After three or two years, Gui Chengliang was six and a half years old and reached the age of entering school.

On the day of school, Gui Youfu led Cheng Liang to school, carrying his brother's old yellow schoolbag when he was in the first and second grades. The tuition fee is 7 yuan and 5 cents, and the teacher is a kind teacher in his thirties.

She likes Cheng Liang very much, and flatters Gui Youfu and says: "Director Gui, your family Cheng Liang is clever, and he will definitely study in the future, and he is the embryo of going to college."

Since then, Gui Chengliang has taken a little wildness and embarked on the road of study.

The year was 1983, and the responsibility for land contracting, reform and opening up followed.

The production team was disbanded, and farm tools, livestock, land, and mountains and forests were all distributed to each household. The era of touching foreign workers and messing around is gone, and a good life in the future depends on the eight immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers.

Gui Chengliang's family and his uncle shared a big yellow cow and took turns to take care of it. The elder brother was admitted to junior high school and went to a distant place, Cheng Liang was in the second grade, and the task of watching cattle was also passed on to him and his sister.

Since then, the big scalper has grown up with Chengliang, and he has been inseparable for six years in elementary school, and he is still accompanied by Sundays after junior high school.

This big scalper has become Cheng Liang's best partner. Most of the time, he tries to talk to it about happy or unhappy things, regardless of whether he understands it.

This ox is quite spiritual and obedient, and rarely steals seedlings and crops. Sometimes Gui Chengliang is a child, and as soon as he puts the cow on the ridge on the side of the mountain, he can't resist the temptation of his friends to play secretly. Without control, the cattle also couldn't resist the temptation to steal the seedlings and crops, so Gui Chengliang was scolded by many adults.

The next day, Gui Chengliang was angry and changed his way to punish scalpers. He tied the ox to the tea seed tree behind the house, beat it with a bamboo branch for a while, and then counted it in his mouth: "If you want to give me trouble, well, don't accept it, see if I can't kill you......"

The scalper is very spiritual, knowing that he has caused trouble for the little master, he bows his head to dodge, and tears fall from the corners of his eyes in a hurry.

At this time, Gui Chengliang still felt that the remaining anger had not subsided, so he tied the ox under the tree with a long rope, and said: "You will be punished for eating grass under the tree today......

There are many times, and the grass under those tea seed trees does not grow early. When the second uncle saw it, he said half-heartbroken and half-joking: "Guys, if you look at the cow like this, the yellow mud at the foot of the tea seed tree will be sucked off......"

Gui Chengliang listened to the second uncle's words, and also felt that he was too much, so he untied the rope and let it be free. He also knew that his cattle were already one of the few obedient cattle on the team, and many of them would pull grass and eat it secretly when they held hands.

But most of the time he gets along well with the ox, and when it snows and rains, he fetches water and fodder for him. Especially when farming, he always cut several sheaves of grass to feed it, and sometimes secretly grabbed grain to feed it.

The first scalper didn't dare to snort, and he was afraid that the little master would trick it. It understands it many times, and it is relieved to relish. When he eats beautifully, he also wraps his nose around Cheng Liang and licks Cheng Liang's little hands and feet with his tongue.

It tastes weird, but it's very comfortable.

In addition to watching the cattle, farm work such as chopping wood, carrying water, planting fields, and cutting grain must be done.

It's okay to chop wood, three or five friends carried a skewer up the mountain, picked some wild fruits in the mountains and forests, and drank mountain spring water when they were tired. Sometimes a few partners also set up a gantry formation to talk about wild play.

The most interesting thing is that several boys stand in a row, competing to see who can pee farther. As usual, the girls are too shy to run away, except for a few tomboys who are not ashamed and have no skin and no face.

Those who win will get some wild fruits, or those who lose will be punished for picking up some firewood for themselves.

In this kind of competition, it is generally the older boys who have a better chance of winning. Unless it was the younger boy who was holding back his urine that day, he ejaculated far.

The most dangerous time in the farm work was when Cheng Liang lost half of his thumb forever.

It is common for rural people to cut their hands and feet, but that time it was too dangerous.

That day, Gui Chengliang cooperated with his sister Yu Xiuquan to dry sweet potato seedlings as usual. At that time, a few dried sweet potato seedlings were stuck in the guillotine, and Gui Chengliang tried to pull them out, and he got a lot of them. Yuxiu shouted: "Okay, it's okay to ......"

Then she went back and took the sweet potato seedlings and put them under the guillotine, ready to prepare the caulls. Gui Chengliang saw that there was still a long one that was stuck, so he reached out and pulled it out.

Yuxiu didn't pay attention, and went down with a guillotine. Gui Chengliang didn't have time to withdraw his hand, his thumb had already been broken in half, and the blood suddenly gushed like a spring!

Ten fingers connected to the heart, the pain of the heart, and in an instant, Gui Chengliang rolled to the ground.

Gui Youfu, who was plowing the field in front of the house, rushed back when he heard the screams, and he didn't have time to pick up the half of the amputated finger, so he ran into the kitchen quickly. I scraped a handful of ash under the pot with a knife, tore a rag head, and walked quickly to the guillotine.

He pulled away Gui Chengliang's hand that grabbed the injured finger, splashed the ash of the pot on the severed finger, and quickly wrapped it in rags.

The pot is not ashed, which is a special soil method for treating knife wounds and stopping bleeding. Not to mention, once it's wrapped, it doesn't bleed anymore.

There was no time to scold Yuxiu, Gui Youfu ran to the village clinic with Gui Chengliang on his back.

At that time, the village doctor was not there, and the doctor Liu came after waiting for two hours.

Then Dr. Liu opened it and looked at it, and said, it's okay, just get some anti-inflammatory drugs and change the gauze sooner or later.

In the days when the dressing was changed, Gui Chengliang cried and called his mother.

The hardest errand is to plant the fields and cut the crops.

It's okay to plant early rice, and the weather is not too hot. There wasn't much discomfort other than back pain. Rural children, get used to it.

Double grabbing is the hardest to endure.

On a summer day in June, white smoke rose from the ground.

Gui Chengliang followed his brother and sister to cut the crop. I don't know if it was arranged by the school leader, and the few long vacations will be arranged at the time of double robbery, and even my brother who is far away in other towns can't hide.

At that time, Cheng Liang was always pondering, and maybe the principal's hometown was also rural, and he also had to go home to help the house plant the fields and cut the crops. If you change to a big city, or a big place like Beijing, you may not need to come back from vacation to cut crops.

Come to think of it, the grass still has to be cut.

The sweltering heat in the rice field was almost suffocating, and the rice was so gray and itchy that people couldn't stand it. When they came home, the children could not afford to pick up the rice, and the adults would ask the children to carry a few straws home to feed the cows. A guy like my brother who is in junior high school has to pick up half a load of wet filter millet to go home!

Double robbery is not all bad, at least the life of those days is comparable to the New Year. Chicken and fish, something that you don't usually see, will appear on the table at this time.

The best thing is that at the end of the evening, the children go to the river pond in groups of three or five to swim.

In the cool river water, wash off the mud on your body and play in the water.

It's so pleasant and joyful that I can't put it into words.

The two things that make Gui Chengliang the most proud.

The first is that when Yaojiachong ploughed a hill of cold-soaked deep-water fields, Gui Youfu and their adults were too heavy, and when they stood on the farm tools, they would sink into it with cattle and farm tools. At this time, Gui Youfu would put the lightest Gui Chengliang on it and stand on the farm tool, and he would plough the small field.

The second thing is that my brother can't come back from the exam, and my sister's father Gui Chengliang will cut Zihe for a while. Then my sister cut alone, my father threshed the grain, and Chengliang was responsible for cooperating with my father to step on the rice machine, and I was stunned to harvest the rice in front of the house in one day.

It was already dark, and the family dragged their tired bodies home almost unable to move, but they were happy in their hearts. In normal times, the work that four laborers could normally do in one day was completed by the three fathers and sons.

Who made her mother Chi Lian a very selfish person who cares about herself. Chi Lian worked in the tea field in a collective fashion, and after working alone, she only took care of the food at home. Her homework every day is to take yesterday's change of clothes to the river to wash after breakfast, and go home to cook lunch when it is time for tea. After lunch, it's a two-hour nap, and the sky doesn't care. When I woke up, the east house went shopping, the west house laughed, and it was perfect to make dinner near dusk.

This habit has not been thundered for decades, day after day.

Thinking of that past, Cheng Liang was full of sadness.

Qinren has reached the age of eighteen, and Qinyi is also more than ten years old. Not to mention cutting grass and grass, I haven't mentioned anything about ten kilograms, take a few more steps, and call for a three-wheeled motorcycle. I remember plowing the fields when I was a child, and there were unprotected iron farm tools rolling under my feet, and if I was not careful, it would be light to break my feet and hands.

People, only after experiencing it do they know how to cherish it.

Grandma's cloves are excellent, and she usually pulls seedlings, cuts grass and dries rice to help. That time, when the father and son were harvesting rice, it happened that the second uncle's family was also harvesting, and she was too tired to dry the rice of the two families by herself.

Lilac lives alone, and when she gets some good food, she calls a few grandchildren to eat together.

To this day, Gui Chengliang's long scar on his chin has witnessed that time.

It was late autumn, and Lilac had made a big pot of sweet potato dishes. The strong fragrance passed through the next door, and the Gui Chengcai brothers and sisters smelled the smell, so they picked up the bowl and ran to their grandmother's house.

Gui Chengliang is young and runs behind.

When crossing the threshold, Chengliang accidentally mixed the threshold. With a bang, even the person fell to the ground with the bowl, and the broken porcelain bowl cut Chengliang's chin, and Chengliang howled and cried in pain.

The red blood flowed all over the ground, and since then, that deep scar has accompanied Gui Chengliang for forty years.

After graduating in the sixth grade, Cheng Liang was admitted to Xunjia Middle School with high scores.

For the first time, he also left the home where he had lived for more than 12 years.

Chapter 4 ENDS