1976 is the year of the dragon. According to the old-fashioned Chinese saying, the dragon of the twelve earthly branches (zodiac), whether it is the earthly branch of the year, the month and the day or the human zodiac, should be the best and probably the worst: if you are blessed, you will help you, and if you are not blessed, you will be harmed, and what should belong to you will be good for you, and what should not belong to you will be harmful to you.

In the year of 1976, there were many good things and bad things in human society and nature, and they were also very big.

For every Chinese living at that time, this year may be remembered for a lifetime. Because there were several major events in this year, first in January, Premier Zhou, who had worked all his life for New China, died, when the people of the whole country had not recovered from their great grief, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De died in July, and then at the end of July, a short 23-second earthquake took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Tangshan, Hebei, and caught the whole of China and even the world a little off guard.

But this is not the end, less than 2 months later, the central government came with bad news, ** also died in Beijing on September 9 of that year. The chairman, the premier, the commander-in-chief, and the country's three giants died within a year, and at the same time, New China suffered the biggest natural disaster since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and almost the entire Tangshan was razed to the ground by a major earthquake.

One day in September of the same year, in Beijing, the weather was extremely hazy, and there was a drizzle in the air. On this day, many units and streets all organized themselves and walked to different streets to mourn the ** who had just passed away. On Beixinqiao Street, Dongcheng District, there is also a mourning procession, this team is very special, it is composed of kindergarten children, the oldest is only 5 or 6 years old, and the youngest is 3 or 4 years old.

At the head of the line were two children with very different styles, the one on the left was a big fat man, white and fat, his figure was very rare in this era of material scarcity, and the other child next to him was tall and thin, almost a head taller than the children of the same age.

The kindergarten teachers also made full use of the advantages of the two of them, the white fat man carried a small wreath on his back, said small, but put it on the kindergarten children, it should be very big, if it wasn't for his figure, I'm afraid that the gust of wind would have to blow away with a wreath, and the tall and thin man held a small red flag, which read: Mourn the great leader**, Xinkailu Nursery.

There were still a lot of marchers on the streets, but they were all adults, and they knew what time it was and what kind of expressions they should have. But the children in the kindergarten don't know much about this, although the teachers have even scared and patted when they come out, but these children haven't even finished a stand, and the Yan sù seriousness on their faces is gone. The boys started to play as they walked, the girls had tears in their eyes because of the rain on their new clothes and shoes, and the younger ones simply opened their throats and cried.

Compared with these children in the team, the tall and thin boy holding the flag at the front of the team was at a loss, and his eyes were not focused, making people look as if they were really sad and angry, which made the female kindergarten teacher who was already on the verge of going berserk next to him breathe a sigh of relief, at least there was a good child who understood things, and the country finally did not educate them in vain!

This tall and thin boy is our protagonist, that is, the Hong Tao who was struck by lightning while fishing.

In fact, when he was struck by lightning, Hong Tao didn't feel anything, he didn't know that there was thunder struck, and the wind was blowing the canopy and was about to take off, he was holding the canopy pole and fighting the storm, but suddenly there was a white light in front of him, and then he appeared on this street with the canopy pole, oh yes, it's not the canopy pole, it's holding a flag.

When he saw himself as if he had shrunk into a child, and was paraded through the street with a group of children, he thought he was dreaming. But this dream is quite level, the white fat man on the side secretly stuffed himself with a candy, which tasted very good, and the girl who followed him also pushed him hard, because he hesitated at his feet, his steps were a little slow, and he stepped on her feet and trampled her small red flower cloth shoes dirty.

The whole picture gives him the feeling of just three words: old, dark, and pro! It's like watching a black-and-white movie that depicts history, with low houses on both sides of the street, and the only tall building is the Beixinqiao shopping mall in the front left, with two floors! Most of the houses are built with that kind of cyan bricks, and the architectural style is closer to the Republic of China era. The pedestrians and processions on the streets, except for the red flags they were holding, were all dark and white like blue and blue, and the occasional one or two round-headed buses and square-headed green jeeps that passed by looked so funny, but so kind.

The two children in the dream, Hong Tao, both knew each other, the fat man lived in the door next to the snack bar opposite the Lama Temple, called Zhang Dajiang, and the little girl who looked like Barbie lived upstairs in her own house, called Jin Yue, and her father was a retired officer.

It's a pity that this is not a dream, only walked less than 5o steps, the cold rain made Hong Tao wake up, probably know what happened to him, he crossed over! He has never forgotten this memory, now he should be more than 4 years old, is in the nursery school, he still clearly remembers that in this parade the words written on the flag were wet by the rain, as a result of dripping his own black spots, his newly bought white undershirt stained, and it can't be washed off, after returning home by his mother scolded, and then his father and mother quarreled because of this incident.

"Xiao Yue, see if my back is dirty?" Hong Tao thought of this, tilted his head to look at his shoulder, but he couldn't see it, so he had to turn around and ask Jin Yue.

"It's all little black spots, yes! I'll go and sue your dad when I get home in the evening, you trampled on my shoes dirty!" Jin Yue's mouth was still pouting, and she was worried about a muddy footprint on her flowered shoes.

"Your uncle's! is still slow to react, this dress is reimbursed!" Hong Tao scolded in a low voice, although he didn't remember why his mother had a temper with him and then quarreled with his father, but he vaguely knew that his family's economic conditions were not good during this time, and it was estimated that his mother was distressed by this white shirt.

"Isn't sugar sweet, my grandfather gave 3 pieces of ......" Dajiang next to him heard Hong Tao talking, but he didn't hear what he said, thinking he was asking about sugar.

"Sweet! I'll treat you to eat another day!" Hong Tao looked at the fat face with a clear nose 2 feet away, and his heart was inexplicably hot, this fat man was a tragic figure in his memory, his brain was a little less, he was not treated by teachers in the nursery, and the children always bullied him, and then went to elementary school, he was also in a class with Hong Tao, Hong Tao also bullied him very immorally, remembering that he threw him in the sand pit, he cried with a head of sand, and the sugar in Hong Tao's mouth became bitter.

“…… My grandfather said that whoever played with me would give candy to whomever he wanted...... Will you play with me? Riding a horse to fight, I don't want to ...... horse" Fat Dajiang made Hong Tao stunned, he was obviously not used to Hong Tao's tone as an adult, but his brain was so small that he didn't allow him to think more about Hong Tao's problems, he could only think about his own problems.

"Cheng, I'll carry you when I go back!" Hong Tao gritted his teeth, made a ruthless heart, and agreed to Fat Dajiang's request, not that he was stingy, but mainly because Fat Dajiang's figure was too difficult, and whether he could carry him was a big problem.

The parade ended quickly, to be precise, the parade of the Xinkailu nursery school ended, a group of children were not easy to manage, and it was raining in the sky, although the children at this time were much more solid than the children in the later generations, but the children were still children after all, the body was limited, and they squatted on the ground and cried when they were tired, and the arms of several nursery school teachers were already full, so they could only go home.

Xinkailu nursery school is in Xinkai Hutong, in the east of Lama Temple, there is still this alley, the appearance pattern has not changed much, the courtyard of the nursery is also there, but it has been changed to other uses, as for where this nursery has gone, Hong Tao is not clear.

After returning to kindergarten, the teachers simply wiped each child's head with a small towel and then organized the children to play games under the greenhouse in the yard according to the class. At this time, the nursery school and the kindergarten of later generations were not the same concept at all, and there were three things to do all day, playing, eating lunch, and taking a nap, and there were basically no learning tasks.

The responsibility of the teachers is to take the children from the parents, and then don't let them run around, and then hand over the children to the parents when the parents get off work at night. No matter how harsh parents are, they will not blame the teacher for this, and there will be no parents who complain that the teacher did not teach their children knowledge.

And at this time, the nursery is not difficult to enter, not to mention the sponsorship fee and the childcare relationship, many families with elderly people are not willing to spend this unjust money, although only pay 5 yuan a year, but the wage level at that time was very low, the apprentice only 18 yuan a month, and the ordinary worker secondary worker is only 34 yuan 8, so 5 yuan is already a big expense.

What's more, family planning was not set as a basic national policy at that time, but there was just such a statement, who would listen to it. A family of 2 or 3 children is considered a few, 4 and 5 are a handful, and 7 or 8 are not very rare. Therefore, the burden of the family is not only a child who goes to a nursery school, but also the cost of 3 or 4 children at the same time.

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