There is a primary school in Mazui Village. When Lu Shanmin went to school, there were enough students for each grade in the school to fill a class. With more and more people going out, now the entire school plus teachers only have
A group of thirty or forty people heard from the village chief that the village primary school would be withdrawn next year and merged into the town.
The night in the mountains is unusually quiet. Only the breeze is accompanied by the chirping of insects. The colors are also very monotonous. There is only the bright moon and stars. Apart from that, there is only endless silence and darkness. The mountain residents climbed up to the roofs and looked out into the distance through the moonlight.
There is an earthen house on the hillside in the distance. It is Bai Fugui's home and Bai Ling's home.
Bai Ling is the most beautiful girl in Mazui Village. Lu Shanmin and she are neighbors and classmates in elementary school. The two were childhood sweethearts. At that time, they went to school together every day. When it rained and there was a stream that was difficult to cross, Lu Shanmin would carry her on his back.
We walked together. In school, if any blind naughty guy dared to bully Bai Ling, he would definitely be beaten to the ground by Lu Shanmin. Later, Carpenter Bai could take fewer and fewer jobs, and he was not good at hunting. The family
It's rare for people to have a meal of meat. Every once in a while, Lu Shanmin secretly takes out some meat from home and sends it to Bai Ling's family. He was bumped into by the old man several times, and he would tease him a few times every time.
I'm sending meat to your little wife again. It's useless. She's not well-fed.' Every time he heard the old man's nonsense, Lu Shanmin became so angry that he grabbed whatever he could reach.
He greeted the old magic stick crazily.
After graduating from elementary school, Lu Shanmin did not continue to attend junior high school because at that time, Lu Shanmin's illness required him to receive abnormal treatment from Mr. Huang every day. Mazui Village was still dozens of miles away from the town, and it was all a mountainous road. To study in junior high school in the town, you had to live there.
School, then I wouldn't be able to accept Lao Huang's 'roll out the noodles and make dumplings' therapy every day.
That night, it was also on this rooftop that Bai Ling sat next to him, crying like a tearful person. His tearful eyes were the most beautiful scenery in the world, but they made the people of Lushan feel heartbroken.
Bai Ling wanted to go to junior high school, but Bai Fugui didn't have much carpentry work to do at that time, and his family was so poor that there was no money left for her to go to school. What's more, people in the mountains were still relatively backward in their thinking. In Bai Fugui's eyes, it was hard to raise a child.
The daughter just wanted to earn some money as a bride price, so spending money on Bai Ling to study was a loss-making deal. The couple put their minds together and decided not to let Bai Ling continue to attend junior high school.
Lu Shanmin wiped Bai Ling's tears with his hand, and suddenly a cloud of pride rose in his chest, "I will go to the mountains to hunt pheasants and blind bears, and I will support your education."
Bai Ling hummed softly, with a bright smile on her face. She had always had an inexplicable trust in Lu Shanmin since she was a child, because Lu Shanmin never broke his promise.
Seeing Bai Ling's tears turning into a smile, Lu Shanmin also laughed happily. On that day, Lu Shanmin felt that he was no longer a boy, but a man who stood upright.
Later, Bai Ling successfully entered junior high school. At that time, every weekend, Lu Shanmin would walk dozens of miles of mountain roads to the town to pick her up. In the past, Bai Ling's favorite thing was to sit next to Lu Shanmin, tilting her head and quietly listening to him talk about hunting in the mountains.
I don’t know since when, Bai Ling no longer liked to listen to the stories of pheasants and wild roe deer in the mountains. Lu Shanmin gradually turned to look at her quietly, listening to her talk about things in school, and listening to her talk about the things in the town.
Which skirt and pair of shoes they saw on the street were good-looking, Lushan people silently remembered them in their hearts. After that, they took the big black head and rushed into the mountains, hunting like crazy, and then handed it over to Uncle Chen, who was responsible for harvesting the prey at the head of the village, to the town.
Go up and sell it. Bai Ling is right, that skirt is really beautiful. When Bai Ling wears it, she is more beautiful than the fairies in the sky.
Later, Bai Ling went to high school in the county and would only come back during the winter and summer vacations. The two would exchange letters every week. From Bai Ling's letters, Lu Shanmin realized how big the world outside the mountains was.
Most of the houses are as high as the six or seven-story houses in the village, and some are as high as twenty or thirty stories. There are four-wheeled cars everywhere on the road, and there are places selling things that are not called canteens.
It’s called a shopping mall. A shopping mall is more than ten times bigger than the basketball court in front of the village committee. The items inside are staggeringly expensive. A good handbag costs thousands of dollars. There is also a place where people can drink.
The place is called a bar, and there are all kinds of colors including wine, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Looking forward to the stars and the moon, the winter vacation is finally here. When he saw Bai Ling for the first time, Lu Shanmin couldn't believe his eyes. Bai Ling became beautiful again. His skin was much whiter. He was wearing a red down jacket and tight jeans.
, wearing snow-white sneakers, Lu Shanmin thought to himself, the stars in the movie probably look like this. He had thousands of words in his mind, but when he met someone, he couldn't say a single word. Lu Shanmin picked up Bai Bai.
He picked up Ling's luggage and walked forward with a naive smile. Along the way, Bai Ling was talking alone, talking about what was good in the city. For the first time, Lu Shanmin felt that Bai Ling was becoming more and more unfamiliar.
Later, Bai Ling didn't come back during the summer vacation after his freshman year of high school. He said he couldn't keep up with his English scores, so he planned to work part-time for two months to buy something called a repeater. Lu Shanmin didn't know what a repeater was, but
Bai Ling said that it was something that only appeared in recent years, and it cost seven to eight hundred yuan each. Lu Shanmin did not think deeply about why this thing was so expensive. It was expensive enough to cover the annual expenses of a family in Mazui Village. They only knew that it was
If Bai Ling wants something, you should buy it for her.
The most valuable thing in the mountains is undoubtedly the blind bear’s paws. According to Lao Huang, except for being larger, bear paws are not much different from the paws of chickens, ducks and geese. Lushan people don’t understand why people outside the mountains love bear paws so much.
It can only be attributed to the fact that things are rare and valuable. In the past, the Lushan people only followed Big Black Head into the mountains to fight Xiong Xiazi once, but Big Black Head had already left Mazui Village to join the army.
Lu Shanmin did not hesitate, and went into the mountain with Xiao Huang carrying a hunting gun and a hunting knife.
Lu Shanmin had never felt afraid when a big black head stood in front of him before. When he faced an angry big black bear alone, Lu Shanmin felt what fear was for the first time. But he did not retreat, and roared crazily at the big black bear, in order to
This is how to suppress the fear in your heart.
When the news spread that Lushan people carried an adult bear back to the village alone, the villagers were extremely surprised. Mazui Village has been hunters for generations. It was a big black bear, not a wild roe deer. There were not many experienced people.
They were surrounded by old hunters, and hunting alone was tantamount to death. They didn’t know that Lu Shanmin fainted just after he carried the bear, which weighed several hundred kilograms, home. His chest and back were covered with bloody blood from the bear’s claws.
Gouzi, under the treatment of Lao Huang, was in coma for three days and three nights before he woke up.
A rustling sound came from the roof, interrupting Lu Shanmin's thoughts.
The girl with braids sat down next to Lu Shanmin and followed Lu Shanmin's gaze, "Are you still thinking about her? Grandpa Lu often said that studying can make people understand. Maybe she will understand the truth after going to college for four years. At that time, she thought
Maybe he'll come back once he gets through."
The motherless child has been in charge of the family for a long time. She has followed the old magic stick for these years, doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, and visiting people in the village. She has taken care of the inside and outside by herself. Rather than saying that the old magic stick has raised her, it is better to say that she
She raises an old magic stick. Although she is only fourteen years old, she talks like a little adult. She also knows how to say something to comfort people in different ways. No one in the village knows that once they leave the village, who will be willing to come back.
Lu Shanmin touched the girl's braided head affectionately, "Xiao Nizi, some truths are in your heart. It has nothing to do with whether you have read a book or how many books you have read."
The braided girl named Liu Ni looked at Lu Shanmin in surprise, stretched out her hand and touched Lu Shanmin's forehead, frowned and said: "You don't have a fever, why do you sound more and more like Grandpa Lu? You weren't like this before.
It looks like that.”
Lu Shanmin was stunned for a moment and thought about what he just said. It seemed that he sounded a bit like his grandfather.
Lu Shanmin smiled: "You will go to junior high school soon and become a big girl. Next time you go to the market, I will accompany you to the town to buy two nice clothes."
The girl with the crotch braids had a slightly red face, but luckily it was at night so she couldn't see it.
"Brother Shanmin, I've thought about it, I really don't plan to go to junior high school."
Lu Shanmin frowned, "Now you don't have to pay tuition for junior high school. If you are short of living expenses, I will make up for it."
The braided girl raised her arm and hit Lu Shanmin hard on the head, "You really care about eating and not fighting, so you are not afraid that I will become the second white-eyed wolf."
Lu Shanmin touched his head and showed a wry smile, "I know you are worried that I will be left alone after you leave, but you can rest assured, maybe I will get out of this village before you do."
The girl with braided hair suddenly turned her head and widened her eyes: "You want to leave the village?"
Lu Shanmin nodded, then shook his head, "I just have this idea."
The girl with braids is a little unhappy. She has never thought of leaving Mazui Village. In the past few years, there have been fewer and fewer young people in the village. The big black head is gone. If the Lushan people are gone, no one will care about her anymore.
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He pouted and said, "Your illness hasn't been cured yet?"
Lu Shanmin patted his chest and said, "I am now the strongest hunter in the village. Do you think I am sick?"
The girl with braids lowered her head. Except for Old Huang and Grandpa Lu who said that Lu Shanmin was sick, no one in the village believed that Lu Shanmin was sick at all. Except for the big blackhead, Lu Shanmin was already recognized as the most powerful hunter in the village. He could not see anything from his body.
A hint of morbidity.
"Why do you want to go out"?
Lu Shanmin looked at the round moon in the sky with a smile, "I want to go out and see if the outside world is as beautiful as she said."