Chapter Twenty-Five: The Housekeeper's Rooster
In the early 80s, this thing was divided into several stages, the first stage was to fold it by yourself, with homework books, books, disassembled, first folded into long strips from the short side, and then twisted into a curved hook shape, and then locked the two ends together with a curved hook, it became a square snap, one side looks like a cross flower, the front, the other side is the light board, the back. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info also folded with two pieces of paper, with two long strips crossed into a cross shape, and then to the middle of the hook lock, the folded cracker is heavier than a single piece of paper, and there are more chances to win. Stacking up newspapers is considered cheating, and it is rarely used, and most of the time others don't play with you. There are also stacked with a wall calendar, this is pure cheating, too heavy, no one takes you to play with it, it is stacked and looks good, take it out to show it. At that time, the book at home suffered, the adults didn't see it at a glance and were shattered, the most bullish is to fold the textbook, after a while the teacher found that the child had no books to find parents, a question, stacked crackling, so a beating, parents take money to buy new books, and then dismantle. I have a classmate, I won't write my name here, just among those above, I dismantled three books in half a semester, and I belong to the extremists who have been beaten repeatedly, and others can't learn it.
In the second stage of snapping, there is no need to fold paper, but at this time, the stack of paper has not yet been discharged from the army and is still playing. The second stage of the crackling is made of tissue paper shell, a yellow tissue paper shell, on which a circle is printed with red ink, which is generally engraved with vague and plausible figures, similar to the form of the official seal, and as large as the official seal. After printing, cut it out with scissors, a round snap is done, and dozens of them are not too large in the hand, so they gradually replaced the hand-stacked, and the hand-stacked ones take up too much space to take a few. The pattern of the seal is also very simple, the characters and animals, are all similar, vague, in fact, except for the owner, no one knows what it is, anyway, it is red.
The third stage is the leap forward, or made of thin paper shells, but no longer red seals, but on the paper shell and a layer of color printed paper, overprinted characters and animals, what Three Kingdoms heroes, Journey to the West, Dream of Red Mansions, Water Margin, Iron Arm Astro Boy, but at that time the overprinting technology was really a bit miserable, the characters have four eyes or a blur to see clearly, children don't know what's going on, buy it back and cut it to play. It's also round, and it's big with the second generation.
When it comes to the third stage, you don't need to play it, the second generation can still play, but the third generation is a pasted color painting, which will cause damage, and it is too light to play. So at this time, the crackling has actually become a technical work: collapse, play, chop, and there is no need to always turn around on the ground to get dirty, you can play on the table, by this time, the crackling activity has changed from dirty and tiring physical work to a clean table game, and has entered the era of technology.
To put it slowly, in fact, from the first generation of paper stacks to the third generation of "real people", it is from 80 to 83 years.
After 81 years, there were more things for children to play with (compared to children in the seventies), real people snapped, patted cigarette boxes (folded cigarettes into a big triangle, and then put them on the ground and patted them on the side with their hands, and the air slapped by their hands turned over the cigarette box, and they won when they turned over), origami airplanes, and at that time, you could see the wreckage of airplanes thrown on the ground everywhere in the streets and alleys, with a variety of materials and styles. At that time, there were private people who came out to do business, a simple shed, which would sell some candy and some things for children to play with, and gradually children's games entered the era of burning money by themselves.
"Erming, lend me two. Wang Zhichang said to Zhang Xingming.
After fighting for more than an hour, he was covered with sweat, Wang Zhichang lost, his father was strict, and he folded less. Li Shucai won the most, Yang Zhendong also won, Shi Deming Li Baojun didn't lose or win, Zhang Xingming also lost, but he still had it in his hand, and he didn't win playing these games in his memory.
When everyone plays together, first rock-paper-scissors, the loser puts his own crackle on the ground, and the other uses his own crackle to hit, that is, the crackle in his hand is slapped on the top of the cracker on the ground, if the one on the ground is overturned, it is a win, the knocked over snap will belong to the winner, and the losing one will then take out another one and put it on the ground. If you don't knock it over, put the snap in your hand on the ground, and wait for the other party to fight, at this time you can't change the snap, you can only use this one in each person's hand, until one side wins. At that time, I could often see some children with a big pinch in their pockets, which must be good to play and win more, and there are generally only a few bad plays, and no one has so many books to tear down at home.
"Dachang is gone, and there are few defenders, so don't you play?" Dadong said to Xiao Ming with a thick stack of crackers.
"Don't you play Gaha, eat early. Xiao Ming said.
"My family has paper, why don't you go to my house, Dachang stacks some by himself, you don't care about Erming to borrow, he doesn't have a few, he can't play if he borrows you." Li Shucai said.
Then a group of little guys went around the house and went to Li Shucai's house. Xiao Ming and Li Shucai both stayed on the last trip, just at both ends of the house, Xiao Ming's house was below, and Li Shucai's house was above.
When he arrived at Li Shucai's house and entered the house, Li Shucai rummaged through the cabinets and found a few books, which were junior high school textbooks, which should be his brother's.
A few people opened the book, folded it, and gave it to Dachang after folding, and Li Shucai also folded it and gave it to Li Baojun. This is the logic of the Northeast boys, you don't have to play, I can get you paper, I can help you fold, but I can't give what I win, that's what you lose. And when I give it, I'm very generous, and when I play, I often quarrel for one, and even fight, of course, after a while, I'll be reconciled again. After growing up, too, sometimes playing cards together, owing a dollar is not good, usually very generous, a few dollars in hand to spend, and do not mention repayment. It's called one yard to one yard.
Folded it, he played at the door of Li Shucai's house, and it was dark until it was dark, and Li Shucai was the most powerful, and the treasure in his hand was worn out.
"Xiao Ming, come back for dinner. Xiao Ming stood in front of his door and shouted. "Oh, it's back. Xiao Ming agreed and said, "After dinner, will you come out at night?"
Dachang: "Come out." "What about your homework? Don't you do your homework at night?
Dadong: "You shout, come out at night and have to get my family's second east." ”
Li Shucai: "I can't watch it at night, what are you playing?"
Li Baojun: "............" is not very talkative, slow from childhood to adulthood, always silent.
The little fat man Liu Xiancheng: "Come on, stay at home." ”
Go back to your own house. All the way back, there was green smoke in the chimneys of each house, the sound of pots and pans, the sound of stir-frying and the fragrance of cooking diffused in front of and behind the house.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, Zhang Xingming was stunned, stopped his steps, and looked at the big white rooster standing on the wall of the courtyard of Sun Niang's house. The rooster raised his head proudly, stood on the wall, and looked at Zhang Xingming with a disdainful side.
This rooster was raised by Zhang Xingming's grandmother after he went to his grandmother's house, I don't know why, since Zhang Xingming came back, it has been eyeing Zhang Xingming, treating him as a class enemy, and not letting him enter the hospital.
After Zhang Xingming stopped, he slowly took a few steps back, but he couldn't beat it.
I didn't dare to shout loudly, for fear of irritating it, and I would have to cry if I pounced on it immediately.
One person and one chicken, confronting each other at the entrance of the yard, this kind of situation will happen every day since Zhang Xingming comes back, and the adults laugh when they hear it, and they don't take it seriously, but Zhang Xingming is really painful, what is this called. Sometimes Zhang Xingming is in a hurry and wants to be talked about by it a few times and put it in the space, but he is afraid of being seen by adults, so he can't explain it.
The big rooster stood on the courtyard wall, shaking his wings from time to time, staring at Zhang Xingming, just not leaving the battlefield, Zhang Xingming was locked in a fighting state, and he couldn't go back to the city in a hurry, and he didn't know if he owed this chicken in the previous life.
After more than ten minutes of confrontation, as soon as the door opened, my mother came out, saw Zhang Xingming standing at the entrance of the courtyard, and said, "I said I was going to look for you, what time did you not come back to eat, and you were standing there?" Zhang Xingming pointed to the big rooster speechlessly.
My mother came over and said, "I won't let you enter the hospital?" This chicken is also weird, why don't you look down on you so much, and it's not ugly." ”
Mom came, and when the rooster saw that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, he chose to retreat strategically, pulled his neck and screamed, flapped his wings, jumped off the courtyard wall, and went back to his territory. Zhang Xingming followed his mother into the house dejectedly.
Dad was setting the table, looked back, and said, "Where did you go?
Zhang Xingming said listlessly: "I went to Xiao Ming's house." ”
Dad looked at Mom and asked, "What's the matter, you don't have the energy?
Zhang Xingming walked over to wash his hands and said, "Coax the child, those few pieces of broken paper, what is there to win or lose." ”
My mother said, "People have come back early, and they have called Dabai to block the entrance of the courtyard, and if they don't let him in, I will go out and meet each other there." ”
Dad said, "Then why don't you shout?" Zhang Xingming washed his hands, wiped his hands with a towel, and said: "Don't dare to shout, as soon as you shout, you will be excited, and it is easy to rush out of the defensive range to attack in advance, and we can't hold it." "Poof", Sister Ping laughed behind her and said, "Erming talks one by one, and the young man is still afraid of chickens." ”
Zhang Xingming said with a bitter face: "Miss, haven't you let it talk about it, a purple bean, it really hurts." Tell Daddy Sun, when will I kill it, I will eat a thigh and take revenge. Sister Ping said: "Kill, then my father is reluctant, take care of the house." "It's a real housekeeper, since this chicken settled here, fewer people have come.
Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "As soon as I say this, I am balanced, it seems that I am not the only one who is being nagged." ”
When I went into the house to eat, my brother and brother were already waiting at the table, and my brother can now eat with chopsticks by himself.
After eating, I didn't go out to play, so I went to Daddy's house for a while, and even got a few pieces of candy with me, and then I went back to my house, divided the sugar with my brother and brother, and washed my feet on the kang.
At this time, the family in the city in the northeast is sleeping on a kang, which is not as good as the countryside, and you can build it if you want to, at least there is a thing house, and the housing in the city is allocated by the public, which is not big, but it is given for free, and you don't want a penny.
The temperature of the kang head is higher, and the kang tip is cooler, and the children are generally allowed to live in the kang head, and the adults live in the kang tip. Zhang Xingming's family is just the opposite, at his insistence, his parents live on the kang, and he lives on the kang himself, the children have a lot of firepower, and they can't go anywhere, but the parents are old and prone to physical problems.
The days passed day by day, and as soon as the north wind blew, it was the time of severe winter.
After a few heavy snowfalls, Zhang Xingming's battlefield has shifted from the front and back of the house to the ice of the earth.
For Zhang Xingming, who lacks certain cells, skating, one-legged donkeys, etc., are all floating clouds, and he will never touch them. Although they are all dressed like balls, it doesn't hurt to fall a few times, but I can't afford to lose my face.
On the ice, his main activities are climbing pears and playing on ice.
The climbing pears here are not the same thing as the big ones in the countryside. The rural one is a practical tool, not actually for play. The climbing pears that the children in the city play are much smaller, so small that they can only let a child of a few years old sit cross-legged on it, and it is also very short, only ten centimeters high, but it is stable, it will not turn over and does not need technology, take two ski poles to support, how to slide as you want, if you don't want to slide, you can sit on a stool, and it is not cold. It's a small bench that can be glided.
Then, as usual, line up.
Together with seven or eight of them from Xiao Ming, Dachang and Dadong, rock-paper-scissors, lined up in order, and began to slide. Skating this is not like a one-legged donkey, this one must be timed, otherwise one person can skate until dark.
Several people discussed, delineated a range, and then the skating person was on the ice within this range, and the person was replaced after four laps, which was more than ten minutes for one person.
The people in the first order stood and watched a few laps, and the rest of them were pumping on the sidelines.
The history of the spinning top is no longer observed, anyway, it is very old, and it can be played by adults and children. Generally, the spinning top is made of wood, and the car is shaped with an iron nail at the top, or simply pressed the nail. It's just that the nails are not too wear-resistant.
The spinning top has higher requirements for the ground, it must be smooth, and if it is not smooth, it can't be turned, then it is not playing, it is troublesome. Due to the times, in this era in the Northeast, you can only play this in winter, and there is no flat place to play in summer. Except for the asphalt road, most of the rest of the place is in a primitive state, and the loess is facing the sky.
Most of the people are holding wooden carts, the big ones can only be held with both hands, the small ones are the size of eggs, and no matter how small they are, they can't play, and the weight is not enough, so they will fly as soon as they are pumped. It could have been poured into it, but it was too complicated, and no adult bothered to do that.
Li Shucai's is also painted red, unlike other people who are all woody, and they can't be wiped clean after playing for a few days.
Zhang Xingming is not wooden, but steel, not much bigger than the pen cap, but very heavy, with a small half a catty, there are still a few people in this ice rink have this kind of steel, arousing the envy of children, not that steel is better than wood, but when you are different from most, it will attract attention, and children often envy things and angles are more abnormal.
This kind of steel is actually a part of the heavy-duty mine car, only the big car class on the mine has it, the eldest sister is there to work, just take a few back, other people with this kind of steel are the same, there must be someone in the family who works in the big car class, there is no other place at all, the car is 175 tons of approved load, the body is wider than the road. I remember that Jackie Chan drove one in a movie and crashed into the villain's house. The height of the tires was close to four meters.
This is an old part that has been replaced, and it is not a public advantage, and its advantage over Mu Yan is that it turns longer and more smoothly. So there was a queue of pears over there, and the gang Yan here started to line up again, Zhang Xingming simply threw the gang to them, and he smoked someone's wood on the side.
When the whip went down, it spun very fast, and when it saw that it was about to turn no longer and then went up with a whip, Zhang Xingming thought while beating: What is the meaning of this play, what is the point of falling to the bottom? It is better to climb the pear, at least there is a feeling of galloping when it slides up.
When playing on ice, you have to move, stand still for a long time, and the cool air will come through. When the cool air comes through, if you don't want to be guilty, you can only change your shoes. So when you go to the Northeast in winter, those who stand on the side of the road, wait at the bus stop, you look carefully, none of them stand still, they are all moving their feet. Also, you can't lie on your stomach on the ice. It doesn't matter how thick it is. Lying in the snow, just stand up and shake and pat, the snow will fall, lying on the ice, the clothes will be wet, no matter how cold it is, it will be wet, once the clothes are wet, you will immediately understand what the Great Northeast is.