My name is Wang Tao, born in a small city in the north, as the name suggests, my name is very popular, I remember that when I was in junior high school, there were three people named Wang Tao in the class, one of them was a female classmate, every time the teacher called this name to answer a question, it would cause me and the other two friends to stand up at the same time, embarrassed, my parents are factory workers, because it is a factory production operation, so it is impossible to avoid shifts, they are engaged in different nature of positions, and not in a team, so they can rarely sit together to eat at home, often my father came home from the night shift to make up for sleep, and my mother hurriedly went out to work, so that when I was very young, I realized the helplessness of having a mother without a father, and having a father without a mother.

My childhood life is quite complete, although I didn't die halfway, but I also got a lot of sins, such as when I was four years old, I fell into the cauldron of boiling water, although I can't remember why I was so aggressive at that time, now I think about it, I still will be in a cold sweat, I think I have a great life, I will have a bright future, a horse Pingchuan, but I have lived for so long and there is still no turnaround, which made me wonder how the immortals survived the catastrophe, why the immortals were chic and free after the catastrophe, otherworldly, I was scalded by boiling water with a scar, Still a mortal among all beings.

I went to school quite early, I went to preschool at the age of six, a one-year system, and there are also large classes and small classes, at that time, the preschool classes in our small city are generally not formalized, give 100 yuan to read for half a year, you can come at any time, even if you sleep until the sun is three poles, sleepy eyes appear in the classroom, the teacher will not say anything, just look at you to signal to take a seat, when reading a small class, the teacher is nothing more than to tell you that 1 + 1 is not equal to 5 or something like that, the students in the large class can follow the teacher to read Tang poems, remember to read: Chaimen smells the dog barking, When returning to people on a snowy night, there was a little friend with a bun face and an explosive head, timidly raised a little black hand, stood up and asked the teacher, is the dog in the poem a female dog or a male dog, the teacher suddenly became angry from his heart, his eyes instantly enlarged, focused on the face of the bun and roared loudly: I care about your male dog and female dog, the one who can watch the house is a good dog, the bun face sat down aggrievedly, and the classroom suddenly burst into explosive laughter.

At that time, my family lived in an undeveloped bungalow area, surrounded by several buildings, looking up at the sky, there was a feeling of being deep in a pond, I was like that little fish, waiting to throw the hook from the tall buildings everywhere, and then climb up and rise to the clouds, there were many such urban villages at that time, although they shared a piece of land, but the class division was really obvious, and the middle-class families certainly disdained that their children could walk into this low and dilapidated place, so most of the people living here were working-class and lower-class migrant workers, small traders, beggars, etc.

About 4 kilometers to the south of the preschool, there is a small stream, when summer comes, the river water is clear and sparkling, and clumps of moss grow along the water's edge, green and slippery, the weeping willows on the bank grow wantonly, and the willows hang down into the stream and drift with the waves, I often go to the willow tree with Sun Kai to catch tadpoles, Sun Kai is my neighbor's child, the same age as me, and my preschool classmate, and my parents are small vendors selling seasonal vegetables.

There is a pond downstream of the stream, in which there are all kinds of river shrimp and small fish, Sun Kai and I like to get into it naked, to relieve the burning of the hot summer, the bottom of the pond is mostly river sand and silt, and there are few hard rocks, so Sun Kai and I rarely go to the middle of the pond, I heard the preschool teacher say that there was a boy in the class before, who was once wrapped in silt and embedded in the water, and never came out again, every time I think of it, it is a sigh, so my parents rarely let me go to the stream to play.

Sometimes the river will also gather friends from other places, girls will generally come to play with three or four playmates of the same age, every time they meet them, Sun Kai will neatly strip naked, plunge into the pond, and then happily shouted to the shore: Whoever dares to jump down I will marry whoever is a daughter-in-law, the little girls will be scolded after listening: you stinky turtle, who wants to marry you, then I will jump out and say: the thousand-year-old king 80,000-year-old turtle, Sun Kai can live 10,000 years old, then you will be fossils, One of them, a little girl with braids, freckles, and ears like irregular triangles, said, "We are fossils and we are better than yours, and now think about it, how funny it is for a flower loach to walk upright, this little girl has such an astonishing metaphorical ability at that age, and I am really ashamed."

Sun Kai is a typical little master who does not play and does not go home, sometimes we will also play until the sun goes down, watching the burning clouds on the horizon dipped half of the sky, golden and bright, the earth is reflected into a beautiful oil painting, the shape of the burning clouds is strange, one will become a horse, one will become a dog, the golden brilliance will be ingested into the stream through the mottled wicker bushes, the stream is shining with golden light, the dark fragrance is floating, as if there are countless elf fairies dancing on the water surface like intoxicating.