The uncle on duty at night left at dawn, and the window of the cowshed covered by the fertilizer bag glowed with a faint red light.

Gangzi hurriedly shook Dachengzi and the plug awake, urging them to get up.

The old cowherd Tian Ye will come over every morning before and after sunrise, and together with Gangzi, pull the ploughing oxen to the rice stubble fields around the threshing floor and the machine farming road to release the wind.

Like people, ploughing cattle cannot stay in the cowshed all day and night during the slack season, and they have to go out and walk around every day.

Animals that work hard will get sick if they are idle for too long.

No matter how the two lazy insects were unwilling to leave the bed, Gangzi had to yell: "The old cowherd is here!"

This shout really worked, and the two children hurriedly got up, kicked on their cotton pants in three or two, put on their thin jackets, and climbed down from the haystack.

In the oil mill production team, the cowherd Tian Ye is the bull demon king, and the babies will be intimidated when they see him.

If the old man saw the matter of staying in the cowshed at night, it might be another reprimand.

Outside the house was already frozen, and the fields were covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost.

The three babies trembled and came to the back of the old cowshed, and fired a water cannon that had been held all night against the rising sun.

I was preparing to go back to my house and drink a bowl of porridge with dried yams.

Suddenly saw that in front of the door of the dormitory of the educated youth opposite, Tang Zheng and Wang Zhaodi, two sisters, were holding an enamel jar, squatting on the edge of the eaves to brush their teeth.

The delegated students have begun to return to the city on a large scale, and Dachengzi still remembers the scene in the autumn, when the men, women and children of the entire Dongfanghong Brigade beat gongs and drums to send off the educated youth back to the city.

People stood on both sides of the mechanized road leading to the district, and a tractor with black smoke roared past, and then dragged it full of educated youths returning to the city.

They will take a shuttle bus next to the district national highway to the provincial capital, and from there take the train back to their hometowns.

Xu Yingzi and Liu Xia's sister from the oil mill production team are also among the students who have returned to the city.

It is said that their parents have implemented the policy and are preparing to return to the city to review cultural classes and take the college entrance examination for the coming year.

The resumption of the college entrance examination, the rehabilitation of the "four types of elements" and the implementation of the policy, as well as the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee at the end of this year.

The year 1978 was a year of great events that changed the course of social development and the fate of a generation.

Although they are still babies, they seem to be able to feel that the cold winter is not the same as before.

The literary and artistic propaganda team of the brigade was disbanded, and the production captain Lao Luotou was not very active in blowing the whistle every day to urge him to work, and even the usual nagging of his parents was much less.

The whole land was silent, just waiting for a spring thunder to break the dawn.

"Let's go and watch them brush their teeth!"

Gangzi seems to have found a fun game and instigated Dachengzi and the plug.

When these two children are very fanatical about new things, the three babies hit it off, and they turned to the edge of the verandah of the dormitory of the educated youth, just like a group of old hats and crops in "Life" who rarely brushed their teeth.

But there was no personal attack, and I was very curious about what the white foam that came out of the mouth of the young sister was and whether it could be eaten.

"Stinky kid! I haven't seen it when I brush my teeth!

Seeing the posture of the babies, Wang Zhaodi panicked, quickly rinsed her mouth, and scolded these little ghosts with a smile.

In the early summer, these children were also curious, and finally harmed a ridge of tomatoes.

Now they're interested in brushing their teeth, and maybe they're going to find some moths.

Maybe they will sneak into the house and eat the toothpaste as a syrup.

"Chengzi! Don't go, come here!"

Sister Tang Zheng has always been a resolute and chivalrous woman, and she shouted to the two children who were about to slip away.

"Look at how dirty your two ghost claws are!

She frowned, went back to the house and brought a basin of hot water, soaked the dirty hands of the two little babies in the water, made soap, and rubbed them vigorously.

Although it has just entered winter, the frostbite on the plug's hand seems to have recurred.

There are bright red cracks, and on the outside is a layer of rough skin with black dirt, which really looks like the black claws of a bear.

I had never been in the habit of washing my face in a winter morning, and the thrust howled as the hot soap foam seeped into the crack.

"Bear with it! If you don't deal with this claw, it will be scrapped in the winter!"

Sister Tang Zheng is estimated to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and she can't look at such unbearable dirty hands, and she doesn't care about Dachengzi, and specializes in the black claws of the embolis.

After cleaning, I took the clam shell oil and applied a layer of it inside and out.

"I'll give you this box of mussel oil! Wash your face and hands every morning and apply this grease again! If my brother has to beat you to death! It's dirty and lazy, and you don't have a child's shape!"

Sister Tang Zheng's Jianghuai dialect was already very slippery, and she looked at the babies with disdain, and splashed the blackened dirty water in the basin far away.

Finally broke free from the clutches of the young sister, and ran home like a spanking of Chengzi and the bolt legs.

Only Xiao Fang Niu Gangzi was very jealous, and Sister Tang Zheng was eccentric, why didn't she help him wash his hands.

Perhaps in Tang Zheng's opinion, he is already a little adult, and the eyes of his beautiful sister are probably different from those of the babies.

Wang Jiacheng still clearly remembers that until he was in junior high school, he did not have the habit of brushing his teeth.

At that time, the winter in the Jianghuai countryside seemed to be much colder than now, and the ice in the pond could sometimes be more than half a foot thick.

The adults went to work early in the morning, and the babies were sloppy.

The winter morning is cold and can't stretch out your hand, there is no hot water at home, and there is no adult supervision, and few lazy babies take the initiative to wash their faces.

The head of the chicken nest and the black paws have almost become the iconic signboards of the rural babies in the winter.

Fortunately, the babies are in their infancy, and their faces are full of collagen, and when they sleep at night, they are wiped on the corners, which is equivalent to dry washing their faces.

With a baby fat face like Dachengzi, even if you don't wash your face for ten days and a half, you can't see too much buriedness.

The movement of intellectual youth to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, for the adults who are still cute babies, what they can remember are so many intermittent elements.

The jelly beans in the barefoot doctor's medicine box, the small vegetable garden with persimmons, the unique scent of soap and toilet water on their bodies, and the experience of washing their hands.

It is difficult for him to compare with Tang Zheng's sister when she was a middle school student, leaving the metropolis and coming to the Jianghuai countryside thousands of miles away, and staying for ten years.

Perhaps, as in Dante's "Divine Comedy", purgatory, or sublimation or sinking.

Sister Tang Zheng, who loves health and life so much, must belong to the former.

One evening in the lunar month of this year, Tang Zheng and Wang Zhaodi suddenly came to visit, each carrying a large canvas bag.

"Sister-in-law Weilan!"

Tang Zheng affectionately called Chengzi's mother, Wang Zhaodi had already picked up the little Wang child in the cradle and teased him.

"You two came just in time! I'm drinking rice balls! Let's eat here at night!"

My mother was making glutinous rice balls, her hands were covered with glutinous rice flour, and she happily greeted the two distinguished guests.

"Sister-in-law, we're leaving! Come by and say goodbye to you and your eldest brother!"

"Let's go home for the New Year? Let's go tomorrow morning, it's getting dark, and there's still two hours to go to the district!"

Mom was a little puzzled why the two girls' families only went on the road before dark.

"My parents have been rehabilitated! I will go home for a reunion this year, and I will not come back next spring!"

"I'm going back to the city to review for next year's college entrance examination, and I'm not coming back!"

The two sisters replied one after the other, their words full of long-lost happiness.

"That's it?"

Mother Wei Lan was stunned for a while, and father Wang Shichuan also stood up from under the pot.

"Let's go, sister-in-law, you and the eldest brother have two, if we stay here, we will become old girls who can't get married, hehe!"

Sister Wang Zhaodi stuck out her tongue naughtily.

"Captain Luo, do you know, let the team tractor take you to the district!" Father Wang Shichuan was a little dissatisfied with Lao Luo's arrangement.

"Uncle Luo told him a few days ago that he helped open the letter of introduction from the commune. Zhao Di replied.

"I told Uncle Luo not to inform others, I have been living here for more than ten years! I want to leave quietly, and use the soles of my feet to measure this land that accepts us for the last time!"

Tang Zheng sighed emotionally, as if he was chanting poetry.

"You cultural people speak in a literary manner, and it is not easy for the two girls to walk this night!

Mother Wei Lan is the most affectionate, and when she heard that the two decentralized students were not coming back, her eyes turned red all of a sudden.

"It's okay! I've walked this machine ploughing road thousands of times! Every time I used to go to the post office in the district to send a letter, I would open the road and return overnight after finishing work! Let's go to the guest house over there and set off again tomorrow!" Wang Zhaodi was so happy that she was about to fly.

"Sister-in-law! Eat a bowl of sister-in-law's rice balls and go on the road, safe and reunited! What a good omen! Hehehehe!"

Sister Tang Zheng unceremoniously hugged Xiao Wang to the stove and lifted the lid of the steaming pot.

"Okay, you two rest first, just a while!"

My mother was relieved to work, which was white rice balls, but now it has been replaced with lard and brown sugar filling, and more than a dozen eggs have been fried.

All of a sudden, this warm farmhouse courtyard was filled with the smell of fried eggs.

Dachengzi stood in the corner silently and gnawed his fingers, he was now a little afraid of Tang Zheng.

"Chengzi, come here!" Tang Zheng beckoned to Chengzi majestically like a sister, and Wang Zhaodi laughed on the side.

Da Chengzi stepped forward coaxingly, he had never seen the two young sisters dressed up so beautifully, which would already be a little exciting.

"My sisters' little flower books and novel books are all left for you, and I will ask your father to pick them up tomorrow. Don't fold paper cards, you know! You have to study hard, and when you grow up and go to college, you will come to my sister's house as a guest!"

Tang Zheng touched the dirty hands and claws of Dachengzi's hard poke hands, and the obsessive-compulsive disorder that almost loved hygiene came up again.

"Uh-huh!" Nariko nodded vigorously.

At that time, he didn't know what the concept of going to college was, maybe he had the vague idea of marrying a beautiful sister in the city as a wife.

As the sun set, Dachengzi's family stood on the side of the road, watching the students Tang Zheng and Wang Zhaodi slowly move away, and at that moment her mother Wei Lan suddenly burst into tears.

At about the same age, these two female intellectuals have a brilliant future waiting for them despite the hardships.

And her biggest achievement in this life is Dachengzi's mother.