Chapter 170
The boldest thing Shi Wuwei had ever done in his life was to run away from his hometown.
At that time, both of his parents had starved to death.
Grandpa and Grandma were the first to starve to death. Grandma starved to death by the river bank, they all said that she wanted to throw herself into the water, but the river had dried up a long time ago.
Grandpa starved to death in the woodshed, wondering if he was trying to get one last look at the rice bowl.
The rest of the siblings starved to death after him.
At that time, their parents took them and their children every day to walk dozens of miles to the county roadside, waiting for the passing procession, no matter what caravan passed by, their parents would go up and push them and say, “Buy a child? There are boys and girls.”
But no one bought them until the younger siblings starved to death.
The little sister died on her mother’s back.
I don’t know if he was young, but he didn’t starve to death and waited until the county came.
He waited until they came from the county. They said they wanted to recruit soldiers, and they gave him food, money, and clothes.
Seeing that he was a big boy and his family had all died, they immediately held him down and pressed his fingerprints.
Shi Wuwei was Shi Dudu at that time, and his body was so thin that he was skin and bones.
After he ate a meal, he gained strength and had a strange thought: his grandfather and the old people in the village used to say that the most promising people were the scholars, and the scholars who took the exams of Xiu Cai and Scholar, their families would be honored in the whole village and the whole county!
He thought, to go to the army is sure to die soon, if he died so, it is not too much of a loss?
Since he was going to die, he wanted to realize the wish that his grandfather had said, the biggest and most impossible dream.
He wanted to take the examination for a scholar!
After thinking about it all night, Shi Wuwei ran out of the camp before dawn, and it went incredibly well.
With his previous experience of following his parents to the county town, he kept walking, walking and running, and surprisingly no one came after him!
Later, I heard that they would catch deserters, I don’t know why no one came to catch him, probably because they didn’t have enough manpower, or they didn’t catch up with him and got sidetracked with him.
Anyway, with the good luck of his ancestors, he managed to escape.
He followed the road, which was crowded with people and cars. He also walked along the railroad for a while.
He wanted to take the Xiu Cai exam, but he didn’t know what he had to do to get it.
But he knew there must be someone in the big city who knew and had a way. So he headed for the city.
There was a lot more food in the city than in the country.
Although no one farmed here, there was no shortage of food.
He found it surprising that in the city the officials did not collect grain!
You should know that in the village, the government would take away every family’s grain, not leaving you a single grain of rice.
Their family had to go to the landlord’s house to get seeds on credit every year when they wanted to plant, and then in addition to planting the land during the year, they also had to spin, weave, grow vegetables and raise chickens to find more money so they could pay back the landlord’s interest. They would also secretly collect grain in advance and then sell it for money to pay back the landlords.
But in the end, they would definitely still owe money. But they are all from the same village, and the landlord will not force them to die. They will ask their father to put his fingerprints on it and write a note again.
If any family owed more, they would have to sell their children to pay back the money.
When Shi Wuwei arrived at the university, he realized that life in the city was really different, and that many people were very “naive” in their thinking.
A good girl like Yang Yucan thinks that parents can’t buy and sell their children, but in Shi Wuwei’s mind, she thinks that parents can’t buy and sell their children.
But in Shi Wuwei’s mind, children are like cows and sheep, parents give birth to and raise them to live, otherwise why give birth to so many? Why else would they give birth to so many? It is to live, selling children is also to live.
Love and all that, ordinary people don’t care about that.
Prof. Dai saw his article and talked to him about it.
Prof. Dai himself was sold by his parents, and he doesn’t hold it against them, but he says it doesn’t mean it’s right for parents to sell their children.
Shi Wuwei knew this and said, “I know what is right.” It is what Yang Yuchan said that is right.
It’s just like the Bodhisattva said, all people in the world suffer. People are born to suffer.
A good girl like Yang Yucan has also suffered a lot, and their family has had many hard times. No one in this world has a good life.
Prof. Dai said that this explanation was just to comfort himself.
He said, “That’s because there are many people in this world who live like animals. Our future endeavor is to make it possible for more people to live like human beings and not have to live like animals like you and me.”
He could easily fill his stomach in a big city. He could find food by not working, by being a beggar, by rummaging through garbage cans.
Then he learned about the university, which teaches, and surely by entering the university he would be able to take the examination for a showman. He found the university and met Prof. Dai.
He felt that Prof. Dai was particularly right in what he said. Though some of it sounded scary, and some of it he couldn’t understand, and when he could understand it he found it even more scary.
But everything Prof. Dai said was refreshing to him.
Professor Dai was kind to him and had high expectations of him.
His father is dead, serving his teacher is like serving his father, and he listens to Prof. Dai just like he listens to his father. He listens to Prof. Dai as if he were his father. He does whatever Prof. Dai tells him to do.
Prof. Dai likes to say one thing in class, “You have to have your own ideas”.
What is his own idea?
Shi Wuwei has never been able to find his own ideas, he thinks that Professor Dai’s ideas are very good, he does not know anything, just listen to Professor Dai.
Until he met the Yang sisters.
He suddenly wanted to know what Yang Yu Cicada thought.
She was a good sister, good to her sister, good to her mom, good to her classmates.
She was very serious. Whether it was to her studies or to disciplining her sister, she was all on the same page and would write a plan and then follow it strictly.
But Yang Yuchan said, “Yan Yan has a lot of ideas, and from time to time, they give me a sense of enlightenment.”
Shi Wuwei was curious, so he went to ask Yang Yuyan what ideas she had from time to time, wanting to know which some of the ideas that were praised by Yang Yucan, and he also wanted to experience them.
Then today, he did the second most daring thing in his life!
He actually cheated!
He had never cheated anyone before!
But what Yang Yuyan said made sense to him!
He did it to help these people come to their senses, to help them not be confused by the Japanese, and also to solve Professor Dai’s dilemma for them.
Yang Yuyan said, “Sometimes there are things that professors they can’t do. But we are students, and students can do it. It doesn’t matter if we do it wrong, it gives the professors a chance to improve. At that time, if the Japanese are angry, we students will go to make amends and punish us on behalf of the professors, and we won’t have to do it ourselves. You don’t have to worry, when the time comes, it’s all on me, I’d rather quit school than take it all on my shoulders!”
How can we let Yang Yuyan quit school? As soon as she quit school, Yang Yuchan was afraid that she would have to go home to see her sister and wouldn’t come back to school, she came back this time to accompany her sister to school, wherever her sister was, she would definitely be there.
Shi Wuwei then thought, when the time comes, he would rather be the one to drop out of school, can not let Yang Yuyan drop out of school!
Therefore, Shi Wuwei jumped onto the podium and stood in the middle of those two male students, while shouting, “I dedicate myself to the country!” While taking off his clothes, he ended up trying to take off his underwear, but the teachers came too fast, and he hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd and ran away.
He hid on campus for most of the day and got dressed before returning.
He drilled in through the back door of the kitchen, and as soon as he came in, he met Yang Yucan.
Yang Yucan was wearing an apron and cooking. She knew that everyone was interrogating Yan Yan in front of her, she wanted to go and listen, but Zhang Ma stopped her and said, “I’ll go, I can persuade, you can’t, you make the noodles and boil the water, we’ll eat later.”
Yang Yucan then made the noodles, washed the vegetables, cut the vegetables, kneaded the noodles, rolled out the skin, wrapped the wontons, boiled the water, and prepared to make dinner in the kitchen.
After she did it for a while, she couldn’t help but go to the end of the corridor to look into the living room, and then came back to continue doing it.
Back and forth, she also overheard quite a bit.
At first she was naturally angry, and then she listened to it …… as if Professor Dai said that Yan Yan did it right?
Yang Yucan came back while wrapping wontons and thinking: Yan Yan did right again? What’s right with her?
At this time, the back door rang, she probed and saw Shi Wuwei quietly probed in.
She jolted to her feet! Rushing out and pulling him into the kitchen!
In a low voice, she asked him, “You ran back? Didn’t get caught?” She poked her head out, then retracted and said, “Don’t go over there, they’re still scolding Yan Yan, if you go over there, you’ll be scolded along with them.”
She had heard about it! Shi Wuwei had also gone!
“What did you guys go for? How could you listen to her? Why didn’t you tell me?” Yang Yucan was angry, she thought that she and Shi Wuwei were very good friends and Yang Yuyan was unreliable, not only did Shi Wuwei listen to Yang Yuyan, he also hid it from her and betrayed their friendship!
Shi Wuwei was really embarrassed and very guilty. At that time, Yang Yuyan told him not to tell Yang Yucan when he put the plan together.
Yang Yuyan: “She will definitely block it! Can’t let her know!”
Shi Wuwei, however, felt that Yang Yucan’s mind was also very open-minded, so maybe she wouldn’t object when she found out and would follow along.
But then, wouldn’t Yang Yucan see him with his pants down?
That certainly wouldn’t work.
And there was also the possibility that she might see other male students taking off their pants.
That would be even more of a no-no.
Shi Wuwei now had to explain to her that it wasn’t that he didn’t believe her, but that the situation at the scene would be very chaotic, and there were many male students ……
Yang Yucan: “How could I be afraid of male classmates!”
Shi Wuwei saw that Yang Yucan still didn’t know exactly what all happened just now, he just knew that there was a commotion and the teacher went to the place where the speeches were given to drive people away again, he hesitated for a while and whispered to her about Yang Yuyan’s plan.
Yang Yucan’s mouth opened wider and wider.
“You guys, you guys ……” she stood up and spun in place, stamping her feet and almost jumping, “Your guts are also too big!” Yang Yu Cicada steeply raised her tone and suppressed it again, fuming in a small voice, “Then Yan Yan, Yan Yan was also there? She also saw the male students taking off their pants?”
Shi Wuwei nodded awkwardly and hurriedly explained, “Yan Yan said it’s similar to the male stars in swimsuits in the pictorials, it’s okay.”
In fact, when he stopped Yang Yuyan from going to the scene, she also said, “Male students’ bodies are not as good looking as male stars, don’t worry I won’t have evil thoughts after seeing it.”
With such a comparison, Shi Wuwei also felt justified.
Yang Yuchan was so angry that she crossed her arms and screamed in front of him, “Reasonable? Reasonable? Do you know that you have been cheated by her! Next time something like this happens, you have to come over and tell me right away!”
Shi Wuwei promised repeatedly, “Fine, fine, I’ll tell you everything in the future.”