In 1990, I was 10 years old. At the beginning of this year, a big event happened in my family, that is, my parents had to leave home to work.

Due to the early death of my grandfather, if my parents went out to work, then only my grandmother and I would be left in the house. One night, my mother came to my bedside and said to me gently, "Xiaolin, your father and I are going to work in other provinces, how about you go to your grandmother's house to go to school with those cousins?" "I don't understand why my parents have to go out to work, isn't it good to be at home?

But what Dad decided couldn't be changed. I turned to my mother and asked, "Mom, how long will it take for you to come back from your part-time job?" My mother stroked my head and said, "I can come back at the end of the year, and I will go to my grandmother's house to get along with my cousins." ”.... The next day, my parents took me to my grandmother's house.

My grandmother's family lives in Linchang Town, Qianxi, where a large area of natural forests and plantations grow, and all kinds of vegetation are luxuriant.

I still remember the sweet, fresh, earthy air. This is not my grandfather's ancestral home, he and his grandmother came here with the production team a few years ago to clear the land, and the authorities wanted to establish a forest farm and plant plantations, so they stayed here for many years.

Later, I got used to living and settled here. After a long bus ride for most of the day, I arrived at my grandmother's house in the afternoon.

That night, my parents and grandparents discussed the matter of letting me stay here and go to school with my cousins.

Early in the morning of the third day, my mother came to my bedside, and I slept in the same bed with my cousin. My mother woke me up and heard her say in a daze: "Xiaolin, I'm leaving with your father, you have to be obedient to school here!" In a drowsy state, I hummed a few times and turned back to sleep.

When I woke up again, I found an egg next to my pillow, and I couldn't help but cry out, I knew that my parents had prepared food in the car, and my mother left one for me.

As I thought that I wouldn't be able to see them for a year, I couldn't help crying. My cousin, who was in the same bed, was woken up by me, and my aunt outside also heard the sound and came into the house.

I gradually stopped crying under their comfort, and I was depressed all day. It didn't take long for school to open.

Led by my uncle, my cousin and I came to the school, which was built on a hill and the classrooms were converted from several large houses connected to each other.

The school consists of an elementary school and a junior high school, with the junior high school classrooms located in a row of houses on a higher level, which is connected to the elementary school classrooms by a stone road.

The road from the village is half a slope behind the elementary school classroom, and the road extends along the elementary school classroom, climbing up the middle of the hill where the junior high school is located, and thus divides into two roads, one continues to the town ahead, and the other turns into the direction of the junior high school classroom.

The whole school is located in the middle of the mountains and forests, and there are several cypress and sand trees at the entrance of the primary school classrooms, and students often climb to play.

This year, I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, and I was in the same class as my cousin, so I should say that there is only one class in one grade.

Our curriculum includes Chinese, Mathematics, Music and Physical Education. There were two classes in the morning and three in the afternoon, and the semester was a bit longer than it is now.

Later, I realized that this was formulated to make it easier for children in remote places to go to school. Chinese and math are taught by the same teacher, and the most fun classes are music and physical education.

The music teacher was a slightly chubby female teacher and now I have forgotten her name. Every time the music lesson was not raining, we were not in the classroom, but were led by the teacher to cross the road home and come to a pine forest behind the classroom.

There is a flat ground here, the pine trees are tall and sparsely spaced, and the sun shines through the needles to the ground, and the students sit around the teacher, and the ground is not dirt, but soft pine leaves.

We don't have music textbooks, like the teacher does, and I can't remember if it's a textbook. Anyway, the teacher first sang a song to us through her to arouse everyone's interest, and then taught us to sing sentence by sentence, and sometimes took us to play games, which is how she took music lessons.

Physical education classes are all in the afternoon, and there are no morning exercises at that time, but there are physical education classes every day. In class, a male teacher took us to do exercises in the empty space in front of the classroom.

It was only later that I realized that it was because the school didn't have a big enough playground that the whole school didn't have morning exercises together.

At the beginning of the physical education class, under the leadership of the teacher, we had a morning exercise, and then there was everyone's free activities, and we had most of the time to play.

In the summer, the boys would run to a pond at the bottom of the mountain to swim, and a group of children would frolic in the water until the bell rang for the end of the class before going ashore to return to class.

In other seasons, I will play around the mountains near the school. By the way, I still remember that the bell for the end of class was not an electric bell or a hand-pulled large brass bell, but a car's wheel, which of course I learned later.

A crossbar is tied between two trees, and then the hub is hung in the middle with a rope, and the teacher beats it with a hammer to send it out after class

The sound of "bell stalls" echoed in the mountains and forests. Spring passed quickly, and I gradually got used to living with my cousins.

We played around together during the summer vacation, and that's when I learned to swim. There are all kinds of wild fruits in the lush natural forest, such as wild hawthorn, wild cherry, wild grape, wild star fruit, wild plum.... There are many, many of them, and there are also artificially grown apples, mandarins, oranges, flower bonuses, watermelons, etc., and these fruits are eaten all over again.

From time to time, my uncles would bring in wild game, such as tree worms, young bees, water snakes, pheasants, wild badgers, pangolins, wild boars, yellow muntjac and other wild animals.

When I was in my hometown, whenever I had a cold and fever, I would go to the township health center to get injections and prescribe medicine. And here at my grandmother's house, when I was sick, I ate herbs picked from the mountains.

Because it was not easy to go to the town once, although the medicine money at that time was not expensive, it was also an expense. Most people in the mountains know some herbs, and they bring some back when they go up to work.

At the end of the year, my parents came back and took me back to my hometown for the New Year, and after the New Year, I sent it to my grandmother's house as usual.

Last year, I got along well with my cousins and played around a lot. We were not yet sensible, and we ventured around at the bottom of mountain streams, streams, and cliffs, and we did not feel afraid at all.

It wasn't until this year, 1991, that the ...... happened. This summer, I moved to sleep in the attic of my cousin's house and slept in a cubicle with my cousin.

The nights in the summer are shorter than in other seasons, and the morning sun shines through the cracks in the roof to my eyes.

After a while, I felt the blinding light and warmth of my eyes, and I rubbed my eyes and rolled over to get up.

Get dressed and pants and climb down the wooden staircase to the attic. With a towel in hand, I went to the pool outside the gate, and I saw my cousin, who had also just gotten up, washing his hair.

I grabbed an antimony basin and scooped it up by the pool, ready to wash my face. At the same time, he asked his cousin: "Second brother, uncle and aunt are out?" "The second brother sends the second brother at home, and he also has a big brother.

The eldest cousin is a few years older than him, and he has already gone out to work, and he met him during the Chinese New Year the year before last. The second brother scooped water from a ceramic tea jar, washed off the soap foam on his head, and then wiped his head and face with a towel and replied, "Ah, they went to town." Hurry up and wash, and take you to a place to play today after washing. "Hear that, I

"Oh", this will rub the towel on his hands, wring out the water and scrubbing his face, I don't plan to wash my hair today.

My cousin turned and walked into the house, and I quickly finished my movements, poured out the water in the antimony basin, and followed the basin into the house.

On the stove in the house are slices of baba, which are made from corn and glutinous rice during the Chinese New Year. My cousin put down his things, walked to the stove, pinched it with his hand, and when he felt that the poop slices were already roasted, he picked up a slice and stuffed it into his mouth.

I followed closely behind and also stepped forward to grab a few slices to eat. While eating, he asked his cousin: "Second brother, where are you going to play today?" "I'm used to finishing my summer homework before playing, so I haven't had a good time since the holidays, and I finally finished my homework yesterday.

At that time, the homework was also very simple, the Chinese was to copy the text, and the teacher said which articles in the textbook to copy, and how many times they copied each one, were all memorized in the textbook.

Math is a question written by the teacher on the blackboard, copied in the book before the holiday, and finished after the holiday.

My cousin finished it a few days before me, and I don't know if he finished it, he said that he was done, and his uncle and aunt didn't check it.

The cousin chewed the poop slices in his mouth and said, "Yesterday I found a fun place with Xiaoye, and I will go and see it today." "Xiao Ye is my cousin, and they went out together yesterday.

I answered and asked, "Do you want to go with Xiao Ye today?" My cousin wiped his mouth and said, "We'll ask him if he wants to go with him later, I heard that he hasn't finished his homework." As he spoke, my cousin began to find a bag, and took some sliced poop slices from the cupboard, wrapped them in paper, and put them in the bag.

I wiped my mouth with my hand and stood by and watched. My cousin's family and my cousin's family didn't live together, and the two families were separated by a short distance.

After a while, my cousin packed up, grabbed a knife from the door, and beckoned me to go out together.

We didn't have the key to the door lock with us, but hid it in the crack of the window. My uncle said that it was easy to lose it when we took us out to play, so we hid it in the cracks of the windows or walls, and my cousin's house was made of big stones, and there were cracks everywhere, and it was not easy to find small things hidden.

When I got out, I walked downhill along the dirt road at the door, around the pine-covered hills, to my cousin's house.

There are six families living here, including my grandmother, grandfather and second uncle's family. When we came to the door of my second uncle's house, we found that the door was locked, and I inquired with the neighbors and found out that my cousin had returned to my grandmother's house with my second uncle and aunt this morning.

My cousin came back from the neighbor and said to me, "Xiao Linzi, let's go today, Xiao Ye went to my grandmother's house." I had no opinion, and then the two of them set off to the place my cousin had said.

We walked along the hand-dug dirt road deep into the mountains. As the heat gradually made us sweat, a swarm of tiny insects flew around in front of our eyes, and if we didn't notice it, they flew into our eyes, so we broke off the leafy twigs and shook them in front of our eyes, trying to get rid of the bugs.

After leaving the main road, we turned towards the dense natural forest. The front began to descend slowly, under the tall green bar trees, surrounded by ferns and low shrubs, and the ground we walked on could faintly see traces of people walking on the ground.

After turning east and west down a long slope, I faintly heard the sound of water. I happily reminded my cousin, "Second brother, there's water down there." The cousin shook the branch and walked in front of him, and without looking back, he said, "Ah, we are going there, and we will rest at the water's edge before we go." "The closer we got to the valley bottom, the steeper the slope became, and we both cut a stick as a crutch and went down slowly to the brook.

After a short break, get up again and head out towards the opposite slope of the creek. The mountain here is much gentler, so follow my cousin all the way up.

I noticed that the higher I went up here, the more I couldn't see the signs of people walking by. The climb exerted a lot of physical strength, and finally halfway up the mountain, my cousin led me sideways through the dense bush jungle, and a mountain cliff appeared in front of me.

We stood on the gentle ground at the top of the cliff, surrounded by ferns and shrubs, but we saw a green oka tree lying on the ground, growing horizontally towards the cliff, like a large fishing rod sticking out of the cliff.

I stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down, only to see that the bottom was covered with all kinds of green branches and leaves, and from the gap I could faintly see the dark bottom of the mountain stream, and a few thigh-thick vines grew up from the stone crevices under the cliff, and came to the top to wrap up with the lying green oka tree, from the trunk to the branches, as if it had been symbiotic.

Twigs and vines weave in the canopy to form a bird's nest and continue to intertwine into the valley floor, looking like a green waterfall from a distance.

We pulled the vines and stepped on the trunk of the green oka tree to climb towards the canopy, and when we came to the canopy, we each found a dense rattan net and sat down.

I didn't stop much when I went out in the morning, and this was a real rest.

"Cousin, is this the fun place you are talking about?" I asked my cousin.

"Not yet, let's take a break, and then go down later." The cousin folded another branch with leaves and fanned it in front of his eyes.

Go down? I looked down at the hanging vines,

"From here?"

"Yes, I came here with Xiao Ye yesterday and found it, the bottom is very wide, and there are many beautiful things." My cousin took a poop slice from the bag around his waist and handed it to me.

The soft poop slices were still a little soft in the morning, so I took them and stuffed them into my mouth: "What's so nice about it?" My cousin's words piqued my interest.

"You'll know it when you go down, and you'll be absolutely shocked." My cousin said mysteriously, eating the poop slices in his mouth.

After eating and resting, I set off, because my cousin was very excited. He followed the vine in both hands and climbed down cautiously.

The vine we hold is the thickness of our wrists, and our feet step on the forks of the vine branches, or wrap the rattan with our legs, step by step downward, and the breeze blows cool and comfortable.

Soon we came to the middle of the cliff, where we recessed inward, and with the help of vines, we stood on the platform of the cliff without danger.

At this time, I noticed a strange phenomenon, the vines we stepped on and dragged on the side of the platform seemed to be different from the above, the vines rubbed against the rocks and cut the skin, and when I stood still and looked closely, I found that the vines were oozing red juice after cutting, like blood.

"Cousin, you see that this vine will bleed!" I said in surprise.

"That's a blood vine, which can be used as medicine." My cousin didn't look back, as if he had already seen it. I turned my head to follow, and said, "Shall we take some back?" ”

"No, there's something in the house." The cousin replied. Then he found a flat stone and sat down, looked at the opposite hillside and said, "Little forest, look at the other side." I walked over and sat down beside him, looking up at the hillside opposite.

I looked at the opposite side of the cliff just now, and although I didn't look closely, I remembered that the mountain there was steep, and there were large steep cliffs, and there were all kinds of trees growing on them.

Now when I go down to the cliff platform, I see that the opposite side has become a vertical cliff, and although the whole side is not particularly straight, it is almost straight, as if it has been cut with a knife.

The cliffs on both sides were so close together that from our platform, we couldn't see the top of the hill opposite, only jagged cliffs, and some vines growing down the cliffs.

To the right, the cliffs are becoming less flat, and the uneven crevices are covered with bushes, and in the distance you can see tall trees growing on the flatter part of the slope at the top of the slope.

To the left, the further you go in, the closer you get to the center of the mountain, the more vertical and flat the cliff becomes, with only green moss growing on the surface, and not even the crevices are there.

I watched it carefully, and sighed in my heart at this strange scene.

"Yesterday I played with Xiao Ye all the way, and I only found this in the afternoon. How's that, it's pretty, right? After watching quietly for a while, my cousin said on the side.

I nodded and replied, "Well, it's good." I don't know what else is going from here. The cousin turned to look at the platform on the left and said, "I didn't have time to go yesterday, so we'll go over and have a look later." After another break, the two began to walk along the platform at the edge of the cliff.

There was no road behind the rest platform, and there was a natural path clinging to the cliff ahead, and weeds grew in the cracks in the stones, and moss grew on the damp stones, and it was clear that moist water vapor was seeping out of it.

My cousin was in front, I was behind, slowly left the vine platform, crawling in the direction of the gap between the two mountains, and after ten minutes, the cliff path not far in front gradually widened, and there were traces of artificial chiseling under a closer look.

It is located at the intersection of two mountains, like the sharp corner of the letter V, and there are cliffs above and below, and it is impossible to get from other places.

Digging deeper along the chiseled path, the road was obscured by the surrounding bushes and vines hanging from the cliffs.

After a while, we had reached the shelter, and in front of us was a narrow hole, surrounded by moss and weeds.

The edge of the cave is shaded by vines and weeds.

"Want to get in from here?" I turned my head to look at my cousin and saw that he had moss sticking to his head, which he must have hung on when he was on the cliffside path.

His expression was indifferent, he raised his hand to pick up a handful of weeds at the entrance of the cave, only three or five, waved his right hand to cut them off, and replied to me in his mouth: "Well, go in and have a look, if it's too dark, then exit." As he spoke, he squeezed sideways into the hole.