Chapter 4: Growing Pains (1)
After the summer vacation, I went to preschool.
The new environment is getting more and more familiar, but I still don't dare to defecate at school, which may be a strange thing. Even if it is a school toilet in four or five cities, I have always wondered why its squatting position cannot be equipped with a door. I'm embarrassed to be so open.
Since I came to the school early, I didn't know what the head teacher was thinking about, so I actually gave me a key to open the door. Of course, there are also bad voices from other students, "dogs at the door".
Preschool and elementary school classes are about the same, reading in the morning, doing morning exercises, and going to class.
There are two things that stand out to me most about preschool.
The first thing is that my family moved into the unit's ladder commercial house, my family lives in room 501 on the 5th floor, I remember when I moved in, I hung the firecrackers on the 5th floor along the steps to the 1st floor, and I felt happy. I also have my own room, arranged to the window near the balcony, with a construction area of 92 square meters, three bedrooms, two living rooms and one bathroom. Relatives on both sides of the parents were also invited to join the wine, and more than a dozen tables were set up in the student dormitory.
This year, my father had three coaches and hired two coaches to help him lead the students. Later, for some reason, my cousin and my mother's cousin came over and replaced the coaches they had hired. At the same time, my mother began to complain that my father was a little unmotivated, and took the students to the coaching ground to play chess, and let the students explore on their own. The father's expansion and covetousness also buried hidden dangers for the future.
The second thing is that not long after moving into my family's new house, my second sister got married, my brother-in-law is a small clerk of the power bureau, and he also allocated a commercial house, and my second sister has always had a good relationship with me, and often buys rice rolls for me to make breakfast when I come home from the night shift, and occasionally takes me to the cinema to watch movies. Different from the current movie theaters, small city movie theaters were very simple in the 90s, and I remember that the first time I was taken to see the ** movie "East Becomes West". After reading it, it was close to 10 o'clock in the evening, although my second sister and I told my mother about it, but I was still very happy, and this experience also became a topic of conversation with my classmates and friends in those days.
On the day my second sister got married, I was reluctant to make a fuss and cry, how bad it was in retrospect. But because I'm the little bully in the family, everyone doesn't say anything. still borrowed the dormitory of the students, and my father personally cooked a few tables of wine to entertain everyone. The dinner was arranged by my brother-in-law in a guest house. Although we often go to the restaurant for tea and dinner, it is the first time to attend a wedding banquet, and it feels very fresh.
In retrospect, fathers don't ask for anything for their daughters to choose a husband, and they don't ask anything. Maybe I asked in private, but I don't know. He seems to feel guilty about his daughter, but he doesn't know how to express and make up for the suffering of his sisters in childhood.
Or the second sister is reluctant to me, sometimes pick me up to her new home to play, remember once sending me to school, and then she and the second brother-in-law forgot to pick me up from school because of something, and my parents didn't pick me up. I was like a forgotten child, and I didn't look like I have any children's watches, mobile phones, back then. I didn't have any money on me, so I was helpless and wouldn't go to my teachers and call my parents.
I wandered back and forth in front of the school for a long time, and I remember that it was 4:30 p.m. and it was until 5:30 p.m. Schools have closed, and the students have left. I could only wipe my tears, grit my teeth, and walk home with my schoolbag on my back. Luckily, the traffickers weren't rampant, and one of them, an uncle who didn't know whether it was out of kindness or how to ask why a person was crying while walking, I chose to ignore him and only indulge in the fantasy of "why didn't you come and pick me up".
With memory, I slowly walked home. When I got home, of course, I was scolded indispensably.
Since that time, my nephew and I want to go to the second sister's house to play, and if the second brother-in-law doesn't have time to pick me up, I will walk alone, about 2 kilometers.
With the advent of VCD, the rental disc industry has been derived. City M is a city in Guangdong Province, close to Hong Kong and Macao. We generally watch Xiangjiang movies, especially Xingye's movies. I was so sleepy that I fell asleep on the couch when I was tired. Almost all the summer vacation was spent at the second sister's house, and their family was replaced with a Toshiba 25-inch large color TV, and watching movies was more refreshing than my family's small black and white.
One afternoon during the summer vacation, I finally climbed up and plugged in the small black and white TV at home and kicked it to the ground. The TV cabinet was about 70 centimeters high from the ground, and the small black and white TV that fell down broke the upper left corner, and the adults in the family went out. I remember very well that when I saw the situation, I ran downstairs and hid under the parking coach. Then, my parents called the students together to pull me out and take me home for education, and I was beaten and scolded again.
My father finally decided to ask my second brother-in-law to buy a Toshiba 28-inch color TV and come back, and the 28-inch color TV would cost thousands of yuan at that time. Fix the broken one and give it to my mother's uncle.
More and more people are moving into new commercial houses, and there are gradually childhood people like me. There are more and more students, and those who take the driver's license test have gradually become driving schools, and the courses have gradually become richer. A basketball court was built.
This basketball court carries the laughter and tears of my childhood and witnesses my growth. Every day when I go to school, I have to pass by the basketball court, from the population to the current decline, witnessing the division and integration of the children in our compound.
I remember when I first started pouring cement to build a basketball court, everyone complained about the inconvenience of access. In the back, the friends in our compound often play basketball and chat, and too many memories are still unforgettable.
The advantages of building a house in a unit, the neighbors are all acquainted, and the basketball court has become a place for the little friends in the yard to play, unlike the current community, which feels that children can't find their childhood playmates, and there are only contacts between classmates. Now I live in an elevator room, a high-rise complex. The neighbor just nodded in greeting, and there was a sense of estrangement. Maybe in the compound of the same unit, everyone is familiar, and sometimes the mother of a partner in the neighborhood will also give you a dish brought back from her hometown.
Now people's living standards have improved and the living environment has improved, but what I miss more is the friends who went to school together, went trick-or-treating, and played basketball together on rainy days.
A basketball court got acquainted with a group of friends in the courtyard, but the ruthless time separated the group of friends, not in contact for a long time, the friendship will be attributed to the vast crowd, with the dilution of minutes and seconds, leaving only those unforgettable pictures, their lives have also changed, maybe they will never see each other again, maybe they will not think of the red-faced and red-eared you who argued in front of me when they were children.