May 1.

Day.

The most depressing day since Li Zhongxin's rebirth.

In 82, May Day was a day off.

And because it is a labor festival, not to mention the cleaning of the house, the school also organizes the elimination of the four pests (flies, mosquitoes, rats, cockroaches. Even Li Zhongxin, a third-grade elementary school student, did not let go.

Originally, Li Zhongxin planned to take a bath in the largest Sanjiang bath in Jiangcheng during the May Day holiday, cut his hair, get a tube beautifully, and then buy some delicious things to take home.

But he never expected that on a holiday like May Day, the school would organize students to eliminate the four evils.

If you want to say that sparrows were the four pests in the fifties and sixties, you can still roast a sparrow and eat it if you catch a sparrow or something, but in the eighties, the sparrow was removed from the four pests.

Flies and mosquitoes are nowhere to fight in the daytime, and they are everywhere, and they can't be beaten, and cockroaches are only found near the stove on weekdays, and there is no place to fight, only to dig mouse holes.

Li Zhongxin's third-year class is in charge of the grove opposite the school, and they work in groups of two or three, holding sticks, shovels and pickaxes in their hands, looking for rat holes.

Digging rat holes and catching rats is also a science, most people don't know much about it, the head teacher Zhang Zhiqin dug rat holes with people in the rural land when he was young, and taught Li Zhongxin the experience of digging rat holes.

After Zhang Zhiqin gathered them together before the action, he told them that if they want to exterminate rats, they must first find the mouse hole, or they must find the mouse mountain, which is a place with very loose soil, and after finding such characteristics, they should call the classmates to come around, form a large circle, and use an iron pickaxe to dig the mouse hole, and the rest of the people will use a shovel to shoot when they see the mouse coming out.

After killing the mouse, wear gloves and cut off the mouse's tail, so that the task is completed.

With the help of their classmates, more than 20 rats were killed before noon.

However, when a large rat hole was encircled and suppressed, Li Zhongxin was tragic.

Seven or eight rats popped up in the large rat nest at once, and the male classmates were already in a hurry to chase them with shovels, and two rats jumped into the second line of female defense.

When Li Zhongxin chased after him, the stick in Wang Jinli's hand fell off in a panic and fell directly on Li Zhongxin's head, and Li Zhongxin felt that he almost died honorably.

Although there was no glorious sacrifice, it became the laughing stock of his classmates. farted a lot of kung fu, and was given two nicknames by his classmates.

The first nickname was given by a male classmate, Wu Zhigang, who called him Rat Xin.

said that they came here to eliminate the four evils, and in addition to Li Zhongxin's head, Li Zhongxin is not a rat!

The other one was the most "disgusting" girl in the class, calling Li Zhongxin a unicorn because Li Zhongxin had a big bag bulging out of his head.

The most "disgusting" girl is called Jia Zhen, who is unanimously recognized by her classmates, her rhinitis is very serious, no matter who she is at the same table with, she will get a big snot paper on the desk, and Liu Shili, who is known as the first bad in the twenty-six schools, gave her the nickname of "big snot Zhen", saying that she is the most "disgusting" girl.

However, in later generations, Li Zhongxin met Jia Zhen at the reunion of elementary school classmates in his forties, and Jia Zhen had moved to the provincial capital of Harbin City at that time.

Not only is she in the clothing wholesale business, but her appearance has also undergone a huge change, if it weren't for the class reunion, if it weren't for the fact that she still had a little bit of the appearance when she was a child, Li Zhongxin would never believe that the fashionable beauty would be a big snot Jane.

Li Zhongxin was very speechless, he really didn't remember such a thing, it was probably related to the selective forgetting of later generations, or a slight butterfly effect occurred after he was reborn.

Minor injuries are not in the line of fire, that is said to the soldiers, to Li Zhongxin, the head was injured, found an excuse to rest, and naturally sat next to the commander Zhang Zhiqin.

Thinking of Zhang Zhiqin's kindness to him since his rebirth, Li Zhongxin pondered that he was going to send some fish to Teacher Zhang's family in the past few days.

Li Zhongxin sat beside Mr. Zhang and looked around boredly, and suddenly found that an uncle pushing a bicycle and selling popsicles appeared on the road.

At this time, the popsicle sellers were very different from the later sorbet trucks, and they used foam boxes to pack popsicles, which minimized the speed at which the popsicles melted.

Although the weather was not very hot on May Day, Li Zhongxin felt a little hot after a morning of labor, and remembered that he had not eaten the old popsicles in his memory after being reborn and returning to eighty-two years, so he stood up and walked to the side of the road, raised his hand to the popsicle seller, and waved to signal the popsicle seller to come to his side.

"Is there a cream popsicle from the dairy company?" After Li Zhongxin saw the popsicle seller coming, he asked directly.

Li Zhongxin is still very impressed by what is the best popsicle at this time, the ice cream and popsicles produced by the dairy company are the best in Jiangcheng, which not only has that sweet milk flavor, but also very sweet.

"There are no popsicles from the dairy company, it's too far to go, and I only have ice cream from the hydro popsicle factory here. This popsicle is no worse than the popsicle at the dairy company, and it is also a five-cent piece. The popsicle seller is also very helpless for Li Zhongxin to pick the popsicle of the milk company.

Most people know that the popsicles at the dairy company are delicious, but the road is long and difficult to walk, and if he goes there for a popsicle, it will take at least an hour, and if it rains, he will not be able to return to the city center in an hour and a half.

"The ice cream from the hydrological popsicle factory can be regarded as a countermeasure, and I have bought as much as you have here." Li Zhongxin was a little disappointed that there was no milk company's popsicle, but the ice cream of the Hydrological Popsicle Factory was also dealt with, after all, the Hydrological Popsicle Factory was also one of the top state-owned popsicle factories in Jiangcheng.

"Do you have any money? Buy them all, little one, it's not right to do that. The uncle who sold popsicles first shook his head, and then looked at Li Zhongxin with unkind eyes, and scolded Li Zhongxin in his heart.

When he saw Li Zhongxin waving his hand, he originally thought that Li Zhongxin was buying popsicles, but he didn't expect that this broken child was actually making fun of him.

At this time, it is still possible to say that a child can buy one or two popsicles, and it is impossible to buy them all at once.

Rubbing the big bag on his head, Li Zhongxin glanced at the uncle who sold popsicles, and said unhappily: "If you don't sell it, forget it, do you still have money?" What popsicles do I buy when I don't have money? Unloaded the box and counted how many popsicles were inside, and I was all round. ”

After Li Zhongxin finished speaking to the uncle who sold popsicles, his little hands were raised high, and he shouted loudly to the classmates who were rounding up rats over there: "Students, everyone take a break, I invite everyone to eat popsicles." ”

Li Zhongxin shouted as he found a big unity in the stiff eyes of the popsicle seller and handed it over.

When the great unity handed it over, the uncle who sold the popsicle was still petrified.

After slowing down for half a minute, he slowly took the money from Li Zhongxin's hand, and stammered: "Little, little friend, wait for the uncle to wipe the change for you." ”

Originally, the uncle who sold popsicles wanted to talk about the little guy, but when the words came to his lips, he changed it to a child, and promised to wipe the odds.

The little guy wrapped all the popsicles in his box at once, and he had already earned it today.

The temperature in Jiangcheng was not high on May Day, and it took him a full hour to sell two popsicles.

In '82, when the popsicles left the factory, they were all plastic cuboid boxes, each box was more than 60 sticks, and when it was wholesaled, it was counted according to 60 sticks, and if there were people, a box could give up to 66 to 69 sticks, and if there was no one, there were 60 sticks in a box.

At that time, popsicles were covered with a layer of pink and white popsicle paper to prevent popsicles from freezing together.

The factory price of a box of popsicles is two dollars for a large box, which is about three cents a piece, and if you sell a large box, you can earn nearly two dollars.

The uncle who sells popsicles has a calculation in his heart, because his sister works in a hydrological popsicle factory, he has sixty-nine in this foam box, and after removing the two that were sold, there are still sixty-seven left, five cents a piece, that is, three octagonal and five cents, erase the five cents! It seems to be a little less.

Before he said a big thing, he wanted to erase the change of the child in front of him, and wipe the change of five cents, he was really a little speechless.

"How many popsicles do you have in this box? That's 50 sticks! Seeing the uncle selling popsicles unloading the foam box, he suddenly thought that he had called his classmates, but don't have enough popsicles at that time, and some classmates can't get food.

"There are sixty-seven popsicles." After the uncle who sold popsicles finished speaking, while looking for money, he added with a red face: "These popsicles are a total of three yuan and five cents, and today the uncle will give you five points for free, which is considered that the uncle invited you to eat a popsicle." I have two milk bricks given to him by his aunt (that is, a good ice cream with more milk, which is put in a carton) for you to make an add-on. ”

After the uncle who sold popsicles finished speaking, his face also had some pain, those two milk bricks were new, and he couldn't buy them for a dime, but he was even more reluctant to wipe Li Zhongxin with zero.

Milk bricks?! Li Zhongxin's face showed a hint of joy, and he said happily: "Uncle, thank you for your addition, you should still collect four yuan!" When you get back, you can buy two more milk bricks for your son. ”

Li Zhongxin directly took a small scalper and a red one-yuan banknote, and took the milk brick to offer treasure to Mr. Zhang.

The students of the third year class have eaten two popsicles, some have eaten one, the scene is very lively, after a while, what mouse believes, what unicorn monster, all are selectively forgotten by them.

In the afternoon, Li Zhongxin wanted to follow the rat extermination, and the classmates in the class unanimously told Li Zhongxin to rest.

At this time, Jiangcheng City asked everyone to kill three rats, that is to say, to hand over three rat tails, many people spent money to buy and hand over to the supply and marketing cooperatives below the countryside, and the price of a rat tail even reached two dimes.

Some of the students in the school handed over the tail of a rat, and some handed over ten dead flies in a matchbox, in short, the school was the first to complete the elimination of the four pests.

At this time, in addition to the four evils, the harvested rat tails will be sold for one to two dimes, and the money after the sale will be used as the class fee.

At the end of the day, under the leadership of Teacher Zhang's wise and martial arts, the students of the third year class harvested a total of 42 mouse tails, and the students were very happy, but Li Zhongxin was sullen.

The head was slapped in vain with a big bag visible to the naked eye, and he received two ugly nicknames, and he was fiercely criticized by Teacher Zhang for an afternoon, and spending money to invite his classmates to eat popsicles was recognized by Teacher Zhang as spending money indiscriminately, and he was even ready to tell his mother Wang Yaqing about spending money indiscriminately.

Sad May Day.