The Zhushui River is four miles away from Baishitun. When I was a child, there were two depressions in Baishitun, the water in the depression was not deep, it was a large piece, the east was called the east depression, the west was called the west depression, the east depression was small, and the west depression was large. In autumn, it rains for a few days, and when you look at the depression, it is full of water, and it is bright and bright.

In 1941, there was a lot of rain, and when it was cold, there was still water in the depressions, and most of the depressions were not planted with wheat that year.

My home is in the east of Baishitun, and adults and children go to the east of the sea wall to see the waterfowl in the east depression. I can't tell the names of those water birds, some big and some small, one bird and one call. A lot of waterfowl fly in the east depression, and you take it up and down.

The largest bird, called "Leng Wait" by the people of Baishitun, is the size of a goose, longer than a goose with legs, a long neck, and gray. There is a saying in me: the woodpecker that can't hold up, the cold that can't die of hunger, etc. When it is cold, it stands still in the water, waiting for food to eat, and when fish and insects pass by it, it eats.

At the end of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the northeast wind blew overnight, and the depression froze, freezing the cold and waiting in the water. If you want to fly, you can't fly. At that time, there were no water boots, no water forks, the top was the ice, and the bottom was water, and there was more than a mile near the cold. Baishitun people stood on the wall of Haizi to watch the excitement, dry eyes.

It was warm for a few days, the ice melted, the cold flew away, and it never came again.

In summer, there are no big fish in the depression, there are many small fish. The common people say that the small fish are born from grasshoppers. It is also said that the drought has caused caviar to give birth to grasshoppers.

When the rain is heavy, there are many frogs and toads in the ditches, trenches, and depressions. They screamed so loudly that they couldn't sleep well at night.

One year, the rain came early, the beans had just bloomed, the sorghum had just budded, and the eastern and western depressions were flooded and the grains were confiscated.

After going down to the water, I planted buckwheat, and I heard that buckwheat can be harvested in 100 days. The farmer is a crop, not harvesting, and planting every year.

Another year, the rain came late, the crops were ripe, and they wanted to harvest, and it rained. It rained heavily for several days, and the east and west depressions were full of water, and the bean trees were exposed.

It's hard to harvest beans in the water, and you have to harvest them quickly, because if you slow down, the beans will stink.

At that time, women bound their little feet and worked in the fields. The man dripped into the bean field and touched the roots to pull out the bean trees. First the bundles are poured down the road, and then the cattle are lassoed on the trailer and pulled home. I didn't dare to call the cow to the ground, because the cow was heavy, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get out of the ground.

Harvesting sorghum is better, first take back the sorghum ears, soak the sorghum straw in water, and then harvest it at home when it freezes.

After getting married, I heard from my husband that when he was thirteen years old, he went to a depression to cut sorghum straw. It was the 11th lunar month of 1949, and it was frozen, and he used a sickle to cut sorghum straw every day. Grabbing sorghum straw with his bare hands was like grasping ice, he cut them one by one, and had to carry them to the road one by one. Four acres of sorghum straw, he did enough, and asked his uncle and cousin to burn it at home, and his grandfather said: "No one in my family suffers from that foreign sin, and I will buy it if I don't burn it." ”

He finally came back, dried it, and his grandfather pulled away the cars.

When he came home and saw that there was less sorghum straw, he cried and made a fuss.

In 1954, it did not rain, and the crops in the east and west were better than those in the highlands. There is less water in the Zhushui River, and the people of Baishitun go to the river to catch fish, catch loaches, and touch the gala, and they all touch a lot of gala.

Touching Xiao Er, he said, "Ruined." ”

Nephew Jichuan asked what was going on, and Xiao Er said, "My foot hurts." ”

There is a red spot on the surface of Xiao Er's feet, and there is nothing. A man said, "This is a turtle that has gone into the flesh, and it has to be beaten with the sole of a shoe to tell the turtle to withdraw." ”

Several children changed shifts and beat a hundred soles, and the horses and turtles did not quit. None of these children dared to go down the river, and they all went home.

Eight days later, a blood-red turtle came out of the belly of the little second leg.

In the summer of 1943, just after lunch, wind, thunder, and lightning came from the northwest, and the thunder was terrifying, and it rained with hail. I was playing at my uncle's and sister-in-law's house, and my sister-in-law threw a kitchen knife out of the kitchen, and she said, "Hail is the gods in the sky who come down to catch monsters." ”

The hailstones were bigger, some bigger than eggs, some as big as egg yolks, and many like small balls. There were many people who harvested wheat in the east and west valleys. Dongwa is okay, there is a Guo temple, everyone saw that it was going to rain heavily, and they all ran to the temple. Xiwa had nowhere to shelter from the rain, some of them were beaten by hailstones and their faces were bloody, and some had several large bags on their heads, and the jars for delivering food and water were broken.

The clay basin for my family's laundry was smashed, and the edge of the jar in the courtyard was smashed (note: cracks on ceramics and other utensils).

There was a big hailstone that fell on the freshly cut wheat straw, and the next morning it was not finished, and it weighed eight pounds.

I've seen that hailstorm in my life.

Now the east and west valleys have been turned into fruit orchards.