The older generation is a glorious model of hard-working and self-reliant. In the hard years, this quality is as precious as gold, and it is a kind of pride of this era!

These people include not only the great national leaders, but also the lovely soldiers of the people, and the hard-working ordinary people!

And Zhou Lao Er is a member of the general public with this quality!

He is hard-working, self-reliant, and unwilling to be left behind! In a big family, he and his eldest brother carried the burden step by step.

In a small family of his own, raising four children, it is really difficult! But no matter how hard and tired it is, gritting your teeth, it's all over.

Time is like a person looking in the mirror, the last time he looked at himself in the mirror, he was still green and red, and then he looked at it, Huafa was born and his face was old.

It's like the flowers on the tree, which were delicate yesterday, but have faded in the morning after a night of wind and rain. The so-called most is that the world can't stay. Time really flies, fast enough for a person to grow old and grow up alone.

Zhou Lao Er squatted by the wall and watched the plane trees in his yard begin to smoke buds, he didn't smoke when he was young, and then slowly sent the shiny dry tobacco pouch into his mouth again and again for more than ten years.

He took a few deep puffs of the dry tobacco pouch, shook his head, and stood up in the smoke. In the blink of an eye, just in the blink of an eye, I was fifty-seven!

"Changling, come here, go cook, your mother is not at home today, you go and fry the meat that your eldest sister and second sister brought over for the New Year, make a few cakes, and burn some tea." Zhou Lao Er shouted at Zhou Changling, the fourth child in the house, and didn't care if Changling inside could hear it or not.

"Got it, what are you doing, Dad?" Zhou Changling is fifteen years old, the children of the poor have long been in charge, since the eldest sister and the second sister got married, after the eldest brother got married, the old lady of the family also had to go to the production team to work, but he could only learn to cook by himself.

Burnt tea, hot cakes, ok, others are not presentable! But isn't everything learned?! Zhou Lao Er heard Zhou Changling's words and replied: "You don't care about me, cook and call me, I have to go to work in the afternoon and rest in the house for a while." ”

After Zhou Changling heard it, he didn't say anything anymore, slowly swallowed the hot cakes, burned firewood, and the thick smoke he couldn't breathe, tears fell, and his face was gray and white, and after a few minutes, Zhou Changling couldn't hold the smoke anymore, and walked out of the kitchen with a cough.

Looking left and right didn't see the father who was still talking to him here just now, Zhou Changling didn't care, seeing that the door of the hall was hidden, he walked over slowly, through the crack in the door, he saw that the father was holding a cloth bag in one hand, and grabbed something from it with the other hand, Zhou Changling looked at it, that is?? Sesame? That's sesame!

It must be Daddy's sesame seed! To plant sesame seeds for the coming year! Zhou Changling didn't look at it anymore when he saw this, and his throat slid deeply and returned to the kitchen.

Zhou Changling, who had spent a lot of effort, finally made this lunch for the two of them.

Squatting on the ground and watching Dad bite the cake bite by bite, Zhou Changling couldn't eat it at all, this cake is actually red millet (sorghum) noodles and grass roots, sticky and bitter, difficult to swallow, children have eaten for a long time and the is bleeding!

Zhou Changling looked at his father and glanced at him, but still picked up the cake and took a few bites. Watching Zhou Changling eat the cake, Zhou Lao Er snorted and said, "If you want to eat well, you have to work!" If you don't eat this, you won't eat, oh, starve you! ”

Time can change a person. For example, changed Zhou Laoer, who didn't talk much.

Zhou Changling listened, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "I know, Dad, I have to work, why didn't I see my brother and my sister-in-law working, didn't you give my brother food?" Every time I work, I eat one person's ration! ”

"What do you say? If you don't eat, get out of here! Are you compared to your brother? Why didn't your brother work?! Eat quickly, eat and pick up your mother to come back! "Tuesday really became irritable, and the bruises on my neck were scolding.

"Got it." Zhou Changling didn't dare to disobey his father's intentions, and ate the cake and walked away! I thought indignantly: Originally, the eldest brother didn't work since he remembered, he was idle all day long, and he didn't do any work even after he got married! Don't even say it.

Dissatisfied is dissatisfied, what to do, Zhou Changling has eaten, followed his father to work in the team, and when it was time to get off work, he ran to his grandmother's house about five miles away to find his mother.

As soon as I arrived at my grandmother's house, I smelled the strong smell of herbs as soon as I entered the door, and at a glance, I saw the old lady and uncle decocting the medicine.

"Uncle, mother, is grandma better?" Zhou Changling walked over and asked.

Zhou Changling saw the old lady shaking her head, and heard the old man speak: "Why are you here?" He paused and continued, "Sister, go back, I'll take care of my daughter-in-law and I." ”

"Forget it, I'll stay one more day, Changling, you run home, tell your father, I'll go back tomorrow, your grandmother is seriously ill." Zhou Changling listened to his mother's words, got up and went to his grandmother's house.

Looking at his grandmother who was lying on the bed, Zhou Changling's eyes were a little moist, the old man couldn't speak anymore, watching him come in, his eyes moved, and he grabbed his hand with great effort, very tight.

After sitting with his grandmother for a while, Zhou Changling felt very uncomfortable, and watched his grandmother fall asleep without energy, so he stood up and said to his mother, uncle and aunt to go home by himself.

A child is a child after all, and when he goes out, it gets dark, and it's late at night when he walks on the road, and I'm a little scared.

Running, sweating a lot, as soon as the wind blows, the body is cold, the more scared, the more afraid you run, the more you run, the more you sweat. Fortunately, it was five or six miles away, and it was very fast.

When I got home, I was very thirsty, scooped a scoop of cold water, called my father twice, and no one answered, Zhou Changling was thirsty, hungry, and there was no one at home, so I turned over the dough jar and looked for the pot, and the cakes were gone.

"Where have all the people gone?" Zhou Changling thought about closing the door and walking towards his eldest brother's house.

Not far away, when I arrived at the eldest brother's house, I raised my legs and entered the door, and saw that my father was eating, and my eldest brother and sister-in-law had finished eating.

"Dad, my mother said that my grandmother is seriously ill, and I can only come back tomorrow, and I haven't eaten yet." Zhou Changling sat down as he spoke.

"Ouch, I didn't stick a cake today, there is only one left, and some pickles, can you eat some? If I can't get enough to eat, I'll make some more. The sister-in-law said after hearing Changling say that she hadn't eaten.

"It's okay, sister-in-law, I'll go to my uncle's house later, you can eat." Changling took a bite of the cake and went to the uncle's house.

Teenagers, when they grow their bodies and eat the most, end up with a cake in their stomachs, and they are still very hungry when they drink some water at their uncle's house.

The eldest lady said to do it again, but in fact, there was nothing at home, so Zhou Changling didn't let it, and went home with a half-full stomach and a slightly tired body.

In 1974, there was no entertainment in the countryside, and there was no electricity, so when I got home, I lit a kerosene lamp and cleaned up, and I fell asleep in bed.

This night seemed to be very long, and in the dream, Zhou Changling dreamed that he was eating meat, and his mouth was oily, and it was fragrant, so he woke up.

Hungry. Hungry!

No wonder! There was nothing to eat, there was nothing to eat, there was no oil and water to eat, and the teenage boys were working and running for a few miles, where could they stand it if they ate less?

Groping around, looking at the moon, I imagined that it was a big moon cake... The more I thought about it, the hungrier I became, and I couldn't find anything to eat.

Suddenly, Zhou Changling remembered the sesame seeds that his father had hidden today!

I'm really hungry, I just look for it, I don't dare to make a big move, I'm afraid of waking up my father, tiptoeing under the bed, in the noodle jar, in the broken drawer, the more hungry I feel, the more anxious I am, the more I can't find it.

Just when I was about to give up, I saw something pillow under my father's head in a blink of an eye, and slowly and carefully pulled it, a sesame bag!! Got it!

Patience with excitement, planning to gently untie the hemp rope, breathing was held, for fear of waking up Dad, but unfortunately Dad turned over, so frightened that Zhou Changling suddenly slipped under the bed, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out, holding it for a long time.

Zhou Changling felt that he had been holding his breath for a century, and finally his father's snoring came again, so he dared to stand up and reach for the hemp rope that tied the sesame bag again!

Finally unraveled! I can't wait to grab a handful and put it in my mouth, chew it, and the dried sesame seeds are crispy and crispy, fragrant and fragrant!

After chewing it, Zhou Changling felt that his stomach was finally less deflated, and he had strength all over his body.

I was going to secretly tie the rope, but I thought to myself: I will eat a small handful, and I will not eat it.

So I put it in my mouth again, and it felt like drinking sesame oil, fragrant! It's so fragrant! Drink the same as sesame oil! With a happy smile of satisfaction at the corner of his mouth, Circumference Ridge intends to stop in moderation and tie the rope!

But as if he was enchanted in his heart, a voice told him, the last time, the last handful! If you don't eat this time, you won't be able to eat it again!

The brain was entangled left and right for a long time, in fact, it was a matter of an instant, just when he was about to grab another handful of sesame seeds, Zhou Changling suddenly felt a burst of suffocation, and his neck was tightly choked by a pair of powerful big hands!

"I'll let you steal my sesame seeds! Steal my sesame seeds!! What did you do with my family?? This is next year's exchange of money to buy grain and oil! you! I'll let you steal, I'll strangle you! Zhou Changling listened to his father's cursing and shouting, and it felt like it was in his ears, and it felt very far away, not real! Vague!

He wanted to tell his dad it was him, but he couldn't! Am I going to die? I haven't swallowed the sesame seeds in my mouth yet! If I have to die, can Daddy wait for me to swallow it?

The instinct of the body finally made Zhou Changling reach out and grab his father's hand, and after all the strength in his throat, he only made a sound the size of a mosquito and a fly's wings: "Dad... Father... It's me, Changling... uh..."

Maybe he heard or felt someone clapping his hand, and when he opened his eyes, it turned out to be Si'er, and the old man let go!

Looking at Si'er, the old man is angry!

Raised his hand and threw an ear on Zhou Changling's face, and Zhou Changling, who was unconscious, just felt that after being slapped, his father cried and scolded: "You mother's leg, Lao Tzu asked you to go to your uncle's house to find food, you don't look for it!" You are a loser, you come to steal sesame seeds and eat them?!!

Do you know how much effort your uncle and third uncle put into it? When the brigade finds out, it will be handed over! You're going to make your family can't eat oil and water?!!

You're not angry... Yes... Dad almost strangled you, you are not angry! … Alas..."