I went to elementary school.

My mother was far away in Dguan and couldn't come to my entrance ceremony, and I felt an indescribable loss.

At ten o'clock in the evening, my mother called home. On the phone, my mother kept listing the things to pay attention to in school, and she tirelessly talked about those things countless times, and I could recite them backwards. It's nothing more than going to bed early and getting up early, eating on time, studying hard, and making progress every day, so that my ears are calloused. But this time, I listened very carefully, and I couldn't help but roll in my eyes when I listened to the tears, and I blinked my eyes a few times to prevent the tears from falling into my eyes, and said slowly: "Mom, when will you go home, I miss you." ”

After that, the mother's voice on the other end of the phone stopped abruptly. The phone was quiet for a while, and then my mother said, "Miao Miao, I'll go home when I'm done with this, and my mother misses you too." You have to listen to your dad at home, and now that you're a primary school student, you can't be naughty anymore. ”

I snorted.

Mom asked, "I heard your godmother say that you and the girl were drawn to the same class, aren't you?" ”

I replied, "Yes." ”

Mom said again, "That's great, you two have to take care of each other in the same class." Especially you, Miao Miao, you are a boy, you have to know how to let the girl. ”

Speaking of lotteries, that's really, hey!

There are four classes in the first grade, and for the sake of fairness, the school divides the classes by lottery. There was a row of desks on the playground, and there were a dozen cardboard boxes wrapped in red paper on the desks, and there was a hole in the top of the cardboard boxes that could only reach for one hand, and the cardboard boxes contained table tennis balls with markers written one, two, three, and four. During the lottery, Yiqing and I were clamoring to draw the lot, but when the cardboard box was placed on the desk, our hands were not long enough to reach the table tennis balls inside. Godfather picked up Yiqing and asked her to reach out and grab a ball. After Yiqing grabbed the ping pong ball, she immediately hid behind her and didn't let me see it, as if she let me know that I would catch one according to the number. In fact, I deliberately went to see the table tennis ball in Yiqing's hand, just to know the number she caught, so as to avoid catching the same number as her. Dad picked me up, I reached into the cardboard box and fumbled around, silently thinking in my heart, don't catch the same, don't catch the same. As a result, Yiqing and I took out the table tennis ball in our hands at the same time, and the numbers on it were all one. The two men looked at each other in disbelief, then snorted and turned their heads.

September 1 at 7:10 a.m. The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, and the birds say early, why are you carrying a small schoolbag.

Since the Chunguang Primary School we attended was only two streets away from Lao Cai, me, Yiqing, my father, my godfather, and my godmother walked to school together. In order to let Yiqing and I cultivate the affection of a loving family, my father and godfather proposed that we walk in front hand in hand, and they and my godmother followed. I took Yiqing's hand, not to mention how awkward it was, I could see that she was the same.

The fat aunt, who also sent her granddaughter to report to her month, walked up quickly to greet her father. Yiqing saw Yueyue, shook off my hand, and went over to take Yueyue's hand. After being abandoned, I raised my eyes and looked around, only to see Xiaohua in front of me following behind his mother's buttocks, dragging the ground with his head down and walking sullenly. I ran over and took Xiaohua's hand, turned my head and stuck out my tongue at Yiqing, who also saluted and stuck out her tongue at me.

Xiaohua and his mother only moved to Lao Cai this year. Listening to the small talk of the adults in the old street, Xiaohua is the illegitimate child of Xiaohua's mother and her high school teacher. The teacher's wife knew that there was someone outside her husband, so she asked Xiaohua's mother for trouble, and Xiaohua's mother moved to us from other cities for the sake of the child. Xiaohua is a little fat man, he feels a little naïve, and his nose is always red, as if he has a cold all year round and can't be cured. There aren't many children of our age in Lao Cai, Xiaohua is one of them, and the other children don't like to play with him, and I haven't spoken to him yet. Suddenly I pulled my hand, Xiaohua was stunned at first, but instead of breaking free, his fingers relaxed for me to hold, and then raised his head and smiled stupidly at me. I replied with an embarrassed smile, a little regretful for Fang Cai's abruptness. Xiaohua's mother felt the movement behind her, turned around, brushed the hair behind her ears, and smiled.

Xiaohua's mother looks the same age as Miss Shi, twenty-five or sixteen, thin, with beautiful eyebrows, and she is very kind and shy since she moved to the old street. Xiaohua doesn't look like his mother at all, probably like the negative father, so when I think about it, I suddenly have the image of a middle-aged man with a fat belly, fat head and big ears in my heart, and I can't help but sigh for Xiaohua's mother.

After a while, the neighbors of Laojie who sent their children to report to us bumped into us on the street, and the adults greeted each other and came together, and a group of people were mighty.

Most of the adults are not satisfied with the school's afternoon dismissal time. After school in the morning, the school has a cafeteria, and the teachers of each class in the lower grades lead the students of each class to eat, and then go to the classroom for a lunch break. But after school at half past four in the afternoon, the school didn't care. Most units leave work at 5 o'clock, and some even have to leave work at 6 o'clock, and parents are worried about picking up their children. But the school schedule is such a rule, and complaining here will not help. At this time, the fat aunt volunteered that she would pick up Yueyue in the afternoon anyway, so it was better to take everyone's children to her grocery store by the way, and wait for everyone to pick up the children at the grocery store after work. The adults discussed for a while, thanked the fat aunt a thousand times, and explained that their children came back with the fat aunt after school in the afternoon.

In fact, the fat aunt is not without a purpose, and we children are indispensable to eat snacks when we go to the grocery store. Doing business should be like a fat aunt, and it is convenient for everyone and yourself.

Our primary school was founded earlier than Lushui City. Due to its age, the bronze characters on the front of the school gate have been dyed patina, looking like the bronze objects displayed in the glass case of the museum. Entering the school gate, two rows of tall trees obscured the sky, and people walked underneath as if walking through a green tunnel. I pointed to the tall trees on the side of the road and asked, "Dad, what kind of tree is this?" ”

Dad smiled and replied, "This is the plane tree I told you about!" ”

I have heard my parents tell me more than once about the legend of the phoenix tree.

Legend has it that there is a very high mountain in the middle of the dense forest in the south, and there is a spring on the mountain, and an immortal lives next to the spring. The immortals practiced on the stone platform in the spring all day long, and the spring water was contaminated with aura, so it attracted the phoenix. The clear spring water flows down the mountain into a deep pool below. There was a small fish living in the pool, and the little fish gradually became spiritual, so they wanted to go to the end of the stream to have a look. Year after year, day after day, the small fish swim upstream, always being swept back into the deep pool by the rushing stream. The immortal was moved by the spirit of the little fish swimming against the current, and decided to leave the fairy mountain and swim around the world. Before leaving, the immortal instructed the phoenix to take good care of the little fish, and after speaking, he drove away in the clouds. As soon as the immortal was gone, the spring no longer gushed water. In order to take care of the small fish, the phoenix flew thousands of miles to the South China Sea and brought the water of the South China Sea to fill the deep pool. But the water is still drying up. The little fish had no water and died of thirst at the bottom of the pool. The phoenix looked at the corpse of the little fish and screamed sadly, and its sound spread to all corners of the world, and for a time a hundred birds sang together, shaking the heavens and the earth. The soul of the little fish transformed into a tree spirit, and miraculously grew a sapling. The phoenix still watered the saplings with the water of the South China Sea, and eventually grew into a towering sycamore. Since then, there have been sycamore trees in the world, and the phoenix is not a sycamore.

At the time, I didn't understand what my parents wanted to tell me this story, but I didn't understand it until I grew up. My father's name is Zhou Wutong. My mother's name is Liu Lingfeng. Dare them to make up this story, it turns out that they are talking about themselves!

Passing through the greenery, turning a corner, it suddenly opens up to a hand-dug pond at the end of the sycamore aisle. The pool is not large, just cutting off the road to the playground. The pool is not deep, and if you accidentally fall into the water, I am afraid that it will only reach your knees. There is a rockery in the pond that is covered with moss, and a small temple is carved into the craggy cliff. Outside the temple, two monks raised their hands to look at the little monk who was halfway up the mountain carrying water, which was vivid. There are three ways to get to the playground at the other end of the pond, one is to detour through the narrow path planted with gardenias, yueji, camellia and begonias on both sides of the pond, and the other is to directly cross the slightly arched stone bridge on the pond. Walking across the stone bridge, there are two playgrounds the size of basketball courts. In front of the playground is the flag-raising platform, and behind the flag-raising platform is the teaching building. The school building has four floors, and the plaster on the exterior wall has peeled off a lot, revealing the red bricks inside. The green creeper in the corner of the wall climbs along the wall, winding its way through the red area until it reaches the roof. On the side of the school building is the same mottled teacher's dormitory, which is not high and is tightly shaded by pine and cypress trees in front of it.

At 7:40, the captain of the three-pole team stood on the rostrum to speak.

Dear leaders, teachers, parents, and dear students: Good morning!

The autumn breeze is cool, the osmanthus is fragrant, and with the footsteps of the golden autumn harvest, we have ushered in a new semester. At this moment, we are in a happy mood. Next, I would like to announce that the 1997 Chunfeng Primary School Autumn Opening Ceremony is now open!

Now, all of them stand.

Raise the national flag, play the national anthem, pay attention to the salute, and the Young Pioneers salute.

During the flag-raising, Yiqing said to herself: "I will also make three poles in the future." ”

I looked enviously at the school uniforms of the captain and the senior brothers and sisters who raised the flag. The school uniform is a blue and white sportswear, in fact, no matter who wears it, it looks bloated, but when I was young, I had an obsession with school uniforms.

At the end of the flag-raising ceremony, the principal gave a welcome speech, the senior student representatives spoke, and the freshman representatives spoke.

The freshman representative walked up to the podium, and I noticed that the student was wearing a school uniform, very tall, probably a head taller than me, and I was not short. So at the time I firmly thought that this would definitely not be a classmate in the same grade as us, at least in the fourth grade.

At the end of the speech of the freshman representatives, the senior students dispersed, and our first-year students who had just entered the school had one last ceremony, hugging and saying goodbye to their parents.

In fact, I don't think this link is necessary, people in our country have always been subtle, and besides, my father and I hugged each other in broad daylight. My dad squatted down and opened his arms to me, I was only going to give a symbolic hug, but I didn't expect that as soon as I entered my father's arms, my dad would wrap me tightly, and the stubble on my chin tickled my face. Dad said affectionately: "Miao Miao, I didn't expect you to grow so big in the blink of an eye, and you have become a primary school student." ”

I was almost suffocated by my father's hug, and said with difficulty: "Dad, it's okay, so many people are looking at it, it's embarrassing." ”

Dad let go of me, stroked my face and said, "Don't run around after school in the afternoon, wait for the fat aunt to pick up Yueyue, you will come back with her, do you hear?" ”

Impatiently, I pushed my dad away and replied, "Got it, got it." Dad, let's go! ”

After seeing my father and them leave, I turned around to look for Yiqing. The lazy morning sun shone on Yiqing's pink little face, and a pair of big eyes hung with crystal tears. I walked over and pulled up Yiqing's sleeve and said, "Don't be sad, the teacher let you gather, let's go!" I pulled out my light blue handkerchief and handed it to Yiqing.