Volume 1 Memoirs Chapter 5 Childhood Memories
This matter has always been stuffy in my heart, and it is a fuse that is unfriendly to Li Bei's family. And I later understood my mother's intentions, she was scrupling. After all, our family is not a local, and our hukou does not belong to Guangxi.
Later, my mother instructed me not to mix with Li Bei, and when she saw him, she got out of the way. I followed her, and I've always done that.
But because of my sister, my sister and Li Bei's sister happened to be classmates, and they played well, which also prompted me to have some dealings with Li Bei intentionally or unintentionally. Of course, they are all bad dealings, and they smell of gunpowder.
I'm seven years old and in the first grade of elementary school, and so is Li Bei. I am a year older than before, and I have lived for a year, and my heart has changed a lot, and I don't have the feeling of being controlled and afraid everywhere. Dare to stand up with Li Bei.
However, I still don't dare to fight with him, he is a head taller than me, he is stronger, and fighting with him will definitely not end well.
He was also my classmate, but my grades were much better than his. He's in the bottom set, and I'm in the lead set.
Not to mention the perfect score for each assignment, the test score is always the first in the class. And he, on the other hand, is the opposite of me.
So I'm always complimented, he's always criticized, even at home. I often hear his parents beat him up and tell him to learn from me. At this time, I was always secretly happy, and I felt a bad breath.
However, this made Li Bei hold a grudge against me, bullied me even more, and even dared to do it to my sister.
On several occasions, he not only made me cry, but even my sister to tears. My sister and I often didn't dare to go out, locked the door, and hid in the house.
But it didn't work, Li Bei often hit the door of my shack with stones. After a long time, the doors were smashed.
Dad came forward to find their parents, but it was basically useless, although their family often beat Li Bei, but they still spoiled him, and they would not teach Li Bei a lesson because of outsiders.
For this reason, the door of my shack was changed once. In order to prevent Li Bei, my father simply changed to an iron door. After that, Li Bei had no way to smash the door, and my sister and I gradually regained our courage.
This happened to me in my childhood rivalry, and what I'm going to say next has a lot to do with him.
97 was another summer vacation, and it was my last summer vacation in Guangxi. My sister and I were stoned again by Li Bei and hit and hid in the house. Outside the door, stones smashed on the iron door, and the thud made us even more afraid to go out.
But when we were hiding at home, we unexpectedly found that there were two people hiding behind the shack and in the gap between the rocky mountain.
Because it is a shack, it is all made of wooden planks, so there are big cracks between them. And because I looked at the mountain, I didn't repair the cracks, so I could see the outside situation clearly in the house.
The two of them were very thin and felt like walking skeletons. The hair is long and messy, and the skin is yellow and not nutritious. However, the two pairs of eyes were very attentive and bright, staring at something on both hands.
My sister and I were so frightened that we hid behind the rice jar and shivered, trying to call our parents, but there was no phone at that time, so we could only hide in fear.
After hiding for a long time, I didn't find any danger, and I couldn't help but peek out quietly.
The two, one with a silver piece of paper in his hand, and the other with a match to bake underneath. We didn't know what they were doing, we were very curious.
When the roast was hot, the two of them took out another tube and stuffed it into their nostrils, sucked the piece of paper, and then they both leaned against the board of my shack and lay down.
It wasn't until much later that they slowly walked out of the gap behind my house.
We didn't tell our parents about it, not because we didn't dare to say it, but because we forgot to say it.
It wasn't until a few days later that we saw the two men again. The two played differently, they used a syringe, a tube of liquid, and one injected half of it.
And just as they were resting, Li Bei suddenly appeared, and a stone also smashed on the board of my shack at the same time.
My sister and I screamed in fright, and the two resting skeletons jumped in fright.
Li Bei originally wanted to scare my sister and me, so he went around to the rear. But he didn't expect that there was someone behind him, and it was an adult with such a terrifying appearance.
He was so frightened that he yelled and turned to run, but behind him was the foot of a big mountain, full of stones, and if he took a wrong step, he would fall. Li Bei just took the wrong step, broke his foot, hit his head on the shack board, and fainted.
The two skulls wanted to run the same way, but Li Bei fainted there, which frightened them a lot, so they climbed up the mountain.
What they climbed up was not actually a mountain, but only an abutment at the foot of the mountain. The abutment is a flat area full of raised stone pillars. And the end point of this area is the mountain wall.
However, there is a large black cave on the cliff of this location, and a cool cold wind often blows from it, and I think my father may have taken a fancy to this when he built a shack.
However, no one has ever entered this cave, not even the locals who live here all year round, and no one knows why.
The two men ran from the other side of the abutment, which was connected to the roof of the house next to my house, and they climbed onto the roof, slipped onto the road, and ran towards the border station.
Later, I found out that the two were drug users, and they were scared and never came back after this time.
Because of them, Li Bei lay at home for three days, and came out with a limp after three days, and I made fun of him for a long time. It was also from then on that he became much more honest.
And it was because of those two people that I knew for the first time that the abutment of the back mountain could be climbed. In later days, I often climbed up alone to play. It became my personal paradise.
Unfortunately, it didn't take long for it to become someone else's paradise.
Maybe it was the two drug informants, and more and more drug addicts ran up and sat on those raised stone pillars to take drugs. On the abutment floor, between those stone pillars, there were needles, needles, tin foil, and even residual venom and powder.
The most important thing is that I am not the only child who dares to climb up on this abutment, and many children have climbed up to play one after another. And these needles and needles have become their new toys.
Now think about it, how dangerous and terrifying that is.
Fortunately, my dad didn't get out of the car one day and repaired it at home. I happened to see a group of children wandering behind the shack and climbing onto the abutment.
It was the first time my dad had noticed that a child had climbed up, and the abutment was also a house high, and it was a raised rock, which was very dangerous.
He hurried up, ready to blast the little boys down. But when he went up, he was startled by the dense needles and needles. And those little kids actually used it as a toy, absorbing water and shooting each other, which scared him half to death.
After blasting the group of little kids down, Dad went door to door to warn their parents. Then on that day, my father sealed the only gap that could go around the back of the shack, and then built a garage there, completely blocking the way up the mountain.
But I was able to get out, I was able to climb out of the house. The shack built by my father had a big crack in the roof and wall, which was left because the material was not enough at that time. Because it was leaning on the back mountain, it was not made up later.
This slit is actually quite high from the ground, but this location is a room, my sister's private room.
She was ten years old and couldn't sleep with her parents and me, so her father opened a private room in the back for her.
I climbed into bed to get out of the crack, then climbed onto the abutment and continued my solo game.
Actually, it's not much fun, it's just jumping around on the raised stone pillars and not falling.
After playing too much, I finally got tired of playing and never went up again.
In the last days of that summer vacation, a group of lottery ticket sellers suddenly came to the market. It is said that the odds of winning the lottery are very high, and there are many people who have won the lottery, and some people even get a house and a car.
My parents are very jealous, and they are also ready to gamble, maybe they can win a house or something, and then the whole family moves.
They were going, and my sister and I were naturally arguing to go. But my parents refused, because the family bought a liquefied gas tank and a liquefied gas stove that were very, very luxurious at that time. Worried that there is no one at home and it will be stolen.
After all, Pingxiang in that era was very chaotic, petty theft was common, and there were often fights and robberies on the streets.
It was useless for my parents to persuade our sister and brother for half a day, and my sister and I hadn't been on the street for a long time, so we had to go.
So, my father, who had no choice, found an iron chain and locked the liquefied gas tank to the wall.
This wall is what was later built as a garage, but with large blocks of cement bricks. In order to lock the liquefied gas tank, a hole was dug in the wall that could pass through the iron chain.
In this way, you can always go out with peace of mind without worrying about the most expensive things being stolen.
The people who buy lottery tickets on the street are close to madness, and I walk the street and find that there is a thick layer of lottery tickets under my feet.
Mom and Dad went to buy lottery tickets on their own, while my sister and I walked around, picking up lottery tickets on the ground to fold airplanes and ships.
In fact, this kind of lottery is a privately printed lottery ticket in today's terms, and it is also an illegal act. Because, the signboard it plays is the sign of the government.
Those who are in the house, the car, and the big money are all trusted. Buy fifty sheets, and those who can win one dollar are all thanks to the blessing of their ancestors.
If you encounter a loophole in them and touch the jackpot ticket, they will find all kinds of excuses to not claim the prize to you.
When my sister and I were shopping, we encountered such an incident, one person scratched out the pattern of the house to claim the prize, and the result was that the house was redeemed and his ticket was invalid. Of course the man refused, and he just fought there.
A few people who bought lottery tickets came out directly, and they were beaten according to the one who claimed the prize. It's the locals who claim the prize, how can they suffer? And these lottery ticket sellers may not have inquired clearly, thinking that people in this corner of the Guangxi border are easy to bully.
As a result, the local who was beaten yelled, and I remember it as a sentence: they are fake, cheat money, and beat people!
Then the scene was chaotic, the lottery tickets in that booth were lifted, and several lottery ticket sellers were beaten.
However, this does not affect the trading of other stalls. These lottery ticket sellers don't seem to be a family, and seeing that this stall was lifted, no one else helped.
However, it still affected some people, like my parents, who bought 10 tickets and then stopped. Of these ten, naturally none of the farts hit.