Chapter 1 Home in memory
Through the old-fashioned wooden windows painted with green paint, Li Zhongxin, who had just sat up, saw a group of primary school students wearing red scarves.
Li Zhongxin, whose mind was a little dazed, suddenly widened his eyes.
What's going on here?!!!
Outside is the playground that I remember from my primary school days!
I turned my head several times and saw from the empty ceiling with spider webs, a row of rusty iron filing cabinets, to the slightly yellow antique cotton coat on my arm...
Is this a dream?!
Li Zhongxin's eyes widened after he pinched his thigh hard twice.
He stared blankly at the small black hands, and then glanced at a patch on the cotton-padded clothes on his short, stubby arms, and his mind was confused.
The harsh school bell rang and then stopped abruptly. The blue wooden door opposite Li Zhongxin was pushed open, and a woman wearing a double-breasted black cotton-padded jacket strode in with a slightly sullen look on her face.
"Mom?!!" Li Zhongxin, who had just come back to his senses, blurted out in a childish voice full of surprise as he looked at the slim figure that only appeared in the old photos.
Before Li Zhongxin could figure it out, there was a crisp sound and a loud slap in the face that stunned Li Zhongxin.
"Do you still know that I am your mother?" Before she finished speaking, there was another loud slap in the face.
"Look at the good things you have done, you still have the nerve to call me mom?"
What is going on?!!
Li Zhongxin touched his red and swollen face with tears in his eyes and looked at the young version of his mother very innocently. He simply couldn't figure out why the mother in the hallucination was angry.
Li Zhongxin, who looked confused, looked at his mother's arms raised high again, with a wry smile on his lips.
Just as Li Zhongxin drew his neck back, waiting for the jade hand to visit his face again, a short, middle-aged woman wearing a gray knee-length cotton robe suddenly appeared from behind his mother and quickly moved between them.
, stretched out his hand to stop his mother.
Li Zhongxin became even more suspicious when he saw the younger version of the primary school teacher Zhang Zhiqin emerge from behind his mother and grab her mother's hand.
After Teacher Zhang stopped Li Zhongxin's mother's hand, he said eagerly: "Yaqing, why are you beating Zhongxin? Is the child okay?"
Zhang Zhiqin saw that Li Zhongxin's mother was still angry, grabbed her hand and pushed her out the door and said seriously: "Teacher Wang, your students are still waiting for class! It will be bad if you delay class."
"You are waiting to go home, let's see how I deal with you." Wang Yaqing put down her arms angrily, glanced at Li Zhongxin like a knife, turned around and said to Zhang Zhiqin beside her with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, the child is here
You are causing trouble. When I get home, I will educate him well and let him understand what he shouldn't do."
Seeing Wang Yaqing disappear at the door, Zhang Zhiqin turned around and took two quick steps to come directly to Li Zhongxin.
Seeing Li Zhongxin's stupid face, she raised her hand and gently rubbed his right cheek, and said earnestly: "Zhongxin! Why are you so fiercely fighting with the senior children? They flew off the horizontal bar and twisted.
It's okay if you break your foot, but if you break it, your life will be ruined. Your mother heard that you fainted after falling from the horizontal bar, and she almost fainted. If the school doctor, Mr. Pei Hua, hadn't said that you had no other symptoms except for a slight twist of your foot.
For this problem, your mother will send you to Jiangcheng People's Hospital."
Looking at Li Zhongxin, who was beaten until his head was swollen and his face was still dazed, Zhang Zhiqin pondered for a moment and said in a warm voice again: "You can lie here for a few minutes, and don't go to class for a while. I'll find a classmate in the class."
Take you home."
Looking at Teacher Zhang's kind face and listening to his kind words, Li Zhongxin felt a sense of warmth in his heart.
At this time, Li Zhongxin, who had secretly tortured himself countless times, also remembered that when he was in elementary school for three years, he had a fight with a student one grade above him in school to see who could turn more circles, and fell off the horizontal bar.
After I came home, my mother beat me into a pig's head because of my stubborn mouth.
After Teacher Zhang disappeared, Li Zhongxin gradually calmed down. After many studies, he finally determined one thing, that is, he was reborn in 1982.
Thinking of his inexplicable rebirth, Li Zhong couldn't help but feel a trace of bitterness in his heart.
Li Zhongxin, who only got married at the age of thirty-five, has a happy family and a gentle and lovely daughter. In his forties, he is at a time when he has a successful career and family.
It's just that the wife took the child back to her parents' house to play, and he watched a science fiction disaster movie in the cinema. How could he be reborn in the 1980s without any warning!
The sudden rebirth made Li Zhongxin unacceptable.
What to do with his wife and daughter in the future? What to do with his parents at home? What to do with his career? A series of questions made Li Zhongxin feel like his head was exploding.
Dividing line
Supported by his classmates Cui Shan and Ma Gang, Li Zhongxin reviewed the route he often took to school when he was a child.
After accepting the fact of rebirth, he did not feel any strangeness or helplessness, but instead felt an inexplicable secret of joy.
Now that he has come, let him live in peace. Since he was reborn in the 1980s, and since he can start over again, then he should better accompany his relatives, especially his great-grandmother and great-grandfather (Li Zhongxin) whose memories have been blurred.
Mother’s grandparents are called great-grandfather and great-grandmother).
In later generations, Li Zhongxin married a wife and had children. He was also a little busy in his career. He didn't spend a lot of time with his parents. Moreover, Li Zhongxin's great-grandmother and great-grandfather both passed away early. Now he was given a chance to make up for the regrets in his life.
I feel my heart is burning.
The house of Li Zhongxin's family is a family room of the detention and deportation station. Almost all the people living in the house are from the Civil Affairs Bureau.
The surname of the man in the east room of his family is Jia, the male Jia Xicai is a section chief of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the female Gao Hua is the office director of the Commerce Bureau.
Their son Jia Bo is one year younger than Li Zhongxin and is Li Zhongxin's loyal follower.
Jia Bo's sister is called Jia Lina. She is a bit arrogant and is one year older than Li Zhongxin. Except for pretending to be a family when playing house with a few children around her, she almost doesn't talk to him.
His family’s surname is Wang, and Li Zhongxin calls him Grandpa Wang. He and Li Zhongxin’s great-grandfather are both employees of the deportation station, and the two families have a pretty good relationship.
Li Zhongxin stood at the door of his home and was stroking his memories. The blue wooden door opened from the inside out, and an old man with a pale face whose memory was somewhat vague came out. This old man in a Mao suit was none other than Li Zhongxin's great-grandfather, Wang Xiutai.
"Old lady, my great-grandson has sprained his ankle. Come out and help." Li Zhongxin's great-grandfather heard Cui Shan knocking on the door and said that Li Zhongxin had sprained his ankle. He shouted while taking Li Zhongxin from Cui Shan and Ma Gang's hands.
Loyalty.
After Li Zhongxin's great-grandfather took Li Zhongxin home, he knew that Li Zhongxin's two classmates were going back to school, so he did not let them into the house. He said kindly: "Thank you two for sending Zhongxin back. I won't let them back this time."
Here you go, next time you come home, my great-grandpa will prepare something delicious for you two."
After meeting his great-great-grandfather and great-grandmother, their kind and kind-hearted appearance suddenly came to life in Li Zhongxin's memory. There was no mistake at all. These were the two old people who loved him the most.
Tears instantly overflowed from Li Zhongxin's eyes. What he wanted most at this time was to hug the two old people tightly and express his longing for them. However, he forcibly raised his arms to secretly wipe away the tears and pretend to be
He looked as if nothing had happened.
Li Zhongxin’s great-grandfather is Wang Xiutai, who is a manager of the canteen and logistics at the Civil Affairs Bureau’s deportation station. He has just retired at home. His great-grandmother is He Shuqing. She is a housewife who has never gone to school. She has been doing odd jobs in the coal yard before she retired.
Pick up coal cores.
The old couple came to the Northeast when they were young. They had no children here. They felt that life was monotonous and they were afraid that no one would take care of them in old age. They gave birth to their nephew's first child, Li Zhongxin's mother Wang Yaqing, when she was about two years old.
Brought to Jiangcheng from the countryside.
Li Zhongxin's mother was raised by two old people, and Li Zhongxin was taken care of by two old people from the time he was born. They cared for Li Zhongxin almost in every possible way.
Spanning generations is a typical phenomenon in our country. By the fourth generation, the old man is so spoiled by his children that he is afraid of melting in the palm of his hand.
Li Zhongxin’s foot was sprained. Although it wasn’t serious, it was just a little red and swollen. However, the old couple still helped him onto the kang. His great-grandfather was busy boiling water and applying hot compresses, while his great-grandmother took some of Li Zhongxin’s favorite foods.
Fried pumpkin seeds.
Li Zhongxin did not eat the pumpkin seeds, but looked around at the old house he remembered from his childhood.
The floor is paved with broken bricks. Although it looks irregular, it is very neat.
There is an old Eight Immortals table for dining and several four-legged old-fashioned square wooden stools placed against the west wall. On the slightly greasy table are a broken teapot and two coarse porcelain tea jars.
The jar has Chairman Mao's portrait and the slogan "Long Live Chairman Mao" printed on it.
About two meters away from the Eight Immortals Table, there is a sewing machine covered with a cloth embroidered with red peonies.
Opposite the Eight Immortals table is an orange-red wardrobe with a mirror as tall as one person. Next to the wardrobe is an old-fashioned chest of drawers of about one meter. On the chest of drawers are placed a cassette recorder and two full-plug sockets.
Large vase of artificial flowers.
Everything is completely consistent with the memory.
His eyes turned back to the kang. Inside the kang were two purple camphor wood boxes made by his parents when they got married. They were the same as the locked drawers in the chest of drawers. They contained all the valuables in the family.
In Li Zhongxin's memory, the first box at the end of the kang contained "many treasures" of his mother.
The best treasure is a piece of blue woolen cloth that can be used to make a Chinese tunic suit. The texture of the woolen cloth is clear, flat and smooth, and has a stiff and rough feel.
A few years later, Li Zhongxin's father Li Shangyong handsomely wore the blue woolen tunic suit and gave a speech "Ideal at Work" on behalf of the family's No. 1 Factory to the Second Lighting Bureau. The old photo has been preserved until later generations. At that time, he was wearing the same suit.
The blue woolen tunic suit definitely represents status and fashion.
In addition to the blue woolen fabric, there are also two pieces of black wool. Li Zhongxin remembers clearly that when his mother went to the store to buy fabric, she would squeeze the fabric tightly with her hands and then quickly release it, so that the creases would quickly return to their original shape.
Good wool.
Inside the box were a few fine shirts for summer wear, a few pieces of silk, and some Deckard cloth. In the second box were the valuable clothes of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother - for weddings or events.
good clothes.
The bedding used for sleeping is placed on the two boxes. People in the family call this "quilt", which means the same as the quilt, which is the place where the bedding is placed.
The mattresses at that time were not very thick, they were slightly damp, and the colors were generally very colorful.
A nicer way of saying it is that several fabrics of different designs and colors were blended together. In fact, the poor people at that time had little cloth, so they used several kinds of rags to wrap cotton inside and sew it up, which was the mattress placed under the body.
The white on the four sides of the quilt has been washed and turned slightly yellow, and the outside of the center is a kind of silk-like fabric that has some jumpers...
Li Zhongxin lay on the kang and kept remembering and thinking. It soon became dark.
After my parents came back from get off work, the memory was similar to the previous life. My father gave me a routine of instructing me, and my mother had a meal of whipped meat with a broomstick.
Because he had the memory of his previous life, Li Zhongxin silently bowed his head and admitted his mistake, which was considered a small escape, and he did not have to be laughed at by his classmates.
Dinner was homemade dry food steamed with noodles, a pot of cabbage stewed with potatoes stewed in oil and oil, and a plate of pickles composed of salted cucumbers and coriander roots.
Although the lard taste of the food was very strong, which was not suitable for Li Zhongxin's preference for light taste, he ate it very deliciously...
Chapter completed!