Chapter 8: Happy Hour

The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, I ran to the front of the third father's house and waited for him to write me a couplet, his old man will write us a couplet every year, just like the tradition, every time I go to his house to get a couplet, I feel like the New Year!

My father came back from the city last night, and brought back a whole pig's backseat, and he and his fourth uncle went to the city to ask for money for the project, and finally returned.

I also brought back a TV and a brand new bicycle. There's also a lot of stuff on construction sites.

In 1994, electricity was available in rural areas, but black-and-white televisions were scarce in village households.

My mother divided the back seat of the pig into two, and gave the half to my grandparents! After the Chinese New Year, no matter how big the conflict is in the family, after all, it is still a family. You still have to have the heart you should have!

In the past two years, my father has partnered with several people from neighboring villages at the construction site to do some work in the city and earn some money. In the evening I saw my father take out two dozen new four great men from his pocket and give them to my mother.

I knew that it was the biggest 100-dollar bill, and our family suddenly became a 10,000-dollar household! At that time, I didn't know much about money, and children just love to play. It's not like now that I'm growing up, everything I do is living for money!

In the afternoon, many people from neighboring villages who followed my father came to my house one after another, and my father set up a piece of formwork used on the construction site at the door, and took out bundles of accounts for verification.

The whole afternoon was tightly surrounded in front of my house, and the faces of the people who had calculated the accounts and got their wages back had a sense of New Year's joy flowing from their faces!

I was playing in the yard with a few cousins, and my cousin Yangyang said to me, "Brother, your family is really rich, and you have a TV."

I remembered that I hadn't watched TV yet, so a few of us squeezed through the crowd and went to the TV in the house. My parents had already watched TV last night, and I was still asleep. , I don't know when my father they came back.

The cousin said he had watched TV, so he walked over and turned on the button, and a picture appeared on the screen. It's also the first time I've watched TV, and I think it's so interesting inside, and it feels very novel for the villain to talk in it!

We watched TV all afternoon, and in the evening I don't know where some of the kids next door knew that my family bought TV, and several more children came one after another, and we sat on the bed, sat on the ground, and all watched TV honestly. Just like the usual movie in the town, we sat on the inside and outside of the three floors. We watched the scene of several crows playing with each other, and let out giggles from time to time!

I remember that we watched a cartoon at 6 o'clock, and several children were reluctant to go home for dinner, and in the end, their mothers dragged them home with their ears pulled!

My father was busy until late, and I bought two bottles of Bengbu Daqu in the evening and drank it at home with my fourth uncle, and I especially liked to eat the braised goose head that my father bought, which tasted super good!

The winter of that year was sent away to the sound of firecrackers for the New Year. Throughout the year, I became the king of children again, because I had a TV at home, and every day a group of children played with me, and they all bothered me a little, and the best yo-yo was for me to play, and I brought them to my house every night to watch cartoons. Sometimes it's their mothers who pull their ears and drag those who don't want to go home home!

Spring soon came, everything woke up, the water in the pond outside the yard slowly thawed, the water flowed, and the buds sprouted again.

My father chose a good day before going to the city, invited two banquets, and moved into a new house. The two plane trees in front of the door have already become big trees in a few years, standing tall at the intersection of my yard, guarding my home like two guards!

I picked up my bag and went to school. When the schoolbag was celebrated during the Chinese New Year, my father bought it for me on Gaohuang Street. At that time, when my family was rich, I wore a lot more foreign style than my peers, small leather shoes, denim jumpsuits, and a small plaid jacket. It's a little whirlwind from the city that has darkened its skin, and it's alive!

There is a small river running through the whole village in our village, the average width is 10 meters wide, the water in the small river has always been flowing upstream, the plane tree in front of my house is planted on the river side of this small river, the rhizome of the plane tree completely protects the soil in front of my house!

At that time, some families had already built wells, and they would only come back with a bucket when they were cooking! Most of the time, the people in the village were used to using water from the small river.

My mother used to wash vegetables and rice in the creek, and I did my laundry. It can be said that the water of the small river is transparent and clear, and there are often small fish swimming happily in the river, which is very cheerful! In the summer, I often strip naked with my friends and jump into the river to bathe. Every time I come out of the shower, I either catch a few fish in my hand, or I will come out with a large scallop in my hand. Never go ashore empty-handed!

In the morning and evening, all I had to do was take a small basket and pinch my hands and feet along the river while the crayfish were breathing, gently pinch the whiskers of the crayfish and catch a crayfish! I would catch a lot of crayfish in the same way every morning and evening.

I love my mother's stir-fried crayfish! It's fragrant and delicious! Every time I eat it, I have to eat it with my younger siblings, and my mother will stand aside and laugh happily when she sees us rushing to eat!

Many years later, the river became a permanent memory for me.

In the mid-nineties, life in the countryside was getting better day by day, and some families in the village also built bungalows, all along the edge of this small river.

Some families felt that the river was close to their homes and that a section of the river was also their own, so they gave a part of the tutu to Latu, and other families followed suit. My family also built a pig house next to the river, and in order to build a house, a plane tree in front of my house was also cut down!

At that time, the people in the village did not have environmental awareness, and they did not know what environmental protection was and what ecology was!

Slowly, the creek turned into a creek!

The living conditions of the people in the village have improved! There are more plastic bags! There are more broken bottles and slag! There are more old clothes!

Slowly, the stream became blacker, and the silt grew more and more and darker!

The people of the village still throw all kinds of household garbage into the stream!

Now, every time I go back to my hometown, I can't find any trace of the river.

The little river in front of my house has completely disappeared from this earth!

If you lose something, you can't get it back, we develop nature, we use nature, but we don't learn to love them, we just take it, we want more, we become more greedy!

In my memory, my lovely river can only live in my heart!

The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, I ran to the front of the third father's house and waited for him to write me a couplet, his old man will write us a couplet every year, just like the tradition, every time I go to his house to get a couplet, I feel like the New Year!

My father came back from the city last night, and brought back a whole pig's backseat, and he and his fourth uncle went to the city to ask for money for the project, and finally returned.

I also brought back a TV and a brand new bicycle. There's also a lot of stuff on construction sites.

In 1994, electricity was available in rural areas, but black-and-white televisions were scarce in village households.

My mother divided the back seat of the pig into two, and gave the half to my grandparents! After the Chinese New Year, no matter how big the conflict is in the family, after all, it is still a family. You still have to have the heart you should have!

In the past two years, my father has partnered with several people from neighboring villages at the construction site to do some work in the city and earn some money. In the evening I saw my father take out two dozen new four great men from his pocket and give them to my mother.

I knew that it was the biggest 100-dollar bill, and our family suddenly became a 10,000-dollar household! At that time, I didn't know much about money, and children just love to play. It's not like now that I'm growing up, everything I do is living for money!

In the afternoon, many people from neighboring villages who followed my father came to my house one after another, and my father set up a piece of formwork used on the construction site at the door, and took out bundles of accounts for verification.

The whole afternoon was tightly surrounded in front of my house, and the faces of the people who had calculated the accounts and got their wages back had a sense of New Year's joy flowing from their faces!

I was playing in the yard with a few cousins, and my cousin Yangyang said to me, "Brother, your family is really rich, and you have a TV."

I remembered that I hadn't watched TV yet, so a few of us squeezed through the crowd and went to the TV in the house. My parents had already watched TV last night, and I was still asleep. , I don't know when my father they came back.

The cousin said he had watched TV, so he walked over and turned on the button, and a picture appeared on the screen. It's also the first time I've watched TV, and I think it's so interesting inside, and it feels very novel for the villain to talk in it!

We watched TV all afternoon, and in the evening I don't know where some of the kids next door knew that my family bought TV, and several more children came one after another, and we sat on the bed, sat on the ground, and all watched TV honestly. Just like the usual movie in the town, we sat on the inside and outside of the three floors. We watched the scene of several crows playing with each other, and let out giggles from time to time!

I remember that we watched a cartoon at 6 o'clock, and several children were reluctant to go home for dinner, and in the end, their mothers dragged them home with their ears pulled!

My father was busy until late, and I bought two bottles of Bengbu Daqu in the evening and drank it at home with my fourth uncle, and I especially liked to eat the braised goose head that my father bought, which tasted super good!

The winter of that year was sent away to the sound of firecrackers for the New Year. Throughout the year, I became the king of children again, because I had a TV at home, and every day a group of children played with me, and they all bothered me a little, and the best yo-yo was for me to play, and I brought them to my house every night to watch cartoons. Sometimes it's their mothers who pull their ears and drag those who don't want to go home home!

Spring soon came, everything woke up, the water in the pond outside the yard slowly thawed, the water flowed, and the buds sprouted again.

My father chose a good day before going to the city, invited two banquets, and moved into a new house. The two plane trees in front of the door have already become big trees in a few years, standing tall at the intersection of my yard, guarding my home like two guards!

I picked up my bag and went to school. When the schoolbag was celebrated during the Chinese New Year, my father bought it for me on Gaohuang Street. At that time, when my family was rich, I wore a lot more foreign style than my peers, small leather shoes, denim jumpsuits, and a small plaid jacket. It's a little whirlwind from the city that has darkened its skin, and it's alive!

There is a small river running through the whole village in our village, the average width is 10 meters wide, the water in the small river has always been flowing upstream, the plane tree in front of my house is planted on the river side of this small river, the rhizome of the plane tree completely protects the soil in front of my house!

At that time, some families had already built wells, and they would only come back with a bucket when they were cooking! Most of the time, the people in the village were used to using water from the small river.

My mother used to wash vegetables and rice in the creek, and I did my laundry. It can be said that the water of the small river is transparent and clear, and there are often small fish swimming happily in the river, which is very cheerful! In the summer, I often strip naked with my friends and jump into the river to bathe. Every time I come out of the shower, I either catch a few fish in my hand, or I will come out with a large scallop in my hand. Never go ashore empty-handed!

In the morning and evening, all I had to do was take a small basket and pinch my hands and feet along the river while the crayfish were breathing, gently pinch the whiskers of the crayfish and catch a crayfish! I would catch a lot of crayfish in the same way every morning and evening.

I love my mother's stir-fried crayfish! It's fragrant and delicious! Every time I eat it, I have to eat it with my younger siblings, and my mother will stand aside and laugh happily when she sees us rushing to eat!

Many years later, the river became a permanent memory for me.

In the mid-nineties, life in the countryside was getting better day by day, and some families in the village also built bungalows, all along the edge of this small river.

Some families felt that the river was close to their homes and that a section of the river was also their own, so they gave a part of the tutu to Latu, and other families followed suit. My family also built a pig house next to the river, and in order to build a house, a plane tree in front of my house was also cut down!

At that time, the people in the village did not have environmental awareness, and they did not know what environmental protection was and what ecology was!

Slowly, the creek turned into a creek!

The living conditions of the people in the village have improved! There are more plastic bags! There are more broken bottles and slag! There are more old clothes!

Slowly, the stream became blacker, and the silt grew more and more and darker!

The people of the village still throw all kinds of household garbage into the stream!

Now, every time I go back to my hometown, I can't find any trace of the river.

The little river in front of my house has completely disappeared from this earth!

If you lose something, you can't get it back, we develop nature, we use nature, but we don't learn to love them, we just take it, we want more, we become more greedy!

In my memory, my lovely river can only live in my heart!