1. Childhood memories
A small city in the north, I have fragmented memories from my childhood! But I didn't check it later, and I don't know if it's a dream. The mountain, the deep valley in front of me, and my mother poured laundry water down the mountain! I played with the electric guitar and the yellow toy, pressing each key and singing a tune.
"Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of little stars!"
"There is only a mother in the world, and a mother's child is like a treasure, thrown into the arms of his mother, and happiness cannot be enjoyed......"
As long as I can remember, I lived in Xiaocang Lane, which was a big yard with Uncle Xiang's family of three, and there were many houses in his family, and there was a well in the middle of the yard, and a large mud house at the mouth of the well was my home! The roof was stacked with red bricks, and the pot room and the eating place were not together! Whenever it rained, my mother would take an iron bucket under the red eaves to catch the rainwater, and the rain could wash clothes! Whenever it was time to eat, my younger brother, My sister, and I, sat around a small table, each with a bowl of rice, and each bowl had two pieces of fatty meat, and my mother took a small stick and told us all to eat it, and if we didn't eat it, we would be beaten, and the child who finished eating it would be rewarded with a dollar bill! I ate it, took two bites, and spit it out! I never wanted to eat fat again! But I didn't earn a dollar bill, so I had to tell my sister to give me 5 cents! We bought snacks and ate together!
In my spare time, my mother cut the pasta into small pieces and fried it into fruits, and of course I ate the most! In winter, it was very cold, and we followed my mother to take a bath in a bathhouse far away, and the three children held hands, and I asked all the way:
"It's hot here, what is that tall red pillar", said the mother:
"This is a kiln factory",
Passing through that large red brick kiln factory, we came to a bathing place with a large pool and also a shower place. We like to play in the big pool, and then one by one by my mother to take a bath, but every time my mother has to ask me to rub her back, let me work harder! But at the age of five, how much strength can I have, but our skin is very red by my mother's hard rubbing, and when we turn on the hot water, it hurts!
I rarely get sick when I was a child, but that year, I had a big black plaster on my cheeks, and I wore it like this for a week! That was the first time I went to the clinic, and there was a glass syringe in the white box, which was very large and had a very soft tube! An old man in a white coat, wearing a mask, was talking to an adult!
When I was a child, my sister and brother were locked in the house, playing with each other, the two houses could be interconnected, and the sleeping place in it had a wood-colored wardrobe with black flowers carved on it, a big bed was placed against the wall, and on the opposite side was a black and white television set, and there was a clock above the TV, as long as every time the swinging pendulum stopped, the bell jar needed to be opened, and the clockwork was held, and it kept twisting, and soon it began to swing again! The old routine locked us in the house, and the three of us, like rats in the next room, jumped up and down, climbing all kinds of things! The happiest thing every day was to stare out the window, wait for them to come back, open the door, and we flew out like swallows to play with the little friends next to us, a card folded from paper, kneeling on the ground and smashing the sign! This alley leads in all directions, and you can always hear a cyclist, ringing the bell and shouting:
"Collect the rags, collect the scrap iron, repair the pots, repair the pots, repair the gas stove"!
I have a bathing basin at home, which I often use to wash my clothes! It was a dull brownish-red color, and my mother asked me to call him over, and I chased after his bicycle and shouted:
"I have something to fix in my house!"
Watching him unload his tools, step on an iron box, hold a strip in one hand, and have a flamethrower in the other, in less than 1 minute, the crack was sewn up, I quickly touched it with my hand, but my hand was stained with glue, and it hurt so much, the adult said:
"You can't wait, it's going to be cold for a few minutes"!
In the middle of each month, the folk clay craftsmen will regularly come to this area, next door to Uncle Xiang's stall, unload a small bench, set up a table, and then various colors of colored clay in his hands quickly kneaded into a Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Tang Seng! There are also various zodiac animals! My parents locked us in the house again, I woke up, looked out the window, there were three clay sculptures in the kitchen door, I called my younger brothers and sisters to come over, I said:
"When the door opens, I want the biggest!"
At a time like this, three young children, only 2 to 5 years old, lived alone in a house like this when there were no adults, and lived for a few years!
When I was very young, I liked to go to the young lady's house in Flagpole Lane to play, and I heard my aunt say that my parents went from the countryside to the city, in order to avoid family planning, as long as someone checked, we were all taken to the third aunt's house by adults to hide! Our two families are not far away, a two-story house, her mother is my cousin's third aunt, she is a seamstress, she can make a lot of beautiful clothes, I also have a sewing machine at home, it turns out that my mother is the same as the third aunt, they are all tailors!
Today, I took my lotus pink dress for my sister to wear, and changed it again and again, and they said that I was too fat to wear the skirt soon! I had to change it to a smaller size for my sister to wear! I almost all of my clothes were made, and I also had my third aunt and mother! I cut a piece of cloth, measured the size with a ruler, and marked it on the cloth with chalk, and soon it was a new dress!
From the second floor very narrow stairs up, is my little sister's room, her room is very individual, is in the adolescent girl, the room is very warm and comfortable, the wall is plastered with photos of famous stars, but I don't know a star! Next to the bed folded a thousand paper cranes of various colors, put it on both sides of the window, and the wind chimes near the windowsill, the breeze blows, and the bell rings! She has a lot of photos, packed in a thick album, the cabinet next to it has no door, only a thin wire is pulled on the top, and a beautiful flower cloth is worn, so that it can be used as a door, and it can also be dustproof! I opened the flower curtain, there are a lot of clothes in her cabinet, several are long dresses with floral stitching, and in the iron box on the table next to her, there are a lot of that kind of trendy jewelry, there are bracelets, earrings, and some necklaces made of hand-strung beads, I took them in front of the mirror and compared, I was very reluctant to put them back!
When I was 4 years old, a cat came to the house, which quickly became our good friend, and it was very comfortable to hold and touch it. The winter of that year was very cold, the cat was gone, and the mother said that the cat was gone, but the next day the mother found the cat's corpse in the charcoal stove in the pot room! Because of heating, it burrowed into the stove for the cold winter night, and never came out alive! The mother used fire scissors to clip out its corpse and throw it away! When it was empty, my mother took a brush and taught me to read on cardboard.
One day a very tall man came into the house, and I sat in his arms, and my face hurt because of his beard, but he still wanted to hold me, and I cried to go out to play, and my mother told me to call him uncle, and he was my grandfather! When I came back from the alley, I saw his departing back, but I could no longer remember his face! I never saw him again. That year, my mother tied a white cloth around her waist, and they said that my mother's father was dead! But what death was!