Chapter 3: The Imprint of Time

At that time, we were young and frivolous, and we had just entered the school, and we were not very sensible. I like to compete for everything. At this time, I was more introverted, and at the same time, more cold, and in layman's terms, more withdrawn. A lot of things are made by yourself, and you don't need to ask for any opinions. This is also related to the characteristics of many rural children, stubborn and innocent. In the news, it is about left-behind children in rural areas, and many adults in the village have gone to Guangdong to work and cannot take care of their families. Many of them are celebrating the New Year, going home for the New Year or something, and every time I hope to reunite with my family during the New Year, and I am one of them.

Speaking of which, I am still very grateful for the care of my sister, whether it is in life or study.

That year, I was in elementary school in the town, and the winter was cold and windy. Frosty weather, very cold. It's a few miles to go to school, and every morning I have to get up before dawn to get fried rice or something. (Now I finally understand why I don't like fried rice very much.) I have to hurry up and go to study in the morning, and in winter, I usually have to use a flashlight to hurry, and I have to walk a long way before the sky will shine.

My sister and I walked on the way to the town, and there were pine forests and weeds all over the hills. When the weather is frosty, there is a layer of ice on the water, and there are small wounds on the hands and face that have been blown by the wind, and when the wind blows, it will be very painful. Both of them are relatively thin, they don't have autumn pants, and they only wear a pair of autumn pants in winter. As soon as the cold wind blows, it will feel a little cold. (Compared with the past, the winter is very warm, wearing a pair of pants, you don't feel cold at all, and the office is air-conditioned, so I feel satisfied when I think about it.) )

"Brother, do you feel cold this winter?"

"It's not cold, not to mention I'm still wearing clothes," I took a firm step, and my heart couldn't help but tremble.

"I have gloves here, I knit them, you can wear them"

"Don't wear it, a man, how troublesome it is to wear this!"

"You still have cracks on your hands, don't they hurt?" my sister frowned and looked at me. ”

"It's nothing, it'll be fine when the winter passes" I said casually, afraid that she would worry, my heart was warm, sweeter than eating honey.

Carrying a heavy school bag, he walked and chatted. The sky is slowly brightening, the dark time has passed, and the dawn has arrived.

On the road of studying, there are fewer and fewer childhood friends who go to school together, and they all step into society earlier. Sometimes it feels very lonely. But if you want to become a master, you have to endure the test of loneliness.

It was a summer, and the countryside woke up earlier in the morning. My mother told me to go to the soybean field to plant sweet potato vines, my feet were deep and shallow, and my legs were covered with mud.

My mother asked me, "Is it right or wrong to send your sister to study in the city?"

"It's good to read more books and gain more knowledge, I don't want my sister, like me now, to plant sweet potato vines at home, not to mention that her ideal is to be a policeman, which is worthy of support. I said without questioning.

When I was in middle school, my sister had already gone to the provincial capital to study. When she was a child, her dream was to be a people's policeman and serve the people. Now that he has entered a police academy in Changsha, his family is very happy, and he has taken out all his family savings, and my father personally took him to the provincial capital and sent him to school.

At home, I said to my sister: "When other classmates drink drinks, you can only drink plain water, and drinking it is good for your health!"

At that time, my sister kept nodding her head, and a complex emotion came to her heart. I turned my head and cried inexplicably. Whether it is reluctant, or sad about the family situation at that time, I can't tell the difference.

When I went to the provincial city to study, I rarely contacted him, and I would occasionally call over on weekends to talk about things in life, ask how I was doing, and talk about unhappy things in life.

It wasn't until many years later that I realized that the ideal was correct, but the reality was cruel. At that time, I chose this major, and I couldn't find a job after leaving school. The school does not arrange jobs, and the police knowledge learned is equivalent to learning in vain, and you have to find a job by yourself, which is also known later.

In fact, my sister is also quite entangled in her heart, compared to going to school, it costs a lot of money from the family, and she has to find a job by herself, and the pressure is also very high.

I wondered where the way out was, and I asked myself more than once. Listen to the ending song of Journey to the West: Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet! It makes a lot of sense, but I still don't know where the road leads.

Families of ordinary people, despite the hardships of life. We still have to live strongly, so that hope will shine on us.

That year, snowflakes fell in the sky during the Chinese New Year, firecrackers were set off in every household, and couplets were pasted at home, looking forward to a good harvest in the new year!