"At that time, our junior high school promotion rate was less than 6%, and every student who could enter high school was a top student in terms of credits, but there were many deficiencies in other aspects, such as psychological growth, emotional maturity, independent living skills, material and financial preparation, etc. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info doesn't know how to draw water from deep wells, definitely more than half, and there are even more girls. ”

"The unremitting efforts still have an effect, there is always some water that can be lifted up after a blind toss, one bowl, two bowls, how many times after pouring out more than five bowls. I was so tired that my hands were weak and my back hurt, and I actually began to rejoice that I could make five bowls of water this time, which I could never have imagined before. "Your stubbornness is not trivial, if others had stopped doing it a long time ago. ”

"Why don't you do it? After nearly an hour of hard work, we finally washed the clothes twice, and we are still extremely economical. Just stay by the well and use little water, do you say it's a shame?"

"I have to clear it twice more to finish it, and it was a strange day, no one came back for so long, and I couldn't find anyone to help. This time it didn't get any better, and I shook the rope several times, and the bucket was filled with only two or three pitiful bowls of water, and I had to pull this bit of water up first, one by one, two and three, and I took the rope section by section, and the bucket got closer and closer to the wellhead. 'Ouch!' but I have been busy for a long time, and the palms of my hands have been blistered with blood, this time the blood blisters were suddenly strangled, and the pain suddenly hit, I instinctively let go,

"No! I saw that the rope was like a water snake that had suddenly broken free from its neck, and fled quickly into the well, and the more it fled, the faster it fled. I didn't dare to step on it with my feet, for fear of dragging me down. With a cry of joy, the bucket and the rope did not give up, and they both fell into the deep well. I stared at the well in disbelief, the bucket floating on its side on the water, but the rope did not hesitate to dive down, apparently trying to get to the bottom first. Fortunately, it is a plastic rope, and it does not increase much after soaking in water, otherwise it will soon be able to sink the bucket to the bottom.

"I stared at the well for several minutes. I hate myself to death, this well, this bucket, this rope. I looked around, there was no long hook, not even a long bamboo pole, how could I scoop up the bucket? I was helpless, I wanted to give up, but the clothes had not been washed for miles, I was reluctant, and there was nothing to do, I couldn't help crying. At first, I was embarrassed, so I suppressed my crying quietly, but gradually because I didn't see anyone around me and wasn't afraid of being heard, I simply cried louder and louder. ”

"For only two cents to buy three buns, I bought four freshly harvested sake grass from local farmers, which had just been dried, long, soft, and the most desirable kind. The straw is made into a wrap and hung on the shoulder, and the tip of the grass is slightly swaying on the cheeks, like the tips of a good mother's hair. For the study of the new semester, I have already made a plan in my mind, because this summer, I have won more than half a month to take care of the pear orchard. I was able to preview a lot of textbooks for the first year of high school. In those days, I walked and watched in the pear orchard all day long, and the novel knowledge accompanied by the sweetness of the garden went straight to my heart, and my heart was also full of fruits, with these fruits as a reassurance, I had the confidence to become a waiting student and be assigned to the best class.

"I went up the river with a twist and turn, and the fields were huge drying grounds. At the end of August, in the entire Yulong Town, the entire Jianyang County and even beyond, the rice had just been harvested and dried into the warehouse. The harvested straw is tied up into straw figures by the farmers, and then pulled to a place where there is no water, and one by one stands in the shade. I stopped and looked around, and my eyes were full of straw standing on people, and they were wearing straw skirts, tightening their necks, and each of them held a post, not moving an inch. The straws were no taller than my shoulders, and they shone golden in the sun, as if they were millions of guards embracing me everywhere. I looked forward, the jade dragon was calm and pleasant, held in the palm of the palm of the hand by Youfang Mountain and Yunfeng Mountain, glowing with vitality in the bright afternoon sunshine, with a look of hope.

"My heart flew farther away, imagining the spectacular scene of a city like Jianyang being guarded by an endless army of straw at this time. The Straw Siege maintains the towns and villages here. At this time of year, around the start of each new school year, they show up on time. Guarding for a month, it is not until around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year that they can all gather together to rest.

"Jiancheng has a population of more than one million, and more than 100 straws per capita, at this time, around Jiancheng, there are more than 100 million grass soldiers standing in the sun. Jiancheng is a county-level city, subordinate to Shanzhong Province, located in the western part of the Shanzhong Basin, at the eastern foot of Longquan Mountain, and in the middle reaches of the Tuojiang River. It is known as "Tianfu Xiongzhou", "the first state in the east of Shudu", and "the east gate of the provincial capital". It is only 48 kilometers away from the provincial capital and is the first county to receive the eastward and southward expansion of the provincial capital.

When I think of this, I can't help but feel a sense of pride. In this Jiancheng, maybe I am the only one who treats these straws as soldiers, as long as I have these soldiers in my heart, I am proud in my chest. With these soldiers, I can stand out and break out of the world. When I think about it this way, I feel that the relationship between these straws and me is immediately different, as if these blades of grass fluttering in the wind are greeting me. When I look at them, I feel very intimate.

"I looked at them eagerly, caressed them, and looked at the harvested rice fields, and I was full of pride, and my whole body was surging with strength. I know them very well. A few days ago, I was threshing grain at home. It has been proven that with my partner teaming up for a threshing group, one person can be reduced. In the job of cutting rice, I can already do a top two, and in Quanyulong Town, I really can't find an opponent.

"I have this confidence, because I have been proficient in the double-knife harvesting method, each knife down, will be able to cut two, plus the left hand can superimpose the grasp of the rice stalks, each handful has to hold several more trees than ordinary people, and the speed is also the fastest among ordinary people. If I were to be replaced with a threshing machine, it would take one more person to the group to be able to get up to my speed, because I would have to hold more of each hand.

"If I go to tie the straw, the other groups will need two people, and I will have extra time to help push the rice pots back and forth after one is tied. After many years of hard work, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, I was already a good hand at farm work, and the largest basket used to pick rice was already the largest basket, with 200 catties on my shoulders, and I still walked like a fly. I was full of strength, really all over my body, from my heart to my body.

"The thread grass by the creek formed a thick mat, and walking on it was the kind of road I wanted to take the most when I was light, and I didn't read a book while walking to avoid the rows of straw that stood in a staggered way, so as not to fall down even one of them. After thinking about the magnificence of the straw siege and coming to this point, I suddenly understood that I had not yet become a qualified scholar, but I had become a qualified peasant.

"The real farmer's sweat drops are golden, golden, full, solid, peeling off the shell is white rice, the real farmer will go over the mountains and mountains when a scoop of sewage is splashed out, will cross the water road, fall into the city and become fragrant, the real farmer's words are affordable and fruitful, can fill the stomach, the real farmer will use one of his ribs as a flat burden, pick his parents at one end, and pick his wife and daughter at the other......

"I don't resist my father for always giving me so much farm work, and I'm already enjoying it and proud of my performance. Tomorrow class starts, sit down among my classmates, look around, and I will feel like I'm looking around at the straw soldiers. I'm sure I'm going to be a little bit different than them.

"I wondered if I had to grow in life and in school in order to be successful?

"With the fresh fragrance of new millet, this cry is very strange, and every cry is on the steps I am used to. My pace is different from the usual one, I have been carrying the burden for several years, especially the water, in order not to spill too much water on the way, I will walk ten steps quickly and steadily, to reduce the burden and the beating of the water, this steady movement is an internal adjustment, outsiders are imperceptible. In addition to stability, it will also take advantage of the residual momentum of walking to relax the shoulders so slightly, so as to drive the forward trend of the burden, so that the follow-up steps are light and steady.

"In this way, there will be a good effect, even if you carry water up the mountain, the water will still be full at the top of the mountain. This is a small skill, but don't be careful, many predecessors who have been picking water for decades have not been able to do it.

"It was every time I reached a steady beat, the cry was a little louder, and the cry matched the rhythm of my steps accurately. There is another characteristic of my walking, which is also formed from the training of carrying a burden and walking briskly.

"Even when the burden is on my shoulders, I often press the front end of the burden a little lower than the level so that the back end is slightly higher than the level, usually with a slope of 15 to 30 degrees. In this way, there is a slight forward push from the back end of the burden, and the inertia of the burden forward drives me forward, and I am moving forward, and I will naturally walk faster than when there is no burden, and the burden is not very heavy, and it is very labor-saving. Those who are always accustomed to putting their burdens high in front and low in the back will have a drag force behind them, and they will be more and more tired and slower to walk.

"This is also the skill that I have summed up, and after getting used to it, it is reflected in my usual walking, even if I usually walk empty-handed, it is like there is an invisible burden on my shoulders that is pulling me forward. With this invisible traction, walking is really an invisible enjoyment. This is one of the reasons why I always liked to walk and didn't like to ride in a car as a teenager. At this time, the rhythmic cry was another traction for me, as if there were steps under my feet, and I walked up step by step, the apex of which was the well that was about to nourish us for three years. ”

"Some people say that both horizontal and vertical are two is the well, in fact, both horizontal and vertical are two is also the mouth, empty mouth always speaks horizontally and vertically, and it is difficult to break clearly, all of them are two. I squatted at the mouth of the well and looked down, tears clouded the sky in the water, in the sunny day, the sky was particularly cold and deep, not where hope was. My mother said that she had raised me and wanted me to get used to being independent, but I realized at this time that I was either old enough to be a big girl, and I was still a child in terms of life skills. It was time to leave, I wiped away my tears and stood up, turned my head, and saw you. ”

(To be continued)