Chapter 19 Hunan Min
Xiaohua really came to ask me early, I said hello to my mother, and I can only go out with the permission of adults, which is the principle of ordinary families. The two of us walked down the path and ran to the cinema as fast as we could.
Originally, this kind of action must be indispensable to his little friend Huijiang, but the last time Xiaohua's father went to the funeral, he injured his hand and it was not healed, and his mother would definitely not let him come out. So we didn't call him, and we didn't want to beat his mother.
The cinema is next to the national highway and is built here in the village branch.
It's a very large house, and it's because even in later times, there were very few cinemas of this size. Not only is the cinema itself huge, but it's also connected to the surrounding houses.
The original two-storey house, because the façade is built in European style, can catch up with the height of ordinary three-story houses. The distance from the front door to the back wall screen is at least more than 100 meters.
The cinema and the famous supply and marketing cooperatives are located at the front gate of the compound of the village committee branch, one left and one right. The cinema is built of new red bricks, and the supply and marketing cooperatives are old houses with half green bricks and half adobe bricks, which have become a famous scenic spot in the village and even the surrounding villages.
In that era of living by material distribution, it was not long after the era when food stamps could still be used. In a village, there are not only several township concentrations that serve as grain warehouses for reserves; There is also a supply and marketing cooperatives of the same scale as the township, which is really rare.
Grain warehouses, supply and marketing cooperatives, and cinemas have become the three major pride of the village.
Behind the cinema is a large courtyard, which forms a pattern surrounded by supply and marketing cooperatives. I remember that at that time, it already belonged to the branch of the village committee, and it was also the place where the village committee worked.
The yard was huge, and I remember the empty space in the middle was much bigger than a basketball court. A two-meter-high fence was built with red bricks around the courtyard, connecting the cinema and the supply and marketing cooperative.
Because there was not only the village branch at that time, but also some important modern tools in the village, such as large and small tractors, were parked here. Of course, like those popsicle factories, diesel generators, grinders, etc., are all in this big yard.
The location between the cinema and the supply and marketing cooperatives is where the gate to the compound is located. There are two huge iron gates, and although there is a small door in the middle, it is not easy for ordinary people to get in.
The villagers are relatively simple, but they are not full of people who want to take advantage of small advantages. The compound and the large iron gate were locked, not only because the property in it was public, but also because it was the office of the village committee and the reserve oil for the tractor was placed here.
It is said that it was the first built property in the village and belonged to the village. There are two-story townhouses with more than 10 rooms. Now they have become important places in the village, not only with some modern facilities, but also as a place for cadres to study, hold meetings, and even make decisions.
There was also a school here, which was played by the predecessor of this row of red brick houses, and was also the only primary school in our village. I don't know why it was removed, but I remember it was when I was in first grade.
Later, I vaguely heard that most of the teachers who taught in the countryside back then were private. These people are non-staff personnel, and their salaries are actually very low, but they can't afford to have schools in every village. Later, in order to save resources, the Cultural and Educational Office merged the schools in the surrounding four villages, and this side was withdrawn.
After the school in the village was dismantled, the remaining houses are now home to these facilities. It is also natural to upgrade it for the village committee, although it is not like the later era will add decoration, it is also the most beautiful at this time.
The cinema has a side door that opens to this courtyard to divert the crowd from the main entrance. Because if the movie theater usually does not show movies, it is sometimes a place where the village committee convenes a meeting of the villagers. This kind of luxurious treatment, the entire range of ten miles and eight townships, is only available in the township and the steel mill.
It is said that the number of seats in the cinema here is second only to that of the nearby steel mill, and it is the same as the cinema in the township. It can accommodate nearly 1,000 people on weekdays, and it is truly a large movie theater.
When we got here, it wasn't quite dark. However, I saw that the huge light bulb at the entrance of the movie theater had been turned on, and the five-hundred-watt light bulb was shining brightly. It seems that the surrounding area is within the irradiation range for several hundred meters, which makes people feel different.
At this time, at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, there are generally some people around. Because some young people will always pay a dime or two to buy some melon seeds, peanuts, or candy and other snacks, and share them with their friends.
It is not only a good time to show that you are living a good life, but also the best time to show your friends. If you run into a boyfriend or girlfriend, let alone a boyfriend. Because at this time, men and women who are not married, rarely act alone, will call their girlfriends or friends together.
But I didn't want to go around, because I was afraid that people would look at me and make people think I was greedy. In fact, children didn't eat any snacks at that time, and when they looked at those delicious things, how could they not be greedy.
But my family elders have always taught me not to stare at people because of greed. Even if someone gives it to itself, it must be politely rejected again and again. If you really can't say no, thank them from the bottom of my heart.
For the sake of my own little pride and shyness, I naturally have no past.
Xiaohua didn't have this consciousness, although he didn't drool, but looking at the snacks in other people's mouths and hands, he still swallowed saliva quickly. I looked a little helpless, but I couldn't rush him.
Because of the situation at that time, it seems that the living conditions of his family are obviously not as good as mine. Although I secretly wanted to have a snack at any time, at least it wouldn't be as obvious as him. The reason why we still walked through the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives was because there was a beautiful woman here.
At that time, we obviously didn't understand the benefits of beauty, but she was a beautiful woman who was rare to see around the village. She is now married and used to be my kindergarten teacher. She has seven sisters in her family, all of whom are said to be beautiful, and her name is Yubao and she is the fourth.
There are many young people who come to see the movie, even if someone knows that she has just gotten married, but they can't help but come over to buy something, and the excuse is to say a few words to her. Because she is not only extremely gentle and beautiful, but also has three younger sisters around her who are not married.
Standing outside the doorway, I glanced at Yubao from a distance, and she seemed to be more beautiful than before. It was an indescribable change, but I didn't go into the supply and marketing cooperative. Children like us don't have a penny on us, so if we don't buy something when we go in, can we watch people eat?
Seeing her still smiling, it seems that I feel at ease.
Beautiful things, young and old, are appreciated. Actually, I don't know how to be beautiful, so I know she's good-looking.
In fact, I am reluctant to enter the supply and marketing cooperative, there is another important reason. That's because I've long heard that this supply and marketing cooperative's underground was a mass grave. This is true, and if you stomp on the ground now, you can still hear voices coming from underground.
Adults all say so, in the underground of this supply and marketing cooperative, there were not only many coffins, but also a lot of bones. That is, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he did not believe in evil, and in order to prove that there are no ghosts in the world, the village built this supply and marketing cooperative here.
I don't know if it's evil that prevails over good, but anyway, after it was built for decades, nothing strange happened. However, as the years go by, the floor in the house will collapse from time to time, and sometimes the coffin lid will be revealed.
These words were naturally said by the people who lived in the supply and marketing cooperative, even Yubao's father Cizhen, because their family had lived here for several years. Just hearing these legends makes me creepy enough, where would I be in the mood to go in.
Usually, if I don't follow the adults or buy things with my family, or I like to look at jade treasures, I only stand at the door outside.
Today, her sisters are not there, only she and her father Cizhen are selling. I don't know why, maybe it's getting late, and looking at her face outside, it actually looks a little pale. Even though she had a hint of a smile, I felt a little powerless.
But I didn't think too much about it, because after all, I had just experienced the incident of Renfeng Tangke, and it seemed that there was terror in the air. If it weren't for the temptation to watch a movie today, and Xiaohua was there, I would never have come out.
I didn't seem to pay attention to Yubao's look, but thought that her skin was so white! We didn't stay in front of the supply and marketing cooperatives for long, I pulled Xiaohua to the cinema, because the movie hadn't entered yet, and I was afraid that my uncle would look for us.
There is a large flat at the entrance of the cinema, and many young men and women come, and naturally there are many people from the village. Because of the fact that it is next to the national highway, there are people who have houses on the side of the road, and they eat with bowls while watching the excitement here.
I saw a lot of acquaintances, and I also saw people selling popsicles. This popsicle is produced by the popsicle factory in the compound, and it is usually brown sugar popsicles and white sugar popsicles, but it is a very happy thing to be able to eat one this summer.
Thinking of my uncle's promise, I didn't dare to run around like other children, but pulled Xiaohua to squat in front of the rice milling room on the side. There are only two small adobe houses, which are additionally separated by the supply and marketing cooperatives, and now they have become the village's electric rice milling place.
This place is closest to the iron gate, that is, next to the movie theater, and we hide behind the figures of some adults, looking curiously at all kinds of young people.
Most of those who were loud and wandering their eyes to get attention were from neighboring villages.
Among them, there are five brothers surnamed Gou, who are from Xiangjia Village, the village where the national road passed. I often hear adults say that their parents played lions well.
In our countryside, there is a saying called the style of beating, the play of beating.
It is said that people who practice kung fu are generally easy to be beaten when they go out. Because they think they have learned a few kung fu, they always want to find someone to provoke them. But there are too many masters in this world, and they often get beaten if they don't know it.
I think this is true, because there is a master in our family, and that is my grandmother's mother, whom I usually respect. She often tells people that her hands are like two doors, and she hits people with her legs.
I didn't know what it meant before, but after I went to school, I read books like "Yang Jiajiang" and "Huo Yuanjia", and I realized that this is what people who practice kung fu often talk about.
Gradually, I also heard that my grandmother was a practicing family when she was young, and she has been in Miaojiang with my grandfather. Later, my grandfather passed away mysteriously because of a major event, and her old man returned to her hometown with a few children.
And what everyone says about playing is an old saying.
Because the people who perform on the stage, including those who sing big operas, dragon dances, and lion dances, in order to maintain the flexibility and flexibility of their bodies, they have to practice basic skills almost every day, stretching and kicking high and low, so sometimes they are more powerful than practicing their families.
I think everyone is in between this, and they are a little jealous of the five brothers of the Gou family, but they look a little arrogant.
Not only did they look at some girls and women with scrutiny, but they also whispered something that obviously made people feel bad, but they didn't seem to feel it. Because there were still a few sturdy young men standing beside them, some of them dared not speak out.
I heard from adults that every time a movie is played, there will almost always be some conflict. Because most young people have excess energy, and at the age of showing off, they want to show themselves, so they often have duels over some verbal quarrels.
Of course, in this era, very few people still draw their knives, at most they are fists and kicks. But for us little children, this is already a terrible thing. Ever since I was a child, I was scared when I saw a fight, and my hands and feet would go limp, so I was always far from danger.