At that time, most of the farms had a prefix, called state-owned farms, that is, they belonged to the state, so the peasants in the farms were not called peasants, but workers, and belonged to the staff of the unit.

Adjacent to the Qingshu Brigade is a farm called Jianxin Farm. It belongs to the direct management of the province and is self-contained, with its own fields and forests, as well as its own schools, hospitals, and factories, and lives in collective dormitories, and eats grain supplied by the state.

At the time of the advent of cinemas, he also built his own cinema, which may have been built earlier than the county cinema in his memory. The first time I went to the cinema to watch a movie, I went to Jianxin Farm to watch it, and when I was about eleven or twelve years old, I got the support of my father and gave me five yuan to buy a movie ticket, and I walked more than ten miles of mountain roads for this purpose.

Before that, it was all open-air cinema, and the commune had a special projectionist who rode bicycles and carried projection equipment. Set up the equipment, turn on the power, and rotate the two wheels in front and back to drive the film to map the picture.

At this time, no matter how hard it is during the day, no matter how hard it is during the day, they will bring their own small stools and come from afar, sit around the movie machine, and watch it with relish.

Open-air movies still existed for a long time after the reform and opening up, but at this time it has become a paid service, and it costs money to hire projectionists.

Before there was electricity in the countryside, such a movie could be screened by hand, and although it was small, I still had some impressions.

Two wheels, a beam of light, a curtain and a picture, is the memory of the open-air movie, and perhaps the memory of an era, such a simple pattern has become the symbol of the movie.

Jianxin Farm may be a little different from other farms, because it also has another name, called Laogai Farm, and when I was a child, I heard that farm workers are all Laogai prisoners, who come from all over the country and receive labor reform here.

Now that I have learned some history, I know that it is not a prisoner of re-education through labor, but a cadre or intellectual who is classified as a "rightist." One of the country's leaders in the party's third-generation leadership worked for several years on a newly built farm.

After I was admitted to junior high school, my father specially bought a bicycle for me and my sister, and the junior high school I attended was far away from the township, and the road was far away, so it was convenient to go to school and get out of school with a bicycle.

With a bicycle, I don't have to walk to my grandmother's house. Whenever I went to school or my grandmother's house, I had to walk through Jianxin Farm.

The farm is very large, and in remote places, there are bungalows like Qingnian Pond, and most of the residents here are like us, and there is a lot of farmland and mountainous land, mainly working in the fields, but they are not called farmers, but farm workers.

In the center of the farm, there are four or five storey buildings, and there is a marked difference between the people here, either workers working in factories or state cadres sitting in offices. Dressed well, the clothes look bright and bright, it is difficult to see holes and patches, and the feet are worn with socks and shoes all year round.

Their living conditions are significantly better than those of the nearby mountain people, who always have their own coarse cloth clothes, always have several layers of patches, always have a few holes, even if they are teachers in elementary school, the clothes on their bodies are only not torn, the patches are the same, and most of them are sewn layer by layer.

The children of the mountain people are even more sloppy in their clothes, not to mention the torn patches and folds, and they are often covered in dust, and the trouser legs are always covered with mud spots, and in summer they are always barefoot, and in winter there is always a small hole in the shoes, revealing the big toes and raising their high, and the socks are not only torn, but also have a thick layer of dirt.

If you don't go through that era or wear rubber shoes, you may not be able to imagine what the thick layer of dirt on the soles of your socks looks like. With foot sweat, glue on the soles of shoes, and dust, the fire is baked in winter, and the smell emitted by the "fire cage" can smoke a room of people.

Rubber shoes in that era also had another name, called liberation shoes, and the People's Liberation Army rubber shoes style is exactly the same, so there is this name, regardless of adults and children, regardless of men and women, young and old, regardless of rain or shine, cold winter, regardless of work and leisure, are such a pair of liberation shoes.

A more affluent family has two pairs of washing, most people only have one pair of people, until it is broken and can not be broken, it will not buy new shoes, even if you buy new shoes, the old liberation shoes will not be thrown away, and they will be patched and patched, and patched layer by layer.

It is called rubber shoes because the sole is made of glue, and the sole will not be rotten if the upper is rotten, and the upper is really rotten and cannot be worn, and the sole will be used, tied with a straw rope, and used as a straw sandal, which can be worn for several years.

Children grow up fast, in order to save, adults try their best, when buying new shoes, they generally choose a few sizes of shoes to buy, wear empty feet, you have to tie them with laces, and when the shoes are small, they will not buy new ones immediately, and they can wear them for a while while while while squeezing their feet.

I can't hide it to the toe, and the front of the shoe is pushed out of a hole, and it will hold on for a while. Generally, the big toe is pushed out, and it is common for children of mountain people to stick out of the front of their shoes with their big toes stretched out from the front of their shoes, running and playing wildly all over the ground.

The toe of the shoe is pierced, the upper is torn, the cloth covered inside has long been worn off, there is a lot of soil in the countryside, the sweat on the feet is heavy, the sweat and mud are attached to the soles, there is often a feeling of slipping in the run, the child is too playful, these will not be taken to heart, will not affect the play, at the end of the day, the socks will inevitably accumulate a thick layer of stains.

Socks are generally made of coarse cloth, usually only one pair, no change, adults are busy and tired, and there is no effort to clean every day, after a few days, the stains accumulate, and a thick layer of dirt will be formed.

The dirt adheres to the socks, sticks to the bottom of the socks, and after an overnight, it will generally dry naturally, and then wear it in the morning, which is hard and sticky. Where will the child care so much, after putting it on, it will still be another day.

Such hard days have not been experienced for too long, and after the implementation of the contract responsibility system, the distribution of land to households and the improvement of living conditions, that is, in the early 80s, are no longer common.

The reason why Jianxin Farm wears bright and bright clothes is because they are all dressed "really good" or "nirong", compared with coarse cloth clothes, there are more colors, more light and comfortable, and more neat and beautiful.

But not as strong and wear-resistant as coarse cloth clothes, rural people carry their shoulders all year round, in my memory, it was only popular in the countryside in the late eighties, and my father once bought a "Nizi coat", wearing it with special style.

Before that, the best clothes were also made of yellow military fabric, and in childhood, including when we were in junior high school, we were always dressed in yellow clothes, both men and women. Like coarse cloth clothes, they are durable and sturdy, making them especially suitable for field work.

It is also quite difficult to make a yellow military-style dress, the color is bright, and it is straight, and it is worth showing off with such clothes. Because in addition, all coarse cloth clothes are either gray or dark blue, and only women's coarse cloth clothes can be seen with red and white checkered.

The farmer's shoes and socks were also different, wearing leather shoes in winter and sandals in summer, and silk socks underneath.

It turns out that people who have a work unit do not need to be barefoot in summer, not only do they not need to be barefoot, but they also have socks to wear, which is the most intuitive impression left by the observation of the construction of new farms in childhood.

However, unlike other farms, there are very few modern agricultural machinery to build a new farm, perhaps because it does not belong to the branch of the Communist University, because it also has another name, called Laogai Farm.

My father had an uncle at Songbu Tianbao Farm, and I once visited my father there, where I saw a lot of agricultural machinery, not only harvesters, rice transplanters, etc., but also bulldozers, cultivators, cars and large tractors.

At that time, the brigade only had one large tractor, which was treated as a treasure, but there were many on the farm, and some of the cars were not pulled behind the carriages, and various instruments such as plows and palladium replaced the ploughing of the land with oxen, and the figure of the ox could not be seen in the field at all.

The adoration of his father, when he was seen driving a large tractor, reached its peak. Once, this large tractor made a U-turn on the road in front of my house, the road was narrow and could not turn, the driver was helpless, and my father went up a few times to complete it.

I had never seen him drive a tractor before, but I later learned from reading the university textbooks left by my father and telling him that my father studied mechanical engineering during his college years, including the driving and use of large tractors.

Thinking of the Communist Labor University where my mother studied, perhaps the education of that era was deeply marked with the characteristics of the era of "more, faster, better, and provincial" to build socialism, and it was all cultivating and cultivating talents for socialist construction.

I can't remember when this large tractor appeared in my memory, but I only remember that the collective grain of the production team was hauled to the grain station of the commune by this large tractor, and I only remember that the rural people were seriously ill or had any urgent matters, and this large tractor helped transport them.

Because it is the only means of transportation in the brigade, the driver who drives this large tractor has always been envied by everyone. Later, the large tractor was acquired by the driver, and he was the first to embark on the road to prosperity.

The driver, surnamed Wang, was a few years younger than my father, and he had moved from Jiangsu with his parents. His father had always been the accountant of the brigade, wore glasses, and was respectfully known as a man of culture.

The settlement time should be similar to that of the outsiders of the Phoenix Mountain Comprehensive Team, but they did not settle in Phoenix Mountain, but settled in a neighboring village. Under the policy of the time, this phenomenon was very common and existed in almost every village.

Just like the fourth uncle was called "Jiangxi Yankee" in Zhejiang, these foreign settlers, according to the place where they moved, were also called "so-and-so" by the locals, such as "Zhejiang Yankee", "Shanghai Yankee", "Jiangsu Yankee", "Hubei Yankee", "Hunan Yankee" and so on.

Jianxin Farm is still there, and it is still under the direct management of the province, which shows its transcendent status. Now there are also their own enterprises and a large number of fields and forests. However, because they are all foreigners, the return of returnees and the dismissal of deportations have greatly reduced the population.

Entering the new era, the construction of new rural areas is booming, and the current construction of new farms has no special advantages compared with local rural areas. Some people even took the initiative to leave the farm, integrate into the local business and employment, and live and develop in the county seat.

Under such historical conditions, my mother, as an outstanding rural youth recommended by the commune, entered the Yecheng branch to study, and according to my mother and her classmates, most of their school years were spent in labor.

At the end of their three-year study, my mother and her classmates returned to their respective villages according to the principle of "where they come from and where they go", some of them became workers, some became teachers, some became village cadres, and some still resumed their peasant status.

Back in the village, my mother started out as a barefoot doctor, and then said that she had the opportunity to become a worker, but for some unknown reason she didn't succeed. After marrying her father, she completely gave up her profession as a barefoot doctor to concentrate on household chores, take care of the fields, and become an ordinary rural woman again.