Chapter 4 The River of Hometown
Charlotte walked along the avenue opposite the middle school, which was still the Golden Avenue in the fifties and sixties of the last century. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At that time, there was a middle school directly opposite, and there were township hospitals and supply and marketing cooperatives on both sides of the avenue, and people came and went very lively. After the opening, the township hospital moved out of here, the supply and marketing cooperatives also moved away, and this road was not in the center of the road, and the flow of people decreased rapidly.
By now, the road has been lined up with trees, and the whole road has a quiet feeling.
Walk slowly, look at the scene on the side of the road, and think about your future in this dream. Thinking about it and laughing out loud, this must be the first time someone has been so bored, right? I still think about the future in my dreams, maybe a little similar to the student who dreamed of Huangliang.
If according to the normal plot, he should go home at night, facing his father and mother, can he still be ruthless in the disappointed eyes of them in his dreams? In reality, I have disappointed my parents' hopes again and again, do you still do this in your dreams?
Maybe it's time for me to wake up, and when I wake up, I don't need to face my parents, and when I wake up, I can escape from my problems and my heart.
With a self-deprecating smile and a glance of her eyes, Charlotte found that she had arrived at the gate of the original township hospital, and since she was here, she would go in and have a look.
I still remember when Charlotte was in junior high school, he brought his friends here every time he rested, not because he was sick and needed to be treated, but because there was a very well-preserved cement table tennis case here.
In those days, the after-school entertainment that could be given to boys in the school was table tennis, and once the school was closed during the holidays, the school would be guarded by the two hummed two generals at the door. Teachers you know are allowed to come and go, but students you don't know are not allowed to go in.
When you go back from vacation, you can't still play with the house, glass balls, rolling hoops, and shooting foreign paintings, right? That's all in elementary school, and it's all junior high school students!
So table tennis became Charlotte's favorite sport in junior high school, and after the school closed, the ball cases that could be found became a favorite for rural children.
This well-preserved ball case from the township hospital is the first choice in the eyes of many competitors, the first is close to the school, and you can come to play as soon as school is over; Second, the hospital does not have a gate, and there is no restriction on entry and exit; Third, the place is large and the surrounding area is wide, which is convenient for performing all kinds of stunts.
Charlotte still remembers that for this case, he and the others also had small-scale human contact with each other here, and of course the result was that Charlotte and the others lost.
Walking in slowly, sure enough, a group of people had already occupied the ball case first, and they looked like a group of juniors. ridiculed each other and farted, quarreled for the win or loss of a ball, blushed and had a thick neck, won people with high toes, and lost with a face full of unwillingness. The joys, sorrows, and sorrows of life are all displayed in such a small world, and I was not like this at the beginning.
From these juniors, Xia Luo saw his original shadow, and silently watched the technique of the back wave, and the front wave left unconsciously.
After coming out of the hospital, Charlotte began to walk along the various paths in the village, and when she got to the avenue, she would meet many acquaintances, everyone knew that it was the end of the high school entrance examination, and when they met, they would ask you how your grades were, where you applied for the exam, etc., and if you didn't answer, it wouldn't work, which made people a little unbearable.
Walking the path, he came to the field facing the river at the east end of the village. Charlotte's village is next to the village where it is located, and the roads and fields of the two villages are connected.
It is said that the structure of each village is very similar, and in the middle of the village is a residential area, and everyone gathers together. And then there are all kinds of fields around, in the south, east, west, and west.
Now that you have come here, you must go to the great river that has nourished nearly half of the province. When I was a child, my senses for this great river were vast, vast, and fearful. Basically, every year, there are rumors that the children of which village and which family were drowned swimming in the summer, and the parents kept teaching them to stay away from the big river and never get closer.
Because of her parents' teachings, Charlotte didn't dare to go into the water when she grew up, and she didn't dare to go into the swimming pool.
In later life, Charlotte went to the provincial capital to study, where the river was wider, but it was a dead silence, with garbage and urban waste water floating on it, and it was turbid when you looked closely, and there was no image of the river in Charlotte's mind.
And this big river in my hometown, above is a piece of turquoise, not water blue, it feels like a pool of stagnant water, there are no fish and shrimp, no aquatic plants, and there is no sunset and lonely birds flying together, and the autumn water is a scene of the same color of the sky.
Standing on the wide embankment, people say that the benevolent man is happy with the mountain and the wise man is happy with the water, if the so-called benevolent and wise ancients in the past come to the modern era, it is estimated that they will be mad by this scene. The water is stinking water, and the mountains are barren mountains. Even if there is water that does not smell and mountains that are not barren, it has become a tourist attraction and even a tourist attraction. Once upon a time, why did the ancients need to run so far just to go to the smelly water and see the barren mountains? It's all up close, and people nowadays are too impatient.
The wide and tall embankment has been built for a few years, and it seems that it was upgraded after the nationwide flood of '98, and when it was built, it was said that it could prevent the kind of flood that occurs once in 50 years. However, since its establishment, the volume of water in the great rivers has been declining year by year, and the industrial industry of the province has increased dramatically, and the amount of industrial water used has also increased dramatically, and all of them have been pumped from the great rivers. As a result, the large river that could reach the foot of the embankment during the peak flood season in summer could only rely on the storage dam to raise the water level in later generations.
I remember that when the water was at its shallower, the surface of the water was not even a meter wide, and I seem to have seen a report that the river had stopped flowing downstream.
"Xiao Luo! Xiao Luo! A distant voice came, and Charlotte heard a familiar smell, and turned her head to see a bearded, big fat man walking in the distance.
Who is this? Charlotte's third uncle, Charlotte's father has two younger brothers and a younger sister, and the one in front of him is the youngest brother. Chubby body, steel needle-like beard, small flat head, short man.
Why is he here? Charlotte came to the embankment specifically to avoid the acquaintances in the village, and he still ran into the third uncle.
The third uncle, who was covered in soil, walked up to Xia Luo and asked suspiciously, "Why did you come here?" I looked a little like you just now, didn't you apply for the exam today? Finished? ”
There was no way, so I could only lie and deceive the third uncle: "Third uncle, I have finished reporting, come here to see the big river." ”
The third uncle patted the soil on his body, and touched Xia Luo's head with that big fan-like hand: "It's good to finish, what's so beautiful about Dahe?" Hurry back, you haven't heard of which child drowned again! Hurry back and don't worry your mom. By the way, what school did you apply to? ”
Xia Luo, who was just about to turn around and leave, stopped when she heard the words, and sure enough, the adults were like this: "Third uncle, I'll go back right away, so that my mother won't worry." As for the school, the county No. 1 middle school I applied for was closer. ”
Hearing that it was County No. 1 Middle School, the third uncle's round cake face smiled, and he continued to destroy Xia Luo's small body with a big hand: "County No. 1 Middle School is good!" Our Lao Xia family is a seedling of learning from you, it really gives your dad a face, and your dad is not happy to know this! Okay, hurry up and go back, do you need your uncle to send you back? ”
Xia Luo wants to escape from here at this time, where will the third uncle send him back again, if the third uncle sends him back, he will have to face his mother for the first time, and he still wants to escape for a while.
Hurriedly waved his hand and said no need, and in the eyes of the third uncle, Xia Luo left here in a hurry.
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