short series

The Village 'Fool's Comeback

share time: 2026-01-14 06:01:15

Erzhu is the notorious "fool" of Xinghua Village—he spends every day lingering outside the old carpenter's door, watching him saw wood, and is mocked by everyone as a "wooden block." Until city developers arrive to demolish the old ancestral hall, claiming its mortise-and-tenon structure is "outdated and dangerous." Xiaomei, the village beauty he's secretly loved for years, breaks down in tears—it's the legacy her grandfather guarded all his life. Suddenly, Erzhu steps forward, pulls out a woodworking notebook he's hidden for a decade, and uses the "seventy-two locks" the old carpenter taught him to fix the ancestral hall's loose beams in three days and nights. Even the city's architectural experts are stunned. Turns out he's not a fool—he poured all his heart into wood. When Xiaomei hands him a bowl of hot congee, blushing, Erzhu scratches his head and smiles: "I just wanted to guard our village's old things... and you."

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