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The old comrades have a very rich life after retirement, some give full play to their spare heat to accept re-employment and continue to work, some play cards, mahjong and chess, some form a joint defense team to maintain law and order in the community, some dance square dances and then make noise, grab the basketball court, mistakenly cook for their spouses and other annoying, and Director Hou chose the most thankless errand: taking care of and educating his grandson. Seeing that the grandson is not good, worrying, laboring, laborious, losing money, it is easy to destroy the feelings of the grandchildren and grandchildren, and it is easier to offend the daughter-in-law because of the strict educational attitude and be scolded as an old immortal.

Fortunately, Grandpa Hou has a very good set of educating his grandson, in order to let his grandson go to the Tao as soon as possible, he innovated the way of education, and taught by word and deed. One day, he called Hou Fangyu back to the house, took out a yellowed household registration book from an old box, and pointed to the two words after the "ingredients" on the household registration book with a serious face and asked, "Tell grandpa, what do you read these two words?"

"Pawn", Hou Fangyu read it out loud with a proud face, showing that he knew these words, but he didn't know what the meaning of pawn was.

Soldiers, that is, soldiers who were relegated to remote mountainous areas to clear wasteland and stand guard because they broke the law, that is, those who were assigned to serve in the army—a very despised group in the old society.

In the old hierarchical society, occupations were both social division of labor and superiority, and their order was: Shinong Industry and Commerce. The "soldiers" who came in first were not soldiers or soldiers, let alone the working class or the workers' and peasants' alliances, but those who had studied and worked in educational and managerial positions. The peasants are second, the workers are third, and the last is the merchants.

As mentioned earlier, the source of businessmen being looked down upon is Confucian culture, and scholars often regard them as speculators who take 300 crops without crops, and this kind of thinking has developed to the extreme after the Tang Dynasty, "marrying Qu Tangjia, and taking the concubine period by mistake" and "businessmen valuing profits and ignoring parting", every time a businessman is mentioned, he must mention a resentful woman, and the master is described as a turbid thing that throws away his youthful, beautiful and amorous wife to pursue money; there are also businessmen and corrupt officials who are juxtaposed, "corrupt officials are pious and pious, and poison businessmen to waste their guts", which shows the depth of the prejudice of ancient reading against businessmen.

Sorry, the above four categories are serious occupations regardless of the level, and the soldiers cannot enter the above four categories of people, and they are alongside servants, slaves, artists, funerals and other professions, and cannot be mentioned and ranked because they are not in the stream.

This has a lot to do with the ancient social environment. The general trend of the world is divided and merged, good-neighborliness and friendship are only a temporary balance, Taiping Datong remains on paper, and wars of all sizes occur one after another. Since everyone uses cold weapons with low physical and technical content, most of the time the war only needs to be more than whom, and the criterion for judging victory and defeat is life and death, and whoever dies less or who has more left is counted as the winner. Therefore, the fate of the soldiers is very tragic, and they are ridiculed as "dead but not buried", and the black kiln miners who are "buried but not dead" are listed as the two most dangerous industries. Bao Zhao's "Bitter Far Away Expedition" summarized the life of a soldier in just a few dozen words: "I have been lost in the Han calendar for a long time, and I have been recruiting ghosts for many years. Li Ling died elsewhere, and he died in the underworld. The hair was tied at the beginning of the day, and now it is frosty. False fame is idle, and I was born to see my parents. "The general can have a horse leather shroud, but the grand ideal of the king's affairs in the world, as a soldier, he almost does not dare to win the name before and after his death, and it is his greatest wish to return to his hometown alive.

Because the fate of the soldiers is too tragic, most of the people who took the initiative to join the army in ancient times were desperate murderers who were brave and ruthless, traitors and criminals, like Ban Chao who threw his pen from Rong, Liu Kun and Zu Ti who danced when they heard the chicken, but they were still willing to join the army It is absolutely rare. In order to ensure the source of soldiers, the court relaxed the requirements for soldiers' education, household registration, height, appearance, etc., and did not even have a basic political trial, picking up the basket is vegetables, on the one hand, strictly implementing the military service system for forced conscription - Chen Sheng and Wu Guang of Daze Township, Meng Jiangnu's husband Wan Xiliang, Hua Mulan who served in the army for his father, and the old lady in "Stone Entrenchment" are all victims or leaders, on the one hand, some criminals who have committed serious crimes, but do not cause death, and their families are arranged to be on the border, which is the source of "soldiers".

The working conditions of the "soldiers" are bad, the salary is very low, and because it is to atone for the merits, no matter how good the work is, there will be no future, such as the war is unpredictable, there is no tomorrow today, so everyone unconsciously relaxed the requirements for themselves, relaxed the transformation and deepening of the three views, there is wine today and drunk today, and sometimes even rely on the strength of the crowd to be young and strong, and there are some illegal and criminal short-term behaviors such as bullying men and women, beating homes and robbing houses. The common people hated them and couldn't afford to provoke them, so they had to give them honorary titles such as "Soldier Ruffian" and "Qiu Ba" behind their backs.

It is conceivable that for the family that has turned into literati and cadres, the origin of the "soldier" is absolutely shameful and an unbearable past. Many people of Grandpa Hou's status will deliberately avoid dishonorable backgrounds, educate their children to learn Mandarin as soon as possible, learn social etiquette, learn to despise people who were once glorious and unidentified like them, and always show their identity as natives and natives. Grandpa Hou's son, Hou Fangyu's father, is the head of the household department and the largest household registration manager in the country, and he has enough power and ability to change his household registration book without knowing it. But Grandpa Hou didn't do this, nor did he let his son do it, he was self-contained and peaceful, neither denying the identity of a pawn and pretending to be noble, nor showing off the identity of a pawn to highlight the pro-people down-to-earth, but simply thought that this was a fact, there was nothing good or bad, honor or disgrace, just like human beings plainly accepted that their ancestors were monkeys, without any joy, anger, love and hatred.

But that doesn't mean he really doesn't care about it at all. He prepared a set of copies of the household registration book as a textbook, and pressed it under the pillow, which was very meaningful. Whenever Hou Fangyu didn't study well, Grandpa Hou looked serious, took out the household registration book like a bloody long knife, and scared seriously: "Child, don't be disgusted with grandpa's nagging, solemnly remind again, don't think that your grandfather, your grandfather, your grandfather, your grandfather, your uncle, your father and your uncle have a sense of superiority when they become officials, you must understand what you have changed." Not long ago, our ancestors were soldiers, and the family was far from the current scenery and dignity, if it weren't for the billowing green smoke rising from the ancestral grave, if it weren't for the unremitting efforts of generation after generation, we would still be drinking wind and eating soil in the barren land. If you don't study hard, you will soon be beaten back to your original form, lose everything you have now, and go back to where you came from."

Every time he said this, Grandpa Hou would always be emotional, and he poked the word "soldier" on the household registration book with his index finger, and this place was almost poked by Grandpa Hou. Then Grandpa Hou would always describe a scene of border waste: thousands of families with ink noodles, artemisia all over the ground, mourning all over the wilderness, and ...... bones.

The young Hou Fangyu didn't know the meaning of the word "pawn", but when he saw the eyes of his usually kind grandfather widening, his face was serious and sad and even hideous, he couldn't help but be a little scared, and then looked back at the yellowed household registration book, feeling that the "pawn" was more terrible than the "brain axe" and "big monster", thinking that in the future he might be surrounded by wild wolves in the wilderness, thinking that the vulture might peck at his own pink flesh, he couldn't help but shiver, and had a creepy feeling, and obediently went to recite the three-character scripture and the four books and five classics of the hundred family surnames.

With a good education and a super high IQ, Hou Fangyu has shown a talent for learning since he was a child, he can understand a lot of difficult points at a point, and he will learn a lot of knowledge as soon as he learns it, and he has learned all the books that should be learned and those that should not be learned at a young age.

There is no vanity under the fame. At the age of fifteen, Hou Fangyu participated in the Xiucai examination organized by the Henan Provincial Government and won the first place in Shangqiu. Don't underestimate this Shangqiu No. 1, Shangqiu at that time was not the current Shangqiu County, but Guide Prefecture, and Shangqiu No. 1 was actually the first in the whole region.

In the same year, Hou Fangyu organized the establishment of the Henan Shangqiu Local Federation of Literary and Art Circles and became the secretary-general of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Hou Fangyu's talent was quickly recognized by the surrounding area, and many teachers, scholars, officials, and celebrities who had contact with him commented that he was "shocking and talented", "good words in the world, written in a thousand words", "genius and glamorous, indispensable", many of which were shocking to the world, among which there were of course his father was a big official, and more often than not, Hou Fangyu did have two brushes.

Faced with the love around him, in the face of the praise poured in, Hou Fangyu was basically insensitive, very calm, should eat and sleep, whenever an elder asked about his grades, friends and parents learned from him, and classmates exchanged experiences, he would always answer very carelessly: "All this is the result of the care of the elders, the education of teachers, the help of classmates and the support of family members!" In short, the excellent results have nothing to do with his own talent and hard work.

Compared with Hou Fangyu's calmness and calmness, Hou's parents were full of surprises. When the child performs well, parents will be happier than the child, this is human nature, parents get joy from the child's excellence is irreplaceable by any other sense of joy, at this time parents will always be carried away by the child's excellence, become blind, have to enlarge the child's excellence infinitely, analyze the reasons behind it, and finally boil down to their own good genes and successful education, and then can't help but steal joy from time to time. This is not limited to Chinese people, even the big brother in the United States has made this into a joke: when parents see that their children like to sing, they will think that their children can become musicians when they grow up, when they see their children are obsessed with small money, they will think that their children can become bankers when they are older, and when they hear their children running trains with their mouths full, they think that their children can become presidents when they grow up.

Father Hou is not exempt from vulgarity, and always wants to tell the world how heroic my mood is, and always wants to tell the future how worthy of showing off my son: You say that this child is smart, he is still hardworking, and his grades are good but he is modest, if he says that his character is good and his character is the result of education, and the handsome man has nothing to do with education! This child is really, and the biggest shortcoming is perfection, so how can other people's children live! Hou's father couldn't close his mouth to Hou Fangyu's achievements, and always said, "If you have a son, what more can you ask for?" The feeling attracted countless envy and hatred from neighbors and colleagues.

Hou Fangyu was also happy for a while when he first won Shangqiu, but soon the joy passed, and he felt that it was expected that he would get a local reward for a national-level talent.