Time always slips away inadvertently, when the howling north wind arrives as scheduled, the cold wind is like a knife, using the earth as a chopping board, and treating all beings as fish and meat. Thousands of miles of snow have turned the entire sky into a huge furnace, melting everything into silver, and another winter has arrived.

On the New Year's Day of '97, after attending the annual New Year's Day party at school, which seemed very boring and childish, Wang Yong braved the cold wind, rode his small pedal, and ran home with a puff of smoke.

This is also the usual practice, after the New Year's Day party, all students in the school will have a holiday. However, students in the first and second years of junior high school can take a three-day break, while those in the third year of junior high school can only take a day off and have to return to school to continue their hard work.

Today's weather is too cold, the northwest wind is howling, blowing the wires on the side of the road to make a whining sound, bringing the bitter cold of winter from Siberia here, making Wang Yong feel the bitter cold of winter again.

Although he wore a pair of thick leather gloves, his hands holding the handlebars still felt as if they were about to be numb from the cold, especially the right hand that twisted the accelerator, which gave him the feeling that he was no longer obedient.

Although he rode much slower than usual, Wang Yong still rushed back to the village much earlier than other friends from the same village. Ride the motorcycle straight into the open gate, get out of the car as fast as you can, prop up the motorcycle, and run back to the warm room with the heavy school bag.

As early as last year, heating and air conditioning were installed in the house, so it can be said that even in the cold winter and snowy days, the house is still warm as spring.

Usually at home, the family only wears autumn clothes and pants, not to mention thick cotton clothes, even a thin sweater can't stand it. After wearing it for a while, you can't stand the heat.

When he went to bed two nights ago, Wang Liang kept shouting that it was too hot and asked him to turn the air conditioner to cool breeze mode. In the end, my father came up with a way to open a crack in a window while sleeping. only to let him stop.

"Freeze me to death!"

As soon as he entered the house, Wang Yong shouted loudly, and then threw the schoolbag in his hand on the burning kang, and immediately put his two hands on the kang.

The two cold hands, just touching the hot and somewhat hot kang head, the warmth that extends to the bottom of the heart through the hands. Let Wang Yong's comfortable mouth hum.

"Well deserved! Let you wear more in the morning what you don't wear! What else do you say about the stinking beauty? Mom waited for Wang Yong angrily, "What do you want to be demeanor and not temperature!" Okay, now you know the consequences of not wanting temperature, right? ”

Wang Liang lay in the middle of the kang and laughed secretly. After seeing his brother glaring at him viciously, he immediately pouted and complained to his mother aggrievedly.

"Mom, look at my brother and he glared at me!"

"Well deserved! Who told you to provoke him? Why are you honestly glaring at you? You kid is also disobedient, he said that it was too cold outside today, and you didn't listen to him if he asked you to wear more! It's good now. Got a cold, right? ”

Saying that, my mother saw that the quilt covered by Wang Liang was kicked open by him, pulled it with her hand, covered him tightly, and then pressed an old coat from her house on it.

Rural people generally have a headache and brain fever, unless it is very serious, they generally rarely take medicine. In the words of the old man: cover the big quilt and sweat. Everything is cured!

As a result, Wang Liang's children were unlucky. The house was already very hot. Cover with a thick quilt, don't enjoy the taste too much!

Anyway, Wang Liang is now sweating, pouting and looking at his mother pitifully, trying to get her to agree to lift the quilt covering his body.

"No! Stay honest and don't move! Otherwise, you will take the medicine, and you won't have to cover the quilt after taking the medicine! ”

After speaking, the mother looked at Wang Liang expectantly. Now the conditions at home are better. The little money for a few cold pills was really drizzling.

But it's not about money at all, and none of the children like to take medicine. Like Wang Liang, although he has gone to school this year, he still hasn't learned how to swallow pills!

Generally, I can't get through it and need to take medicine. He just put the pills in his mouth and chewed them before swallowing them. You can imagine what it was like to feel that bitter taste running down your throat and into your stomach!

"Tell me about you, you're going to school this year, by the way, it's New Year's Day today, it's 97 years, Hong Kong is going to return, why can't you even swallow a pill?"

"It's, it's just, stupid!"

Wang Yong fell into the well, echoed his mother's words, and began to attack him personally. Unexpectedly, it was okay for him not to say it, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his mother turned her attention back to him.

"You still have the face to say your brother? You don't want to think about the year before last, if you had to drink half a glass of sugar water to take your own medicine or take a pill? ”

Wang Yong's face turned red all of a sudden! How can there be such a thing? Don't you know if you don't hit someone in the face, and don't you expose your shortcomings when you scold someone? Can I still grow up happily?

"New year, new atmosphere, both of you have to study hard this year, strive to be the first in the exam to earn money for your mother, and let your mother be beautiful in the village!"

The old mother looked at Wang Liang with a yearning look, and then shook her head slightly imperceptibly. The youngest son wants to take the first place in this grade, which is a little difficult for him.

Thinking of this, she looked at her eldest son Wang Yong again. In the first two years, this kid got full marks in the exams every time, but since he was in the sixth grade and began to get tired of school, this grade has been hanging in the middle, which is really sad.

You say he once, and he will give you a good score. After that, I turned my head back, and next time it was back to the same as before, and it was still more than the previous one.

However, this kid has an idea, and he usually deliberately gets angry with himself, and when it comes to the final exam, he can usually get a first-prize certificate back for himself.

Mom's words made Wang Yong fall into deep thought for an instant, yes, ninety-seven years have arrived. This year has been a mixed blessing for China!

In more than a month, the chief architect of reform and opening up, Mr. Deng, will leave this country and people he loves with regret. Even in a wheelchair, the wish to go to Hong Kong to see it could not be realized, so he left forever.

In March, the National People's Congress passed a bill to add Shancheng as a municipality directly under the Central Government. Since then, the number of municipalities in China has increased from three to four.

In July, the ceremony of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, which attracted worldwide attention, came to a successful conclusion, which made the Chinese people all over the world deeply encouraged by the humiliation of China over the past 100 years. Excited.

But the Asian financial crisis that followed woke up the people who were immersed in joy in an instant. When the central government said in the face of the world's news media that it would support Hong Kong's response to the financial crisis, Soros, a financial predator, tasted failure for the first time.

At the end of November, CCTV's dozens of hours of live broadcast of the final phase of the Three Gorges Interception Project on the Yangtze River allowed people across the country to witness with their own eyes how human beings have overcome the natural world.

However, people at that time did not know what kind of changes the completion of the Three Gorges would bring to their lives in the future. Whether it's good or bad, no one knows, except for Wang Yong.

"Why hasn't my dad come back yet?"

The younger brother's words full of complaints woke Wang Yong from his memories, and he glanced at his mother in surprise. On such a cold day, his youngest son is still sick, why is he still on the farm?

Now is not the same as before, until all kinds of high-quality talents continue to enter the farms and farms, Wang Hai has been completely freed from heavy work.

Especially the arrival of the general manager Zhang Jun, who was personally introduced by his uncle Ye Baoguo. The big and small affairs of the two enterprises are managed by him in an orderly manner, and he doesn't have to worry about his father at all, he only needs to go over to attend a regular meeting every Monday, and the rest of the time is completely free to use by himself.

"Your dad has to attend a village meeting, and he can't buy you canned food after the meeting is over!"

The mother was amused by her youngest son's words, and she couldn't wait to eat canned food, so she said it directly, and she knew that she asked around the bush, she really grew up!

"Mom. What's going on in the village? ”

As soon as Wang Yong's words fell, Wang Liang looked at him with bright eyes. couldn't wait to preemptively say: "I know, I know, it's to study the matter of unified heating next year!" ”

"Unified heating?" Wang Yong muttered to himself, and then remembered that he had mentioned this to the old secretary.

Nowadays, almost 100% of the homes in Wangjiazhuang are equipped with heating (earth heating, no special boiler. Heating with a stove), twenty out of thirty percent of households also bought a special boiler to heat the heat.

The rest of the families also have plans to renovate their earth heaters next year and buy a small boiler to make their homes as warm in winter as in spring.

When I heard the old secretary talk about this with pride. Wang Yong casually mentioned that the village can learn from the central heating of the city people.

The village built a special large boiler room far away from the village, and then sent hot water to the heating pipes of every household in the village through pipes, so that the villagers could enjoy the same 24-hour heating supply as the people in the city.

I didn't expect the old secretary to really care, it's only been a few days, and the villagers' congress has been convened to make the final decision. This efficiency is definitely worth publicizing and learning from those officials in the government!

"Brother, aren't you going to take a look?"

Wang Liang looked at Wang Yong excitedly, and the expectant look made Wang Yong a little embarrassed to say no. This kid, who came to this hand with himself, didn't he just want to buy him a can quickly?

Forget it, for the sake of his sick number, let him get his wish once this time.

"What kind of canned food do you want to eat?"

"Hawthorn, apples, peaches, and pears and oranges!"

Wang Liang almost immediately reported all the varieties of canned fruit that could be bought in the village store!

At the same time, I secretly complained that people opened a commissary, why didn't I buy more varieties! Like grapes, plums, apricots, strawberries, pineapples, lychees, miscellaneous fruits......

Wang Yong reached into the pocket of his jacket and touched it, feeling that the money in his pocket should be enough, so he put on his gloves again and left the house under the excited eyes of his younger brother and the relieved anger of his mother. (To be continued......)

PS: The network is still not good, or can't get on the Internet, the house learned a trick from others, turned on the mobile phone hotspot, and the notebook searched for a wireless signal and uploaded this chapter.

Not to mention, the speed of this mobile 4G is not slower than the speed of the network cable!