The day after tomorrow is the old man's 100th birthday. At this moment, more than 20 villagers have gathered in the courtyard. They are busy with birthday matters in the courtyard. Several women are folding red paper by the patio, and several gentlemen are digging earth to place wooden frames. . Niu Haoling knows that the day after tomorrow, these wooden shelves will be covered with red flowers, which will be very festive. Stepping into the yard, several women who were chatting about other people's parents' shortcomings first saw Niu Haoling. One woman put a dustpan on her knees and said with a smile: "Isn't this Thirteen? You came back so early, and we are still talking about you at noon." " Niu Haoling bowed slightly to these aunts and said with a smile: "They must have said something bad about me." The woman smiled and said: "How can you? We said that Thirteen is now the most promising child in the village. During the Spring Festival, I also brought back a beautiful young girl. Tsk tsk, that girl is really juicy and charming." Niu Haoling smiled bitterly and said, "Shui Ling is not from our family, so what's the use?" The mother-in-law said in surprise: "No, I am. Look, that girl is interested in you. "People in the village don't watch TV, so they don't know that An Yuhan is a big star. If they knew that An Yuhan was a big star, they probably wouldn't think so. After all, in their eyes Here, the big stars are all aloof beings, how could they fall in love with the country boy from their village? Niu Haoling avoided the topic and chuckled: "Third aunt, where is the old man?" The woman probably didn't recover from Niu Haoling's sudden change of topic. After a while, she said: "Ah, old man, the old man is here In the east room, the village chief Cao from the neighboring village has come over and they are talking." Niu Haoling smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, I will go and meet him too." Mr. Cao is from Caojiazhuang, next door to Niujia Village, as mentioned above. When Niu Haoling was a child, when he watched Water Margin and saw the scene where Li Kui was captured by the old man in Caojiazhuang, he led a group of friends and smashed most of the windows in Caojiazhuang, which was considered a public outrage. A group of Caojiazhuang villagers, headed by Village Chief Cao, almost hung Niu Haoling and his friends up on the treetop to show the public. Among the people Niu Haoling was afraid of when he was a child was the short, thin and dark Village Chief Cao. Some gentlemen saw Niu Haoling walking through the wooden frame, and smiled and said hello. With the progress of economic development, these farmers with their faces facing the loess and back to the sky all felt that their children could not stay at home forever, but they were afraid of the old man's reputation. , they never mentioned sending their children out. In Niujia Village or even Lu Town, if you want to send your children out, you need to meet two conditions. The first condition is that you have enough income to support your child's school expenses. The second condition is that your child's academic performance can be enough to get a college notification. In Lu Town, few families can afford the high tuition fees to send their children to high school. The poor education level in Lu Town also makes it difficult for these children to enter college. From the beginning of the college entrance examination in Huaxia to now, Niujia Village has only produced six college students. The remaining four college students took their parents away after they left. , and never returned to Niujia Village. They were really afraid of poverty. As for the other two college students, one is Cui'er who is now a primary school teacher, and the other is Niu Haoling. Niu Haoling is opposed to Tweetie returning to teach locally. Tweetie's teaching level can only teach up to the second grade of junior high school. What really determines whether a child can go to college is the college entrance examination, that is, the quality of the high school learning environment. When Tweety comes back, not only can she not help the children, but she will get herself involved. Despite this, the villagers are still very grateful to Cui'er and send something to Cui'er's house every now and then. The villagers are simple in character and can only express their inner gratitude and gratitude in the simplest way. In the eyes of Niu Haoling, the former village chief Cao was a combination of majesty and domineering. Niu Haoling, who likes to cause trouble, would feel weak in his calves as soon as he stood there. Has it left a shadow in Niu Haoling's childhood? Seeing the current village chief Cao, Niu Haoling couldn't help but secretly lament the ruthlessness of the years. The thin middle-aged man was now hunched over and turned into a frail old man. The majesty and domineering power left in Niu Haoling's mind before Nothing remains, and all that remains is the lamentation of the years. When Village Chief Cao noticed someone coming in, he turned around and glanced, but he didn't recognize Niu Haoling. He glanced at the old man Niu opposite him with doubtful eyes. The latter chuckled and said, "Get in here, little bastard!" He smiled and said to Village Chief Cao, "Don't you know him, Xiao Cao? Back then, he led a group of little bastards and almost demolished your village." Upon hearing this, Village Chief Cao immediately understood who the young man in front of him was. Who is it? Over the years, apart from the Japanese, the only one who dared to lead people to demolish their village was Niu Haoling. The past has passed, but now that I think about it, Village Chief Cao still misses him very much. He was worth it then.Years ago, he chased Niu Haoling for ten streets, but in the end he was run away by this monkey-like boy. Niu Haoling bowed to Village Chief Cao and said with a smile: "Thirteenth has met Uncle Cao." Village Chief Cao looked at Niu Haoling, who was showing his momentum for the first time, and praised: "Not bad, now he looks good. Your Niujia Village has been a hero for generations. I won¡¯t lose my prestige in the future.¡± Village Chief Cao stood up and said with a smile: ¡°I¡¯ve been bothering you for so long. It¡¯s time to leave. The day after tomorrow, I will definitely bring someone over to support you. Haha, old man, you are our Lu Town. "The mainstay of the village." Village Chief Cao saw that Niu Haoling came in for something, so he stopped staying. He said some polite words to Niu Haoling that he would achieve great things, and walked out of the house. Niu Haoling hurriedly escorted him out, picked up a gift and stuffed it into the hands of Village Chief Cao, and said with a smile: "Back then, I was ignorant and caused so much trouble to Village Chief Cao. I still feel sorry for it. I will definitely visit Village Chief Cao when I have time." " After receiving the heavy gift box, Village Chief Cao's face was immediately filled with smiles. Everyone in the village was so proud. Niu Haoling gave him a gift. It was a sign of respect for him. No matter what was in the gift box, it was all. What a piece of mind. After seeing off Village Chief Cao, Niu Haoling and Tieniu walked into the east room again. Niu Yajun did not follow him. He had already paid a visit to the old man at noon, and now he was helping a few old men in the yard, supporting the wooden frame and carrying the wood. The appearance of Mr. Niu has not changed much from before. He is close to 1.8 meters tall. He is slightly stooped due to his age. His face is full of wrinkles, which cannot hide the majesty and evil spirit between his eyebrows. Throughout his life, Mr. Niu has not had a thousand dead souls under his hands. There are also eight hundred, which naturally condenses frightening evil energy. When Niu Haoling was still young, he didn¡¯t know that the terrifying aura on the old man¡¯s body was evil spirit. Only after he learned the Qi Entraining Technique did he understand why he felt trembling all over when he approached the old man. It¡¯s so terrifying. The evil spirit and the aura in the body have been fused together to form a unique aura. It is probably this aura that allowed the old man to live to be a hundred years old. In fact, looking back at history, those generals who had thousands of lives in their hands, including some famous anti-Japanese generals, as long as they survived the persecution of the Cultural Revolution, most of them lived to be around a hundred years old. The reason should be similar to the old man. The old man looked at Niu Haoling, then at Tieniu, and sighed, "Do you two brothers have lives on their hands?" Niu Haoling was slightly shocked, but Tieniu's expression did not change. The old man looked at Tieniu, which stood like an iron tower, and sighed: "What happened back then, you were wronged." Tieniu still had no expression on his face. The old man stood up and said: "But fortunately, you are all safe and sound. Although I am old, I also understand that this is a society governed by law. We can no longer shout and kill like before. You two must remember to do it as a last resort." , Don¡¯t hurt anyone.¡± Niu Haoling said like a good baby: ¡°Yes, old man, the people we kill are all people who deserve to be killed, and we will never kill a good person by mistake.¡± The old man shook his head and said, ¡°You are in college. How many more years will it take to finish school?" Niu Haoling scratched his head and said, "I-I have dropped out of school?" The old man looked at Niu Haoling with wide eyes, and then he smiled and said, "Okay. No matter if you drop out of school, there is nothing to miss in the colorful world outside. Come back, marry a wife and start a family. With your smart mind and a college student, it is more than enough to replace the village chief Tang as the village chief. Wait for you to do it. Okay, I'll let you work as the mayor again. " Lu Town is the town that the old man is waiting for. He has been fighting to keep Lu Town alive since he was twenty years old, and has been guarding it since the 1980s. He does not recognize the mayor who landed in the air. When he was young, he did not know how many town chiefs and division chiefs sent by the Nationalist Government and the Japanese devils cut down. Niu Haoling's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the old man had brought up the topic, he immediately said: "Old man, I now have some property in Quan City, and I came back this time just to talk to you about it." "What's the matter." The old man His tone was very bad, and his eyes became unkind. Niu Haoling sighed secretly and thought: It seems that there is still no way to enlighten this old man through conventional means. When people get old, they like to live a stable and unchanging life. Whether they are lofty leaders or farmers with their faces turned to the loess and their backs to the sky, they are afraid of change from the bottom of their hearts, even if it is the slightest change. Externally, when others provoke them, they will first try their best to calm things down, or even apologize and compensate in a low voice. They are also unwilling to have any conflicts with others, because such conflicts will change their world. Internally, they habitually take strong measures toPolicies, any disharmonious voice will become the target of their attack, because this disharmony will also cause changes in their world. Niu Haoling's remarks in front of him had already made the old man aware of a trace of disharmony. At this point, Niu Haoling didn't want to hide anything anymore. An ugly daughter-in-law always has to see her parents-in-law, and everything will always come to light one day. He took a deep breath and said: "Old man, you should go outside for a walk." , can be said to have lit the fuse of the war. Sure enough, the old man's emotions were ignited like a dynamite barrel. He picked up the cattail leaf fan on the table and hit Niu Haoling on the head. While hitting him, he cursed: "I have only been out for two years, and I feel like my wings are Are you serious? You want me to go out for a walk? I have been traveling all over the country for thirty years. What have I not experienced? Why do you think you are more knowledgeable than me? " Niu Haoling keeps being chased out by the old man. After entering the room, the men and women in the courtyard saw Niu Haoling being chased and beaten out. They quickly put down their work and ran over to dissuade him. The old man's cattail leaf fan was made of solid wood and covered with iron feathers. A cattail leaf fan weighed at least twenty or thirty kilograms. Niu Haoling was so painful that he shed tears after being beaten. Moreover, facing the ancestors in the village, he still Not being able to fight back really frustrated him. Niu Haoling took a few steps back, thinking that this was a safe distance, and then said: "Old man, when you traveled all over the country, it was still the planned economy period. Now that we have reformed and opened up, you should also open your mind. Don't let the whole village I'm poor because of you!" The old man suddenly changed his mind. His lips were trembling and he bent down to pick up the stones. But now that the yard had been cleaned, there was no half a stone. The old man searched for a while but couldn't find it. He pointed at Niu Haoling and shouted, "Catch this bastard for me. I - I want to enforce the clan rules!"