4 Kerosene lamps
Originally, I was going to start with the baby's memories and continue to write until now. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info but I feel that it is very rigid and laborious to recall like this. So, I changed the way I remember for a while, and I wrote whatever I remembered, and when I woke up this morning, I saw the bright light bulb, and I remembered the kerosene lamp. Although kerosene lamps and light bulbs are not related to each other in principle, they both have the same function, that is, to light up the world.
I'm an idiot in the world of cartoons because I barely watched cartoons when I was a kid. The main reason was not that I was in high school, but that there was no electricity in the village where I lived at that time. Some of you may be surprised that there is no electricity? Yes, I didn't have an electric light bulb in my childhood. I dare say that now information is so developed, but there are definitely areas without electricity. However, the absence of electricity is not a particularly bad situation, and my childhood was more enjoyable in the days when there was no electricity.
Back to the subject, before the age of 13, my nights were a world of kerosene lamps. So, what is the world of kerosene lamps like?
We had breakfast before dark, and we went to play with a group of children, and it wasn't until my mother shouted our names in the night that we ran home in a frenzy. My mother crossed the night with a foreign fire, and saw a small kerosene lamp waiting to wake up. When the flame of the foreign fire approached the wick of the kerosene lamp, a puff of black smoke came out of the kerosene lamp, and our world lit up again.
The rhythm of the evening is about the same, first under the supervision of my mother, my brother and I climbed on the kang, and began to scribble under the kerosene lamp, copying word by word into the homework book. My mother went to school less, and after we knew a little bit of new words, my mother couldn't teach us, so my mother lay down next to us and read the novel, and I clearly remembered that my mother was holding a book without a book jacket "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", which was a little thick, although half of it had been lost. Sometimes I accidentally crawl on the homework book and fall asleep because I am too tired to play, but I am always scared. My mother woke me up from my dream by hitting me on the head at the knuckle when I was about to fall asleep, and when she looked at my mother with confused eyes, she looked serious, so she quickly picked up a pencil and wrote in the homework book.
Regarding the kerosene lamp, my mother said that as long as the wick of the kerosene lamp changed from one to two, there must be a distinguished guest at home, I don't know if this is a lie, but when I saw that the wick became two, the next day my father came back from working outside, and I decided that my mother was right. Every time my father came home, he would bring a lot of toys to the two of us, so while we were doing our homework, we stared at the kerosene lamp in the middle, longing for it to fork.
In the days when kerosene lamps were used in my memory, it was always early and the rooster crowed loudly. After having electricity, I always see the rooster crowing at noon, which makes people a little disgusted, what a lazy rooster it should be. Maybe the rooster is also confused, because it is very bright at night and during the day, which causes its biological clock to be out of order, so it is possible to cope with errands and crow casually.
When other classmates were discussing TV series such as "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "White Eyebrows", etc., I couldn't understand what they were talking about at all, so I had to sit in the corner against the wall and hold the grain bread in a daze. But strangely, I didn't complain about anything at all, I just thought that what those classmates said was a little strange. Using kerosene lamps is not without its benefits, and I gradually discovered that the students in my class who wore myopia glasses early on had televisions at home. Most of our people who don't have electricity have good eyes.
Later, the national policy is getting better and better, we were listed in the "Dragon King Transformation" project, and also pulled up the light bulb, the first time I saw such a bright light, it really felt incredible, the night of the electricity, most of our villagers were the same as the New Year, and some even cried with joy.
A few years ago, I inadvertently saw the kerosene lamp that I used to use, covered with dust, like a ruin, quietly resting in the garbage heap. It's more like a retired veteran who has fulfilled his mission and is forever forgotten in the corner.