Before Yu Dong arrived at the small building where Cheng Minde and the others lived, he saw Cheng Minde sitting on the railing of the corridor holding a book from a distance. He quickly walked over and asked with concern: "Grandpa, why are you sitting outside in such a cold weather?
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Before Cheng Mingde could say anything, grandma Lu Yun said in the room, "Yu Dong, you don't need to worry about him, that's what's wrong with him. The brazier in the room is burning well, but he won't come in."
"It's not very cold. Isn't it sunny? It's not good to be in the house all the time. I'll go out and get some fresh air."
"Of course it's good to come out and get some air, but grandpa, you also need to pay attention to your health."
"Don't worry, I'm very strong." Cheng Mingde saw the manuscript in Yu Dong's hand again and smiled, "Could it be that what you are holding in your hand is the manuscript of a new book?"
Yu Dong handed the manuscript to Cheng Mingde, "I just finished writing it today and I haven't proofread it yet."
Cheng Mingde took the manuscript and said with a smile, "Since you haven't proofread it yet, I'll help you proofread it."
After getting the manuscript, Cheng Mingde couldn't wait to read it.
Here, Cheng Mingde read the manuscript carefully. Inside the room, Lu Yun waved to Yu Dong, "Yu Dong, don't go outside with him to enjoy the breeze. Come in and warm yourself by the fire."
"Why."
Yu Dong responded, then went into the room and chatted with Lu Yun.
The old lady was also holding a book, but it was full of mathematical symbols. Yu Dong could understand them individually, but he couldn't understand them when they were put together.
"I heard from Luoluo's father that your company's annual meeting was very successful this year. It must have been a hard time."
Yu Dong shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm considered a half-hands-off shopkeeper. Others have to worry about the company's affairs, so I'm not too busy."
"It's not as easy as you said." Lu Yun smiled, looked outside again, and then lowered her voice and said, "You heard Luo Luo's father say that this old man wanted to read your new book, so you brought the manuscript here, right?
, in fact, you don’t need to worry about him at all, he doesn’t read novels at all... If I insist on previewing your novel, I think it’s just two words, vanity. When we return to Yanjing and see those colleagues again,
He has bragging rights again."
Yu Dong said with a smile: "I will show my new book to my grandpa and get some advice. I am also lucky."
"Well, when it comes to mathematics, he can teach you some, but when it comes to literature, how can you be like you?"
Cheng Mingde coughed slightly outside and said, "Comrade Lu Yun, your voice was a bit loud, but I heard it all."
"Then you just pretend not to hear." The old lady pointed to a picture hanging on the wall behind her, "Look at what your son wrote for you - it's rare to be confused."
"I just said this calligraphy is not good."
Cheng Mingde muttered, then turned sideways, trying to carry Yu Dong and the others on his back.
Although the temperature is not high today, the sun is very bright. Sitting in the corridor, the sun shines from the southeast and shines softly on Cheng Mingde.
Occasionally a draft blows through, but overall it's not too cold.
Cheng Mingde liked this feeling very much. The warmth that had just gathered due to the sunshine was suddenly taken away by a gust of wind, and then he waited for the warmth to gather again.
Just like his life, he had to go through countless difficulties and obstacles for the coming dawn and warmth, and in the end, these difficulties and obstacles became a part of his life.
Cheng Mingde rarely reads novels, but it's not that he doesn't like reading. After all, his father was once a well-known novelist. He just spends too much time on his professional work and doesn't have any free time to read novels.
In the past few years, the frequency of reading novels has gradually increased, mainly because he has a grandson-in-law who is a writer.
He read Yu Dong's novels not only because Yu Dong was his grandson-in-law, but also because Yu Dong's novels were really good.
Yu Dong does have some relatively obscure novels, but most of them are the kind of novels that are easy for people to understand. You only need to read the beginning to understand them.
For example, the manuscript in his hand now attracted him just from the beginning.
The starting point of the story is in the late 1990s, that is, a hundred years ago, when there was a village along the river that suffered from floods all year round. Someone in the village proposed to find another place to resettle.
After this proposal came out, it was opposed by some people and supported by some people.
Finally, those who supported this proposal decided to send three teams in three directions to find suitable places to live.
It is not easy to find a suitable place to move to, because usually good places are already inhabited, and they need to find a suitable place to live and where no one lives.
This search took several years.
The protagonist of the story is a fourteen-year-old boy. Because his name is Chen Han, he is nicknamed Xiaohanzi.
Although he is called Xiaohanzi, the young man is not stupid. Instead, he is a very smart child. He is about to get married, but because his parents are gone, he decides to embark on a journey to find a new home with his uncle.
When they left the village, there were eight of them in total, but a few years later, only four were left, exactly half of them.
Of the other four, two died of illness, one fled back early, and the other was left behind when passing through a certain village and became the intrusive son-in-law.
In fact, at that time, the family fell in love with Xiao Hanzi, who was smarter, handsome and much younger. However, Xiao Hanzi wanted to find a new home with his uncle, so he rejected him.
His uncle even talked to him about this and told him that he might have a better life if he chose to stay. But the little fool insisted that they would find a new home and he would also be in his new home.
Have a better life.
In this way, after several years of searching, until the little fool was almost eighteen years old, they finally found a land that was not perfect, but definitely promising to cultivate.
They returned to the village with the good news, but when the villagers learned that the place they were looking for was on a mountain, many people who had previously agreed to move backed away.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After all, although the village they are in now has frequent floods, the land is fertile, and the food output is considerable when there is no flooding. But after going to the mountains, it takes
It takes a long time to cultivate the land, and the land cultivated is definitely not as fertile as the land along the river.
After various mobilizations, some people were finally brought over.
This group of people came to the mountain and began to reorganize the village. At the same time, they gave the new village a name - Lihong Village.
And not far from the foot of the mountain, there is a Hong village. The people in this village are fierce and brave.
Originally, the arrival of Lihong Village did not attract Hong Cun's attention. After all, their two villages were one on the mountain and one at the bottom of the mountain, and there was a village in between.
However, when Lihong Village gradually began to take shape and more and more land was reclaimed on the mountains, the people of Hong Village began to have opinions.
They began to use the name to cause trouble in Lihong Village.
At first, the people in Lihong Village thought that the people in Hong Village were causing trouble simply because of the village name, so they simply took a step back and changed the name of the village to Lichao Village.
But even so, the people in Hongcun still refused to work. They insisted on asking Lichao Village to pay "name fees", and they were still charged on a per capita basis. Each person had to pay a fixed amount of grain every year. In fact, Hongcun just saw Lichao Village.
They have reclaimed a lot of land, and they are a little jealous and want to get some benefits from Lichao Village. As for the name, they don't care.
Of course, the people of Lichao Village refused to comply with such unreasonable demands, and conflicts began to break out between the two sides. The conflict even resulted in casualties.
In the struggle with Hongcun, Lichao Village struggled to develop. Although it was not very wealthy, everyone was quite satisfied. At least they did not have to move every once in a while, and the cultivated fields on the mountains could keep them fed.
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Time passed slowly, and in the 1940s, the war came to their side, and Xiaohanzi's grandson ran to join the Anti-Japanese War at the age of fifteen.
The Chen family has been looking forward to the return of their son who joined the army, but in the end they waited for a photo many years later.
In the photo, Xiaohanzi's grandson stood under a big tree, looking cautiously at the camera with his two comrades, with bright smiles on their faces.
The person who sent the photo told them that Xiaohanzi's grandson was hit by a bomb and died in an encounter. The details were not disclosed, but the tragedy at the time was imaginable, so only one photo was sent back.
For many years to come, the people of Lichao Village lived in an isolated mountain village, leading a contented life that was not rich.
But then, as if from a certain day, the world suddenly changed. The outside world underwent tremendous changes. More and more people began to leave the villages and flock to the cities.
When all the teachers in the primary school left, the villagers of Lichao Village realized that the world was completely different.
However, the world is different. Life in Lichao Village still has to go on, and the children still have to go to school.
Some people began to work hard to take their children out of the mountains and send them to school in the city, but many people were unable to do so. They could only watch the students hang out in school, or simply let their children drop out of school early, or help them at home.
Do some farm work, or go to work in the city to support your family.
It was not until later that the arrival of a supporting teacher changed the fate of the village.
This teacher gave up his job as a university teacher, came to a remote mountain village, became the principal of this dilapidated primary school, and then brought the students back to school one by one.
It seemed that the appearance of this teacher activated the spirit of struggle that had always existed in Lichao Village, and people began to truly struggle to get out of the mountains.
A hundred years ago, their ancestors came to this land to avoid floods. A hundred years later, they tried to use knowledge to break through the cage for a better life.
The story ends abruptly here.
Cheng Mingde read it over and over several times, and then asked Yu Dong, "Is this the end? Where is the supporting teacher? Did she succeed? Did the students in Lichao Village finally use the knowledge they learned to get out of the mountains?"
Yu Dong was chatting with Lu Yun, but he didn't expect Cheng Mingde to read so quickly and had already finished reading.
The manuscript of tens of thousands of words was read in less than three hours.
Yu Dong walked over and looked at the manuscript in Cheng Mingde's hand, "Well, grandpa, this is the finished manuscript."
Hearing that it was over, Cheng Mingde frowned, "Isn't this ending too hasty? I really want to know what happens after the volunteer teaching. What is the result of the volunteer teaching? There must be an explanation. How is the health of this volunteer teacher?
Yes? I read in the book that she seems to be in poor health?"
Yu Dong shook his head and said with a smile, "Grandpa, this story is over. It is not a novel specifically about supporting education."
"I know." Cheng Mingde nodded, "Actually, teaching support is only a small part of the whole story. Although the story is very simple, it reflects the vicissitudes of China for hundreds of years. I can see the fighting spirit of Lichao Village, and I can also feel it.
The people of this place have a strong will, but I just want to know the fate of this volunteer teacher and the fate of those children."
"By the way, is the person who knocks on the door upside down in your book the same as the one in "To the West"?"
Yu Dong twitched his lips and said, "Maybe."
In fact, it was only after Yu Dong wrote it that he felt that it was somewhat similar to the beginning of "Heading to the West". Later, he simply changed the character's name to Li Houqing, which mirrored the beginning of "Going to the West".
As for the content of the volunteer teachers, Yu Dong was originally prepared to give some detailed descriptions, but later he gave up the idea and chose to blur this part of the content. As he said, the theme of this novel is not support teachers.
It is the rise and fall of Lichao Village over the past hundred years.
Yu Dong also knows that if he writes about Zhang Yueying, he will definitely earn the tears of many readers, but this is not what he wants. He hopes that readers can feel the power of fighting against fate from this book, and at the same time
Understand that if you want to change your destiny, reading is the best choice.
These things are exactly what the Chinese people need now.
In addition, Yu Dong is also a bit selfish. He has already experienced Zhang Yueying's death once in reality, and he really doesn't want to experience it again in the book.
"Forget it, I won't ask anymore."
Cheng Mingde suddenly laughed, "Yu Dong, you should understand me. As a person who has studied mathematics almost all his life, I always hope that everything will have a result. But I also understand that novels are different from life. There is always a tomorrow in life.
But the novel may suddenly stop one day and usher in the story's finale."
"For example, if you are the protagonist of a novel, then your success and fame may be the ending of the novel. Let's take another example of me, if I were the protagonist of a novel, maybe when I returned to China with Hua Luogeng
This is the end of the story, or it was the end when I was completely liberated in the 1970s. But in reality, we all exist in a story, and it will not end because one of us did something."
Chapter completed!