Walking out of the door, Li Zhendong saw that there were no more people on the big playground, but quite a lot of people were playing soldiers. I glanced at the primary school, and my younger brother Li Zhenxi didn't have to go to class this afternoon, so I didn't need to pick him up and go home with him. Slowly walked across the court, walked to the parallel bars next to the school court, the parallel bars were welded by a thick water pipe made in the machinery factory, and stood silently for a while. Spit a little in the palm of his hand and gently go up to the parallel bars. I did a few up and down supports, and slowly did a few handstands with both hands to support myself, and after the last I tried to use one hand, I staggered and almost fell off. Li Zhendong jumped down and shook his head. Head down the hill. A bunch of classmates playing soldier ball have long been dumbfounded, and they have seen them play parallel bars, but they have never seen one-handed handstands. A bunch of people stopped playing the ball and rushed to the parallel bars. If you are in a hurry, jump on it and try to do a handstand with both hands first. Even a two-handed handstand didn't work, let alone one-handed. There were several who fell, and one of them was bruised in the face when he fell, and he was crying.

On a slope of more than 100 meters, Li Zhendong walked slowly. Now I'm finally able to calm down alone. Stabilize your messy thoughts. After decades of hard work, I have a wife, children, a house, a car, and tickets. You say that a person is unlucky to such a point, and once he runs back to the era of poverty and whiteness. Dead hearts are all there. Nima, if you don't bring such a tricky person, will it take decades of hard work? Li Zhendong was making a fuss with a villain, rolling his eyes. Fishing out of the years, running back decades! Remember not stepping on the dog's poop when you went out in the morning?

Down to the side of the road, there is a small bridge. Under the bridge is a small stream that flows down from the mountains, and the water is very shallow. The creek is also used as a wastewater discharge ditch for the entire machine shop. Li Zhendong stood on the small bridge and looked down for a long time. Actually, he was just thinking, and his eyes weren't focused on anything under the bridge at all. After a long time, when Li Zhendong came back to his senses, he found that a large number of children around him were also looking down, and two of them were still little boys in the class. Li Zhendong smiled, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed in his heart, and left on his own. There is a group of inexplicable students left, you look at me, I look at you. Others asked what they saw. Some people really said they saw crabs, and some people said they saw money. This is not what Li Zhendong expected.

Not far to the right of the small bridge is the public bathhouse of the machine factory. Men and women separate from each other in the bathhouse. The factory issued a bath ticket to the workers, and they entered with the ticket. In the summer, you can rinse at home with cold water. It's too cold in winter, so the bathhouse has hot water, so you can turn on the sprinkler head and pour it down, and you can wash it as long as you like. If you don't have a ticket, you can buy a ticket, and you can buy a ticket for three cents.

Diagonally opposite the bathhouse is the official cafeteria of the machine factory. Li Zhendong's mother worked in the factory canteen. At this time, it is particularly hard to work in the canteen, and I go to work before dawn in the morning to make steamed buns and cabbage buns. Meat buns, uh, sorry, no meat buns. In this era, there are only a few catties of meat tickets per person per month, how can there be meat buns? The best thing to do is a small bread that is baked and coated with a thin layer of sweet egg skin. Beat the eggs with sugar and water, coat the bread with a brush, put it on a tray, twenty in a tray, and put it in the oven. When it first came out, it was steaming hot and sweet. It's quite expensive, it costs five cents a piece. In Li Zhendong's memory when he was a child, this was the most delicious thing. Li Zhendong's mother still had to go to work at noon and night, and she had to wait for the workers to leave before she could leave work, and she always had to delay for some time. Later generations of workers worked eight-hour workdays, and overtime was paid for exceeding the time. And it is common for people in this era to take the initiative to work overtime.

Just cross the street without looking at the zebra crossing. There are no zebra crossings either. The workers in the machinery factory have a few bicycles sporadically, and the machinery factory itself has big Jiefang brand cars and small jeeps. But where did anyone give up a car in this era? Only the car makes people. Cars from afar have to keep honking their horns, especially when passing through the factory gate of the market, the horns are almost pressed into a high-pitched line. The factory canteen is deserted, and it is not yet time for the workers to get off work. If it's time to get off work, the six windows of the cafeteria will be filled with people. They all have to rush to get the food away within half an hour.

Li Zhendong stood at the door of the cafeteria, pinching his fingers and counting how old his mother was this year. He only remembers the birthday time of his parents, and later generations will make birthdays for his parents every year, but how old is it? I don't know what to do! Being a son is also a failure to do this part. Thirty-two, in the end? Or thirty-three?

In later generations, Li Zhendong's mother Wang Lianxiang was already over sixty years old, her hair was gray, and she was retired at home. Li Zhendong's father, Li Guotang, retired from retirement. In addition, Li Zhendong, the two brothers have certain positions. I could have rested at home, and I could have played mahjong with the people around me when I had time. She refused, so she had to find a few vacant plots of land to grow vegetables and raise a dozen chickens. I don't listen to any persuasion. It's boring to say it's idle, you have to find something to do. Li Zhendong went to see it, and in the summer, when he was watering and watering vegetables, he picked up a burden of more than 100 catties and walked loudly.

Li Zhendong leaned close to the cafeteria window and looked inside, and soon saw his mother. Shout "Mom" inside. The door next to it soon opened. Wang Lianxiang, who is in his thirties, with short ear-length hair and a slightly chubby body, walked out with a smile. This boss is her pride, she has studied well and sensible since she was a child, and she has earned enough face among her neighborhood workers. Li Zhendong looked at his mother carefully, it turned out that his mother's hairstyle when she was young was the same, it really remained the same for decades, that is, she was younger, there were no wrinkles, no gray hair, and her face was more beautiful. Li Zhendong has a very good relationship with his parents, and the days when he goes out are not counted, as long as he is at home, he will eat with his parents at home for three days and two ends, and drink a small glass of wine with the old man. For this reason, Ning Ken pushed the outside drinking bureau.

Suppress a little excited, "Mom, where is Dad?"

"Your dad said he would come back in the next two days, who knows which day it will be?" Wang Lianxiang replied with a smile: "You take Xiaoxi back first, and then cook when I get back from work." He also told him to "remember to go home and do your homework"

"Oh, there is no homework for today's school autumn outing. Mom, well, why don't I go home and get some food first?"

Wang Lianxiang raised her head, a little surprised, "Okay?" Don't cook rice like last time. ”

Li Zhendong's face was a little red and a little embarrassed, "Not this time!" It's embarrassing to say, Li Zhendong's two brothers didn't learn to cook until they became adults. Later, it was only when I went out that I gradually learned simple home-cooked food, not to mention how delicious it was, and home life was enough. In this era, parents have only one wish, that is, they want their son to do well in his studies and be admitted to university. As for whether they can cook meals, parents are also afraid that it will affect their children's learning time. In fact, only the mother of the four people in the family can do housework. Li Zhendong's father won't. Anyway, Li Zhendong has never seen his father cook. Sometimes my mother left work late, and the three of us had to wait until she came back to cook. The father just gave the money to the mother, and then became the shopkeeper. The mother is a typical representative of the traditional Chinese woman, who has been industrious, simple, and frugal all her life. My mother cared for and served my father all her life. Li Zhendong has seen his father introduce his mother in front of outsiders, and it is simple: This is my daughter-in-law.

I remember that there was a party in later generations, and some people said that there are too many ways to call their lovers now, such as wife, dear, madam, etc., and there are also fleshy ones, called heart and liver, baby, etc. In fact, there is another word that is rarely used, that is, the word daughter-in-law, what is it for? And he taught us, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law······ Slowly, before we knew it, it turned to: washerwoman, and the last thing we heard was washerwoman. Everyone was stunned. So the word is rarely used. Nowadays, many men have become home cooks. I had a friend who was drunk. On a whim, they all say that women are half the sky, so do you say that women are half a day during the day, or half a day at night? Listening to our sweat, can half the sky be used like this? This question is too profound, it should belong to the category of philosophy, right? A group of drunken ghosts and clouds and fog covers messed around with each other, and Li Zhendong made a decision after the most dismissal, and summed it up: This depends on the mood. Look at what half of the sky a woman wants.

From behind his mother, a little boy of seven or eight years old with a schoolbag came out. In his left hand, he held a half-bitten loaf of bread, handed one over in his right hand, and shouted "brother" vaguely in his mouth. The little boy is Li Zhendong's younger brother Li Zhenxi. I have just entered the third grade of elementary school. The two brothers are four years apart, and this younger brother has been his brother's follower since he was a child. It's no wonder that my parents are busy with work, so they can only run away with my brother.

The two brothers greeted their mother and left first. Next to the cafeteria is the open-air lighting stadium of the machine factory, which is very large. There are tall light poles and bulbs with extremely high wattage around it. Because most of the games are held in the evening. The benches on the stands built along the hillside are made of concrete, and they are lined up from east to west. The machinery factory often has basketball games, and each workshop, factory car team, and office take turns. At that time, entertainment ranked first and there was nothing but movies. Watching a basketball game is close behind, counting second. There is a road between the cafeteria and the court, and the stone steps lead up the slope.

Li Zhendong looked inside as he walked uphill past the library. I had to take time to go to the library these two days, and only the newspapers subscribed to in the library were more complete and open to the public. This is the only way to obtain social information in this era. In addition, the machine shop broadcasts every morning from half past six to seven :25. Broadcasts are set up in various places in the factory. It broadcasts all kinds of current affairs and political news. Some people will ask, what is it that is not put at half past seven? Because half past seven is the cut-off time for work. Leave these five minutes to play another kind of broadcast, blowing the military trumpet. Yes, let me tell you, you have to enter the gate of the factory working area within five minutes, you can rush as fast as you want, and you are 20 meters late? Sorry to close the door. The trumpet represents the charge. You're late and dead. Registration, deduction of money and heavy fines. It's not okay for you to be late and leave early, and you have to be punished resolutely. You are encouraged to work overtime, but there are no rewards. The salary of ordinary workers is thirty or forty yuan, and two yuan is deducted at a time. Does your heart hurt? It's not the two dollars of the Hereafter.