Chapter 4 Departure

Chapter 4 Departure

The night is a little scary.

The night in the small mountain village always looks so monotonous. When night began to fall, thousands of families were brightly lit and cooking smoke curled up. But as long as it was late at night, there would be no more windows with lights on in the whole village.

It has been nine years since Li Hua came to this world, and he endures the days when he goes to bed at seven or eight o'clock and gets up after five o'clock in the morning. Except for his father Li Bai, almost all honest farmers in the village have followed the natural law of sunrise for generations. At night, when night falls, the lighting is inconvenient, and there are no entertainment programs, so they naturally go to bed early.

This can't help but remind Li Hua of a cold joke that the history teacher explained why there are so many Chinese population in the history class in his last life. That is to say, why is China so populous? Is the reproductive ability of Chinese people too strong? No! Why is that? Because of the lack of entertainment programs in the evening, everyone had nothing to do at night and went to bed early. Li Hua, who was in junior high school at that time, had not understood it yet. In retrospect, it really had a different feeling in his heart!

Li Hua was lying on his ** at this time, tossing and turning that he couldn't sleep. Thinking of what today's cheap father Li Bai said about the "hospital examination", Li Hua was excited. When he returned home from school today, Li Bai solemnly told Li Hua that he should follow several other children to participate in this college examination.

It has been nine years since he came to this world. Li Hua hasn't even gone out to this Li family village, but he has suffocated him. Lijia Village is surrounded by mountains, and it takes two days to walk to the nearest Lefeng Township. Therefore, for Li Hua, who is still single-digit age, he has no ability to reach the countryside alive from the mouth of the mountain forest beast alone.

In this hospital examination, a total of five children participated in the village, including himself, and the other four were 14 or 15 years old. They were tall and several heads taller than Li Hua.

In this way, Li Hua thought and thought about it, and his unconscious eyelids fell asleep more and more.

Li Hua fell asleep deeply, but Li Bai and his wife, who were in the next room, were still talking.

"Fazard, how can you let Baoer go to the hospital examination at such a young age?" Baoer was named by Li Hua by the Li family. Li is also 27 or 28 this year, but her years of hard work make her look like a woman in her thirties. At this time, Li Bai was writing a letter of recommendation at his desk for the five children who were going to go to the hospital tomorrow. Li stood aside and complained to him while grinding for him.

"What do you know?" Li Bai heard Li's dissatisfaction about letting Li Hua participate in the hospital examination at such a young age. Although he was angry verbally, he was happy that he had such a son. Li was scolded by Li Bai and didn't dare to say anything more. He just lowered his head and continued to grind for him.

After a while, after writing the letter of recommendation, Li Bai stopped the wolf brush at hand, carefully folded the letter, put it into a yellowed envelope, and sealed the letter with wax. After writing his name on the front, he was relieved. He turned his head and saw Li with an aggrieved face. He actually smiled, took Li's hand and said, "Madam, don't be angry!"

"How dare the slave family be angry with their father-in-law!" Li lowered his head, muttered in a low voice, and dared not speak loudly. In this ancient society where men are superior and women are inferior, men always have absolute authority at home. How dare women be angry with their husbands?

"Madam, don't be angry. Your father-in-law still wants to thank you here!" Li Bai was also in a good mood at this moment. He actually smiled at Li, arched his hands and bowed.

"Where is this? The slave family has nothing to do except sewing and mending at home. Why does his father-in-law thank the Nu family? Li Bai's bow made Li's heart doubt a lot. She knows that her father-in-law will never thank others for no reason, not to mention her wife.

"Thank you for?" Li Bai patted the skirt of the green shirt and said with a smile, "Thank you for giving Li Bai a good son who came down to earth."

"How do you say this?" Hearing that it was about his son, Li was also very interested and hurriedly asked.

"Madam, my son has been naughty since he was a child, and he will be taught a lesson by me almost every day. However, he is really first-class and intelligent. The articles in my stomach should not be inferior to me now. What is missing is only personnel experience and experience. In fact, he was only six years old in the last hospital examination, but I believe that as long as he goes, he may be able to get a scholar. I didn't let him go. On the one hand, the six-year-old scholar was too shocking, and on the other hand, it just happened to let him read two more years of sages and accumulate more. Too early, the scholar was inevitably arrogant and lost his anger. This time I went to the hospital for a test, and I believe that with my son's articles and poems, I will definitely win the first place and become the first 'case' of the scholar..."

When talking about Li Hua, Li Bai couldn't stop talking at length, and he danced and frowned. Li, who was beside him, also smiled with interest...

Early the next morning, when the first sunlight in the morning shone on the mountain road at the entrance of Lijia Village through the clouds in the mountains, Li Hua and the other four children and the village head Li, who led them, were preparing to set out.

"Baoer, you have never been out of the village, and you are still so young. You have to listen to the village elder when you go out, you know?" Li told Li Hua with tears on the side.

"I know! Got it!" Li Hua responded impatiently. Since he got up in the morning, Li has been told hundreds of times like this, and there will be ghosts if he is not bored.

"Okay, let's go! Li Yan, Li Guan, Li Hao, Li Zhao and Li Hua should do your best to get ahead today. Don't live up to your parents' expectations for you. Li Bai beside him didn't seem to be able to stand Li's nagging and hurriedly urged them to go on the road.

"Li Yan, you guys have to take good care of my baby along the way!" The group carried luggage on the road, but Li still shouted to Li Yan and the four of them in the back.

"I know, mother!" Li Yan answered loudly, and then the group accelerated their footsteps, afraid that Li would catch up and want to get out of Li's sight as soon as possible.

"Little Erlang, carry that schoolbag to school. He is not afraid of the sun and the wind and rain. I'm afraid that my husband will call me for being lazy, ignorant, and I have no face to see my parents..." Walking on the strange mountain road leading to the countryside, Li Hua has a sense of freedom for fish into the sea. He is in a good mood and carries Li's special for him. The cloth bag, strode a big step and happily hummed the children's songs of the previous life.

"Little brother, what song are you singing? That's so nice. Why haven't I heard you sing before? Li Yan is the largest of the five children, and he is also the most honest and honest. It is rare to hear anyone singing in the small mountain village. Now he hears Li Hua's "Song of Little Erlang", which is appropriate and pleasant to listen to.

"This is called the 'Song of Little Erlang', which means that we children study very hard! There is a saying, "It's better to join the underworld than to study hard and tired to study." That's what I mean!" Li Hua ran easily across the bag, but Li Yan and his four village elders were not so relaxed. They had to carry dry food and luggage and various agricultural and sideline products to be sold in the village.

"Oh, that's it!" When it comes to the hardships of studying, several children are deeply convinced. Isn't the ten-year-old window just to get a reputation and get ahead?

"So, what is the underworld? Is it better than reading? Hearing Li Hua say, 'It's better to join the underworld', Li Hao, who is smarter than Li Yan, asked. He really doesn't know what can be better than reading in this country where "all kinds of grades are only high".

"This!" Li Hua was also surprised that Li Hao would ask himself what the underworld was. He really didn't know how to explain it. He reluctantly replied, "The underworld is an organized and disciplined criminal gang!"

"So...what is a criminal gang?" Li Hao still didn't understand this explanation and asked again.

"And, what does it mean to be organized and disciplined?" Li Guan and Li Hao, who were not willing to show weakness, asked questions one after another.

When they asked so many questions, Li Hua felt that he had just been in a good mood and was extremely entangled, and he could only hesitate to explain it to them slowly in plain words.