Chapter 190: Being poorer and harder, and there is no way to do anything strange

Author: Biantang Wushi

Chapter 190: Being poorer and harder, and there is no way to do anything strange

When we were young, we could eat meat except for the guests at home. We didn’t think about it, and there was absolutely no possibility. One thing we were happiest, that is, the chickens at home were infected with chicken plague, and this chicken plague is very powerful. As long as one dies, a chicken or duck will die every now and then. Of course, we children were very happy because we could eat meat, but we didn’t know how sad the adults were.

My mother was originally hoping that these little hens could lay some eggs safely to subsidize household expenses, add a coat to the children, buy a few notebooks, pencils, etc., and was preparing to sell the little roosters to exchange for some daily necessities during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As a result, a large area of ​​chicken plague came, and a large area of ​​them died. The expenses had to be saved from the gap between the teeth. How could it not be sad?

What is more realistic is the theory that William Lin said about the increase in exercise, which is even more unaware of China's national conditions. For our generation in the 1970s, we just got out of hunger and wanted to do something to explore our sports skills. That's even more unthinkable. Because we have hardly encountered any decent sports facilities and equipment in school from elementary school to high school. What other exercise can we do besides running?

I remember when I was in college, it was the seal of our class. I said before that because I liked playing basketball since I was a child, I realized that in addition to technology, storing physical fitness is also an important basis, that is, to exercise physical strength. So, I get up an hour early every morning, go to the playground for ten or eight laps, and then go to the small lake next to memorize words and read books.

Another important reason why I can persist for a long time is that I have been sleeping less since I was a child. Every morning, I don’t need an alarm clock to call, and I wake up by myself. Since I wake up, I can’t play with my eyes open, especially in winter. After waking up, I sleep colder and colder. It’s better to go and run a few laps. Besides, after all, in junior high school and high school, I have tense studies and fierce competition, and I don’t have that time to do it at all.

Soon I discovered that every morning I would meet a classmate - Zhang Yinxi. At first, I thought he was the same as me and liked exercise, but later I realized that it was not what I thought, and it was so sad to say it.

I have said before that Zhang Yinxi is very, very introverted, and has a strong self-esteem. In addition, Wang You and I sit in the first row and he sits in the last row. We don’t have much interaction, so we don’t have many opportunities to deal with, and he rarely opens our hearts to others.

However, afterwards, I encountered it more times, and I ran and chatted. As I got familiar with it, he also knew that my family conditions were also general. Maybe I thought that I was the same type of person as him. Anyway, at least my family conditions were about equal weight. Gradually, he was willing to chat with me.

I only then did I understand what his original intention was to run every day. It was absolutely unexpected and you would never guess. If the children nowadays looked at it, they would definitely find it very strange.

Zhang Yinxi told me that the reason he only came to run every day was not because he liked it, but because he was afraid of getting sick. Yes, he was afraid of getting sick, and he had to spend money when he got sick. His monthly living expenses were still the job in the radio room arranged by the school. This is also a reason why he got up very early every day. He had to do odd jobs to barely maintain his life and daily expenses.

If he gets sick one day, he will be desperate and don’t know what to do. At this time, he occasionally saw this case in a book, which is to exercise and strengthen immunity, so he came to run every day regardless of wind and rain. However, thanks to God’s favor, he did not even have a cold in four years in college.

Seeing this, some people may think this is a joke. It is a funny monkey sent by Guanyin Bodhisattva, but how can you think of poverty for the person involved? It is the helplessness and sadness that has been buried deep in the soul, leaving you almost no chance of turning over; it is the time to remind you that you must be cautious and humble in everything you do; it is the pain and depression that you want to get rid of almost the rest of your life but cannot get rid of.

I think that even now, although Zhang Yinxi is already a mayor, he must still remember the lonely and resolute runner who appeared on time on the playground every morning.

The purpose of my story about seals and seals is to say that in China, in that era, most people were still poor. They were like me, still carrying the burden and still unknown. Where can I have time and energy to use physical exercise to raise my height at a very young age? That's not what we care about. With this time, we either work in the fields or study hard in the classroom.

There is another important reason for lack of exercise, which is that we have worked with our parents since we were three or four years old. We simply think that going to run (we thought sports were running when we were young) is simply a waste of time. Moreover, we have been told by our parents since we were young. When we grow up, we want to be like workers, with classes, salary, and meat. There is only one road in Huashan, which is to study hard, and only when you study hard, you can avoid the wind and sun and work day and night in the fields when you go to college.

I still remember one thing, and that incident left a particularly deep impression on me. It should be when I was in the second and third grades of elementary school. One morning when I was in school, I listened to Ze Xuan's lecture and the captain went to his grandfather's house to discuss buying a sheep. After school at noon, Tang Zexuan and I went home together. When we passed by the brigade headquarters, it seemed that the brigade cadres were holding important meetings in the past two days. Many D staff gathered here in the past two days.

From a distance, I saw a large pot of mutton cooking in the brigade yard. The deliciousness of mutton soup drifted far away with the northwest wind. The air was filled with a fragrance, attracting many children who were going home to stop and stood a large area at the entrance of the brigade department. It was so spectacular.

We looked at the steaming mutton soup, smelled the meat that penetrated the nostrils, and kept swallowing our saliva, looking at it dryly, hoping that we could eat a bowl, no, even one piece would do. And those cadres were holding big bowls, filled with mutton and soup, soaking sesame cakes and fried dough sticks, squatting on the steps, and feasting on the "huffing" feast, blushing and sweating, which was so fragrant.
Chapter completed!