the sun rise and fall, such a life.
He felt comfortable.
As for what the old man is thinking in his heart, no one knows. Everyone knows that the old man knows a lot of things. Even if he has told them stories for more than ten years, some people have been confused since they were four or five years old until they heard that they became adults at seventeen or eighteen.
I'm not tired of hearing it yet, I can still feel the existence of new things from the old man's mouth. I feel that this man is like a living fossil and can see many people's lives.
The old man must have had a very incredible past. They always said this in secret. At least he was a well-known figure in the past, and he must have had quite a reputation. At least in their eyes now, none of the mayors or anything like that are top-notch.
In their opinion, those principals of schools with rich students and so on were not even a little bit worse than him in terms of his magnanimity.
Will they analyze the domestic and foreign situations with them and let them understand the political turmoil since the founding of the People's Republic of China?
Will they discuss with them the growth history of famous figures such as Einstein and Schrödinger that they have never heard of at the beginning?
In fact, they didn't pay attention to these. The old man only said a few words occasionally, mentioned when sighing, and what they heard. More often, the old man would tell them about scenic spots around the world and things happening around the world every day.
, what kind of person once appeared here.
This is what they admire most about the old man.
The old man is not like those support teachers who always brag about how awesome they are, and always use some things that they don't understand to show their existence. In the old man's words, it is just two words, show off, although they didn't know it at that time.
They knew what these two words meant, but they all remembered the word after hearing the old man say it happily.
The old man always talks about things they can understand, and always tells them something from their own perspective. He doesn't pretend to be profound, he will scold Niang Xipi with them, and he will use their language with them.
When they discuss how good-looking the widow in the east of the town is, they will talk to them, who are already teenagers, that the mayor's daughter will be a beauty in the future, and their parents never worry that they will learn anything bad from following the little old man.
He was very relieved to let them follow him. In order to listen to more stories, they would gather around here after class. When they met someone who repaired a car, they would also help him with it. Over time, most of the children here have mastered two skills.
One repairs the car and the other makes the keys.
But even though most people have these two abilities, there is still only one stall in the entire town that can repair cars and give people keys, because in their minds, this stall will always exist and will never leave.
And what he taught them was not their means of making a living.
Some people left the town and went to big cities. When they came back here, they would come to see him and complain to him about the hardships outside. At this time, he would speak to them in a serious and thoughtful manner.
Their own understanding of life cannot be taught by their fathers who have never been out to see the world. As for the old man, they found that they still couldn't see through him after going out, so they felt that he was even more mysterious.
No matter how many injustices you encounter, you must learn to be grateful. A temporary psychological imbalance will only put you at a disadvantage forever.
No rich person is born rich. You may not be of that class, but you can train your son to become a person of that class. But one day you really become like that, you have to think about what you want to do.
Are you done? Is the life of luxury and luxury what you envy?
Fighting for dreams is worth everything, even if you spend a lifetime of energy, but some people's dreams are just money. They have become the so-called masters in the eyes of most people. In fact, they are the same as those who work for other dreams.
There is no difference between people who work hard all their lives.
The old man is good at everything. In their opinion, everything about the old man is perfect, and his only shortcoming is naturally not a shortcoming.
Although he was very thin, no one could stop him from eating.
For so many years, everyone who grew up with him knows this. No matter what he is doing, no matter when they pass by, they will always see him chewing something, and their parents will also
Knowing this, every time they came, they would ask them to bring a lot of home-produced dry food from home. In their opinion, this stall with a poor business was not enough to maintain his daily expenses, but they
But they ignored that when they didn't bring him anything, he kept coming here, never said a word of bitterness, and kept chewing those steamed buns that tasted the same to them.
No matter how good the food is, if you eat it for decades without changing it, you will always get tired of it.
But he was like an exception. He didn't want anything else they brought him, just the most ordinary steamed buns made at home.
It is a very strange old man who has stayed here for decades. No one remembers the specific time. Most of the old people who saw him suddenly appear here have passed away, but few young people remember him when he was young.
The specific time of the day.
The old man always sighs with a loneliness they cannot understand, yes, it has been so many years.
None of them knew his name. They only knew that someone called him Grandpa Jiu at first, and then they passed it down. I went to Grandpa Jiu, which is what they said to their parents from novels to adults.
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There was still a slight wind and sand blowing outside the town. No outsiders had passed through the town for a long time, but there was a roar of cars not far away. They were telling stories to the children, chewing on the most common steamed buns here.
The little old man also looked over, wanting to see who else had come to this isolated place.
The car stopped not far in front of him, and two people got out of the car, a man and a woman, who looked about the same age as the little old man, and walked straight towards him.
When they walked in front of them, these children all realized that they were here to find the invincible Grandpa Jiu in their hearts, and they all turned sideways.
The little old man remained motionless, just staring at the two of them. His trembling shoulders let the visitor see the uneasiness in his heart.
How many years have they not seen each other? They don't even remember it. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to calm down.
They stared at each other like this for more than ten minutes. When the children all felt bored and wanted to ask, the old woman opened her mouth.